Résultats pour "Dalee" dans Fiction

Es ist ein großes Wagnis. Ein rostiger Dampfer mit einer ganzen Elefantenherde im Bauch sticht in Kalkutta in See und nimmt Kurs auf die Andamaneninseln. An Bord sind auch der junge Bellini, seine Familie und ihr Arbeitselefant, Dalee. Indien ist gerade unabhängig geworden, und die Familie lässt alles hinter sich, um auf dem fernen Archipel ein neues Leben zu beginnen. Keiner von ihnen ahnt, was sie dort erwartet.

"If you ever doubted that your feline companion has her own inner life, just watch what happens when she falls asleep, and loses conscious control of her physical being . . . a twitching of limbs, a quivering of the jaw, sometimes, perhaps, a snuffling noise or a meow.. . . Cats may indeed be...

The close-knit community of a Yorkshire village is rocked when local secrets are revealed in Date with Mystery, the third cosy crime novel in Julia Chapman's Dales Detective series. Perfect for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club and M.C. Beaton. The Dales Detective Agency’s...

Newlywed Bobby Atherton has barely had time to experience married life with her airman husband Charlie before war separates them. Bobby must face the challenge of marriage to a man mentally and physically scarred by his experiences. When Charlie resumes operational flying, Bobby's role as a WAAF plotter becomes a matter of life and death. Can the couple survive the war and heal the rift between them?

‘Oh! How adorable! I didn’t know you had a cat!’ she exclaimed. I am always surprised how many people make this observation. Why should His Holiness not have a cat? ‘If only she could speak,’ continued the actress. ‘I’m sure she’d have such wisdom to share.’ And so the seed was...

Buddhistische Lebensweisen, samtene Pfoten und jede Menge witziger, einfühlsamer und erstaunlicher Momente finden sich in diesem Sammelband. Was macht der Dalai Lama eigentlich so den ganzen Tag? Welche Weisheiten finden sich in seinem Alltag wieder und warum kann er so gut einen Dosenöffner benutzen? Diese und noch viele weitere Fragen weiß die Katze des Dalai Lamas zu beantworten. In ihrer Rolle als Vertraute von einem der wichtigsten religiösen Führer der Welt streunert die Hauskatze nicht nur durch das Leben seiner Heiligkeit.

Atunci când apropiaţilor lui Dalai Lama li se dă sarcina de a-i pune la dispoziţie Sfinţiei Sale o carte pe care să o poată oferi în dar vizitatorilor săi, un voluntar neaşteptat îşi întinde lăbuţele. Cartea ar trebui să sintetizeze cele patru elemente-cheie ale budismului tibetan şi, foarte important, să transmită cât de profund liniștitor este să te afli în prezenţa Sfinţiei Sale. Şi cine ar putea face asta mai bine dacă nu felina sa preaiubită?

January 1942. The new year brings heartache for Bobby Bancroft. Not only must she say goodbye to her fiance Charlie as he is called up, she must also leave behind her job at THE TYKE magazine to join the war effort, as conscription of women is rolled out across the country. But there are hopeful times ahead as Bobby's friends, Topsy and Teddy, get engaged. And when Bobby finally names a date for her own nuptials, the village is cheered by the prospect of weddings to lift the gloom of wartime.

Set during WW2 in the Yorkshire valley of Dentdale, Secrets in the Dales is a heartfelt story of family, romance and one woman's determination in hard times. In the sleepy Yorkshire Dales, the peaceful existence of Sally’s family is shattered by the outbreak of the Second World War. With her...

Despite the hardships of life during wartime, Bobby Bancroft has never been happier. Engaged to her airman sweetheart Charlie, living in the beautiful Dales village of Silverdale and gainfully employed at The Tyke magazine, her life seems to be going exactly the way she always hoped it would. As the festive season approaches, Bobby is recruited to help produce a Christmas pantomime for the evacuee children billeted in the village. The project introduces her to some new friends, including a handsome Canadian, Flying Officer Ernie King, and her friend Topsy's upper-crust cousin Archie Sumner.

