Résultats pour "Limit" dans Fiction

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent comes a compelling new legal mystery featuring George Mason from Personal Injuries. Originally commissioned and published by The New York Times Magazine, this edition contains additional material. Life would seem to have gone...

Le coeur de Paisley pourrait s'arrêter de battre à tout instant. La jeune femme est atteinte d'une maladie cardiaque et chaque jour pourrait être le dernier. Mais rien ne l'empêchera d'aller au bout de la liste des choses qu'elle veut faire, même si cela doit la tuer... Et c'est presque le cas lorsqu'un jour elle plonge dans l'océan en apnée et qu'elle est sauvée in extremis par Jagger. Le jeune homme la sort de l'eau et la réanime en lui faisant du bouche à bouche. Et quand elle se réveille, Paisley a l'âme en feu...

The most thrilling work yet from the best-selling, prize-winning author of The Newlyweds and Lost and Wanted, a stunning new novel set in French Polynesia and New York City about three characters who undergo massive transformations over the course of a single year “A big-hearted...

It's a sweltering summer's day, and Anja Aropalo is on her way home with two errands in mind: first, to water the roses, and then to commit suicide. She is slowly losing her husband to Alzheimer's disease, and she has made him a terrible promise - one she's not sure she can keep. For Anja's niece, Mari, death is a teenage fantasy of grieving family and eternal beauty, an escape from the dullness of her life.

Ranching isn't easy, especially on the border of Yellowstone. The days are long, the competition is ruthless, and there's always someone out there waiting to take what's yours. For my family to survive, things have to go back to the way they were. The Carsons used to run Fork River. We were feared but respected. My father changed that legacy by thinking he could run things legitimately. He lost our power, he lost our control, and he lost our respect. Now I'm taking it back…

Five years ago, Ember lost everything in a wildfire that rewrote both our lives. She disappeared, but I never stopped wondering where she went. Now I’ve landed in her burn zone, and she’s back at the ranch she swore she'd never return to. She's still grieving, angry, and more stubborn than ever.

When the local authorities ask Ruby Simpson to help them find a thief in the small town of Castle Cove, she doesn’t have much of a choice. She predicted the most recent theft, and the cops have no other leads. There are just two small problems. One, she’s not psychic. Two, she’s not Ruby Simpson. Okay, maybe they’re not small problems. But Charlotte needs a place to lay low with her younger sister, somewhere her parents won’t find her and the locals won’t ask too many questions. Getting involved with the cops, especially Deputy Jared, isn’t a smart thing for a reformed con artist to do.

In the far future, Earth is ravaged by war. Deadly skirmishes between isolated human civilizations are frequent. New technologies are discovered, but others have been lost to time. Paige is trying to find her place in a shattered world. She’s determined to become a fighter pilot to impress her military father, but she yearns to explore the stars. After a dangerous risk in the cockpit, she’s left grounded. She must decide what's more important to her—her father’s pride, or her own happiness.

San Francisco in 1978 is a place of urban chaos. But for Diego Contreras, it represents a dream of artistic success. As a recent college graduate from an immigrant family, he moves from Los Angeles to find something worth believing in and meets Saloma Sevilla, a wealthy Filipino-Chinese graduate student.

PIERCING the ELASTIC LIMIT, an astounding EPIC FABLE from master storyteller HOWARD LORING, traces the determined actions of the mysterious but compelling ‘Old Man beyond the Portal,’ as he and his redheaded assistant pursue their secretive Mandate to rescue the imperiled planet’s future. A thrilling quest spanning the ages, once more this elusive author employs the simple FABLE to reveal a vast and gripping EPIC adventure through time and space, portraying with penetrating insight authentic lives of genuine historic figures including Aristocrat Julius Caesar, Writer Christopher M

Helicopter paramedic Tama James isn’t afraid of hard work, danger or putting his patients first. And he expects nothing less from his team. But when his newest recruit arrives, the bubbly and beautiful Mikayla Elliot, he’s unimpressed to discover she didn’t earn her place. She’s the superior’s daughter. So, he’ll make it his mission to show her just how tough the job really is!

