Elizabeth George Speare Boeken

In this Newberry Medal-winning novel, Daniel bar Jamin is fired by only one passion: to avenge his father's death by crucifixion by driving the Roman legions from his land of Isreal.

Sixteen-year-old Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1687. Alone and desperate, she has been forced to leave her beloved home on the island of Barbados and join a family she has never met. Torn between her quest for belonging and her desire to be true to herself, Kit struggles to survive in a hostile place. Just when it seems she must give up, she finds a kindred spirit. But Kit's friendship with Hannah Tupper, believed by the colonists to be a witch, proves more taboo than she could have imagined and ultimately forces Kit to choose between her heart and her duty. Elizabeth George Speare won the 1959 Newbery Medal for this portrayal of a heroine whom readers will admire for her unwavering sense of truth as well as her infinite capacity to love.

Tot zijn grote schrik treft Martin Snell op zijn vroege melkronde niet de zeer aantrekkelijke bewoonster van Celandine Cottage aan, maar slechts de geblakerde resten van het vijftiende-eeuwse landhuisje in Kent. Op de bovenste verdieping wordt het ontzielde lichaam van Kenneth Fleming, een vermaard cricketspeler, aangetroffen. Dood door verstikking, is al snel de conclusie. Wat deed Kenneth eigenlijk in Kent, terwijl iedereen aannam at hij met zijn zoon op vakantie in Griekenland was? En welke rol speelden de drie vrouwen in zijn leven, die allemaal een motief voor de moord lijken te hebben? Inspecteur Thomas Lynley en brigadier Barbara Havers stuiten op een complex patroon van verstikkende relaties, waarin verwrongen verhoudingen, afwijzing en frustratie mensen soms aanzetten tot ongekende daden, waarbij liefde kan omslaan in allesvernietigende haat.

Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills. Until the day his father returns to their cabinnbsp in the Maine wilderness, twelve-year-old Matt must try to survive on his own. Although Matt is brave he's not prepared for an attack by swarming bees and he's astonished when he's rescued by an Indiann chief and his grandson, Attean. As the oys come to know each other Attean learns to speak English while Matt becomes a skilled hunter. Though many months have passed, there's no sign of Matt's family. Then Attean asks Matt to join the Beaver tribe and move north. Should Matt abandon his hopes of ever seeing his family again and move on to a new life?

Author's style compared to P. D. James and Ruth Rendell.