Ergebnis für "Tante Jo" in Kleinstadt- & Landleben

Urlaub auf Sylt! Freudig begrüßt Christine (46) am Bahnhof ihren Johann, da tippt das Unheil ihr auf die Schulter: Die Frau mit dem roten Hut ist tatsächlich Tante Inge (64), Papas jüngere Schwester. Aber was macht sie allein auf Sylt? Noch dazu mit so vielen Koffern? Für Papa Heinz kann dies nur eines bedeuten: Inge will Walter, den pensionierten Finanzbeamten, samt gemeinsamem Reihenhaus verlassen.

Kaum ist Benno aus dem Bus gestiegen, spürt er wieder diese Heimatschwere. Hier, bei seinen alten Eltern, hat sich kaum etwas verändert. Doch Klärchen, die seit Urzeiten mit ihrer Tante Erna nebenan wohnt, klagt: Tochter Sibille hat sich ewig nicht blicken lassen. In ihrem Unglück schwindelt Klärchen: "Tante Erna ist gestorben!" Die aber haust wie eh und je munter in ihrem Dachzimmer. Benno kennt Sibille schon seit Kindertagen. Als sie zu Tante Ernas "Begräbnis" anreist, entspinnt sich ein irrwitziger Tag.

Andrew Larimer has left his past behind. Rising up the ranks in a New York law firm, and with a heavily pregnant wife, he is settling into a new life far from Kingsport, the town in which he grew up. But when he receives a late-night phone call from an old friend, he has no choice but to return home.

It's 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air like a slow-moving storm. When a young Harry Collins and his little sister stumble across the body of a black woman who has been savagely mutilated and left to die in the bottoms of the Sabine River, their small town is instantly charged with tension. When a second body turns up, this time of a white woman, there is little Harry can do from stopping his Klan neighbors from lynching an innocent black man.

Joe Winston has a routine with women: He exists; they swoon; roll credits. With his smoldering looks, macho style, and irrepressible charm, Joe can have any woman - except the one he really wants. Secretly, Luna Clark may lust after Joe, but she's made it clear that she's too smart to fall for him. He can just keep holding his breath, thank you very much. But now, Luna's inherited two kids who need more than she alone can give in a small town that seems hell-bent on driving them away. She needs someone to help out...someone who can't be intimidated...someone just like Joe.

Joshua Hull, screenwriter of Glorious, brings an edge of horror film expertise to this story of small-town haunting, trauma, and grief that just won't let go. 8114 roots out the rot of a small town's past and unravels the memories we must face to survive the present.

Ty Dawson, now the sheriff of Oregon's Meriwether County, is ready to put a trying year behind him, but he's afforded no such luck. In a country still coming to grips with the Vietnam War, Watergate, and Charles Manson, Ty's neck of the woods isn't safe from the turmoil-especially when a commune of young so-called hippies springs up out of nowhere . . .

Peculiar weather settles over a bustling Texas sea port, a city made prosperous off the cotton trade and thick with racial inequality. The sky above Galveston, Texas, darkens to the sickly green of a healing bruise, the sea turns black, and the inhabitants of the city have no idea the force of the hammer about to drop on them. On September 8, 1900, a hurricane ripped apart Galveston, Texas, killing nearly 8,000 people and nearly obliterating the town. Lansdale's story brings dimension to many who lost their lives that day, and a few who survived.