8 Ergebnisse.

Ten-year-old Sandy's childhood ends when his mother sells him to a farmer who half-starves and beats him. So he runs away for good, away from the farm and from home. Alone on the road, penniless, Sandy is lucky to find friends: Spot and Patch, two drover's dogs, who are making their way home all by themselves. With no idea where they are going, Sandy joins them, following them across Scotland, through a wild landscape of loch and mountain, t...

Kenelm is an Atheling, a prince of the Blood-Royal. A descendent of the god, Woden. His uncle is the King. Kenelm had thought to live his life as a warrior: fighting, feasting and marrying a beautiful princess. But his uncle gave him to a monastery, to live and die as a Christian monk. Kenelm feels betrayed but is bound by his oath of loyalty to his king. So he digs the monastery's vegetable garden and dreams of the life he might have had. The...

You love me, don't you, Jonnie?" The Industrial Revolution blackens the countryside. Women and children hack at coal underground and drag loaded tubs like animals. "You'd better love me." Rattle is a dirty, pipe-smoking, swearing collier-wench who dresses and swaggers like a boy. She's in love with Jonathan Turner, a young farmer and a prim, God-fearing Methodist. "I love you, Jonnie. I'll never let you go." Rattle is determined to have Jona...

ELFGIFT. The elf's get and the Goddess' darling fights to keep his throne. If he loses, he loses everything: crown, love and life. Elfgift's Christian half-brother, Unwin, will never be satisfied until Elfgift is dead. He vows that, on capturing Elfgift, he will hand him to his Danish allies, to be sacrificed to Odin. The sacrifice of the Blood-Eagle. It's a gruelling war, but Elfgift is sustained by the love of the Goddess he fights for -- ...

The young witch, Shingebiss, believes she can 'spell' the Czar and make him save her beloved Northlands from destruction. In her innocence, she little understands that the Imperial Palace is a place of treachery and murder, ruled by a madman with a mind like 'a broken mirror, reflecting all things crookedly.' At first the Czar takes Shingebiss for an angel, sent to him by God, and welcomes her. But none of her spells seem able to blunt his g...

Keine Beschreibung.

Azalin's class go on a school trip to another planet. The planet Earth. Once on Earth, Azalin runs away. Her dream is to be a 'tronic when she grows up: one of the special people who maintain the systems keeping the man-made planet of Newarth alive. But just before leaving for Earth, she was told that Newarth already has all the 'tronics it needs. She will have to be a store-keeper instead. And she is to be 'sporting' about it. Azalin doesn't ...

Midsummer midnight: the endless white night of the far north. Malyuta, slave and hunter, names his first born son 'Ambrosi' because it means 'Immortal.' Then comes Kuzma, the bear-shaman, who claims the baby as his apprentice. He promises Malyuta riches or even the return of his youth, if he will give up his new-born son. Malyuta refuses, throughout the long night. The bear-shaman leaves, at last, declaring that keeping the baby will bring Mal...