Showing results for "De vogels" in Literature & Fiction

European citizens feel the full force of German injustice, but not all are willing to bend the knee. From France to Poland, Resistance groups fight from the shadows to thwart Nazi rule and hinder their goal to exterminate Jews. In Russia, Wilmot Vogel struggles to survive the ravages of a frigid winter, compounded by the German army’s lack of progress. Hit by a surprise Russian attack on the front lines, however, he finds himself facing an even greater challenge than the freezing weather and Soviet bullets.

Christian Vogels första framträdande i Simrisborg blir vid kriminalkommissarie Göte Lagerbergs begravning. Det är en man han aldrig träffat och vars tjänst han nu ska ta över. Efter en lugn första arbetsdag kastas Vogel rakt in i hetluften när slakteriets förman hittas mördad halvvägs ner i en köttkvarn. Tillsammans med nya kollegorna arbetar Vogel intensivt för att få fram ledtrådar och motiv. Men inte långt därifrån sitter en mördare som planerat sitt utförande in i minsta detalj. Och än är han inte klar ... Ulf Hyltén-Cavallius är en svensk författare och korsordsmakare.

Suddenly all alone in 1894 Kansas, Summer Steadman can't find the employment she needs to settle near the fresh graves of her husband and four children. Bitter against the Lord and refusing to eat, she collapses in despair. Remembering his own painful loss, godly widower Peter Ollenbuger offers her food and shelter for tutoring his 10-year-old son.

A master assassin craves one thing above all else: a normal everyday life. Trained to be a killer from the age of 11, Peter has never known the things the average person takes for granted. He has always been an asset. Burned by the CIA and now occupying their secret hit list, he works overseas as a Ronin, living a solitary life in hiding. But someone knows where he is. A strange man arrives at his door offering Peter the chance of a real life. "Get this done and you can be free," he is told.

Evil deeds that go unpunished only ever lead to more tragedy. A terrible atrocity kills hundreds of people, of which most are children. Twenty years later the men behind it are still unpunished. Not only that, they are now embroiled in new atrocities.

Peter and Michael are supposed to be retired. Living off the fat of their last job. But retirement bores them stiff. That is, until they meet computer hacker John Harker, who begs for their protection before revealing that he has recently come into possession of certain “files” belonging to a secretive organization.

Hardened ex-hit man Peter Black is back working the dark corridors of the CIA. It just so happens that fate has an ironic sense of timing. His first week back coincides with the unleashing of a cataclysmic virus that plunges the world into unparalleled turmoil. The sole antidote hides in a secret lab hidden beneath Sudan’s burning desert. But with the country on the verge of civil war, the CIA’s initial extraction mission fails, losing the vital cure in a maelstrom of savage violence.

When Hope Blossoms stars Amy Knackstedt, a Mennonite who, following the death of her husband, moves with her children to Weaverly, Kansas. Her new neighbor, Tim Roper, isn't happy with this family living next door - they remind him too much of the Mennonite life he escaped years ago. But soon Amy and Tim develop a tentative friendship - and perhaps something more.

Balmy evenings in rural Maryland are fraught with danger, and seductions can happen anywhere from a river bank to the front seat of a car, where a young self-conscious girl is learning to drive. To Li'l Bit, the radio is the most important part of the car, but the pop music of the 50's can never quite drown out the harrowing images in her mind.

A darkly satirical play written at the height of the AIDS crisis. As a young woman is diagnosed with a mysterious new illness, she and her beloved brother flee to Europe in search of a cure...and to escape the pain and uncertainty of the future.

Former elite operative Noah Wolf is drawn back into the shadowy world of espionage. Living a serene life with his family in the Florida Keys, Noah’s past resurfaces when he is called to rejoin the mysterious organization E & E. Relocating to the high-tech sanctuary of Kirtland, the situation quickly takes a dark turn when Noah embarks on a perilous mission against a network of assassins led by the enigmatic Henrik Shultz, known as Adrian: a man Noah thought he’d killed many years ago. But nothing is what it seems in the world of assassins.

