Résultats pour "Cash" dans Littérature et fiction

Eigentlich könnte die Familie Flynn eine Vorbild-Vorstadt-Familie sein: Mutter, Vater und drei Töchter, sonntags geht man in die Kirche. Eigentlich. Denn die Flynns haben es schwer. Jeder für sich und alle miteinander. Seit Mutter Catherine in einer Sinnkrise beschlossen hat, die Ehe zu öffnen, lebt Vater Bud im Auto in der Garage und findet in der Selbsthilfegruppe Zuflucht, die am wenigsten nach Sekte klingt: die Verlorenen Schäfchen. Auch die Töchter suchen ihre Wege aus der familiären Lebenskrise.

With the age of heroic star pilots and galactic villains completely killed by quantum teleportation, the ex-star pilot currently named Dashford Pierce is struggling to find his identity in a changing universe. Then, a face from his past returns and makes him an offer he can't refuse: take part in just one teeny weeny, slightly illegal, daring heist, and not only will he have the means to start the new life he craves, but also save his childhood hero from certain death.

Bingo Grabbins is a soddit who enjoys a comfortable life (apart from his feet, of course). But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandef, and a company of bizarrely Welsh dwarves drag him away on an adventure. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard (or so they say) guarded by...

Sometimes life, as well as death, is about second chances. Luckless Telly Martin doesn't have a clue. An awful gambler trying to scrape by as a professional poker player, he becomes the protégé of world famous poker champion Clutch Henderson. The only catch, Clutch is a ghost. Telly and Clutch must navigate the seedy gambling underbelly of Las Vegas learning to trust each other in order to win the elusive International Series of Poker, repair their shattered personal relationships, and find redemption in this life and the hereafter.

Darren Johnson has had a bad run of things lately: His girlfriend has left him and he's fast becoming a gibbering drunk. A pang of inebriated sympathy plucks at his heart strings when he sees a persistent little fella equally down on his luck. He invites him in. Maybe it's the companionship they both need to get through their bad times. Things go from bad to worse and it all seems due to the cat that came in from the cold.