Ergebnis für "Collector" in Literatur & Belletristik

Die Zukunft - unsere Zukunft: Das Weltall ist erobert, die Galaxis erforscht, aber nun ist die Menschheit einem unheimlichen Feind zum Opfer gefallen: den Collectors. Außerirdische, die scheinbar durch nichts zu bezwingen sind und Planet um Planet in ihre Gewalt bringen. Doch es regt sich Widerstand, und ein gefährlicher Plan zur Befreiung wird geschmiedet.

Brought to you by Penguin. Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick is a loner who collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda, whom he watches from afar. When he wins the pools, he buys a remote Sussex country house and...

Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world’s most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West.

From the million-copy Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop! In a quiet village in Ireland, a mysterious local myth is about to change everything… One hundred years ago, Anna, a young farm girl, volunteers to help an intriguing American visitor translate fairy stories from Irish...

From #1 New York Times-best-selling author Nora Roberts comes a novel of a woman who needs nothing, a man who sees everything, and the web of deceit, greed, and danger that brings them together - and that could tear them apart… As a professional house-sitter and freelance writer, nothing ties Lila Emerson down - not her work, not a home, and definitely not a relationship. She spends her life moving from one job to the next, sometimes crashing at a friend's Manhattan apartment.

“A world-class practitioner of spy fiction.”—Washington Post In this electrifying thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva, Gabriel Allon undertakes a search for a stolen Vermeer masterpiece and uncovers a conspiracy that could bring the world to the brink of nuclear...

COLLECTION THREE: NOMADS - Eine epische Space-Opera! [Bücher 10 bis 14 in einem Download!]. Nomads werden die Menschen von den Aliens der Milchstrasse genannt. Als Überlebende und Flüchtlinge versuchen sie sich zu behaupten. Etliche von ihnen haben es geschafft, sich in der feudalen Gesellschaft ASGAROONS einen Namen zu machen. Andere fristen ein Dasein als Wanderer. Doch ungeachtet ihres Status, begegnet man den neuen Bewohnern Asgaroons mit Verachtung.

Er will eine Familie–ganz für sich allein! Als die Leiche einer jungen Mutter mit aufgeschnittener Kehle gefunden wird, übernehmen die Ermittler Emma Bajetzky und Alex Kuper den Fall.

Das Jahr 2134: Die Erde steht vor dem Untergang - und mit ihr die gesamte Menschheit. Hunger und Armut, Kriminalität, Gewalt und Terror beherrschen den Alltag. Die einzige Rettung der Menschheit scheint in der Kolonisierung neuer Welten zu bestehen. Die Space Troopers, Kämpfer einer speziell ausgebildeten militärischen Einheit, sollen die Kolonisten beschützen. Doch im Kassiopeia-Sektor wartet ein fremder Feind, dessen Brutalität die Menschheit kaum etwas entgegenzusetzen hat.

For FBI Special Agent Eden Cross, returning to Adamstown isn't a homecoming – it's a reckoning. But now, human remains have surfaced in the abandoned Raven's Lake Mine, and Eden is done waiting for answers. Lurking in the shadows is a predator known as The Collector – meticulous, patient and always watching. As she follows the trail of a killer who has remained hidden for too long, the past begins to unravel in ways she never expected.

Apocalypsis - die komplette dritte Staffel. Zwei parallele, fast identische Welten. Die eine schreibt das Jahr 2011, die andere das Jahr 2013. 2011 steht die Welt am Rande des Untergangs - die Welt 2013 dagegen ahnt nichts von der Apokalypse. 2011: Als Franz Laurenz den Mord an Edward Kelly live im Fernsehen miterlebt, fliegt er umgehend nach Rom zurück. Erneut als Papst Johannes Paul III. bestätigt, beginnt Franz Laurenz mit den Vorbereitungen, die Menschheit vor der Apokalypse zu retten. Gleichzeitig sucht Maria in Jerusalem mit unerwarteter Unterstützung nach der Büchse der Pandora. Ebenso wie ein dämonisches Kind namens Raymond. 2013: Der Collegeprofessor Peter Adam hat apokalyptische Visionen. Als seine Frau und seine kleine Tochter Maya bei einem Flugzeugabsturz ums Leben kommen, eröffnet ihm sein Bruder Nikolas, dass ihr Tod im Zusammenhang mit den Aktivitäten eines okkulten Ordens stehe.

A bestseller upon its publication, The Home-Maker is about an ordinary family in New England – with a twist. Deeply felt, wonderfully observed, the novel interrogates the absurdly rigid, gendered parenting expectations many still face today. Above all, it is a tender portrait of love...

Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Mean Chey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense of medicines that are not working. Just when things seem worst, Sang Ly learns a secret about the ill-tempered rent collector who comes demanding money - a secret that sets in motion a tide that will change the life of everyone it sweeps past.

From the million-copy Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop 'A delicious book that I couldn’t resist devouring in one sitting. It was a delight to lose myself in the world of Edie and the mysterious baker. I would recommend to pastry lovers and book lovers alike!' Sally Page...

Four months after the explosion at the Garden, a place where young women known as the Butterflies were kept captive, FBI agents Brandon Eddison, Victor Hanoverian, and Mercedes Ramirez are still entrenched in the aftermath, helping survivors in the process of adjusting to life on the outside. With winter coming to an end, the Butterflies have longer, warmer days of healing ahead.

Choose your power. Grow your family. Slay a goddess. Pryvet came to this land seeking power untold, he just didn't expect there to be strings attached. Now, he must bed as many beauties as he can, or his life itself will be forfeit. Still, it doesn't hurt that his power grows with each new wife he adds to his growing family. Nothing will stop him in his quest for revenge. Not battle elves, not an entire army of valkyrie soldiers, not even the deadly World Forest itself.

In einer schicksalshaften Nacht in San Francisco wird Police Detective Brandon Hunt von einem wolfsähnlichen Wesen angefallen und schwer verletzt. Und nicht nur das: Er mutiert selbst zum Monster und ist fortan vor seinen eigenen Kollegen auf der Flucht. Hunt muss sich immer neuen Herausforderungen stellen und kann niemandem trauen - am wenigsten sich selbst.

'Wonderfully drawn characters you really root for . . . a delightfully uplifting story' – Mike Gayle, author of All the Lonely People When an elderly eccentric collector and a troubled teen become each other's only hope of getting their lives back on track, what can possibly go wrong? Alfred...

Every harvest moon, the Witch Collector rides into our valley and leads one of us to the home of the immortal Frost King, to remain forever. Today is that day—Collecting Day. But he will not come for me. I, Raina Bloodgood, have lived in this village for 24 years, and for all that time he has passed me by. His mistake.

When Agent Mercedes Ramirez finds an abused young boy on her porch, covered in blood and clutching a teddy bear, she has no idea that this is just the beginning. He tells her a chilling tale: an angel killed his parents and then brought him here so Mercedes could keep him safe. His parents weren’t just murdered. It was a slaughter - a rage kill like no one on the Crimes Against Children team had seen before. But they’re going to see it again. An avenging angel is meting out savage justice, and she’s far from through.