A princess captive in the tower…A Spanish knight who can set her free!In this Princesses of the Alhambra story meet Princess Leonor, who can’t escape her tyrannical Sultan father. For Spanish knight Count Rodrigo her innocence and her beauty tug at his sense of honour. He will lay down his life to protect her…but the risks are great: she is the daughter of his sworn enemy!
Take youthful energy. Add in some over-active imagination. Mix in some powdered donuts. Sprinkle it with delusional disorder and you get…Insane Jane! The kookiest action hero of the 21st century. Will Jane save the day? Will Jane destroy the world? Will she remember to take her medication?
Family means everything to widowed Alaskan fisherman Ray Bancroft, raising his granddaughter with help from a multitude of gods and goddesses—not to mention rituals ad-libbed at sea by his half-Tlingit best friend. But statues and otter bone ceremonies aren’t enough when Ray's estranged daughter returns from prison, her search for a safe harbor threatening everything he holds sacred.
When his father loses his fortune, a boy is taken on by a famous shipbuilder and takes a record-breaking trip around Cape Horn on the famous Flying Cloud. A realistic and riveting old-fashioned yarn, winner of a Newbery Honor for young readers in 1936.
Julia und Jonas begegnen sich zufällig an der Elbe. Sie sind beide siebzehn, – auch wenn Jonas noch etwas jünger ist – und erkennen bald darauf gleichzeitig, nach einem unverhofften Wiedersehen, dass es Liebe ist. So löst sich Julia nach und nach von ihren Eltern, um sich mit ihrem liebsten Jonas auf eine riskante Odyssee zu begeben, die ihm und dem zwölfjährigen gemeinsamen Freund Tim das Leben retten kann …