Ergebnis für "bolt" in Literatur & Belletristik

Macho werden ist nicht schwer, Macho sein dagegen sehr...

Terrell Washington's childhood was a trifecta of suck: being black, gay, and poor in America has no upside. Terrell climbed his way out of the hood only to hit a glass ceiling and stop, frozen, a chain restaurant bartender with a journalism degree. His one bright spot is Colby Meyers, a coworker who has no fear, no inhibitions, and sees no boundaries. Terrell and Colby spend their summers at the river and their breaks on the back dock of Papiano's.

Elizabeth Sullivan fears for her brothers, fighting for American freedom; for her father, pretending to be a loyalist; for family and friends, caught between beliefs; but mostly for the man she loves, who is doing his duty. They’d only begun their courtship when the occupation of Charles Town, South Carolina, trapped her in the city and sent him to fight.

This is a book of near pure science fiction. As if I could really have that happen to me and stay alive. I hope you like this fantasy that came as a result of PTSD-influenced nightmares. I used this story to "interrupt" my dreams. This story follows the adventure of an ordinary disabled veteran who gets immense power based on lightning and plasma energies. He is recruited by the FBI and sent on many missions related to today's issues.

Dieses Hörbuch versammelt einige der bekanntesten Meistererzählungen des Autors in neuer Bearbeitung und aktualisierter Übersetzung: Ein Skandal in Böhmen (»A Scandal in Bohemia«) Die Liga der Rothaarigen (»The Red-Headed League«) Der rätselhafte Mord von Boscombe Valley (»The Boscombe...

Dieses Hörbuch versammelt einige der bekanntesten Meistererzählungen des Autors in neuer Bearbeitung und aktualisierter Übersetzung: -Das gefleckte Band (»The Speckled Band«) -Der Daumen des Ingenieurs (»The Engineer's Thumb«) -Der vornehme Junggeselle (»The Noble Bachelor«) -Das...

Rasante Action in Berlin! Dein bester Freund lässt dich im Stich. Jetzt lauf um dein Leben! Chris leiht seinem besten Freund für dessen Hochzeit zehntausend Euro. Dummerweise von dem Geld, das er einem Berliner Clan-Boss zurückbezahlen muss. Doch als die Trauung platzt und der Bräutigam spurlos verschwunden ist, hat Chris ein großes Problem. In seiner Verzweiflung lässt er sich auf einen riskanten Coup ein - und schon bald geht es für ihn um mehr als nur das Geld. Jetzt geht's um sein Überleben.

This story follows the adventure of an ordinary disabled veteran who gets immense power based as lightning and plasma energies. He is recruited by the FBI and sent on many missions related to time issues. These missions are now going through time, and “picking up the pieces”, as our hero encounters time traveler after time traveler from 50 years in the future and today. This, in its awesome fashion, lets our hero show exactly what he is able to do and come up with in the way of devices.

Das spektakuläre Finale der atemberaubenden Glastrilogie. Moritz reist mit seiner Schwester Konstanze und ihrer Freundin Helene durch das düstere mittelalterliche Deutschland. Sie sind auf der Flucht vor der Hexe Baba Jaga, die die Seele von Helenes Bruder Edgar fordert, die sich in eine kleine Elster zurückgezogen hat. Um Edgars Seele zu retten, nehmen es die drei sogar mit den sieben Monsterknechten der mächtigen Hexe auf und geraten dabei immer tiefer in ihre Fänge.

Ruthless. Cunning. Gorgeous. Killers. They are the Kings of Bolten, an elite academy I have no business being in. My desire to remain invisible is dashed when I find myself bound to one of their enemies. Now, there’s no escape. With me in the crosshairs in a war between Kings and Lords at Bolten, will I be another victim or will the Kings spare me on the condition I belong to them? One thing is certain. I have a few dirty little secrets. Maybe I’m not the good girl everyone thought. Maybe I’m meant to be queen. Maybe… I’m meant to rule.

This story takes place in the far future of Earth, after a global war in which a new energy bomb was used, created to destroy electronics across large regions. The unknown long-term effect was that 98 percent of the next generation of female children were born sterile. It also caused the planet to become charged with a new type of energy. Of the children that were born in the centuries that followed, a small percentage were able to gather this energy around them and reform it with their minds. They were labeled as wizards.

