Résultats pour "das boot" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

Die unglaubliche Geschichte des U-Bootes U96 und seiner den Elementen und dem Irrsinn des Krieges ausgelieferten Besatzung...

Frankreich, La Rochelle, 1941. Es ist ein Höllentrip auf Leben und Tod, dem die U-Boot-Mannschaft der U 96 auf ihrer Feindfahrt ausgesetzt ist. Kapitänleutnant Kaleun und seine Besatzung werden erbarmungslos von feindlichen Zerstörern gejagt. Sie geraten in schwerste Unwetter, werden von Flugzeugen bombardiert und versenken feindliche Schiffe. Viele von ihnen sind unerfahren, die Schrecken des Krieges sind ihnen fremd.

From the authors of the Monsters series and Ingest Me & Apex Prey comes Heirs to the Dark Web. Nate’s family is highly religious, so when his father commits a terrible sin, the backlash forces them to move elsewhere. Nate starts at a public school and is quickly targeted by the school bullies. But on his first day, he meets Jamie, another kid often taunted and bullied by the boys and girls. They hit it off straight away. But Jamie is resentful. Coming from a toxic household, his mother often drunk and flirting with all the men in the area, Jamie dreams of better things.

A piano tuner called Murkin, a close-shaven man with a yellow face, with a nose stained with snuff and cotton wool in his ears, came out of his hotel room into the passage. And looking at his frightened face one might have supposed that the ceiling had fallen in on him. 'Upon my word, Semyon!' he cried, seeing the attendant running towards him. 'What is the meaning of it? I am a rheumatic, delicate man and you make me go barefoot! Why is it you don't give me my boots all this time? Where are they?'

July McCray, whose mother had nicknamed him Boots, left home to get away from his abusive father. When his sister pulled Boots back home from the Rocky Mountains, he found his mother near death and his two sisters and a brother starving. His Cheyenne wife nursed his mother back to health and he took his family to the mountains. The family found a new, happier life at an outfitter’s post at the base of the Rockies. Outlaws hid from the law in the mountains, and Boots came in contact with them while trying to protect his family.

Taylor was willing to do almost anything to protect the people she cared about. Even if it meant joining forces with KOR, the clandestine group she’d agreed to work with. But she hadn’t bargained for this. Taken away from the Agency within hours of coming out of a coma, Taylor finds herself isolated from the very people she has vowed to protect. Trapped with a man she can’t trust, in a place from which there is no escape, she must now not only learn how to survive, but she must come to grips with a truth she has desperately been trying to avoid.

শেষ অবধি কে কথা বলে, মানুষের রক্ত নাকি তাঁর বেড়ে ওঠার পরিবেশ,বিশ্বম্ভর রয় রসায়ন বিদ্যায় সুপন্ডিত।মুষ্টিমেয়...

Boots and Saddles is an insightful glance into the 1870s life on a U.S. cavalry post in the Dakotas, penned by Elizabeth Custer. She paints a vivid picture of her isolated existence, likening it to living on a remote island. Elizabeth offers an affectionate portrayal of her husband, General George Armstrong Custer, praising his intellect and fondness for dogs. But this book is not just a tribute. It is an astute observation of the diverse characters that comprise the army “family”, from Indian scouts and enlisted men to officers wives. She tells a heartrending story about the ...

The Monster series. Based on the most disturbing true cases! A killer stalks the streets of Belton. Targeting young kids, their bodies found mutilated, the actions of a savage. The task force hunting him have no clues, no witnesses, nothing. Yet impossibly, kids are still allowed to roam the streets alone at night making it easier for the killer. Or could he be doing the unthinkable; taking them from their own beds while they sleep? Then, as if this wasn’t bad enough, kids start to disappear, kidnapped, unlike the previous deaths. Meaning another copycat killer may be at work too.

Sarah is ecstatic. She has just received an email informing her that her first novel has been accepted by a publisher and will soon be published in all major bookstores. Her parents decide to book a trip to Barcelona, somewhere Sarah has always wanted to go, to celebrate. Sarah tells her friends at school then a boy she has had a crush on for years overhears her telling the good news and invites her out. Sarah cannot believe how everything is turning out so good for her.

Tack shop owner, Vanessa, has a non-existent love life (though not through lack of trying), but when rugged American, Hank Raymond Jefferson, starts work at Hollyfield Stables and Stud for the summer, she thinks she has found the man of her dreams.

The Boots My Mother Gave Me explores the dynamics of abuse and dysfunction, the courage to overcome, the strength in sisterhood, and the ongoing conflict and unconditional love between mothers and daughters. Climb into Charlene the Chevelle for a fast-paced story about a girl who is tough enough to survive and tender enough to learn to trust in love.

Embarking on a salvage mission into the heart of the most treacherous mountain range in the Barsian Empire, the pirates aboard the sky ship Warrior know things are going to get wild. However, no-one suspects this contract is anything other than lucrative. But, with a perfectly placed punt, Destiny’s Boot launches the Warrior like a particularly oblivious seagull into the path of a whirling propeller. A cascade of horror awaits them. Undead wyverns, fanatical mages, and an ancient entity so powerful it has been locked away for centuries.

Convinced that his stepmother and half brothers have been wrongfully evicted by cattle king Eli Dearing, Asher Ellis uses the cover of an extravagant ball to break into the Three Cedars’ ranch house to search for proof. On the verge of discovery, he flees, but a boy’s cry compels him to make a daring rescue.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'This book will take your breath away, break your heart, and leave you in awe' President Bill Clinton _______ Soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines speak in their own words about real life in today's armed forces. These are the brutally honest stories usually only...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Chicken Sisters comes a delightfully entertaining story about a ruse that goes awry and a chaotic homecoming that proves that confronting your past can sometimes set you free. Sometimes you have to go big to go home. Rhett Gallagher’s...

Nelson Algren was a renowned writer, known for his penetrating and influential social novels such as The Man with the Golden Arm and A Walk on the Wild Side. Originally published in 1935, Somebody in Boots was Algren’s first novel, based on his experiences living in Texas during the Great Depression. A wonderful companion to Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, this new edition of Somebody in Boots features an introduction by Colin Asher, the author of a biography of Algren.

The Best Boots I Ever Ate is a 70,000 word, literary, historically accurate saga of the Alaska Gold Rush novel of three years in the life of an Alaska Gold Rush boomtown, from formation to demise, 1903 to 1906. The drama is told via 31 interconnected short stories focusing on the unique characters and events of the Alaska Gold Rush.

The setting for the event is an apocalyptic author, listeners get together, prepper camp out which is occurring in Alabama when a geomagnetic storm triggers a chaotic pole shift like event causing earthquakes and flooding. The electrical grid has gone down and the unexpected slip of Earth’s Tectonic plates grinding together causes the New Madrid Fault line in Tennessee to tear itself apart and alter America’s continental shape and coastlines forever.

Die israelische Marinesoldatin Leah ist mit dem U-Boot auf Patrouille, als plötzlich alle Messinstrumente verrücktspielen. Schnell wird klar: Draußen hat sich eine Katastrophe ereignet, die jenseits des Vorstellbaren liegt. Gewaltiger Unterwasserlärm schreckt die U-Boot-Besatzung auf. Bald steht fest: Auf der Erde hat ein verheerendes Ereignis biblischen Ausmaßes stattgefunden. Über Wasser ist alles zerstört; Häfen können nicht angefahren werden. Eingeschlossen im U-Boot bemerkt Leah, dass sie schwanger ist und sie bereut bitterlich, nicht bei ihrem Mann geblieben zu sein.