Resultados para "Christopher Ross" en Literatura y ficción

Ein mörderisches Date an der Nordsee – der vierte Fall für die SoKo Küste. Ein Mord am Strand. Ein Verdächtiger, der perfekt ins Bild passt. Und eine Wahrheit, die niemand hören will. Die Schülerin Jackie Koppmann wird brutal ermordet in einem Strandkorb aufgefunden. Eine Zeugenaussage...

Mord in Büsum – Ein neuer Fall für die SoKo Küste Eigentlich wollte Kriminalhauptkommissar Mikkel Tvorsen den ruhigen Winter in Büsum genießen, doch ein Mord ändert alles. Als frühmorgens die Leiche von Roxie Kessler im Watt entdeckt wird, deuten alle Hinweise auf ihn als Täter hin. Er...

Der zweite Fall für die SoKo Küste bringt die Polizisten erneut an ihre Grenzen ... In den frühen Morgenstunden machen Krabbenfischer eine grausige Entdeckung. Auf einem Kutter wurde ein Achtzehnjähriger brutal ermordet. Doch wer hat den beliebten Teenager getötet? Hauptkommissar Mikkel...

No one thought that MacTrump - Lord of MacTrump Towers, Son of New York - would ascend to the highest position in the kingdom. Yet with the help of his unhappy but dutiful wife Lady MacTrump, his clever daughter Dame Desdivanka, and his coterie of advisers, MacTrump is comfortably ensconced in the White Hold as President of the United Fiefdoms, free to make proclamations to his subjects through his favorite messenger, McTweet. The Democrati, mourning the loss of their cherished leader O'Bama, won't give up without a fight.

Laney Foley is the first woman from her hardworking family to attend college. That's why she can't act on her powerful attraction to one of the gorgeous teaching assistants in her Introduction to Art History course. Getting involved with a man who has control over her final grade is just too risky. But ever since he first laid eyes on her, Michael Brouchard seems to think about little else but the two of them together. And it's become harder for Laney to ignore his intelligence and his charm.

Cassidy Burke has the best of both worlds - a driven and successful husband and a wild, impulsive best friend. But after a decadent Mardi Gras party, Cassidy finds both men pulling away from her. Did the three of them awaken secret desires during a split second of alcohol-fueled passion? Or is Mardi Gras a time when rules are meant to be broken without consequence? Only one thing is for certain: the chill that's descended over her marriage and her most important friendship will soon turn into a deep freeze if she doesn't do something. And soon.

Als man eine bewusstlose Frau mit Bissspuren am Arm ins Krankenhaus einliefert, wird die junge Wolfsexpertin Carla Gorman herangezogen. Sie soll ermitteln, ob die Bisse von einem Wolf stammen. Carla begibt sich auf die Suche nach dem Wolf, doch sie ist nicht allein. Ebenfalls unterwegs in der Wildnis ist Jason, ein professioneller Wolfsjäger. Während Carla den Wolf finden und gesundpflegen möchte, hat es der Wolfsjäger auf das Tier abgesehen. Carla und Jason sind Gegner - doch sie fühlen sich auch zueinander hingezogen.

Im kältesten Winter ihres Lebens lernt Jessica den arroganten Manager Joey kennen, der in der kanadischen Wildnis zu sich selbst finden will. Während sich die beiden langsam näher kommen, fahndet die Polizei in den Bergen fieberhaft nach zwei Bankräubern. Als ihre Mutter, eine Polizistin, von einem Einsatz nicht zurückkehrt, wagt sich auch Jessica mit ihrem Hundeschlitten in das eiskalte Weiß. Ihre Suche führt sie tief in das einsame Bergland - bis in die Heimat des geheimnisvollen Wolfsrudels, das jenseits der Gletscher auf sie wartet.

Lara will in Grand Forks an der kanadischen Grenze studieren und eine unglückliche Liebe vergessen. Als eisige Stürme über das Land fegen und Wölfe in der kleinen Stadt auftauchen, bricht Panik aus. Bald wird Paul, ein indianischer Student, der den kältesten Winter aller Zeiten vorausgesagt hat, von den aufgebrachten Bürgern bedroht. Lara rettet ihn vor dem Mob und flieht mit ihm in die Berge. Doch die Temperaturen sinken weiter und die Verfolger kommen immer näher.

Wallace James Stevens was born on October 2nd, 1879, in Reading, Pennsylvania. His father, a lawyer, sent Wallace to Harvard as a non-degree special student, after which he moved to New York City and worked briefly as a journalist. In 1923 ‘Harmonium’ was published. At last, at age 38, he was an overnight success. His career was not prodigious in quantity but its quality was exceptional and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems in 1955.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. For America, as the century closes, she is becoming less isolated. Her industrial might, her rising military power are pulling her ever closer into the entangled globe of nations. Her authors flex ideas and lexicons with riveting tales of this astonishing society.

Picking up where Christopher’s Diary: Secrets of Foxworth leaves off, Kristin Masterwood and her boyfriend up the ante—by going into her attic to re-enact scenes described in Christopher Dollanganger’s journal. Jealousy, tragedy, survival, and revenge—the discovery of Christopher’s...

The discovery of Christopher’s diary in the ruins of Foxworth Hall brings new secrets of the Dollanganger family to light in this riveting novel from V.C. Andrews, the author of Flowers in the Attic and Petals on the Wind, both major Lifetime TV events. Christopher Dollanganger was fourteen...

When Amber Watson walks in on her husband in the throes of extramarital passion with one of his employees, her comfortable, passion-free life is shattered in an instant. Worse, the fate of the successful country music bar that bears her family's name suddenly hangs in the balance. Her soon to be ex-husband is one of the bar's official owners, his mistress one of its employees. Will her divorce destroy her late father's legacy?

Danny Patterson isn't a teenager anymore. He's the newest and youngest sheriff's deputy in Surrender, Montana. A chance encounter with his former schoolteacher on the eve of the biggest snowstorm to hit Surrender in years shows him that some schoolboy crushes never fade. Sometimes they mature into grown-up desire. It's been years since Eliza Brightwell set foot in Surrender. So why is she back now? And why does she seem like she's running from something?

As we've come to expect from much-loved author Candace Robb, her story-telling here is of a top-notch quality - everything comes vividly to life within this magnificent medieval mystery. Perfect for fans of Ellis Peters, S J Parris, Conn Iggulden and Bernard Cornwell. 'Meticulously researched...

From the age of steam and the heirs of Dr. Frankenstein to the asteroid belt to the halls of Miskatonic University, the writers at Book View Café have concocted a beakerful of quaint, dangerous, sexy, clueless, genius, insane scientists, their assistants (sometimes equally if not even more deranged, not to mention bizarre), friends, test subjects, and adversaries.

Book View Cafe celebrates its fifth anniversary with an anthology of our favorite stories. From the fantasy and science fiction of our roots to steampunk, romance, historical and mainstream; from humor to life's hardest challenges, across the spectrum from light to dark.