Ergebnis für "Jaguar" in Literatur & Belletristik

Berlin, 1942. Lilly Wust, 29, verheiratet, vier Kinder, führt das Leben von Millionen deutscher Frauen. Doch dann lernt sie die 21-jährige Felice Schragenheim kennen. Es ist Liebe, fast auf den ersten Blick. Als Jaguar-Felice ihrer Geliebten gesteht, dass sie Jüdin ist, bindet dieses gefährliche Geheimnis die beiden Frauen noch enger aneinander.

From the best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce, this debut novel is a gripping survival story of a young man trapped, perhaps fatally, during a border crossing. Hector is trapped. The water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, has broken down. The coyotes have taken...

Antonio, abandonné à la naissance à Maracaibo, est promis à une vie de mendicité. C’est sans compter sur son énergie et les incroyables rencontres parsemant son chemin. Vendeur de cigarettes, homme à tout faire dans une maison close… il sera finalement chirurgien. À ses côtés, une compagne d’exception, première femme médecin de la région : Ana Maria. Repoussant les limites, affrontant les révolutions soulevant leur pays tout le long du XXe siècle, ils donnent un jour naissance à Venezuela. Aussi déterminée et courageuse que ses parents, elle se bat à son tour pour s’accomplir... ailleurs, car elle n'a d'yeux que pour Paris. C’est dans le carnet de son fils Cristobal que les mille histoires de cette famille hors du commun pourront, enfin, s’ancrer.

Alexander Cold es un muchacho americano de quince años que parte al Amazonas con su abuela Kate, periodista especializada en viajes. La expedición se interna en la selva en busca de una extraña bestia gigantesca. Junto a su compañera de viaje, Nadia Santos, y un centenario chamán indígena, Alex conocerá un mundo sorprendente.

África Ecuatorial. Hasta allí se han trasladado Nadia, Alexander y su abuela Kate para disfrutar del primer safari en elefante. Kenia es una fiesta de color: bella y sensual, una mezcla de sabores, olores y sonidos inunda cada rincón de esta tierra. Sin embargo, este paraíso también esconde sus sombras.

The Empire of Songs reigns supreme. Across all the lands of Ixachipan, its hypnotic, magical music sounds. Those who battled against the Empire have been enslaved and dispersed, taken far from their friends and their homes. In the Singing City, Xessa must fight for the entertainment of her captors. Lilla and thousands of warriors are trained to serve as weapons for their enemies. And Tayan is trapped at the heart of the Empire’s power and magic, where the ruthless Enet’s ambition is ever growing.

For Jaguar, the lure of the lights and the crowds has filled his years since leaving Sequoia, but even the brightest lights fade. When his mother falls ill, he puts his career on hold to help her, but coming home after so much time away has its own pitfalls.

JAG Special Forces agents Huntley Anderson and Melissa Overton are hot on the trail of poachers when they're suddenly saddled with two jaguar shifter cubs. They have to locate the parents pronto - but who's going to babysit in the meantime?

After seeing the results of an enemy Interrogation of his partner, Agent Charles Smith decided to retire and move from his native home of London, England to Detroit, Michigan where an old friend helps him acquire a house. After seeing the horror of gang violence and witnessing the over-populated drug lord community Agent Smith decides to use his skills and do what the local law enforcement cannot, bring some kind of control to the chaos. Smith decides to disguise himself and travel at night searching out the scum of the city.

Oracle the jaguar rises from the edge of death to seek the return of the long-lost jaguarundi—the shadow cat whose emergence will complete the animal kingdom’s calling. With Patch the raccoon, Plod the horse, Bog the toad, and the manchild Miracle, Oracle journeys through a poetically charged Rio Grande Valley where willows remember, turtles whisper, and green jays cry out with ancient joy.

Mike Miller’s life has gone to shit. The formerly popular high school quarterback now works at a gas station in the middle of nowhere. The last thing he needs is meeting the guy he used to bully at school and seeing him all sorts of polished up. James is now the proud owner of an amazing silver Jaguar and a self-made millionaire. It seems that the day couldn’t get any worse for Mike, but James "Lovelace" Austin might just turn out to be his golden ticket out of the job he hates.

