Ergebnis für "The Forest Fire" in Literatur & Belletristik

Aus Sorge um seine Mutter reist Georg Dengler in den Schwarzwald. Über den Hof, auf dem er seiner Kindheit verbracht hat, schleichen nachts Gestalten. Oben am Feldberg besitzt die Familie Dengler ein Grundstück – die ideale Lage für ein Windrad. Wäre da nicht der örtliche Widerstand. Georgs Jugendliebe, mittlerweile die Heilpraktikerin seiner Mutter, ist eine der Wortführerinnen. Nachdem die Denglers auf einer schmalen Straße abgedrängt werden, landet Margret im Krankenhaus – und ihr Sohn ist endgültig beunruhigt.

AD 255; the Roman Imperium is stretched to breaking point, its authority and might challenged throughout the territories and along every border. Yet the most lethal threat lurks far to the east in Persia, where the massing forces of the Sassanid Empire loom with fiery menace. The far-flung and...

Paleontologist Grant Coleman gets an invitation he can’t decline. Join a rescue mission to find his college mentor, Professor Maxwell Carson, who has gone missing in the wilds of China. But his professor’s notes about his expedition must be wrong. They state that he was hunting for the fossils of dragons. The others on this rescue team make Grant uneasy. One is Mike Rabon, an old college friend who studied with Grant under Carson. But while Grant pursued an academic career, Mike has been working the black market, selling fossils to unscrupulous collectors

The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem! Over 1 million copies of the Three-Body Problem series sold in North America PRAISE FOR THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM SERIES: “A mind-bending epic.”—The New York Times “War of the Worlds for the 21st century.”—The Wall Street...

Never Forgive and Never Forget. Hunted as witches during the Salem Trials and haunted by their past sins, the Crowhart women carry a deep secret and an inescapable curse. Fire herself, Deryn Crowhart, is back on Dragons. With the world at her feet, the swaggering celebrity pastry chef is not...

Lovely Julia Hoffman has always enjoyed the carefree life of her well-to-do Philadelphia family. But when she fails to attract the attention of Nathaniel Greene, a fierce abolitionist, she shocks her family by becoming a Union nurse. Will that be enough to win Nathaniel's heart? Phoebe Bigelow, from western Virginia, has always been a misfit, and when her brothers join the Union army, she also enlists—under false pretenses.

Ariana Costa is a fearless firefighter who gets severely injured saving her neighbor's children from a house fire while she is off duty. She is lucky to be alive and knows she will have a long stay in hospital. Dr. Kristi Lowen is the burns specialist assigned to Ariana. Dr. Lowen is straight and has never felt attraction to another woman before. But as Ariana starts to feel better and more like herself, she starts openly flirting with Kristi. Kristi finds herself enjoying it and enjoying spending time with Ariana more and more.

Lovely Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Lord Colum of Sevenwaters. Bereft of a mother, she is comforted by her six brothers who love and protect her. Sorcha is the light in their lives, they are determined that she know only contentment. But Sorcha's joy is shattered when her father is bewitched by his new wife, an evil enchantress who binds her brothers with a terrible spell, a spell which only Sorcha can lift-by staying silent.

A Richard & Judy Book Club Pick. THE SCORCHING SUNDAY TIMES no.1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN Penguin presents the audio edition of A Slow Fire Burning, read by Rosamund Pike. 'What is wrong with you?' Laura has spent most of her life being judged. She's seen as...

Maya has to escape. She's on the run in a country she doesn't know and has no idea who to trust. Raul is escaping too - travelling back to his home where a terrible tragedy happened, ready to stir up trouble. When their paths collide in the middle of the jungle, the sparks begin to fly. As modern world corruption meets the magic and legends of ancient times, can Maya draw on her hidden light to find the way through to the truth?

A 2026 Audie Awards finalist for Best Science Fiction! The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem! This program is read by Jess Hong, who plays Jin Cheng in 3 Body Problem. Over 1 million copies of the Three-Body Problem series sold in North America. "[Jess] Hong, who stars in the...

Parker broke Jamie's heart when he left town. Now, he's back. When Jamie and Parker are thrown together in a blizzard, everything changes in the space of one single, scorching night. Suddenly, Parker is dreaming of a future he can’t have, and Jamie is stuck in a past he can’t let go. It feels like they're playing with fire, and this time, Parker is the one who’s gonna burn.

Katherine Neville’s groundbreaking novel, The Eight, dazzled audiences more than twenty years ago and set the literary stage for the epic thriller. A quest for a mystical chess service that once belonged to Charlemagne, it spans two centuries and three continents, and intertwines historic and...

A sarcastic heroine. A celestial wolf. A shadow hound. A deadly new world where survival means adapting or dying trying. Mara Fiorenza thought the end of Earth was the end of her story. Instead, she wakes in a LitRPG world where forests breathe, shadows whisper, and monsters see her as a snack with legs. Her DNA is rewritten, her once-normal dogs have become bonded familiars, and survival means mastering a game-like system of magic, stats, and spells she never believed in.

The villain Cleander has fallen, his wickedness gone from the imperial court, but his influence lives on. Amongst the Praetorians, a network of spies, killers and thieves remain, clawing on to the power they have enjoyed. Rufinus, returned to the Guard at the hands of the devious Frumentarii, Rome’s imperial secret service, is intent on bringing the entire web of villainy to justice. But Commodus’s reign falters and Rome is in peril. Wolves are at the door and every man with power prepares to make a bid for the purple.

Abarrach, the Realm of stone. Here, on a barren world of underground caverns built around a core of molten lava, the lesser races -- humans, elves, and dwarves -- seem to have all died off. Here, too, what may well be the last remnants of the once powerful Sartan still struggle to...

Was, wenn ich dir sage, dass du einen Wunsch frei hättest? Was, wenn es die Möglichkeit gäbe, das Leben, das dich unglücklich macht, hinter dir zu lassen und es gegen ein viel besseres zu tauschen? Was du dafür tun musst? Nicht viel. Du musst nur mit mir in den Forest gehen... Eine mysteriöse Legende. Der unbändige Wunsch nach Veränderung. Kian hasst sein Leben. Beziehungsprobleme, Pech im Job, Eintönigkeit und Unzufriedenheit bestimmen seinen Alltag.

Is there anything better than a quiet life? Well, there's a quiet life surrounded by people you care about, people who love you in return, of course. But Tailyn Vlashich knew nothing of the kind. His parents had died years before, the townspeople stayed well away from the god's favorite, and his guardian just wanted to be rid of him. That was the setting when Tailyn was again placed on the road to uncertainty, beset by terrifying lixes, and hounded by a harsh trainer it was impossible to please.

She was Eilan, the daughter of a Druidic warleader and gifted with visions. In a land struggling to survive both Roman conquerors and her own people's enemies, surely fate had marked her to become a priestess of the Forest House. But first Eilan had chosen a different, forbidden path - to love Gaius, a soldier of mixed blood among the legions sent to subdue her country. So she must hide a terrible secret when she is anointed as the new High Priestess.

Brought to you by Penguin, the gripping Sunday Times Top 5 bestseller from the bestselling author of Out of the Dark and Orphan X. Once a government assassin codenamed Orphan X, Evan Smoak works as a vigilante for the desperate. Now he's ready to retire. Then he gets a call. Max Merriweather's...