Résultats pour "Elias" dans Fiction

Elia est une Passeuse d’Âmes, un être sans émotions. Elle doit exécuter ceux qui sont devenus des poids pour la société : vieux, malades, opposants... Mais un jour elle ne parvient plus à obéir aux ordres et s’enfuit dans la région la plus déshéritée du pays, là où les Passeurs d’Âmes sont considérés comme les pires ennemis. Au plus profond d’immenses mines à ciel ouvert, Elia découvrira, telle une pépite, une destinée qui la dépasse.

Since the death of his wife a few years ago, Eli Whittaker has been running from one job to another. He's decided to brave the snow in Coral Canyon, Wyoming. Now that his older brother is back in their hometown and running the energy company, Eli wants his son, Stockton, to have a closer connection to family.

What If Jesus Had Not Come Until Today? Who Would Follow Him? Who Would Kill Him? A fiery car crash hurls TV journalist Conrad Davis into another world exactly like ours except for one detail—Jesus Christ did not come 2,000 years ago, but today. Starting with angels heralding a birth in the...

Eli Stone doesn't shy away from the ghosts of his past. As he urges his horse down the winding trails into the frontier town of Shadow Gulch, he's greeted by a place where fortunes are for the taking and survival is for the ruthless. But Eli, marked by a life of hardship and the scars of battles survived, seeks something more than gold—redemption. When the town's simmering tensions boil over, Eli finds himself in the midst of lawlessness, with the innocent paying the price.

Mon seul problème, c’est que j’aimerais gagner plus d’argent. J’en ai besoin pour finir mes travaux dans la pièce insonorisée. Si je veux l’utiliser, un jour.... Je devrais peut-être creuser du côté de ce laboratoire, celui qui cherche des candidats pour tester un nouveau médicament. Ça paie drôlement bien ! Avec tout ce fric, ma salle de jeux serait rapidement opérationnelle.

Le rêve brisé que je traîne derrière moi: le ballet. Je m’appelle Sarah et, autrefois, j’en faisais. Oh, je danse toujours...mais nue. Dans un bar. Ça reste de la danse. Voilà ce que je me répète sans cesse pour ne pas m’écrouler, pour tenter d’oublier à quel point ma vie est misérable.... En plus, je dois de l’argent à Carl, mon patron. Cinq mille dollars! Où vais-je bien pouvoir trouver une telle somme?

Ce que j’aime faire de mes journées : rien. Je me définis comme un paresseux. Les DVD et les livres sont mes seuls amis, car ils n’exigent aucune concession de ma part. Même travailler ne me viendrait pas à l’esprit. Voilà pourquoi je prête mon corps à la science. Je participe à des études cliniques en tant que cobaye. Pas de responsabilités, peu d’exigences. On me paie pour tester des produits.

As the story begins, it’s been five years since Eli Atkins, betrayed and abandoned, fled Charleston to avoid punishment for a crime he did not commit. Landing in the Bahamas, he sought refuge in a new identity. But angry, lonely, and adrift, he remained aloof, a stranger to all, never allowing anyone close enough to hurt him.

La justicia de Eli es la apasionante primera entrega de la saga de Shadow Gulch. Si te gustan los héroes implacables, los paisajes vívidamente pintados del Oeste y los enfrentamientos de alto riesgo, entonces te encantará la historia de la lucha de Eli Stone por una paz que es tan esquiva como un espejismo en el desierto.

When Eli Harpo was four, he underwent emergency open-heart surgery, flatlined on the operating table, and for a brief time, went to heaven and met Jesus. Or at least that's what his father, a loving but devout Baptist minister, has raised him to believe. Nine years later, Eli isn't so sure. His rounds with his father to evangelize at hospices and sell his father's self-published book, Heaven or Bust!, feel inauthentic and strange, especially now that he's started having sex dreams about Jesus.

Why would a normal citizen venture into the jungles of Ecuador to rescue kidnapped missionaries? Eli Brown, a widowed construction worker, learns of a husband and wife team from his community taken hostage by members of a drug cartel. Since he cannot see anyone going to their aid—including the United States government—he decides he will do it. Assisted by a feisty female friend, he makes a 2,000 mile journey, tangles with evil men, escapes danger, sets prisoners free, survives an ordeal in a raging river, and eventually has a showdown with the leader of the cartel.

Eli's Promise is a masterful work of historical fiction spanning three eras—Nazi-occupied Poland, the American Zone of post-war Germany, and Chicago at the height of the Vietnam War. Award-winning author Ronald H. Balson explores the human cost of war, the mixed blessings of survival, and the enduring strength of family bonds.

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In this “vivid and immersive” (Liz Moore) debut, Eli Raphael conjures the windswept coast of Washington State and a boarding school steeped in privilege and deadly secrets—a remarkable story of grief, power, and the dangerous price of belonging. It is true that I wished him dead dozens of...

A global soccer star’s epic ride to the 1950 World Cup places him in shooting distance of his dreams and his own death. Gilbert Chevalier’s life is a mid-century miracle: wealthy, handsome, beloved by every woman he meets, and blessed with incomparable talents on the soccer field. And it’s...

Dopo la catastrofe climatica che ha fatto sprofondare la Terra in un inverno perenne, solo chi si trova sotto la cupola di Snowglobe vive al caldo e nella prosperità. Gli altri si raccolgono nei villaggi esterni e, in condizioni disumane, lavorano nelle centrali elettriche che producono l'energia necessaria a garantire ai pochi privilegiati di vivere circondati da lusso e calore. In cambio, gli esclusi possono guardare giorno e notte i programmi trasmessi da Snowglobe: reality show che documentano in tempo reale la vita di chi vi abita. Chi è fuori guarda, sogna. E obbedisce.

When the airplane piloted by Elias Santos crashes one week before their wedding day, Coen Caraway loses the man he loves and the illusion of happiness he has worked so hard to create. The only thing Elias leaves behind is a recording of his final words, and even Coen is baffled by the cryptic message. Numb with grief, he takes refuge on the Mexican island that was meant to host their wedding. But as fragments of the past come to the surface in the aftermath of the tragedy, Coen is forced to question everything he thought he knew about Elias and their life together.

When unspeakable tragedy leaves young Eli an orphan, two families are devastated. But Taylor, Eli's aunt and legal guardian, vows to help him remember his parents by creating a Memory Quilt. As she begins piecing together the moments of his parents' lives, the story of the young family emerges and Taylor and Eli begin to heal. But Eli's uncle Reece is slow to let go of the past and still blames Taylor's brother for his sister's death. So, although he has long been attracted to Taylor, Reece keeps a safe distance away.

In these disturbing, haunting, yet strangely beautiful stories, the terrible carnage of the Middle East is rendered in unforgettable form. In the brilliant, horrifying title story, a lonely shepherd wanders a broken no-man's land, carrying with him the burden of an unspeakable act. A collection of startling authority and vivid imagination, this collection heralds the arrival of a masterful new storyteller.

Der junge Sam Greven, 23, ist ein Draufgänger. Als Kopf einer Sprayer-Gang ist er in der Szene im Kreis Bergheim bei Köln bekannt und hat neben seinen Graffiti-Künsten, wegen denen er immer wieder mit dem Gesetz in Konflikt tritt, eine sehr hohe kriminelle Energie. Als er die 19-jährige Leonie Hammerschmidt zufällig in einer Bar kennen lernt, verstehen sich die Beiden auf Anhieb.