Ergebnis für "Uwes letzte Chance" in Literatur & Belletristik

Uwe hat Schiffbruch erlitten - im Leben wie in der Liebe: zwar hat er die Kreuzfahrt mit der MS Romantik überlebt...

"Vor 15 Jahren ... haben Sie uns aus der Dunkelheit geführt. Sie kommandierten die größte Rettungsarmada aller Zeiten. Dann ... das Unvorstellbare. Was hat Sie dies gekostet? Ihren Glauben. Ihren Glauben an uns. Ihren Glauben an sich selbst. Erzählen Sie uns, warum Sie die Sternenflotte verlassen haben, Admiral?" Jedes Ende hat einen Anfang.

Die französische Küste im Jahre 1795. Während die Feuer des Krieges sich auf dem Festland immer weiter ausbreiten, tobt auch auf See ein Kampf um die Vorherrschaft. Doch nicht alle kämpfen mit so fairen Mitteln wie der ehrenhafte Freibeuter Harry Ludlow und sein Bruder James: Als der skrupellose Kapitän Toner von der Royal Navy ihn unrechtmäßig zwingt, ihm die Hälfte seiner Crew zu überlassen, schwört Harry, seine Männer zu retten – und nimmt allen Widrigkeiten zum Trotz die Verfolgung von dessen Fregatte auf.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Someone Like You comes a heartwarming story about childhood friends, broken lives, and an age-old promise, proving it’s never too late for love. Years ago, the day before Ellie moved from Georgia to California, she and her best friend Nolan sat...

History happens all around you. And, occasionally, to you. I could have been a bomb-disposal expert, or a volunteer for the Mars mission, or a firefighter, something safe and sensible. But, no, I had to be an historian. It began well. A successful assignment to 17th century Cambridge to meet Isaac Newton, and another to witness the historic events at The Gates of Grief. So far so good.

There are two things Joey Greer is great at: Raising horses and holding grudges. Eight years ago, her high school sweetheart abandoned her, skipped out on his family, and fled to Hollywood, of all places. She vowed never to forgive or forget. Now big-shot screenwriter Jackson Pierce is back in Blue Moon demanding another chance. No matter how good it feels when he sneaks past her defenses to land a kiss or a compliment, she is determined to pretend he doesn’t exist. Except maybe when he’s naked in her bed.

Nach einem schlimmen Vorfall trennt Leevke sich von ihrem gewalttätigen Freund und hat von Männern erst einmal die Nase voll. Fortan konzentriert sie sich auf ihre Tätigkeit in der Praxis am Meer und ihre Rolle als alleinerziehende Mutter. Als Alexander für einen Filmdreh nach Föhr kommt, stellt er Leevkes Welt gehörig auf den Kopf. Er ist gut aussehend, eingebildet und bringt Gefühle in ihr zum Vorschein, die sie sich nicht mehr gestatten wollte. Selbst ihr schüchterner Sohn Lian ist von ihm begeistert.

It was supposed to be an innocent night, celebrating my brother’s birthday. Nothing was supposed to go wrong. We’d vowed to be on our best behavior after all.... But it only took one rowdy night with my brothers to flip my world upside down. One unlucky encounter saddled us with a family curse and the promise of doomed relationships. I laughed it off immediately. “Yeah, right,” I thought. “A love curse. Ha!” Boy, was I wrong.

As a midwife, Catherine Remington is successful in bringing life into the world, but she's failed one too many times in finding true love. When she's accused of a murder she didn't commit, she's forced to flee and decides to run away to Colorado to honor a patient's dying wish to deliver a newborn infant to his father. Dylan McQuaid is finally back in Fairplay. Elected as sheriff, he's doing his best to prove to the town he's a changed man and worthy of their trust. When a woman shows up with an infant son he didn't know he had, Dylan is left with only complicated choices on what to do next.

A moving story of one man, deeply troubled by the circumstances of his life, who travels to the islands of Hawaii hoping to find peace. Here, he is befriended by two intriguing people who speak in ways that mystify yet fascinate him. Thus begins a spiritual journey into a world of extraordinary feelings, which bring him understanding and an answer beyond anything he had ever dreamed possible. In this novel, set in a world of soft tropical beauty, the author shares his quiet philosophical knowledge in a comprehensible yet profound manner.

Kapitän Schulz, Inhaber der Mississippi-Darling, ist sich sicher, dass ihm irgendjemand nachspioniert. Erst wird seine Kajüte durchsucht, dann wird er niedergeschlagen und anschließend auch noch verdächtigt, selbst herumzuspionieren. Mimi Rutherfurt nimmt sich dem äußerst seltsamen Fall an und kommt schnell dahinter, dass auf der Mississippi-Darling viel mehr geschieht, als es zunächst den Anschein hat.

Axel Mulligan was built to be a Coast Guard rescue swimmer. He could swim faster, endure longer and became a miracle for those in peril in the sea. Until a tragedy destroyed him and sent him to Alaska. Now, three years later, he’s not going to let the past repeat itself, so as an Air One rescue swimmer, he’ll do anything to save lives. Including lose his own--which is what he expects when he goes into the icy waters of the Bering Sea, trying to rescue a cruise group of tourists. But for the voice on the other end of the Ham radio, he might have given up, let hypothermia win. But it didn’t.

Paul Morgan has been running his luxury camping tour business in Kakadu National Park for the last five years, taking small groups glamping, hiking, climbing, and swimming. It’s been a busy five years—a hard five years—as he tried to forget the man he left behind.

Detective Superintendent Biddick steht kurz vor seinem wohlverdienten Ruhestand. 30 Jahre Scotland Yard sind genug. Da wird der Routinier Zeuge eines spektakulären Selbstmordes ein lebensmüder Professor stürzt sich von der Tower Bridge.

You'd think a demon could take a break after stopping a hell portal from opening and an assassin from killing innocents, but fate has something else planned for Brian and Raphael. There is no rest for the wicked. And speaking of wicked, the more Brian learn about his demonic inhabitant, the more grateful he is that he'd been chosen. When a new threat emerges, Brian and Raphael have to pull out all the stops to prevent their king's evil brother, Katashniel, from breaking through the eighth gate and bringing his hellish army with him.