Ergebnis für "Run" in Literatur & Belletristik

5 DAYS AGO: a rash of bizarre murders swept the country. 4 DAYS AGO: the murders increased ten-fold. 3 DAYS AGO: the President addressed the nation and begged for calm and peace. 2 DAYS AGO: the killers began to mobilise. YESTERDAY: all the power went out. TONIGHT: they’re reading the names of those to be killed on the Emergency Broadcast System, and they’ve just read yours.

When Skye Harris shows up on the Devil's Playground's doorstep asking the Brotherhood for help with a gang taking over her hometown, it's time for Finn Storm to step up. The bikers might be tough, but he's tougher - and armed with Brotherhood tech and a warrior's heart, he's going to get the job done, no matter what or who stands in his way.

Free-spirited and easygoing Taylor Vandenberg left her hometown of Faircombe, Tennessee, as soon as she could, and in the twenty-five years since, she has rarely looked back. She wouldn't change anything about how her life has turned out—having traveled to nearly every country, never staying anywhere long enough to feel stifled. Brooke Watson has known Taylor for her entire life, and lifelong knowledge means that Brooke knows she's trouble: irresponsible, takes nothing seriously, and irritatingly attractive.

Grieving the death of his partner, Theo Bosco has no room in his life for distractions. Though his instincts scream that he should avoid Juliet "Jules" Jackson, he can't seem to stay away. When Jules rescued her siblings, whisking them away to the safety of the beautifully rugged Colorado Rockies, she never expected to catch the eye - or the heart - of a cop. Yet as Jules struggles to fight her growing attraction to the brooding K9 officer, another threat lurks much closer to home. And this time, there's no escape.

It's a winter evening in Boston and the temperature has drastically dropped as a blizzard approaches the city. On this fateful night, Bernard Doyle plans to meet his two adopted sons, Tip the older, and more serious and Teddy, the affectionate dreamer, at a Harvard auditorium to hear a speech given by Jesse Jackson. Doyle, an Irish Catholic and former Boston mayor, has done his best to keep his two sons interested in politics, from the day he and his now deceased wife became their parents, through their childhoods, and now in their lives as college students.

In A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean claims that “in my family, there is no clear line between religion and fly-fishing.” Nor is there a clear line between family and fly-fishing. It is the one activity where brother can connect with brother and father with son, bridging troubled relationships at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana. In Maclean’s autobiographical novella, it is the river that makes them realize that life continues and all things are related.

Ryan "Quicksave" Romano is an eccentric adventurer with a strange power: he can create a save-point in time and redo his life whenever he dies. Arriving in New Rome, the glitzy capital of sin of a rebuilding Europe, he finds the city torn between mega-corporations, sponsored heroes, super-powered criminals, and true monsters. It's a time of chaos, where potions can grant the power to rule the world and dangers lurk everywhere.

Doppelt gut: Die Country-Ikone Dolly Parton und der Großmeister der Spannung James Patterson liefern das Highlight des Jahres! Seitdem sie denken kann, hat AnnieLee den Traum, Countrysängerin zu werden und ganz groß rauszukommen. Mit Mitte zwanzig beschließt sie: Die Zeit ist gekommen, und nichts wird sie aufhalten. Sie trampt nach Nashville, um dort ihr Glück zu versuchen. Und tatsächlich schafft sie es, den Manager einer Bar dazu zu überreden, sie spielen zu lassen. Ihr Auftritt ist ein voller Erfolg.

Der Kampf um die Ordensstadt Crem steht unmittelbar bevor. Was können unsere Helden, die Zwergenkriegerin Brynnbett, Magister Jamon und der Waldelben-Heiler Raiwen, jetzt noch ausrichten? Die Bedrohung für Eskrinor rückt näher! Ihr irres Lachen hallte durch die Straße und hinterließ nichts als Kälte. "Es gibt kein Entkommen", rief sie. "Ihr habt euch in eurem eigenen Grab verschanzt." Das Heer der Waldelben belagert die Stadt Crem, der Krieg scheint unausweichlich. Zu groß ist der Hass der Thronwächterin auf den Orden der magiebegabten Menschen.

