Ergebnis für "Don't Let Me Go Queere YoungAdultRomance mit spannendem ZeitreiseTwist" in Belletristik

In one of the most acclaimed novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go dramatizes her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world.

Lass sie niemals aus den Augen ... Ich war so aufgeregt. Endlich würde ich meine Stieftochter Chloe aus erster Ehe kennenlernen. Auch Richard war überglücklich, dass seine Tochter wieder in sein Leben treten wollte. "Du wirst sie lieben", hatte er strahlend gesagt. "Sie war nur etwas verwirrt, weil ich wieder geheiratet habe, aber das ist jetzt vorbei." Wann immer wir allein sind, macht Chloe deutlich, dass sie mich hasst. Doch vor ihrem Vater mimt sie den perfekten kleinen Engel. Richard sagt, ich gäbe ihr keine Chance, aber er sieht nicht, was ich sehe. Ich traue Chloe nicht.

Former Broadway dancer and current agoraphobic Billy Shine has not set foot outside his apartment in almost a decade. He has glimpsed his neighbors--beautiful manicurist Rayleen, lonely old Ms. Hinman, bigoted and angry Mr. Lafferty, kind-hearted Felipe, and nine-year-old Grace and her former addict mother, Eileen. But most of them have never seen Billy. Not until Grace begins to sit outside on the building's front stoop for hours every day, inches from Billy's patio.

Joanne knows how lucky she is—Richard is a wonderful husband, Evie is the most gorgeous baby girl, they live in a beautiful house—life couldn't be better. But then Richard's twenty-year-old daughter Chloe turns up. Chloe hasn’t spoken to her father since the day he married Joanne two years ago. But with the arrival of her baby sister Evie, Chloe wants to make peace. Richard is delighted, and since Joanne is struggling with the new baby, he suggests Chloe could move in and help.

On being kicked by life harder than he could ever imagine, Sachin had three options. He could look life in the eye and fight back. He could succumb and do something that would haunt him forever. Or he could flee to a place where there were no traces of the blow he had received. So Goa it was. In search of solace, perhaps, by working in a small shack at an unknown beach. Dealing with the local police, resurrecting a dying shack, and managing rowdy parties, risking having his bones and jawline broken, does Sachin get what he was seeking?

Eleven years ago Lindsey Nash escaped into the night with her young daughter and left an abusive relationship. Her ex-husband, Andrew, was sent to jail, and Lindsey started over with a new life. Now Lindsey is older and wiser, with her own business and a teenage daughter who needs her more than ever. When Andrew is finally released from prison, Lindsey believes she has cut all ties and left the past behind her. But she gets the sense that someone is watching her, tracking her every move.

One night, Molly Clarke walked away from her life. She doesn't want to be found. Or at least, that's the story. The car abandoned miles from home. The note found at a nearby hotel. The shattered family that couldn’t be put back together. They called it a “walk away.” It happens all the time. Women disappear, desperate to leave their lives behind and start over. But is that what really happened to Molly Clarke?

They called it a 'walk away'. The car abandoned miles from home on a stormy night. The note found at a nearby hotel. The shattered family that couldn't be put back together. It happens all the time, they said. Women disappear, desperate to leave their lives behind and start over. But is that what really happened to Molly Clarke? For Molly, the night she disappears begins with a storm, running out of gas, and a man with a truck who offers her a ride to town.