Ergebnis für "Südamerika" in Liebesromane

Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter glaubt Rose, sie sei nun ganz allein auf der Welt. Umso größer ist ihre Hoffnung, als sie ein geheimnisvolles Erbstück aus einem Londoner Frauenhaus erhält: Können die Pferdefigur und das Stück glitzernde Seide in der kleinen hölzernen Schachtel sie zu ihrer verlorenen Familie führen? Ihre Recherchen weisen Rose den Weg nach Argentinien, auf eine weitläufige und luxuriöse Ranch, wo einst die besten Polopferde der Welt gezüchtet wurden. Dort lernt sie den charmanten Benjamin kennen, der sie ermutigt, weiter nach ihren Wurzeln zu suchen.

An engaging introduction to four of the greatest Americans: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln. Their lives are set forth in a simple manner, yet with many interesting details. A glimpse is given of the trials and successes which combined to mold their character and afford such stirring examples for the youth of today. The stories are patriotic in every line, and inspire the listener to the best of thoughts and deeds. Written in the 1800s, the Young Listeners Collection features children's stories from yesterday's classics.

After a recent divorce, Niki retreats to a cottage in Nova Scotia that she inherited from her grandmother, Eliza, and great aunt Johanna. With her teenage daughter, Melissa, in tow, Niki struggles with decisions of what to do next and whether or not an entire career change is in order.

Young Abigail suffers greatly from the way she is being raised by her mother, for whom a woman's only place is in the kitchen. At the same time, her father's dedicated fight for freedom also ignites in her a passion for the American Revolution. When news of her father's death reaches her, she has a falling out with her mother. Soon after, Abigail goes on her way to fight for freedom and independence, like her father had done. On the way, she encounters the young English deserter Edward, who has come to the realization that he went to war for the wrong ideals.

Clint Belmet's parents were killed in a Comanche raid when he was young, but that hasn't stopped him from taking a job leading freight caravans on the old Santa Fe Trail, from Saint Louis, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico - a route that goes right through Comanche territory. Here is the raw, primitive West of the early pioneers, great caravans of freighters rumbling across the deadly prairies, risking attack by Comanche.