CLAWS AND EFFECT <BR>Winter puts tiny Crozet, Virginia, in a deep freeze and everyone seems to be suffering from the winter blahs, including postmistress Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen. So all are ripe for the juicy gossip coming out of Crozet Hospital-until the main source of that gossip turns up dead. It's not like Harry to resist a mystery, and she soon finds the hospital a hotbed of ego, jealousy, and illicit love. <BR>But it's ...

aus der Reihe Coronet'> Jean M. Auel's enthralling "Earth's Children series has become a literary phenomenon, beloved by readers around the world. In a brilliant novel as vividly authentic and entertaining as those that came before, Jean M. Auel returns us to the earliest days of humankind and to the captivating adventures of the courageous woman called Ayla. <BR>With her companion, Jondalar, Ayla sets out on her most dangerous and daring journey--away from the ...

aus der Reihe Coronet'> The story of Ayla begins when, as a five-year-old orphan, she is adopted by the Clan, a group of Neanderthals. Initially, she inspires surprise, then wariness and finally acceptance by the Clan. She is cared for by its medicine woman, Iza, and its wise holy man, Creb. But she makes an implacable enemy of the group's future leader, Broud. He will do all he can to destroy her - but Ayla is a survivor. Jean Auel's imaginative reconstruction of ...

Forced to leave the Clan and her young son, Ayla sets out alone to travel the frigid steppes until she finds the valley of horses. Unable to find people like herself, the Cro-Magnons, she settles there and seeks friendship elsewhere. First she adopts a young filly, then a wounded lion cub. But far to the west, two young Cro-Magnon brothers have begun a journey. One of them is Jondalar, whose destiny is bound inextricably with Ayla's. Jean Auel's ...

aus der Reihe Coronet'> Leaving the valley of horses with Jondalar, the handsome man she has nursed back to health and come to love, Ayla embarks on a journey that will lead her to the Mamutoi; the Mammoth Hunters. But as she settles into this new life among a people at first strange and disturbingly different, Ayla finds herself irresistibly drawn to Ranec, their master-carver. Ultimately, she is compelled to make a fateful choice between the two men. Jean Auel's ...

In the year 1492, the Inquisition has all of Spain in its grip. After centuries of pogrom-like riots encouraged by the Church, the Jews - who have been an important part of Spanish life since the days of the Romans - are expelled from the country by royal edict. Many who wish to remain are intimidated by Church and Crown and become Catholics, but several hundred thousand choose to retain their religion and depart; given little time to flee, some ...

Die Ermordung von Dr. Azor Sparks in einer Gasse hinter einem Restaurant entsetzt die Öffentlichkeit und läßt den Ruf nach schneller Aufklärung laut werden. Aber die Ermittlungen von Lieutenant Peter Decker zum Tode des allseits beliebten und sehr angesehenen Chirurgen bringen vorerst nur eins zu Tage: Fragen über Fragen. Warum, zum Beispiel, reagiert die Familie auf die Nachricht von Dr. SparksŽ Tod eher ...

It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. For Sethe, Paul D. Halle and the others, the benign imprisonment of Sweet Home is destroyed. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of "Song of Solomon" and "Tar Baby".
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Ruby Jordans Ehe ist ein einziger Scherbenhaufen, als sie beschließt, sich mit einer Meditations-Kassette abzulenken und zu beruhigen. Und wirklich, die Stimme des Bandes lullt sie ein. Ruby schläft tief
und träumt, ins 10. Jahrhundert versetzt zu sein, wo sie einen umwerfenden Wikinger kennen lernt, der ihrem Mann verblüffend ähnlich sieht. Doch ist es wirklich nur ein Traum? ...

Für den zweiten Band der Lederstrumpf-Romane ist bezeichnend, daß Cooper nicht an das Ende, sondern an den Beginn von 'Die Ansiedler' anknüpft. Nicht Alter und Tod, sondern die jungen Mannesjahre Natty Bumppos interessieren ihn: Lederstrumpf erscheint hier als erprobter, berühmter Kundschafter und Krieger von etwa dreißig Jahren, als 'Falkenauge' und 'Lange Büchse'. Diese Gestalt hat Besitz ergriffen von der ...