Ergebnis für "Fire" in Belletristik

Brought to you by Penguin. On the face of it, Freya lives a gilded existence, dancing solely to her own tune. She has all the trappings of wealth and privilege, a responsible job as a surgeon specialising in skin grafts, a beautiful flat in a sought-after development, and a flash car. But it...

Jonah Bergmann ist Feuerwehrmann aus Leidenschaft und neu auf der Münchner Wache 21. Er ist Profi, hart im Nehmen und gewohnt, dass man seinen Befehlen Folge leistet. Die neuen Kollegen verhalten sich... nun ja... abwartend. Bei seinen Einsätzen kann Jonah zeigen, dass er die Lage stets unter Kontrolle hat. Zuhause sieht das allerdings ganz anders aus. Dort liegt sein jüngerer Bruder Tim im Wachkoma, und die neue Krankenschwester Nina geht Jonah mit ihren Widerworten mächtig auf die Nerven. In ihm brodelt es schon bald vor Wut - oder ist es doch etwas anderes, das Nina da in ihm entzündet hat?

NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES—THE MASTERPIECE THAT BECAME A CULTURAL PHENOMENON Here is the first book in the landmark series that has redefined imaginative fiction and become a modern masterpiece. A GAME OF THRONES In a land where summers can last decades and winters a...

Gefühle sind in unserer Welt ein Zeichen von Schwäche. Und wer schwach ist, stirbt. New York City. Einst brachten grausame Drachenreiter Tod und Zerstörung, und ihr König tyrannisiert nun die Welt. Die letzten freien Menschen verstecken sich in den U-Bahn-Tunneln, unter ihnen auch die Diebin Sira. Sie hasst alle Drachen, seit ihre Familie durch deren Feuer starb. Als ihr Versteck angegriffen wird, ist ausgerechnet Drachenreiter Norik, Anführer der Rebellen, ihre Rettung.

It’s 1837, and immigrating to a small New Zealand fishing village is an opportunity for Ida Lange’s family to build a better future. Yet for Ida, raised in a strict, religious, tight-knit German community, so much is still forbidden to a woman. Yearning for the poor day laborer she shared books with as a child, Ida is now trapped in a dire marriage to a man of her father’s choosing.

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick The runaway New York Times bestseller! Named a Best Book of the Year by: People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Audible, Goodreads, Library Reads, Book of...

A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed - according to Nabokov's fiction - by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.

After an eight-hundred-year slumber, the volcanoes in Iceland’s most populated region are showing signs of life. Earthquakes dominate the headlines. Echoes of the devastating eruptions in the past stir unease in the people. Volcanologist Anna Arnardóttir has spent her entire life studying the volcanic powers under the earth’s crust, but even she cannot fathom the catastrophe at hand.

It’s 1880 in the North Island town of Otaki, where Aroha lives contentedly with her mother, Linda - until a fateful tragedy leaves Aroha traumatized and plagued by a cursed guilt. For the long recovery ahead, Aroha is sent to Rata Station, a thriving sheep farm that Aroha’s mother and grandmother once called home. Linda knows it’s the perfect place for her daughter to heal, find hope, and start a life she can call her own.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Absorbing . . . impossible to resist.” —The Washington Post As Europe erupts, can one young spy protect his queen? #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett takes us deep into the treacherous world of powerful monarchs, intrigue, murder, and treason...

München, 1923: Deutschland versinkt in den düsteren Tiefen der Wirtschaftskrise, und zwei Paare stehen an der Schwelle ihres Schicksals. Helga und Heinrich Goldmann kämpfen buchstäblich um ihr nacktes Überleben, während Edith und Julius Falkenstein zur Elite Deutschlands gehören. Als die schüchterne Edith Julius zum ersten Mal traf, war es Liebe auf den ersten Blick. Die Einheirat in die mächtige Falkenstein-Familie hat sie in die glitzernde Gesellschaft der oberen Zehntausend katapultiert. Doch ihre heile Welt gerät ins Wanken, als die Nazi-Partei immer mehr Macht und Einfluss gewinnt.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Perfect for fans of A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s Game of Thrones—an epic history of Westeros and the lands beyond, featuring all-new material from George R. R. Martin! If the past is prologue, then George R. R. Martin’s masterwork—the most inventive...

The complete, unabridged audiobook of A Dance with Dragons. HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones is based on George R. R. Martin’s internationally best-selling series A Song of Ice and Fire, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A Dance with Dragons is the fifth volume in the series. The future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this “powerful, historically accurate novel” (The New Yorker), the sole Spartan survivor recounts the bloody and epic battle of Thermopylae that decimated his fearsome society. “Vivid and exciting . . . Pressfield gives the reader a perspective no ancient...

It’s 1863, nearly twenty years since Ida Lange came to New Zealand to change her life and realize a dream. With her best friend, Cat, she established a thriving sheep farm on the continental plains where their combined families settled - and succeeded. But the idyll of Rata Station could be reaching an end. The fires of change are coming again, and this time it’s Ida’s and Cat’s daughters - Mara, Carol, and Linda - who will get swept up in the ensuing chaos.

From the award-winning author of Night of the Living Rez comes a masterful and unforgettable story of family, legacy, bloodlines, culture and inheritance, and what, if anything, we owe one another.

Eigentlich könnte Oberbrandmeister Erik Steiner rundum zufrieden sein. Er liebt seinen Beruf und vergöttert seine Frau Mila. Würde er mit ihr und ihrer Tochter Zoey allein und nicht ausgerechnet Tür an Tür mit seinen Schwiegereltern wohnen, wäre sein Leben perfekt. Aber Milas Eltern lehnen den neuen Mann an der Seite ihrer Tochter ab und lassen keine Gelegenheit aus, sich ständig in die Belange der kleinen Familie einzumischen.

Piper Hartwell exudes confidence and sex appeal, having no problem speaking her mind or going after what she wants. But behind that hardened shell, sky-high walls, and painted-on smile lies a girl who has sworn off love, knowing firsthand the damage it can leave in its wake. Brett Burns, a powerhouse forward for the New York Nighthawks, lives every second with his heart on his sleeve, loving nothing more than spending time with his family and his team. 

Return to #1 New York Times bestseller Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn world of Scadrial as its second era, which began with THE ALLOY OF LAW, comes to its earth-shattering conclusion in THE LOST METAL. For years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy...

"In this charming listen, narrator Therese Plummer portrays Cassie Hanwell--a confident, talented firefighter whose solitary life is upended when her estranged mother asks her to relocate to Boston...A wonderful story of forgiveness, friendship, love, and hope." — AudioFile From the New York...