Résultats pour "Das Event" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

Als Izzy Astor 2011 in ein Flugzeug steigt, rechnet sie höchstens mit ihrer üblichen Flugangst, aber ganz bestimmt nicht mit Nate Phelan: dunkelhaarig, strahlend blaue Augen, charmant und irgendwie genau der Mensch, den sie nie gesucht hat. Zwischen ihnen entsteht sofort eine tiefe Verbindung. Doch kurz nach dem Start stürzt das Flugzeug in den Missouri River. Ihre Leben verändern sich. Sie verändern sich. Nate macht Karriere beim Militär, Izzy verfolgt ihren eigenen Weg als Juristin. Trotz der Entfernung verlieren sie nie den Kontakt, aber das Timing scheint nie zu stimmen.

2011. Une minute trente après le décollage, l’avion qui devait emmener Nate Phelan au centre de formation de l’armée plonge dans le fleuve Missouri. Miraculeusement, il survit – et sauve sa voisine, Izzy Astor. Dès lors, leurs chemins se croiseront sans cesse. Jusqu’à ce jour fatidique, à New York. 2021. Nate attend sur le tarmac de Kaboul. Il a pour mission d’assurer la sécurité de conseillers américains envoyés par la sénatrice Lauren. Quand il reconnaît celle qui descend de l’avion, il en a le souffle coupé.

There's a reason Emmeline Frothingham left her hometown of Creek Water, Missouri, as soon as humanly possible. That reason is small-minded, judgmental people. After graduating from college, Emmie gets her dream job in New York City. As the head buyer at Silver Spoons - a high-end boutique - and single girl about town, her life is ideal. That is, until the night of The Event, her company's annual awards ball at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Facing the repercussions of her wild night, Emmie is forced to go home to work in her family's business.

In this book, Stefan Zweig traces 12 fateful events of world history in his unique artistic style: from the conquest of the Byzantine capital of Constantinople by the Turks, to the Battle of Waterloo to Sir Robert Falcon Scott's tragic South Pole expedition. The human character and sometimes simple fate are decisive historic factors that have led to dramatic and lasting changes in the past. Often short, coincidental and highly dramatic moments have the potential to change the future of mankind in a decisive manner – the so called "Great Moments of Humanity".

Having finally met for the first time, Elizabeth and Thomas soon find themselves in mortal danger as the Mass Extinction series continues. Having encountered a strange little girl they found at the side of the road, Elizabeth and Thomas follow her to a seemingly abandoned old hospital. They soon...

2010. The end of the world has begun, but no one is paying attention. People are unaware of the breaking pandemic, code name, The Epilogue Event. Accidentally finding himself at center stage, an unlikely and unwilling hero Peter Finch, must, if he is to survive, awaken powers he has been trying to forget for over thirty years. And time is not on his side. A mysterious Artificial Intelligence, the cause of the plague, is slowly gaining control over everyone Peter loves and everything he values.

They saved the town. Now they have to leave it. Herman and the team finally have a win under their belt—a safe zone, a working System, and enough XP to breathe for half a second. But peace doesn’t last long. Nyco’s song has started to echo through the world, calling his fallen comrades from beyond the ruins. If the melody is real, it means there are other survivors from Ohsheit’s fallen world… and they might hold the key to stopping the Phenomenon once and for all. Getting there, though? That’s going to be hell.

'A powerful and beautifully told novel about hidden secrets and the hunger to belong. I loved it' Clare Leslie Hall, author of BROKEN COUNTRY 'Has future classic written all over it' Red Magazine 'I loved everything about this book' Julia Quinn, author of BRIDGERTON A BBC RADIO 2 BOOKCLUB PICK A...

For Mike and Hattie Hayes, their cabin on a pristine Colorado lake has always been a refuge, a weekend escape from the hustle and bustle of Denver. Both are particularly excited their daughter and her husband have joined them for a weekend away. Their time with her is rare and precious. Long walks, fishing, and lunch in the nearby historic town of Rustic are all a part of the allure. The star-filled night sky viewed from their small boat is the clearest they have ever seen.

