In 1872 lands once thought uninhabitable are coveted by the white settlers, traders and miners headed West. In far Northern California the last few bands of Modoc cling to their ancestral lands, trying to live in peace with their new neighbors.

Nineteen-year-old Tommy Dick was killed, only to resurface. Born into a Hungarian family who had converted from Judaism, Tommy soon found out that in the eyes of the Nazis, he was still a Jew, still a target for murder. On the run and in disguise, Tommy was chased by death as much as he was by luck. Getting Out Alive is a vivid and gripping account of how the courageous acts of others, unshakeable friendships, and Tommy's own extraordinary quick wit...

Rachel Milbauer, a vivacious and outgoing music lover, hid silently in an underground bunker in Nazi-occupied Poland for nearly two years. After the war, a recovered violin, case and photos hidden away by Rachel's beloved Uncle Velvel became cherished symbols of survival and continuity. Saved by inner fortitude, luck and the courage and caring of friends and strangers, Rachel and Adam met and fell in love, and set about building a new life together....

Ann Szedlecki was a Hollywood-film-loving fourteen-year-old when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939 and she fled to the Soviet Union with her older brother, hoping to return for the rest of her family later. Instead, she ended up spending most of the next six and a half years alone in the Soviet Union, enduring the harsh conditions of northern Siberia under Stalin's Communist regime. Szedlecki's beautifully written story, which lovingly reconstructs...

The son of an Antwerp diamond merchant, Paul-Henri Rips was ten when the Nazis invaded Belgium and ended his "golden childhood" forever. Guided by his father's admonition to "Sei a mensch" (Be a decent person), Rips managed to hold onto his humanity in the face of unfathomable inhumanity.

Oregon, a land of towering timber, snow-capped peaks, lush fertile valleys. A land of gold. To the pioneering settlers, it was a garden of Eden. To the Rogue Indians, it was home. Two different peoples, each laying claim to the same territory.

After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City.

Peter Anderson Survivor 1.01 (DEU) Blackout gelesen von Dietmar Wunder Digitaler Serienroman in 12 Folgen von Peter Anderson. Episode 1. - Ein Raumschiff auf einem unbekannten Planeten. Drei der fünf Besatzungsmitglieder können sich nicht erinnern, wie sie an Bord gekommen sind. Die Mannschaft muss das Schiff verlassen - und findet sich in einer riesigen unterirdischen Fabrikanlage wieder. In diesem gewaltigen Komplex, von Rost und Verfall gezeichnet,...

Peter Anderson Survivor 1.05 (DEU) Das Beben gelesen von Dietmar Wunder Digitaler Serienroman in 12 Folgen von Peter Anderson. Episode 5. - Commander Ryan Nash und sein Freund Jabo haben sich von ihren Gefährten getrennt. Jabo, den man zum Cyborg, zum Maschinenmenschen, gemacht hat, bittet Ryan, ihn zu töten. Denn er hat Angst, den Kampf gegen die Programmierung in seinem Kopf zu verlieren und zur Killermaschine zu werden. Doch da werden Ryan...