Ergebnis für "Mason" in Literatur & Belletristik

Der zweite Fall für das ungleiche Ermittlerduo Ryan Wilkins und Ray Wilkins aus Oxford von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautor Simon Mason um ein verschwundenes kleines Mädchen Für Rachel Clarke beginnen an einem strahlenden Sommertag in Oxford die dunkelsten Stunden ihres Lebens: Ihre vierjährige...

Edgar Drake, Klavierstimmer in London, erhält den Auftrag seitens der britischen Krone, vertreten durch das Kriegsministerium, im Dschungel von Birma den Erard-Flügel eines exzentrischen Militärarztes zu stimmen. Er willigt ein, und schon auf dem Weg nach Birma hört er abenteuerliche Geschichten über diesen charismatischen Militärarzt, der so eine wichtige Rolle in diesem Krieg spielt, daß er sich unentbehrlich gemacht hat und alles verlangen kann. Auch einen Flügel im Urwald und einen Klavierstimmer.

Der 18-jährige Mason hat alles, was er will: eine tolle Freundin, einen besten Kumpel, einen Freundeskreis, mit dem man richtig gut feiern kann, und nächstes Jahr geht es endlich aufs College. Vor ihm liegt ein Sommer voller Partys am Strand und fauler Nachmittage am Pool. Doch alles gerät ins Wanken, als Jackson in die Kleinstadt Naples in Florida zieht. Der Neue ist so geheimnisvoll wie anziehend, und plötzlich weiß Mason nicht mehr, was er denken geschweige denn fühlen soll. Er liebt doch Emily! Oder? Warum fühlt er sich zu Jackson, einem Kerl, so wahnsinnig hingezogen?

When building inspector Eric Vance dies in a workplace accident eighty stories above Chicago — killed by a pigeon, a frayed cable, and forty dollars' worth of budget cuts — he doesn't get the afterlife. He gets a job assignment.

Als Geheimagenten gerieten sie auf die falsche Bahn, doch das Schicksal gab ihnen eine zweite Chance. Seitdem führen sie ein zurückgezogenes Dasein. Kommen sie jedoch zum Einsatz, geht es um Leben oder Tod. Als es in Australien vermehrt zu Brandstiftungen kommt, trifft der ehemalige Geheimagent Mason Walsh auf die Brandursachenermittlerin Aria Williams. Sein Instinkt sagt ihm, dass die faszinierende junge Frau tiefer in die Ereignisse verstrickt ist, als es auf den ersten Blick den Anschein erweckt. Nicht zuletzt, da Aria genügend Gründe hätte, selbst der Feuerteufel zu sein.

A Killing in November is an Oxford-set crime series of surprising twists, troubled pasts and a dynamic duo who are brought together by a mysterious murder investigation. Ryan Wilkins grew up on a trailer park, a member of what many people would call the criminal classes. As a young Detective...

Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatched pair - one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic.

Mason Dixon is a vlogger making hilarious videos about hunting down monsters in the wilds of Missouri. But his vlog is just a ruse to spread disinformation so he can secretly relocate endangered cryptids. Join the team with Mason, his sidekick Emma, and their tech guru Himari as they battle humans and monsters alike to protect these vulnerable creatures. Snarky humor meets full-throttle action in this can’t miss urban fantasy adventure!

CONAN I’ve spent my life solving problems with my fists, and in the shadows behind the Decadence gates… I hunt. I'm a brutal monster until I crash my car and sharp-tongued nurse Hallie Morris shows up. She stitches me up and calls me good boy like she means it. Now she's the only thing I...

A Kirkus Earphones Award Winner A TOP TEN LIBRARY READS PICK “So smart, so funny, so moving. I absolutely loved it.”—Bonnie Garmus, New York Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry The “brilliant” (Ann Patchett) and much beloved author of the critically acclaimed Sorrow and...

THE PHENOMENAL SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND UNIVERSALLY BELOVED WORD-OF-MOUTH SENSATION 'Completely brilliant. I think every girl and woman should read it' Gillian Anderson 'Exactly the book to read right now, when you need a laugh, but want to cry' Observer 'A raucously funny, beautifully...

A DI RYAN WILKINS MYSTERY A four-year-old girl goes missing in plain sight outside her nursery in Oxford, a middle-class, affluent area, her mother only a stones-throw away. Ryan Wilkins, one of the youngest ever Detective Inspectors in the Thames Valley force, dishonourably discharged three...

Charlotte Mason Home Education Collection is a rotating public-domain audiobook show of living books, teaching classics, and how-to guides. Each episode is a complete book that already found listeners on other Sol Good Media podcasts, gathered here because it fits the collection. New titles move through the feed, so there is always another story waiting. More free classic audiobooks at solgoodmedia.com.

After the power grid collapses in a brutal winter, May fights to keep her small team alive in a frozen wilderness. When strangers appear from the storm with secrets of their own, she discovers the cold is not the only danger closing in.

Five years ago, my life was destroyed, and my dreams of becoming a ballerina burned with it. That night, someone pulled me out of the dark. I never saw his face. Never heard his voice. I only remember his cologne. When my father resurfaces, I’m dragged back into the mafia world. And protected by the one man who feels dangerously familiar. Drago Korolyov. Moy zashchitnik. What we have isn’t just temptation. It’s a love deep enough to start wars. The real danger isn’t just the price on my head or the cult hunting me. It’s the truth Drago is hiding. He can protect me from almost anything.

Lucius ist zweiundzwanzig Jahre alt und ein hochbegabter Medizinstudent in Wien, als der Erste Weltkrieg ausbricht. In der Vorstellung, an ein gut ausgestattetes Lazarett zu kommen, meldet er sich freiwillig. Tatsächlich landet er im eisigen Winter 1914 in einem abgelegenen Dorf in den Karpaten, in einer zum Behelfshospital umfunktionierten Kirche. Allein mit einer rätselhaften, jungen Nonne namens Margarete, muss er die schwer Verletzten versorgen, er, der noch nie ein Skalpell geführt hat. Margarete bringt ihm alles bei und als sie sich verlieben, auch das.

I walked down the aisle in white—ready to marry the mafia prince. I walked out the wife of his father, the king. I trembled when the ruthless monster claimed my innocence. Now I ache for the touch I was raised to fear. They said it was for my family. For honor. For survival. That Matteo Davacalli would protect me. But he is cruel. Silent. Distant. Built like a god. Broken like a man. He looked at me like I was his salvation—a reprieve from his sins, or an escape from the love that still owns his heart.

Welcome to the world of the Mason family—where success runs in the blood, trouble is never far behind, and falling in love is the one thing no one sees coming. The Masons have built an empire from the ground up. From boardrooms and blueprints to sold-out arenas and small-town streets, they're...

Bloomsbury presents Sophie, Standing There by Meg Mason, read by Katherine Parkinson. A sharp, funny and achingly tender story of obsession and loneliness from the award-winning, bestselling author of Sorrow and Bliss 'So smart, so funny, so moving. I absolutely loved it' BONNIE GARMUS...

*An AI twist on Frankenstein. Perfect for fans of Stephen King and Black Mirror* 'Best thing I've read this year' Will Dean 'Terrifying' Kiran Millwood Hargrave 'A brilliantly plotted story' Guardian 'Gripping . . . A twist on The Shining' New York Times 'Its chilling final twist will have you...