Ergebnis für "Pain" in Belletristik

Their passion refuses to fizzle out and burns brighter, hotter, and, frighteningly, deeper every time. Rosetta manages to convince the land-hating Alister to port. They need supplies, and the Laughing Siren still needs repairs. But land may be dangerous for them—and not just because of the bounty on his head.

“Perceptive and witty—like a Sally Rooney novel set in Southern California.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) “It’s this author’s best work yet. A Sapphic roller-coaster ride.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A controversial LA author attempts to revive her career and finally find...

As soon as we open the door to our beautiful new home, I sense their presence . . . the couple who lived here before us. They’ve left things behind, as if on purpose, for us to find. First, there is the mysterious diary that ends too abruptly, followed by pictures of a couple in their thirties, just like us. Tired-looking parents with two small children. Who are they?

Josie Tyrell, art model, runaway, and denizen of LA's rock scene finds a chance at real love with Michael Faraday, a Harvard dropout and son of a renowned pianist. But when she receives a call from the coroner, asking her to identify her lover's body, her bright dreams all turn to black. As...

The extraordinary prize-winning debut from Andrew Miller. Winner of the IMPAC Award and James Tait Black Memorial Prize. At the dawn of the Enlightenment, James Dyer is born unable to feel pain. A source of wonder and scientific curiosity as a child, he rises through the ranks of Georgian...

Adrian Mole continues to struggle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life in this second volume of his secret diary.

Er musste ihre Haare berühren. Sie wollten das nicht. Dann nahm er sich, was er begehrte. Immer wieder. In den dunkelsten Ecken der Stadt, wo die Schatten ihre grausame Melodie spielen und das Schweigen der Nacht den Atem stocken lässt, lauert die abscheuliche und unstillbare Obsession eines Mannes, der nur als ›Der Kaltmacher‹ bekannt ist. In ›Der Kaltmacher‹ taucht der Hörer in die düstere Geschichte des realen Serienmörders Volker Eckert (genannt Torsten Krause) ein, der die Gesellschaft über Jahre hinweg in Angst und Schrecken versetzte.

Mit tugendhafter Erscheinung und abgründiger Seele schleicht der Vampir von Düsseldorf durch die Schatten und tötet seine Opfer. Tauche ein in die düstere Welt der 1920er Jahre, in der das Lachen der Menschen von Angst und der Grausamkeit eines Mörders erstickt wird. Kein Ort, keine Person ist sicher, wenn der Vampir zuschlägt. Seine Spuren sind ebenso mysteriös wie grausam und die Ermittler stoßen an ihre Grenzen, während der Serienmörder seine Jagd auf unschuldige Seelen fortsetzt.

When Ellen Ripley finally returns to Earth, she learns that the planet LV-426 - now called Acheron - has been colonised. But LV-426 is where Ripley and the crew of the Nostromo found the original Xenomorph - the killing machine known as the Alien. Protected by the Colonial Marines, the colonists seek to terraform the storm-swept planet. Two such residents are Anne and Russell Jorden, seeking a fortune that eluded them on Earth.

Across London, hospital patients are dying - in shockingly unnatural circumstances. A sadistic young woman is targeting them as they lie helpless in their beds, eking out every last sensation of pain as their lives ebb to an excruciating close. The killer is a sadist, but careful too, so the police bring in forensic psychologist Dr. Alex Madison to track down what is clearly an extraordinary and damaged mind.

It is 1860. The men and women who run from human bondage in the southern USA know only too well the inconceivable brutality that awaits them, if they are captured. Silas Carter draws on all his reserves of courage and puts his life on the line to escape the horror of slavery by riding the Underground Railroad. His courage is called on again as the Civil War breaks out in1861. He supports the Union and fights on the bloody battlefields to free his people from their savage enslavement on the Fields of Pain.

