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

La famille Spencer vient de s'installer à Mahingan Falls. Jusqu'ici, tout va bien. Un vrai paradis. Si ce n'étaient ces vieilles rumeurs de sorcellerie, ces communications téléphoniques brouillées par des cris inhumains, ce quelque chose d'effrayant dans la forêt qui pourchasse leurs adolescents, et ce shérif dépassé par des crimes horribles. Avez-vous déjà eu vraiment peur en lisant un livre ?

Karine a été aspirée par l’enfer dès la première minute de son existence. Fille d’une mère condamnée pour infanticide, le diable s’est penché sur son berceau : coups, insultes, privations, menaces de mort répétées. Déjà, à la maternité, le personnel médical s’était inquiété de la capacité psychologique de sa mère ; et sa tante, Laurence, est en alerte, en vain. Les services sociaux restent aveugles aux violences que sa nièce endure et sourds aux nombreux signalements qu’elle émet. Karine est même victime, dès l’âge de cinq ans, de Roland Blaudy, ami pédophile hébergé par ses parents.

Du dachtest, ein GPS-Tracker liefert Antworten – doch er stößt dich in finstere Abgründe Digital, emotional und hoch raffiniert: Dieser Psychothriller ist Domestic Noir vom Feinsten von Bestseller-Autorin Ursula Poznanski. Ein spannender Technologie-Thriller um ein altes Haus, eine Frau mit Handicap und ein digitales Katz-und-Maus-Spiel zwischen Wahrheit und Wahnsinn. Gefangen im eigenen Haus: Bei einem Unfall verliert die junge Innenarchitektin Viola Decker ein Bein – und plötzlich besteht ihre Welt nur noch aus Hindernissen.

Two astronomers have detected a strange, pulsing signal from deep space. Within hours, the US government goes into lockdown, restricting airspace and scrubbing scientific data. Was the signal an intercepted communication revealing alarming plans for an enemy’s military strike? Or has humanity at long last found proof of extraterrestrial life?

Acheron Colony was supposed to be humanity's greatest windfall. Using long-range sensors, the planet tested out as a super-Earth—but the reality is frightening. Instead of a green world bursting with life, the colonists find a dead rock covered in ash. Something has dismantled every organic molecule on Acheron—and no one knows how or why. When a mysterious signal that defies explanation begins to pulse from an alien ruin, the colonists panic. Something ancient was here long before them, and the signal, like a heartbeat, won't let them forget it.

A literary father –daughter novel about memory, forgiveness, and the search for belonging. He wrote detectives who lived in shadows. She grew up searching for a signal in the static. When Jeff Griffin and Zoe MacKenzie meet, silence gives way to memory, music, and the chance to belong. Jeff Griffin built his name writing acclaimed crime novels set in postwar New Orleans —but spent decades hiding from his own past. Zoe MacKenzie grew up without him, raised on stories instead of a father. For more than 18 years, Zoe MacKenzie only knew half her story.

The night his wife died, nobody was listening. Six months later, Tommy T — the voice of W-KVA's Midnight Sentinel — is still broadcasting. Still filling the dead air. Still clicking her wedding ring against the console at 2 AM and pretending the silence is something he can manage. Then the...

Layla Dupree has given up on love. She’s waded through all of the fish in the sea, each one more disappointing than the last. Apparently owning the bakery at Inglewild’s most romantic destination does not help one’s love life—despite her best efforts. All she wants is a partner who gives her butterflies, not someone who ghosts her at dinner and leaves her with the check. Good thing Caleb Alvarez has the perfect solution. After saving Layla from another date gone bad, he has a simple proposition: one month of no-strings dating.

The day Adam Dunne's girlfriend, Sarah, fails to return from a Barcelona business trip, his perfect life begins to fall apart. Days later, the arrival of her passport and a note that reads "I'm sorry - S" sets off real alarm bells. He vows to do whatever it takes to find her. Adam is puzzled when he connects Sarah to a cruise ship called the Celebrate - and to a woman, Estelle, who disappeared from the same ship in eerily similar circumstances almost exactly a year before. To get answers, Adam must confront some difficult truths.

