Résultats pour "For the Win" dans Fiction

Starting a new job at a rapidity growing technology start-up, recently divorced financial controller Josh Bonn hopes to find a pot of gold to help put his two remaining kids through college. When an unexpected opportunity for life changing wealth falls into his lap, melding his current skills with those from his past life in Naval intelligence, the opportunity is simply to good to pass up. With the help of a wayward computer genius and an attractive hotel clerk, he embarks down a path to hopefully improve his family's future.

Read by Richard Armitage (The Hobbit, Missing You) Heads You Win is the incredible and thrilling novel by the master storyteller and bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer. Leningrad, Russia, 1968. From an early age it is clear that Alexander Karpenko is...

Jack Bradford is the oldest of the Bradford siblings, my best friend’s brother, and my son’s football coach. He’s six-two, dark hair, ocean-blue eyes, broad shoulders, and a square jaw that’s perpetually flexed. He’s a hero in our small town, and the gentle way he cares for his young daughter will melt your… everything. I’ve done my best to show my interest, even walking down the aisle on his arm four times (in his younger siblings’ weddings). Everyone in Newhope ships us, but he always keeps me at arm’s length.

Margo’s marriage, family and career are dangerously out of control. All she needs is a fresh start in a new house to get her dream life back on track. When the ideal home comes up, desperate measures are called for. A little stalking. Some trespassing. Befriending the owner. All reasonable...

One of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes, now in a new recording narrated by Paul Giamatti! For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin...

Irland, 1462. Im Dorf ihrer Großmutter sucht Sláine Ó Meadhra nach einem Neuanfang. Stattdessen findet sie ihn: Callum. Doch ihr Freund aus Kindheitstagen hat eine mysteriöse Vergangenheit: Manche nennen ihn einen Piraten, andere einen Mörder. Er hält Sláine auf Abstand, so sehr sie auch seine Nähe sucht. Enttäuscht wendet sie sich dem charismatischen Rian zu und entdeckt an seiner Seite ihre Liebe zum Rudern. Doch ihr Herz schlägt bereits für Callum … Ein großes Ruderturnier wird schließlich zu Callums letzter Chance, seinen Namen reinzuwaschen.

In the sun-drenched hills of Napa Valley, former Mexican cartel distributor Francisco Bautista reinvents himself as a respectable vintner, trading blood money for the prestige of California's wine aristocracy. Armed with a mountain estate, sprawling vineyards, and a fabricated past, Francisco launches his assault on Napa's wine country social elite. His unlikely arsenal includes a washed-up celebrity ghostwriter, retired sports legends, and elite wine experts—all fighting for relevance in the intoxicating world of luxury wine.

On the neon streets of Char, the CIN token controls everything—your wealth, your fate, your life. The untouchable elite and AI dominate everything—and erase anyone who dares to fight back. For Arrow, a rogue hacker living on the edge, and Sage, an exiled heir with a broken dream, the BreakPoint is their only escape—a brutal, gladiatorial gaming tournament where every battle rewrites the rules of survival, and every outcome sacrifices innocent lives. As they climb the ranks, a rebel leader pulls them into a mission that could dismantle CIN—or destroy them all.

The first book in The Last War series: a debut epic fantasy full of crunching revolutionary action, twisted magic, and hard choices in dark times. The war is over. The enemy won. Jia's people learned the hard way that there are no second chances. The Egril, their ancient enemy, struck with magic...

Since their parents died, Cassie and Sam only have each other. And now Sam is in trouble. Sam has got involved with the wrong guys and he owes them money. When he is found beaten and bloody, Cassie knows these people will stop at nothing. Sam has one week to find nineteen thousand pounds. There’s only one way to make that much money that fast: DareMe—a new social media craze that is sweeping the nation, where players film themselves completing reckless dares for money.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. When Dennette 'D.G.' Tolliver lost her husband Henry without warning, her world split open. What followed wasn’t just grief — it was the unraveling and rebuilding of everything she ever believed about love, family, identity, and survival. In this...

In the sweltering heat of small-town Florida, a ragtag high school football team becomes the unlikely battleground for grit, growth, and redemption. Down, Set, Win! is a heartfelt, humorous, and brutally honest coming-of-age tale inspired by true events. Redcrest, Florida, was known more for its mosquitoes than for football—until a hard-nosed new coach pushed a mismatched group of teenagers past their limits. What followed wasn’t just a season. It was a transformation.

Win in the Dark is another fable written in the same style as the viral sensations Chop Wood Carry Water and Pound the Stone....

It’s 1970, and Augie Cumpton has just survived a year in Vietnam. When he returns home from the war, his life is upended when he offends some very ruthless members of organized crime. But when the Mob is duped by Augie’s family into thinking the young man is dead, the crime family abandon’s the search for him.

Mr. Weston is a mysterious character - a wealthy man who has a reputation for selling a special kind of wine that has a unique and almost magical quality. The wine seems to bring out the hidden desires and darker sides of those who consume it, leading them to act in mysterious ways. Exploring ideas of greed, temptation, and the corrupting influence of power, Mr. Weston's Good Wine is a darkly comedic novel which critiques the fragility of human consciousness and explores the consequences of giving into our most base temptations.

September Day can't shake her mounting wedding-planning angst. Too overwhelmed to pick up a dropped-off shelter dog she once trained, she finally leaves the house to check in on a missing vet clinic employee. But when she gets there, she's terrified to find the girl's brother hanging on the edge of death and the poor young woman abducted. Discovering the hound got dumped by the same vicious criminal, September and Shadow race out of town on a dangerous rescue mission.

Willa Chen has never quite fit in. Growing up as a biracial Chinese American girl in New Jersey, Willa felt both hypervisible and unseen, too Asian to fit in at her mostly White school, and too White to speak to the few Asian kids around. After her parents’ early divorce, they both remarried and started new families, and Willa grew up feeling outside of their new lives, too. 

In their 16th outing, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a prize into the Great Southern Ocean. The story takes Maturin to South America. Caught up in a failed coup, he flees across the Andes. Aubrey makes a desperate voyage in a open boat, but both survive and are reunited. "The best...

A close proximity sports romance by Brooke O'Brien about a woman who's spent her life playing it safe and her brother's ex-teammate who risks it all for the chance to spend a week with her. I've been told to stay away from football players my whole life. Dating one was out of the question...

Lucas Anderson isn't used to anyone telling him what to do. He's the eldest child of the infamous Joseph Anderson and was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. When Dad decides it's time for him to get married, he'll do anything to not make it happen.