Showing results for "hell" in Contemporary Fiction

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he'll be reunited with his loved ones after death in an eternal hereafter. Then, he dies. Soren wakes to find himself cast by a God he has never heard of into a Hell whose dimensions he can barely grasp: a vast library he can only escape from by finding the book that contains the story of his life. In this haunting existential novella, author, philosopher, and ecologist Steven L. Peck explores a subversive vision of eternity.

Whether discovering that being dyslexic means delivering your lines to camera back to front in the midst of filming a TV series, or starting a new business and travelling the world, or dealing with life's more sober moments like the birth of a son or the loss of a father, Paul Carter is still the funniest man in the bar and the nicest alpha male you'll ever meet as he risks all for the sake of a good story.

Frühling. Die Kirschbäume blühen. Es könnte so idyllisch sein. Doch Anna Albinger, die am Fuß der Schwäbischen Alb lebt, erkrankt schwer. Plötzlich wird sie von dem Gefühl eingeholt, dass es für manche Dinge irgendwann zu spät sein könnte. Denn da gibt es diese eine große Lüge in ihrem Leben. Schweren Herzens schreibt sie einen Brief, den ihre Nichte Frederike für sie nach Lappland bringen soll. Frederike, frisch geschieden und auf der Suche nach einem neuen Anfang, bricht in den menschenleeren Norden auf. In der Bergwelt Lapplands ist sie auf sich allein gestellt und versucht, ihr altes Leben hinter sich zu lassen.

Rarely has an Evangelical upbringing been depicted with the relentless honesty, wide-ranging empathy, and Superbad-meets-Siddhartha playfulness of USA Today best-seller HELL IS A WORLD WITHOUT YOU. During the time of Pizza Hut buffets, 9/11, and all-night Mario Kart parties, a grieving teenager faces a mortal crossroads: fire-and-brimstone certainty vs. forbidden love. And whether or not you’ve ever begged God to delay the Rapture (so you could have time to lose your virginity), that kid’s story is about you.

Hell - part mystery, part domestic meditation, part horror story - is a brilliantly eerie novel in which three households coexist in a single restless vision: a dollhouse; a dysfunctional family in 1950s Philadelphia; and the cottage home of Edwina Moss, a 19th-century expert on domestic management. While the inhabitants of the dollhouse are powerless to shape their destiny, the four members of the Philadelphia family dedicate themselves to mutual vigilance. Edwina Moss concedes domestic control to the imagination and, finally, to the spirit of Antonin Careme.

Seri, Aja und Karl verbringen ihre Kindheit in einem Ort in Süddeutschland: Verbunden durch eine innige Freundschaft erleben sie magische Kindertage...

Hell Unearthed charts Dante’s journey, guided by his hero, Virgil, through the underworld. In this modern version of Inferno, the cast of sinners Dante meets includes gangsters, dictators, pop stars, sports stars, princes and princesses. These characters’ stories will be familiar to many and they sit alongside sinners drawn from classical mythology as well as the heroes and villains from Dante’s contemporary medieval Tuscany. Characters are positioned in Hell according to the gravity of their sin and are tormented by weapons.

Somebody once told me, “When you become a comedian, you’re not just choosing a profession. You’re choosing a lifestyle.” I should have listened harder. My name is Jay Starr, and I’m a South Asian stand-up comic. I went to LA to pursue my comedy dreams but instead got twisted up in the world of Bollywood, meeting the love of my life and becoming a YouTube sensation known to the world as Tiger Rai.

Helen liest Marx in einer Ökobäckerei, Julius ist im Vorstand einer großen deutschen Bank. Sie ist neunzehn, er zweiundfünfzig. Eine ungewöhnliche Beziehung beginnt. Bis er ermordet wird. Bei einem Attentat, kurz nach dem Mauerfall 1989. Jahre später erinnert sich Helen, befragt Zeitzeugen und Stasiakten. Wer war Julius? Warum musste er sterben? Basierend auf einer wahren Geschichte entfaltet Tanja Langer den Roman einer unkonventionellen Liebesfreundschaft vor dem Hintergrund deutscher Zeitgeschichte um RAF-Gewalt und Mauerfall.