Ergebnis für "Quest" in Belletristik

Ein Klassiker der Anti-Kriegsliteratur Dieter Noll, als "Remarque des 2. Weltkriegs" gefeiert, schildert den Weg junger Männer seiner Generation. Hungrig nach Abenteuern, ziehen sie begeistert in den Krieg. Nach erniedrigendem Drill, endlosen Nächten der Erschöpfung und Angst am Flakgeschütz erleben sie im Inferno der Rückzugsschlachten ihre völlige Desillusionierung und den moralischen Zusammenbruch. Frühjahr 1943.

His first, last and only true love has always been rugby. Until now. She's damaged. He's determined. Fate brought them together. Love binds them. Johnny Kavanagh has everything going for him. On the rugby pitch, he's a force to be reckoned with. Primed for stardom, he's heading straight for the top. Nothing can possibly get in his way, right? Not even the shy new girl at Tommen College. The one with the sad eyes and hidden bruises. The one that distracts him like no one ever has. 

She is omnivorous. No matter age or appearance, physical frailty or imperfection. It is not their flesh that feeds her appetites, but their souls. She devours young and old, men and women. She leaves only a desiccated husk. An unspeakable evil. An impossible gift. Renowned magus Taita is now over 100 years old and has ascended to a new level of wisdom and understanding about his world. But he must prepare himself for the biggest threat Egypt has ever faced: the great plagues and the failure of the Nile, brought about by the fire witch Eos, an ancient force of sheer evil.

Nate hat genug davon, von Stadt zu Stadt zu ziehen, Schachspiele im Park abzuzocken und mit seinem trickreichen Großvater ums Überleben zu kämpfen. Als das neue Virtual-Reality-Spiel Fair Quest startet, sieht er seine Chance: ein stabiles Einkommen – vielleicht sogar genug, um seinen Großvater von krummen Geschäften abzuhalten. Doch Fair Quest ist mehr als nur ein Spiel. Jeder Zug, jede Entscheidung verändert nicht nur Nates Schicksal im Spiel, sondern auch sein Leben in der Realität.

Männern kann man nicht vertrauen – das weiß Violet genau. In ihrem Job als Privatdetektivin sieht sie genug Mistkerle, um den Glauben an die Liebe verloren zu haben. Dann ruft ausgerechnet Weston Jarvis bei ihr an, ihr Ex, mit dem sie nicht im Guten auseinandergegangen ist. Weston ist ein Football-Superstar, der alles hat, was man sich wünschen kann. Doch ein Vorfall aus seiner Vergangenheit belastet ihn schwer und die Einzige, die ihm helfen kann, ist Violet.

The second born son in a broken marriage, Joey Lynch has spent a lifetime picking up the pieces of a family unraveling. When his older brother Darren skips town on his first day of secondary school, twelve-year-old Joey finds himself thrown into the role of protector to his younger siblings and mother. Plagued by self-loathing, and furious with the world, he grapples with teenage life, his unwavering sense of duty to his family, while balancing precariously close to a life of addiction that threatens to swallow him whole.

Following a devastating injury that has left him side-lined and stripped of his beloved number 13 jersey, Johnny is struggling to hold on to his dreams. Lost, insecure and desperately seeking comfort, he sets his sights on unravelling the mystery of the girl with the midnight-blue eyes. With his best friend, Gibsie, by his side, Johnny embarks on his quest of exposing the secrets surrounding the girl who haunts his every waking hour. Secrets are exposed and lives are changed forever in Keeping 13: Part One, the explosive sequel to the best-selling audiobook Binding 13.

Piet Verboom hat sich den Strick genommen – so zumindest sieht es aus, als Adjudant Grijpstra und Brigadier de Gier am Tatort eintreffen. Bei näherem Hinsehen hatten jedoch viele Menschen eine Rechnung mit dem Toten zu begleichen. Die beiden Ermittler gehen vor wie immer: Sie warten in aller Ruhe ab und machen dann einen entscheidenden Fehler, der sie einen großen Schritt weiterbringt.

