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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...

Japan, Anfang des 17. Jahrhunderts: Der junge Engländer Jack erlernt auf der Samurai-Schule des berühmten Masamoto Takeshi die Kunst des Schwertkampfs. Schneller als erwartet muss Jack seine Fähigkeiten unter Beweis stellen, denn außerhalb der Schulmauern lauert Gefahr. Ein Geheimbund will alle Europäer aus Japan vertreiben und hat es auch auf Jack abgesehen. Ein junger Engländer. Gestrandet in Japan. Ausgebildet zum Samurai. Bereit für den Kampf seines Lebens.

How much risk should a person take to protect someone who has been dead for centuries? Siblings Alice and Henry are about to find out when they head to the country with their parents for a summer holiday. The cottage the family rents near the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey is nothing like their house in Oxford, not least because it appears to harbour a maze of secrets. Alice, Henry, and their parents are determined to unravel the puzzles that have been placed in their path.

Pete de Lange must survive as a teenager in a small Natal town during the 1980s, together with his new-found friends, Sarita and Petrus. In a country marked by turmoil and racial conflict, this is not as easy as it seems. Pete and his friends witnessed a horrendous crime, and the perpetrator is on their case. Will justice prevail? In between all of this, Pete must try to make the first rugby team and win the heart of his high-school crush, Renate.

Perfect for fans of The Hazel Wood and Small Favors, this genre-bending page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Madeleine Roux follows two girls who transport themselves into the world of their favorite book only to encounter the sinister alternate reality that awaits them. No matter...

I must write this account, and when I have finished, I will burn it. Buried deep within the archives of a convent in medieval France is an untold story of love, loss, and wonder and the two girls at the heart of it all. Dolssa is an upper-crust city girl with a secret lover and an uncanny gift...

The irrepressible Jacky Faber, condemned for life to the English penal colony in Australia for crimes against the Crown, has once again wriggled out of the grasp of British authorities. Back on her flagship, the Lorelei Lee, she eagerly heads back to England in the company of friends and her beloved Jaimy Fletcher.But when the voyage is waylaid by pirates, storms, and her own impetuous nature, Jacky is cast into a world of danger that extends from the South China Sea to the equally treacherous waters of London politics.

Madu, a young African, is captured by the English slave-trader Sir John Hawkins. Tom Oakley is a young sailor in charge of the slaves. At first, the two boys hate each other. But as the story develops, their roles are reversed, and they become closer friends than either would have once believed possible.

From National Book Award Finalist Carrie Arcos comes a thrilling, genre-bending mystery about the history of the Cold War and the UFO phenomenon. Perfect for fans of In the Woods by Tana French and Netflix's Stranger Things. The year is 1952. The threat of invasion from the Soviet Union has...

This compelling classic of a boy's coming of age during the Civil War is based on stories the author's grandfather told her about his own life.

Warsaw, 1942. Sixteen-year old Mira smuggles food into the ghetto to keep herself and her family alive. When she discovers that the entire ghetto is to be "liquidated" - killed or "resettled" to concentration camps - she desperately tries to find a way to save her family. She meets a group of young people who are planning the unthinkable: an uprising against the occupying forces. Mira joins the resistance fighters who, with minimal supplies and weapons, end up holding out for 28 days, longer than anyone had thought possible.

A slave-trading, blaspheming John Newton runs from God until the Hound of Heaven catches him in a violent storm off the coast of Ireland in 1748. As the storm threatens to sink the ship and the captain threatens to toss Newton overboard for being a “Jonah,” Newton's mind races back to his early childhood faith, forcing him to ask, “What if it’s true?” The Order of the Seven team works behind the scenes in the life of John Newton as he slowly makes his way back to God and not only leaves the slave trade but becomes a minister who will pen the most beloved hymn of all time: Amazing Grace.

Will Braddock doesn’t want some old judge dictating his future. The newly orphaned fourteen-year-old embarks upon a quest to determine his own destiny. He heads west to find his uncle, a surveyor on the first transcontinental railroad. He has to convince his only living relative not to sign the judge’s papers sentencing him to a blacksmith apprenticeship.

When Katharine Tulman's inheritance is called into question by the rumor that her eccentric uncle is squandering away the family fortune, she is sent to his estate to have him committed to an asylum. But instead of a lunatic, Katharine discovers a genius inventor with his own set of rules, who employs a village of nine hundred people rescued from the workhouses of London.

Young Anita Dittman's world crumbles as Hitler begins his rise to power in Germany, but because she's a Christian and only half-Jewish, Anita feels sure she and her family are safe from the "final solution". She couldn't have been more wrong. Shadow of His Hand is an inspirational young adult historical fiction book based on the real-life story of Anita Dittman, a Holocaust survivor. It follows her struggle against Nazi persecution and her growth in her relationship with God through the worst of times.

The Cratchit family has come a long way since Ebenezer Scrooge's transformation many Christmases past, none more so than Lucy Anne 'Raven' Cratchit. Inspired by Tiny Tim's illness and recovery, Raven is working to become London's first female physician. Brit Crane grew up fighting for his life in the slums of London, protecting his gang of orphan thieves until Olivia 'Twist' Brownlow and Jack 'The Artful Dodger' MacCarron rescued them and Brit became a teacher.

" Très chers téléspectateurs, bienvenue dans cette nouvelle saison de Noblesse Oblige ! ". La révolution de 1789 n'ayant pas abouti, la France est dirigée par le Roi Louis XXI. La monarchie autoritaire s'assure néanmoins le soutien du peuple en mettant en scène son faste et sa cour dans des émissions de téléréalité. " Noblesse oblige " est la plus regardée d'entre elles. On y suit chaque année une poignée de jeunes roturières élues, à qui l'on offre la chance de rencontrer de grands héritiers et de faire un mariage avantageux.

Gabrielle est-elle prête à tout pour porter la voix du peuple ? Voici l'espionne antiroyaliste à la tête du royaume de France ! La mort de Louis XXII se révèle être un soulagement de bien courte durée pour Gabrielle. Elle manque de soutien, d'expérience et de temps : sa régence est menacée, au moins autant que sa vie. Pour s'en sortir et faire entendre ses idées, elle doit jouer le jeu de ses opposants et repasser devant les caméras. Complots, drames et trahisons l'attendent au tournant.

Based on the true life story of Anne Burras, First Lady of Jamestown shares the excitement, sorrow, and grit of 17th Century Jamestown. When tragedy strikes, young Anne is left as the lone woman among hundreds of men in the fledgling Virginia colony, forced to forge a new life for herself despite the confines of her culture and gender. From heartache to love, and from tragic loss to heroic survival in the harshest of conditions, Anne's determination and fortitude through her life's challenges inspires all who learn of her story.

For fans of Fever 1793 comes the story of a young woman paving her own path and falling in love during the Great Plague of 1348, from the award-winning creator of What the Night Sings. Edyth grew up in a quiet village with a loving family, before losing everything she holds dear in the blink of...