Ergebnis für "A Special Life" in Literatur & Belletristik

Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson - a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a lake - and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with a terrible, haunting vision of death. As Cory struggles to understand his father's pain, his eyes are slowly opened to the forces of good and evil that surround him.

Ela is a supposed orphan, who has to live with Vincent, a sexual assaulter and abuser. When she gets sold at an auction to a CEO, she finds she can trust him and gains feelings for him. The CEO, Theo, keeps her safe and teaches her about God and about basic things. With the help of her friends and Theo, she learns to be a normal woman of God. Can they overcome the challenges life throws at them and grow closer to God?

From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen, a terrifying novel of deadly proportions as an ER doctor tries to determine the cause and cure of a fatal and mysterious virus before it becomes an epidemic. The quiet overnight shift at Springer Hospital ER suits Dr. Toby Harper just...

In this first-ever translation of Lu Yao’s Life, we meet Gao Jialin, a stubborn, idealistic, and ambitious young man from a small country village whose life is upended when corrupt local politics cost him his beloved job as a schoolteacher, prompting him to reject rural life and try to make it in the big city. Against the vivid, gritty backdrop of 1980s China, Lu Yao traces the proud and passionate Gao Jialin’s difficult path to professional, romantic, and personal fulfillment - or at least hard-won acceptance.

Omega Connor Ford is a rising superstar in the physical therapy practice he works at, channeling his passion for healing the broken into every hard day’s work. Upright and ethical, he’s never felt more than a moment’s pause over the attractive alphas he treats. Until him. Alpha Mac Dawson made one stupid mistake: getting into the car with a friend who had been drinking. Now, grieving and injured, he’s scared - and taking that fear of losing his MMA fighting career out on everyone around him. Until one firm omega physical therapist takes him in hand.

“A near-miraculous, brilliant debut.”—George Saunders, Man Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo “In one exquisitely crafted story after the next, Will Mackin maps the surreal psychological terrain of soldiers in a perpetual war.”—Phil Klay, National Book...