Annelies Hazenberg Knihy

De serie De Aardkinderen vertelt het verhaal van het mysterie van het ontstaan van de mensheid en de harde strijd om in de prehistorie te overleven. Jean Auels boeken hebben al miljoenen lezers meegevoerd naar de boeiende prehistorische wereld van Ayla en haar tijdgenoten. In de prehistorische wildernis van het Europa van 35.000 jaar geleden vindt de Stam van de Holenbeer een klein meisje. Ze is moederziel alleen; haar familie is bij een aardbeving om het leven gekomen. Hoewel het kind niet tot het volk van de Stam behoort, ontfermt Iza, de medicijnvrouw, zich over haar. Ze krijgt de naam Ayla, en Iza onderwijst haar geduldig in heelkunde en kruidenleer. Als Ayla opgroeit, wordt langzaam maar zeker duidelijk dat ze verschilt van de andere stamleden. Ayla draagt de toekomst van de mens in haar bloed, maar ze botst met de oude cultuur van de Stam. Ze is namelijk vlugger, ondernemender, slimmer, ánders...

Het leven van een jong meisje in Siberië in de IJstijd.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January's frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhône Valley, discovers the secrets of goat racing through the middle of town, and delights in the glorious regional cuisine. A Year in Provence transports us into all the earthy pleasures of Provençal life and lets us live vicariously at a tempo governed by seasons, not by days.

Een 13-jarig Russisch meisje wordt in de Tweede Wereldoorlog als dwangarbeidster naar Duitsland gevoerd; ondanks de moeilijke omstandigheden blijft zij aan haar familie denken.

Ayla, the heroine first introduced in The Clan of the Cave Bear, is known and loved by millions of readers. Now, in The Plains of Passage, Ayla’s story continues.Ayla and Jondalar set out on horseback across the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe. To the hunter-gatherers of their world--who have never seen tame animals--Ayla and Jondalar appear enigmatic and frightening. The mystery surrounding the woman, who speaks with a strange accent and talks to animals with their own sounds, is heightened by her uncanny control of a large, powerful wolf. The tall, yellow-haired man who rides by her side is also held in awe, not only for the magnificent stallion he commands, but also for his skill as a crafter of stone tools, and for the new weapon he devises, the spear-thrower.In the course of their cross-continental odyssey, Ayla and Jondalar encounter both savage enemies and brave friends. Together they learn that the vast and unknown world can be difficult and treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful and enlightening as well. All the pain and pleasure bring them closer to their ultimate destination, for the orphaned Ayla and the wandering Jondalar must reach that place on earth they can call home.As sweeping and spectacular as the land she creates, Jean M. Auel’s The Plains of Passage is an astonishing novel of discovery, danger, and love, a triumph for one of the world’s most original and popular authors.

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. With her companion, Jondalar, Ayla sets out on her most dangerous and daring journey--away from the welcoming hearths of The Mammoth Hunters and into the unknown. Their odyssey spans a beautiful but sparsely populated and treacherous continent, the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe, casting the pair among strangers. Some will be intrigued by Ayla and Jondalar, with their many innovative skills, including the taming of wild horses and a wolf; others will avoid them, threatened by what they cannot understand; and some will threaten them. But Ayla, with no memory of her own people, and Jondalar, with a hunger to return to his, are impelled by their own deep drives to continue their trek across the spectacular heart of an unmapped world to find that place they can both call home.

The true story of a former Green Beret commander who led a group of businessmen on a daring rescue mission to free two men from an Iranian jail.

Als een Engels echtpaar met de ouders van de man op vakantie naar Malta gaat, blijkt dit mede door de ziekte van Parkinson van de vader minder ontspannend dan ze hoopten.

Een jonge joodse vrouw wordt in het 14e eeuwse Avignon verliefd op de broer van de man aan wie ze tegen haar zin is uitgehuwelijkt.