Ergebnis für "An Ill Wind" in Belletristik

It is 1793. John Pearce and his Pelicans are going home - to gain their freedom and put the treacherous Captain Ralph Barclay in the dock. Emily Barclay discovers Pearce has papers that would ruin her husband’s career and her future security. And then comes that dread thing, a fire aboard a wooden ship of war! Cast adrift, Pearce and his Pelicans find help from an unlikely source.

This is a tale of sorrow, a tale of survival, a tale of one man's search for meaning in his universe, and how that search, and the indomitable will that drove it, gave birth to a legend.

After witnessing by chance the recovery of a mysterious, mutilated body in a public park in Northern California, San Francisco reporter Arnold Rednapp becomes embroiled in an ongoing investigation involving drugs, gangs, pedophilia, political corruption and murder and follows a trail of clues that extends the full length of California and deep into Mexico. As he closes in on the villains, their desperate efforts to escape capture result in a climactic finale that brings the lives of Arnie and several of his closest friends to within a whisker of extinction.

"Wenn der Wind singt", Haruki Murakamis Debüt, folgt einem namenlosen 21-jährigen Studenten, der die Semesterferien (und damit den August 1970) in seinem kleinen Heimatort verbringt. Die Zeit vertreibt er sich mit seinem besten Freund, genannt "Ratte", einem Mädchen mit vier Fingern an der linken Hand und einem Barkeeper. Nach langem Zögern hat Haruki Murakami die Bitten seiner Fangemeinde erhört und der Veröffentlichung dieses außerhalb Japans nie erschienenen Frühwerks zugestimmt.

A quick trip up the East Coast quickly turns into a life-and-death experience for Harmony when hurricane-force winds plunge her airship into the ocean. When Airus drifts upon a tiny island, she is faced with a deflated balloon, two broken robots, a damaged friction engine, and the fear of running out of fresh water. This might be enough to discourage the bravest heart, but Harmony is determined to stay alive. She simply refuses to believe she'll never see her family or Griffin again.

Kelly Dooney ist Journalistin und träumt davon, für eine große Tageszeitung zu arbeiten. Aber leider lässt die ersehnte Chance auf sich warten. Um finanziell über die Runden zu kommen, springt sie bei Brendan Hegarty als Sprechstundenhilfe ein – und verflucht bald darauf ihre Entscheidung. Denn der smarte, gutaussehende Tierarzt, für den sie jahrelang geschwärmt hat, ist ein überaus anspruchsvoller, wenn nicht sogar pedantischer Chef, und die beiden gehen sich gehörig auf die Nerven.

Zwei junge Menschen fahren nachts mit der U-Bahn ziellos durch New York City. Sie kennen sich nicht und sie suchen auch keinen Kontakt, denn nur in der Anonymität der Züge können sie für einen Moment ihre Sorgen vergessen: Der siebzehnjährige Sebastian fühlt sich erst dann wirklich frei, wenn es ihm gelingt, nachts heimlich die Wohnung zu verlassen, um seinem kontrollsüchtigen Vater zu entkommen. Maria ist viel zu früh Mutter geworden und seit kurzem arbeitslos.

A bestseller in Japan—a beautiful story about shared self-discovery and friendship involving an unlikely group of students who decide to defy the odds and pursue a seemingly impossible goal together. After shoplifting some bread one chilly March night, just before the start of a new academic...

Hear the Wind Sing is the first novel by Haruki Murakami. First published in the June 1979 issue of Gunzo, one of the most influential literary magazines in Japan, it was published one month later as a book. Hear the Wind Sing is the first book in the "Trilogy of the Rat," a series of...

Set in the 19th century against a backdrop of island life and the vast surrounding seas, A High Wind in Jamaica is the gripping story of the Bas-Thornton children, whose parents send them back to England following a hurricane in the postcolonial Caribbean they call home. Having set sail, the children quickly fall into the hands of pirates. As their voyage continues, things take an awful turn

What happened to Brigitte Berthold? That question has haunted Daniel Knight since he was 13, when he and 10-year-old Brigitte escaped the Gestapo agents who arrested both their parents. They survived a harrowing journey from Germany to England, only to be separated upon their arrival. Daniel vowed to find Brigitte after the war, a promise he has fought to fulfill for more than 70 years.

Too hot to handle . . . Tabitha Allen grew up in the thick of Chaos-the Chaos Motorcycle Club, that is. Her father is Chaos' leader, and the club has always had her back. But one rider was different from the start. When Tabby was running wild, Shy Cage was there. When tragedy tore her life apart...