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An unthinkable danger. An unexpected choice. Annabel, once the daughter of a wealthy merchant, is trapped in indentured servitude to Lord Ranulf, a recluse who is rumored to be both terrifying and beastly. Her circumstances are made even worse by the proximity of Lord Ranulf's bailiff - a revolting man who has made unwelcome advances on Annabel in the past.

Two tiger cub brothers are torn from the jungle and taken to Rome. The stronger cub is trained as a killer at the Coliseum. Emperor Caesar makes a gift of the smaller cub to his beautiful daughter, Aurelia. She adores her cub, Boots. Julius, a young animal keeper, teaches Aurelia how to earn Boots’s trust. Boots is pampered while his brother, known as Brute, lives in the cold and darkness, let out only to kill.

It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, 17-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer. She devises a plan get out, but a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie tangled in an investigation that will challenge her allegiance to her mother, her conscience, and Willie Woodley, the brusque madam on Conti Street.

Sir Dalton, a knight in training, seems to have everything going for him. Young, well-liked, and a natural leader, he has earned the respect and admiration of his fellow knights, as well as the beautiful Lady Brynn. But something is amiss at the training camp. Their new trainer is popular but lacks the passion to inspire them to true service to the King and the Prince.

Eff is an unlucky 13th child...but also the seventh daughter in her family. Her twin brother, Lan, is a powerful double seventh son. Her life at the edge of the Great Barrier Spell is different from anyone else's that she knows.

Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers. As the treaty's anniversary draws near, however, tensions are high. Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides. An unusually gifted musician, she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murdered.

Your Own, Sylvia draws on Plath’s writing and extensive non-fiction sources, chronicling Hemphill’s interpretation of Plath’s life from infancy to her death by suicide at age 30. The poems are arranged chronologically and each conveys an experience in Plath’s life told via the voice and perspective of family members, friends, doctors, fellow writers, etc. - as interpreted by Hemphill. Each poem is accompanied by an addendum that further explains the factual circumstances of that poem’s subject.

Power balances on a knife's edge. Destiny is uncertain. And love is the most terrifying thing of all. The Circle of Twelve is not who Avery though they were. Neither is Avery. Her mother is dead. Betrayal and attraction and history have tangled the strings that bind her, Jack, and Stellan. And now, Avery and her friends must put aside their own problems and focus on putting a stop to the most dangerous conspiracy of all.

Jennys nörgelige Stiefmutter Kathrin hat bei einer Auktion in Südengland ein sagenumwobenes Kästchen ersteigert: "Die Büchse der Pandora". Es enthält angeblich Hinweise auf den Lageplatz eines uralten Keltenschatzes, der vor 2000 Jahren von einem Druiden versteckt wurde. Doch auch der gefährliche Geheimbund der Schwarzen Mönche ist hinter dem Kästchen her. Gelingt es Jenny, das Rätsel um den Schatz zu lüften? Die Jagd nach dem geheimnisvollen Keltenschatz beginnt...

Trzecia czesc niezwyklych przygód Bialowlosego, który wraz z Widwojosem i Perilawosem przebywa w goscinie u króla Troi. Po trudach podrózy otrzymuje najwieksza nagrode - spotkanie z rodzicami. Wie jednak, ze nie jest to jeszcze kres wedrówki, gdyz niebezpieczenstwo ze strony wladcy Krety, wielkiego Minosa, jest wciaz realne. Tym bardziej, ze Widwojos wraz z synem udali sie samotnie za Biala Przelecz, aby wybrac kilka pasacych sie tam koni trojanskich. Czy wyprawa jest szlachetnym gestem króla Troi czy moze zlowrogim podstepem zagrazajacym ich zyciu?

Drugi tom przygód dzielnego Trojanczyka o imieniu Bialowlosy. Chlopiec wraz ze swoim towarzyszem Terteusem przebywa w Knossos, w palacu Wladcy Mórz, strzebac bezpieczenstwa królewskiego bratanka. Oto zbliza sie ceremonia ku czci nowego wladcy Krety poteznego Minosa. Bialowlosego meczy lek przed kaplanami zamordowanego Sebeka, którzy poprzysiegli mu zemste.

