Résultats pour "Air" dans Fiction

Brought to you by Penguin. NARRATED BY COLIN MORGAN, STAR OF BELFAST AND THE BBC TV SERIES MERLIN. From internationally bestselling author John Boyne, a contemplative story about one man trying to move forward from the trauma of his youth to become a better father to his son. Being in limbo, 30...

»Air är både en Bröderna Lejonhjärta för vuxna och en i sann mening enastående roman.« Dagens Nyheter Inredningsdesignern Paul trivs bra i den skotska småstaden Stromness med utsikt mot havet och Orkneyöarna. En dag kommer ett mejl från en tidskrift, det gäller en serverhall i...

Este volumen reúne diez de las mejores novelas del gran autor argentino, César Aira, con selección y prefacio de Juan Pablo Villalobos.

An empress demands her birthright . . . The Air War is the eighth book in the critically acclaimed epic fantasy series Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky. All is in turmoil as the world moves towards war. In Solarno, spies eye one another and ready their knives – while the people of Myna...

A hauntingly beautiful and radically disorienting tale by the International Booker Prize–nominated author of Eurotrash. Paul, a Swiss interior designer living alone in the remote Orkney Islands, receives an unusual commission from Kūki, a prestigious design magazine: travel to a massive data...

The Air War is the eighth book in the critically acclaimed epic fantasy series Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky. An empress demands her birthright . . . All is in turmoil as the world moves towards war. In Solarno, spies eye one another and ready their knives – while the people of Myna...

Pauline falls through the floor and no one notices. A chance encounter with a “goddamn mermaid” defines a boy’s life. Scarves flying in a storm turn a wealthy child into a high priestess whether she likes it or not. A mysterious rain messes with Virgil’s memories…Set in New York and Long Island, these brilliantly crafted stories spy on the most private of human pivots and culminations, on those moments of absolute clarity when we’re on the brink of letting go. Sometimes we do, and the wind takes us. Sometimes we hold tight. Or we take a deep breath and raise our flags.

The battle for Orenda Academy has begun. The Elders have spoken, and the tribe is divided. The only way to reverse what’s happened is to take a stand. We’ve started a smuggling operation to help students escape the castle, but it could cost us our lives. The prophecy is about to come true, and we’re desperate to change the course of this war. The Air piece of the prophecy is our last hope. If we don’t find it, we won’t know what’s coming— or how to prevent the end.

Izzy heard the warning before the world went dark. When an EMP wipes out the grid, her mountain town descends into chaos. With no power, no help, and panic spreading fast, Izzy must rely on instinct and training to save lives before everything burns...

A Mouthful of Air is a compassionate and wrenching portrait of Julie Davis, a young wife and mother torn between the love she feels for her family and the voice in her head that insists they’d be better off without her. We meet Julie several weeks after her suicide attempt, on the eve of her son’s first birthday. Grateful to be alive, Julie tries her best to appreciate every moment — “this tree, that passing car, the pretzel guy up ahead on the corner. She has, for whatever reason, been given a second chance” — but her emotional demons are unrelenting.

A loft apartment in London's East End; cool but doomed - demolition and redevelopment slated from the following week. Ken Nott, devoutly contrarian leftish shock-jock attending a mid-week wedding lunch, starts dropping stuff off the rood towards the deserted car park 100 feet below. Other guests join in and soon half the contents of the flat are following the fruit towards the pitted tarmac... just as mobiles start to ring, and the apartment's remaining TV is turned on, because apparently a plane has crashed into the World Trade Center.

When May’s mother dies suddenly, she and her brother Billy are taken in by Aunty. However, their loss leaves them both searching for their place in a world that doesn’t seem to want them. While Billy takes his own destructive path, May sets out to find her father and her Aboriginal identity. Her journey leads her from the Australian east coast to the far north, but it is the people she meets, not the destinations, that teach her what it is to belong.

Ro Krishna has it all – rakish charm, an Oxford education, perfect hair. He’s the kind of guy who’s equally at home in London’s poshest clubs and on the squash court, with enviable wit and style to match. When he is dramatically forced to leave a high-profile job that he loves, he...

George Bowling, an insurance salesman, hits middle age and feels impelled to "come up for air" from his life of quiet desperation. With seventeen pounds he has won at a race, he steals a vacation from his wife and his family and pays a visit to Lower Binfield, the village where he grew up, to...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN Hakan Veil is an ex-corporate enforcer equipped with military-grade body tech that's made him a human killing machine. His former employers have abandoned him on a turbulent Mars where Earth-based overlords battle for profits and power amid...

This bundle contains three spicy novellas featuring a black female lead and a muscular, attractive, and completely dominant white male lead.

Ro Krishna has it all – rakish charm, an Oxford education, perfect hair. He’s the kind of guy who’s equally at home in London’s poshest clubs and on the squash court, with enviable wit and style to match. When he is dramatically forced to leave a high-profile job that he loves, he...

"[A] glorious, glittery saga of friendship and loss... I read The Air You Breathe in two nights. (One might say I inhaled it.)." --NPR "Echoes of Elena Ferrante resound in this sumptuous saga."--O, The Oprah Magazine "Enveloping...Peebles understands the shifting currents of female friendship...

Luke, for good reason, has very strong walls built around him, and Stella is a woman who doesn't need a man to make her complete. But it seems like Saint, her K-9 sidekick, understands something these two 'humans' aren't - or are refusing to admit to each other. Tense moments and dramatic events unfold in this in this modern day Adventure-Romance, and the funny yet tender story will emote visceral feelings of excitement, anticipation, and several moments of "I did not see that coming."

On America's newest combat base, U.S. Air Force aerial warfare expert Major General Patrick McLanahan and his crew of daring engineers are devising the air combat unit of the future. Known as Air Battle Force, it can launch concentrated, stealthy, precision-guided firepower to any spot on the...