Ergebnis für "The Tiger's Back" in Belletristik

What do you do when Fate shows up in your rose bed with three-inch canines and retractable claws? Robert--not Bob--Stevenson wakes up one morning in his Vermont home to find a Bengal tiger sitting in his rose garden. Is the tiger real? Or has the illness that has invaded every other part of Robert's body finally and quite literally gone to his head? Remember, once you get on a tiger's back, there is no dismounting!

Für Frieda, eine englische Primatenforscherin, sind Tiger nichts als wilde Tiere, fremd und roh in ihrer Aggression. Aber seit sie in einem kleinen Zoo in Devon arbeitet, begegnet sie den Wildkatzen täglich. Nach und nach beginnt sie sich für das Wesen der Tiger zu interessieren; dann, sie zu verstehen, und schließlich, sie zu lieben.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST The instant classic debut novel from the author of Inland and The Morningside, hailed as “a thrilling beginning to what will certainly be a great literary career” (Elle) “Spectacular . . . [Téa Obreht] spins a tale of such...

In the bleak northern crown of the world, war is coming. The first in the Echoes of the Fall series, The Tiger and the Wolf is an epic fantasy novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky. ‘Addictively brilliant’ – John Gwynne, author of Malice Maniye hides a deadly secret. Her father is the chieftan of...

Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dance hall girl to help pay off her mother’s Mahjong debts. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin may finally get the adventure she has been longing for. Eleven-year-old houseboy Ren is also on a mission, racing to fulfill his former master’s dying wish: that Ren find the man’s finger, lost years ago in an accident, and bury it with his body. Ren has 49 days to do so, or his master’s soul will wander the earth forever.

After saving America from Middle Eastern terrorists, even Mike Harmon and the Keldara could use a vacation. Of course, the Kildar's idea of a vacation includes taking down pirates in the Singapore Straits. But when he finds computer chips designed to run nuclear reactors in the pirate booty, Harmon has a new mission thrust upon him - discover how bottom-feeding thieves got their hands on top-secret technology. The chips are headed for newly democratic Myanmar, a country vital to American interests in the region. Now Harmon finds himself in a desperate race to learn who stole the chips and why.

Ich ertrage es nicht mehr, ich ertrage mich und mein Selbstmitleid über den Verlust meiner Ehe nicht mehr.Alkohol, eine zerrüttete Partnerschaft, finanzielle Sorgen und eine unbeschreibliche Einsamkeit das Leben von Maria Fy befindet sich an einem absoluten Tiefpunkt. Doch bevor es zum völligen Absturz kommt, begibt sie sich in den Dschungel von Panama, wo sie mit einem Schamanen in Kontakt kommt, der versucht, ihre Lebensblockade zu lösen und ihr wieder neuen Mut einzuflößen. Maria Fy beginnt eine spannende und intensive Reise zu sich selbst.

In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai - her first in 16 years - a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by patriarchal and corporate Salt Water City, go to war against disease, technology, and an economic system that threatens them with extinction. Kirilow is a doctor apprentice whose lover, Peristrophe, is a "starfish", a woman who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help her clone sisters whose organs are failing.

Yuri hat seine Entscheidung getroffen: der Sibirische Tiger, der seinen Vater getötet hat, muss sterben! Dazu überredet er den alten Wildhüter Wladimir ihm auf diese Reise zu begleiten und gemeinsam mach sie sich auf den Weg in die raue sibirische Wildnis. Nach und nach realisiert Yuri jedoch, dass die Tiger Sibiriens vom Aussterben bedroht sind und er nicht der Einzige auf der Jagd ist. Langsam wandelt sich sein Hass in eine Bewunderung für die Raubtiere. Doch dann greift das verletzte Tier Yuris Freundin Lena an!

She is the adventurer of the family. Her brother, the gentle dreamer. Even as they bond over folktales and hold each other close, their world has never felt so dangerous. Revolutionaries and pelones are in conflict, soldiers have turned into scavengers, and an escaped tiger has slipped up the mountain, looking for easy prey. As the darkest of legends becomes real, a young girl will do anything to save her brother’s life.