Résultats pour "Oxygen" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

Im Dezember 2001 feiert die Königlich-Schwedische Akademie das hundertjährige Bestehen des Nobelpreises, und anlässlich dessen soll ein Retro-Nobelpreis verliehen werden - für herausragende Leistungen aus der Zeit, bevor es den Nobelpreis gab. Das Chemikomitee der Akademie beschließt, sich mit der Entdeckung des Sauerstoffs zu befassen, denn diese läutete die Chemische Revolution ein.

Hoping to leave the past behind, Shelly gets in her car and starts driving. But in running away from her life, Shelly gets an adventure she never expects. It all begins with a strange voice on the radio....

Dav, with his gregarious charm and flirtatious disposition, hides a secret darkness that few ever glimpse. Despite his relentless advances, Cinna, strong-willed and fiercely independent, keeps him at arm's length, determined to prove herself an equal in a male-dominated world. One night, Cinna's resolve is fractured when she is brutally attacked, leaving her shattered. Desperate to maintain her hard-earned respect amongst her family, she seeks out Dav, the only person she feels she can trust, begging for his help and swearing him to secrecy.

Spannend, informativ und absolut furchterregend. Der Thriller zur Klimakrise von Bestseller-Autor Andreas Brandhorst. Es hätte alles so schön werden können. Durch die Förderung regenerativer Energiequellen und den Einsatz neuer Technologien zeichnet sich eine Lösung der Klimakrise bereits am Horizont ab. Doch dann macht die Meeresbiologin Laura Lombardi eine beunruhigende Entdeckung: Das Plankton in den Weltmeeren, das für einen großen Teil der globalen Sauerstoffproduktion verantwortlich ist, verliert die Fähigkeit zur Fotosynthese.

In 2137, each person is fitted with nanotechnology that measures every breath they take. Each person has an oxygen quota of 10 million litres. When they have used this up, they receive a letter telling them they have less than a day to live. But the rich people in Luxor City can buy Blue Oxygen–an oxygen replacement that does not use up a person’s quota. Jake thinks this system is unfair.

Faraway in a distant future, a desolate dirt planet is home to thousands of human clone soldiers fighting an endless war in fully-mechanized, armored atmosphere suits. Damage sustained to one soldier’s communication system during battle renders him invisible to his comrades. Unrecognizable without his communication chip, Angus is on his own.

From the award-winning author of A Watershed Year comes a heartrending story of unlikely bonds made under dire straits. Holly is a young widow with two kids living in a ramshackle house in the same small town where she grew up wealthy. Now barely able to make ends meet editing the town's struggling newspaper, she manages to stay afloat with help from her family. Then her mother suffers a stroke, and Holly's world begins to completely fall apart.

Après En mer, prix Médicis en 2013, Toine Heijmans nous entraîne ici à la montagne. Tout à la fois roman d'aventure et roman d'apprentissage, une œuvre intense et fascinante sur l'amitié, la majesté de la nature et la violence des cimes. Walter et Lenny n'étaient encore que deux adolescents lorsqu'ils ont découvert l'alpinisme. Bien décidés à y consacrer leur vie, ces deux garçons issus d'un pays sans relief sont partis ensemble dans les Alpes, toujours plus loin, toujours plus haut.

Hurt people hurt people. Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer's assistant, and somehow they met in Bright Lights, Big City. He's blinded by love. She by ambition. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel but, above all, a very realistic account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us.

The New York Times bestselling author of Diary of an Oxygen Thief and Chameleon in a Candy Store is back with the spellbinding conclusion to the series. Women use sex to get love, men use love to get sex. Eunuchs and Nymphomaniacs is so brutally honest and breathtakingly perverse you’ll want...

Anonymous is back with the intoxicating, darkly dangerous, and wildly addictive sequel to his New York Times bestselling debut novel Diary of an Oxygen Thief. Picking up the story where it left off, the controversial protagonist of cult classic Diary of an Oxygen Thief retools his advertising...

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