Ergebnis für "Lost Boy" in Literatur & Belletristik

Die wahre - und schaurige - Geschichte von Captain Hook aus der Feder von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Christina Henry! Du glaubst, meine Geschichte zu kennen. Aber sie entspricht nicht der Wahrheit. Denn Peter Pan lügt. Peter wird euch erzählen, dass ich der Bösewicht bin, dass ich ihm Unrecht getan habe, dass ich niemals sein Freund war. Aber wie ich schon sagte, Peter lügt. Dies ist, was wirklich geschehen ist: Ich bin Peter Pan auf seine Insel gefolgt, weil er mir ewige Kindheit und unendlichen Spaß versprochen hat.

Agent Gideon Crew erhält den Auftrag, aus einer Ausstellung in New York eine Seite aus einer berühmten frühmittelalterlichen Handschrift zu stehlen. Ein gefundenes Fressen für den begnadeten Kunstdieb - der Coup gelingt. Auf dem Pergament schimmert eine alte Seekarte hindurch. Sie kündet von einer Reise, die vor Jahrtausenden in der Ägäis begann und zu einer Karibikinsel führte. Dort gab es offenbar eine Heilpflanze, die Kranke gesund macht und das Leben verlängert. Die Aussicht auf ein Milliardengeschäft!

English writer Hilary Wainwright lost all trace of his young son when Lisa, his wife, was killed by the Gestapo in Paris. Several years later, an acquaintance travels to England with news that Hilary’s son may be alive in France. Doubting whether five-year-old Jean is indeed his, and determined not to feel vulnerable to love and tenderness again, Hilary travels to France to find the boy.

Clotilde, una artista gráfica que dibuja caricaturas para los diarios republicanos, asiste en Madrid a los últimos meses de la Guerra Civil. La caída de la República es inminente, por lo que su marido, militante comunista que trabaja para los rusos, decide enviar a Moscú a su hijo Pablo, de tan solo cinco años, en contra de su voluntad.

Attorney Justin Glass's practice, housed in a shabby office on the north side of Saint Louis, isn't doing so well that he can afford to work for free. But when eight-year-old Tanisha Walker offers him a jar full of change to find her missing brother, he doesn't have the heart to turn her away. Justin had hoped to find the boy alive and well. But all that was found of Devon Walker was his brutally murdered body - and the bodies of twelve other African American teenagers, all discarded like trash in a mass grave.

The Clarke family—Penny, Rod and their two young boys—are delighted when they are offered a holiday in a high-end guest house on a remote and beautiful island. Their hostess Anna seems like a lovely woman. But what the Clarkes don’t realise is that this is no random invitation, that Anna has carefully selected the family to satisfy her own sinister agenda. Penny soon begins to sense there’s something off about Anna. She often speaks about her husband and son, but is it odd that they are both away? And that Anna seems perfectly content to be alone in this isolated place?

Life is good. In just a couple short weeks, I’ll be starting a new job; I’ll be business partners with Holden in our own consulting firm. I’ll be working alongside my best friend instead of the incompetent blowhards I have to put up with now. It also means I’ll get to see more of Holden and his fiance/little Ollie. I can’t get enough of my self-appointed nephew. I love hanging out with both of them; to have adult conversations with Holden and watch Ollie play. But as happy as I am that my friends have found love, I can’t help but be jealous.

Callum’s life takes a turn when he loses his father's grip from the crowd at Arlenridge. He becomes lost amidst people and finds himself trying to navigate the intimidating city and the people in it. He soon learns that nothing is as it seems as he tries to find his father.

In 525 BC, the Persian king Cambyses sent 50,000 soldiers across the conquered Egyptian desert to take an oasis city not far from where the Libyan border stands today. According to Greek history, a hurricane-force sandstorm struck near the end of their 600-mile trek. The army - all 50,000 men - vanished without a single trace. Fast forward to 1986. A British archaeological team, sent to the edge of the Great Sand Sea to exhume evidence of the incident, has also gone missing.

In the small Connecticut town of Wilshire, James Corbett, senior member of a local outlaw family, has been hideously murdered. For Ellen Wilder, new editor and owner of the local newspaper, the gruesome killing is as disturbing as the irrational fears it has triggered within her. She is left doubting for her own sanity. For State Police Detective Michael Chandler, the murder is only a hint of trouble to come... and an eerie echo of his own near-death experience.

One early October afternoon, 10-year-old Jacob Rossi begins the short walk home from school. But he never makes it. Days later, DCI Anna Tate is called to the scene of a burning building, where an awful discovery has been made. A body has been found, and the label in his school blazer reads: J. Rossi. As Anna starts digging, she soon learns that a lot of people had grudges against the boy’s father. But would any of them go so far as to take his son? And is the boy’s abductor closer than she thinks?

In 1913, on a summer's day at Half Moon Lake, Louisiana, four-year-old Sonny Davenport walks into the woods and never returns. The boy's mysterious disappearance from the family's lake house makes front-page news in their home town of Opelousas. John Henry and Mary Davenport are wealthy and influential, and will do anything to find their son. For two years, the Davenports search across the South, offer increasingly large rewards, and struggle not to give in to despair.

After a recent brush with death, Cole realizes what really matters to him. He is furious with the woman he loves for abandoning him, and he is willing to give up everything just to give her a taste of her own medicine. A journey into the Nevada desert holds many discoveries for Sophie, including an opportunity to meet her biological family for the first time. But an innocent woman has been killed by the same monster who shot her brother, and she feels compelled to help bring her justice.

Set amid the unmatched beauty of Southeast New Mexico, The Long Road Home begins with biker Jacob McGuire reentering society on a mission, along with the help of his biker brothers, to find the person that killed his wife Maria. After taking a job at the Campbell Ranch, he is reunited with his childhood friend Faith Campbell. Faith, recently engaged, has returned home from her fashion career in New York to attend her father’s funeral. Becoming intertwined in Jacob’s world, she must choose between her safe, structured life in New York and her unleashed passion in New Mexico.

Arcturus is a love story of two people who refuse to give up and the tale of a family on a cross-country journey learning to heal. Arcturus awakens the soul, gripping listeners’ hearts and leaving them questioning what truly matters. In our lives, there are defining moments - moments in which we love, laugh, grieve, and heal. We all have our own stories, but something truly special happened 36 years ago. We received a gift. Her name was Emily Rene White, and this is her story.

Learn how it all began...before Rae Kerrigan. The sins of the father are the sins of the son. What did Rae’s father do that put fear in people’s eyes at the name Kerrigan? The final book in the Chronicles of Kerrigan Prequel. After over a year of living a double life, Simon Kerrigan's lies have finally caught up with him. Framed for the death of his parents and arrested on the spot, Simon sees his world shrink down to the size of a cage. The choice is made for him, and suddenly, Simon finds himself waging war against the very people he's sworn to protect.

Black Boy Say You: Help Mama, Lost Be Mind offers a modern take on spirituality and mental health and details the worries of a young Black boy that fears his mind wanders too far.

The saddest day I can recollect now is the day I left my clan alone. My brethren. I'll never forget the look on the faces of my clan; one of fear and anxiousness and most of all, sorrow. It wasn't only that they feared for my safety, either; they were afraid of being without their Master, their keeper. Their hero and best friend. We had not only developed a rapport with each other over time, but a genuine love for one another as well. Love, respect, and loyalty. And now I was leaving them behind, even if only briefly, to risk my life for them.

It was a typical day at the library when Molly, the librarian, meets a handsome young bookworm named Liam. Liam has the most gorgeous biceps Molly has ever seen, and the laws of seduction bring the pair together in a steam fest at the public library.