Carter Hayes was a soldier. A protector. Until the night he failed the one person who needed him most. Now, drowning in guilt and whiskey, he’s given one last chance to rebuild his shattered life at Valor Ridge, a place for veterans seeking redemption. But Carter isn’t looking for salvation—until he meets Maddie Sinclair. Maddie has spent her career helping others, but Carter is different. Stubborn. Broken. And impossible to ignore. She knows he’s running from something, but what she doesn’t expect is how much she wants to help him stop.

DEA Special Agent Peter Malloy is no stranger to the devastating impact of drugs. So when six bodies turn up with surgical ports implanted in their spines, he's sure a potent new opioid is the culprit. But when lab tests show zero evidence of any known narcotics, he fears something far more sinister. Allison Stevens thought she knew everything about her boss. But after he disappears, she's stunned to discover his secret genetic research in pain tolerance. When she becomes the target of the FBI's investigation, Allison has only one move.

Death is Simon's business. And now the ageing vermin exterminator is preparing to die. But he still has one last job down on the coast and he needs a driver. Bernard is 21. He can drive and he's never seen the sea. He can't pass up the chance to chauffeur for Simon, whatever his mother may say. As the unlikely pair set off on their journey, Bernard soon finds that Simon's definition of vermin is broader than he'd expected...

Once hailed as the greatest showman under the big top, Bastian Cole lived for applause, spectacle, and flame — until a pyrotechnic catastrophe turned his circus into an inferno. Scarred in body and soul, he vanished into the ashes, presumed dead. But years later, from the smoke rose a new figure — Baron Blaze, the self-proclaimed Ringmaster of Pain. Drawn by whispers of a wandering troupe known only as The Hot Sauce Freak Show, Baron Blaze discovers a carnival unlike any other — one that trades in fire, flavor, and fear.

An enchanting new novella set in the magical world of Sunday Times bestseller Threadneedle. Rowan is visiting her aunt – Winne the hedge witch – in the Welsh countryside, to get back to nature and hone her skills, as well as taking a break from her annoying sisters and enjoying some peace...

The open range men are free-grazing cattlemen, those who don't own land but drive their stock through the country to graze. Boss Spearman knows that times are changing. Local ranchers are staking claims to grazing areas and building up extensive cattle empires. Boss has no quarrel with that, but he won't be intimidated or scared off. So when Denton Baxter makes it clear, by killing one man and seriously wounding another, that he intends to drive Boss and his crew out, Boss must make a stand.

Margot is the child of renowned musicians and the product of a particularly punky upbringing. Burnt-out from the burden of expectation and the bad end of the worst relationship yet, she leaves New York and heads to to the Pacific Northwest. She's seeking to escape both the eyes of the world and the echoing voice of that last bad man. But a chance encounter with a dubious doctor in a graveyard, and the discovery of a dozen old film reels, opens the door to a study of both the peculiarities of her body and the absurdities of her famous family.

Jeanne Fortier, gardienne dans une usine de Maison-Alfort, mère de Georges et Julie, vient de perdre son mari mécanicien. Elle repousse les avances du contremaître Jacques Garaud. Pour la conquérir, il lui écrit pour annoncer qu'il va faire fortune. En fait, il veut voler à l'ingénieur Jules Labroue son invention. Il incendie l'usine, tue Labroue qui l'a surpris, menace Jeanne, s'arrange pour lui faire endosser la culpabilité du crime, puis s'enfuit en Amérique sous le nom de Paul Harmant. Il passe pour mort.

Début XXe siècle, une saga au coeur du quotidien et des traditions des paysans cévenols. Un hommage au courage et au labeur de gens humbles mais dignes, un grand "classique" de Christian Laborie. Il est l'arbre à pain, l'arbre généreux dont le fruit est la ressource nourricière des plus démunis. Il est le châtaignier, celui qui donne son nom au mas isolé du Castanet, propriété d'une famille de paysans huguenots, dans cette région reculée des Cévennes. Les Monteil vivent là, enracinés sur le versant aride de la montagne schisteuse, la Vieille Morte.