Ergebnis für "Sharks" in Belletristik

May 4th, 1970. A week earlier President Nixon has ordered American ground forces into Cambodia to pursue the Vietcong. By the end of the day four students will be shot dead by the National Guard on the grounds of Kent State University. On the other side of the Atlantic, it's a brilliant sunny morning after an April of heavy rain, and at the "Concept House" therapeutic community he has set up outside London, maverick psychiatrist Dr. Zack Busner has been tricked into joining a decidedly ill-advised LSD trip.

A New York Times Editors’ Choice A USA TODAY Bestseller A Booklist Editor’s Choice A Goodreads Choice Award Nominee A Massachusetts Book Awards Fiction Honors Selection Shortlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize A “beautifully written” (Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize–winning...

In Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg's so-called 'problem area', an American couple is found brutally murdered in a derelict villa. Prosecutor Chastity Riley is assigned the case, and quickly finds herself waist-deep in a murky tangle of city planners, shady investors and vanishing officials. The gentrification machine is rolling on, and someone is sending a very clear message...

The epic and electrifying new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of U.S.S. Seawolf And Nimitz ClassAn oil tanker mysteriously explodes in the Persian Gulf. Then a second . . . and a third.?To the President’s National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan it is more than a...

After recovering from a harrowing mission near the island of Timor, Art Turner and the crew of USS Bull Shark have healed their wounds and are ready to face Japan once more. As 1943 begins, Admiral “Uncle Charlie” Lockwood is finally ready to spring a deadly surprise on Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Hideki Tojo.

As a rookie, keeping up with the Seattle Sharks' starting trio is grueling work. Trying to pretend like the Sharks' new, totally-off-limits physical therapist doesn't make me ache? Impossible. Because she isn't just anyone. Once upon a time, Chloe was mine. Until she broke my heart. Now she's back in my life, and Coach has forbidden any of us from pursuing her. One look and my heart begs to claim her. One touch and I'm on fire.

While Art Turner and the men of USS Bull Shark struggle in the Pacific against the Japanese and against their own inner demons, Captain Pat Jarvis and the men of USs Megalodon have a German tiger by the tail in the Caribbean… and it’s only a matter of time before he rips them to pieces.

“A quintessential summer read.” —Marie Claire A warm and wonderfully vivid novel about taking second chances—in life and in the sea One summer day on the beach in Florida, two extraordinary things happen to Maeve Donnelly. First, she is kissed by Daniel, the boy of her dreams. Then...

A BookBub "Best Books Coming This Winter” A haunting mystery beneath the ocean’s surface. One woman’s reckoning with the past. Long-buried secrets waiting to rise. Hawai’i, 1998. When a string of rare shark attacks unsettles the once-peaceful Kohala coast, marine biologist Minnow Gray is...

It's summer, Ian's mother is dying of cancer, and he must contend all on his own with the onslaught of puberty, the Southern heat, and his confusing desire for his friend, Harbin. His discovery of an adolescent shark sets in motion a deep violence that brings Ian's quickly evolving world into sharp focus.

In the year 6969, a city corrupted by misogyny and fascism... A genetic experiment teams with a woman bred to be the perfect waitress... Will they become heroes? Will they become BFFS? Maybe they can become both!

The year 6969 is filled with fascism, bigotry, misogyny, and everything that is the complete opposite of holiday cheer. No need to worry! Shark-Squatch and his BFF Tilly are here to give all of those losers a holiday-wrapped knuckle sandwich!

After a horrific accident, Simon and the other tourists find themselves trapped on a tiny island in the middle of the river. It's the rainy season, and the river is rising. The island is surrounded by hungry bull sharks that won't let them swim away. And worst of all, the sharks might not be the only bloodthirsty killers among them.

Bottom feeders beware: the Sunshine State’s favorite psychotic killer and lovable Floridaphile Serge Storms has found a new calling, legal eagle, and he’s going to make a killing as a crusading attorney—and star as a dashing lawyer on the big screen—in this madcap escapade from the...

It's the year 2124. Twenty years have passed since terraformers crossed the galaxy to find a new home on Centauri Prime. One by one, the human colonies have been taken over by Earth corporations. Only the settlement of Kinship remains untouched by galactic credit. By using the anticoagulant and antibacterial properties of shark skin tissue, Hank Cranford hopes to manufacture a vaccine that will enable long-term survival in the strange waters and atmosphere, and he hopes also to finally escape Earth's clutches and lead his colony into a new world.

J.R. Finn's daughter Abby disappeared from a beach resort in Antigua while on a semester break. Finn and Mary have just arrived in Antigua aboard Island Girl to relax between missions. They learn that Abby's missing when they see a poster in the Customs and Immigration office. Finn has never met Abby; her mother divorced him while he was on a clandestine mission, over 20 years ago.

Jojo is a tiny shark in a small pond, where everything is familiar and nothing ever changes. He swim-races with his buddies, listens to old fish stories, and lives comfortably within the limits he calls home. But as his fins grow stronger and habit turns into restlessness, a strange stirring rises inside him.

Nearly a century ago, a treasure of unimaginable value was lost beneath the tropical waters of the Florida Keys. But when a ruthless real-estate developer threatens Shark Key Campground and Marina, former journalist Kate Kingsbury must find it before her friends and neighbors lose the only homes they know. It’s taken Kate Kingsbury two years to find peace after her husband was killed in a home invasion. Now she’s found her refuge, living the free and easy boat life at Shark Key. Except that nothing in life is free. Or easy.

When a young mother disappears from Shark Key without a trace, Kate and her friends must answer one question: What’s she running from? But after a Colombian cartel targets her six-year-old son, her dark secrets come tumbling down around him, and Kate must risk everything to protect the boy and unravel the woman’s web of lies.

In a completely unnatural deviation from its original existence, life returns to the shark. A once-elegant, complex creature transforms into a mindless killer. All its natural behaviors are forever gone—all that remains is an insatiable urge to feed. Four friends plan the vacation of a lifetime in an isolated tropical paradise. They know nothing about the water-bound creature that has taken up residence in the Atoll’s lagoon. Samantha and her friends Jake, Mandy, and Ollie have been dropped off for two weeks of bliss. What they get is a fight for their very survival.