Ergebnis für "The Raven" in Literatur & Belletristik

Endlich Sommer! Urlaubszeit ist doch einfach die beste Zeit! Tobi und Flora haben eine Kreuzfahrt in einem Online-Preisausschreiben gewonnen. Beide waren noch nie auf einem solchen Schiff und sind sehr beeindruckt von den riesengroßen Dimensionen. Die vielen Läden, die Freizeitangebote, die Bistros und Cafés bringen sie ins Schwärmen. Aufgeregt gehen Tobi und Flora zum ersten Dinner an Bord, da entdecken sie Herrn Debil und seine Frau Wind-Debil. Zu ihrer Verwunderung sind die Debils in Begleitung von zwei sehr merkwürdigen Gestalten: Cyprinus und Procula vom Orden der Letzten von Atlantis. Diese zwei Atlanteer sind Tobi und Flora von Anfang an sehr unheimlich und sie ahnen nichts Gutes...

Spanning six decades, from a 1970s rehearsal dinner at a Malibu mansion to a crystal mine wedding in 1990s Sedona, a bachelorette party at a presidential estate in the 2000s, a penthouse ceremony in 2025, and an intergalactic courtroom in 2089, each of Lady Miss' weddings is less about the groom and more about the scheme. Whether she's blackmailing a senator, pitching a reality TV empire to her mother-in-law, or battling a tech billionaire for advertising rights on the moon, Lady Miss always has a plan, and it never goes the way she expects.

Broadfield Lane isn’t just an estate—it’s a living, breathing ecosystem of chaos. In this second edition of the saga, The Woman At Number 12 returns as the quiet centre of a neighbourhood that refuses to behave like a normal neighbourhood.

Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the...

From the bestselling author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, the uproarious and brilliantly inventive new novel from Max Porter. Quiet on set, please. Enter Lynette: Actor, writer, director, showrunner, and star of her final movie in her head—is it a comedy, a tragedy, a farce, or...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize for Best First Book Winner of the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Fiction Winner of the 2021 Dylan Thomas Prize Finalist for the 2021 PEN/Hemingway Award...

"One of my favorite writers in the world." —George Saunders From the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, the uproarious and brilliantly inventive new novel from Max Porter. Enter Lynette—actor, writer, director, showrunner and star of the final film in her head—is it a comedy, a...

Natalie Love has worked hard to have it all. She runs a successful London theatre that's about to host one of Hollywood's leading stars, Ryan Harrison. She’s pretty sure she’s found her man in yoga boyfriend Benjamin, despite his annoying habit of saying Namaste! every time he speaks. And her eccentric, glamorous Hungarian gran is always on hand to offer sage advice and steaming bowls of goulash. Life in the bright lights of London has always been Natalie's escape from her chaotic family in rural Devon and Jamie, the childhood sweetheart she left at the altar fifteen years ago.

Saskia steckt in einer festen Beziehung mit dem gutaussehenden und zuvorkommenden Aron. Alles scheint perfekt. Doch als Saskia nachts im Club auf den Womanizer Hero trifft, löst dieser ein Gefühlschaos in ihr aus, auf das sie nicht vorbereitet ist. Aus Angst, eine Dummheit zu begehen, flüchtet sie buchstäblich nach Hause, wo sie die nächste Überraschung erwartet: in ihrem Schlafzimmer findet sie Aron–splitternackt–zwischen den Beinen einer anderen Frau. Mit gebrochenem Herzen zieht Saskia vorübergehend zu ihrem Bruder, der sie liebevoll bei sich aufnimmt.

A magically simple, laughoutloud domestic comedy for all ages. Meet the world’s most dramatic dressing gown—a clingy, tripping, swishing menace with a mind of its own. Add a rogue fourth finger that rightclicks at the worst possible moments, and pockets that behave like wormholes to another dimension… and you’ve got one man’s daily battle against the mild chaos of ordinary life. From kitchen catastrophes to digital sabotage, The Curse of the Dressing Gown transforms everyday frustrations into pure comedic gold.

Broadfield Lane is the kind of estate that pretends everything is fine… even when it absolutely isn’t. When a series of strange incidents ripple through the neighborhood—fires, messages, shadows in the alleyways—Eunice finds herself dragged into a mystery that no one else wants to acknowledge. The estate shrugs, the neighbors argue, and life carries on as if chaos is just part of the weekly routine. But someone on Broadfield Lane is carrying something dangerous. Something they don’t fully understand. Something that reacts to instinct.

Brighton, 1957: a sunny seaside resort with a sinister underbelly. This den of villainy is policed by the touchingly innocent Inspector Steine, who naively believes he wiped out all the hoodlums in the Middle Street Massacre six years earlier. Can long-suffering Sergeant Brunswick and keen Constable Twitten persuade him that a criminal mastermind is at large - and that the station's charlady, Mrs Groynes, might bear investigation?

An FBI team arrives March 6, 2020, in a small Florida surfing village to investigate a series of terrorist attacks. The Bureau has a hot lead on a woman with a violent past and instructions to work with the local deputy, JP Barnett. Barnett's overly relaxed and incompetent techniques are instantly at odds with the federal agents. While the team awaits the terrorist specialty group from FBI headquarters, the local deputy seems to be doing his best to divert the investigation. The federal investigators are bewildered by the quirky locals and everyone's party-at-the-beach attitude.

Coco Pinchard always dreamed of being a successful writer, but then life got in the way. She married young, had a son, and put her dreams on hold. But now she's 40, and her first novel is about to be published! Her husband Daniel has greyed nicely into a silver fox, and her son Rosencrantz is all grown up. Shouldn't it be time to enjoy life? That is, until the annual family Christmas when her hideous in-laws come to stay, and Coco opens her gift from Daniel. It's not the jewelry she chose, but an iPhone.

The Big Jewish Book for Jews brings together Jewish wit, inspiring tales, classic skills, and even pickle recipes, for the instruction and edification of the modern Jew. Readers will learn how to sacrifice a lamb unto the Lord, the rules of Canasta, how to build a pyramid (the Bernie Madoff and the Egyptian kind), and how not to accept the first table you are shown to in a restaurant.

From tongue-in-cheek observations to heartfelt commentary and humorous stories to down-to-earth opinions, Roberta Raves will make you smile, giggle, laugh and tear up, all in a matter of minutes!

Agnes Maurer has a plan. Before tomorrow’s spin class, she will find someone willing to kill her. New York City, 2014: a place of gleaming towers, boutique fitness, designer handbags and, of course, existential despair. As Agnes wipes away the sweat from her early-morning SoulCycle she...

Walt discovers a manuscript hidden in the false bottom of a cabinet Maggie bought at a craft fair. The manuscript, written by a woman named Lenore, tells the tragic story of a life filled with abuse, incest, and finally, murder. Drawn in by the story, Walt becomes entangled with members of the family whose lives mirror characters in many of Edgar Allen Poe’s Gothic novels.

Trowbridge Dispatch is part of the Trowbridge, Vermont series of novels and stories, wherein I.M. Aiken draws on her roots in public safety to narrate tales of the everyday heroes that every community depends on.

The Fate of Eleven Universes Rest in the Hands of a Hapless Trucker who Can’t Read a Map… Eleventh World is widely considered the largest waste of magic and technology ever perpetrated by a governing body. We call it Earth. Humanity? We’re a bad joke told only in posh backrooms by the raunchiest politicians. Even so, when villainous forces threaten to destroy our universe, the beings profiting off Eleventh World take notice. They summon their best cybernetic dwarf problem solver to find the bomb and save the day.