Résultats pour "Born" dans Fiction

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The dark, dangerous, funny and uplifting new novel from the author of Annihilation, the inspiration for the major motion picture directed by Alex Garland. ‘Neither of us had control of our monsters anymore’ In a ruined city of the future, Rachel scavenges a...

In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. A 30-something-year-old “millennial everywoman”, she has recently left her white-collar desk job - in order to care for her newborn daughter full-time - as so many Korean women are expected to do. But she quickly begins to exhibit strange symptoms that alarm her husband, parents, and in-laws: Jiyoung impersonates the voices of other women - alive and even dead, both known and unknown to her.

High school English teacher Elise loves teaching Shakespeare. She is also very pregnant. She’s trapped in a classroom with her Grade 12 students during a lockdown. Anthony, the cause of the lockdown, is roaming the halls with a knife in search of some solace, consumed by thoughts of his best friend Samantha, who is in peril. Maria, the school's counselor, is second-guessing her decision to turn him in.

Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura has taken the drastic decision to be sterilized, but as time goes by Alina becomes drawn to the idea of becoming a mother. When complications arise in Alina’s pregnancy and Laura becomes attached to her neighbour’s son, both women are forced to reckon with the complexity of their emotions.

Deutschland in der nahen Zukunft: Der Große Sandkrieg hat das Land fast unbewohnbar gemacht, die Bevölkerung drängt sich in gigantischen Mega-Citys. Riesige Farmen außerhalb sichern die Versorgung mit dem Nötigsten - oder dem, was die Regierung für nötig hält.

Mark and Sarah, a young couple expecting their first child, their son-to-be, James. Until, one day their dreams of a family are cruelly snatched away from them when they are given the news that James' heart has stopped and he will be stillborn. As Sarah falls into a deep depression, Mark tries to get his life back on track in-between some horribly real-feeling dreams. A sad, hard story, which leads Mark and Sarah through a series of events, ultimately leading to a beautifully unexpected finale.

The second book in the bestselling dark dystopian fantasy series from hugely popular dark romance author Nicci Harris, where Dahlia, a young woman raised as a “lace girl,” meant to soothe the brutal men who go to war, but when her best friend dies giving birth, she finds herself on the run...

Patrick Collins earned the peace he’s found in New York City with his pack through sacrifice. Six years out from the end of the world, he’s satisfied with the life he’s built and doesn’t think about what else the future might hold until he stumbles his way into a hostage situation he didn’t ask to be part of. Jonothon de Vere would like nothing more than to wake up each morning with the love of his life and never deal with trouble again. Except Patrick has always been a magnet for such crises, and Jono isn’t one to stand idly by when his lover could use some help.

In the chilling depths of her grandmother's attic, Clara Whitlock discovers a trunk filled with enigmatic postcards depicting infants emerging from soil, watched over by a shadowy Woman in Red. As she unravels the cryptic clues, Clara is thrust into a labyrinth of forgotten history: the buried empire of Tartaria, orchestrated mud floods erasing civilizations, and a clandestine order breeding compliant clones to perpetuate elite bloodlines.

Harley Carmichael-Roth was born into money. She has everything a girl could dream of, except the one thing she really wants—a successful career as an actor. Harley's aunt Rachael Carmichael went from silver screen legend to Hollywood recluse, and now Harley cannot get in the door. That is, until she is cast to play Rachael, a woman she looks so similar to but doesn't know. Is this her chance?

Three siblings, a pilot, university professor, and marijuana grow-operator, come together every Christmas. As always, their elderly parents present to them their thoughts in a recorded message. But this year's missive causes Frederick, Maria and Marcus to flinch, and intense sentiments resurface. But before they can react, they are distracted by the sudden disappearance of the family's talkative parrot, Pock. Who has stolen him? Fingers are pointed, Gypsies are blamed. As the diversion subsides, their thoughts shift back to the recordings.

The epic saga of Smoke Jensen takes a wild and dangerous turn when the legendary mountain man joins a wagon train of war widows—on a doomed journey through hell . . . Big Rock, Colorado, has seen its share of wagon trains pass through town, but never one like this. For starters, it's led by a...

A decade after the Cynosure, Zoe Sinclair is still trying to ignore the end of the world. For ten years, everything has been slowly falling apart; people continue to disappear, and no one seems to know where, until they begin to reappear as the terrifying Baptised. Zoe needs to get away — it's something she is good at — but to outrun the tide of impending catastrophe will take every bit of her creativity, imagination, and callous disregard for those she cares about. From Milton Keynes to the devastated city of London, Zoe runs while the creatures of the plague relentlessly pursue her.

The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction. From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood - in which she was born with an abnormality in her eye into a family intent on fixing it. In a world without the time and space for innocence, the narrator intimately recalls her younger self - a fierce and discerning girl open to life's pleasures and keen to its ruthless cycle of tragedy.

As Udonwa grows, her hidden family history changes her forever. Let me tell you a story. It's about a war. This war is not the type fought with guns and machetes. It is a family type. A silent war. The type fought in the heart. It began long before I was formed. Udonwa's family is at war—a war...

Colm Reid, a disillusioned journalist in Dublin, is invited by Norwegian conservationist Kennet Haven to cover a story in the remote Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Colm joins Kennet, Kennet’s sister Jane, Belgian journalist Fatou Ba, and the rangers of Garamba on an expedition into the park to look for the last surviving wild northern white rhinos on the planet. Kennet neglected to mention one thing: the park is in the middle of a war zone.

Karriere ist Dating im Anzug. Nach seinem Studium hören die Herausforderungen für Bo Martens nicht auf. Bei der Frage, wie es beruflich weitergeht, hilft ihm der exzentrische Topmanager Dr. Thomas Meermann aufs Pferd, indem er ihn mit zahlreichen voll- oder teilumfänglich hohlen Business-Weisheiten versorgt. Als Bo sich unsterblich in seine Zahnärztin verliebt, quält ihn die Frage, wie ein überdurchschnittlich durchschnittlicher Typ wie er Erfolg bei einer solchen Traumfrau haben könnte.

When Teagan Ward donates her eggs to science, she never imagines that the consequences will ripple across the cosmos. As Earth crumbles under the weight of conflict and climate disaster, Teagan discovers that seven children, born from her donated eggs, are the centerpieces of a daring experiment to populate the stars. Determined to reunite with her children, she finds herself entangled in a web of greed, betrayal, and cosmic ambition. By the year 2068, humanity's hope for survival lies beyond the confines of Earth.

While serving a many-year sentence for manslaughter, Tony meets a wise mentor Ricky, who teaches him the true laws of the universe. During his out-of-body experience, Tony has the opportunity to see all creation. Just before his release, Tony is given a precious gift - his mentor’s handwritten books, packed with years’ worth of Ricky’s ideas and insights. An otherwise average person, after being released, Tony intends to live a normal life. But what stands for the "norm" in "normal"?

Esta novela ha pasado de ser la breve historia de una joven coreana a convertirse en un terremoto que ha sacudido a las mujeres de medio mundo. Kim Ji-young (que lleva el nombre más común entre las mujeres coreanas nacidas en 1982) es aparentemente una mujer como cualquier otra, con una juventud sin pena ni gloria, siempre a la sombra.