Ergebnis für "Jaguar" in Belletristik

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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".

Haley walked away from Knox, Theo, Chase, Jackson, and Liam, believing it was the best thing for everyone. But, when Theo and Knox appear in Portland months later, pleading for her to come home, she can't find the strength to refuse. With a radical plan in place, Haley returns to Santa Cruz, more determined than ever to keep Team Jaguar intact. Will her growing connection with each of the guys ultimately lead to happiness, or will it all end in heartbreak?

Swept far from one another, Oracle and his friends find themselves in a perilous and poetically charged realm stretching from the Brazos bottomlands to the Rio Grande borderlands, from well-ordered zoos to wildlife sanctuaries, and from high-tech ranches to high-end treehouses. Captive and cut off from all he loves, Oracle must recover lost secrets and rekindle the memory of Eden before the Valleys fate slips beyond saving.

When Oracle, a jaguar from the Yucatán, journeys north in response to the prayer of the last jaguar in Texas, he sets in motion an extraordinary odyssey of friendship, courage, and rediscovery. One prophecy. One jaguar. The fate of a forgotten world. Guided by the memory of Eden and clues from the last jaguar's prayer, Oracle summons an unlikely band of animal companions—a clever raccoon, a steadfast horse, and a wise old toad—to help a lost boy named Miracle find his parents in a perilous world.

Two extraordinary women in 1865 establish a trading post in a southern jungle that grows to be a safe haven for cast-off women and the dispossessed. When a murderous forger sets up shop and the mayor on the right-side-of-the-tracks becomes intent on their destruction, the village fights for survival in its own special way. Told in evocative magical realism, Jaguar Paloma and the Caketown Bar is a tale of wronged women who stand up to be counted.

A tense, dangerous thriller of CIA operations in Latin America, guerrilla wars, drug flights, environmental catastrophes and genocides. Shot down over the Guatemalan jungle with a planeload of marijuana, Vietnam veteran Joe Murphy gets caught up in the country's brutal Civil War, and in an attack on a Mayan village by the Guatemalan Army and its CIA "advisors". Badly injured, he escapes on a nightmare trek through the jungle, hunted by the Army, the CIA, and death squads.

To the average citizen, the Lion of Salvador was a national hero, a military general of such renown that his accolades spanned two continents. To those in the know, however, the man was the cruelest of drug lords, a savage despot building an unstoppable empire that ranged from the Central American jungle to the bustling streets of New York.

The Amazon jungle holds many dangers, as Kathleen McKnight well knows after her mission to bring down a drug cartel goes horribly wrong, leaving her the only survivor on her team. Determined to find the mysterious man who saved her, she returns to the jungle a year later only to find it holds more secrets than she could have ever imagined. Since saving Kathleen, jaguar shifter Connor Anderson hasn't been able to get her out of his mind. When she returns to the jungle to seek him out, he only knows one thing: that he must claim her for his own.