«Влажный юго-западный ветер за несколько дней согнал с горных склонов серый тающий снег. Сейчас его нет даже в ложбинках. Вместо снега там стоят маленькие синие озера. В них плавают желтые солнечные облака и чуть заметно качают вершинами перевернутые сосны…» Автор обложки: Роман Задорожний ...
Durch die Wuste reiten Kara Ben Nemsi und Hadschi Halef Omar, sein treuer Gefahrte. Der Fund einer Leiche bei den Salzseen Nordafrikas lost ein faszinierendes Abenteuer aus, dessen Folgen den Leser sechs Bande lang in Atem halten. Schon zu Beginn erschlie?t sich die ganze Buntheit der orientalischen Welt. ...
In The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, Violet Hunter asks Holmes, whether she should accept a job with very strange conditions. She has been offered 120 pounds per year as a governess, but only if she will cut her long hair short. This is only one of many peculiar conditions to which she must agree. The employer, Jephro Rucastle, seems pleasant enough, yet Miss Hunter obviously has her suspicions. After a fortnight, Miss Hunter beseeches Holmes ...
Clover Martinez has always been a survivor, which is the only reason she isn't among the dead when aliens invade and destroy Earth as she knows it. When she hears an inexplicable radio message, she's shocked to learn there are other survivors – and that they're all at the former Area 51. When she arrives, she's greeted by a band of misfits who call themselves The Last Teenagers on Earth. Only they aren't the ragtag group ...
Twelve-year-old Luna loves the nighttime more than anything else. It's when no one gives her "that look? about the half mask she has to wear while healing from a disfiguring car accident. It's also the perfect time to sit outside and draw what she sees – like the boy and girl from the new family next door that zip out of the window in a zeppelin and up to the stars. At first, she thinks she's dreaming. But one night they catch her ...
Im Sudan unterdrucken gewissenlose Ausbeuter die Dorfer der Eingeborenen, plundern und morden und verkaufen die Bewohner an ebenso gewissenlose Handler. Deutsche Forscher sto?en auf den schlimmsten aller Sklavenrauber, den «Vater des Todes». Gefahrliche Abenteuer stehen ihnen bevor… ...
Ashputtel, or Cinderella, is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression and triumphant reward. In it, a young girl is forced by her cruel stepmother and stepsisters to a life of servitude. Sleeping next to the fireplace, she earns the nickname Ashputtel. Elements of the Grimm treatment of this story are much more intense than other versions (Perrault and Disney, for example), with the stepsisters experiencing a more violent conclu ...
