Ergebnis für "Stiller" in Satire

Hinweis der AutorinAlle in diesem Buch beschriebenen Personen, Orte, Institutionen und Ereignisse sind frei erfunden oder dienen rein der literarischen Gestaltung. Etwaige Ähnlichkeiten mit real existierenden oder verstorbenen Personen – sei es in Namen, Aussehen oder Verhalten – sind rein zufällig und nicht beabsichtigt. Auch wenn manche Schauplätze wie Hagnau, Überlingen oder der Bodensee selbst real existieren, sind die dort geschilderten Begebenheiten, Dialoge und Verstrickungen rein fiktiver Natur.

Khendryll, a young Acolyte from the rigidly theocratic realm of Khelyria, has an experience when he’s a boy. He witnesses something wonderful and magical that changes his life and drives him to want to explore a deeper understanding of spiritual and mystical truth, an understanding that is forbidden by the Clerics of Jurryk. His trust in his progressive mentor shaken and his best friend alienated by an impulsive decision on his part, Khendryll eventually gives up and accepts the traditional interpretations of the Temple, becoming a Cleric himself and denying what he once believed.

All Opal Slepecki wants is loyalty. But when her badly behaved friends refuse to kill her, it's impossible to feel loved. It's been eighteen agonizing hours since she asked them to help her die. Now, it's gone quiet. The brash pill-popper. The shameless exhibitionist. The quiet beauty. She knew the request would be jarring, awkward even, but these women have weathered worse. Haven't they?

At the end of the world, the zombies are not the scariest monsters. Something evil and vile now hides among the sheep seeking to devour its very heart. Pastor Mike Brown and his wife, Lauren, are loved by the congregation of the church that rose from the ashes of the zombie apocalypse. But a dark secret, if discovered, could destroy everything.

The greatest president you've ever had is the last president you'll ever need. When he’s not making America great again, Trump Ninja fights to save the world from S.N.O.W.F.L.A.K.E., the conspiracy behind the conspiracies. Trump Ninja. My secret identity. Cat's out of the bag. I have all the best stories. You want to hear about the time I took down the Eiffel Tower? Flappity-crack. Spider kick. Pam. They never saw it coming. But this audiobook is about the time I took on Area 51. You've heard of it. Famous. Almost as famous as me. Crawling with aliens. Build a wall. Keep 'em out.

This is not a polite introduction to Thomas Aquinas. This is a fully sarcastic, gloriously disrespectful roast of the chubbiest, holiest overachiever in Catholic history—a Dominican friar who took Aristotle’s metaphysics, added Latin, guilt, and divine purpose, and built the intellectual operating system of the Catholic Church.