"La giustizia non fa ascolti. La giustizia non interessa a nessuno. La gente vuole un mostro... E io le do quello che vuole". La notte in cui tutto cambia per sempre è una notte di ghiaccio e nebbia ad Avechot, un paese rintanato in una valle profonda fra le ombre delle Alpi. Forse è stata proprio colpa della nebbia se l’auto dell'agente speciale Vogel è finita in un fosso. Un banale incidente. Vogel è illeso, ma sotto shock. Non ricorda perché è lì e come ci è arrivato.

Es ist zu heiß, das Unkraut zu üppig, und überhaupt ist das Leben eine einzige Zumutung! Wäre an diesem Apriltag nicht urplötzlich ein seltsamer Vogel in Matteos Garten aufgetaucht, der alte italienische Philosoph wäre noch immer ganz allein auf der Welt. Doch Schopenhauer, wie Matteo den Waldrapp nennt, scheint ihn zu mögen. Und bleibt. Da erfährt Matteo, dass der Vogel zu einer Aufzuchtstation jenseits der Alpen gehört.

It's 1931 in Berlin, and the world is on the precipice of change -- the affluent still dance in their gilded cages but more and more people are living under threat and poverty. Hannah Vogel is a crime reporter forced to write under the male pseudonym Peter Weill. As a widow of the Great War, she's used to doing what she must to survive. Her careful facade is threatened when she stumbles across a photograph of her brother in the Hall of the Unnamed Dead.

Port Angeles, Trinidad. In den sonnendurchglühten Gassen mischt sich das vielstimmige Geschrei der Händler mit Vogelgezwitscher und Verkehrslärm; es riecht nach Gewürzen und reifen Früchten. Unter stillen, schattigen Bäumen ruht Fidelis, der jahrhundertealte Friedhof der Insel. Hier arbeitet Emmanuel als Totengräber. Der junge Rastafari hat sein Zuhause verlassen, um seinen Vater zu finden. Als er Yejide trifft, hat das Schicksal ihre Wege längst fest miteinander verflochten. Und so beginnt dort, wo das Leben endet, eine magische Liebesgeschichte.

Die junge Honora war schon immer eine Außenseiterin in ihrem Dorf an der irischen Westküste. Es ist das Jahr 1849. Als die Hungersnot ihre Gemeinschaft mit brutaler Wucht trifft, schöpft sie genau aus ihrem Anderssein die Kraft zu überleben. Nachdem sie alles verloren hat, bricht sie auf nach Amerika, in der Hoffnung auf ein besseres Leben. Honora gibt nicht auf, ehe sie ihre Freiheit findet – und jemanden, der sie als das erkennt, was sie ist.

Kommando Abstellgleis ist zurück! Die Brigade von Kommissarin Anne Capestan wurde um einen neuen schrägen Vogel bereichert, einen Polizisten, der sich für Musketier D'Artagnan hält. Der Truppe wird ein pikanter Fall übertragen: der Mord an Annes Ex-Schwiegervater, einem ehemals hohen Tier bei der Polizei. Erneut beweist die "Sondereinheit", dass man auch mit unzureichenden polizeilichen Mitteln und unkonventionellen Methoden Täter überführen kann!

Following the events of A Trace of Smoke, journalist Hannah Vogel has been in hiding in Bolivia with her young ward, Anton, for the past three years. She believes she has outwitted Ernst Röhm, the head of the Nazi Party’s Storm Troopers who believes himself to be the boy’s father, so she seizes the offer from a newspaper to cover the journey of a zeppelin from South America to Switzerland, particularly as it will allow her a rare opportunity to meet with her lover, Boris Krause. When the zeppelin is diverted to Germany, she knows she’s walked straight into a trap.

In 1848, women can expect a few bumps along the Oregon Trail. Corinne Temple, age 17, has a few ridiculous challenges to face outside the river crossings, snakes, Indians, accidental gunshots, and finding enough privacy to be clean along the grimy trail. When Corinne’s marriage of convenience gets less convenient, she turns to some new friends in the wagon train who help her see the hope for the future. They teach her to take the time to dance and celebrate the small victories, to have faith and determination through the hardest things a person can face.

Vor den Wagnissen einer Schriftstellerkarriere hat sich Christian Beck in eine Existenz als Übersetzer von Gebrauchsanweisungen geflüchtet – ein Asyl vor dem eigenen Leben. Doch wie lange kann man sich aus dem Leben heraushalten? Als seine langjährige Freundin todkrank wird, will sie heiraten – aber nicht ihn.