Ergebnis für "Stella" in Belletristik

Mein Name ist Stella. Ich kenne die Welt nur so, wie sie jetzt ist: voller Hunger, Kälte und Angst. In verwilderten Städten suche ich nach Nahrung und Unterschlupf. Doch in jedem verwaisten Haus, in jedem überwucherten Garten lauern sie, die lebenden Toten. Ihr rasselnder Atem verfolgt mich bis in meine Träume. Es gibt ein Gerücht. Über einen sicheren Ort, an dem die Menschen leben können, statt nur zu existieren. Diesen Ort zu finden ist mein größter Wunsch. Doch schon bald muss ich wieder einmal feststellen, dass es weitaus Gefährlicheres gibt als nur die Untoten: die anderen Überlebenden.

1972, Black River Falls, Wisconsin: Alicia Western, zwanzig Jahre alt, lässt sich mit vierzigtausend Dollar in einer Plastiktüte und einem manifesten Todeswunsch in die Psychiatrie einweisen. Die Diagnose der genialen jungen Mathematikerin und virtuosen Violinistin: paranoide Schizophrenie. Über ihren Bruder Bobby spricht sie nicht.

Bei dem Titel "Stella - ein Weihnachtsmärchen" handelt es sich um eine von vielen anrührenden und tiefgehenden Geschichten des Bestseller-Autors Sergio Bambaren. Protagonistin darin ist Taube Stella, die ein buntes Federkleid trägt und sich zu Beginn der Erzählung noch schwer damit tut, anders auszusehen als ihre Artgenossen. Doch wartet auf die kleine Taube mit ihrem regenbogenfarbenen Gefieder im Verlauf der Handlung noch eine ganz besondere Aufgabe.

Samantha liebt Weihnachten mit allem, was dazugehört - vor allem die Abende vor dem Kamin ihres Elternhauses in Aspen. Als sie sich auf den Weg von der San Francisco University nach Hause machen will, legt ein Schneesturm die Westküste lahm - ebenso wie ihr Auto. Nun gibt es nur eine Möglichkeit heimzukommen: eine Mitfahrgelegenheit bei Tristan Sterling und seinem Zwillingsbruder. Doch Tristan ist der Letzte, bei dem Sam mitfahren will, denn der Bad Boy hat ihr vor Jahren das Herz gebrochen.

From the internationally bestselling author of The Club comes a new novel of love and betrayal, set in Berlin in 1942 In 1942, Friedrich, an even-keeled but unworldly young man, arrives in Berlin from bucolic Switzerland with dreams of becoming an artist. At a life drawing class, he is...

Noah Klieger war 13, als er sich während der deutschen Besatzung Belgiens einer jüdischen Untergrundorganisation anschloss und half, jüdische Kinder in die Schweiz zu schmuggeln. Noah Klieger war 16, als er im Morgengrauen als Häftling in Auschwitz ankam, bei Minusgraden. Noah Klieger hatte noch nie geboxt, als am Tag seiner Ankunft im Konzentrationslager gefragt wurde, ob sich Boxer unter den Häftlingen befänden und seine Hand nach oben ging.

A very merry Kissmas! Küsse unterm Mistelzweig, prickelnde Gefühle im Schneegestöber, romantische Abende vor dem Kamin - was gibt es Schöneres im Advent, als es sich mit einem Buch und einer Tasse heißer Schokolade gemütlich zu machen? In "December Dreams" warten jeden Tag realistische und fantastische Lovestorys auf dich, die die Zeit bis Weihnachten versüßen und nicht nur den Schnee zum Schmelzen bringen... 24 Shortstorys plus ein Silvester-Special deiner deutschsprachigen Lieblingsautor*innen.

I was drunk-dialing my ex the night I met him. Six-three, sexy as sin, and so incredibly rude I could smack the asshole smirk right off his face. Long story short, we got off to a bad start. But when the tabloids interpret our sparring as Drew Maddox "groveling" with a "mystery brunette", his agent presents us both a proposal: shacking up as a couple this summer. It's an alleged "win-win". I need to prove to my ex that I'm fine. Drew needs to prove to his team that he's stable.

I'll be the first to admit that I live at extremes. After going 10 years locked in what felt like a dysfunctional marriage, I'm now decidedly boy-free. In nearly three years I've had no boyfriends, no flings, no dates, and no sex. For the sake of my dream career, the sacrifice has been easy. At least it was. Until he came along. Lukas Hendricks. He's rude, gorgeous, arrogant - a stone-carved wall of muscle and distraction. He's everything I know to avoid but there's no avoiding your next-door neighbor.

