Résultats pour "Miles" dans Fiction

They live 500 miles apart. Yet their lives are about to collide. Lissa loves her job as a nurse, but recently she's been doing a better job of looking after other people than looking after herself. After a traumatic incident at work leaves her feeling overwhelmed, she agrees to swap lives with someone in a quiet village in Scotland. Cormac is restless. Just out of the army, he's desperately in need of distraction and there's precious little of it in Kirrinfief. Maybe three months in London is just what he needs.  

Masterfully told and as suspenseful as it is haunting, The Green Mile is Stephen King’s classic #1 New York Times bestselling dramatic serial novel and inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film starring Tom Hanks. Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block...

Nothing’s more exclusive than Noire Underground. Serving the wicked and reaping rewards. Secrets. Lies. Soot and cinders. Rhythm. Blades. Games and gore. A knife like a claw and the strike of a needle. This hidden haven is a throne of chains.

A squadron of spectators screamed and hooted, and Liam could feel his legs lighten. It was possible. He could run at any speed now; he would accelerate and accelerate and accelerate…When Liam Walker joins a running club in New York City, it's with some trepidation. Liam has always loved running, but the world of team racing, and the camaraderie that goes with it, are new to him. Still, after years of stagnancy - working for the same magazine, living in the same apartment, and jumping from one short-term boyfriend to another - he's ready to try.

They sent the kids to the woods to fix them. Then the EMP hit, and the woods became something else entirely. Harmony has eight troubled teenagers, three days of food, and zero contact with the outside world. The rules don't apply anymore. The teens know it. She knows it. And whatever is stalking the edges of their camp knows it too. Survival out here won't come down to supplies. It'll come down to who breaks first.

Superando con creces el rotundo éxito de Cometas en el cielo, la segunda novela de Khaled Hosseini saltó de inmediato al primer puesto en todos los países donde se ha publicado. Nueva demostración del asombroso instinto narrativo del autor, el libro cuenta la historia de amistad entre dos mujeres cuyos destinos se entrelazan por obra del azar y de las convulsiones que ha sufrido Afganistán en los últimos treinta años.

An EMP kills the power. A husband fights through a burning Vegas to save his wife. Two boys navigate pitch-black tunnels to survive. And across the desert, a brother prepares for a siege none of them may live through.

Miles Morales has a lot going on, what with moving to a new neighborhood, dealing with the loss of his father, and the whole gaining superpowers thing. After a misunderstanding with the law, Miles questions what it means to be a hero when people are ready to believe the worst of you. Tempted by the power and freedom of his new abilities, Miles must decide what kind of Spider-Man he wants to be. When Vulture starts wreaking havoc across the city with his new accomplice Starling, Miles can't just sit back and watch.

Three years after her best friend Peggy went missing, Harper Starling is lost. Lost in her dead-end job, lost in her grief. All she has are regrets and reruns of her favorite science fiction show, Infinite Odyssey. Then Peggy returns and demands to be taken to the Argonaut, the fictional main character of Infinite Odyssey. But the Argonaut is just that … fictional. Until the TV hero himself appears and spirits Harper away from her former best friend. Traveling through time, he explains that Peggy used to travel with him but is now under the thrall of an alien enemy known as the Incarnate.

At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers such as 'Billy the Kid' Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in 'Old Sparky'. Guards as decent as Paul Edgecombe and as sadistic as Percy Wetmore watch over them. But good...

Chicken Charlie was being shut out by the town and didn't know why. No one would buy her eggs or chickens. Then Ben Arden arrived in town, and suddenly chickens were the least of her concerns.

Forse un tempo i genitori di Lapo ed Emma sono stati felici insieme. Ma quel tempo, se c'è stato, Lapo era troppo piccolo per ricordarlo, Emma non era ancora nata. Un tempo in cui Lucrezia, la madre ossessionata dagli attori hollywoodiani, non spariva di continuo dalle loro vite e Gioacchino, il padre medico, non si chiudeva nei propri silenzi.

Con una voz que ronda entre la parodia y el humor negro, la narradora nos invita a recorrer los rincones de su memoria. A través de los lugares que marcaron distintas etapas de su vida, conoceremos a personajes tan particulares y entrañables como el Padre, la Chica o El Niño. Desde el espacio de la reclusión, atravesaremos las puertas que formaron su carácter, acompañándola a tomar decisiones, a veces extremas y cuestionables que la llevaron a intentar salvar del sufrimiento a esos Otros tan queridos.

The claustrophobia of Room meets the camaraderie of Yellowjackets with a touch of Picnic at Hanging Rock in this dark, immersive, psychological thriller debut with a speculative/lite-horror edge. Christmas Eve, 1974. As Cyclone Tracy tears through Darwin, four girls disappear into the heart of...

Octubre de 1932, penitenciaría de Cold Mountain. Los condenados a muerte aguardan el momento de ser conducidos a la silla eléctrica. Los crímenes abominables que han cometido les convierten en carnaza de un sistema legal que se alimenta de un círculo de locura, muerte y venganza.

As Rose Andrews steps into the world of flight attendants, she's thrilled to be part of an airborne family she never knew she needed. But amidst the camaraderie, an unexpected attraction takes flight, entangling her heart in unexpected turbulence.

Young Adam, who has been raised in Harlem by his white father, George, and Black mother, Thelma, goes back to his parents' home state of Alabama to participate in the voting rights campaign, only to be brutalized in the Bloody Sunday melee. He is still recovering from this when he is struck a heavy emotional blow, learning for the first time—and in the cruelest way imaginable—of a family secret that sends him spiraling and plunging further into danger. To save him, and any hope for their relationship, Thelma is drawn back, for the first time in twenty years, to the South.

The women of Sensible Shoes are navigating both deep joy and devastating loss. Can they find equilibrium in the midst of all that has changed? In this final installment of the Sensible Shoes series, you're invited to travel with beloved friends as they endure trials that test their trust and their willingness to walk an extra mile.

Think Die Hard with a Dadbod—a writer on an isolated farm sees his retreat interrupted by rekindled romance and a gang of thrill-killers.

Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly. Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is 11 when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child, and the star-crossed pair fall in love. They are from different ethnic communities. They are also both girls.