Résultats pour "Planes" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

Earth is dying, and humanity is scrambling to set up colonies in other star systems. But the search process for habitable planets is not perfect, as the crew of the Ouroboros discover on arrival at their new home.

Jeremiah Bourne is in great danger. As Jeremiah is swept from his crumbling home in Blackfriars in 2019, to the same house but in 1910, he suddenly faces two questions: how did he get here, and how can he return to his own time? On his quest for answers, he encounters a cast of comic characters and situations: a coven of free-thinking spiritualists, a futuristic residents’ association, warring street gangs, eugenic scientists, aggressive domestic servants and a nudist magistrate.

A CHICAGO TRIBUNE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR An urgent, fiercely intelligent debut novel about "two couples, an ocean apart—one wounded by a war crime, the other just starting to reckon with being implicated in it.... An insightful book about the slow, zigzag work of healing that nonetheless...

Sita Dulip has missed her flight out of Chicago. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport, she discovers a method of bypassing the crowds at the desks, a nasty lunch, whimpering children, their punitive parents, and the blue plastic chairs bolted to the floor: she changes planes—literally. Sita discovers entire planes of existence and visits societies not found on Earth—bizarre societies that share similarities with Earth's cultures and sometimes open doors into the alien.

It is June 1941 and Denmark is under German occupation. On the rocky coast of Denmark, two brothers, Harald and Arne Olufsen, starkly different in nature, are straining against the rigid confines imposed by their austere, elderly parents and trying to find their own way in life. Meanwhile, a network of MI6 spies is attempting to decipher an encrypted Luftwaffe radio signal which mentions the new Freya-Gerät - a rudimentary form of German radar equipment.

Un plan audaz para una fuga imposible. Egil ha ideado un plan para rescatar al Rey Grypho de las profundidades de las mazmorras de Jadrakos. Nahia tendrá que ejecutar el plan con la ayuda de colaboradores encubiertos en la academia. El riesgo será inmenso. Nadie ha conseguido fugarse de las mazmorras. Nahia sabe que fallar significa la muerte. ¿Lo lograrán? ¿O morirán en el intento? En los Desiertos Noceanos la rebelión continua. El Escuadrón Rojo defenderá las Montañas de Sangre junto a los Desher Tuinami y lucharan contra los dragones que han llegado para matarlos. ¿Lograrán sobrevivir?

“The perfect cocktail of well-plotted, good-hearted, murderous fun." —Nina Simon, bestselling author of Mother-Daughter Murder Night THEY'D KILL TO BE WIDOWS. Three best friends turn to murder to collect on their husbands’ life insurance policies… But the husbands have a plan of their...

EL FINAL MÉS ESPERAT D'UNA GRAN TRILOGIA Després de l'èxit esclatant de La Germandat de l'Àngel Caigut (Premi Josep Pla 2024) i La calavera de l'apòstol, Jaume Clotet culmina la trilogia amb la novel·la més ambiciosa i poderosa de la sèrie. L'espasa del rei uneix el passat mític de...

Everyone remembers the story. Nobody knows the truth. Flight 417 was meant to be a routine journey. Then it disappeared. Trapped in the snow, a group of strangers is forced into an unthinkable decision. One that will decide who is fed, who is feared, and who will never leave the mountain. But as...

She's sunshine. He's frostbite. They've got 1,600 miles to go—and he's about to discover his new enemy might be his anonymous online soulmate. Oliver Fletcher has one goal, and he's not happy about it: get home for his brother's wedding. After extreme weather cancels every flight, his only...

Lady Amelia solo ha conocido la vida acomodada de la aristocracia inglesa de mitad del siglo XVIII, pero cuando primero su madre y después su padre fallecen, se encuentra sola, afligida y... menor de edad. Su tutor, un tío americano, le ha ordenado viajar a su plantación, donde deberá quedarse durante al menos dos años, que será cuando sea mayor de edad. Con la ayuda de lady Grace y Lady Sarah, lady Amelia logra que su tío esté de acuerdo en darle cuatro semanas para arreglar sus asuntos y, sin que él lo sepa, encontrar un lord inglés con el que casarse para poder quedarse en Inglaterra.

Avery could no longer stand to be humiliated by others for her belief in The Storytellers and the loss of her only child. Her loss, like others, was too great to bear and broke her heart. The memory hurt and continued to fill her with pain. With each shallow breath, her lips quivered as her mind raced. She leaned forward, placing her head down in her arms on the table. The soft sobbing, unnoticed by all except one, continue. Between each sob, she began to feel him touch her mind, with his thoughts overtaking hers, calming her.

A Great Evil lurks over the horizon in Kalamar. So, too, does a great Good. Benjamin and Kay-Lee, The Chosen, may finally be ready to fulfill their destinies and save Kalamar from Darkness.

Benny, a young boy of three, lies on the kitchen floor bleeding profusely. This was no accident, but the first assassination attempt. The assassins are not from Earth, sent from The Third Plane of Kalamar to kill the young child. Benny is no ordinary child. He is one of The Chosen, hidden on earth to escape the evil lord of darkness.

In a city that could well be New York, a series of identical women are found dead in suspicious circumstances. Magazine photographer Johnny Farthing, who is reporting on the suspected murders, is chilled to discover that his fiancée looks identical to the victims, too—and then she disappears. As his investigations spiral beyond his control, he finds himself at the heart of a sinister plot that uses cloning to revive the Nazi vision of a world-powerful master race.

For Clive, death isn't the end. But with almost a year until his body is reborn, it is a dangerous setback. With Armies to lead, alliances to maintain, and enemies ranging from the gods to the imminent return of the psychopath Natom Hilgresh, he needs a workaround. He needs an Avatar. Achieving this lofty aim will require sacrifice and hard work—for his followers, at least. So while Clive practices with his ethereal powers, they attempt to push their budding god up through the Ethereal Stages and bring him back to the world of the living.

Young peoples book of adventure in aviation with young women in the lead rolls. This is in the earlier days of aviation. - Summary by Susan Morin

Cassandra Haslam loves plans. Lunch plans, wedding plans, and floor plans—they all bring her joy. In fact, she's had her entire life planned out—career, marriage, and family—since age 10. She's smart, hardworking, and a go-getter, and everything has fallen into place so far. Until her husband dies suddenly, right when she's about to enjoy the fruits of all of her hard work and planning, leaving Cass reeling and...well, without a plan. When her youngest graduates three months later, making her an empty-nester, Cass decides it's time to make a new plan for herself. A paradise plan.

He wants power, and she wants revenge. The Best Laid Plans is full of manipulators, dirty dealers, and dastardly rascals, all snatching at power—political, financial, and sexual, or all of the above. Against the backdrop of Washington politics and the war in Bosnia, a handsome, charismatic attorney is determined to win the presidency at all costs, while his jilted fiancée is intent on revenge and grows a media empire to destroy him. In a world of beautiful people, money, and deception, two equally determined people are headed on a collision course.

An Iraqi woman, whose family was killed by American soldiers, must help the FBI find the terrorists from the fifth 9/11 plane before they can attack the US.