In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten ‘relocation centers,’ hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard. They Called Us Enemy is Takei's firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the joys and terrors of growing up under...

Martin's school is no ordinary school. There are snowball fights, kidnappings, cakes, a parachute jump, a mysterious man called 'No-Smoking' who lives in a railway carriage and a play about a flying classroom. As the Christmas holidays draw near, Martin and his friends - nervous Uli, cynical Sebastian, Johnny, who was rescued by a sea captain, and Matthias, who is always hungry (particularly...

Going to the Dogs is set in Berlin after the crash of 1929 and before the Nazi takeover, years of rising unemployment and financial collapse. The moralist in question is Jakob Fabian, ‘aged thirty-two, profession variable, at present advertising copywriter . . . weak heart, brown hair,’ a young man with an excellent education but permanently condemned to a low-paid job without security in the...

Having been shipwrecked, the navigator Robinson Crusoe, by chance, finds himself on a desert island off the coast of America. Having lived there all alone for 28 years, due to unexpected circumstances, he once left him on an English ship. The famous novel by the English writer Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) about extraordinary adventures Robinson Crusoe in a wonderful retelling for children by Korney...

The famous children's writer Nikolai Nikolaevich Nosov wrote not only short stories, novellas, and novels, but he also composed poems. He wrote about his beloved character Dunno and his friends – Gunka, Toropyzhka, Znaika, Pilyulkin... The book ‘Poems about Dunno and other little people’ contains all the poems about the little boys and girls. For preschool age.

Shipwrecked on a remote, wild island, Robot Roz learned from the unwelcoming animal inhabitants and adapted to her surroundings--but can she survive the challenges of the civilized world and find her way home to Brightbill and the island? From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed sequel to his New York Times bestselling The...

Zehn Jahre nachdem ein schreckliches Verbrechen den kleinen Ort Hurricane erschüttert hat, versammeln sich alle Betroffenen, die damals noch Kinder waren, zu einer Gedenkveranstaltung in der örtlichen Schule. Aus reiner Neugier begeben sie sich nachts an den Tatort: ein Restaurant, dessen Attraktion überlebensgroße animatronische Figuren waren. Doch diese Figuren scheinen ein tödliches...