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It's spring 1942, and life in the Warsaw ghetto is hard and often brutal with the Jews subject to beatings and execution at the lands of the hated SS. Young Misha lives at the Orphans' Home run by the heroic Dr. Korczak. But the time is fast approaching when Misha must...
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Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2011-06-30
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'YOU WANTED TO SEE SOME ACTION - WELL YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT NOW. YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT NOW ALL RIGHT.'Friday 24th May, 1940Private Johnny Hawke, aged sixteen, awakens to artillery fire.Hours later, Stukas scream down from the sky. Messerschmit fighters roar towards...
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Penguin
Parution :
2011-06-02
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Laura della Scala knows nothing beyond the convent walls which have trapped and bound her since she was twelve years old. A single night will change her life. She will soon learn the difference between an arranged marriage and true, reckless love.Venice is a dangerous...
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Penguin
Parution :
2011-04-07
ePub
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Between Shades of Gray is a haunting and powerful Second World War novel by Ruta SepetysThat morning, my brother's life was worth a pocket watch . . .One night fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother and young brother are hauled from their home by Soviet guards, thrown into...
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Penguin
Parution :
2011-04-07
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Scotland, 1915. A group of teenagers from two families meet for a picnic, but the war across the Channel is soon to tear them away from such youthful pleasures. All too soon, the horror of what is to become known as The Great War engulfs them, their friends and the...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2011-03-31
ePub
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Told who to cheer for, who to believe in, Yuri grows up in a country where no freedom of thought is encouraged - where even one's neighbours are encouraged to report any dissension to the authorities. But it is still a shock when a few careless words lead him to a...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2011-02-15
ePub
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Dark secrets at the maharajah's palace... Lost treasure and a bear attack in the Himalayas... And a naughty Indian monkey, filled with an ancient evil... When world-famous explorer Gustav Champlon disappears just before a trip to India to find lost treasure, Kit Salter...
Editeur :
Quercus Children's Books
Parution :
2011-02-03
Collection :
A Kit Salter Adventure
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When Belle meets Luke, son of an alchemist and Scribe to the famous poet Chaucer, she is determined to travel with him to Canterbury on a pilgrimage. She hopes for a miracle: that her father will walk again. She also hopes to atone for her own part in his accident. It...
Editeur :
Quercus Children's Books
Parution :
2011-02-03
ePub
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Rome, 61 BCRECRUITED as a gladiator, young Marcus Cornelius Primus faces a new life of brutal training, governed by strict rules, as he learns the skills of an elite warrior.But Marcus cannot simply forget his past. His father lies murdered by soldiers and his mother...
Editeur :
Puffin
Parution :
2011-02-03
ePub
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1584 - Surrey, EnglandWhen Lady Jane Rievaulx begins service to the Queen at Richmond Palace, she is thrilled at the court's newest arrival . . . Master James Lacey.Despite her previous courtship with his older brother, James is the man she truly loves. And for his...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2011-02-03
Collection :
The Other Countess
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Between writing her bestselling novels, Caroline Lawrence has penned several short stories, covering incidents alluded to in the novels, but not dramatised at length. This book brings together mini-mysteries to provide even more coverage of events in the lives of our...
Editeur :
Orion Children's Books
Parution :
2010-12-30
Collection :
The Roman Mysteries
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From Morocco to Libya, from Ostia to Surrentum - Caroline Lawrence has travelled widely to give the Roman Mysteries unrivalled authenticity among historical novels. Her research trips have yielded a dazzling array of insights that allow Caroline to vividly re-imagine...
Editeur :
Orion Children's Books
Parution :
2010-12-30
Collection :
The Roman Mysteries
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Norway, September 1943For brothers Marek and Olaf, a hunting trip out on the frozen Hardanger plateau offers a brief chance to escape the German occupation. But returning home they witness the horror of their father's arrest by the Gestapo and the start of a brutal...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2010-12-15
ePub
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It's the summer of AD 79 and Flavia Gemina and her friends, Jonathan, Nubia and Lupus, set sail for the Bay of Naples where they are going to stay with Flavia's uncle near Pompeii. Once they arrive, they are soon absorbed in a quest to solve a riddle that may lead to...
Editeur :
Orion Children's Books
Parution :
2010-12-09
Collection :
The Roman Mysteries
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September AD 81. Flavia and her friends learn of the mysterious and sudden death of the Emperor Titus. Was his death natural? Or was it murder? As the four detectives investigate this mystery, they little dream how much their lives - as well as the future of Italy -...
Editeur :
Orion Children's Books
Parution :
2010-12-09
Collection :
The Roman Mysteries
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Flavia and her friends are on a quest for the Emperor Titus - to steal a valuable gemstone known as 'Nero's Eye'. The Delphic Oracle prophesied that whoever owns the gem will rule Rome - so Titus is determined to claim it for himself. Their travels take them across the...
Editeur :
Orion Children's Books
Parution :
2010-12-09
Collection :
The Roman Mysteries
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A desperate quest begins in the port of Alexandria: site of the great lighthouse, the famous Library, and the tomb of Alexander the Great. Codes, riddles, anagrams and hieroglyphics lead the young detectives down the river Nile to pyramids and sphinxes, temples and...
Editeur :
Orion Children's Books
Parution :
2010-12-09
Collection :
The Roman Mysteries
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It's August, AD 81. Presumed dead by their families but wanted by unknown authorities, Flavia and her friends feel very far from home.When news of more kidnappings reach them, and they discover that one of Miriam's twins is among the missing, the four detectives set out...
Editeur :
Orion Children's Books
Parution :
2010-12-09
Collection :
The Roman Mysteries
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March AD 80. In Rome, the Emperor Titus has announced that there will be a hundred days of games to open his new amphitheatre (now known as the Colosseum). Flavia, Nubia and Lupus take this opportunity to go to Rome and search for their missing friend, Jonathan. Their...
Editeur :
Orion Children's Books
Parution :
2010-12-09
Collection :
The Roman Mysteries
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Mystery and adventure for four young detectives in Ancient Roman times..It seems that Flavia's tutor, Aristo, has committed a terrible crime - attempting to murder Flavia's own father. When Aristo escapes, Flavia and her friends give chase, but they aren't the only ones...
Editeur :
Orion Children's Books
Parution :
2010-12-09
Collection :
The Roman Mysteries
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