Häftad, Engelska, 2025
270 kr
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- Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
429 kr
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- Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
429 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2026
270 kr
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- Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
446 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2026
318 kr
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- LjudbokEngelska, 1997
693 kr
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A story filled with danger and excitement, Johnny Tremain tells of the turbulent, passionate times in Boston just before the Revolutionary War.
Johnny, a young apprentice silversmith, is caught up with Otis, Hancock, and John and Samuel Adams in the exciting and dramatic operations and subterfuges leading up to the Boston Tea Party and the Battle of Lexington. As Johnny is forced into the role of a full-grown man in the face of his new country’s independence, he finds that his relations with those he loves change for the better as well.
Winner of the Newbery Medal in 1943, the year of its publication, Johnny Tremain is historical fiction at its best, portraying Revolutionary Boston as a living drama, through the shrewd eyes of an observant boy.
- LjudbokEngelska, 1997
307 kr
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A story filled with danger and excitement, Johnny Tremain tells of the turbulent, passionate times in Boston just before the Revolutionary War.
Johnny, a young apprentice silversmith, is caught up with Otis, Hancock, and John and Samuel Adams in the exciting and dramatic operations and subterfuges leading up to the Boston Tea Party and the Battle of Lexington. As Johnny is forced into the role of a full-grown man in the face of his new country’s independence, he finds that his relations with those he loves change for the better as well.
Winner of the Newbery Medal in 1943, the year of its publication, Johnny Tremain is historical fiction at its best, portraying Revolutionary Boston as a living drama, through the shrewd eyes of an observant boy.
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250 kr
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- LjudbokEngelska, 2025
723 kr
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A Mirror for Witches takes the listener on a historical journey through the injustices of the witch trials through the heartbreaking story of a young woman who battles her own demons, rooted in the traumatic loss of her parents, as she fights for her life.A Mirror for Witches, published in 1928 by award-winning author Esther Forbes, is an enthralling tale of power, fear, trauma, and superstition set in New England in the 1660s. Caught up in the horrific witch hunts in Europe and the Americas, Doll Bilby, as a small child, witnesses her parents being burned for witchcraft in Brittany. She would have burned with them, were it not for Jared Bilby, an English captain, who takes her away as his adopted daughter. They make their way to the New World, where his wife, jealous of Doll and unable to have her own children, accuses her of witchcraft, and soon has other townspeople making accusations as well.After yet another terrible loss and dealing with an unrelenting barrage of abuse, manipulation, and accusations from townspeople and her adoptive mother, Doll starts to believe the accusations laid at her feet and begins to look for connection and solace anywhere she can, even if that means witchcraft.This gripping story examines the horrible power of how fear and hate of those different from us, particularly those on the margins of power and society, can lead to catastrophic outcomes.Esther Forbes, best known for the Newbery Awardwinning Johnny Tremain, weaves a beautiful tapestry of historical facts about the Salem witch trials with fictional characters as she examines the horror, paranoia, fear, and superstitions present in Puritan society. Grounded in historical realities, this novel takes listeners on an emotional journey. - LjudbokEngelska, 2025
288 kr
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A Mirror for Witches takes the listener on a historical journey through the injustices of the witch trials through the heartbreaking story of a young woman who battles her own demons, rooted in the traumatic loss of her parents, as she fights for her life.A Mirror for Witches, published in 1928 by award-winning author Esther Forbes, is an enthralling tale of power, fear, trauma, and superstition set in New England in the 1660s. Caught up in the horrific witch hunts in Europe and the Americas, Doll Bilby, as a small child, witnesses her parents being burned for witchcraft in Brittany. She would have burned with them, were it not for Jared Bilby, an English captain, who takes her away as his adopted daughter. They make their way to the New World, where his wife, jealous of Doll and unable to have her own children, accuses her of witchcraft, and soon has other townspeople making accusations as well.After yet another terrible loss and dealing with an unrelenting barrage of abuse, manipulation, and accusations from townspeople and her adoptive mother, Doll starts to believe the accusations laid at her feet and begins to look for connection and solace anywhere she can, even if that means witchcraft.This gripping story examines the horrible power of how fear and hate of those different from us, particularly those on the margins of power and society, can lead to catastrophic outcomes.Esther Forbes, best known for the Newbery Awardwinning Johnny Tremain, weaves a beautiful tapestry of historical facts about the Salem witch trials with fictional characters as she examines the horror, paranoia, fear, and superstitions present in Puritan society. Grounded in historical realities, this novel takes listeners on an emotional journey.
