Ergebnis für "H" in Literatur & Belletristik

When Cedric Charlton, an unsuspecting tax inspector, arrives at the door of the Pop Larkin farm, he soon forgets the purpose of his visit: The fun-loving Ma and Pop Larkin distract him at every turn with strawberries, cream, alcohol, and their attractive young daughter, Mariette. Well known by the popular TV series starring David Jason and Catherine Zeta-Jones, The Darling Buds of May is the quintessential feel-good country romp.

From the publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies comes a new tale of romance, heartbreak, and tentacled mayhem. Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities.

a gesagt, b gemacht, c gedacht, d geworden. Alles was man sich vornimmt, wird anders als man sichs erhofft...

Johanna Seger har fullt upp, både på jobbet och hemma. Hotellet Vita huset, som hon driver tillsammans med väninnan Nina Becker, upptar en stor del av hennes tid och hon dras med ständigt dåligt samvete över att inte räcka till för sin treårige son Bertil, som nu har börjat stå väldigt nära sin pappa. Samtidigt kämpar Nina och hennes sambo med att försöka skaffa barn, ivrigt påhejade av Ninas mamma som sparat varje babyplagg och pryl sedan sjuttiotalet.

Mit der witzigen Charakterisierung des Überlebenskünstlers und Schnorrers "Datterich" hat Ernst Elias Niebergall der liebenswürdigen "Schlitzohrigkeit" seiner südhessischen Landsleute literarisch ein Denkmal gesetzt. "Datterichs" Lebensmotto lautet kurz und bündig: "Bezahle, wann mer Geld hat, des is kah Kunst: Awer bezahle, wenn mer kahns hat, des is e Kunst, liewer Mann, un die muss ich erscht noch lerne".

A Harvard reunion prompts a Boston Brahmin’s search for meaning in this comedy of manners by the number-one New York Times best-selling author of Point of No Return.

Pix just wants to hunt monsters, craft armor, and pay off her college loans. Her partner Jaz does too. She just wants to pet the monsters more. While wearing impractical hot pants armor. And wielding a sword so massive she needs magic gems to carry it.

Beautifully rounded stories from some little-known regions of Australia.

Sylt ist ein wahrer Fundus für viele kurzweilige und unterhaltende Geschichten. Das beweist "Olly der Poet" mit feinem Humor und dem Blick fürs Skurrile.Von seinen immer gut besuchten Lesungen in ganz Deutschland hat er hier in einer gut einstündigen Aufnahme 55 Geschichten zusammengefasst und seine Lieblingsinsel Sylt lyrisch in Szene gesetzt.

The complacent Maximillian Dreyfuss, head of a recently formed online university, was pleased, amongst other things, with the name P.U.N.C.H.; an acronym for posting University Network Courses Here, thought up by Letty from the Religious Studies Department, with whom he'd been enjoying a brief affair at that time.

A wild and wacky parody of the original Hellraiser movie. Now with more raisins!

Jo Who Died is the funny and bittersweet telling of a mother's life story from the perspective of her recently deceased daughter. Jenny Knight never intended to call seven of her eight children Jo(e). It's funny how life turns out. At twenty-six years old, Jo 5 throws herself out of a window with no intention of dying. Nor did she plan for her siblings to be suspects in a murder investigation. Sometimes, that's just the way things go.

H/armed follows a man known as Estes who must try and bring logic and reason to 39 others who find themselves at the bidding of a bloodthirsty director inside a department store. This man, who is heard and never seen, warns of deadly consequences should these 40 individuals not abide by his instructions for those paying to view the livestream via the darknet: If you try and escape, you die. If you do not fight, you are killed by the security team. The last to survive earns the right to leave alive.

Wie gut, dass es noch Leute mit Bodenhaftung gibt, wie HG Butzko - der freie Radikale des deutschen Kabaretts. Wo andere elegant abbiegen, brettert Butzko voll durch. Und trifft. Den Kern der Sache. Und das Zwerchfell des Publikums. Stets tagesaktuell ist kein Thema vor ihm sicher. Die große Welt und der kleine Geist. Der Alltag und der Bundestag. Das Politische und das Private. Polemisch. Philosophisch. Provokant. Bitterböse, herzerfrischend, und immer amüsant.

Artie Kipps is destined at the tender age of fourteen for a life of drudgery in the drapery trade … until he unexpectedly inherits a fortune from a grandfather he never knew existed! Enter: A whisky-drinking actor and playwright who persuades Kipps to invest in his play! A down-on-their-luck mother and daughter who promptly see Kipps as a means to escape their (comparative) poverty! Plenty of patronizing, unthinking social snobs!

A year has passed, and in this third novel of the Pop Larkin series, Pop Larkin is preparing to build the bungalow he promised Charley and Mariette upon their engagement. He buys a country home slated for demolition, intending to convert it for the two, but it is not long before a London couple persuade him to sell it. Pop, ever the trickster, sells it for an extortionate price, as the two social climbers know little about country life.

As in the original novel, the story follows two relationships: the tragic adulterous romance of Anna Karenina and Count Alexei Vronsky, and the much more hopeful marriage of Nikolai Levin and Kitty Shcherbatskaya. These four, yearning for true love, live in a steampunk-inspired 19th century of...

Augie Cumpton has to find a way to survive his deployment to Vietnam, so he escapes the horror and insanity of war by retreating to his safe haven: a cerebral sanctuary where he can reflect on family and friends, humorous incidents, and a coterie of unforgettable characters from back home. But now as his tour is about to end and the war intensifies, he faces a legal and moral dilemma when corrupt superiors make criminal demands on him. If he refuses to comply, he might end up dead.

What happens when a reactionary, retired British brigadier general comes to Los Angeles looking for his missing goddaughter? Comic chaos, that's what, with California beach babes, Jamaican drug gangs, and other colorful characters feuding, fighting, but not quite fornicating, in a mad search and rescue operation.

Life doesn't pick winners and losers. That's for the corporations to decide. And they picked Liam Argyle for a carefree life of fame and fortune as host of the world's most popular reality show competition. After two seasons of parading about the world's biggest victims on The Grass Is Greener, he's been forced to put a happy face on one tragedy too many - and he won't turn a blind eye to the horrors of the corporate dystopian world of the 2070s any longer. Now, Liam is out to destroy the very people who made him a star.