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  • Secret Love and other stories
    Jillian Becker
    These stories, variously set in South Africa, England, and Germany between the late 19th and the late 20th century, were written at intervals through the long life of the writer. They are concerned with love and hate, guilt and loneliness, generational rebellion; and also with prejudice in matters of Race, Religion and Class – in every case from an unexpected angle.The story of...
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    15,50 €

  • The Virgins
    Jillian Becker
    Annie Firman is growing up in Johannesburg in race-segregated South Africa, in an affluent white suburb and a local girls’ boardingschool. She and her friend Barbara long to be initiated into the mysteries of adult life, above all to taste the forbidden fruit of sexual love. Annie falls heavily for a pretentious young man, a photographer who draws her on but finally lets her do...
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    11,25 €

  • The Virgins
    Jillian Becker
    Annie Firman is growing up in Johannesburg in race-segregated South Africa, in an affluent white suburb and a local girls’ boardingschool. She and her friend Barbara long to be initiated into the mysteries of adult life, above all to taste the forbidden fruit of sexual love. Annie falls heavily for a pretentious young man, a photographer who draws her on but finally lets her do...
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    19,83 €

  • The Keep
    Jillian Becker
    The story is about the Leyton family, of Russian-Jewish descent, living in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1930s. The father, Rayfel, is a lawyer who aspires to political power. He believes the racially divided country can be saved by liberal democracy. His wife, Freda, despises Johannesburg society and longs for romantic drama in her life. Their articulate, imaginative, eve...
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    20,79 €

  • The Keep
    Jillian Becker
    The story is about the Leyton family, of Russian-Jewish descent, living in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1930s. The father, Rayfel, is a lawyer who aspires to political power. He believes the racially divided country can be saved by liberal democracy. His wife, Freda, despises Johannesburg society and longs for romantic drama in her life. Their articulate, imaginative, eve...
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    12,18 €

  • Mordec Raids England
    Jillian Becker
    Mordec son of Hauk the Meadmaker and nine other fourteen-year-old boys sail in their own small ship along with the fleet carrying Viking warriors to England for a season of trade.Mordec Raids England is a Viking story unlike any other; a gripping tale of discovery, jousting, skullduggery, dread, friendship, feasting, and laughter.The story is full of surprises, fast action, cli...
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    12,26 €

  • Mordec Raids England
    Jillian Becker
    Mordec son of Hauk the Meadmaker and nine other fourteen-year-old boys sail in their own small ship along with the fleet carrying Viking warriors to England for a season of trade.Mordec Raids England is a Viking story unlike any other; a gripping tale of discovery, jousting, skullduggery, dread, friendship, feasting, and laughter.The story is full of surprises, fast action, cli...
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    20,90 €

  • Mordec's Quest
    Jillian Becker
    Mordec’s Quest follows on from Mordec Raids England.Mordec and his friends Gus and Lily travel to Italy, meet an assortment of vividly individual characters on the way, narrowly escape near-fatal dangers, and come at last to a surprise ending of their quest. ...
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    12,50 €

  • Mordec's Quest
    Jillian Becker
    Mordec’s Quest follows on from Mordec Raids England.Mordec and his friends Gus and Lily travel to Italy, meet an assortment of vividly individual characters on the way, narrowly escape near-fatal dangers, and come at last to a surprise ending of their quest. ...
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    21,20 €

  • Mordec and the Hidden Hand
    Jillian Becker
    Mordec and the Hidden Hand continues the gripping adventures of Mordec the (now fifteen-year-old) Viking, his friend Gus, and Lily, the young English Queen. While returning from Italy on a slow ship captained by a woman with an all-girl crew, they incur the wrath and enmity of the Black Monks led by the wicked Abbot Alonso de Llama. Then their ship is raided – by fellow Vikings...
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    12,60 €

  • Mordec and the Hidden Hand
    Jillian Becker
    Mordec and the Hidden Hand continues the gripping adventures of Mordec the (now fifteen-year-old) Viking, his friend Gus, and Lily, the young English Queen. While returning from Italy on a slow ship captained by a woman with an all-girl crew, they incur the wrath and enmity of the Black Monks led by the wicked Abbot Alonso de Llama. Then their ship is raided – by fellow Vikings...
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    21,33 €

  • Mordec and the Lost Boys
    Jillian Becker
    Mordec and the Lost Boys is a story of dark plots and hard-won survival. It continues the scary and hilarious adventures of Mordec the Viking as he grows up. While friends and enemies seek him over land and sea, he finds himself trapped in luxurious captivity. Eventually he must alone decide on the punishment of the friend who tried to destroy him. ...
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    12,20 €

  • Mordec and the Lost Boys
    Jillian Becker
    Mordec and the Lost Boys is a story of dark plots and hard-won survival. It continues the scary and hilarious adventures of Mordec the Viking as he grows up. While friends and enemies seek him over land and sea, he finds himself trapped in luxurious captivity. Eventually he must alone decide on the punishment of the friend who tried to destroy him. ...
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    20,82 €

  • Mordec the Conqueror
    Jillian Becker
    In this last book of Mordec’s adventures, he goes to war as a soldier in the Viking army.In alliance with English forces, the Vikings engage the Army of the Redeemed, which, under the leadership of Abbot Alonso de Llama, aims to conquer the British Isles and expel the Vikings from England. The Abbot holds Mordec to be his personal enemy.The Vikings are led by a famous warlord, ...
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    12,18 €

  • Mordec the Conqueror
    Jillian Becker
    In this last book of Mordec’s adventures, he goes to war as a soldier in the Viking army.In alliance with English forces, the Vikings engage the Army of the Redeemed, which, under the leadership of Abbot Alonso de Llama, aims to conquer the British Isles and expel the Vikings from England. The Abbot holds Mordec to be his personal enemy.The Vikings are led by a famous warlord, ...
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    20,79 €

  • The PLO
    Jillian Becker
    The Palestine Liberation Organization was created by the Arab states as a weapon against Israel, but most of its victims have been Arabs. In Jordan it established itself as a rival power to the state and was forcibly expelled. Its building up of an army in Lebanon led to civil war and Israeli military intervention until it was again expelled in June 1982. In 1982 and 1983, t...
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    27,54 €

  • Hitler’s Children
    Jillian Becker
    First published in 1977 in the US and Britain to universal critical acclaim, Hitler’s Children quickly became a world-wide best seller, translated into many other languages, including Japanese. It tells the story of the West German terrorists who emerged out of the ’New Left’ student protest movement of the late 1960s. With bombs and bullets they started killing in...
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    27,40 €

  • L
    Jillian Becker
    Revolution sweeps Louis Zander, a charismatic philosopher of art and politics known as L, into power as dictator of England. This skillfully composed story could be a fictional realization of the Cloward-Piven strategy or Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. It is a page-turner that traces the process by which one evil man seduces, perverts and destroys an entire nation. L could ...
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    27,48 €