Résultats pour "Ein Held" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

Bloomsbury presents Held written and read by Anne Michaels. **The international bestseller** **A Guardian Book of the Autumn 2023** **Chosen as a book of the year by the independent.co.uk** 'Michaels’s writing continues to stand head and shoulders above most other fiction' OBSERVER 'Through...

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2024 GILLER PRIZE Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize A Heather's Pick One of the Globe and Mail’s Best Books of 2023 Named a Best Book of 2024 by Kirkus Reviews One of CBC's Best Books of 2024 A breathtaking and mysterious...

Eine rasante und ungemein vergnügliche Hochstaplergeschichte. Im September 2019 bekommt Michael Hartung, erfolgloser Videothekenbesitzer, Besuch von einem Journalisten. Der recherchiert über eine spektakuläre Massenflucht aus der DDR, bei der 127 Menschen in einem S-Bahnzug am Bahnhof Friedrichstraße in den Westen gelangten. Der Journalist hat Stasi-Akten entdeckt, aus denen hervorgeht, dass Hartung, der früher als Stellwerksmeister am Bahnhof Friedrichstraße gearbeitet hat, die Flucht eingefädelt haben soll.

Wanneer elfen en fabelwezens verdwijnen uit Oer, wordt Justin gevraagd om hulp en reist hij naar de gevaarlijke Schroei, waar reuzen mogelijk meer weten over het mysterie van de verdwijningen. Deel 3 van 3.

WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES BEST HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR A breathtaking and ineffable new novel from the author of the international bestsellers Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault—a novel of love and loyalty across generations...

L’écrivain néerlandais Thomas Helder vient de mourir dans la fleur de l’âge. Après la cérémonie, ses proches se rassemblent dans la maison de famille de sa mère, au coeur de l’Aubrac, où il passait ses étés d’enfance, où il a voulu mourir, comme son meilleur ami Jean avant lui. Au centre de cette assemblée, se trouve sa plus ancienne amie, Margaux Chanet, la soeur de Jean, architecte française renommée, disparue sans un mot, d’un jour à l’autre, des années auparavant, et restée obstinément absente jusqu’à ce soir de deuil.

Twenty years after the first blooding of Waldgrau, the forest is no longer just a battlefield—it is a memory scarred into doctrine. A Marine Special Operations Group, call-sign Graveknife, is deployed deep into a Black Forest–like world overrun by an Ork enemy that has evolved beyond brute force. These Orks do not scream blindly into fire. They stalk. They trap. They learn. Every engagement becomes a lesson paid for in blood.

Briar Copperwood needs a cure. Thanks to an annoying warlock, Briar needs to sleep with someone once a day or die. Which is fine when she's flirting (and pickpocketing) her way through small towns. But there aren't many options when she's trekking through the woods to reach the only witch who...

When the bohemian, sophisticated Innes Kent turns up by chance on her doorstep, Lexie Sinclair realises she cannot wait any longer for her life to begin, and leaves for London. There, at the heart of the 1950s Soho art scene, she carves out a new life for herself, with Innes at her side. In the present day, Elina and Ted are reeling from the difficult birth of their first child.

An emotional MM romance of protective love, quiet strength, and the healing power of trust. Darren Quinn, a seasoned professional and manager of an elite sanctuary of power and trust, finds his boundaries crumbling when newly divorced Miles Bennet walks through his door. Miles isn’t just another client; he’s a man drowning in guilt, seeking healing in surrender. But as Darren guides him through sessions of intensive guidance, service, and intricate ties, their connection deepens into something neither expected.

Photojournalist Mike Scott is about to get married to the woman he loves—archeologist Frankie DeMarco–but her kidnapping sets Mike on a collision course with the treasure hunter who took her. The man wants Frankie’s help finding a 400-year-old shipwreck, so Mike sets out to find it first to get her back safely. Word of a secret cargo on board raises the stakes even higher.

In March 1867, Ezekiel Washington, a Black veteran of the 5th U.S. Colored Troops, files a homestead claim on 160 acres of Nebraska prairie. He builds a soddie with his own hands, breaks the sod, plants corn, and waits for the land to become his. Five years later, a rigged hearing strips him of everything. In 1885, a Bohemian immigrant family purchases the land, never knowing who built the house they now call home. In 1993, Marcus Cole arrives at the prison built on that same ground. Over fifteen years, he learns the story of the man who first claimed it.

Margot Bennett thought she was leaving the past behind when she moved to Mount Dora, Florida. A fresh start, a charming old house, and the promise of peace—until she unearths something sinister buried beneath the floorboards of Hawthorn Manor. As Margot digs deeper into the manor's history, she finds herself tangled in the chilling legacy of George and Cecilia Hawthorn, a once-beloved couple whose presence still lingers in ways no one dares to explain. Nightmares bleed into reality. Puzzles stretch throughout the sleepy city. And the deeper she searches, the more she realizes the truth.

Winner of the 2010 Costa Novel Award, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE is a gorgeously written story of love and motherhood, a tour de force from one of our best loved novelists. When the bohemian, sophisticated Innes Kent turns up by chance on her doorstep, Lexie Sinclair realises she cannot wait...

Winter 1941/42, deutsche Stellungen in der Südukraine. Wilhelm Möckel, Unterarzt in der Panzer-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 16, kämpft einen verzweifelten Kampf – er benötigt das Eiserne Kreuz I. Klasse. Es ist die einzige Chance, in den Offiziersrang aufzusteigen und beim Führer ein Gnadengesuch einzureichen, um seine halbjüdische Frau "arisieren" zu lassen. Eine Ausnahmeregelung der Nazis verspricht ihr "deutsches Blut", wenn er zum Helden wird... Als er Annemarie im Sommer 1932 kennenlernt, ist er wie vom Blitz getroffen.

Der Held des Romans Petschorin, nennt sich Böse und begreift nicht, wieso das Böse eine so große Anziehungskraft besitzen kann. Der Ich-Erzähler des Romans trifft immer wieder auf Petschorin und kann so auch sein Tagebuch lesen. Er ahnt, dass es nicht die Anziehungskraft des Bösen, sondern die Verzweiflung ist, was diesen Mann nicht abstoßend, sondern bemitleidenswert und faszinierend zugleich erscheinen lässt.

Der "Held" in Michail Lermontows Novellen ist der junge Offizier Grigori Petschorin. Mit scharfsinniger Ironie verfolgen die Erzählungen Petschorins Weg durch die russische Gesellschaft des 19. Jahrhunderts, und vor allem seine Frauengeschichten. Meisterlich manipuliert Petschorin seine Mitmenschen, sucht rücksichtslos sein Vergnügen und geht dabei fast zugrunde: Sein Rivale um die Gunst einer schönen Prinzessin fordert ihn zum Duell. Petschorin überlebt - im Gegensatz zu seinem Schöpfer.

After the War Between the States, a Confederate officer longs to heal the heart of a beautiful woman—but first he’ll have to right the wrongs that were done to her. Major Ethan Kelly has never been able to absolve himself of the guilt he feels for raiding a woman’s home shortly before he...

An accidental death, and the cover-up that follows, sparks a dark series of events that reverberates through the lives of four people who will never be the same again. When Darl Moody went hunting after a monster buck, a kill that could make the difference between meat for the winter and an...

Foster and Ruthie Turner tried to save each other, their marriage, and their family. Every house is haunted with the past of the people who live there. When one tries to stay and the other tries to leave, everyone will face the dire consequences of both those choices.