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Ils sont quatre : Flavia, la fille d''un armateur romain, Jonathan, le jeune chrétien, Nubia, l''esclave africaine affranchie, et Lupus, le petit Grec muet. Ils arrivent à Surrentum, dans la magnifique villa de Pollius Felix, dont Flavia est secrètement amoureuse. Malgré le bel été qui s''annonce, leur séjour risque d''être mouvementé : quelqu''un veut empoisonner l''épouse de Pollius.

Ils sont quatre : Flavia, la fille d''un armateur romain, Jonathan, le jeune chrétien, Nubia, l''esclave africaine affranchie, et Lupus, le petit Grec muet. Les quatre amis embarquent pour la Grèce, à la poursuite d''un sinistre trafiquant d''enfants esclaves. Un périple à haut risque, au gré des tempêtes, des surprises et des trahisons.

Hot-headed as ever, Flavia Gemina is determined to prove to her handsome tutor Aristo that she really is a detective of the highest order. At first, the mystery of the missing bread rolls seems like an easy - and rather dull - case to solve. But it stumps Flavia and her friends ... until she investigates the meaning behind the strange word games that the slave Romulus likes to play.

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Test your knowledge of the characters, places and events in the bestselling series that brings ancient Rome vividly to life.

Ils sont quatre : Flavia, la fille d''un armateur romain, Jonathan, le jeune chrétien, Nubia, l''esclave africaine, et Lupus, le petit mendiant muet. Mais Jonathan a disparu, durant le grand incendie de Rome ? Mort ? Devenu gladiateur ? Ses trois amis le cherchent, au Colisée, au cœur des plus grands jeux de cirque jamais organisés.

Jonathan and his friends are called to Rome by the emperor in the winter of 80 A.D. to find the new Prometheus believed to have brought an epidemic to the city, but Jonathan, obsessed with reuniting his parents, makes some unwise--and life-threatening--choices.

It is AD 79. Join Flavia Gemina, a Roman sea captain''s daughter, Jonathan, her Jewish neighbour, Nubia, the African slave-girl, and Lupus, the mute beggar boy, on three exciting adventures. In THE THIEVES OF OSTIA, the four friends get on the trail of the killer who is silencing the town''s watchdogs. Not long after solving this mystery, THE SECRETS OF VESUVIUS finds them relaxing near Pompeii. When Mount Vesuvius erupts, they flee one of the greatest natural disasters of all time. Sheltering in the refugee camps following the eruption, they discover that children are being kidnapped from the camps in THE PIRATES OF POMPEII. Determined to find out who is responsible, the friends come face to face with pirates and slave-dealers . . . Three captivating mysteries: compulsive reading for 9-11 year-olds.

Ils sont quatre : Flavia, fille d''un riche armateur romain, Jonathan, un jeune chrétien, Nubia, l''esclave africaine, et Lupus, le jeune mendiant muet. Durant l''éruption du Vésuve, ils ont connu l''enfer. Ils ont survécu. Mais d''autres menaces les guettent...

Een 10-jarige jongen gaat samen met zijn vrienden in het jaar 79 na Chr. in Rome op zoek naar zijn doodgewaande moeder. Vanaf ca. 10 jaar.

Kirkus called The Thieves of Ostia "a fast-paced, crackling good mystery." In this second book in "The Roman Mysteries" series, Flavia and her friends depart Ostia for a summer in Pompeii and are quickly caught up in a mysterious riddle and a hunt for great treasure--while above the town, Mount Vesuvius rumbles, ready to erupt.

John and Mary Elitch arrived in Colorado in 1880, and their first business venture was a restaurant. In 1888, John bought the sixteen-acre Chilcott Farm in the Highlands northwest of Denver. On May 1, 1890, thanks to ''donations'' by family friend P.T. Barnum, the couple opened Elitch''s Zoological Gardens, which featured a band in the gazebo, café, children''s play area, and vaudeville performances, in addition to the zoo. John commenced planning a theater, then unexpectedly died in 1891 before the park''s second season, leaving thirty-four-year-old Mary on her own. She resolved to keep the Gardens going, successfully built the playhouse, and journeyed to both New York and San Francisco for the winter season, "auditioning" plays and recruiting players to appear during the summer in Colorado. Elitch''s Theatre in the Gardens presented its first full season in 1893 and become the longest-running summer stock theater in the U.S., featuring artists like Sarah Bernhardt and Douglas Fairbanks as special guest performers. Mary Elitch was the first female zookeeper, the first woman to run a botanic garden, and one of the first woman to own a theatre in the United States. This is the biography of a woman who overcame the challenges of widowhood, learned to be a businesswoman, and as the animating spirit of Elitch''s Gardens, became one of Denver''s cultural institutions -- Mary Elitch Long.