Ergebnis für "Angels" in Literatur & Belletristik

TENTAKELMONSTER GREIFT LOS ANGELES AN! Wäre das nicht eine hübsche Schlagzeile für ein Boulevardblättchen? Ist aber wirklich passiert. Kein Scheiß! Ich war dabei. Mein Name ist Caliriel - meine irdischen Freunde nennen mich meist Clyde - und ich bin ein Engel. Ein Schutzengel, um genau zu sein. Und als solcher kann ich natürlich nicht zulassen, dass übernatürliche Ungeheuer ungestraft meine Heimatstadt heimsuchen. Also trommele ich ein paar Leute zusammen und jage die Viecher dahin zurück, wo auch immer sie hergekommen sind. So habe ich mir das zumindest vorgestellt.

'I'd always lived a fairly blameless life . . . up until the day I left my husband and ran away to Hollywood . . .' Unlike the rest of her family, Maggie Walsh has always done everything right. At thirty-three she has a proper job, is happily married to Garv and never puts a foot wrong. So why...

For Detective Bunny McGarry, life is complicated, and it is about to get more so. It’s 1999 and his hard won reputation amongst Dublin’s criminal fraternity, for being a massive pain in the backside, is unfortunately shared by his bosses. His partner has a career-threatening gambling problem and, oh yeah, Bunny's finally been given a crack at the big time. He’s set the task of bringing down the most skilled and ruthless armed robbery gang in Irish history. So the last thing he needs in his life is yet another complication.

Es ist eine stürmische Nacht kurz vor Weihnachten. Die Zwillinge Amanda und James liegen in ihren Betten, als plötzlich etwas mit einem lauten Platsch auf das Dach plumpst. Kurz darauf hören die beiden ein Klopfen vom Fenster - und trauen ihren Augen nicht: Auf dem Dach steht ein kleines Mädchen in einem dünnen weißen Hemd. Und sie hat Flügel, die bis fast auf den Boden reichen! Ein Engel? Hilary, so heißt das Mädchen mit den Flügeln, klettert durchs Fenster und macht es sich auf dem Sofa gemütlich, wo sie prompt einschläft. Wer ist sie? Und woher kommt sie?

In this reissue of her debut collection, Madeline Cash, the author of Lost Lambs, skewers our late-stage-Capitalist reality into a strange, but ultimately life-affirming collage of stories. Life is absurd, so is Earth Angel. A biblical plague rains sentient frogs, a childless millennial throws a...

Anatole France (1844-1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist who wrote several best sellers. The Revolt of the Angels is a mischievous take on the theology of modern society; it chronicles the thoughts of Arcade, a lowly guardian angel, as he discovers the ugly truths of his divine master in the library of his human charge As Maurice, the young man abandoned by Arcade, struggles to get his guardian back, one gets a view of a wide variety of the author’s artistic personalities, most of whom are fallen angels.

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown’s schooldays, now with a Victoria Cross, has three main talents – horsemanship, facility with foreign languages and fornication. A reluctant military hero, Flashman plays a key part in most of the defining military campaigns of the 19th...

Es ist eine stürmische Nacht kurz vor Weihnachten. Die Zwillinge Amanda und James liegen in ihren Betten, als plötzlich etwas mit einem lauten Platsch auf das Dach plumpst. Kurz darauf hören die beiden ein Klopfen vom Fenster - und trauen ihren Augen nicht: Auf dem Dach steht ein kleines Mädchen in einem dünnen weißen Hemd. Und sie hat Flügel, die bis fast auf den Boden reichen! Ein Engel? Hilary, so heißt das Mädchen mit den Flügeln, klettert durchs Fenster und macht es sich auf dem Sofa gemütlich, wo sie prompt einschläft. Wer ist sie? Und woher kommt sie?

Tensions are rising in the run up to the island event of the year - the Vik Show. Not only has the secret recipe for Mrs Hay’s peppermint slices been stolen, but someone has had the bad manners to leave a dead body in the distillery. And what does any of this have to do with the disappearance...

A darkly humorous yet uplifting novel about a grieving mother who starts working at a funeral home and discovers that the best way to honor the dead is to live—from the author of the “insightful, moving” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author) Sunshine Nails. All Cleo Dang...

Es ist eine stürmische Nacht kurz vor Weihnachten. Die Zwillinge Amanda und James liegen in ihren Betten, als plötzlich etwas mit einem lauten Platsch auf das Dach plumpst. Kurz darauf hören die beiden ein Klopfen vom Fenster - und trauen ihren Augen nicht: Auf dem Dach steht ein kleines Mädchen in einem dünnen weißen Hemd. Und sie hat Flügel, die bis fast auf den Boden reichen! Ein Engel? Hilary, so heißt das Mädchen mit den Flügeln, klettert durchs Fenster und macht es sich auf dem Sofa gemütlich, wo sie prompt einschläft. Wer ist sie? Und woher kommt sie?

Angels of the Great Plains Motel is the story of what happens over two tumultuous weeks at a motel, restaurant, and nightclub in a small town in the upper Midwest. In the fall of 1975, America is in something like the half-slumber of a Saturday afternoon nap after a rough week. Leisure suits are everywhere, even on “The Tonight Show.” Gerald Ford is caretaker-in-chief of the White House. Olivia Newton-John warbles “Have You Never Been Mellow” and Glen Campbell belts out “Rhinestone Cowboy” on pop and country radio stations.

The National Book Award Finalist from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose—now the major motion picture Submission “Screamingly funny … Blue Angel culminates in a sexual harassment hearing that rivals the Salem witch trials.” —USA Today It's been years since...

The struggling firm of Twigg & Dersingham is brought to riches—and ruin—in this kaleidoscopic portrait of late 1920s London from one of the twentieth century’s great, underappreciated masters. On a grim sidestreet of the City of London called Angel Pavement, the office of Twigg &...

Kim could tell at a glance Angel wasn't the average attractive yet poorly disguised extraterrestrial scout sent to assess Earth's defenses before the inevitable alien invasion. Angel's memory loss cover story? Lame. Robbing a passing ruffian of his shirt to cover her naked body? NOT a good way to avoid attracting attention! As a science fiction geek, Kim felt herself uniquely qualified to watch Angel and thwart her dark mission...once the alien got around to it.

Samantha Martin didn't want the title of Iblis and all the hellish responsibility that comes with it. She sure as heck didn't want these feathery angel wings permanently affixed to her back, although those have their perks. She especially doesn't want all the extra projects the ruling council keeps dumping on her plate.

For Tamsin Angel, Christmas has always meant glamour and dazzling parties. But when bailiffs arrive at her door and her husband disappears without a trace, her perfect festive world collapses overnight. Meanwhile, her sister Sam has spent years rebuilding her life after losing her husband on...

Angel Summer looks as if she has found her happy ever after. She's married to the love of her life, sexy footballer Cal, they have a beautiful baby girl and Angel is Britain's top glamour model. But all is not as it seems and there is heartache in store. When Cal is transferred to AC Milan...

A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial- identity-industrial complex from the bestselling author of Caucasia Jane has high hopes that her life is about to turn around. After a long, precarious stretch bouncing among sketchy rentals and sublets...

Perfect for fans of Mona Awad and Maria Semple, this gripping, offbeat journey through modern-day Los Angeles is a genre-blending, darkly humorous exploration of suburban life, conspiracy theories, and spiritual awakening. A page-turning psychological trip for anyone who’s ever wondered if all...