17 Ergebnisse.

Kyra is an overlooked Hungarian village teen who flees her plague-ridden village. She is found filthy and unkempt in a field by a Gypsy kumpania as they caravan across the countryside. Taken in by the Gypsies, Kyra slowly becomes one of them, while at the same time changing them in profound and fundamental ways that will last forever. Along the way, Kyra discovers love in the arms of a young man. At a deeply emotional level, she experiences un...

Kyra is an overlooked Hungarian village teen who flees her plague-ridden village. She is found filthy and unkempt in a field by a Gypsy kumpania as they caravan across the countryside. Taken in by the Gypsies, Kyra slowly becomes one of them, while at the same time changing them in profound and fundamental ways that will last forever. Along the way, Kyra discovers love in the arms of a young man. At a deeply emotional level, she experiences un...

Twelve-year-old Anika's life is turned upside down when she is forced to leave Edinburgh, Scotland, where she lived at the university with her father, and move in with her grandmother on a country farm. But leaving Edinburgh is not so easy. Mishaps place her alone in a dark alley, where a well-dressed cat named Edward finds her and offers to guide her to safety. Anika is thoroughly seeped in Scottish Literature and is delighted to find that Ed...

Twelve-year-old Anika's life is turned upside down when she is forced to leave Edinburgh, Scotland, where she lived at the university with her father, and move in with her grandmother on a country farm. But leaving Edinburgh is not so easy. Mishaps place her alone in a dark alley, where a well-dressed cat named Edward finds her and offers to guide her to safety. Anika is thoroughly seeped in Scottish Literature and is delighted to find that...

Anna Koob was born into a middle-class German family in 1566. A bright and spirited girl, she became a favorite of her village of Kleinostheim. As an eight-year-old, she is summoned to the home of a prominent baron. The baron's daughter has asked for her as she lies dying. What happens in the baron's home sets off a chain of events that dictates the flow of Anna's future.Anna grows into a learned and outspoken woman, a dangerous thing to be in...

Anna Koob was born into a middle-class German family in 1566. A bright and spirited girl, she became a favorite of her village of Kleinostheim. As an eight-year-old, she is summoned to the home of a prominent baron. The baron's daughter has asked for her as she lies dying. What happens in the baron's home sets off a chain of events that dictates the flow of Anna's future.Anna grows into a learned and outspoken woman, a dangerous thing to be in...

Wikerus, a young German noble joins the Teutonic Order of knights and fights in the Fifth Crusade. He meets the Swan Knight, the sworn protector of the Holy Grail, and becomes his steward. After the crusade, Wikerus lives in a secluded Bavarian valley with the Swan Knight's family. He finds love and fear, bliss and more war. He escapes his previous life and roams the Holy Roman Empire as a philosopher, poet, and minnesänger, giving birth to th...

Wikerus, a young German noble joins the Teutonic Order of knights and fights in the Fifth Crusade. He meets the Swan Knight, the sworn protector of the Holy Grail, and becomes his steward. After the crusade, Wikerus lives in a secluded Bavarian valley with the Swan Knight's family. He finds love and fear, bliss and more war. He escapes his previous life and roams the Holy Roman Empire as a philosopher, poet, and minnesänger, giving birth to th...

In this final installment of The Swan Knights Trilogy, Verena and the Sweeter Realm recover from the War with the Deep. Her post-war bliss is cut short when her destiny and the fate of the Holy Grail force her and her loyal subjects back into action. God and the Grail present Verena with more hardship and more sacrifices, but also with more love and friendship as she follows the call of the Grail, away from the Sweeter Realm, to its providenti...

In this final installment of The Swan Knights Trilogy, Verena and the Sweeter Realm recover from the War with the Deep. Her post-war bliss is cut short when her destiny and the fate of the Holy Grail force her and her loyal subjects back into action. God and the Grail present Verena with more hardship and more sacrifices, but also with more love and friendship as she follows the call of the Grail, away from the Sweeter Realm, to its providenti...

In this, the second book of The Swan Knights Trilogy, Verena, a teenage girl from suburban America, finds herself entwined in an ancient enterprise to protect the Holy Grail. She becomes the latest in a long line of Swan Knights - the descendants of the Grail Knight Parsifal, sworn to protect the portal to The Sweeter Realm, where the Grail has been hidden for centuries. The portal calls for Verena and pulls her through, into the Sweeter Realm...

In this, the second book of The Swan Knights Trilogy, Verena, a teenage girl from suburban America, finds herself entwined in an ancient enterprise to protect the Holy Grail. She becomes the latest in a long line of Swan Knights - the descendants of the Grail Knight Parsifal, sworn to protect the portal to The Sweeter Realm, where the Grail has been hidden for centuries. The portal calls for Verena and pulls her through, into the Sweeter Realm...

Verena, an American teenage girl, develops an obsession with Germany and with King Ludwig II of Bavaria, a German king who died mysteriously in 1886. Verena's pursuit of her obsession leads her to the discovery of a manuscript written by King Ludwig. It reveals Ludwig's secrets and those of an ancient enterprise to protect the Holy Grail. She learns about the Swan Knights, the direct line of descendants from the Grail Knight, Parsifal, and abo...

Verena, an American teenage girl, develops an obsession with Germany and with King Ludwig II of Bavaria, a German king who died mysteriously in 1886. Verena's pursuit of her obsession leads her to the discovery of a manuscript written by King Ludwig. It reveals Ludwig's secrets and those of an ancient enterprise to protect the Holy Grail. She learns about the Swan Knights, the direct line of descendants from the Grail Knight, Parsifal, and abo...

This book is a guide to speaking and writing like a Jane Austen character. With more than 1, 400 of Jane Austen's most elegant and witty phrases, quoted directly from her major novels, unfinished work, short stories, juvenilia, and personal letters, all placed into categories of expressional needs, with translations into the common phrases of today, this phrase thesaurus is a guide to conversing like the heroes, heroines, and villains of Jane ...

Keine Beschreibung.

The evolving image of the 18th century English literary giant, Dr. Samuel Johnson, was employed copiously in the fiction and essays of the Romantic and Victorian Periods. References to Johnson were intended to carry profound weight in the narratives, on the assumption of their common understanding. Although still popular today, these narratives have lost much of their initial power due to cultural evolution. A biographical study of Johnson's l...