Ergebnis für "The Star" in Abenteuer auf See

Ein kleiner Bauernhof am Meer - klingt idyllisch und romantisch? Nicht für Lilly, denn sie wohnt dort mit ihrem siebenjährigen Sohn, dem kauzigen Untermieter und einer bissigen Gans. Aber dann zieht Lilly mit ihrem Traktor das Auto eines gut aussehenden Surfers aus dem Sand, und ein geheimnisvoller Hausgast mit sehr blauen Augen quartiert sich unerwartet in ihre Ferienwohnung ein. Und auf einmal sieht es fast so aus, als könnte es mit der Liebe doch noch klappen... Ein Hörbuch zum Abschalten, Loslachen und Träumen.

Nie wieder Ahrenshoop, dass hat Kathi sich einst geschworen. Doch was, wenn plötzlich ein absolut unwiderstehliches Angebot alle Vorsätze ins Wanken bringt? Journalistin Kathi ist ein waschechtes Küstenkind und liebt die Ostsee. Zumindest theoretisch. Denn seit vielen Jahren meidet sie ihre einstige Heimat Ahrenshoop. Zu belastend sind ihre Erinnerungen an das kleine Dorf, dem sie vor vielen Jahren einfach nur noch entfliehen wollte. Bei ihrer nicht ganz freiwilligen Rückkehr an Bodden und Meer muss Kathi erkennen, was sie mit Ahrenshoop immer noch alles verbindet - ihre Familie, die erste Liebe und eine tiefe Freundschaft.

Jack O' Reilly is a 17-year-old New Englander who in 1805, sails with his parents on the Perdido Star to Cuba, his mother's birthplace, to claim the land she inherited. But for Jack, the trip that began with high hopes and the excitement of a new life, becomes a descent into violence and revenge.

In the 18th century West Indies, stories hold the ultimate power. Sailors spin yarns about pirates. Newspapers tell tales full of half-truths. Myths spread like whispered wildfire. East India Company sailor Nicholas Jerome has no patience for pirates, determined to escape his father's thieving past.

Revisit this feel-good millionaire romance from New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery. Three years ago, millionaire Stone Ward lost his wife in a car accident. Since then, he’s turned to a life of solitude and reclusion. Cathy Eldridge has become Stone’s only company, and although...

Norman Pedersen hunches his body into the biting wind as he stands at the bow of the seiner. Even that discomfort does not distract him from the relentless, crushing pain in his heart. Full of hope and ambition, he had come to Alaska to make his fortune and return to Norway to marry Kristina Michelsen, the love of his life. The future had looked so promising. Charmed by the beautiful but conniving Cecilia, he now feels like a man condemned to a life sentence. He’s let down everyone he loves.

A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined always to do what’s right. In defending the development of a new variant of warship, he makes an enemy of the president of the United States, who assigns him to command the doomed line’s only prototype­—Athena, Patrol Coastal 15­­—with the intent to humiliate a man who should have been an admiral. Rather than resign, Rensselaer takes the new assignment in stride.

On the run from killers who hide in the shadows, Jasika has made dangerous enemies and even more dangerous friends. When her guildmaster is killed under suspicious circumstances, she wants the culprit to receive the only kind of justice she knows. The price on her head, however, has her running for her life. She takes to the seas, both to stay one step ahead of those who follow and to begin building a new life as far away from her homeland as possible.

Abenteuerlich und ergreifend. Die 15-jährige Lilly Thomson reist in den 1980er-Jahren mit Vater und Schwester Anna auf dem Trawler "Blue Star" von Flensburg aus um die halbe Welt, um nach Jamaika auszuwandern. Dabei konkurriert der Ruf des Abenteuers mit ihrem inneren Konflikt, die kranke Mutter zurücklassen zu müssen. Lilly trotzt nicht nur den Herausforderungen der langen Schiffsreise und der Enge an Bord, den Gefahren durch Piraten, Verrat und Korruption, sondern auch ihrer angeborenen Spastik und ihrem strengen Vater.

A doctor hires out to a whaling vessel bound for the Arctic, where the ship becomes icebound. Strange moanings are soon heard on the Polar wind, and ghostly apparitions appear out on the ice. The ship's senior officers are convinced they have something to do with the captain's mysterious past, but who can say for sure, since he appears to be slowly going insane?

An American Legacy Book Awards Winner A Hawthorne Prize Finalist Longlisted for The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize ""An intense and powerful novel about losing one’s way and then finding it again in the unlikeliest of places. I found it moving, thought-provoking and gripping in...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote many types of fiction: mystery, detection, science fiction,and historical adventures. He created many memorable characters, wrote dozens of short stories and more than two dozen novels, Yet everything he wrote fell under the the shadow of Sherlock Holmes.

Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Captain of the Pole-Star is a collection of mystery tales about amnesia, sea voyages, shipwrecks, lost love, and heists. It includes humorous stories and fairy tales.