Mankind's greatest mystery lies in wait... Civil war rages in Ethiopia. A man waits to die in a parched prison cell; he has seen daylight for four decades. But then a bomb hit hits the compound, and the prisoner and his secret are free. Two reporters, a beautiful photographer and a mercenary...

Zu überleben ist in einer schwierigen Situation nicht immer die beste Option – manchmal ist es besser zu sterben, als am Leben zu bleiben. Die Akademie hat Paladin Yaropolk gezeigt, wie man in der Welt zurechtkommt: Pragmatismus und das Streben nach dem persönlichen Vorteil. Der Neustart wurde in die Wege geleitet, aber er macht die Spieler nur noch wilder. Jetzt spielt jeder nur noch für sich selbst. Yaropolk steht vor demselben Dilemma: Soll er so werden wie alle anderen oder soll er sich seine Menschlichkeit bewahren und ein Sonderling werden?

Following a devastating injury that has left him side-lined and stripped of his beloved number 13 jersey, Johnny is struggling to hold onto his dreams. Lost, insecure and desperately seeking comfort, he sets his sights on unravelling the mystery of the girl with the midnight-blue eyes. With his best friend, Gibsie, by his side, Johnny embarks on his quest of exposing the secrets surrounding the girl who haunts his every waking hour.

Anno Domini 1040. Christianity has swept unstoppably across Scandinavia, leaving few enclaves of the old ways clinging on to their fading world as King Olof of Sweden works to convert his people. A young warrior, Halfdan, has witnessed the ‘mercy' of the Christian lords, watched his people attacked, his village burned and the Odin stone toppled as heretical. Watched his father cut down by an ambitious Christian jarl and his zealous priest. Among the ashes of his world, he vowed an oath of vengeance before all the gods.

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other's company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumors of the Creek, and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss it as just another fish story. Soon, though, the men find themselves drawn into a tale as deep and old as the Reservoir.

On a hot summer’s day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: 30-year-old Natsu, her older sister, Makiko, and Makiko’s teenage daughter, Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has travelled to Tokyo in search of breast-enhancement surgery. She's accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently stopped speaking, finding herself unable to deal with her own changing body and her mother’s self-obsession. Her silence dominates Natsu’s rundown apartment, providing a catalyst for each woman to grapple with their own anxieties. 

A story of love, war, loyalty and betrayal, EXCALIBUR begins with the failure of Lancelot's rebellion and the ruin of Arthur's marriage to Guinevere. The Saxons, sensing the disunity of the Britons, seize the chance to destroy Arthur. The climax of the war comes with the legendary triumph at...

The specter of the menacing Grand Admiral Thrawn looms over Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker as they embark on a journey to recover an important piece of Jedi history. Sometimes it seems a Jedi’s work is never done, and Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker know this only too well. Despite the bond they...

In her provocative debut, Carmen Maria Machado demolishes the borders between magical realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. Startling narratives map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited on their bodies, both in myth and in practice.

In a world where people born with an exceptional skill, known as a Grace, are feared and exploited, Katsa carries the burden of a skill even she despises: the Grace of killing. She lives under the command of her Uncle Randa, King of the Middluns, and is expected to carry out his dirty work...

An assassin haunted by his past. Two young refugees out of their depth and in need of his special talents. John Milton is no stranger to the world’s seedy underbelly. But when the former British Secret Service agent comes up against a ruthless human trafficking ring, he’ll have to fight...

This first instalment in the Chronicles tells of Rodrigo’s rise to prominence when he became the champion of Prince Sancho of Castile. This is but the beginning of a tale which still stirs the blood a millennium after it began. The legend that was El Cid began more than 1,000 years ago, and time has meant that reality and fiction are intertwined like the threads of a spider’s web.