Hazard: A game of Chance and Luck, made riskier when Fate is rolling the dice. For Aristide Delacroix, the first throw summons shades from his past. A man he had met, just once, over a card-table... and the lovely girl indirectly responsible for plunging his life into catastrophe. For Lord Nicholas Wynstanton, tired of waiting for Madeleine Delacroix to make up her mind, it slyly suggests he begin a whole new game with loaded dice; while for Madeleine, it devises a terrifying lesson in missed opportunities and the uncertainty of second chances.

Julian Langham was poised on the brink of a dazzling career when the lawyers lured him into making a catastrophic mistake. Now, instead of the concert platform, he has a title he doesn’t want, an estate verging on bankruptcy...and bewildering responsibilities for which he is totally unfitted. And yet the wreckage of Julian’s life is not a completely ill wind. For Tom, Rob, and Ellie it brings something that is almost a miracle...if they dare believe in it.

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER The second volume of The Passenger series, from The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road An intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. "The richest and strongest work of...

For two years, England has been in the grip of Civil War. In Banbury, Oxfordshire, the Cavaliers hold the castle, the Roundheads want it back and the town is full of zealous Puritans. Consequently, the gulf between Captain Justin Ambrose and Abigail Radford, the sister of a fanatically religious shopkeeper, ought to be unbridgeable. The key to both the fate of the castle and that of Justin and Abigail lies in defiance...but will it be enough?

Sebastian Audley has spent years setting every city in Europe by the ears and keeping the scandal-sheets in profit. Word that he is finally returning to London becomes the hottest topic of the Season and casts numerous young ladies - many of whom have never seen him - into a fever of anticipation. Cassandra Delahaye is not one of them. In her opinion, love affairs and duels, coupled with a reputation for never refusing even the most death-defying wager, suggest that Mr. Audley is short of a brain cell or two.

All I want for Christmas is to see Boone Pierce again. Too bad he's been deployed overseas and we haven't spoken in years... Three years ago, I met a handsome Marine named Boone at my brother's wedding. We shared a stolen kiss, but that was all. As a single mom and widow, I just wasn't ready to open up my heart again. So we both went our separate ways... or so I thought. Boone has just moved from Texas to my small town of Fit Mountain, Wyoming, to start a mechanic shop. To say I'm shocked would be an understatement. And the surprises don't stop there.

Tragedy drove him into unwilling exile. Death demands his reluctant return. In the decade between, he has answered to many names and amassed a variety of secrets. Now the actor known to Paris as L'Inconnu must resume his real identity and become Francis Adrian Sinclair Devereux, Earl of Sarre...a man he no longer knows how to be and whose name, thanks to the malice of a friend turned enemy, remains tarnished by an old scandal. Revenge, so long avoided, slithers temptingly from the shadows.

Lord and Lady Sarre cordially invite you to spend Christmas at Sarre Park. Celebrate among old friends and, perhaps, a gate-crasher or two. There will be wassailers and kissing-boughs; music, dancing, and romance; laughter and some tears. And above all, expect the unexpected because at Christmas, anything can happen.

Digging up the past isn't easy ... Sweet, funny and feel-good, the unmissable rural romance from the bestselling author of A Home Among the Snow Gums and The Vet From Snowy River. Dr Joanne Tan is an expert in a lot of things. Love isn't one of them. Being thirty-something, broke, divorced and...

Last night, I tried to drink away my feelings for my brother's best friend. Today I’m riding across a dangerous, desert wasteland with him. When Torrance Knight steps up to make this dangerous ride with me, I’m both relieved and dreading the journey. He’s pure sin wrapped in a tall, leather package. I’ve been in love with him for years, but he’s too busy breaking the heart of every girl in town to notice me, let alone return my feelings. I have to protect my heart while also pretending to be his wife. Not only that, I have to focus on our mission.

The marriage of a well-bred Royalist lady and an illegitimate Roundhead Colonel is less a match made in heaven than a union doomed to hell. Unfortunately, Sir Robert Brandon's last will and testament leaves Venetia Clifford and Gabriel Brandon with little choice in the matter - deeply though they both resent it. Their tempestuous relationship is reflected in the stormy events buffeting the nation as England slides inexorably into a second Civil War.