Cold River
10 best books like Cold River (William Judson): Der mechanische Prinz, Lost on a Mountain in Maine, Wolfsaga, Die eisige Zeit, Das Buch von Eden, How To Draw Manga, Volume 20: Female Characters, Betrayal of the Self, Woodswoman II: Beyond Black Bear Lake, Bar Flaubert, The Story of Seeds: From Mendel's Garden to Your Plate, and How There's More of Less to Eat Around the World
| Author | Andreas Steinhöfel |
| ISBN | 3551581126 |
Er war, so scheint es ihm, von Anfang an das egalste Kind der Welt. Das traurigste ... Das sprachloseste ... Dann, eines Morgens vor der U-Bahn, erhält Max von einem einarmigen Bettler ein unglaubliches Geschenk Und ein goldenes Ticket, mit dem er an Orte reisen kann, wo nur wenige hinkommen: die Refugien....
Based on the true account of a boy's harrowing journey through the vast wilderness of the Katahdin Mountains, Lost on a Mountain in Maine is a gripping survival story for all ages.
Twelve-year-old Donn Fendler steps away from his Boy Scout troop for only a minute, but in the foggy mountains of...
| Author | Käthe Recheis |
| ISBN | 3210250758 |
في وادي الرياح الهامسة، حيث لا يزال العالم منظمًا. تعيش (آكونا)، الذئبة القائدة، ورفيقها (بالوكان) مع جرائهم الثلاثة (إيمياك)، و(شتيرنشفستر) و(شيريكي) -...
Die fanatischen Heerscharen des Pannionischen Sehers stürmen aus dem Süden heran und überziehen Genabackis mit einer Welle der Gewalt. Um die schreckliche Armee abzuwehren, muss sich Hohefaust Dujek Einarm mit seinen früheren Feinden verbünden, dem Kriegsherrn Caladan Bruth und den Bewohnern...
| Author | Kai Meyer |
| ISBN | 3404155459 |
Winter 1257. Zwei Reisende kämpfen sich durch Eis und Schnee bis zu einem einsamen Kloster in der Eifel. Der Novize Aelvin erkennt in einem der Fremden den berühmten Albertus Magnus, begleitet von dem todkranken Mädchen Favola. Sie trägt ein begehrtes Gut bei sich: die sagenumwobene Lumina,...
| Author | Arno Gruen |
| ISBN | 0802110177 |
Love or power ? these are the opposing poles of a choice every child is compelled to make, very early in its life, in a drama that sets it irrevocably on its path through life. This startling new insight into a formative experience fundamental to our development is the subject of THE BETRAYAL OF THE SELF,...
| Author | Anne LaBastille |
| ISBN | 0393320596 |
Anne LaBastille found peace and solitude in the log cabin she built for herself at Black Bear Lake. But as the years passed, the outside world intruded in various ways: curious fans, after reading her best-selling book Woodswoman, tracked her down; land developers arrived; there was air and noise pollution...
| Author | Alexis Stamatis |
| ISBN | 1900850575 |
Both a search for identity and an intriguing family saga, this tale follows the journey--filled with love, denial, and danger--undertaken by a young man who tries to discover why a novel by an aspiring writer seems to echo his own innermost thoughts. In Barcelona, Berlin, and Florence, he traces his...
| Author | Nancy Castaldo |
| ISBN | 0544320239 |
Something as small as a seed can have a worldwide impact. Did you know there are top-secret seed vaults hidden throughout the world? And once a seed disappears, that’s it—it’s gone forever? With the growth of genetically modified foods, the use of many seeds is dwindling—of 80,000 edible plants,...
| Author | Stephen Kenson |
| ISBN | 0451457749 |
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| Author | Sergei Lukyanenko |
| ISBN | 3453266277 |
Er schreibt und schreibt und wird immer besser: Der russische Autoren-Star Sergej Lukianenko landete mit Wächter der Nacht einen Volltreffer und seitdem verkaufen sich seine Bücher, egal ob Science-Fiction wie Spektrum oder Jugendbücher wie Das Schlangenschwert wie warme Brötchen am Sonntagmorgen....
| Author | Yumi Tamura |
| ISBN | 1591166284 |
Synopsis:
Shipwrecked in Okinawa, Sarasa has met Doctor Basho, who has healed her eyes, and Shuri, who has fled a coup in Sanyo. Together, they must help stop a plot to kill Okinawa's president and protect the independent nation from invasion!
My Thoughts:
There's plenty...
| Author | Edwin Way Teale |
| ISBN | 0396069746 |
I enjoyed this book tremendously and felt seriously homesick for the farm I lived on in central NH during my teens and twenties. Part of our land was a big swamp, home to a variety of wildlife we were privileged to watch. Teale's book displays his great knowledge of the wild world and its inhabitants, but...
| Author | Roderick Townley |
| ISBN | 0689857136 |
It's not easy being a heroine inside a story that no one is reading.But Princess Sylvie has an even bigger problem: By chance, she and the other characters from The Great Good Thing and Into the Labyrinth find themselves launched into outer space bound for the moons of Jupiter! Here they must learn to act...
| Author | Bernard F. Conners |
| ISBN | 0945167512 |
On June 4, 1982, the body of a young woman surfaced from 300 feet of water in Lake Placid, New York. Because of the depth and intense cold of the water, the body which was determined by medical examiners to have been submerged for over twenty years, was remarkably well-preserved. At the time, the authorities...
| Author | Marissa Moss |
| ISBN | 1584853301 |
Aw, I missed Amelia... so I was really excited to find this at the local book sale, and for free! Almost a brand-new copy. This series was always surprisingly matter-of-fact and progressive, but this one is about as overt as it gets: Amelia wants to do things that are usually considered 'boyish', while...
GURPS Discworld: Adventures on the Back of the Turtle
| Author | Phil Masters |
| ISBN | 1556342616 |
Events on the Discworld have been chronicled in the best-selling works of Terry Pratchett. Fans have learned of the adventures of Rincewind the incompetent wizard, Granny Weatherwax the witch (known to trolls as "She Who Must Be Avoided"), Captain Carrot the six-foot dwarf, Archchancellor Ridcully,...
| Author | Astrid Lindgren |
| ISBN | 3789141283 |
Ein Jahr ist vergangen, seit Kalle Blomquist zur Verhaftung von drei gefährlichen Juwelendieben beigetragen hat. Mittlerweile lachen ihn seine Freunde wieder aus, wenn er den Meisterdetektiv spielt.
Doch dann geschieht ein Mord in Kleinköping und ausgerechnet Eva-Lotta findet die...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0062701134 |
Asimov deftly assembles a chronological list of science and discovery starting way back in pre-history (fire and the wheel) to the 1989 present day. The types of entries I recall are machines like the printing press and airplanes or the discovery or individual elements. You won't only find the stereotypical...
| Author | Margret Wittmer |
| ISBN | 0904614336 |
A Woman's Pilgrimage to the Galapagos. A breath-taking firsthand account of Wittmer's successful attempt to settle the island of Floreana. In 1932, Margaret Wittmer leaves Germany with her husband and step-son and travels to Floreana, a small, almost unpopulated island in the Galapagos chain,...
| Author | Jill Thompson |
| ISBN | 1401203132 |
They'll do anything to solve the case.
Rowland and Paine, the dead British teenagers who first appeared in Neil Gaiman's THE SANDMAN: SEASON OF MISTS, travel stateside to investigate a strange missing-persons case at a posh International Academy for Girls.
Naturally, the inquisitive...
