Ergebnis für "Sunset" in Belletristik

Weltberühmt und wohlhabend, aber argwöhnisch beschattet von den Chargen der McCarthy-Ära, lebt Lion Feuchtwanger 1956 noch immer im kalifornischen Exil - der letzte der großen deutschen Emigranten.

Hong Kong, 1941... To the residents and defence forces of the Crown Colony of Hong Kong, the war in Europe remains remote. Even the massive build-up of Japanese forces on the Chinese border cannot dent their carefree optimism. Yet one man suspects the truth. Lieutenant-Commander Esmond Brooke, captain of HMS Serpent and a veteran of the cruel Atlantic, sees all too clearly the folly and incompetence of Hong Kong’s colonial administration. To Brooke, attack by Japan seems inevitable.

From bestselling author Ann Rule comes the true story of Bradly Morris Cunningham, the handsome and successful entrereneur who married five different women and destroyed each of them. The author of eight New York Times bestsellers, Ann Rule first won nationwide acclaim with The Stranger Beside...

Seit dem Tod seines Stiefbruders quälen Miles Heller Schuldgefühle, den Kontakt zu seiner New Yorker Familie hat er abgebrochen. In Florida gestrandet, fotografiert er wie besessen in der Wirtschaftskrise zwangsgeräumte Häuser. Als er wegen einer pikanten Liebschaft in Schwierigkeiten gerät, holt ihn sein Freund Bing zurück nach Brooklyn. Dort, in der heruntergekommenen Siedlung Sunset Park, trifft er auf andere strauchelnde Menschen und lernt, seinen Dämonen ins Auge zu sehen.

La gioventù e il caso, il cinema e il sesso, New York e la scrittura, le ambizioni e il rimorso, la morte ma soprattutto la vita. Miles Heller ha ventotto anni e vive in Florida. Ha poco, eppure ha tutto: l'amore di un'adorabile ragazza, la passione trasmessagli dal padre per il baseball, e i libri. Il lavoro non è un granché, ma lui sembra farlo come se vi intuisse un misterioso legame con la sua esistenza: affinché le banche possano rimetterle in vendita, deve entrare nelle abitazioni abbandonate e fotografare gli oggetti che gli inquilini vi hanno lasciato.

Burning Hollow, Tennessee has always been a town divided. For a century, the powerful Bickmore and Banks families fought for control, creating generational wounds that never healed. When an EMP attack plunges America into chaos, that bitter feud ignites in unfathomable ways.

From master storyteller Stephen King comes his classic #1 New York Times bestseller about four friends who encounter evil in the Maine woods. Twenty-five years ago, in their haunted hometown of Derry, Maine, four boys bravely stood together and saved a mentally challenged child from vicious...

2010 Audie Award Finalist for Short Stories/Collections Thirteen “dazzling” (Associated Press) and “wonderfully wicked” (USA TODAY) stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King. A book salesman with a grievance picks up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in...

Linus und Ralf brechen von Deutschland nach Afrika auf. Sie wollen einen Schwur einlösen, den sie als Kinder am Totenbett ihrer Mutter geleistet haben. Ralf, der Ältere, erwartet mit seiner Verlobten sein erstes Kind. Als selbstständiger Architekt hat er mit Fleiß und Verstand eine solide Existenz aufgebaut. Linus ist Single und schlägt sich mit Gelegenheitsjobs durchs Leben. So unterschiedlich die beiden sind, so verbunden sind sie durch die gemeinsamen Jahre im Kinderheim und den Wunsch, mehr über ihre Mutter zu erfahren.

“Sharon Sala is a consummate storyteller.” —Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author Crossroads, Texas, just might be the place to settle down and find the love of your dreams in this new small town romance series from Sharon Sala, New York Times and USA Today bestselling...

The most acclaimed Scottish novel of all time, Sunset Song is a powerful portrait of a land and people in turmoil, seen through the life and struggles of its heroine, Chris Guthrie. In the years up to and beyond the First World War, Chris' resilience, like the land itself, endures despite everything and is portrayed with a lyrical intensity that echoes through the years and still resonates today.

In the chaos of New York, true love can be hard to find, even when it's been right under your nose all along… Love has never been a priority for garden designer Frankie Cole. After witnessing the fallout of her parents' divorce, she's seen the devastation an overload of emotion can cause...

Erin Davenport always imagined she'd end up with a quiet man. Someone like her. Then she met Jay Malone. He's the loudest, pushiest, most sales-oriented man she's ever met. A top Hollywood agent, Jay's bought a waterfront house in Carmel, and everywhere Erin turns, he seems to be there, big, gorgeous, and pulsing with life. He seems to go through women like candy, but Erin has no intention of being his latest treat.

When Cat Jones is given the opportunity of a lifetime to present one of Ireland’s most popular live daytime shows, alongside TV royalty David Fitzgerald, she isn’t sure she is ready for the challenge. But after being pushed by her mother’s friend Lorraine to say 'yes' to everything for a month, she reluctantly agrees. What follows is a whirlwind of opportunities where Cat is forced outside her comfort zone with varying degrees of success.

Jessica Ayers has lived a sheltered life with little more than cello lessons and practices taking up her day. Now a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, she escapes the prim and proper symphony to vacation in the Seaside community in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and determine if she is living life to the fullest or missing it altogether.

Claire Cooke lost her sisters in a plane crash thirty years ago. She adopted her three nieces and built a life as best she could, and at fifty-two, the girls' distant uncle surprises her with a six-million-dollar inheritance. Claire decides to take a risk and buy The Grand Madrona Hotel on beautiful Orcas Island to start a new chapter in her life.

In her 55th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel explores the seasons of an extraordinary friendship, weaving the story of three couples, lifelong friends, for whom a month’s holiday in St. Tropez becomes a summer of change, revelation, secrets, surprises, and new beginnings . . . As Diana...

Für Auggie Schnuck sieht die Zukunft so gut aus wie nie zuvor. Als Wrestler hat er fast alles erreicht. Mit Nadine, der Liebe seines Lebens, plant er ein gemeinsames Zuhause. Doch er traut seinem Glück nicht. Je besser es läuft, desto mehr verwandelt sich Auggie, der eigentlich zum Film will, in seine Figur ›The Aug‹. Ein raffiniert erzählter Roman über Träume, die wahr werden und an den Rand von Verstand und Wirklichkeit führen, über Künstlichkeit, Kampf und Zärtlichkeit.

The coast of New England: beautiful but savage, where storms can whip up out of nowhere, and the wrecks wash up on the beach. James Pfeiffer, a young college dropout, is initiated into the gruelling world of the trawler boats, where he discovers the thrill and terror of life at sea.

To finally escape the clutches of her controlling husband and the threat of being recommitted to an asylum, Ginny Rutledge enlists the help of her friends, Maeve O’Toole and Dakota Harlan. Fleeing their own tumultuous pasts, the group embarks on a journey to prove Ginny’s sanity. However, as they confront the shadows they wish they could forget, danger looms from unexpected places.