Résultats pour "Sand" dans Littérature et fiction

Seth spends his days hunting down mystical artifacts. As a curator for the Arcanum College, that's his job. But when an arcanist murders a fellow scholar, Seth finds himself assigned instead to a dusty, thirsty, frustrating manhunt. Why him? Because, he's been told by his superiors, he's the only curator sufficiently tenacious and brutal for the job. (Seth resents that.) When the murderer vanishes at the edge of a deadly desert, Seth finds himself in need of a guide.

With one year remaining of sixth-form a tragedy strikes the heart of a close-knit group of teenagers. As political forces threaten to claim and overrun their town, two girls fall hopelessly in love. But neither is aware how fraught with danger and peril their love will become. In this searing portrait of a community on the brink, Sandi Burrill and the Beach of Flames eloquently explores the desperation of teenage love trapped by a forbidding and uncontrollable environment.

The story of a truly galactic civilization with more than 6,000 inhabited worlds. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is a science-fiction masterpiece, an essay on the inexplicability of sexual attractiveness, and an examination of interstellar politics among far-flung worlds. First published in 1984, the novel's central issues - technology, globalization, gender, sexuality, and multiculturalism - have only become more pressing with the passage of time.

Three women of Aggar. Three women so different, they may as well be from worlds as vast and varied as their ancestors. The face of Aggar has changed - war, conflict, healing, secrets - but these three will come to find that their similarities are as deep a bond as was ever formed. The vast desert calls and the whispers of changelings beckon. Cultures have risen and fallen across the land but some things remain constant even as everything is about to change.

The Kingdom of Sand features a nameless narrator who has survived the death of his friends to AIDS and the loss of his parents to old age and tragedy. Now he must witness the slow demise of a friend just a shade older than he is. Semi-anonymous sexual encounters, gallows humor, and classic films are his tools for staving off the dying of the light. In prose that’s in turn mordantly funny and hauntingly elegiac, Andrew Holleran takes the listener from a video porn shop off Route 301 to the memory of parties in Washington, DC.

Lover of fine poetry and lousy choose-your-own-adventure novels, Professor Sebastian Swift was once the bad-boy darling of the literati. The only lines he does these days are Browning, Frost, and Cummings. Even his relationship with the hot, handsome Wolfe Neck Police chief, Max Prescott, is healthy. When one of his most talented students comes to him bruised and begging for help, Swift hands over the keys to his Orson Island cabin - only to find out that the boy's father is dead and the police are suspicious.

Ruben ist klar, dass es eine beknackte Idee ist, sich auf diesen heißen Surfer einzulassen. Seine Leidenschaft fürs Kochen zeigen seine Hüftpolster. Schon deshalb passt er nicht in die Welt der Sportler mit ihren perfekten Bodys. Wenig überraschend bricht Shane ihm bei der ersten Gelegenheit das Herz. Da noch dazu Rubens berufliche Zukunft auf der Kippe steht, erscheint ihm die Flucht aus Ocean’s View die beste Idee. Kaum ist das Pride-Festival vorbei, bewahrheitet sich Shanes Befürchtung: Ruben ist genauso oberflächlich wie alle anderen Kerle und sieht nur seine sexy Fassade.

Nach einem Alkoholexzess wacht Surferboy Indigo auf der Veranda eines ihm vage bekannt vorkommenden Mannes auf. Noch befremdlicher ist, dass der Typ ihn während des Schlafs gezeichnet hat. Natürlich ohne sein Einverständnis. Doch Indigos loses Mundwerk bleibt verschlossen, denn der um einige Jahre ältere Künstler Ash fasziniert ihn auf unerklärliche Art. Genau diese undefinierbaren Gefühle sind es, die ihn den Rückzug antreten lassen. Denn immerhin möchte er in der Metropole Orlando studieren. Ocean’s View ist nur ein Fischerort. Leider mit geilem Strand und genialen Wellen.

Lily Ballentyne hasn't had it easy for the last few days. She's unlucky in love and struggling to get through her days. At the urging of her boss, she goes on vacation in hopes that some things will change. However, she spends most of her time watching couples walking up and down the shoreline. Day after day she dreams that she will find the perfect person in this paradise.

By Cecile depicts post-World War II France as it reels from war and recovery. In Paris, an orphan girl, Cecile, finds refuge with an older man. He introduces her to nightclubs, intellectuals, artists (Jean Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Eartha Kitt!), and non-monogamy. When she falls for his mistress, she begins to live a life she deems worthy of writing about...but only under the pseudonym of her husband.

Hot gay tomb raiders! Blackmailed by Jake's nemesis-the vengeful Pierre Perron-Professor Fathom's team of gay adventure-hunters is sent on a seemingly impossible mission. Will they uncover the legendary Riddle of the Sands in time to save one of their own from a rare and deadly poison? Is the Riddle a myth, a mirage, or the greatest engineering feat in the history of ancient Egypt?