Ergebnis für "Sand" in Zeitgenössische Literatur

Während in München Palästinenser des "Schwarzen September" das Olympische Dorf überfallen, geschehen in der Sahara mysteriöse Dinge...

Endlich – Die Fortsetzung des Weltbestsellers Die Wahrheit über den Fall Harry Quebert. April 1999. Im friedlichen Mount Pleasant an der amerikanischen Ostküste wird die Leiche der jungen Alaska Sanders geborgen. Die Geständnisse eines Verdächtigen und seines Komplizen genügen, um die Ermittlungen zu einem raschen Erfolg zu führen. Juni 2010. Sergeant Perry Gahalowood, der seinerzeit von der Schuld des Verdächtigen restlos überzeugt war, erhält ein anonym eine verstörende Nachricht.

Das Dorf Staufenberg liegt auf einer Felskuppe. Hoch oben die alte Burg. Wenn der böhmische Flüchtlingsjunge Peter vom Turm ins Tal blickt...

Alex finds his mother's political ideas embarrassing; but he is determined that nothing will stand in the way of his desire to become a leading figure in the emerging field of aeronautics - neither his mother nor his growing affection for Tasmin...

When the father she barely knew dies suddenly, midwife Eve Wilson decides she owes it to him to go to the funeral and meet her step-family in Red Sand. After disappointment and heartbreak in Sydney, Dr Callie Wilson doesn't hesitate to move home and spend some time with her grieving mother. Melbourne-based obstetrician Sienna Wilson can't understand why anyone would want to bury themselves in the outback, but when her hospital sends her north to research the medical mystery affecting women in Red Sand, it seems fate is intent on bringing the three sisters together.

In 1975, at the age of 20, Hannah Coady thinks she can change the world. Fiery and idealistic, she proves her mettle as a journalist in the terrible famine in Ethiopia, and is changed forever by the experience. But it's not just the starvation and the politics that change her, it's the beginning of a great love for two remarkable men: Waldo, a cynical but endearing British filmmaker, and Ezekiel, a Rwandan radical whose fervour is a match for Hannah's own.

'A thrilling work' TA-NEHISI COATES 'Lovely and lyrical . . . warm and wonderful' KILEY REID 'An absolutely brilliant book' SARA COLLINS A queen of punk before her time. A duo on the brink of stardom. A night that will define their story for ever. Opal is a fiercely independent young woman...

Am 2. Oktober 1966 liest der Schriftsteller Hubert Fichte im Star-Club von St. Pauli im Wechsel mit Beat-Gruppen Auszüge aus seinem, im Entstehen befindlichen Romanmanuskript "Die Palette".

A solar eruption bakes the Earth in lethal radiation for ten days. In the American southwest the only survivors are a group of spelunking scientists, and an astronomer’s entourage who had the foresight to hide in the abandoned mines of Bisbee, Arizona.In need of food, supplies and water, the two groups undertake a perilous trek across the rugged beauty of the unpeopled Sonoran desert.

Salka och hennes anarkistvänner reste under 90-talet på demonstrationer i hela Sverige. De barrikaderade rivningskåkar och satte käppar i hjulet för sina motståndare. Göteborgspolisen kallade dem för Deltagänget. I denna självbiografiska roman får läsaren på nära håll följa med från uppväxten i förorten till det mycket annorlunda vuxenlivet.

Fabio ormai adulto e con un matrimonio fallito alle spalle, torna per l'ultima volta nell'appartamento in cui è cresciuto e che sarà venduto. Da qui parte un viaggio nel tempo che lo porta ad evocare gli episodi più rilevanti della sua infanzia ed adolescenza.

"Crooken Sands" is a short story by Bram Stoker. It was first published in the UK in the December 1, 1894 issue of Holly Leaves the Christmas Number of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, London. Mr Arthur Fernlee Markam, who took what was known as the Red House above the Mains of Crooken, was a London merchant, and being essentially a cockney, thought it necessary when he went for the summer holidays to Scotland to provide an entire rig-out as a Highland chieftain, as manifested in chromolithographs and on the music-hall stage.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE A wildly original, cross-country novel that subverts a long tradition of family narratives and casts new light on the mythologies—national, individual, and collective—that drive and define us. On the day of their estranged father’s wedding, half sisters...

A riveting and poignant portrait of marriage—lauded by New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand as “gorgeous and heartbreaking”—that explores the long union of a middle-aged couple grappling with secrets, illness, and loyalty. Pete and Jackie Hatch have been together for...