Ergebnis für "Galveston" in Literatur & Belletristik

The Battle for Galveston 1862. The island city of Galveston, a vital port where blockade runners bring key supplies into the Confederacy from abroad, is suddenly occupied by the Union, blockaded by navy vessels, cut off from the Texas mainland by the enemy. Jamie Russell, an artillery officer in the Valverde Battery and veteran of battles in New Mexico, has a personal stake in the safety of the city - his sister Emma and their Aunt May are trapped there. But Jamie also has the ear of General Magruder in Houston.

No mesmo dia em que é diagnosticado com uma doença terminal, Roy Cady pressente que o chefe, um agiota e dono de bar que é o mandachuva em Nova Orleans, quer vê-lo morto. Conhecido entre os membros da gangue pelo nada afetuoso apelido de “Big Country”, por causa do cabelo comprido e das botas de caubói, Roy desconfia de que o serviço de rotina para o qual foi enviado possa ser uma emboscada. E de fato é. Mas consegue inverter os papéis e, após um banho de sangue, escapa ileso.

Once a trailblazer in the field of medicine, Dr. Tucia Hatherley hasn't touched a scalpel or stethoscope since she made a fatal mistake in the operating theater. Instead, she works in a corset factory, striving to earn enough to support her disabled son. When even that livelihood is threatened, Tucia is left with one option-to join a wily, charismatic showman named Huey and become part of his traveling medicine show.

Alto, corpulento, con barba y melena, sombrero de ala ancha y botas de vaquero, el texano Roy Cady lleva unos años ejerciendo de matón profesional en Nueva Orleans. Roy es un tipo tranquilo, comprensivo, capaz de ver el lado filosófico de las cosas, lo cual no le impide ser implacable cuando la ocasión lo requiere. Pero su vida da un giro radical el día que le diagnostican un cáncer avanzado. De pronto, sus puntos de referencia se trastocan, y el relieve de la realidad cobra una nueva dimensión.

Middle aged, unhappily married, and haunted by a tragedy from her past, Alice has resigned herself to an unremarkable existence. Then she meets June—a suspiciously pale flapper only she can see, a young woman who claims to have died and not remember the circumstances of her life or death.

Galveston, Texas. September 1900. Only months ago, Kathleen McDaniel returned from finishing school in Switzerland to her family home in New York’s Hudson Valley with a future of promise and privilege set before her. But one horrific event shattered her picturesque life. Now she has fled as far as the train line and a pocketful of money would take her, finding refuge at the St. Mary’s Orphan Asylum on Galveston Island, where she helps the nuns care for their young charges and prays her past will not find her.

In 2037, a father and daughter travel from Dallas to Galveston in hope of rescue. Driven by a shortwave radio message, they risk their lives to steal bicycles and brave the 300 mile journey down a highway littered with abandoned cars and stalked by murderous gangs. They have nothing but an empty gun, a bag of boiled tree nuts, and each other.

Living in a small trailer on the beach of Galveston in 1970. Life was simple, but a common struggle. Where were you in 1970?

Brought together by chance, bound together by secrets. A decade into the Depression, Millicent Green is a twenty-five-year-old "old maid" living with her marriage-obsessed mother and domineering older brother in the stiflingly small Jewish community of New Bern, North Carolina. Smart and prickly...

In the once-bustling city of Galveston, a quiet invasion has begun. The streets, now war-torn and desolate, are patrolled by foreign soldiers, and the residents live in constant fear. Amidst this chaos, Dr. Alex Carter and Dr. Samantha Wood, two dedicated doctors at University Hospital, find themselves at the heart of the resistance.

Lola is back in Galveston after twenty years drinking and clubbing in Spain. She’s inherited an old house she’s afraid of and a family secret that might be either her undoing or her salvation. Lola has nothing to show for herself after two decades abroad except for a serious drinking problem and a penchant for picking up strangers. She’s missed her beloved aunt’s funeral and lacks the capacity to digest some of the mysteries of her upbringing – from the demons that plagued her beautiful yet volatile mother, to the ways in which her aunt loved her but kept her at arm’s length.

A Jewish widow and a mysterious stranger help her son Benjamin overcome polio, while refugees from Nazi death camps find safety, and spies threaten Galveston. As clouds of war gather, a man crashes his car into Sarah’s front yard and dies in her front yard. Almost at once, the young widow finds her life full of danger following that day. Sarah will learn that her crippled son has a secret - one that he believes must never be revealed.

Mark works hard on the Houston road crew, so when he visits a new gay bar in Galveston, he's hoping for the best. He meets up with Big Joe, who seems like he can show Mark a good time. But when Eric, a young prostitute, comes along and shows Big Joe to be a fraud, can Mark's evening be saved? Join these two young studs and see how they make the best of two complex lives.