Résultats pour "Forest" dans Fiction

The second book in the Soldier Son trilogy, from the author of the Tawny Man trilogy, following on from the bestselling Shaman’s Crossing. The King's Cavalla Academy has been ravaged by the Speck plague. The disease has decimated the ranks of both cadets and instructors, and even the survivors...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Rutherford brings England’s New Forest to life” (The Seattle Times) in this companion to the critically acclaimed Sarum From the time of the Norman Conquest to the present day, the New Forest, along England’s southern coast, has remained an almost mythical place...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home. Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest...

Was, wenn ich dir sage, dass du einen Wunsch frei hättest? Was, wenn es die Möglichkeit gäbe, das Leben, das dich unglücklich macht, hinter dir zu lassen und es gegen ein viel besseres zu tauschen? Was du dafür tun musst? Nicht viel. Du musst nur mit mir in den Forest gehen... Eine mysteriöse Legende. Der unbändige Wunsch nach Veränderung. Kian hasst sein Leben. Beziehungsprobleme, Pech im Job, Eintönigkeit und Unzufriedenheit bestimmen seinen Alltag.

Roxi was a lonely girl in the forest till she met Zorian a prince who got hurt in the forest and roxi helped him heal.

Aus Sorge um seine Mutter reist Georg Dengler in den Schwarzwald. Über den Hof, auf dem er seiner Kindheit verbracht hat, schleichen nachts Gestalten. Oben am Feldberg besitzt die Familie Dengler ein Grundstück – die ideale Lage für ein Windrad. Wäre da nicht der örtliche Widerstand. Georgs Jugendliebe, mittlerweile die Heilpraktikerin seiner Mutter, ist eine der Wortführerinnen. Nachdem die Denglers auf einer schmalen Straße abgedrängt werden, landet Margret im Krankenhaus – und ihr Sohn ist endgültig beunruhigt.

In the Forest, set in the west of Ireland, is the story of a young man who shoots dead three people in a forest glade. The young man, Mich O'Kane, is "not all there in the head" as one character puts it. By puberty, he is already committing petty crimes, ending up in borstal. By the time he is back home he has also served time in a British jail and is an institutionalised criminal.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2023 'Epic and marvellously entertaining... There's a furious energy to the novel, which constantly moves forward even as it looks sorrowfully back' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Magnificent... I want to press a copy on everyone I know' NIGELLA LAWSON...

Nachdem Robin Hood einen korrupten, aber mächtigen Kirchenmann zusammengeschlagen hat, flieht er aus dem einzigen Heim, das er je gekannt hat—Wakefield in Yorkshire. Er wird zum Mitglied einer berüchtigten Band von Geächteten, und Hood und seine neuen Kameraden—einschließlich John Little und Will Scaflock—verstecken sich im großen Wald von Barnsdale, wo sie um ihr bloßes Leben kämpfen, als das Gesetz sie wie Tiere jagt.

Fleeing the city at the beginning of the pandemic, two families are cramped together in a small century-old country house. Winter seeps through the walls, the wallpaper is peeling, and mice make their nest in the piano. Without phones or internet, they turn to the outdoors, where a new language unfolds, a language of fireflies and clover. The five children explore nature and its treasures, while our narrator, Anaïs, turns to the eccentric neighbours and her own family history to find peace and meaning in the middle of her life.

Upon her brother's death, missionary Rose Sayer and Charles Allnutt, disreputable skipper of the African Queen, become allies as, marooned in German Central Africa during World War I, they fight their old launch downriver 'to strike a blow for England'.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Unbelievably good' James Holland, bestselling author of Normandy '44 The Tom Hanks film originally published as The Good Shepherd and acclaimed as C.S. Forester's wartime classic It's 1942. America has just joined the war. Greyhound, an international convoy of...

Her Majesty's ship Sutherland is a humdrum ship of the line. But in command is none other than the heroic Captain Hornblower and, with his crew from the Lydia, he looks set to take on commando raids, hurricanes at sea, and Napoleons's gun batteries.

An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller, and a Goodreads Choice Award finalist. In this gorgeously stunning debut, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again. After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale...

In the Old Country, they called them the Gentry: ancient spirits of the land, magical, amoral, and dangerous. When the Irish emigrated to North America, some of the Gentry followed … only to find that the New World already had spirits of its own, called manitou and other such names by the...

For decades, the Great Council of wizards has searched for the Silver Forest, the hidden sanctuary said to contain the source of all knowledge. But when one of their own betrays them, stealing a golden staff to amplify his power, the wizards are left fractured and afraid. Sixteen years later, Asmar is an outsider in the quiet village of Tuland, until a summons to the legendary city of Dolcere reveals a truth he never imagined: He is a wizard, chosen by the Council to stop the renegade Malzus and take back what he stole.

Eliza’s Memories Threaten to Kill Her Enjoy another Gothic Style Regency from Hannah Linder. Eliza Ellis has stayed hidden in Balfour Forest for as long as she can remember. Perhaps her only friends are the trees, or her little dog, or her story-telling father called Captain. But at least she...

Parade “Best Books of Summer” pick * Real Simple pick * She Reads “Best WWII Fiction of Summer 2021” pick The New York Times bestselling author of the “heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism” (People) The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II...

This freewheeling black comedy features a bizarre cast of characters, including a Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American CEO with three arms, and a Brazilian peasant who discovers the art of healing by tickling one’s earlobe with a feather. By the end of this hilarious tale, they each have risen to the heights of wealth and fame, before arriving at disasters—both personal and ecological— that destroy the rain forest and all birds of Brazil.

I 1942 får den amerikanske søofficer Krause ansvaret for at eskortere en konvoj af skibe sikkert over Atlanterhavet uden at blive sprængt i stykker af de tyske ubåde. Krause har mange års erfaring i flåden, men dette er første gang, han er i krig, og han føler sig på mange punkter...