Umar espera su turno para comparecer ante el trono de Abdullah ibn Muhammad, el séptimo emir de Al Andalus. El hombre frente a él, un atormentado criado del palacio, grita en lamentos mientras los guardias...

In the Moorish Barbastro of 1064, Ahyaf leads a happy life in the harem of Emir al-Baktir, where she has all the freedom, as long as she dances and sings with the other girls for the emir at the agreed...

In the year 1653, the VOC ship 'De Sperwer' set sail from Formosa to Japan but shipwrecked on the south coast of Korea. Part of the crew stayed in Korea for thirteen years. This partly historical, partly...

The young Frode is trained by the one-armed warrior Knut to succeed his father Agnar as Viking leader. Agnar is a brave man with a big heart and a great sense of humor. Frode seems to be just like him...

This time, it's not about a lost ring or sword, but about the lost Egg of the Fièrath. Who are the Fièrath? You'll find out as you read the story of Traisha's quest..

In 2015, when the Mongol army of Genghis Khan captured, plundered, and destroyed the Chinese capital of Zhongdu, many Mongol warriors took advantage of the opportunity to take a beautiful Chinese girl...

When Meggy wakes up, she rubs the sleep from her eyes and gets out of bed. Startled, she immediately sits back down. She sees her chair, the horse posters, and all her other things upside down! Meggy...

Suddenly, my eye catches a small dust cloud in the middle of the plain. A rider? Of course, it could also be animals, for example wild horses or donkeys. To be sure, I follow the little cloud for a while...

"The first winter storms will soon come, and the herds will migrate south," said an old hunter. "If the hunting continues to go poorly, many of us will not survive the winter. The young mothers' breasts...

Nearby birds are whistling. The sun shines so blissfully warm on my face that I refuse to admit that I've been awake for a while. Instead, I convince myself that I'm not lying chained on a hard ship's...

In the kingdom of Dahomey (modern-day Benin), in 1727, a village is raided by slave hunters. One girl escapes and reaches the palace of King Agaja. The king sends the Ahosi, his female elite corps, to...

Naya swings the bronze heel high above her head and strikes at the cracked earth before her feet. With each blow, she imagines herself not standing on a stony field, but on Hilas' bare back, and the point...

The question of whether angels and fairies are related is unanswerable. The answer is written in the stars. One thing makes the following two stories very clear. However different all these enchanting...

The colors of the steppe slowly dissolved into an indefinite gray. Dark mountain ranges stood out as jagged teeth against an indigo blue sky, where the first stars were already appearing. The dust cloud,...

The men are back... Azula ignores the pain in her scraped wrists. Down below, only separated from her by a ceiling of rough planks, the wailing and pleading of the girls who failed to free themselves...

n 1975, the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, captured the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh and forced most of the residents to leave the city. In the years that followed, Cambodia's rice fields became known as...

In de schaduw van een bemoste ruïne beweegt iets. Opwaaiend stof kan het niet zijn, want de hemel ligt als een loodzware deken over een stille, klamme wereld. De man staat stil en legt een pijl op zijn...

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DE LAATSTE DAGEN VAN EEN GOD  -  In het Rome van het jaar 96 is onder het schrikbewind van keizer Domitianusniemand zeker van zijn of haar leven...NAAR VERDUN  -  In het jaar 892 worden de Vikingen na...

In the Islamic Cordoba of the year 842, the fourteen-year-old Alya masters the languages of all the surrounding countries. When the emir hears about this, Alya's gift turns out to be not only a blessing,...

In 'Alya's Choice', Alya saves the life of Hamar, a young Viking warrior, who was seriously wounded during an attack by the Frisians. On a dragon ship, she is taken to the Norwegian principality of Agde,...

In the Islamic Cordoba of the year 842, the fourteen-year-old Alya masters not only Arabic, but also the languages of all the surrounding countries. When the emir hears about this, Alya's gift proves...

In het islamitische Cordoba van het jaar 842 beheerst de veertienjarige Alya naast het Arabisch de talen van alle omliggende landen, zelfs het Latijn van de christelijke gebeden. Als de emir dat hoort,...

In de zomer van het jaar 1504 komt er op Kreta een wreed einde aan het vreedzame leven van Phaedra, een vijftienjarige vissersdochter. In de vroege morgen, als bijna iedereen in het dorp Stavros nog slaapt,...

In the summer of the year 1504, a cruel end comes to the peaceful life of Phaedra, a fifteen-year-old fisherman's daughter, on Crete. In the early morning, when almost everyone in the village of Stavros...

Somewhere in the ninth century, a village in Frisia is attacked by the Vikings. Only one girl survives the massacre. The fifteen-year-old Hisse ends up on the slave market of Swedish Birka, where she...