Ergebnis für "The Shepherd's Hut" in Belletristik

Jaxie dreads going home. His mum’s dead. The old man bashes him without mercy, and he wishes he was an orphan. And then, in one terrible moment, his life is stripped to little more than what he can carry and how he can keep himself alive. There’s just one person left in the world who understands him and what he still dares to hope for. But to reach her he’ll have to cross the vast saltlands on a trek that only a dreamer or a fugitive would attempt.

For years, Jaxie Clackton has dreaded going home. His beloved mum is dead, and he wishes his dad was too, until one terrible moment leaves his life stripped to nothing. No-one ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for. And so Jaxie runs. There's just one person in the world who understands him, but to reach her he'll have to cross the vast saltlands of Western Australia. It is a place that harbours criminals and threatens to kill those who haven't reckoned with its hot, waterless vastness.

Sie sind Elitesoldaten der ganz besonderen Art, denn sie stehen allein im Dienste Gottes: DIE RITTER DES VATIKAN. Auf ihrem Flug in die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika bringen Angehörige einer Terrorzelle die SHEPHERD ONE, das Flugzeug Papst Pius XIII, in ihre Gewalt. Sie fordern die Exekution der fünf ranghöchsten Mitglieder des MOSSAD, oder der Papst wird sterben – und mit ihm unzählige Menschen, denn an Bord befindet sich noch ein nuklearer Sprengsatz. Sie nennen sich die "Muslimische Revolutionäre Front", und ihnen ist das Unmögliche gelungen – die Maschine des Papstes zu entführen.

When Pheodora's husband is unexpectedly thrown into debtors' prison, she is shocked to learn that a loan from her generous sister would jeopardize her brother-in-law's religious aspirations. Forced to pin her hopes on two she-goats whose spotless white offspring could be sold for an upcoming Yom Kippur sacrifice, Pheodora must struggle to keep the animals - and her family - alive.