Ergebnis für "Chance" in Klassiker

Vita’s nursing a broken heart. Oliver’s heart belongs to the past. They should be perfect for each other. But will they chance it? Vita’s gift shop would do better if she ran it as a business, not as somewhere to daydream. But she’s pre-occupied with thoughts of her ex, Tim, even though...

Predator ships stream into human space in unprecedented numbers. The Colonial Marines, controlled by Weyland-Yutani, respond to the incursion, thus entering the Rage War. This terrifying assault by the Yautja cannot go unchallenged, yet the cost of combat is high. Predators are master combatants, and each encounter yields a high body count. Then, when Lt. Johnny Mains and his marines - the VoidLarks - enter the fray, they discover an enemy deadlier than any could imagine.

Fourteen-year-old Connor Mack dreams of a life adventure while stuck plowing, doing all the chores, and being treated as a slave on the half barren family spread in East Texas. He plans to one day flee the beatings delivered by his hulking older brothers and lazy pa. But he knows if he does, he must take his twin sister Abby - who is not always right in the head - with him. 

‘Enemies to lovers? YES PLEASE. I loved every second of this book.’ Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A modern day You’ve Got Mail.’ Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Two rival bookstore owners. One chance for a happily ever after… Bookshop owner Lexi Austen’s problems are stacking up. Her...

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”―Joseph Conrad, Chance Flora de Barral, the daughter of a bankrupt businessman and swindler, must find her own way in the world when her father is convicted of financial speculation...

American Lambert Strether is sent to Paris on behalf of Mrs. Newsome, his fiancée, to collect her son, Chad. When Strether finds Chad, he discovers an altered man and becomes introduced to a free and unconventional style of life that soon intoxicates him. His views begin to change; the morality of Woollett, his hometown, becomes foreign, and the "ambassador" loses sight of his mission....

"Shkola Nyrjal'shhikov" - novaja serija fjentezijnyh romanov Dmitrija Emca. V nej avtor populjarnyh serialov "Tanja Grotter" i "Mefodij Buslaev" sozdajot mir, pozvoljajushhij po-novomu vzgljanut' na samye privychnye veshhi. Glavnaja zadacha shnyrov - spasat' zhizni ljudej, riskuja svoej, i meshat' vocareniju zla v mire. "Strekoza vtorogo shansa", chetvertaja kniga serii "Shkola Nyrjal'shhikov" ("ShNyr"). Zhivaja zakladka na pervyj vzgljad - obychnyj bulyzhnik.

The Wilcox and Son Detective Agency is working on its second case file, but Matthew and his son Chance are beginning to think they might have bit off more than they can chew. Their investigation into a series of claim-jumps near the booming mining community of Wallace, Idaho, suddenly turns deadly as one witness after another turns up dead. It turns out that the theft of land and mineral rights is only the beginning of a much deeper conspiracy. Matthew and Chance follow the leads as best they can, knowing full well that their investigation has turned into a game of cat and mouse.

This anthology of unabridged short stories represents some of the most significant works from the most influential American authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Included are Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Fall of the House...

Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899) wrote over 100 ‘rags-to-riches’ novels, often about teenage boys forced by circumstances to earn their own living selling newspapers, blacking boots, carrying luggage, or tending store. Alger’s heroes are honest, temperate, generous, and brave, good in a fight and ready to protect a weaker boy from a bully. Alger stresses work, study, and thrift as ways to escape poverty. Alger’s villains, on the other hand, are usually dishonest, sometimes alcoholic or brutal.

Mr. Hoopdriver is a frustrated draper’s assistant in Putney, London. He is badly paid, over-worked, and he needs a holiday. He also owns a bicycle—though he is an awkward rider. When his annual ten days’ holiday comes around, Mr. Hoopdriver sets out on a bicycling tour of the “Southern...

A humorous account of a young man's cycling holiday in the south of England. By the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds.

# An Interrupted Night A delayed train. A secret elopement. One unexpected night that may change several lives forever. Mary Dunlap is traveling by train to fulfill a speaking engagement when mechanical trouble brings the journey to an abrupt halt. What first appears to be an inconvenient delay...

By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train 'By opening this book, you've given Patricia Highsmith permission to follow you, catch you, take you apart. Get ready to run' CARMEN MARIA MACHADO 'Every story shimmers like a dark gem as Highsmith turns her...

“I’m a virgin. And you need to relieve me of that.” What respectable guy could say no to that? Yeah, she was my best friend. But she was also the hottest chick I’d ever known. I thought it would be simple. I thought we’d have a good time, then pretend like it never happened. It turns out, I was an idiot. Now, she wants nothing to do with me, but I’m determined. I’ve spent the last five years without her, and I refuse to waste another day.

Now a major motion picture, The Roses, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman, Warren Adler’s iconic 1980s tale of a crumbling marriage―an era’s defining portrait of a macabre divorce. “Terrifying, black-humored, black-hearted and bristling.” ―Gillian Flynn, New York Times...

The story begins in 2004. In Saudi Arabia, Leta, an American graduate student with schizophrenia, forgoes medication so that she may use her "gift" - the ability to experience historic events through merely touching an artifact or treading sacred ground. Her psychotic symptoms emerge when the man she loves lures her into the hands of slave traders.

Elliran prince Taryd has seldom thought of life beyond his kingdom's walls. When an unknown threat intrudes on his peaceful life, he's sent with the general of a neighboring army on a quest to find answers, and maybe even save his people.

En manos de la cocinera, Al correr de los años y El sencillo don Rafael, cazador y tresillista, cuentan la historia de unos personajes que llegan al amor tras un largo noviazgo - Al correr de los años - o por el azar: el destino actúa cuando Vicente, protagonista del primer cuento, se rompe una pierna y don Rafael, en el último cuento, encuentra el niño en la puerta de su casa.

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe is a dark and unforgettable tale of revenge, pride, and psychological horror—one of the most chilling short stories in the history of American literature.