Resultados para "Was" en Literatura y ficción

Discover the gorgeously uplifting, romantic read from BESTSELLER Lisa Hobman. Perfect for the fans of Mhairi McFarlane and Maxine Morrey Some things are worth the wait… Lily and Adam have been inseparable for as long as either of them can remember- well, since primary school. For years, being...

Was bedeutet radikaler Humanismus? Gibt es Grenzen der Einfühlung in andere? Wozu verpflichtet uns die Erinnerung an die Geschichte? Gibt es Grenzen der Pflicht, im Namen der Menschenrechte zu sprechen?

Neun Orte, an denen die Zeit stehen bleibt — und du dabei einschläfst. Dieses Hörbuch erzählt von Dingen, die sehr lange liegen bleiben, ohne dass jemand sie bewacht. Von einem Tropfen Harz, der vor Millionen Jahren eine Mücke mitnahm. Von Moorwasser, das nichts zersetzt. Von Eis, in dem...

En un mundo donde nada es lo que parece, con bandas rivales enfrentadas, dos personalidades opuestas se verán condenadas a entenderse. Donde hubo fuego, siempre habrá pecado, prepárate para arder en él.

The sixth novel in Julia Quinn's globally beloved and bestselling Bridgerton Family series, set in Regency times and now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. Welcome to Francesca's story... In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one...

Travis Smith is Death in the modern world. He lives with his cat in a grey English town. He offers people comfort in their final days and hours of life. He's stoic, gentle, a little naive, despite what he knows. He's handsome, he seems young, despite what he is. Each death has a meaning to him...

Zügellosigkeit, Lebenslust, Mord und Totschlag, Triumph und Tragödie: Die griechischen Göttersagen sind wilder und wüster als das Leben selbst und bieten damit alles, was sich Leser wünschen. Die alten Griechen inspirierten unter anderen Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce und Walt Disney. In Stephen Frys brillanter Nacherzählung erwachen die alten Sagen zu neuem Leben. Wir verlieben uns mit Zeus, sehen die Geburt der Athene, nehmen mit Kronos und Gaia Rache an Uranos, wir weinen mit König Midas und jagen mit der wunderschönen und furchtlosen Artemis.

A disturbed young man is haunted by the photograph his father took of a serial killer years ago; a social recluse begins to see the woman from his favorite snuff film in a cafe; a scholar travels to the deep south to uncover the origins of song only to be met by a new god, and a hedge fund partner hides from a federal investigation in his beach house only to witness a ghostly child drown in the ocean night after night. Across fifteen dark and unsettling stories previously featured in publications such as Best Horror of the Year, author Marc E.

Alexis Spencer will use any inspirational quote to rationalize her failures and shortcomings. Her closest friends are a distant memory, and her college debt is still as high as the day she left. But that’s all fine and dandy, because “whatever will be, will be.” However, when Alexis loses her job and her relationship on the same day, there’s no quote strong enough to get her through that. In typical fashion, she blames the world for her problems, including her younger self, who should have tried harder.

Alex Easton kehrt in einem neuen unheimlichen Abenteuer zurück. Alex Easton möchte der guten Miss Potter, einer Freundin, einen Gefallen tun und reist nach Gallazien. Dort findet Alex ihr Haus allerdings leer vor und der Hausmeister ist tot und über allem hängt eine unheimliche Stille. Die...

The world will end in seven days. Winter is a Priestess, her life is simple and uncomplicated, but shortly takes a turn when she is appointed as an aide for a Mage who intends to stop the God of Death from spreading a plague that would end their world. Both of them begin searching the Urvalis library for answers and find more than they had bargained for.

He trusts only in what his scalpel can reveal. In a rain-soaked city on the edge of Kateri Sound, Cole Turner is on course to become the youngest chief of surgery the university has ever named. Cold and exacting. Young. Brilliant. Ruled by reason, unapologetic about his ambitions or what they cost. She was not part of the plan. Dangerously beautiful. Impossible to forget. For a time, he sees a way beyond his haunted past. But the Tribe knows there are darker truths in the forests of the Whitehorse Territories. And the Blood Raven's Moon is almost upon them.

'I absolutely loved this book!' Maxine Morrey Madison reckons she’s a pretty good judge of character. When a disaster at work brings professional photographer Toby into her life, she has him all worked out within minutes. As their work collaboration blossoms into friendship, her preconceptions...

Bridgett Nelson, the two-time Splatterpunk Award-nominated author of the hugely popular A Bouquet of Viscera, has three deranged stories to tell that all you freaks are sure to love!

Lady Daphne, daughter of the Duke of Warcliffe, is one of the Three Suns. Society revolves around her. But there's one person who doesn't seem to know she's alive - her own husband. Lady Daphne was thrilled to marry Colin FitzRoy, the son of her mother's dear friend, seven years before. But then he left for the army and their marriage never really had a chance. Now she's in trouble, and Colin has reentered her life. She's determined to refuse his help, especially after the way he's treated her, but Colin can be persuasive...especially when he has her alone. 

The Hero of Humanity—the man summoned to slay the Demon King—he went and destroyed all who wronged him, humans and gods included. At the end of his bloody campaign, he had nothing left. He retired to a humble cottage built from the divine, wood of the World Tree that he chopped down. All was well until, one day, the world shook. The Hero wanted nothing to do with it and went to sleep. The next day, he went outside and saw that his property had been transferred to yet another world.

In Harthill Court, Leona Baptiste has learnt that survival depends on keeping a record. On her kitchen table lies a folder labelled HARTHILL REPAIRS. Inside are photographs of damp patches, notes of burning smells, dates copied from voicemail, reference numbers, residents’ warnings and the names of people who sounded kind until their emails arrived. Leona tells herself it is not an archive.

Based in a mining village in Wales at the turn of the 19th century, How Green Was My Valley catches the impossible dilemmas that were created in society's irreversible shift from pastoral to industrial through Huw, the youngest son of seven. Loyalty, education, economics and manhood are examined in this pre union tightly knit mining community. Sentimentalised with lots of atmosphere this is a moving account of an important chapter in British history that affects every corner of the world.

Poet Gabriel Syme believes in the beauty of order and, as such, is recruited by Scotland Yard to an anti-anarchist police corp. While undercover, Syme meets fellow poet Lucian Gregory, a verse writer devoted to disorder, who introduces him to London’s anarchist underworld. Just as Gregory is to be elected to the central council, Syme’s cover is revealed and he is forced to make a decision that sends the cabal into chaos. Is anyone in this underground faction who or what they seem? Syme suddenly realizes he doesn’t have all the answers.

Two young manager graduates, with nothing similar in family backgrounds and temperament, join a New York international bank on the same day - and take entirely different routes to success.