Cowboy stories and movies about the Wild West are full of amazing characters. Yet many of the lawmen we think of as heroes were anything but - some were violent scoundrels and outlaws themselves. Among all the lawmen of the frontier, one man stands out as a true hero: Bass Reeves. In his day, Bass Reeves was the most successful federal marshal in the United States. True to the mythical code of the West, he never drew his gun first. He rounded up hundreds of outlaws and was shot at countless times but was never hit. Bass Reeves was born into slavery.

Akcja rozgrywa sie w czasach antycznych. Glówny bohater, Trojanczyk o imieniu Bialowlosy, wraz z przyjaciólmi przemierza Egipt i Grecje, by wreszcie wyruszyc w kierunku dalekiej Pólnocy - krainy cennego bursztynu... Fabula, obfitujaca w sensacyjne watki, i plastyczny obraz bajecznej przeszlosci sprawiaja, ze ksiazke, pomimo jej znacznych rozmiarów, czyta sie z zapartym tchem.

Czwarta, ostatnia czesc fascynujacej podrózy Bialowlosego, który wraz z towarzyszami dotarl do polozonej posród niezmierzonych bagien i wód kretych rzek i strumieni osady. Docieraja tam na chwile przed obrzedem pozegnania zimy, w którym jedna z dziewczat mieszkajacych w wiosce zostanie oddana w ofierze bogom. Ów los przypadnie tego Roku córce króla wioski, w której nieoczekiwanie zakocha sie Terteus. Bohaterowie zrobia wszystko, aby zapobiec zblizajacej sie smierci. Bedzie to jednak oznaczac przeciwstawienie sie bogom i ustalonemu od wieków porzadkowi swiata... Czy kradnac ofiare nalezna obcemu bogu nie naraza sie na zgube?

In one moment Nicole Burns's life changes forever. The sound of gunfire at an Anne Frank exhibit, the panic, the crowd, and Nicole is no longer Nicole. Whiplashed through time and space, she wakes to find herself a privileged Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II.

Eff is riding west, away from the safety of the frontier city she's always known.... Eff could be a powerful magician if she wanted to. Except she's not sure she wants that kind of responsibility. Everyone keeps waiting for her to do something amazing - or to fail in a spectacular way. Worse, her twin brother, Lan, a powerful double seventh son, is jealous of all the attention she's been getting. Even as Eff protests that she's just an ordinary girl, she's asked to travel past the Barrier Spell with one of the new professors at her father's school. The land west of the Barrier is full of dangers, both magical and wild. Eff will need to use all her strength - magical and otherwise - to come safely back home.

In this eloquent and powerful audiobook, 17-year-old Simon ben Eleazar and 960 Jewish zealots face the advancing Roman Tenth Legion in a battle that will decide the fate of the last Jewish fortress.

It’s 1942, and as the war rages in Europe, Maisie McCall is in the Scottish Highlands swinging an ax for the Women’s Timber Corps. Maisie relishes her newfound independence working alongside other lumberjacks - including the mysterious John Lindsay. As Maisie and John work side by side felling trees, Maisie can’t help but feel that their friendship has the spark of something more to it. And yet every time she gets close to him, John pulls away. It’s not until Maisie rescues John from a terrible logging accident that he begins to open up to her about the truth of his past.

Spannender und einfühlsamer Jugendroman über Leben und Alltag in der damaligen DDR. DDR-Alltag, Ausbürgerung und was bedeutet Heimat in einem geteilten Land? Fragen, die sich Oli, der in Ost-Berlin lebt, erst im Laufe der Handlung stellt. Als er mit Freundin Nana bei dem Besuch eines Pop-Konzerts in Polen verhaftet und wegen staatsfeindlichen Verhaltens in die DDR zurückgeschickt wird, stoßen Oli die Schikanen des totalitären Systems auf. Eines Tages ist Nana verschwunden - in einer Nacht- und Nebelaktion mit den Eltern in den Westen. Schließlich wird auch der Druck der Stasi auf Olis Mutter so groß, dass sie einen Ausreiseantrag stellt.

Originally published in hardcover in 1972, A Day No Pigs Would Die was one of the first young adult books, along with titles like The Outsiders and The Chocolate War. In it, author Robert Newton Peck weaves a story of a Vermont boyhood that is part fiction, part memoir. The result is a moving coming-of-age story that still resonates with teens today.