Ergebnis für "The Coming Wave" in Belletristik

Ein junger Lehrer entschließt sich zu einem ungewöhnlichen Experiment: Er möchte seinen Schülern beweisen, dass wir alle immer und überall anfällig sind für faschistoides Handeln und Denken. Doch die "Bewegung", die er auslöst, droht ihn und sein Vorhaben zu überrollen: Das Experiment gerät außer Kontrolle. Morton Rhues packender Roman beruht auf dem realen Experiment, das der Lehrer Ron Jones 1967 im kalifornischen Palo Alto mit einer Highschoolklasse durchführte.

Nach dem Kinobesuch mit ihrer besten Freundin setzt sich eine Frau in ihr Auto und fährt heim – bis eine Umleitung sie von ihrem Weg abbringt. Sie verpasst Ausfahrt um Ausfahrt, entfernt sich immer weiter von ihrem Zuhause, wo ihr Mann auf sie wartet. Nach einer ganzen Nacht und dem folgenden Tag wird klar: Vielleicht wäre es besser, wenn sie nie wieder zu ihm zurückkehren würde. Denn so unheimlich die Finsternis der Landstraßen und Tankstellen auch ist, die wahre Gefahr lauert dort auf sie.

In 1995, the physical and social landscape of Japan was transformed by two events: the Kobe earthquake, in January, which destroyed thousands of lives, and the poison-gas attacks in the Tokyo subways in March, during the morning rush hour. Following these twin disasters, Haruki Murakami...

Geesje de Jonge crossed the ocean at age 17 with her parents and a small group of immigrants from the Netherlands to settle in the Michigan wilderness. Fifty years later, in 1897, she's asked to write a memoir of her early experiences as the town celebrates its anniversary. Reluctant at first, she soon uncovers memories and emotions hidden all these years, including the story of her one true love.

Satsuki has spent 30 years hating one man: did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Miyake left his family in Kobe to make midnight bonfires on a beach hundreds of miles away. Fourteen-year-old Sala has nightmares that the Earthquake Man is trying to stuff her inside a little box. Katagiri returns home to find a giant frog in his apartment on a mission to save Tokyo from a massive burrowing worm. 

“At once quiet and intense, at once devastating and heartening.” –Helen Phillips, author of The Need From the Booker Prize finalist and author of Sisters: a haunting novel about the complexities of motherhood, nested within three generations of women and children searching for each other...

From the beloved author of Slaughterhouse-Five an Cat's Cradle comes Kurt Vonnegut's Timequake--“Wry and trenchant...highly entertaining.”—The New York Times Book Review According to Kurt Vonnegut's alter ego, the old science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur on...

*NOW A MAJOR FILM by Sony Pictures, starring Chloe Grace Moretz* 'Wildly entertaining . . . I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' The New York Times *The 5th Wave is the first book in the bestselling series from award-winning Rick Yancey. Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent and Maze...

Desperate to quell her addiction to drugs, disastrous romance, and '90s San Francisco, Michelle heads south for LA. But soon it's officially announced that the world will end in one year, and life in the sprawling metropolis becomes increasingly weird. While living in an abandoned bookstore, dating Matt Dillon, and keeping an eye on the encroaching apocalypse, Michelle begins a new novel, a sprawling and metatextual exploration to complement her promises of maturity and responsibility.

Jeff Shaara, America’s premier author of military historical fiction, brings us the centerpiece of his epic trilogy of the Second World War. General Dwight Eisenhower once again commands a diverse army that must find its single purpose in the destruction of Hitler’s European fortress. His...

Every child deserves to be loved. Every child deserves parents who love them. Yet, for as long as I can remember, I've harbored an insatiable craving for that one simple thing. Love. I was desperate for it. Through years of mistreatment and degradation, I longed for the affection I saw others receive. And I was willing to do anything to prove myself to the people I wanted it from—including going to war. Yet it was never enough. Nothing ever was.

Grief, that ungovernable pet – it comes and goes as it pleases, never straying far. Death sneaks up on Onome Odafe. She has little experience of what it means to lose someone she truly loves. So when her sister calls to tell her that their father didn’t survive a stroke, she isn’t sure how...

Violeta Sanoguera had always done what she was told. She left the man she loved in Colombia in pursuit of a better life for herself and because her mother and grandmother didn’t approve of him. Chasing dreams of education and art in New York City, and with a new love, twenty-eight-year-old Violeta establishes a new life for herself, on her terms. But when her grandmother suddenly dies, everything changes.

Marguerite, aka Gracie, is known for her skill and gracefulness on the waves. Surfing is where she clears her head and finds peace. A national surf championship lies within her reach. But when her world is turned upside down, will the ocean be enough to save her?

Brought to you by Penguin. A hypnotic and haunting work of fiction about losing yourself and finding your family, Long Wave is the finest novel yet from Booker Prize-shortlisted Daisy Johnson Close to the shore is the island: uninhabited, wild, with only a storm-beaten lighthouse for shelter...

The ocean carries everything that it sees–the aftermath of a date gone haywire, an epic noodle debate, countless late-night bonfires, and love at first sight. It holds memories, experiences, and picturesque sunsets. For Elliana and Nell, it holds answers.

Cassie Lewis, a widow for over 20 years, has begun to realise there must be more to life. In-between working at the family boatyard in picture perfect Dartmouth and raising two children, she wonders where the years have gone. Both her children, Tom and Polly, have inherited their father’s love of sailing and currently Tom is preparing for a gruelling round the world race. When an accident forces Tom to pull out, Polly, to Cassie’s horror, insists she is capable of taking his place. As Polly prepares for the race, Cassie finds herself with two keen men vying for her love.