Before 1775, thirteen colonies in America belonged to England. This book tells about the fight to be free and independent

This book tells you what it was like to grow up on the frontiers of Kentucky and Indiana, in the prairie town of New Salem, Illinois, and in the city of pringfiel,Illinois, during the early 1800 s

This book tells about the hard life that a slave faced, and how slaves found ways to overcome some of the hardships. It tells how the cruel system of slavery began- and how it ended

This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John Jacobs’s short slave narrative, A True Tale of Slavery, published in London in 1861, adds a brother’s perspective to Harriet Jacobs’s autobiography. It is an exciting addition to this now classic work, as John Jacobs presents further historical information about family life so well described already by his sister

Independence Day is a moving, peerlessly funny odyssey through America and through the layered consciousness of one of its most compelling literary incarnations, conducted by a novelist of astonishing empathy and perception

A different time...a different place...What if you were there? If you lived at the time of Martin Luther King, you would have seen important changes brought about by the civil rights movement

Das Buch ist für die Kindern mit Liedern, Geshichten und Spielideen

Момо, Мохаммед - арабский мальчик, оставшийся без матери и выброшенный на улицу в бедняцком квартале Парижа. Мадам Роза - старая еврейка, у которой в жизни нет уже никого и почти ничего. Кажется, они обречены на умирание - по крайней мере, душевное. Но нет: сила любви творит невероятное...

In diesem Buch erzählt über das Leben des Paul Bäumer und seiner Mitschüler, die sich aus patriotischen Motiven als Freiwillige für den Ersten Weltkrieg melden und an der Westfront erleben

Vikas Mutter lebt. Sie hat nur etwas Schlimmes getan. Deswegen darf sie nicht mit ihrer Tochter zusammen sein. Es ist ihre Strafe, nicht Vikas. Warum aber ihre Mutter, Olessia, eine halbe Ewigkeit im russischen Arbeitslager verbringt, das sagt ihr niemand