Resultados para "Frost" en Literatura y ficción

Lucy Resnick's nerves are as tight as a tea cozy. Her new goats, Hot Lips and Gidget, keep making a break for the town square, her truck is dying, and her boyfriend's gorgeous ex-wife is in town for the holidays. Worse, someone's digging holes on her land...and uprooting her peach orchard and dewberry patch in the process. Lucy needs additional holiday stress like she needs a blow to the head - which she receives one night, courtesy of the mystery digger.

Awakened by bloodcurdling screams, Santa Claus springs into action to stop a lethal sickness from infecting his reindeer, only to learn that he's already too late. Christmas is all but ruined. But, when a disgraced alcoholic Christmas elf offers to retrofit the sleigh with highly advanced technology, Santa's hope of saving Christmas is renewed. With a solid plan in place, they hitch the sole surviving reindeer to Santa's sleigh and prepare to launch into the blustery night...until Father Time interrupts Santa's plans with an ultimatum that could kill Christmas forever.

From the bestselling and wildly imaginative novelist Mark Leyner, a romp through the excesses and exploits of gods and mortals. High above the bustling streets of Dubai, in the world's tallest and most luxurious skyscraper, reside the gods and goddesses of the modern world. Since they emerged 14...

Mitten im Osnabrücker Karneval treibt ein Toter in der Hase. Hauptkommissar Horst Habermas leitet die Ermittlungen und hängt schon nach kurzer Zeit hoffnungslos fest. Dann kommt endlich Bewegung in den Fall. Eine neue Spur führt nach Russland, zu einer beinahe 40 Jahre alten Verschwörung. Doch die Schatten der Vergangenheit ruhen nicht, und eine Mordserie sucht die Friedensstadt heim. Im Stadion an der Bremer Brücke kommt es zum großen Showdown. "Nach dem Frost" ist der lustigste Krimi, den Henning Mankell nie geschrieben hat.

Recently dumped by her boyfriend of 10 years, Bell is struggling to move on with her life - and surrender the fleecy pyjamas she’s been living in since January. Haunted by #blessed on social media, she can’t help but compare her life to those she follows online, wondering where she is going wrong. In the world of social media, Millie is the successful online influencer @mi_bestlife. But in real life she’s just a regular single mum trying to make ends meet, while fending off the younger competition and tenacious internet trolls.

A "shamelessly funny" (Kirkus) and utterly original new novel from Mark Leyner about a father and his intense and devout relationship with his daughter and with alcohol. An anthropologist and his daughter travel to Kermunkachunk, the capital of Chalazia, to conduct research for an ethnography on...

Before the dawn of television, radio ruled the airwaves. The sting of The Green Hornet! Tales well calculated to keep you in Suspense! U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon and the smell of Gunsmoke! The irrepressible charm and laughter of The Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show! There's something for everyone in this digitally remastered and restored set, including two previously uncirculated episodes (one each of The Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show and The Green Hornet) that are available here for the first time anywhere!

When unemployed teacher Patrick and his wife, high-flying professional Helen, move back to the town where Patrick grew up, they thought life would be simpler. But Patrick's hazy and fond memories of his schooldays are brought back into sharp relief once he's surrounded by the people and places he'd long stopped thinking about, and he realises things were not always as he'd seen them. As Patrick begins to rebuild bonds and make new discoveries with his old school friends, Helen is making friends of her own.