Résultats pour "Forest" dans Fiction

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home. Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their...

Was, wenn ich dir sage, dass du einen Wunsch frei hättest? Was, wenn es die Möglichkeit gäbe, das Leben, das dich unglücklich macht, hinter dir zu lassen und es gegen ein viel besseres zu tauschen? Was du dafür tun musst? Nicht viel. Du musst nur mit mir in den Forest gehen... Eine mysteriöse Legende. Der unbändige Wunsch nach Veränderung. Kian hasst sein Leben. Beziehungsprobleme, Pech im Job, Eintönigkeit und Unzufriedenheit bestimmen seinen Alltag.

Parade “Best Books of Summer” pick * Real Simple pick * She Reads “Best WWII Fiction of Summer 2021” pick The New York Times bestselling author of the “heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism” (People) The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II...

Her Majesty's ship Sutherland is a humdrum ship of the line. But in command is none other than the heroic Captain Hornblower and, with his crew from the Lydia, he looks set to take on commando raids, hurricanes at sea, and Napoleons's gun batteries.

This freewheeling black comedy features a bizarre cast of characters, including a Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American CEO with three arms, and a Brazilian peasant who discovers the art of healing by tickling one’s earlobe with a feather. By the end of this hilarious tale, they each have risen to the heights of wealth and fame, before arriving at disasters—both personal and ecological— that destroy the rain forest and all birds of Brazil.

After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises. The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles.

Roxi was a lonely girl in the forest till she met Zorian a prince who got hurt in the forest and roxi helped him heal.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau and The Paris Daughter comes a novel that's Sliding Doors meets P.S. I Love You. A woman who lost her husband twelve years ago is ready to move on, but her subconscious won't let her. Is she just dreaming of her...

Now A Major Motion Picture A WWII naval thriller of “high and glittering excitement”(New York Times) from the author of the legendary Hornblower series The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way...

Eliza Ellis has stayed hidden in Balfour Forest for as long as she can remember. Perhaps her only friends are the trees, or her little dog, or her story-telling father called Captain. But at least she is safe from the cruel world outside, a world Captain has warned her against and protected her from. That is, until a handsome stranger named Felton Northwood invades her quiet forest and steals her away. Why does he tell such lies?

In her acclaimed novels, Susan Vreeland has given us portraits of painting and life that are as dazzling as their artistic subjects. Now, in The Forest Lover, she traces the courageous life and career of Emily Carr, who—more than Georgia O'Keeffe or Frida Kahlo—blazed a path for modern women...

After an injury, Carlton Marsh leaves his federal position to work security. His first assignment is protecting paranoid author Mara Shore, pen-name for Leah Beach. When the threat becomes real, he will do his best to keep her safe. The cane he walks with becomes an asset for her protection. At a Comic-Con the criminals threaten Leah for information about a mule that Leah's rescue ranch acquired. Sylvester the mule was malnourished and in poor health when he came to her. She recently added his picture to the comic strip she creates for each weekday.

Nella storia di Madre e di Padre ci sono degli avvenimenti che determinano un prima e un dopo. La nascita di Maggiore e poi quella di Minore, ad esempio, o l’incidente che li coinvolge, ma anche episodi apparentemente marginali dirottano le loro esistenze, come le nostre: delle mani che si sfiorano per caso e poi si trattengono appena più del dovuto, o l’apertura casuale di una chat altrui. In questo esordio luminoso e contundente, Michele Ruol ci conduce nell’intimità dei suoi personaggi attraverso le impronte lasciate sugli oggetti della casa in cui abitavano.

"Per loro il mondo fisico era colmo di misteri, e la vita stessa era un sortilegio" Kate Cold, i suoi amici fotografi, il nipote Alex e l'inseparabile amica Nadia ricevono dall'"International Geographic" l'incarico di preparare un reportage sui safari che si svolgono a dorso d'elefante. A Nairobi Alex e Nadia incontrano però un'indovina che li avverte di un pericolo imminente. Quando ormai il lavoro sta per concludersi, entra in scena fratel Fernando, un missionario in cerca di aiuto. Non ha più notizie di due suoi confratelli che si sono persi in una regione inaccessibile.

The final work of fiction from Norman Mailer, a defining voice of the postwar era, is also one of his most ambitious, taking as its subject the evil of Adolf Hitler. The narrator, a mysterious SS man in possession of extraordinary secrets, follows Adolf from birth through adolescence and offers revealing portraits of Hitler's parents and siblings. A crucial reflection on the shadows that eclipsed the 20th century, Mailer's novel delivers myriad twists and surprises along with characteristically astonishing insights into the struggle between good and evil that exists in us all.

In this award-winning horror novel from Latin America, a community of women and children—and one man—fight for survival in a harsh and terrifying Cuban rainforest where the gods require appeasement through brutal sacrifice. The forest is a terrifying, hungry god with harsh rules and a...

Liadan dovrà intraprendere un viaggio alla scoperta di un mondo che sa essere tanto meraviglioso quanto oscuro e crudele. Un'esperienza che la cambierà per sempre, insegnandole a quale prezzo è stata conquistata la serenità che ha sempre conosciuto. Tra insidie e dilemmi, Liadan avrà bisogno di tutta la sua forza per fronteggiare proprio coloro che ama di più. Perché la sua ricerca del vero amore potrebbe essere per tutti loro una condanna... o la salvezza.

Jeffrey Harvey is realizing his dream - an ambitious project to use the icebergs of Antarctica to overcome drought in Africa. But his past is catching up with him. Love, deception, intrigue, and murder have followed him all his adult life, and now they come together to create a world where the difference between friends and foes is a matter of circumstance. To some, Harvey is a visionary; to others a liability. His passionate, but complex, girlfriend, Anna, strives to protect him from the dangers he brings on himself.

In the Old Country, they called them the Gentry: ancient spirits of the land, magical, amoral, and dangerous. When the Irish emigrated to North America, some of the Gentry followed...only to find that the New World already had spirits of its own, called manitou and other such names by the Native tribes. Now generations have passed, and the Irish have made homes in the new land, but the Gentry still wander homeless on the city streets. Gathering in the city shadows, they bide their time and dream of power.