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I "Hestens dal" fortælles om Aylas kamp for at overleve i vildmarken. Det er hårde vilkår, hun udsættes for, og selv om hun finder venskab og midlertidig støtte hos de dyr, hun tager til sig, savner hun menneskeligt selskab. Men langt mod vest har to unge mænd af Cro-Magnon-stammen begivet sig af sted... "Hestens dal" er andet bind i serien Jordens Børn.

Mung har fått äran att bli Fågelkungens arvinge, men det innebär också att han måste vara många mil ifrån Larne, sin stora kärlek. I sju år ska han utbildas i en druidskola medan hon är kvar på borgen som tjänarinna. När mörka sanningar om Larnes liv rullas upp blir ingenting längre sig likt... Maj Bylock är född 1931 på Gotland. Hennes tidiga utgivning var läroböcker i religion och historia, men även i sina skönlitterära böcker står frågor om livsåskådning och moral i centrum - ofta i historisk miljö.

This program is read by the author "Just brilliant."—Kirkus Reviews Heavily autobiographical and infused with magical realism, Black Girl Unlimited fearlessly explores the intersections of poverty, sexual violence, depression, racism, and sexism—all through the arc of a transcendent...

In 16th-century England, two teenage best friends find themselves on an exciting journey from the country to the Queen's court in the hope of being named ladies-in-waiting. But Sybille and Rose soon discover they aren't the only girls who have their sights set on attending Her Majesty. The girls must compete against worldly and cunning opponents, among them mean-girl Avis and her entourage of back-stabbing co-horts, tipping the balance in their already-tenuous friendship.

Best-selling author David Elliott explores how Joan of Arc changed the course of history and remains a figure of fascination centuries after her extraordinary life and death. Joan of Arc gets the Hamilton treatment in this evocative novel. Told through medieval poetic forms and in the voices of the people and objects in Joan of Arc's life (including her family and even the trees, clothes, cows, and candles of her childhood), Voices offers an unforgettable perspective on an extraordinary young woman.

In a searing historical novel, Tonya Bolden illuminates post-Reconstruction America in an intimate portrait of a determined young woman who dares to seize the opportunity of a lifetime. As a young black woman in 1880s Savannah, Essie's dreams are very much at odds with her reality. Ashamed of her beginnings, but unwilling to accept the path currently available to her, Essie is trapped between the life she has and the life she wants. Until she meets a lady named Dorcas Vashon, the richest and most cultured black woman she's ever encountered.

Born a slave in 1776, Gabriel grows up capable and literate only to be taken from his mother and sent to the capital city as a blacksmith’s apprentice. There in the forge, a meeting point for many travelers and news bearers, his work awakens him to the sparks of resistance that are igniting into rebellion around the globe. When he is unable to both defend the love of his life and earn the money to buy her freedom, Gabriel makes a decision: freedom for just his own family would not be enough.

After unwittingly helping her mother poison King Louis XIV, 17-year-old alchemist Mirabelle Monvoisin is forced to see her mother's Shadow Society in a horrifying new light: They're not heroes of the people, as they've always claimed to be, but murderers. She herself included. Mira tries to ease her guilt by brewing helpful curatives, but her hunger tonics and headache remedies cannot right past wrongs or save the dissenters whom her mother vows to purge.

During the time of the Crusades, an unlikely trio - a Christian princess, her affianced prince, and a Muslim assassin - embarks on a quest to the court of the most fearsome warrior the world has ever known, Genghis Khan. A rousing tale of adventure and romance about three young people who must grapple with fundamental issues of loyalty, friendship, faith, honor, and courage against the backdrop of conflicts that still resonate today.

Hers is the most famous portrait in the world. Here, in prose as rich as the high Renaissance, is Mona Lisa's tale. A story of passion, loss, and, above all, love. Elisabetta longs for romance, though she thinks she's too plain. Then, on a visit to Florence, she catches the eye of the great...

From the author of Blind, a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story set during World War II in Shanghai, one of the only places Jews without visas could find refuge. Warsaw, Poland. The year is 1940 and Lillia is fifteen when her mother, Alenka, disappears and her father flees with Lillia and her...

La contessina Ines di Ventimiglia è a Panama per ritirare l'eredità di Gran Cacico del Dairen, ma il Marchese di Montelimar la vuole in sposa e la rapisce. Mendoza e Buttafuoco domandano aiuto a don Barrejo e lo invitano ad unirsi a loro. Dopo aver scoperto che la contessina verrà imbarcata su una nave che la porterà nel Dairen, Mendoza, Buttafuoco e don Barrejo ingaggiano un peschereccio e si lanciano al suo salvataggio.

Saving Washington follows young Joshua Bolton and his childhood friend Ben, a freed black man, as they witness British tyranny firsthand, become enraptured by the cause, and ultimately enlist to defend their new nation in a battle that galvanized the American nation on the eve of its birth. Chris Formant’s gripping tale blends real-life historical figures and events with richly developed fictional characters in a multi-dimensional world of intrigue, romance, comradeship, and sacrifice, transporting us two-and-a-half centuries back in time.

Tom Cheke's world is turned upside down when he is kidnapped from his home by Barbary corsairs during an audacious night raid. Sold into slavery in 17th-century Algiers, Tom carves out a promising, new life only to have it shattered once more. Another twist of fate throws him into the hands of a Scottish knight of the Order of St John and into a turbulent world of ciphers, spies, and assassinations.

Winner of the 2003 International Reading Association Award for Young Adult Novel. This gripping story is based on the true events of the murder of Emmett Till, one of the nation's most notorious crimes that helped spark the Civil Rights Movement. At first Hiram is excited to visit his...

In this dazzling finale to the trilogy that began with the New York Times bestselling Alex & Eliza: A Love Story, the curtain closes on the epic romance of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler 1785. New York, New York. As a young nation begins to take shape, Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE This timeless, heart-wrenching novel tells the story of one teenage girl’s fight for survival with her family at a Soviet labor camp during World War II (also pubished as Between Shades of Gray). "Few books are beautifully written...

Arkansas, 1984: The town of Griffin Flat is known for almost nothing other than its nuclear missile silos. MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction - is a fear every local lives with and tries to ignore. Unfortunately that’s impossible now that film moguls have picked Griffin Flat as the location for a new nuclear holocaust movie, aptly titled The Eve of Destruction. When 16-year-old Laura Ratliff wins a walk-on role (with a plus-one!) thanks to a radio call-in contest, she is more relieved than excited.

E' possibile che mastro Catrame sia stato re di una isola? Pare proprio di sì, come scopriremo in questo racconto, tratto dalle Novelle Marinareche di Emilio Salgari, dove il nostro vecchio marinaio subirà un naufragio e verrà ospitato da una tribù di indigeni molto, molto, ospitali.

Der 17-jährige Felix sucht seinen Vater, der aus einem Feldzug gegen die Germanen nicht zurückgekehrt ist und macht sich auf den Weg in das fremde Land...