Cities all around the world reported strange alien vessels descending. Some saw them as the heralds of a new age; others fired everything they had at them. All were taken as the beams lashed down and drew them into the sky. Dean was left behind, seemingly the last man on Earth. A trail of clues left by his dead wife guides Dean on a perilous journey across America and beyond to learn the truth behind the mysterious ships and save humanity from its doom.

Sometimes you meet people who are out of this world, so you make them a part of yours. A one-night stand born from vengeance in a foreign land. An explosive chemistry neither of us could deny. We signed a contract on the back of a Boar’s Head Pub napkin that said if we ever met again, we would drop everything and be together. Eight years and thousands of miles later, he’s here. In New York. And he’s America’s music obsession.

Nothing Crazy is a sharp, heartfelt comedy about weddings, expectations, and what happens when everything goes wrong in exactly the right way. Marissa Holt is a wedding planner who promises her clients three things: simple, elegant, and nothing crazy. What they get instead are runaway peacocks, collapsing cakes, emergency Costco charcuterie, accidental sprinkler activations, and a string quartet replaced —briefly —by YouTube ads.

Hattie and Mike wish to return their world to normal and escape the small farmhouse on the edge of the Poudre River in Eastern Colorado. The monsters who roam the Earth present a constant and life-threatening challenge and there seems no end to the blazing lights in the sky that caused the apocalypse. If they can’t escape their situation and discover the cause of the devastation, they will likely die amid the horror. Currently, they survive sleeping in shifts, always on the lookout for one of the giant creatures.

It was perfect, until... Until the night a blinding light swept over them, the lake, and the surrounding forests. Until their daughter subsequently vanished. Until an unknown beast stalked them through the woods that surround their cabin. Until they discovered the terrible truth behind the light that drastically changed their world. Until they understood the blazing light wasn’t a shooting star or a falling satellite, it was the EVENT.

Once every four years, the Earth Alliance Naval Academy is included in a war game...or rather, the Wargame: On a distant frontier colony, cadets must repair, recommission, and crew a fleet of old, mothballed warships for a simulated fleet action against a group of seasoned veterans using top-of-the-line warships. After some meddling on the part of the Admiralty, many of the Academy's best are assigned to the oldest, smallest hulk in the Wargame, the unfortunately named corvette, Chihuahua.

Battle-hardened Captain Ry Devans and his crew of the Mars Orbiting Station-1 are part of a bold plan: resurrect the active molten cores of the Red Planet with synchronized thermonuclear explosions, and terraform the hell out of that iron-oxide rock for future generations. It'll change history. So will the strands of carbon-based Martian cells that have hitched a ride on the ship. Dr. Karen Wagner knows the microbes' resistance to virus is incredible. It's the unknowable that's dicey. Her orders: blow them into space. But orders can be undermined.

"A key to the audiobook’s success for fans is its all-star cast — a strong advantage here for audio over print. When a “Next Generation” cast member speaks in 'Fan Fiction,' from Patrick Stewart to Marina Sirtis, it’s that actor’s actual voice you’re hearing." -- The Providence...

Sienna Harris is a girl with a plan. Her days of slaving away at Carrie's Classic Events and More are numbered as she is on the brink of launching her own event planning company. Her relationship with Luke Price is headed in the right direction, and they are approaching their one-year mark. The future is looking bright, and she knows that life could not get any better. That is until her perfectly planned world is thrown upside down by the unexpected arrival of someone from Luke's past.

Side effects have occurred. They've created a miracle drug. With it, true beauty is achieved. Now, saying goodbye to depression, anxiety, and loneliness is a breeze. Of course, anything that sounds too good to be true usually is. Because something has gone horribly wrong. When events take a turn for the worst, this corporation calls on its best. 

A deadly virus - and a desperate race against time. One spring morning in New York City a 17-year-old student wakes up feeling vaguely ill. Hours later she is having violent seizures, blood is pouring out of her nose and she begins to attack her own body in the most hideous way imaginable. Soon, other gruesome deaths of a similar nature have been discovered, and the autopsies reveal that a previously unknown virus is at large. It replicates horribly fast, it is always fatal - and is just too efficient to be entirely natural.