When a series of late-winter storms hits the annual Iditarod sled dog race in Alaska, bush pilot Ben Helm gambles on a break in the weather to fly two dropped dogs and two race personnel to the checkpoint at Unalakleet. But the conditions worsen, and a catastrophic mid-flight accident forces Ben to ditch on the landfast ice somewhere in the Bering Sea. Stranded, with no communications and only limited supplies, the three survivors, with their two canine companions, must try to ride out the storms and stay alive long enough for a rescue party to find them.

Las Vegas is the last place Private Investigator Kenna Banbury wants to go. After what happened when she visited the city with her dad, she’s determined to keep her head down and solve this case. Kenna has no home, no dog (don't worry—she's fine), and no way to figure out who murdered a Russian diplomat fifteen years ago. But since when has that ever stopped her?

Chloe Bennett AL LÍMITE De las etapas tranquilas siempre debes desconfiar. No son más que una trampa. Podría decirse que a Chloe Bennett le va bien. Al fin ha encontrado la calma que tanto ansiaba tras la pérdida de Sarah dos años atrás. Su relación con Colin va viento en popa, han renovado para una temporada más su programa de radio, tiene una idea para un próximo libro, está más unida a su madre que nunca, y Jon, que ha conocido a alguien especial, vuelve a ser su mejor amigo.

Es lauert tief am Meeresgrund, und es wächst unaufhaltsam. Bei einer Expedition in die Antarktis ging vor Jahren ein riesiger Meteorit über Bord. Noch immer liegt er auf dem Grund der eisigen See. Eli Glinn, Chef von Effective Engineering Solutions, leitete damals die Expedition, in deren Verlauf über hundert Menschen starben. Nun drängt die Zeit: Der Meteorit hat sich inzwischen als Alien-Lebensform entpuppt, als Samenkapsel, aus der ein gigantisches Gewächs mit Fangarmen geworden ist.

Peter e Rebecca Harris sono una coppia di mezza età, sposati da oltre vent'anni. Vivono a New York e lavorano entrambi nel campo dell'arte, lui come gallerista e lei come direttrice di una rivista. Benestanti, realizzati, ben inseriti nella vita sociale newyorkese, proprietari di un appartamento in una zona prestigiosa, non hanno preoccupazioni se non il freddo rapporto con la figlia Bea, che vive a Boston. Ai più, comunque, la loro vita sembra perfetta, o perlomeno invidiabile.

All Helena really wants is a better life for her 12-year-old son, Luke. To do that, she needs to get him into a good school, which isn’t easy to do when you are a single mother and a Catholic in a near-future United States where there is no more separation between church and state. States, even neighborhoods, are divided along religious lines, and Helena faces discrimination everywhere she goes. Adam, a teenager from her congregation, convinces Helena to leave everything behind and take him and her son across the new American landscape to New Secular City.

Politics and riveting suspense collide in this white-knuckled thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of American Assassin—soon to be a major motion picture. In one bloody night, three of Washington’s most powerful politicians are executed with surgical precision. Their...

The war is over, but Emily faces a battle in following her heart. Emily has a secret: she's in love with one of the freedmen on her family's plantation. Meanwhile, another man declares his love for her. Emily realizes some things are not as they seem and secrets must be kept in order to keep those she loves safe.

Fuori dalla finestra della camera d'ospedale i raggi caldi del sole d'estate accendono un nuovo giorno radioso che però la protagonista del racconto non vedrà mai tramontare. Mentre la sua esistenza, senza alcun preavviso, decide di concludersi, nei pochi minuti che le restano, quali sono gli ultimi pensieri che occupano la mente, quali le immagini che si affacciano dal passato, quali ricordi affiorano e tra tutti i rimpianti, quali sono quelli ancora capaci di pungere il cuore prima che la coscienza si offuschi?