Showing results for "Kings" in Contemporary Fiction

King of Sunset är ståtlig och kanske världens snabbaste travhingst. Han är också vild, men Martina lyckas vinna hans förtroende. Tillsammans är de oslagbara. Men något fasansfullt är i görningen. Sunset har fiender som vill sätta stopp för hans tävlingskarriär. Martina har bestämt sig - hon ska rädda sin älskade häst. Ulrika Ekblom (f. 1961) författade åren 1993-2000 serien i fem delar om Martina och King of Sunset.

Martina kunde först inte tro på det. Sunset hade äntligen återhämtat sig från en längre tids sjukdom och enkelt vunnit nästa lopp. Sjukdomen tycktes bara ha gjort honom snabbare. Plötsligt nås Martina av meddelandet från veterinären – Sunset är diskvalificerad! Orsak: doping. Någon vill skada Sunset, men vem? Ulrika Ekblom (f. 1961) författade åren 1993-2000 serien i fem delar om Martina och King of Sunset. Hon är även skrivit om cirkushästen Pricken och fotbollslaget Smedstorps BK.

Seattle 1962: Walter, wunschlos unglücklich in seiner Ehe, schwängert das Au Pair seiner Kinder und löst damit eine Tragödie aus...

The Raven King è il secondo audiolibro della acclamata serie All for the game: una trilogia di bestseller internazionali che, solo in Russia, il primo paese dove sono stati pubblicati, ha venduto oltre un milione di copie. Curato da Alessia Merlo e Rossella Pinto.

While growing up, Joe Farroni almost never saw his Uncle Rocco, and when Joe asked his parents about the man, they’d kept their lips zipped. Only when Joe is an adult - a writer struggling with a mortgage and two kids - does he discover his uncle’s identity as the sneakiest, slipperiest, most successful conman to ever grace the streets of New York City. Now Rocco has passed away, and left it to Joe, his only heir, to write the story of his master schemes.

King Sarcowicz, known to his friends and acquaintances as King Sauerkraut, means well. He even brings in his elderly neighbor's garbage cans when he happens to remember. But King is careless of people. As a partner in Keystone Robotics in Pittsburgh, King has a way of antagonizing staff and customers. He's great with machines, but give him a human being and he doesn't know where to begin. His life seems to be made up of work and consuming large quantities of beer and eggs. King is brilliant, however. Nobody would deny that. He's just dreadful with paperwork and deadlines and organization and personal relations.

Die neunjährige Trisha unternimmt mit ihrem Bruder und ihrer Mutter eine Wanderung. Sie verlässt kurz den Weg - und verläuft sich im Wald. Hunger und Durst, Schwärme von Mücken, Einsamkeit und Dunkelheit sind nicht ihre einzigen Begleiter.

King and Queen deals with the lives of royalty in the olden days. They did not live in the modern world that we live in today. Yet there are similarities. We all have eccentricities and foibles. We very quickly get to love the king and queen and are transported into their world and how they go about their lives at and away from the palace. Politics and fashion are at the forefront during this particular phase of their lives. They are very entertaining characters who perhaps, despite being royalty, are no different than you and me.

Bath, 1821. Rachel Crofton escapes her unhappy employment as a governess by marrying a self-made businessman. But her new life soon takes an unexpected turn. Reclusive Jonathan Alleyn is a man tormented by the disappearance of his childhood sweetheart, Alice. Starling, foundling child and now...

This story was first published in The Week's News of 5 May 1888, and in Volume VI of The Indian Railway Library the same year. It was included in Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories, published in 1890, and in numerous later editions of that collection. Little Toby, 'His Majesty the King', is the neglected six-year-old child of an estranged couple. He is desperate to earn his mother's affection, and be loved, as his friend Patsie is loved by her mother.

"The Man Who Would Be King" (1888) is a story by Rudyard Kipling about two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. The story was first published in The Phantom Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales (1888). It also appeared in Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories (1895), and numerous later editions of that collection. It has been adapted for other media a number of times. The narrator of the story is an Indian journalist in 19th century India - Kipling himself, in all but name.

Parce qu'on lit une bonne histoire de filles comme on part en vacances au soleil en hiver, pour se détendre et pour s'évader, Histoires de filles sous le soleil, c'est... trois romans dont les héroïnes respectives passent une semaine dans le Sud pendant l'hiver!

Trois couples, amis depuis toujours, louent chaque été le même chalet dans le bois. Mais, cette fois-ci, deux semaines avant le départ, l'un des couples annonce sa rupture, produisant une onde de choc dans le petit groupe tricoté serré. Un roman d'ici qui parle d'amitié, de couple, de maternité, de forêt, de nature, de soleil et de l'eau fraîche d'un lac québécois, l'été.

It is summer of 1885. The Strauss brothers are staying in London as part of a concert tour. The planned performance in one of the largest concert halls in the Empire is at jeopardy, when a crime occurs involving Johann's violin. His desperate brother Eduard reaches out to Sherlock Holmes for help.

Con este libro el autor hace un estudio profundo sobre el secreto de la sabiduría del rey Salomón, relatandonos su amistad con una abeja Karnit Or. La abeja habla con el rey y le transmite a través de símbolos y diálogos las similitudes curiosas entre la vida en la colmena y la monarquía, sus conquistas, trabajos y amores, casi un libro para aprender y entender la vida desde el punto de vista de la naturaleza representada por una abeja.

Meet India, the star-struck, money-hungry honey from Brooklyn, who's dead set on marrying someone well-known...even if she has to steal him from her good friend. In comes Royce, a tantalizing, sexy singer who's searching for fame in all the wrong places. Soon her past catches up with her and things spiral out of control. By hook, crook, or the good book, one of these ladies will fall hard.

If you think the Olympics are fantastic, just wait till you read about the incredible achievements of the animal kingdom. In this world there are even prizes for coming dead last! Guess Who’s Coming for Dinner - A tummy-rumbling look at what’s on nature’s menu. Learn all about the wacky things some animals eat and the extraordinary ways they find food to fill their bellies.