In the very lonely town, there lived a very lonely child, who only ever dreamed about the forest and the wild. He'd never had a friend before and thought he'd find one there. But no one had ever told him of the very scary bear. Will Oskar find a friend in the forest? Is the bear really as scary as everyone thinks? Follow Oskar's adventure into the forest and find out what's really there. Oskar and the Bear teaches children about friendships,...

Out of the darkness, and etched into space, a star takes a breath and falls from its place, trailing a luminous light in its wake. Oskar sits up as the light disappears, behind the old gum trees, the magic appears. Has it fallen near the dam for him to find? What treasures have fallen from the sky for Oskar to find when he wakes up? Follow Oskar on an adventure with Daddy to see if there really are some Moon Rocks hidden there! Oskar and the Moon...

Canadian Journalist Herbert Steinhouse met Oskar Schindler in 1946; Schindler told Steinhouse his story. At first, Steinhouse didn't believe him,. but by 1949, Steinhouse had written an article "The Man Who Saved 1,000 Lives." That article pre-dates -- and validates --all subsequent Schindler research. An interview with Steinhoue and his original article open the book; there are sections about Schindler the man, the book "Schindler's List," the award-winning...

In remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the Nazi concentration camps, this award-winning, bestselling work of Holocaust fiction, inspiration for the classic film and "masterful account of the growth of the human soul" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), returns with an all-new introduction by the author.
An "extraordinary" (The New York Review of Books) novel based on the...

Inhalt: Um Szepter und Kronen Europäische Minen und Gegenminen Zwei Kaiserkronen Kreuz und Schwert Held und Kaiser Die Saxoborussen Plewna Die Römerfahrt der Epigonen Ritter oder Dame Palle Der Todesgruß der Legionen

"From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings, comes a novel based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II. Ana will never forget her mother's face when she and her baby brother, Oskar, were sent out of their Polish ghetto and into the arms of a Christian friend. For Oskar, though, their new family is the only one he remembers. When a woman from a Jewish reclamation organization...

Sarien and his friends pushed back against the Rhinn invaders in Tyralien, but that was just the first step.When Sarien finds himself stranded in a world without magic, he knows he must find a way back to his own world before it's too late. Maydian is under attack by invaders and horrific monsters both, and its fate might rest on Sarien's ability to return and stop them.Meanwhile, Goslin returns to his kingdom, Eldsprak, to find it under siege, teetering...

An old Irish priest, dying in a hospital in Boston, meets a young Jewish man, a doctor in training. Although they dont know it yet, they have little in commonexcept for their painful pasts. Still, Dr. K (his Polish last name is unpronounceable to the nurses) agrees to sit vigil on what could be Father OMalleys final night of mortality. The priest soon speaks, reliving his bloody past in Ireland, where he fought in a failed revolution of 1916 as one...

Diese Biographie der berühmtesten Frau in der Geschichte Ägyptens ist spannend wie ein Roman. "Die ägyptische Königin Kleopatra hat seit jeher die Phantasie der Menschen aufs stärkste erregt. Sie erscheint als großartige Verkörperung des Rätsels, daß die Natur die Frau ebensosehr dazu bestimmte, dem Leben bezaubernden Glanz zu verleihen wie es zu zerstören. Auch heute, (mehr als) 2000 Jahre nach ihrem Tod, erliegen auserlesene Geister ihrer...