Annelies Hazenberg Knihy

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.

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.

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...