Ergebnis für "Crazy" in Historische Romane

Mit den Worten "Hallo Leute. Mein Name ist Benjamin Lebert. Ich bin 16 Jahre alt, und ich bin ein Krüppel" stellt sich Benni seinen neuen Mitschülern im Internat vor. Und genauso schnörkellos, unverkrampft und direkt erzählt er seine Geschichte vom Leben, Lieben und Leiden eines 16-Jährigen. "Crazy" wurde zum Kultbuch einer ganzen Generation, ein Weltbestseller, der mit Robert Stadlober in der Hauptrolle verfilmt wurde.

Christopher Egan, heir to the notorious Prestwick Earldom, is one of London's most scandalous rakes. He's never credited the gossips' claim that fate cast an ancient curse on every successive Earl of Prestwick as punishment for their wickedness, but once he inherits the earldom after his infamous uncle's untimely demise, it looks as if he may be the next to lose his head. Determined to cheat the curse and avoid his ancestors' grisly fate, Kit abandons his life of merry debauchery and embarks on a London season to wed the lady he's long been promised to.

It was a land where nothing was small, nothing was simple. Everything, the lives of men and the stories they told, ran to extremes. Shanghaied into forced labor on a merchant vessel, Charles Rodney dies aboard ship from repeated beatings, but not before deeding part of his ranch to Rafe Caradec, whom he hopes will protect his family.

Tormented by voices and fractured childhood memories, Danny’s adult life is a storm he can’t outrun. As a cynical Christian, he lives with the secret of the others inside his head, convinced he is trapped in his diagnosis. Coming face-to-face with the foster system that harmed him, he fights to cling to his self-reliant logic and doubt-ridden faith. Will Danny open the darkest pieces of his past to the only one who can bring total freedom?

A brilliant and utterly engaging novel Emma set in modern Asia about a young woman s rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism. On the edge of twenty-seven, Jazzy hatches a plan for her and her best girlfriends: Sher, Imo, and Fann...

A scathing indictment of the corruption of the human soul by war, Kenneth Levin’s bracingly honest and harrowing debut is reminiscent of masterworks like Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried and Bao Ninh’s The Sorrow of War. A decorated combat veteran whose his own experiences in Vietnam are combined with the personal interviews of North Vietnamese veterans, Levin deftly explores the nature of man amidst the chaos and horror of war. As illuminating as it is disturbing, Crazy Razor demonstrates with stark clarity that the real villain in war…is war itself.

Ein Mann kehrt nach Jahrzehnten in sein verlassenes Elternhaus zurück–doch was er dort vorfindet, ist mehr als nur Erinnerung. Es sind Stimmen. Schatten. Geheimnisse, die nie ans Licht sollten.

Toledo, 1479. Nace Juana I de Castilla, tercera hija de los Reyes Católicos. A pesar de tener una educación esmerada, ni sus padres, Isabel I de Castilla y Fernando II de Aragón, ni su esposo Felipe de Habsburgo por el que sentía un amor y unos celos desmedidos, la consideraron capaz de gobernar. Relegada a un segundo plano, y olvidada, su padre y su esposo ejercieron la regencia hasta que su hijo Carlos I tuvo la mayoría de edad.

In a town like Chugwater, Wyoming, you know who your friends are, who your enemies are, and who your kill-crazy maniacs are. For Duff MacCallister, the last category belongs to Johnny Taylor and his gang. Duff has wrestled with this polecat before, and knows that his bite is worse than his smell. But when Taylor's gang tries to rob a bank - and Duff manages to shoot one and arrest Taylor's brother - the outraged outlaw raises a stink straight out of hell. First, he begins to randomly slaughter innocent townsfolk one by one.

In a town like Chugwater, Wyoming, you know who your friends are, who your enemies are, and who your kill-crazy maniacs are. For Duff MacCallister, the last category belongs to Johnny Taylor and his gang. Duff has wrestled with this polecat before, and knows that his bite is worse than his smell. But when Taylor's gang tries to rob a bank - and Duff manages to shoot one and arrest Taylor's brother - the outraged outlaw raises a stink straight out of hell. 

This is a fun audiobook about a Hispanic family in the 60's living in the Pacoima area of Southern California. They own the Peace of the Shepherd Funeral Home close to San Fernando, which allows for some crazy events. The story is presented through the eyes of Lita Ramirez. Al Lucero is her biggest "pain in the ass", but she tolerates his better than everyone's else attitude, and takes joy in his demise. Raul, Lita's brother, acts as her protector, and is famous for his tootsie roll tosses.

Estamos en París en marzo de 1885. Como cada año para la Media Cuaresma, se celebra el popular «baile de las locas» en el hospital de la Salpêtrière, dirigido por el eminente neurólogo profesor Charcot. Durante una noche, la flor y nata de París disfruta al ritmo de valses y polcas en compañía de las internas, disfrazadas con extravagantes atuendos. Entre las pacientes destacan Louise, una joven epiléptica maltratada por su tío que tiene puestas todas sus ilusiones en un futuro matrimonio con un interno del centro....

Una novela arriesgada en donde la legendaria Nahui Olin es puesta en tela de juicio y presentada como un personaje humano, contradictorio y complejo, lejos del mito y producto de su tiempo. ¿Fue libre? ¿Alguien sobrevive al complejo de Electra y sus consecuencias? Quien lea sacará sus propias conclusiones.

During my early twenties as a young and sometimes excruciatingly naïve gal growing up in New York City, life was challenging and rewarding. While navigating through my personal sea of fear, laughter, and pain, I discovered how living with family, friends, and crazy roommates equipped me with life-changing tools I used towards shaping a successful adult life. Like many daring apartment dwellers before me, I faced my own flavor of uncertainty and occasional horrors sharing a home with roommates who were less than desirable.

This “insightful, moving story with striking depth” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author) follows a Vietnamese Canadian family in Toronto who will do anything to protect their no-frills nail salon after a new high-end salon opens up—even if it tears the family apart...

Set in modern Shanghai, a debut by a Chinese-American writer about a prodigal son whose unexpected return forces his newly wealthy family to confront painful secrets and unfulfilled promises. After years of chasing the American dream, the Zhen family has moved back to China. Settling into a...

On what should be a romantic trip to California wine country, Babe realizes there’s something off with her new lust-at-first-sight-lover, Jack—something she can’t get past, even with all his inherited wealth. So she decides to take matters into her own hands and toss him to the curb to...

Author of the New York Times bestseller White Girl Problems and Psychos, Babe Walker, faces her most daunting challenge yet—suburbia—in the third caustically witty White Girl Problems book. Babe Walker thought she had done it all. After all, she’s survived the highly exclusive social...