Susan Fletcher
1) Corrag
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English
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A novel from Susan Fletcher, author of the bestselling Eve Green and Oystercatchers. The Massacre of Glencoe happened at 5am on 13th February 1692 when thirty-eight members of the Macdonald clan were killed by soldiers who had enjoyed the clan's hospitality for the previous ten days. Many more died from exposure in the mountains. Fifty miles to the south Corrag is condemned for her involvement in the Massacre. She is imprisoned, accused of witchcraft...
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English
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The powerful new novel from the award-winning author of 'Eve Green' and 'Oystercatchers' is a tale of love and the lore of the sea. A profound tale of love, loss and the lore of the sea. The islanders of Parla are still mourning the loss of one of their own. Four years since that loss, and a man - un-named, unclothed - is washed onto their shores. Some say he is a mythical man from the sea - potent, kind and beautiful; others suspect him. For the...
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English
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A breathtaking novel of passion and betrayal in seventeenth-century Scotland and the portrait of an unforgettable heroine February 13, 1692. Thirty-eight members of the MacDonald clan are killed by soldiers who had previously enjoyed the clan's hospitality. Many more die from exposure. Forty miles south, brilliant, captivating Corrag-accused witch and orphaned herbalist-is imprisoned in the Scottish highlands for her involvement in the massacre. As...
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Deutsch
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Pleased to meet you, Mrs Butterfield!
Ein altes Herrenhaus mit einem großen Garten, in dem Lavendel, Mohn und Kornblumen blühen. Morgens singt der Zaunkönig in den Büschen, abends lässt man den Tag bei einem Gin Tonic unter den Apfelbäumen ausklingen. Florence Butterfield, lebenserfahren, weit gereist und ausgestattet mit unerschütterlichem Optimismus, kann sich keinen schöneren Ort für den Lebensabend vorstellen als die Seniorenresidenz...
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English
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In late nineteenth-century California, when Chinese immigrants are being driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites, fifteen-year-old Eliza Jane McCully defies the townspeople and her lighthouse-keeper father to help a Chinese boy who has been kind to her.
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English
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Inspired by Victor Hugo's classic, Les Miserables, A Little in Love beautifully conveys the heartbreaking story of street girl Eponine.
Paris, 1832A girl lies alone in the darkness, clutching a letter to her heart. Eponine remembers being a child: her swing and the peach tree, and the baby brother she loved. But mostly she remembers being miserable. Taught to lie and cheat, and to hate the one girl, Cosette, who might have been her friend. Now,...
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Series
Dragon chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Description
Kaeldra, an outsider adopted by an Elythian family as a baby, possesses the power to understand dragons and uses this power to try to save her younger sister, who needs dragon's milk to recover from an illness.
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Series
Dragon chronicles volume 2
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Kara is summoned by King Orrik, who believes she has the power to call down the dragons that have been plundering his realm, and she is caught up in the fierce rivalry between Orrik and his jealous brother Rog.
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Mitra, of royal Persian lineage, and her five-year-old brother Babak, whose dreams foretell the future, flee for their lives in the company of the magus Melchoir and two other Zoroastrian priests, traveling through Persia as they follow star signs leading to a newly-born king in Bethlehem. Includes historical notes. Mitra and her little brother, Babak, are beggars in the city of Rhagae, scratching out a living as best as they can...
12) Sign of the dove
Author
Series
Dragon chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Book for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
As the last of the dragon eggs, laid long ago, begin to hatch, Lyf becomes a reluctant friend who tries to save both the dragon mothers and their newly born children from their enemies.
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Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
Description
Florrie Butterfield--eighty-seven, one-legged, and of cheerful disposition--believes there can't be any more surprises in life. Yet one evening, there's an accident at Babbington Hall--the adult residence where she lives--so shocking and strange that Florrie is suspicious; is this really an accident? Or is she being lied to? Is she living alongside a potential murderer? In her efforts to learn the truth, Florrie is forced to look back on her own life,...
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Series
Dragon chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
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English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Bryn must try to find a way to save a baby dragon from a dangerous modern world that seems to have no place for something so ancient.