Ergebnis für "Indigo" in Literatur & Belletristik

Im Norden der Steiermark liegt die Helianau, eine Internatsschule für Kinder, die an einer rätselhaften Störung leiden, dem Indigo-Syndrom. Jeden, der ihnen zu nahe kommt, befallen Übelkeit, Schwindel und heftige Kopfschmerzen. Der junge Mathematiklehrer Clemens Setz unterrichtet an dieser Schule und wird auf seltsame Vorgänge aufmerksam: Immer wieder werden Kinder in eigenartigen Maskierungen in einem Auto mit unbekanntem Ziel davongefahren. Setz beginnt, Nachforschungen anzustellen, doch er kommt nicht weit; er wird aus dem Schuldienst entlassen.

As a child, Hester Wyatt escaped slavery, but now the dark-skinned beauty is a member of Michigan's Underground Railroad, offering other runaways a chance at the freedom she has learned to love. When one of her fellow conductors brings her an injured man to hide, Hester doesn't hesitate...even after she is told about the price on his head. The man in question is known as the "Black Daniel," a vital member of the North's Underground Railroad network.

Worms, Anfang der 1920er-Jahre. Peter Bender, ehemals Fliegerleutnant des Deutschen Heeres, macht sich als Gründer einer neuen Religionsgemeinschaft und mit der Proklamation der sogenannten Hohlwelt-Theorie einen Namen: Die Menschheit, so diese Theorie, lebe nicht auf, sondern in einer Kugel, außerhalb derselben existiere nichts. Benders Gemeinde bleibt überschaubar, dennoch wird er wegen der Verbreitung aufwieglerischer und gotteslästerlicher Flugschriften zu einer mehrmonatigen Kerkerhaft verurteilt.

The year is 1739. Eliza Lucas is sixteen years old when her father leaves her in charge of their family’s three plantations in rural South Carolina and then proceeds to bleed the estates dry in pursuit of his military ambitions. Tensions with the British, and with the Spanish in Florida, just a short way down the coast, are rising, and slaves are starting to become restless. Her mother wants nothing more than for their South Carolina endeavor to fail so they can go back to England. Soon her family is in danger of losing everything.

Indigo and her friends, Bobby and Sarah, reside in a homeless community by the river until the local police raid the area. Scared they will arrest them for trespassing the trio escapes in different directions. Things look bleak for Indigo until she reunites with Bobby who finds a stopwatch which allows them to travel through time. After meeting up with Sarah, painful memories take Indigo and her friends on a grand adventure none of them see coming.

Moren ville være forfatter. Pigen kunne blive vækket midt om natten, så mor og datter sammen kunne drukne sig i havnen. For der var kommet et nyt afslag fra et forlag. Allerede som toårig kom pigen for første gang på børnehjem. I de følgende år er hun skiftevis hos sin psykisk ustabile mor, hos tanter og onkler, i vildfremmede menneskers varetægt, på forskellige institutioner og børnehjem. "Indigo" er en forfatters kamp for på én gang at huske og skrive om en kaotisk barndom.

Investigative reporter Nora Hesper spends her nights cloaked in shadows. As Indigo she's become an urban myth, a brutal vigilante who can forge darkness into weapons and travel across the city by slipping from one patch of shadow to another. Her primary focus both as Nora and as Indigo has become a murderous criminal cult called the Children of Phonos. Children are being murdered in New York, and Nora is determined to make it stop, even if that means Indigo must eliminate every member.

Black Woman Your Body Belongs to You describes the pressure a Black woman experiences from men to have children at the height of her career.

Un festival littéraire réunit pendant huit jours en Inde quatre Français qui ne se connaissent pas. De Dehli à Kovalam, sur les routes saturées et électriques de l'Inde du Sud, leurs destins se croisent. Cette plongée dans l'immensité et l'urgence d'un pays où plane la menace terroriste va bouleverser leur vie, les confronter au plus intime d'eux-mêmes, à leur identité française.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to the poem Femicide: When Friendship Meets Brutality today.

indigo is the joy and lament of a father, theologian, human being, fashioning new ideas about the divine within the painful loss of his daughter, within the constraints of his own intelligence, within the constraints of what religion had been telling him his whole life—some of which was good and some of which wasn't.

Sonny Bates left South Carolina fifteen years ago and never looked back. Now she’s a successful Hollywood location scout who travels the world, finding perfect places for movie shoots. Home is wherever she lands, and between her busy schedule and dealing with her boss’s demands, she has little time to think about the past . . . until her latest gig lands her a stone’s throw from everything she left behind.

Visit the quaint coastal town of Indigo Bay, where love is always in the air.... From vacation romances to second chances, you’ll find sigh-worthy, small-town romance in this complete collection of Melissa McClone’s stories from the multi-author Indigo Bay Sweet Romance series.

Told through the first-person perspective of our blind protagonist Louie, his story begins seemingly at every end he's come to in his life. Growing up in a world he can't remember, the one he's living in, along with the rules, keeps changing. Unable to tell the difference between dream and reality, a blind man's dreams merge his reality. 

For over 20 years, Indigo Cruz has worked the markets of the Texas wastelands, hustling wares, cutting deals, and earning a hard-won reputation as a tough, shrewd trader. In a dangerous, brutal world, she's managed to carve out a comfortable, safe existence. Until the day the Fundamentalist Church of Divine Wrath shows up on her turf, throwing her world into chaos.

In the rural South, a retired colonel in an upscale retirement community grieves the sudden death of his wife on the tennis court. On the other side of the highway, an elderly Black woman grieves the murder of her niece by a white man. Between them lies an abandoned field where three centuries of crimes are hidden, and only she knows the explosive secrets buried there.

A tentative partnership created to fight against the common enemy, where the secrets of their pasts lead to disaster, and a betrayal of one may become a death sentence for all. An unlikely hero...a cunning villain...one Resistance cell. One traitor in their midst. When the Gestapo are closing in, and there’s nowhere else to run, one will make a decision that could change everything. 

Ella hates London. She misses her old life in Spain and is struggling to get over her past - until she meets Zac. He’s always loved her but isn’t meant to be part of her story. Not this time. Not ever. Little does she know that his secret is the one thing that will tear them apart, and force her to live in a world that no longer makes sense. A world full of danger, lies, and magic.

Lizzy Hamilton wants to skip Christmas this year. Working as a nurse and trying to save her failing marriage — to no avail — has drained her energy and joy. She’s a pro at caring for others, but she needs someone to look out for her, too. However, when her soon-to-be ex-husband asks if she’ll spend the holidays with him so he won’t be alone, she can’t say no. Other than his Army Ranger platoon, she’s the only family he has.   

Sheridan DeMarco wants to be anywhere but home for the holidays. She’s happy to spend Christmas house-sitting in South Carolina, far away from her parents’ new blended families. Too bad when she arrives at the charming beach cottage, she isn’t as blissfully alone as she planned.