Ergebnis für "Salt" in Literatur & Belletristik

Der große abschließende Band der international gefeierten »Sieben-Schwestern«-Reihe! »Atlas – Die Geschichte von Pa Salt«, mit Harry Whittaker als Co-Autor, bringt die »Sieben-Schwestern-Serie« zu ihrem krönenden Abschluss. Und beantwortet die Frage, die Millionen von Leserinnen und...

A northern tale, narrated with a voice that turns quiet moments into pure poetry. The Salt Between Us-A Homecoming to the Quay Wall is a quiet, powerful novel about returning home, facing the past, and the salt, wind that never forgets. When she comes back to the Quay Wall after decades away, the summer is blistering so hot the asphalt shimmers and the air holds itself still. Only the wind by the water remains unchanged: cool, salty, and rough, speaking in the same fierce language it once used on her childhood skin. In that first gust, she sees the girl she used to be. The one from 1985.

In einer Welt, die von unerbittlichen Stürmen gezeichnet ist, findet die junge Speerfischerin Tavi etwas Unvorstellbares: ein Seeglas – sagenumwoben und zutiefst gefährlich. Denn dieser Fund entfesselt nicht nur magische Kräfte in ihr, sondern bringt sie auch noch in tödliche Gefahr. Auf der Flucht vor Meeresbestien und anderen Feinden wird ausgerechnet der schweigsame Eero zu ihrem Verbündeten. Als Nachfahre der mystischen und von den Menschen zutiefst verachteten Mervolks verkörpert er alles, was Tavi zu verabscheuen gelernt hat.

The final novel in The Seven Sisters series is here. Narrated by Richard Armitage and Tuppence Middleton. Spanning a lifetime of love and loss, crossing borders and oceans, Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt, co-authored by her son Harry Whittaker, draws Lucinda Riley's saga to its stunning...

After spending years training to defend my people from our enemies, I never expected that my enemy would be the one keeping me alive. Athos is the last human city. A treaty with the Fae keeps the fae, the vampires, and the wolf shifters at bay, while we fight against the dragons at our border. Being a human in this world is dangerous, and we all make sacrifices to survive.

My name is Bird Howsley, and I'm a beautiful disaster. Okay, "beautiful" is probably being generous. But the "disaster" part is right. In a brutal dystopian waterworld, where survival depends on skill and smarts, I'm pretty much always one bad decision away from watching my life go completely down the drain. Luckily, I have a lifeline: my cute, level-headed sailing teacher, Sargo Paz. Did I say cute? I didn't mean cute. He's just a friend. I definitely don't have weird sex dreams about him.

It is the 14th century, and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur - the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of Europe's population was destroyed. But what if the plague had killed 99 percent of the population instead? How would the world have changed? This is a look at the history that could have been - a history that stretches across centuries, a history that sees dynasties and nations rise and crumble, a history that spans horrible famine and magnificent innovation.

At eight, he gave me roses. At fifteen, he gave me butterflies, and at seventeen, he gave me sanctuary. I wasn't a damsel in distress. He wasn't Prince Charming waiting to whisk me off my feet. We didn't meet by chance. He's been part of my life for years, and for most of that time, I've been...

THE HOUSE IS WAITING FOR YOU. From a bold new Palestinian voice comes Our Cut of Salt - an unflinching, sinister and moving take on the haunted house novel, perfect for fans of The Only Good Indians and The Haunting of Hill House. 'The essential haunted house story of our moment in history'...

Young, visionary scientist, Marshall Salt believes humanity’s future lies in the asteroid belt. With his closest friends, he has developed groundbreaking technology capable of extracting untold wealth from the cosmos. Their ambitions come with a staggering price tag - tens of billions of...

Bloomsbury presents The Salt King by Natasha Pulley, ready by Luke R. Francis An apocalyptic novel about belief, religion, and the power of myth that blends the gripping, end-of-the-world storytelling of The Passage with the biting wit and epic queer romance that makes Natasha Pulley’s books...

It's an ordinary assignment, nothing more. The cargo? Fifty boxes filled with Transylvanian soil. The route? From Varna to Whitby. The Demeter has made many trips like this. The captain has handled dozens of crews.

Avelyn Brocken is a Jesuit at the Vatican. Originally from the salt mining town of Hreodwater in East Anglia, his only ambition is never to go back. But when rumours of miracles being performed there are followed by a bizarre video showing that someone trying to leave then enclave has been turn...

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewitching fairytale of discovering the darkness in the world, and the darkness within oneself. “Narrator Susan Dalian viscerally conveys the gruesome body horror while deftly capturing the lush...

When I was a little girl, I dreamed a handsome knight would come and rescue me from my wretched mother. He'd ride up on his white steed and break the curse I've been fated to carry since the day I was born. Funny how things changed over time, how the fairytale twisted into something far more crooked—and darker—than I ever imagined. In reality, my knight is scarred and broken, living alone in a castle of bones that overlooks the sea. He isn’t searching for me. He never was.

Der Auftakt der großen Blumentöchter-Saga um fünf Frauen, fünf Kontinente und ein großes Geheimnis Für Dalia ist die Gärtnerei ihrer Großeltern ihr Zuhause. Hier in Cornwall ist sie aufgewachsen, gemeinsam mit ihren vier Cousinen hat sie viele Sommer zwischen den leuchtenden...

Der große abschließende Band der gefeierten »Sieben-Schwestern«-Reihe! Paris, 1928. Ein Junge wird gerade noch rechtzeitig entdeckt, bevor er stirbt, und von einer Familie aufgenommen. Er ist klug und liebenswert, und er entfaltet seine Talente in dem neuen Zuhause. Hier wird ihm ein Leben...

A young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully. Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.

Die Vergangenheit. Eine kleine Gruppe wagemutiger Forscher bricht an Bord des Segelschiffes »Demeter« in den Norden auf. Sie wollen ein rätselhaftes Artefakt untersuchen, das in Nordnorwegen im Eis schlummert. Doch als die Crew, begleitet vom Schiffsarzt Doktor Silas Coade, ihre Untersuchungen beginnt, geschieht eine Katastrophe, so gewaltig, dass ihre Auswirkungen noch in der fernen Zukunft spürbar sein werden.

Ein visionärer Near-Future-Thriller über Technologie, Ethik und die Grenzen der Zeit Was wäre, wenn Zeitreisen möglich wären – aber nur rückwärts und ohne echte Konsequenzen? Das Start-up Paradox, Inc. macht diese Vision zur Realität. Doch als ein genialer Wissenschaftler die Regeln bricht, geraten ein Entwickler, eine Tech-Managerin und eine investigative Journalistin in einen Strudel aus tödlichen Machtkämpfen, Zeitschleifen und Realitätssprüngen. Während die Welt von Anomalien überflutet wird, kämpfen sie gegen einen Konzern, der die Vergangenheit kontrollieren will – und damit die Zukunft.