Ergebnis für "Sand" in Literatur & Belletristik

Der alljährliche Gang auf den Dachboden bleibt folgenreich: Weihnachtsschmuck und Christbaumständer müssen entstaubt, fehlende Teile ergänzt und die Wahl der Farbdekoration für den Baum getroffen werden. Selbiger ist auch noch nicht ausgewählt und überhaupt kommt man vor dem "frohen" Fest zu gar nichts mehr, nicht mal zum Verschicken der ach so wichtigen Weihnachtspost... Evelyn Sanders schildert humorvoll und mit treffsicherem Blick für die vorweihnachtlichen Katastrophen.

Die schönsten Geschichten schreibt das Leben selbst. Und Evelyn Sanders erzählt sie. Mit Leichtigkeit und ganz ungezwungen schildert sie alltägliche Missgeschicke und Verwicklungen so, dass man sich das Schmunzeln nicht verkneifen kann.

Mama Sanders wird von ihrer Tochter in die Wüste geschickt und genießt vergünstigt - dank eines Druckfehlers im Urlaubskatalog - einen Aufenthalt im nagelneuen Luxushotel. Nur... was um alles in der Welt macht man in so einer Sandlandschaft, wo es außer Kamelen nicht viel zu sehen gibt? Und kaum ist sie dann wieder zu Hause, liegt der Ehemann im Krankenhaus und die jüngste Tochter plant zu hochzeiten: Geht das denn schon wieder los.

Drei Erzählungen vom Großmeister der literarischen Moderne, in denen drei Frauen im Mittelpunkt stehen: die Bäuerin Grigia, die portugiesische Aristokratin und die Verkäuferin Tonka. Drei Frauen war die letzte schriftstellerische Vorstufe, bevor Musil sich auf sein monumentales Romanwerk "Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften" konzentrierte.

Eine Western-Parodie mit Spaß-Garantie. Bela B hat aus seinen drei Leidenschaften Spaghetti-Western, Musik und Comics eine einzige gemacht und damit ein mitreißendes Hörspiel-Spektakel kreiert. Zusammen mit Sängerin Peta Devlin, Rainer Brandt und Stefan Kaminski bringt er den Kultfilm Sartana mit handgemachten Geräuschen zu Gehör und beweist, warum die schlechtesten Sprüche im Italo-Western einfach immer die besten sind.

Return to the wild beauty of Scotland in The Key, a classic historical romance novel from New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands. Married to a barbaric laird in order to escape a worse fate, Iliana Wildwood is determined to remain a chaste wife...until her warrior husband plunders the...

New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands delivers another captivating historical romance set in the Highlands of Scotland! Highlander Galen MacDonald is on a mission of revenge: kidnap his enemy's bride and make her his. But what he doesn't count on is a clever, fiery lass wielding a blade...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. oin Holly and Ivy Bell as they, along with the help of their troublesome cat, Frosty, solve the mystery of the missing choir director. While the trio searches for clues of the missing woman, Holly steps in to direct the children's choir, and Ivy is...

Ex-FBI intelligence analyst Theo Ramage doesn't want to die in an endless West Texas wasteland, but there's gold in them Thar hills...or rather, dunes and old habits die hard. The fracking craze in the Permian Basin has made Texas sand worth billions, transforming the endless sea of windswept dunes into a modern day El Dorado.

‘OMG Katie Ginger has done it again!’ NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars Licking her wounds from her divorce, Stella impulsively buys a gift shop and two holiday lets in glorious Swallowtail Bay, hoping for a fresh start with her King Charles Spaniel Frank. When the neighbours meet her with a warm...

A mosaic of teen chaos, confusion and sexual anarchy is the backdrop for suburban ninth-grader Alison Gepner's search for meaning and first love. A "good girl" who would rather be seen as an edgy individualist, Alison is surrounded by the soldiers of a cruel and crushing teen culture.

From the creator of The Honest Toddler comes a fiction debut sure to be a must-read for moms everywhere There are good moms and bad moms and then there are hot-mess moms. Introducing Ashley Keller, career girl turned stay-at-home mom who's trying to navigate the world of Pinterest-perfect...

Colin Farnsworth was a loser. Eking an existence from writing cheap sci-fi novels and the few dollars he makes at Fantasy Underworld card game tournaments, he lives in the house where he grew up. His only companion is Heimdall, a three pound Yorkie with big plans. Until, that is, The Brothers Four arrive on his doorstep looking for rooms to rent and with a giant troll in pursuit

Justin Lucas just started at a new high school, but there are no classes in really important stuff like English literature, mathematics, science, or history. Instead, the entire curriculum is dedicated to playing dodgeball. Justin is...perplexed. Where are the pencils and textbooks? Why are there so many explosives strapped to the balls? And what's up with the barbed wire? Does the school administration really think it's appropriate to wrap the balls in barbed wire?

‘Extremely funny – a satirical masterpiece that is tender and existentially-minded as well. I loved it!’ Elizabeth McKenzie, author of THE PORTABLE VEBLEN ‘Very smart and juicy and weird and entertaining … it reads like a chick lit plot written by Franzen’ Curtis Sittenfeld Jen has...

A Frosty Fairy Fiasco Sisters Holly and Ivy Bell are known for their festive spirit, not their green thumbs. But when a series of perplexing pranks threaten the annual Christmas Fairy Garden Contest, they find themselves digging into a different kind of mystery. Someone's sabotaging the...

Nobody is more surprised than Billy when he finds himself bleeding out onto his new linoleum floor, a kitchen knife in his chest. Rose, his wife, and Born2Rock, her lover, are leaving for a night on the town. They're sure he'll be dead in no time. So is he. With the help of Consuela, the house keeper, Billy makes it to the hospital. After a short stint in the ICU, he returns to the scene of the crime, home, where he takes up residence in the attic. From this vantage point, Billy watches and waits and plots his revenge.

After a spectacular explosion involving an armadillo, some homemade hooch, and very questionable decision-making, Ordell Clayton Hart finds himself at Heaven's gates - only to be told he's not quite ready for admission. Instead, he's given a unique opportunity for redemption: returning to Earth in various animal forms to learn what he's been missing in life.

‘Much more than a romance… I absolutely adored this story’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'This book isn’t just a summer read – it’s almost like a summer vacation. Highly recommended' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ In the little town of Greenley-on-Sea, summer has arrived. The...

Casada a los 16 años con un marqués ya mayor quedó viuda a los 16 años y medio. La primera experiencia con el sexo opuesto que tuvo la marquesa fue totalmente negativa y eso le hizo estar muy condicionada con respecto a los hombres. El problema de la sociedad de la época era que una mujer no podía estar sin un marido que la apoyara o un amante al menos, sin sufrir la humillación sarcasmo y ridículo del entorno social.