Ergebnis für "The Whispered World" in Belletristik

Das Leben meint es nicht gut mit dem traurigen Clown Sadwick: Als wäre es nicht hart genug, mit gehässigem Bruder und senilem Opa einen kleinen Wanderzirkus zu betreiben, muss er eines Tages erfahren, dass ihm vorbestimmt ist, die Welt zu zerstören. Mit seinem Haustier, der Raupe Spot macht er sich auf in die Hauptstadt, um sein Schicksal selbst in die Hand zu nehmen und der Held zu werden, der zu werden ihm eigentlich nicht bestimmt ist.

Michelangelo. Saint Helena. A Catalan politician. A dying Irish banker, an aboriginal tribesman. A Benedictine Oblate nun, a homeless beggar, French soldiers, Mark Antony, Capuchin monks, Dominican friars... and a nondescript 21st century man. Lost in a feedback loop of life, he travels the world searching for something more than he was being told. At various places from Sydney to Dublin, Paris to Rome, and points in between, the world has something to show him. His imagination fills in the blanks.

From bestselling author Tamera Alexander comes an exquisite historical novel set against the real history of Belle Meade Plantation in Nashville, Tennessee, that explores the struggles of real people of the post-war South and the journeys of a man and a woman scarred by betrayal. Olivia Aberdeen...

On September 11th, 2001, Kris Caldera was a junior member of the CIA's Alec Station, the unit dedicated to finding and stopping Osama Bin Laden. They failed. Ten days later, he was on the ground in Afghanistan with a Special Forces team. On the battlefield, he meets Special Forces Sergeant David Haddad. David - Arab American, Muslim, and gay - becomes the man Kris loves, the man he lives for, and the man he kills for, through the long years of the raging wars. When a botched mission rips David from Kris' life, Kris' world falls into ruin and ash.

When a high roller at the Vegas casino where Crystal Debrowski manages security makes a scandalous proposition, she flat-out refuses, especially given rumors of his shady overseas connections. But then counterfeit bills mysteriously flood the gaming tables, and her reputation - and her life - are on the line.

“Expertly, subtly and powerfully rendered….[The Whispers] delivers a sucker-punch ending you’ll have to read twice to believe.”—The New York Times Book Review “[An] electrifying…razor-sharp page-turner.” —Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer...

Before darkness was o'er the deep, a world was whispered. Seven tears did Alphega weep, and that world entered. Frozen scrolls turned to stone, arcane, with wonders untold.