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.

Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.

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.

Miranda Evans, her two brothers, and their mother struggle for survival a year after the moon's collision with a meteor altered the climate forever, and while things become more difficult with the arrival of six more people, including her father and stepmother, a new disaster threatens to derail the new lives they have been trying to build.

Peter Anderson Survivor 1.02 (DEU) Chinks! gelesen von Dietmar Wunder Digitaler Serienroman in 12 Folgen von Peter Anderson. Episode 2. - Ryan Nash und die Crew der SURVIVOR wollten fremde Welten erkunden. Stattdessen finden sie sich in einer riesigen unterirdischen Fabrikanlage wieder. Einer Fabrik, in der chinesische Arbeiter von Maschinenmenschen versklavt werden. Nur ein Mitglied der Crew versteht ihre Sprache: Ai Rogers, eine Halbchinesin....

Peter Anderson Survivor 1.06 (DEU) Der Baum des Lebens gelesen von Dietmar Wunder Digitaler Serienroman in 12 Folgen von Peter Anderson. Episode 6. - Dr. Gabriel Proctor und seine Gefährten aus der Crew der SURVIVOR sind auf der Suche nach einer Möglichkeit, die leere Antriebszelle ihres Raumschiffs wieder aufzuladen. Eine Gruppe von Rebellen führt sie in eine Halle, wo die Chinks, die Arbeitssklaven der gewaltigen Fabrikanlage, künstlich herangezüchtet...