Featuring a delightful cast of characters, timeless Buddhist wisdom and His Holiness' compassion pervading every chapter, The Dalai Lama's Cat is simply enchanting. The Dalai Lama’s Cat is back: irreverent, vain and as delightfully insightful as ever! When the Dalai Lama’s inner circle is set the task of providing His Holiness with a book he can give his visitors, an unexpected volunteer stretches out her paws.

Gervase Phinn’s colourful characters have now become firm favourites – the mostly mad staff at County Hall and the children themselves, who find ways of embarrassing the school inspectors with innocent ease. We reconvene with Christine Bentley, head teacher of Winnery Nook School and now Gervase’s wife and mother of their son; the well-named Mrs Savage and not forgetting the Queen of the Clean – Connie.

Nick Flynns neuer Auftrag wird beinahe zu seinem letzten. Während eines Treffens mit einem hochrangigen iranischen Dissidenten gerät Flynn in einen Hinterhalt und entkommt dem Tod nur knapp. Flynn ist entschlossen, die tödlichen Geheimnisse von MIDNIGHT aufzudecken. Aber es ist ein Wettlauf mit der Zeit, um zu verhindern, dass die zerstörerische Waffe gegen die Vereinigten Staaten eingesetzt wird und Millionen Menschen tötet.

Spreadsheets are spells. Dragons are unionized. Nachos are a sacrament. Buckle up. When actuary Ptolemy “Tolly” Blackthorne inherits his grandmother’s scarf—a knitted, contraband probability anchor—he also inherits her secret: a multi-dimensional dragon-racing circuit that runs on risk, wit, and a frankly alarming amount of nacho cheese. Tolly’s talent for modeling disaster was supposed to keep him safe; instead it drafts him into a portal-hopping season where vertical Niagara roars upward, magma judges enforce “Fun is mandatory,” and Mars rovers form a picket line for better dental.

The body keeps the score. In the Russo family, the body keeps the script. When Nell Russo dies, her wheelchair sits empty at the head of the dinner table for three weeks before anyone dares move it. Her four survivors continue their choreographed existence: Jamie swimming through air when no pool exists, Dorothy walking counterclockwise orbits until her feet bleed, Martin dismantling and rebuilding the same broken drawer seventeen times, Becca framing every moment through a camera that hasn't worked in years. They call it grief. They're wrong.

For Robert Aldridge, once a gifted jazz pianist, memory has become a broken instrument. For his daughter Margaret, it’s a part she must learn—whether or not it belongs to her. Each Sunday, Margaret Hollis visits her father at Willowbrook Memory Care, bracing herself for the steady erosion of his mind. But one afternoon, his face lights with a rare affection and he calls her “ma chérie.” Only he isn’t seeing Margaret—he’s mistaking her for Naomi, the estranged half-sister Margaret has resented all her life. Instead of correcting him, Margaret makes a radical choice: she becomes Naomi.

October 1940. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Bancroft is working as a typist for a city newspaper, but she longs to be breaking the news herself. When she successfully applies for a junior reporter role at The Tyke, a magazine serving the Yorkshire Dales, she's thrilled – even if she only gets the position because so many men are away fighting. Bobby moves to the sleepy village of Silverdale, but she quickly discovers life in the countryside is a different world.

As war looms, 11-year-old Mara hopes the knights of the god Belthor's church will protect her. Instead, they arrest her outspoken aunt Lila on trumped-up charges of witchcraft. When adults refuse to get involved, Mara steps up to rescue her aunt. Secrets unravel which cause her to see her mother, her father, and her country in a new way. Mara's curiosity, intelligence, and sense of right and wrong draw her into intrigues which will define her life.

Diane Allen invites you into the heart of Yorkshire with her historical saga, Daughter of the Dales, the stirring conclusion to the Windfell Manor Trilogy. Upon the passing of matriarch Charlotte Atkinson, her daughter Isabelle courageously assumes the role of caretaker for the family's...

The perfect Christmas romance for 2019 - featuring the original characters in the much loved Animal Ark series! Perfect for fans of Cathy Bramley, Heidi Swain and Holly Martin.