Raffiniert, rasant, doppelbödig: Ein packender Agenten-Thriller um einen internationalen Rache-Feldzug. Durch Zufall geraten zwei junge Männer Ende der 80er-Jahre ins Fadenkreuz der CIA: Ruben Diaz aus San Salvador beobachtet ein Massaker an jesuitischen Dozenten der Zentralamerikanischen Universität; der Schweizer Santino Marti wird als Tourist in Puerto Rico in ein Mord-Komplott gegen den nicaraguanischen Präsidenten verwickelt. Beide lässt die CIA verschwinden. Auf einem Gefängnisschiff im Golf von Mexiko, einer sogenannten "black site", treffen Ruben Diaz und Santino Marti aufeinander, die Leidensgenossen werden Freunde.

Eine spannende Reise auf den Spuren der Maya! Elli ist begeistert, denn sie darf ihren Vater, der Ethnologe und Professor ist, auf seine Expedition begleiten, die durch Mexikos und Guatemalas Urwälder führt. Sie suchen nach einem Jadeamulett, dem Grünen Jaguar, welches der Legende nach das Volk der Mayas von den Weißen befreien und den Mayas ihre Macht zurückgeben soll. Das Amulett ist jedoch verschollen und die Suche nach eben jenem stellt sich bald als gefährlicher heraus, also Elli erwartet hatte.

With electrifying boldness and fearlessness of vision, Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishing and deeply humane portrait of a father’s Parkinson’s Disease, and a daughter forged by grief. Opening and closing with startling elegies set in the charged moments before and after a death, and fearlessly probing the body’s animal endurance, appetites and metamorphoses, The Jaguar is marked by Holland-Batt’s lyric intensity and linguistic mastery, along with a stark new clarity of voice.

In 1817, explorers Spix and Martius returned from their three-year voyage in Brazil with not only an extensive account of their journey, but also with an Indigenous boy and girl, Iñe-e and Juri. Kidnapped from rival tribes as part of the colonialist trend of collecting "living specimens" on scientific expeditions, the two tragically perished shortly after arriving in Europe. This lyrically rich novel takes their perspective to illuminate their harrowing journey.

For Jonathon Roth and his family, a vacation in Cozumel became a nightmare. Pawns in a deadly ritual, Roth and his children barely escaped with their lives, and with the secrets of mastermind Jacob Calakmul. Calakmul’s endgame: to fulfill the Jaguar Prophecies—the foretelling of an inevitable Armageddon, one that will destroy entire nations. The key to stopping it is to retrieve an ancient codex—if Roth can decipher it.

On the living planet Tara, are the Evnin, a tribal species and the humans, a new species far from their rotting planet. They are at war over Tara, a war that hurts Tara and threatens all the life on her surface. To fix it she created two souls meant to be one. She created Elkiv, born to the chief of a well hidden tribe with a deep love for her people. And she created Lizzie, born with a deep connection to Tara behind the human fences.

What begins as a simple, late-night theft of Incan treasure propels Charlee, Sean, and Sydney Flynn into a perilous quest deep into the Peruvian Amazon, where something far more valuable—and far more deadly—awaits. A new discovery points them toward the Heart of the Forest, a precious stone pulsing with otherworldly energy, said to reside in an ancient city overflowing with the amassed riches of the Inca Empire. But the Heart’s shadowed history reveals a chilling truth.

Em 1817, Spix e Martius desembarcaram no Brasil com a missão de registrar suas impressões sobre o país. Três anos e 10 mil quilômetros depois, os exploradores voltaram a Munique trazendo consigo não apenas um extenso relato da viagem, mas também um menino e uma menina indígenas, que morreriam pouco tempo depois de chegar em solo europeu.

Elle entend son nom à la radio. Ce nom qui la remmène des années auparavant, quand elle était jeune, quand elle avait l'espoir d'une carrière dans le mannequinat. Quand elle l'avait rencontré. "Jaguar" est une nouvelle de Tatiana de Rosnay issue du recueil "L'Envers du décor".