Caleb Becker left Paradise eight months ago, taking with him the secret he promised to take to his grave. If the truth got out, it would ruin everything. Maggie Armstrong tried to be strong after Caleb broke her heart and disappeared. Somehow, she managed to move on. She's determined to make a new life for herself. But then Caleb and Maggie are forced together on a summer trip. They try ignoring their passion for each other, but buried feel ...
Der ehrgeizige und tatkraftige Deichgraf Hauke Haien errichtet neue Deiche mit besserem Schutz vor Sturmfluten. Er reitet einen Schimmel, der sich jedem anderen Reiter verweigert, was den Widerstand der aberglaubischen Bevolkerung schurt, die ihm einen Bund mit dem Teufel andichten. Nach verschieden Schicksalschlagen muss Hauke schlie?lich bei einem Unwetter, bei dem er sich weigert, den alten Damm durch Zerstorung des neuen zu retten, mit anseh ...
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a chilling novella written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published in 1886. The subject matter may be partly that of a shilling shocker, but the whole is executed with great panache and a fine Gothic sensibility. Lawyer Gabriel Utterson leads us apace through the rain-swept streets of Victorian London in pursuit of the diminutive but thoroughly monstrous Mr. Hyde. The upright Dr. Jekyll, inexplicabl ...
Sold-out concerts, screaming fans, TV shows, Number Ones. This is the rock and roll dream, and the Wonderkids are living it. But something's wrong. The gigs are sold out, sure, but the halls are packed with little kids – not sexy hipsters. Edward Lear, the Wonderkids' lead singer, songwriter, and resident mad genius Blake Lear has always written lyrics as silly as they are infectious. Rock and roll has always been for the kids, right? ...
M. R. James wrote, arguably, the finest supernatural tales in English literature, and this collection contains the best of them, including 'Canon Alberic's Scrapbook', 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come To You, My Lad', 'Lost Hearts', 'Casting the Runes', and 'Count Magnus'. James was something of an actor and gifted storyteller and read his tales aloud to select gatherings on many a Christmas ...
London in den 20er Jahren: Vier hochst unterschiedliche englische Damen entfliehen dem tristen Alltag und reisen gemeinsam an die italienische Mittelmeerkuste. Sie quartieren sich in ein kleines mittelalterliches Castello ein und entdecken zwischen Pinien und Glyzinien die Kraft des mediterranen Fruhlings und der Liebe. Elizabeth von Arnims bekanntestes und erfolgreichstes Buch, gelesen von der preisgekronten Sprecherin Doris Wolters, spruht vor ...
A rich, nuanced inter-generational family tale that brings visibility to the practice of female genital cutting Leaving New York to visit India with her husband, Sharifa dives into genealogical research and is intrigued by the missing stories of her great-great-grandfather's four wives. Soon Sharifa uncovers uncomfortable truths about her family's past and is faced with reconciling age-old traditions with their place in the modern worl ...
Die Ehe des Arztes Fridolin und seiner Frau Albertine ist nur scheinbar harmonisch. Unter der Oberflache werden beide von unerfullten erotischen Begierden und Traumen heimgesucht, die zur Entfremdung des Paares bis hin zur Ehekrise fuhren. Das Geheimnisvolle dieser Novelle ruhrt von Fridolins Abstieg in die Tiefen seiner eigenen Psyche und den Veranderungen in den Beziehungen zwischen zwei Menschen durch das Unbewusste. ...