Unwiderruflich hat der Würfel Talus die Gesetze der magischen Welt unter Edinburgh verändert. Die alten Regeln, die jahrhundertelang galten, sind außer Kraft gesetzt, und das Gleichgewicht der Mächte zwischen den Hexen-Zirkeln existiert nicht mehr. Während das Artefakt den Tarot-Legern ungeahnte Kräfte verliehen hat, deren Ausmaße noch niemand wirklich kennt, haben die Element-Zirkel einen Teil ihrer Macht verloren. Um ihre Welt vor Chaos und Vernichtung zu retten, ist die Hexe Jessica auf der Suche nach uralten Runen.

The dead have risen, and they are hungry. Slow and plodding, they are legion. The undead hunt the living. Stop and they will catch you. Hide and they will find you. If you have a heartbeat, you do the only thing you can: You run. Survivors escape to an island stronghold: a cop and his daughter, a computer nerd, a garbage man with a piece of rebar, and an escapee from a mental hospital with a lifesaving secret. After reaching Alcatraz, the ever-expanding group of survivors realize that the infected are not the only threat.

In the heart of rural Afghanistan, where tradition holds tightly to silence and obedience, a young girl named Bahar dares to dream of something more. Run is a deeply moving and beautifully written novel that follows the journey of Bahar, a girl born into a society where women are expected to remain quiet, hidden, and unquestioning. Raised by her loving mother and wise grandmother, Bahar is surrounded by strength but also by the weight of a culture that limits her voice. As she grows, Bahar’s thirst for education, freedom, and self-worth deepens.

In a world called Dennere, in the cursed land of the Nightshawl, where eternal darkness reigns, hope is a rare commodity. For Kai, a young Rune Runner who defies the witches’ curse, survival means braving the shadows to uncover ancient secrets. When Kai unlocks the chest to a rare crystal dagger—rumored to hold the power to undo the witches’ dark legacy—he becomes a central figure in a perilous game of pursuit and power.

It's 1814, and Napoleon is hard-pressed to defend France from a combination of Russia, Prussia, Austria and Britain. Nor is he the only one in a quandary. Matthew Hervey, a young British cornet, is in a rather unusual situation. As far as he knows, it's highly irregular to be arrested on a battlefield after a successful action. Still, it's hardly the first time politics has interrupted war, and as Hervey's career progresses, he increasingly balances both, sometimes more successfully than others!

Hiral is the Everfail, the weakest person on the flying island of Fallen Reach. He trains harder than any warrior. Studies longer than any scholar. But all his people are born with magic powered by the sun, flowing through tattoos on their bodies. Despite having enormous energy within, Hiral is the only one who can’t channel it; his hard work is worth nothing. Until it isn’t. In a moment of danger, Hiral unlocks an achievement with a special instruction: Access a Dungeon to receive a Class-Specific Reward.

He was known as the Wildman more than 100 years ago, terrorizing lumberjacks and farmers who complained that their lives were at stake. The American Indians, depending on their tribe, had many names for the Creature: Sasahevas, Sasquatch, Bukwas (wild man of the woods), See'atco (one who runs and hides). What would Native American Indians have to gain from falsifying the existence of a Beast?

When Congressional staffer Ben Walsh receives this cryptic text from his wife he initially doesn’t think much of it. But while waiting to hear from her again, Ben discovers that the text came an hour before a shooting that occurred along her daily running route. Veronica won’t pick up her phone, and when she doesn’t return home, he knows she is somehow involved. If she isn’t one of the victims, then where is she, and what did she know? While Ben searches for his wife, he stumbles upon another violent death, with clear connections to the shooting.

Ryan Romano has done it. He has gathered information about all the villains threatening New Rome. He listed all the people he wants to protect. He knows which places he has to blow up and which car he has to steal. All that's left is going back in time one final time, achieve the perfect sequence of events, save everyone, get the girl, and defeat the ultimate enemy.

Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago, it’s just been Madeline Hill and her mom on their farm in Coalfield, Tennessee. While she sometimes admits it’s a bit lonely and a less exciting life than she imagined for herself, it’s mostly OK. Mostly. Then one day Reuben Hill pulls up in a PT Cruiser and informs Madeline that he believes she’s his half sister.

Still battling each other and the blue wall, NYPD detectives Chiara Corelli and P. J. Parker catch a new murder case. The victim, a gay man, is posed with a rosary in his hands, the smell of incense in the air, and Gregorian chants playing in the background. While Corelli and Parker search for leads, Kate Burke, the lesbian speaker of the city council, asks for an update on the investigation. Thinking Burke is playing politics, Corelli ignores the request. In the meantime, two more bodies are found, both laid out in the same way.