Ergebnis für "The Monsters We Make" in Belletristik

Eigentlich haben Ben und Esther alles, was sie brauchen: eine lebendige Beziehung zu Jesus Christus und wichtige Funktionen in ihrer Gemeinde – dem göttlich funkelnden Safespace, in dem der Pastor teure Sneaker trägt, seine Frau Highlights aus der Predigt auf Instagram teilt und Gott uns so sehr liebt, dass er seinen einzigen Sohn hingab, und so weiter. Doch Ben hat ein Problem, das zwischen ihm und seinem göttlichen Vater steht. Niemand weiß davon, nicht mal seine Schwester Esther. Je verzweifelter er sich aus den Fängen der Sünde befreien will, desto mehr tyrannisiert sie sein Leben.

It's August 1984, and paperboy Christopher Stewart has gone missing. Hours later, 12-year-old Sammy Cox hurries home from his own paper route, red-faced and out of breath, hiding a terrible secret. Crystal, Sammy's 17-year-old sister, is worried by the disappearance but she also sees an opportunity: the Stewart case has echoes of an earlier unsolved disappearance of another boy, one town over. Crystal senses the makings of an award-winning essay, one that could win her a scholarship - and a ticket out of their small Iowa town.

The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now! Alex Delaware faces one of the most grisly and baffling mysteries of his career: How can a nonfunctional psychotic locked up in a supposedly secure institution for homicidal madmen predict...

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An alien invasion comes to one man’s doorstep in the form of a story-creature, followed by death and rebirth in a transformed Earth, in this Tor.com Original science fiction tale from Jeff VanderMeer, the New York Times best-selling author of the Southern Reach trilogy.

He was an artist. She was his muse. To everyone in town, Abel Adams was the devil's spawn, a boy who never should have been born. A monster. To 12-year-old Evie Hart, he was just a boy with golden hair, soft t-shirts and a camera. A boy who loved taking her picture and sneaking her chocolates before dinner. A boy who made her feel special. Despite her family's warnings, she loved him in secret for six years. They met in empty classrooms and kissed in darkened church closets. Until they couldn't. Until the time came to choose between love and family, and Evie chose Abel.