Showing results for "Lang Lang" in Historical Fiction

Buildings were weaving in and out, the street pitched like a stormy sea and bricks were raining down all around him.... Experience first hand through young Jacob what it was like living through this country’s most destructive earthquake!

In 1607, a year after the Virginia Company was granted a charter to establish a settlement in North America, 104 men set sail on a voyage to a new land. Among the brave adventurers who make the journey is a young boy named Samuel Collier, the page of famed Captain John Smith. Disease, famine, and continuing attacks by neighboring Algonquin Native Americans take a tremendous toll on the settlers. Samuel is one of the few to survive the harsh realities of the New World during the first few years of Jamestown.

Lasse og hans familie er taget på sommerferie ved Vesterhavet. Om ikke ret længe bliver Lasse syv år, og når sommeren er slut, skal han begynde i skole. Men sommeren varer en evighed, og ude ved Vesterhavet bliver Lasse venner med verdens rareste bondemand og møder en sød pige med nogle meget blå øjne. Anders Johansen (f. 1953) er en dansk forfatter, digter og freelancejournalist. Han er cand.phil. i dansk og debuterede i 1983 med digtsamlingen "Uanset" skrevet sammen med tre andre forfattere.

In this fictionalized biography of the journey based upon the journals of Lewis, Clark, and other members of the team, an unheralded member of the Corps, Seaman, a 150-pound Newfoundland dog, is introduced to young historians. Seaman travels the long journey with the Corps, serving a key role in the expedition’s success, catching and retrieving game, and protecting the expedition team from wild animals and hostile Indians. Come along with Lewis, Clark, the Corps of Discovery, and Seaman!

Köln im Jahre des Herrn 1212. Eine Schar von Kindern bricht in das Gelobte Land auf, um die Heilige Stadt Jerusalem von den Ungläubigen zu befreien - ohne Waffen, nur mit Gottes Hilfe. Ihr Anführer: Nikolaus, ein selbst noch jugendlicher Prediger aus Köln. Wird die waghalsige Mission gelingen? Autor Andreas Galk bettet eine fiktive Romanhandlung in die inzwischen historisch belegten Ereignisse ein und schildert so ebenso plastisch wie drastisch die Geschehnisse dieser dunklen Episode aus dem Mittelalter.