Resultados para "Das Nest" en Literatura de género

When the team’s plane gets grounded right before Christmas, the Falcons will stop at nothing to make it home for the holidays, including launching their own Planes, Trains, and Automobiles-style mission across the country to get back to their wives and kids.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of the most electrifying, most admired novels of our time. Set in the bleak confines of a state mental hospital and narrated by a half-Indian patient named Chief Bromden, it's the story of a titanic battle of wills between two unforgettable characters.

Salander, yang menjadi buronan polisi, ditemukan di sebuah desa terpencil dengan tembakan di kepala. Di sebelahnya, Zalachenko, pembelot Rusia sekaligus ayah kandungnya, tergeletak dengan kepala nyaris terbelah ujung sekop. Berita itu mengagetkan media Swedia dan juga sebuah kelompok rahasia...

Bin Morley, the nester, tracks a dangerous man along a trail of crime to a violent confrontation for a surprising reason.

Written in the tradition of her other works, this stunning anthology of short stories features narratives of great emotional depth, nuance and complexity. Exploring social class, family dynamics and failed romances, these stories offer powerful meditations on the profundity of everyday life.

It's the heatwave summer of 1976 and 14-year-old would be poet Jackie Chadwick is newly fostered by the Walls. She desperately needs stability, but their insecure, jealous teenage daughter isn't happy about the cuckoo in the nest and sets about ousting her. When her attempts to do so lead to near-tragedy—and the Walls' veneer of middle-class respectability begins to crumble—everyone in the household is forced to reassess what really matters.

When Lilia Swallow's husband, Graham, goes into remission after a challenging year of treatment for lymphoma, the home and lifestyle blogger throws a party. Their best friends and colleagues attend to celebrate his recovery, but just as the party is in full swing, a new guest arrives. She presents Lilia with a beautiful baby boy and vanishes. Toby is Graham's darkest secret - his son, conceived in a moment of despair. Lilia is utterly unprepared for the betrayal the baby represents, and perhaps more so for the love she begins to feel once her shock subsides.

Hornet's Nest, book five in The Blackout Series, tests the mettle of our characters. Will one success lead to devastation for them all? Is it possible for an unlikely group of heroes to band together to defeat an evil which had plagued a small community for decades? And if they are successful, how do you build a world shattered by the devastating aftereffects of a massive solar flare?

Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson. Before they were household names, these budding legends called Sue’s Nashville apartment—lovingly dubbed the “Boar’s Nest”—home. Sue’s place was an intimate staging ground where a new breed of singer-songwriters—wounded souls, wayward upstarts—would spur each other on to tap into something bigger, realer.

Melody, Jack, Bea und Leo sind Geschwister. Sie sind in ihren Vierzigern, stehen mitten im Leben und haben immer gewusst, dass sie eines Tages viel Geld erben würden. Und das können sie in New York zu Zeiten der Finanzkrise auch alle gut gebrauchen. Doch kurz bevor der ersehnte Fonds ausgezahlt wird, verwendet ihre Mutter ihn, um dem ältesten Sohn Leo aus einer Notlage zu helfen. Unfreiwillig wiedervereint, müssen die Geschwister sich mit altem Groll und falschen Gewissheiten auseinandersetzen.

“Hilarious and big-hearted, The Nest is a stellar debut.” — People A warm, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives. Every family has its problems. But even among the most...

Par une nuit glaciale, le père Lamandre recueille une fillette de six ans venue frapper avec insistance à sa porte. L’enfant aux yeux admirables tremble de froid et de faim. Elle a les pieds en sang dans ses souliers à boucles d’argent, mais refuse de répondre aux questions qui lui sont posées. Le vieux prêtre ne saura que son prénom : Anne. Vingt ans plus tard, Anne est devenue Lady Clarick. Richissime, courtisée, elle a l’oreille des grands et le cardinal de Richelieu ne jure que par elle.

Christy Miller is now an independent college student living in Switzerland, where she's been attending an international university. After being on her own for nearly a year, Christy is surprised and delighted when her two closest friends, Todd and Katie, come to Switzerland to spend the summer break traveling around Europe.

O potencial de todas as crianças é determinado por seu número Q. Uma pontuação alta dá acesso às melhores escolas e a um futuro brilhante. Aquelas que não obtêm a nota mínima são enviadas para um internato, sem muita perspectiva de vida. O objetivo é construir uma sociedade melhor: custos baixíssimos para o governo, professores dedicados a classes separadas por desempenho e pais felizes por verem os filhos convivendo com seus iguais.

A fiftieth-anniversary edition of Ken Kesey's searing American classic. Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Turning conventional notions of sanity and insanity on their heads, the...

Die Kinder sind aus dem Haus und Stefan Schwarz muss endlich kein Vorbild mehr sein! Hurra, das pädagogische Elterntheater hat geschlossen! Er kann wieder in Unterhosen durch die Wohnung spazieren, seiner Frau mit einer zerplatzten Brötchentüte ein wichtiges Telefonat vermasseln, mit der zur Pflege überlassenen Katze hinterm Kachelofen sauber machen, für Freunde im örtlichen Buchhandel nach Kackabüchern zur Windelentwöhnung suchen, sich an seine Vergangenheit als Heu-Baby und Heulsuse erinnern, ganz ohne Symptome vor seinem Hausarzt rumsitzen, und überhaupt und überall seinen Senf dazu geben.

Spring 1152. Once she was a Queen, and will become so again... Eleanor of Aquitaine has escaped her marriage to Louis of France, as well as various lords bent on capturing her and forcing her into marriage with them, and is safe in her homeland once more. Sending a message to Henry, Duke of Normandy, Eleanor arranges her second marriage, this time to a lord of her choosing, a man already in possession of an empire of his own, an heir to the English throne about to take back the crown stolen from his mother, the Empress Matilda.

Through dreams of fever and fantasy, Jane Seymour, third and most beloved wife of King Henry VIII remembers her childhood and the path forged to the Tudor Court: a path forged in flame and ashes.

Die Ornithologin Joanna ist kurz vor der Doktorarbeit und betreibt für einen Sommer Feldforschung in den Wäldern von Illinois. Von morgens bis spätabends arbeitet sie routiniert und ohne Pause. Doch alles ändert sich, als ein kleines Mädchen bei ihr auftaucht und nicht mehr von ihrer Seite weichen will. Ist sie eine Ausreißerin? Ist sie auf der Flucht? Zusammen mit ihrem zurückgezogen lebenden Nachbarn Gabe versucht Joanna dem rätselhaften Erscheinen des Mädchens auf die Spur zu kommen.

One family home. Three generations. What could possibly go wrong? Carly loves her family. She really does. It’s just that now her three children are grown up, she thought it was her time. Everyone talks about the empty nest and how difficult that can be, but Carly and her husband Frank have often fantasised about it – meals without arguments, conversation without shouting over the sound of the Xbox, holidays planned around the culture not the kids’ club.