Ergebnis für "I get a bird" in Literatur & Belletristik

Eines Tages erhält Jana, Zukunftsforscherin aus Freiburg, ein Paket von einem ihr unbekannten Mann. Der Busfahrer Johan schickt ihr einen Kalender zurück, den sie in einer Telefonzelle in Neumünster vergessen hat. Es entspinnt sich die intensive Korrespondenz zweier Fremder. Während Johan der verlorene Kontakt zu seiner Tochter aus der Bahn geworfen hat, reißt sein Paket bei Jana ebenfalls alte Wunden auf. Bald finden die Schreibenden heraus, dass ihre Biografien nicht nur ungeahnte Parallelen haben, sondern auch eine ganz konkrete Überschneidung in der Vergangenheit.

When Salma, Moni, and Iman - friends and active members of their local Muslim women’s group - decide to take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, they leave behind lives often dominated by obligation, frustrated desire, and dull predictability. Each wants something more out of life, but fears the cost of taking it. When the women are visited by the Hoopoe, a sacred bird from Muslim and Celtic literature, they are compelled to question their relationships to faith and femininity, love, loyalty, and sacrifice.

When a fame-hungry scientist brings an impossible, living specimen of a creature long thought extinct back from the wild jungles of South America he unwittingly brings along a passenger. Something with the potential to destroy every living thing on our planet. The infestation begins, rapidly overtaking medical resources and resisting all treatment.

Matt Kearns and the remnants of the scientific team return to a ravaged America. Modern medicine has failed to halt the spread of the flesh-consuming parasite, and humans have been forced to hide, even from one another. The infected roam the cities and suburbs of a ruined nation. But the devastating effects on human physiology are only the beginning. Something has been let loose, something that the team were not prepared for - human nature itself.

The South American Boreal: one of the last truly unexplored jungles on our planet. In its dark heart is an ancient crater basin, sealed in by a living cage, making it a time capsule for an ancient, deadly ecosystem. Matt Kearns, Carla Nero and a team of scientist explorers have found their way in. In the crater's sunken interior are creatures from a primordial nightmare. Dangers lurk in every treetop, under every rock or loom monstrously over them. It is a place where mankind is out of time.

Harper is always on the go, efficiently working her way through life without a second of wasted time. It’s made her very successful, but it’s also made her careless. And soon enough, Harper discovers that she’s completely lost track of the present. Harper’s friend suggests getting a plant to take care of, hoping this could be a meditative experience for Harper. At first, it was, but soon enough, this sexy houseplant is introducing herself as Kobla, and bringing Harper along on an erotic, lesbian adventure.

Gilly’s days are packed to the brim, stuffed with so many activities and events that it’s difficult for her to focus. Soon enough, this mounting anxiety begins to show up in frustrating ways. Fortunately, Gilly’s social plans for the evening are unexpectedly cancelled, and she soon finds herself with a block of hours dedicated to getting her to-do list done. However, when these cancelled plans physically manifest as a beautiful, hovering calendar named Olga, Gilly quickly realizes that her evening might be more action-packed than she initially thought.