Ergebnis für "Feiertage" in Literatur & Belletristik

Weihnachten ohne Baum? Der Vater ein bayerischer Sturschädel, die Kinder in der Hochphase der Pubertät und dann noch Weihnachten? Franzis Entschluss steht fest: Heuer wird sie sich einen ruhigen, entspannten Advent machen, komme, was wolle. Kein Plätzchenbackstress, kein Dekowahnsinn und kein Geschenkemarathon. Ihr Plan scheint aufzugehen, denn Ehemann Sebastian versucht sich zum ersten Mal in seinem Leben am Backblech und die Kinder bemerken nicht mal, dass es keinen Adventskranz gibt.

Millionen haben ihre Platten nicht gekauft, Hunderttausende ihre Konzerte niemals besucht und jeden Abend übernachteten dutzende Groupies weit entfernt von ihrem Hotelzimmer. Kurz und gut: Sie sind die unerfolgreichste Band der Popgeschichte. Und nun müssen sie innerhalb von nur einer Woche ein Hitalbum schreiben, denn sonst werden sie von den Hells Angels exekutiert und von der Deutschen Bank gevierteilt.

Helmut Zöpfl trägt seine Erzählungen und Betrachtungen zum Weihnachtsfest auf seine gefühlvolle und doch nachdenkliche Art vor. Ironische Kritik an unserer hektischen, oft wenig "menschlichen" Art, das Weihnachtsfest zu feiern, kommt ebenso zu ihrem Recht wie kleine Geschichten und Betrachtungen, die uns zeigen, wie viel uns dieses Fest heute noch geben kann - wenn wir nur verstehen es wieder von seiner stillen, besinnlichen Seite zu sehen und die Liebe zu unseren Mitmenschen in den Vordergrund zu stellen.

It's Christmas time in Caerphilly, and the town is preparing for their live nativity. During rehearsals, Meg discovers a real baby in the manger, with a note attached that says the mother is leaving the baby girl there so that her father can take care of her, and the wording of the note implicates Meg's brother, Rob, as the father. Rob protests that he can't possibly be the father, but the town's suspicion creates a rift between him and his new girlfriend. Rob asks Meg to investigate on his behalf‚ to clear his name and to find the real parents of the baby.

Ally Novak is perfectly happy being single – in fact, her career depends on it. As the Divorced Diva – blogger, brand ambassador and businesswoman extraordinaire – she’s spun three failed marriages into gold, building a brand that celebrates single life. So when her wealthy ex-husband Julian invites her to front his new wellness retreat, Ally jets off to his exclusive Greek island, certain it’ll be just another glamorous gig. What she doesn’t expect is to find another ex on the island – the one who got away, and the only one she can’t forget.

Christmas has never been Katie Seddon’s favourite time of year. Whilst everyone else shares memories of families coming together and festive number ones, the soundtrack to Katie’s childhood wasn’t quite so merry. But since she moved to the village of Budbury on the gorgeous Dorset coast, Katie and her baby son have found a new family. A family who have been brought together by life’s unexpected roads and the healing magic of a slice of cake and a cupful of kindess at the Comfort Food Café.

A Humanist Christmas is a collection of heartfelt stories originally shared with friends and family in the form of Christmas letters. Written with warmth and wit, these tales capture the joy, challenges, and small miracles the season. It is a book about Christmas Past—with memories sweet and bittersweet—and about Christmas Present—reflections on artificial trees and artificial intelligence—and about Christmas Future—how our dark times may be lightened by the Christmas spirit. It is a fun listen because Christmas should have “room for ideas as loopy as flying reindeer.”

>As the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, Cass finds her husband lying naked on a coat-strewn bed, entwined with another woman. She's determined to get over him - and soon. Luckily, there are plenty of distractions: juggling a young family with a burgeoning social life and a return to work...and narrowly avoiding arrest. Then one day, she falls for the last person she could ever have predicted....

We share an innovative, light-hearted story as our hero traverses a typical English hamlet, helter-skelters along (with the aid of providential fate, in particular, the natural world of plants, trees and the numerous animals roaming the village) while, at the same time, being plunged into unexpected adventures and discovering how Christmas traditions have evolved from their inception to current Christmas practices and values.

