Ergebnis für "anthony william" in Literatur & Belletristik

A mysterious stranger. A magnificent kingdom. Songs of war that awaken memories too painful to hide. In The Odyssey: Books 7 & 8, the shipwrecked Odysseus enters the wealthy and seemingly enchanted land of the Phaeacians, where the next stage of his journey begins. Guided by Athena, Odysseus...

In The Odyssey: Books 5 & 6, Homer’s epic journey surges forward as the gods finally decree Odysseus’s release from Calypso’s island. But freedom does not come easily. Cast again upon the mercy of the sea and the wrath of Poseidon, Odysseus must endure shipwreck, exhaustion, and near ruin...

Der Kämpfer Vaelin soll im Auftrag des Kaisers hingerichtet werden, da er den jungen Thronfolger und Hoffnungsträger Hope ermordet hat. Auf seiner letzten Schiffsreise erzählt er einem Chronisten sein Leben: Von den Anfängen, als er nach dem Tod der Mutter von seinem Vater bei einem Orden abgegeben wurde, über seine Ausbildung zum Kämpfer bis hin zu seinen Abenteuern und Schlachten, die er bis zuletzt im Namen seines Königs Janus geführt hat.

A son searching for answers. Two legendary kings. The first true hope that Odysseus may still live. In Books 3 and 4 of Homer’s The Odyssey, Telemachus continues the dangerous search for news of his missing father. Guided by Athena, he arrives at Pylos and is welcomed by the aged King Nestor...

Lucy Bartons ("Alles ist möglich", "Die langen Abende") Erinnerungen an ihren ersten Ehemann, an Verlust und lebenslange Verbundenheit. Lucy Barton erzählt von der komplexen und innigen Beziehung zu ihrem ersten Mann William, der ihr auch nach der Scheidung Vertrauter und Freund blieb. Mit ihm wurde sie erwachsen, mit ihm bekam sie zwei Töchter, erlebte aber auch das schmerzvolle Ende ihrer Ehe. Beide bauten sich ein neues Leben mit anderen Menschen auf und blieben doch jahrzehntelang miteinander verbunden.

In the 1870s, Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. One of these men regales Will with tales of the immense buffalo herds hidden away in the Colorado Rockies and convinces him to join an expedition to track them down.

Tipu Sultan is dead. Seringapatam has fallen. Mysore has been broken, but victory has opened a dangerous vacuum across southern India. Captain William Culpepper of His Majesty's 33rd Regiment of Foot is sent into the unstable year after Mysore's collapse. At twenty-two, he has already survived brutal campaigning in Europe and India, including the storming of Seringapatam. Now he faces a different kind of war.

Brought to you by Penguin. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker-longlisted, bestselling author returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt and...

Saint-Malo 1944: Marie-Laure, ein junges, blindes Mädchen, ist mit ihrem Vater, der am "Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle" arbeitet, aus dem besetzten Paris zu ihrem kauzigen Onkel in die Stadt am Meer geflohen. Einst hatte er ihr ein Modell der Pariser Nachbarschaft gebastelt, damit sie sich besser zurechtfinden kann. Nun ist in einem Modell Saint-Malos, der vielleicht kostbarste Schatz aus dem Museum versteckt, den auch die Nazis jagen.

""Fiendish good fun."" —Anthony Horowitz From the hugely talented author of Before She Knew Him comes a chilling tale of psychological suspense and an homage to the thriller genre tailor-made for fans: the story of a bookseller who finds himself at the center of an FBI investigation because a...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they’ve come from—and what they’ve left behind. ...

Lacking health insurance when he was diagnosed with cancer, Shawn Speakman asked friends in the science fiction and fantasy writing community to donate short stories he could use to counter mounting medical debt. The result was Unfettered, an anthology offering tales from some of the best authors working today. Now, in Unfettered III, Speakman continues to pay forward the aid he received, raising money to combat medical debt for SF&F artists and authors.

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In the waning years of the eighteenth century, young William Culpepper leaves behind his quiet family home and steps into the ruthless world of the British Army. Appointed an ensign in the King’s 33rd Regiment of Foot, he soon learns that courage, intellect, and moral conviction are tested in the forge of the battlefield.

England in the 14th Century. Twelve-year-old Robin’s world is turned upside down when his father, the Earl of Waringham, dies in disgrace. His inheritance lost and his family name dishonoured, the penniless Robin must begin a new life as a peasant on his own estate. He soon makes an enemy in Mortimer, the spoiled young son of the new Earl. As the years pass and the boys enter adulthood, Robin flees Waringham to seek his fortune abroad.

Robin has made a powerful ally in the Duke of Lancaster. But he has made powerful enemies too: not only his childhood adversary Mortimer, but the sadistic knight Peter de Gray. Returning to England, he is awarded the fiefdom of Fernbrook in Lancashire, where he meets the beautiful noblewoman Joanna. But the wheel of fortune keeps turning and as the years pass Robin and his friends must face trials and tragedies: plague, war and political intrigue are never far away.

18th century Philadelphia: a city simmering with tension as the population divides between civilians and the distinct community of Myrtles. When the Mayor's decree escalates into a genocidal order for the execution of all Myrtles, a desperate fight for survival ignites. Led by a young, determined warrior, a band of Myrtle friends must rise against the tyranny to save their people from annihilation.

In 2005, Brandon Sanderson debuted with Elantris, an epic fantasy unlike any other then on the market. Graphic Audio is reissuing Elantris in a completely new audiobook production, a fresh chance to introduce it to the myriad listeners who have since become Sanderson fans. This new version is re-recorded with a larger cast of actors, new sound effects, and new music scoring!

At the age of 30, Robin is an Earl at last - but not the Earl of Waringham, the ancestral title that he still hopes to win back one day from the evil Mortimer. England has seen other changes too: Edward III is dead and his successor, the boy king Richard II, is at odds with his uncle, the Duke of Lancaster. The introduction of a hated new poll tax brings about one of the most dangerous episodes in English history and Robin finds himself embroiled in the Peasants’ Revolt.

Ex-Special Forces soldier Connor (Skid) Ryan is recruited as a contractor by his former hated SAS officer to capture or kill Declan O’Malley, a notorious Sons Of Eirinn bombmaker. With soldiers from the PKK, Ryan has to execute a daring military operation - this time without his Special Forces comrades before the terrorists can use the WMD on the streets of Britain. The worlds security services of China, Russia, USA, and the UK are all desperately homing in to prevent another 9/11 atrocity on an even larger scale.