Young Adult Classics

Ein gefährliches "Buschgespenst" treibt im sächsischen Hohenthal sein Unwesen...

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The nightmares include: VAMPIRES AND WEREWOLVES: A charter plane to Atlantic City mysteriously lands at a remote private airport near Lake George, NY. TIME TRAVELERS: A college student in an experiment involving time travel exchanges places with a murderer about to be executed on death row. ALLERGIC REACTION: Dr. Wishbone sends little Bradley to a retreat to see if his peculiar rash will improve while away from home. OFF LIMITS: June loses her job and moves in with her sister under the ...

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The terrors include: JUMPER: A patrol officer discovers a lovesick young man on a bridge contemplating suicide. DEAD: A young man killed in an automobile accident ten years ago visits his parents. STRANGER IN THE RAIN: A stranger asks a man in the deserted pool area of a large resort hotel if he will have dinner with him. SURVIVOR: A woman contemplating suicide saves a young girl from committing suicide before all hell breaks loose. MOTHER: After the death of his mother, Roger's alcoholism...

Anne of Green Gables has been translated into at least 36 languages and has sold more than 50 million copies. The novel recounts how Anne makes her way through life in the fictional Canadian town of Avonlea, in Prince Edward Island, Canada.

New England is best known for its covered bridges, immaculate town greens, and Revolutionary War history. Yet an evil presence has hidden behind the 17th-century stone walls and clap-boarded homes of CT, Mass., and Rhode Island for centuries. New York Times best-selling author M. William Phelps takes a look at some of the most terrifyingly true stories in New England history.

Tredje delen i serien om "Anne på Grönkulla" tar vid när Anne flyttar till Kingsport för att studera. I sin nya stad finner hon både nya bekantskaper och vänner från förr. Annes liv är fyllt av äventyr, uppvaktande kavaljerer och studier. Hon brottas med farhågor inför framtiden då hjärtats frågor är inte alltid så lätta att lösa. I originalöversättning av Karin Lidforss Jensen Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) växte upp på en ö i Kanada, i samma område som böckerna om Anne utspelar sig.

Experience the gritty realism of Billy Casper's world as he fights to escape the confines of life in a 1960's Yorkshire mining town by training and flying a hawk. "You'll not catch me! You'll never catch me."

Texas, 1872 When a stagecoach is robbed, two men are killed and young woman is kidnapped. Soon after, Yancy and Cooper Landon find themselves pursuing them. Meanwhile, their old foe Lee Mattingly has his own problems. Betrayed by his partners, Lee sets out on a path of vengeance while at the same time trying to help a young captive girl. It isn’t until their trails cross that both sides realize just how entwined their paths are. And, they soon realize that if they are to achieve their goals, they will have to go down the same path together.

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. These are my latest stories The terrors include: BOGUS: A comic book artist draws a demon too lifelike after searching for ideas from a book on devil worship. JETHRO: A man created from body parts of cadavers tries to survive after the death of his master. BAD BOY: A young boy enjoys doing bad things to people and animals without any one finding out SHOOTING STARS: People all over the city are killing each other for no reason after watching a meteor shaower. LIFE TO THE FULLEST: Cecil is ...

Robin Hood's father may now be Sheriff of Nottingham and working hard to root out police corruption and the remains of Guy Gisborne's criminal empire, but the Sherwood rebel's problems are far from over. Former sheriff Marjorie Kovacevic has been elected national president promising to round up illegal refugees and migrants and use the army to wipe out the rebels and bandits who control Sherwood Forest. But she needs to pass a new law before she can send in the troops to recapture Robin's home, Sherwood Castle.

Once upon a... time there was a marvellous land of Snergs. Miss Watkyns, a teacher who loved children, lived there. Just over the river lived Golithos, a not so friendly giant, who also loved children – with a lot of salt! He had a friend called Mother Meldrum, the wickedest witch that ever lived. When Sylvia and Joe run away for a big adventure their lives are in deadly peril when they fall into the clutches of these two evil characters.

Louison n'a que dix ans quand Molière la choisit pour jouer dans sa dernière pièce. Fille de comédiens, la fillette va enfin pouvoir réaliser son plus beau rêve : être actrice. Et pas n'importe où! À la Comédie-Française, devant la cour du Roi-Soleil, Louis XIV... "Quand tu seras grande, tu vas devenir une de ces actrices indispensables dont les directeurs ont toujours besoin. Ta voix est belle. Et tes yeux rayonnent." Avec tendresse et énergie, Élodie Huber anime un texte personnel et vivant, qui se prête magnifiquement à une adaptation audio.

Yorkshire, North of England, 1786. As the abandoned son of a lascar—a sailor from India—Heathcliff has spent most of his young life maligned as an "outsider." Now he's been flung into an alien life in the Yorkshire moors, where he clings to his birth father's language even though it makes the children of the house call him an animal, and the maids claim he speaks gibberish. Catherine is the younger child of the estate's owner, a daughter with light skin and brown curls and a mother that nobody talks about. Her father is grooming her for a place in proper society, and that's all that matters.

Flickan Maj föds 1945 i Göteborg. Vi får följa hennes uppväxt på västkusten genom ett föränderligt 1950-tal. Här ryms glädje och vemod liksom drömmar om Paris och poesiskrivande. Redan i de yngre åren känner hon sig lite utanför, ligger och tänker och umgås inte så värst mycket med sina jämnåriga. Men tillsammans med sin frejdiga väninna Birgitta får hon ändå vara med om en hel del. Snart börjar de spana på killar och tiden rullar fort mellan vänskapen, familjen, studierna och semestervikariatet på Göteborgs-Posten.

This is a full-cast performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis, enabling any student to fully understand and appreciate the novel. Orwell's political fable is told from the viewpoint of its key characters, the animals, who are quizzed and questioned about how "some animals are more equal than others" in this vibrant guided drama.

It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long.

Após a morte de seus pais, Tom vive com sua tia perto do Mississippi. Garoto inteligente e sapeca, ele está sempre envolvido em diversas travessuras com seus camaradas. Venha batalhar, soltar pipa e correr com Tom e seus amigos nesse clássico infantil! Personagem icônico da literatura americana, as aventuras de Tom foram adaptadas inúmeras vezes, como no filme "Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn" (2014) e na série de animação "As aventuras de Tom Sawyer" (1980). Este audiolivro é narrado em português brasileiro.

Clever and pithy children's classics turned upside-down, WINK is a true delight. Evelyn Skye, New York Times bestselling author of Damsel. Fifteen young adult contemporary fantasy and science fiction tales that wink at classic works of children's literature.

In Durchs wilde Kurdistan setzt Kara Ben Nemsi zusammen mit Halef und dem spleenigen Sir David Lindsay seine Orientreise fort...

When Rondo Landon accepts the sheriff’s job, he has hopes of marriage and settling down. But things unravel quickly for the young sheriff. An old friend is killed, and Rondo’s past continues to haunt him when a mysterious stranger rides into town. RONDO continues the story of The Landon Saga...