Ergebnis für "Hayden" in Literatur & Belletristik

Und plötzlich ist es Liebe. Im Privatleben von Phoenix King läuft es gar nicht rund: Ein Gossip-Blog enthüllt die Affären des Virginia-Kings-Stürmers und drückt ihm damit endgültig den Bad-Boy-Stempel auf. Als seine Geburtstagsparty eskaliert, hat sein Vater die Nase voll. Phoenix muss sein Image geraderücken, sonst drohen ihm Konsequenzen. Kurzerhand erfindet er eine Freundin, um seinen Vater zu besänftigen. Dumm nur, dass der unangekündigt in Charlottesville auftaucht, um die Auserwählte seines Sohnes kennenzulernen.

Gerade eben war Hayden Bancroft noch damit beschäftigt, den Tod seiner Frau zu verkraften und sich an das Leben als alleinerziehender Vater seines gehörlosen Adoptivsohnes zu gewöhnen, da droht schon der nächste Schicksalsschlag. In ihrem Testament hat seine verstorbene Frau verfügt, dass Jonah seinen leiblichen Vater kennenlernen soll. Ford Benning. Er ist nicht nur ein viel zu lauter Rockstar, er ist auch unverschämt und sowieso der verantwortungsloseste Mensch aller Zeiten. Und er erhebt Anspruch auf sein Kind.

Lissabon, 1941: Endlich gelingt es Peggy Guggenheim und ihrer neuen Liebe, dem Maler Max Ernst, in die USA auszureisen. Doch kaum angekommen, wird Max als Enemy Alien verhaftet, und Peggy fürchtet, dass ihr Geliebter nach Deutschland zurückgeschickt werden könnte. Zugleich setzt sie alles daran, ihren großen Traum zu verwirklichen: ein eigenes Museum, in dem sie ihre Sammlung der europäischen Moderne ausstellen will. Doch die Widerstände, gegen die Peggy zu kämpfen hat, sind groß, und ihre Liebe zu Max droht daran zu scheitern.

Sie lebten für die Kunst, sie liebten mit ganzer Kraft. In diesem mitreißenden Sammelband werden die faszinierenden Geschichten einiger außergewöhnlicher Frauen zum Leben erweckt. Treffen Sie die unerschrockene Lou Andreas-Salomé, eine Rebellin, die für ihre Freiheit und ihre Liebe kämpft. Reisen Sie weiter nach Lissabon und in die USA und erleben Sie das schillernde Leben von Peggy Guggenheim, einer Muse und Kunstliebhaberin, deren Leidenschaft die Avantgarde-Bewegung ihrer Zeit prägt.

A man wakes up in a hospital bed, with no idea who he is or how he came to be there. The only information the doctor shares with his patient is his name: Innokenty Petrovich Platonov. As memories slowly resurface, Innokenty begins to build a vivid picture of his former life as a young man in Russia in the early 20th century, living through the turbulence of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath. But soon, only one question remains: How can he remember the start of the 20th century, when the pills by his bedside were made in 1999?

First contact with hostile aliens, maiden voyages of Earth's first starship, and interstellar adventures await in this hard science fiction collection of the sixth and seventh stories from the Hayden’s World series.

Earth Government turned soldiers into cyborgs to terraform Mars. After a decade of hard, lonely work they are little more than the machines as which they are treated—until the arrival of female settlers awakens feelings they have almost forgotten....

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Longlisted for the Leacock Medal of Humour One of Kobo CA's Top Horror Ebooks and Top Horror Audiobook of 2024 A tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for their lives kicks off this sweeping and hilarious novel from award-winning...

The king’s watch needs you.... Because there’s a Dragon on the loose. Conrad Clarke is ready to claim his reward. He’s saved the girl, so surely he can rest on his laurels? Just a bit? Not a chance. First, he has to pass a new test. A magickal test. And then there’s a missing Dragon’s egg to investigate.... Even with a new partner, Conrad is soon in deep trouble. Deep Dragon-shaped trouble. It’s time to use his secret weapons: Charm and humor. Armed with them, who needs a fire-resistance spell? Dragons? Bring them on.

Als Hüter gebührt es Elèn, das Vermächtnis des Waldgottes Avalur zu schützen. Umso größer ist die Schmach, als es Nordelfen gelingt, das Götterrelikt zu rauben. Ein skrupelloser Feuermagier, ein geschwätziger Hehler und eine geheimnisvolle Diebin sind die Einzigen, die ihm auf der Verfolgungsjagd helfen können.

Survival tales in the skies of Uranus, desperate struggles at the solar system's edge, and near-lightspeed interstellar expeditions await in this hard science fiction collection of seven Hayden’s World short stories.

It is the late 15th century and a village healer in Russia called Laurus is powerless to help his beloved as she dies in childbirth, unwed and without having received communion. Devastated and desperate, he sets out on a journey in search of redemption. But this is no ordinary journey: it is one that spans ages and countries, and which brings him face-to-face with a host of unforgettable, eccentric characters and legendary creatures from the strangest medieval bestiaries.

Born to an English father and a French mother, lieutenant Charles Saunders Hayden's career is damned by his "mixed" heritage. Assigned to the HMS Themis, an aging frigate under the command of a captain reviled by his crew for both his brutality towards his men and his cowardice in battle...

Roberta Jeanne d'Arc Cole is favored to be named associate chief of medicine at a Boston hospital. She is married to a surgeon. They own a trophy residence on historic Brattle Street in Cambridge and a summer house in the Berkshire Hills. Everything melts away. Her gender and her work at an abortion clinic cost her the hospital appointment. Her marriage fails. Crushed, she goes to the farmhouse in Western Massachusetts, thinking to sell it, and finds an unexpected life.

Mason: I loved Leo from the moment I met him. But life gets busy when you grow up. Leo took good care of me, and now he needs someone to take care of him. I must step up and be that person. Except I can't do it alone. Leo: I could carry everyone's worries on my shoulders but mine. In just a few days, my dad ruined our family, and the only person I can lean on is Mason. He worries and cares and I love him endlessly, but our lives are messy with no signs of improvement. Can we endure this on our own, or is the solution to all our problems right under my nose?

“Luke” Hamilton has always been sure she’d never marry. She accepted that she would spend her life alone when she chose to live her life disguised as a man. After working in a brothel for three years, Nora Macauley has lost all illusions about love. She no longer hopes for a man who will sweep her off her feet and take her away to begin a new, respectable life. But now, they find themselves married and on the way to Oregon in a covered wagon, with 2,000 miles ahead of them.

A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons. Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie...

Parrish Turner has always been my ultimate fantasy. He was my gay awakening, my sweetest torture, and my forbidden fruit ever since my father remarried and merged our families.

A must-listen romance from Hayden Hall. Contains mature themes.

Of all the guys in the world, I just had to fall hopelessly and irreparably in love with my twin sister's boyfriend. Gabriel is also a dork, but he's a hot as all hell dork. But he's straight. He shouldn't attract me the way he does. And did I mention they've been dating for two years? And when my genius of a sister comes up with a bulletproof plan to help me pass my exams by convincing Gabriel to tutor me, I discover that my big, beautiful dork hides a secret even more ruinous than my own. The way he looks at me when we're alone is almost all I've ever dreamed of.