Résultats pour "Eclipse" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

Mentre Seattle è funestata da una serie di strani omicidi e una vampira malvagia continua a darle la caccia, Bella Swan si trova ancora una volta in serio pericolo. È arrivato per lei il momento delle decisioni e dei sacrifici: basterà il fidanzato Edward a farle dimenticare il migliore amico Jacob? Troverà il coraggio necessario a diventare una Cullen? Obbligata a scegliere fra l'amore e l'amicizia, è consapevole che la sua decisione rischia di riaccendere la millenaria lotta fra vampiri e licantropi. Nel frattempo l'esame di maturità è alle porte e per Bella...

Saul est un fantôme au sein du MC. Lorsque Gabriella débarque au QG après des circonstances tragiques, elle s'attache malgré elle à ce géant discret au sang-froid légendaire. Fidèle à sa réputation d'homme inébranlable, le biker nie l'alchimie et l'attraction qui les lient. Cependant, c'était sans compter la combativité et l'obstination de la jeune femme. Les Fire Eagles reprennent du service pour un troisième tome à haut risque. Le club s'apprête à faire face à une crise sans précédent.

As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?

Muriel y Morgan son gemelos y están tan conectados que les cuesta descubrir su identidad individual. Con una madre enferma y un padre narcisista, su vida no es nada fácil. La situación se vuelve aún más difícil cuando su tía Mallory muere en un misterioso accidente en el mar, revelando una antigua maldición familiar. Los gemelos deciden investigar la verdad sobre su familia y el enigma del accidente de su tía. Pronto descubren que todo lo que creían real es solo una ilusión, y que deberán apoyarse mutuamente y confiar en su fe para mantener a la familia unida.

Damon Pierce's life has just reached a defining moment: a gifted California lawyer, he's being divorced by his wife and his work often seems soulless. Then he receives a frantic e-mail from Marissa Brand Okari—a woman he loved years ago—and decides to risk everything to respond to her plea for help. Marissa's husband, Bobby Okari, is the charismatic leader of a freedom movement in the volatile west African nation of Luandia, which is being torn apart by the world's craving for its vast supply of oil.

Alexander Cleave, actor, has left his career and his family behind and banished himself to his childhood home. He wants to retire from life, but finds this impossible in a house brimming with presences, some ghostly, some undeniably human. Memories, anxiety for the future, and more particularly, for his beloved but troubled daughter, conspire to distract him from his dreaming retirement.

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On Orion, the desert isn’t just terrain—it’s a system. Every few weeks, an event the colonists call the Eclipse rolls across the planet and turns certainty into static: sensors drift, maps lie, and the mind fills in gaps it cannot explain. Evan Kade, a blond Range Marshal for colony security, is sent beyond the Safe Band to recover a missing navigation core—the one piece of hardware that could guide an evacuation ship down through Orion’s interference.

It is 1541, and the crown of Hungary is up for grabs. King John, seeing that the Austrians are attacking with an innumerable force, petitions the Turks for assistance. King John then dies, leaving an infant son. While the Turkish army is en route, the Hungarians rally their forces, and beat back the Austrians themselves. Then, just as the Austrians are beating their final retreat, the main Turkish army arrives at the castle in Buda. And among their number is the sultan himself.

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Claudius wanted to be the first man to reach the stars. Maybe he was, maybe he wasn't.... but one thing is certain: It was murder getting there. The story opens with Claudius drifting alone in space, awaiting rescue and pondering the speck of light he can see in the distance. As events unfold, Claudius continues to drift and get more and more anxious while he thinks back along the paths that led him here, from his possibly-abusive childhood to the mutiny that caused the wreck of his mission.

Summer has arrived in Eclipse Bay and things are definitely heating up between the Hartes and the Madisons. It seems that the mysterious new gallery owner, Octavia Brightwell, is thinking about having a scandalous fling with that rogue Nick Harte before she leaves town. As far as Nick is concerned, a short-term affair sounds perfect. But it isn't going to be easy. One big obstacle is Mitchell Madison. For reasons of his own, Mitchell has taken it upon himself to play guardian to Octavia. He's made it clear that if Nick fools around with her, there will be a price to pay.

Nothing was ever simple between a Madison and a Harte. The feud that had divided their families still simmered. Now, only months after their siblings' wedding, Lilian Harte and Gabe Madison are at each other's throats.

Two years ago, October “Toby” Daye believed she could leave the world of Faerie behind. She was wrong. Now she finds herself in the service of Duke Sylvester Torquill, sharing an apartment with her Fetch, and maintaining an odd truce with Tybalt, the local King of Cats. It’s a delicate balance - one that’s shattered when she learns that an old friend is in dire trouble. Lily, Lady of the Tea Gardens, has been struck down by a mysterious, seemingly impossible illness, leaving her fiefdom undefended. Struggling to find a way to save Lily and her subjects, Toby must confront her own past....

Every god leaves a mark. Oria Toh thought she had found peace. She escaped her father’s tyranny, defied a goddess, and chose mercy over vengeance. But in the mountain city of Dunsta Noc, her peace is already crumbling. Sent to investigate rumours of a hidden gold mine, Oria faces treachery and assassination before she can even unpack.

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Max and her partner, Nash, fought to free the Valley from the grip of a false god and her Prophet. They succeeded in defeating them, but peace still eludes their land. With the Valley's leadership in shambles, factions rise to seize control, and Max struggles to protect the innocent from the fallout. Now, with the people looking to her to save them, she's caught between protecting the Valley and resisting the call to rule. Worse, she's increasingly afraid that, to maintain order, she'll have to become as ruthless as the Prophet she killed.

When Max learned her world and its advanced race posing as gods were not all they seemed, her powers were sealed off by an unbreakable curse. Banished from the Mountain of the Gods, she devotes her life to protecting the village that adopted her as their own—until the Prophet of the Valley captures her and her people, intent on using them as a blood sacrifice. Max vows to escape and return to the mountain to reclaim a power she hates in order to save the people she loves. But she'll need the help of one of the Prophet's fiercest warriors, Nash the Unknown.