Commander David Bryce returned from his mission, successful, with a derelict alien ship that wasn’t as empty as predicted. With the assistance of an old ally, David is hell-bent on stopping the invasion before it begins. There’s just one problem; the Signal is hidden somewhere on Earth. Atlas Donovan is the only man capable of helping them, and it’s unclear whether he can trust the ORB employees. One thing is clear: Aliens have been to Earth, and from the looks of it, not just a single race. There were two.

With wars and natural disasters behind it, the Bandon survivor colony, just beginning to thrive in the wake of the apocalyptic worldwide blight, discovers an unidentified aircraft carrier anchored a hundred miles off the Oregon coast. After jamming the town's communications with the outside world, it is decided a mission must be sent to investigate the ship, and neutralize any threat. But what Eric Fletcher and others discover aboard the vessel is beyond anything they could have imagined. More than any danger they have faced so far, Fletch realizes that this enemy, with nothing to lose, threatens not only Bandon--but all who remain on the decimated planet. And whatever happens, after either a successful mission or a devastating failure, Bandon, and those who have called it home since the blight, will never be the same again.

Well known for his short stories, critically acclaimed author Ron Carlson has been featured in the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, and Best American Short Stories. Carlson has also won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, a National Society of Arts and Letters Literature Award, and the 1993 Ploughshares Cohen Prize. Here he captivates audiences with a compelling novel no listener will soon forget.

A group of entrepreneurs brings roaring back to life a defunct turbine factory and the town around it, promising a return to the days of dignity, jobs and the good life and bright future that a manufacturing center can dispense to a small town. But is a return to the days of plenty possible? And what of the changed relationships between lovers, and within families, that have transpired in the years since that earlier time? Perišić takes us there, into the past and into the future, and watches with a bemused sad smile as the inevitable wreaks havoc with the possible. 

Years after the Replication Wars ended, clone soldier Unit 734 receives a distress signal from a fellow clone long believed dead. Following the transmission into the dangerous Maw Nebula, he discovers a hidden conspiracy tied to Forge, a secret organization that has spent years rebuilding lost military technology and preparing for another war. Reunited with Unit 819, 734 uncovers Project Genesis—an enormous clone-production carrier capable of creating entire armies in secret.

Welcome to The Signal! In a world clamoring for connection, the most meaningful messages are found in the quiet. This podcast is a living, breathing excavation of the soul through the written word. Hosted by award-winning author and creative, Terry Pappy, The Signal is dedicated to the deep craft of writing from the soul and the courage it takes to bring your deepest voice to light. If you are a fellow writer, aspiring author, or creative seeker who is tired of the clinical, noisy digital content being thrust upon us daily, this is your sanctuary. What to expect on this podcast: —Deep-Dive ...

The Signal is a taut and thrilling mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat. When Luke Starr, aka DragonMan, and his friend, Dr. Bond, an ex-NASA scientist, discover evidence of an impending disaster, they are determined to uncover the truth. But as they delve deeper into the mystery, they soon find themselves up against a powerful force determined to keep the truth hidden.

From the author of The Bright Years, the story of April and Leo, a couple on the brink of collapse. When their house goes up in flames, family secrets and thorny histories emerge as they are forced to decide what is worth salvaging. When April and Leo’s house burns in the middle of the night...

NATIONAL BEST SELLER From the beloved author of Inheritance:"a haunting, moving, and propulsive exploration of family secrets” (Meg Wolitzer, author of The Interestings) Two families. One night. A constellation of lives changed forever. A TIME Best Fiction Book of the Year A Washington...

Philadelphia, 1845—a city where freedom is a fragile illusion, and danger lurks in every shadow. Dr. John Whitaker leads a double life, healing the wounded by day and risking everything to aid freedom seekers by night. But when a brutal attack exposes his Underground Railroad connections, John’s family becomes the target of ruthless slave catchers and corrupt officials.

From the writer of the #1 Podcast OUTLIERS and the new psychological thriller Podcast, GREETINGS FROM SALTON SEA. In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, an enigmatic CIA operative investigates the source of a mysterious shortwave signal—generated either by Russian double agents/spies and their handlers or originating from extraterrestrial aliens/UFOs, or both—and systematically tracks the source in order to disrupt the possible activation of a thermonuclear “dead man’s switch.” At the same time, a plucky young woman fights to rescue her younger brother—who has the ability to see ...