Georgie Hart loves Christmastime at Carrington’s Department store. Running the luxury handbag department, Georgie adores helping customers in the hunt for the perfect gift for the perfect someone. And this year is no exception - now she has the hunky Tom, Mr Carrington himself, to spend the special day with. But when Tom springs a surprise, Georgie’s plans are thrown into chaos. Carrington’s is getting a fresh lease of life in a hot new reality TV show, featuring formidable retail guru Kelly Cooper.

The Woodsman pub and campsite is under new management, with new staff and improved facilities. The old gang, plus some additional characters, return by invitation to check it out, and the adventures begin: retaliating against marauding motorbikes in the middle of the night, enduring a bike tour to hell and back, watching Tel and Sophie jumping from a plane and witnessing Tel having some sort of nervous breakdown, fighting against the tyranny of Liv’s father and soon-to-be ex-husband, and almost losing a vastly expensive ring.

Joseph has been captured by soldiers. A pregnant Mary is being hunted by the king. She needs to escape Nazareth but doesn’t know how. Three hard-drinking strangers claim they can help, but she isn’t sure she can trust them. Oh, and let’s not forget that the baby daddy is God, The God, The Great "I Am". She’s had better days. Herod the Great has been king of Judaea for 30 years. He is losing his sanity to a disease. He learns shepherds are being visited by angels, bringing tidings of comfort and joy. What the hell are tidings?

Enjoy 16 of the greatest holiday shows from radio’s Golden Age and the Hollywood celebrities that starred in them.

When 73-year-old Jen announces that she is going to marry Eddie, a man she met just a few months previously on a beach on Boxing Day, her four best friends from aqua aerobics are flabbergasted. The wedding is booked and, when the groom decides to have a stag trip to Las Vegas, the ladies arrange a hen party to beat all others - a week in the city of love, Paris.

When Wisconsin veterinarian Doc dies, his family learns that to inherit his fortune, they must decipher the cryptic codicil he added to his will - "Take Doofus squirrel-fishing" - and they can only do that by talking to Doc's friends, reading the memoir Doc wrote of a Christmas season decades earlier, searching through Doc's correspondence, and discovering clues around them. Humor abounds as this mismatched lot tries to find time in their hectic lives to work together to solve the puzzle. In the end, will they realize that fortune comes in many guises?

Back in 1979, when Solomon Zuch and Delphyne Shea were in high school, they shared an intense, romantic liaison on Halloween night. It became one of Solomon's most treasured memories. Twenty years later, Solomon is the married manager of the All Hallows' Eve Shoppe, a pop-up store that reopens every year to sell Halloween supplies to customers in north Columbus, Ohio. Delphyne Shadow, as she is now popularly known, calls herself the Madonna of the Underworld, and every year she hosts the most infamous Halloween party in town, the Nightmare Bash.

Coon Creek, a conservative, industrial, blue-collar town, has seen better days. Golden Springs is home to Antaeus College, a private institution with a tradition of liberal politics. No love lost between those two. Mazie Tuttle knows both towns well. Born and raised in Coon Creek, she enrolls in the Antaeus College summer literary program being taught by the famous radical novelist, Roscoe Alolo. As tensions flare between the two towns over a statue of Coon Creek’s founding father, one act of vandalism follows another, and Mazie feels caught in the middle of the hostilities.

Annabelle has always been able to fix things with a click of her fingers and a few choice words, but this Christmas, something is different. This Christmas, she realizes that the girl she has raised from birth, Jane, has grown and has a life of her own now, which includes her ultra-rich biological mother, the former bag lady Dennie Bin. It also includes the son of Annabelle’s worse foe.

Paul and Derrick have hit their stride with the Hummingbird House Bed and Breakfast, a destination in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley. Guests come from all over the country to enjoy their Christmas weekend extravaganza. Of course there are a few glitches: 20 Christmas trees to be decorated in less than a week, an absentee massage therapist, and - perhaps most distressing of all - the unexpected presence of three school-age children, courtesy of their saucy young housekeeper Purline.

Thailand. Spock and Stu are excited, each having their own thoughts and expectations about the place. The pair are in agreement, however, on what their dream holiday is going to entail: plenty of parties, lots of raunchy sex, copious amounts of beer, and balmy days chillaxing and drinking cocktails on warm sandy beaches.' When a golden box containing the dental remains of the Buddha is stolen and its guardian monks murdered, Pon, the surviving monk, is sent on a quest to retrieve the holy item.