The first time I set foot in Fire Chief Declan Everhart's small town, he declared me trouble. Maybe it's because I'm a pop star hiding in his house for the holiday season. Or maybe it's the way I can't help but tease the Grinch. More than likely, though, it's because his best friend Cade touched...

Tre unge kvinder, tre skrækkelige skæbner. Henrik VIII's ulykkelige ægteskab med Anne Boleyn gav langvarige efterdønninger. Efter dronning Janes død i barselsseng skal kongen have en ny dronning, og valget falder på Anne af Cleeves fra et lille hertugdømme i Tyskland. Maleren Holbein sendes af sted for at lave et portræt af den unge pige, og kongen er godt tilfreds, da han ser det. Det er han imidlertid ikke, da han og Anne møder hinanden første gang. Mødet er en katastrofe, og ægteskabet er kuldsejlet på forhånd.

Die angesehene Wissenschaftlerin Dr. Elisabeth Ambrose entwickelte ein Gateway, das es möglich macht, andere Zeitlinien zu erforschen und mit diesen in Kontakt zu treten. Doch nicht alles läuft wie geplant: nach Inbetriebnahme erscheinen unkontrolliert Personen aus anderen Zeitlinien in der Hiesigen - die sogenannten Anomalien. Das gut versteckte Anomalia ist eine Zufluchtsstätte dieser Gestrandeten und beheimatet nach und nach Menschen unterschiedlichster Herkunft. Doch jede vielschichtige Gesellschaft birgt etliche Konflikte.

Hvad de færreste ved, er at kongen først var forelsket i Annes søster Mary og faktisk fik to børn med hende. I Kongens Frille hører vi om denne historie, om en purung pige belastet med en familie, så ambitiøs at de sendte først Mary og dernæst Anne af sted til kongens seng i håb om vinde magtkampen blandt Englands allerfornemmeste familier. Da kampen var forbi, havde Anne mistet sit hoved, Henrik var blevet bandlyst af paven, familien Boleyn havde tabt al magt, og kimen var lagt til arvefølgestridigheder og voldsom religiøs uro i landet i mange år derefter.

Als Boss eines großen Unternehmens ist Darrell extrem reich, selbstbewusst und erfolgreich - aber auch sehr unnahbar. Der einzige Mensch, den er wirklich an sich heranlässt, ist seine kleine, an den Rollstuhl gefesselte Schwester Christie, die mit ihm zusammen in seiner Villa lebt. Als Darrell eine Nanny für Christie sucht, stellt er die kompetente Olivia ein. Christie ist sofort hellauf von Olivia begeistert. Darrell hingegen ist skeptisch, als Olivia anfängt, ihm in Christies Erziehung hineinzureden.

Jasmine and Thyme Hawke are sisters and US Secret Service agents. While investigating what appears to be a simple train robbery along the troubled US/Mexican border, they uncover clues that suggest a larger conspiracy is afoot. An unknown force has discovered the resting place of a long-lost Confederate airship named Zeus. The Hawke Girls know that the aerial monstrosity carried the most powerful weapon ever built, a technology that has never been duplicated.

Kim Maxwell has been languishing in the “cooler” in what she sees as punishment for getting caught—and tortured—by the Nazis, before being freed by Resistance fighters and smuggled back into England. Now she is sent for by the head of SOE. This is her chance to prove herself. A fellow agent has been found murdered. It would seem that Lilian Harvey heard something she shouldn’t have and that her murder was a warning. Setting out to uncover the culprit, Kim spots a strange zigzag pattern on the wall above the bed where the body was found, which Lilian drew using her own blood as she lay dying.

Vindictive. Savage. Deadly. Villains. The horsemen made a move and took me from my kingdom. There’s one thing they didn’t expect though. The truth. With an alliance formed and our world thrown into war, we either choose sides or die for those we love. There are rules to warfare but rules are meant to be broken and so are kings. Our enemies know it. And I’ll be the one they use to prove it. Deadly Little Promises is book three in the Kings of Bolten series and is a dark mafia academy romance with four kings and their queen.

The woman has taken things from me. People. One of them I can never get back. She started this war thinking we’d simply fall down at her feet. You know, kiss her expensive little stilettos. After all, she’s the most powerful mage in existence. And she’s got help.