Ergebnis für "The Islanders" in Action & Abenteuer

Packende Highland-Saga über Liebe, Verrat und Intrigen. Schottland, 13. Jahrhundert: Sie sollten Feinde sein, doch das Schicksal machte sie zu Verbündeten. Auf der Flucht vor einer arrangierten Ehe rettet Sessany, Tochter des Chiefs der MacKenzies, einen vermeintlichen Wilderer vor dem Galgen. Dieser Wilderer ist niemand anderer als Alasdair, der Erbe des verfeindeten MacDonald-Clans. Auf der Flucht vor den Schergen ihres Vaters kommen Sessany und Alasdair einer Intrige auf die Spur, die das ganze Land in den Krieg stürzen kann.

My heart is in his hands, and he doesn't even know it. Adrian Elias Olsen crashed into my world like a wrecking ball—adventurous, carefree, and impossible to resist. He gave me a home, a family, and a place to belong. Somewhere along the way, I gave him my heart... And now it's too late to...

After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they're deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. When they discover a remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry, taking a chance on an adventure far from the reach of iPhones and Instagram.

Having narrowly escaped their encounter with the pirate Blackbeard, the crew of the Jenny's Revenge have taken heavy losses. They now head for a mysterious island learned about from a chart discovered in the captains cabin on Stede Bonnet's ship. They hope to find sanctuary, a place to heal there wounds and regroup before returning to their mission of exacting their vengeance on all who fly the black flag of piracy. Little do they realise that a ghost from captain Mary's past has their scent in his nose and the hunters have become the hunted.

Callie: Two years ago, the elite "golden children" of the world fled to Zion Island. While the rest of us watched the world burn, they built a new society. Now, Zion is a myth—a gilded paradise of luxury and dark secrets. With my family gone, a one-way ticket to the island is my only hope for a fresh start.

With buried treasure, treacherous buccaneers, a young hero, and Long John Silver, the one-legged villain, Treasure Island remains one of the most popular of pirate adventures.

After escaping a Confederate prison during the Civil War, a group of unlikely survivors is swept away to a mysterious, uncharted island. Stranded with nothing but their wits and resourcefulness, they must overcome natural dangers, build a new life, and unlock the island's hidden secrets. But as they discover strange clues and unexpected inventions, they begin to realize they may not be alone.

In the quiet village of Springville, Ranoke wants nothing more than to work metal and be left alone. But when royal banners appear on the road and dwarven envoys arrive bearing a sealed invitation to Northdale’s legendary forges, his ordinary life begins to fracture. Rumors spread—of sealed vaults, vanished scholars, and bandits haunting the Buva Forest. Kings take notice. Courtiers whisper. And somewhere beyond the trees, someone is already moving pieces.

When 30-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his family's summer rental in the Maldives, she accepts. T.J. Callahan has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him. Anna and T.J. are en route to join T.J.'s family in the Maldives when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a heart attack and crash-lands in the Indian Ocean. Their life jackets keep them afloat until they make it to the shore of an uninhabited island. Now Anna and T.J. just want to survive and they must work together to obtain water, food, fire, and shelter.

Faced with the impeccably polite, but evil LEATHER DADDY - Gabriel must make the most difficult choice: free Yulia, the Priestess of Monsters or find another solution. If he frees her, there's zero chances it fails to create huge amounts of drama (and distractions). If he doesn't, well...it could lead to worse outcomes.

Millions of people have thrilled to the adventure of young Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver since the publication of Treasure Island in 1883. It has been dramatized countless times since its appearance. Treasure maps marked with an X, schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and peglegged sailors with parrots on their shoulders: All these stereotypes of the buccaneer tale were the invention of R. L. Stevenson. But make no mistake about it...this novel is a masterpiece of plot development, character study, and sheer writing skill.

Spannende Highland-Saga über Liebe, Verbrechen und Verrat. Schottland, 14. Jahrhundert: Als sein Bruder wegen Viehdiebstahls hingerichtet werden soll, bittet Eòran bei Aonghas, dem Chief der MacRaes, um sein Leben. Doch der weist ihn zurück. In höchster Verzweiflung entführt Eòran die junge Frau des Chiefs, um die Freilassung seines Bruders zu erzwingen. Schon bald muss er feststellen, dass Aonghas weit mehr im Schilde führt, als nur seine Frau zurückzubekommen. Eine gnadenlose Jagd nimmt ihren Lauf.

Tropical drinks, Cold War secrets, and temperamental Tikis... Welcome to a wonderful, crazy paradise. It’s 1959. Burned-out spy Don Hula just wants to fade into his tropical island hideaway and forget the world. But when bizarre phenomena begin shaking up a remote chain of South Pacific islands—think underground labs, South Seas assassins, and neighborhood Tikis with existential angst—Hula’s forced back into the game for the weirdest, most dangerous mission of his career.

Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy - and a dangerous disease which decimates the crew.

During a perfect spring evening on Nantucket, a violent storm erupts and a dome of crawling, colored fire blankets the island. When the howling winds subside and the night skies clear, the stars appear to have shifted. The mainland has become a wilderness of unbroken forest, where tools of bronze and stone litter the beaches, and primitive natives scatter in terror.

Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise—a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats. Our bumbling hero is Tucker Case, a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guy's body, who makes a living as a pilot for the Mary Jean...

Written in 1896, The Island of Dr. Moreau was an instant sensation that went on to inspire a series of movies. It was meant as a commentary on Darwin’s recently published theory of evolution, which had riveted the world of science and therefore, of science fiction. While gene-splicing and...

A chilling novel about our modern world, from the author of Empire of the Sun and Crash. An architect is driving home from his London offices when a blow-out sends his speeding Jaguar hurtling out of control. Smashing through a temporary barrier he finds himself, dazed and disorientated, on a traffic island below three converging motorways. But when he tries to climb the embankment or flag-down a passing car for help it proves impossible - and he finds himself marooned on the concrete island.

When Henry Folsom is isekaied into a small island surrounded by endless sea, he's given the rare Harbormaster class, built for managing ships, shaping trade routes, and transforming a dying settlement into a thriving power. The problem? His new island is beyond decrepit: broken docks, a...

When Clayton survives a plane crash, he figures the worst is over—but he's wrong—in this sci-fi genre mashup from the author of the Infinite Timeline series. Stranded on a thirty-acre island with a handful of art students, a grieving widow, and a growing pile of corpses, Prof. Clayton Reed...