Zeigt Titel in Historische Romane

Der Ritter Don Quijote kämpft gegen Windmühlen, weil er sie für Riesen hält. In Wirklichkeit ist er ein armer Dorfjunker, der wenig zu tun hat, dafür aber viele aufregende Ritterromane liest. Mit seinem klapprigen Gaul Rosinante und seinem Nachbarn Sancho Pansa bricht der Traumtänzer zu heldenhaften Kämpfen auf.

One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are orphans. Can they find a home where they can stay together as a family?

At only seventeen years old, Ian Kabra is head of the Cahills, the most powerful family in the world. He has presidents on speed dial, generals at his beck and call. Ian knows he's an ideal leader and the only man for the job. There's just one small problem: He's already messed up big time. A Cahill from the past calling himself the Outcast has risen to challenge Ian with an impossible test. The Outcast has re-created four of history's greatest disasters and dared Ian to stop him.

Eine Fülle von Geschichten, die Kinder auf unterhaltsame Weise in die Welt der Indianer entführen und zugleich Hintergrundwissen vermitteln...

1786. Isolated from the rest of the world, thirteen-year-old Alma lives with her family in a lush African valley. She spends her days exploring their blissful homeland. But everything changes when her little brother finds a secret way out of the valley. Alma sets out to find him, but she soon must face terrible dangers in a continent ravaged by the slave trade. The journey to bring her brother home becomes a harrowing adventure to save herself, her family, and the memory of her people.

It's the height of World War II. Michael O'Shaunessey, son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany, lives with his family in Berlin. But Michael, like his parents, is a spy. He joins the Hitler Youth, taking part in their horrific games and book burning, despising everything they stand for but using his insider knowledge to bring important information back to his parents and the British Secret Service. When Michael is tasked to find out more about Projekt 1065, a secret Nazi mission, things get even more complicated.

In 1892 New Fiddleham, New England, things are never quite what they seem, especially when Abigail Rook and her eccentric employer, R. F. Jackaby, are called upon to investigate the supernatural. First, a vicious species of shape-shifters disguise themselves as a litter of kittens, and a day later their owner is found murdered with a single mysterious puncture wound.

Edgar Award-winning author Nancy Springer captivates young listeners with mysteries that feature Sherlock Holmes’ little sister Enola. Abandoned by her mother and fearing her brothers will exile her to a finishing school, 14-year-old Enola lives a lonely London existence. But when someone kidnaps her elderly landlady—the closest thing she has to family these days—the feisty heroine will do whatever it takes to find her.

Dig und Dag überlisten den Kurier des Kaisers und verhelfen der schönen Olivia und ihrem Alfio zur Flucht nach Malta, das römischer Kriegshafen werden soll. Doch in einer abenteuerlichen Seeschlacht unter Leitung der Digedags werden die Römer von den maltesischen Fischern geschlagen.

Komm, wir finden einen Schatz! Laura ist glücklich. Die Ferien haben angefangen und nächste Woche geht es zu den Großeltern. Opa hat ihnen eine Bootsfahrt versprochen und Tommy denkt nur noch an eins: in See zu stechen - wie ein echter Pirat! Doch dann sagt Opa ab. "Was nun?", fragt sich Laura. Ob ihr Freund, der Stern, vielleicht eine Idee hat?

Read by Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Kathleen Turner, and Matthew Broderick Here are the immortals of Olympus—the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece—as freshly described as if they were alive today. Mighty Zeus with his fistful of thunderbolts; mischievous little Hermes; grey-eyed Athena...

When her governess inherits an estate on a Scottish island, amateur detective Myrtle Hardcastle couldn't be more excited. Unfortunately, the ancestral castle is both run-down and haunted. Ghostly moans echo in the walls, and there are rumors of a cursed treasure lost on the island—an ancient silver brooch that may have cost the former lord his life. But who had the motive, means, and opportunity to kill him? And could this Scottish trip mean the end of Myrtle's plans to get her father and governess together?

“Fast-paced and exciting adventure that will enthrall every reader.” —Erin Hunter, author of the New York Times bestselling Warriors series In the conclusion of Michelle Paver’s bestselling Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, the ultimate battle between good and evil is waged. A...

Globi findet ein seltsames Schmuckstück und gerät in die Welt der Kelten. Spannung ist garantiert! Die Geschichten spielen zur Zeit der Sage von König Artus der durch Zauberkraft das Schwert Excalibur aus dem Amboss zog.

The blue box Elfangor used to create the Animorphs has been found by a kid named David. David has no idea what he has - or what it can do. But Marco does. And when he sees David with it, he knows the Animorphs have to get that box. At any cost. But what should have been a simple plan ends up going horribly wrong, leaving David is on the run with the Animorphs. Now they have only two choices: Turn David over to the Yeerks, or make him an Animorph.

Immer noch übt Prinz John Gewalt im ganzen Lande aus. Er erpresst die Armen und beutet sie mit immer höheren Steuern aus. Auch den ehemals wohlhabenden Bauern bleibt kaum noch was zu Essen. Die "Treuesten der Treuen", die Gruppe rund um Robin Hood, der bereits überall steckbrieflich gesucht wird, leben im Sherwood Forest. Sie nehmen von den Reichen und Wohlhabenden und geben den Armen, die so zu einem immer größer werdenden Heer stummer Verbündeter werden.

"Feuer ist Macht", sagt der Löwenmann. "Es kann wärmen, es kann zerstören, es kann sogar vom Himmel fallen. Und es kann als Waffe dienen."Fred ist schon in viele Länder und vergangene Kulturen gereist. Dass er sein nächstes Abenteuer ausgerechnet in Deutschland erlebt, hätte er nicht gedacht. Während einer Höhlentour in der Schwäbischen Alb zaubert ihn ein Feuerfunke durch die Zeit: in eine Vergangenheit vor 35.000 Jahren!

A heartwarming tale of courage and warmth, set against the backdrop of the second world war, about a cat who survives against the odds. "Something's up. Something big too, very big. At school, in the village, whoever you meet, it's all anyone talks about. It's like a sudden curse has come down...

Hört die spannende Geschichte von Prinz Arco, dem "Schwarzen Ritter", der für Recht und Freiheit kämpft und gefährliche Abenteuer zu bestehen hat.

Anne of Green Gables, one of the most widely read and best-loved stories in the world, is brought to life on this abridged, downloadable audiobook edition by actress Kate Harper. The Cuthberts are in for a shock. They are expecting an orphan boy to help with the work at Green Gables - but a...