Résultats pour "The Book Eaters" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

"Katie Erich’s riveting and emotionally rich realization of Dean’s strange and vivid world makes this an entrancing listen from start to finish; we hope to hear much more from author and narrator alike." - The Seattle Times "Katie Erich narrates Devon with the voice of a true storyteller...

It began with a simple note: a letter of rejection delivered to Miss Temple on her maid's silver tray. But for Miss Temple, her fiance's cruel rejection will ignite a harrowing quest for truth, plunging her into a mystery as dizzying as a hall of mirrors. Thus begins Gordon Dahlquist's spectacular literary debut, a novel of Victorian suspense that shatters conventions and seethes with danger and eroticism.

Known only as Reaper, he vows to destroy the federal government and all those who violate the basic tenets of freedom and human decency. Those who choose to join him must agree to never stop fighting against tyranny.

Listen as middle-aged women drink custom, crafted cocktails and debate with enthusiasm the merits of storytelling through its various mediums. The focus is on audio books and how it contrasts with movies, television, paper and e-books but we may wander into comic and online serial web novels. And, if we have too many, maybe raconteurs.

When dragons rise from the earth, firefighters are humanity's last line of defense, in this wild near-future fantasy. Firefighter Cole Brannigan is on the verge of retirement after 30 years on the job, and a decade fighting dragons. But during his final fire call, he discovers he's immune to dragon smoke. It's such a rare power that he's immediately conscripted into the elite dragon-fighting force known as the Smoke Eaters. Retirement cancelled, Brannigan is re-assigned as a lowly rookie.

Houston, Texas, 1985. 0735 hrs. Franco Hernandez is pronounced dead. At 0755 hrs, he awakens. By 1100 hrs, the virus has spread throughout St. Mary's Hospital, infecting patients and staff. By 1600 hrs, the contagion has spread across Galveston. 1715 hrs: The Galveston Police Department is overrun. 2100 hrs: Houston is overrun with the undead.

A terrifying menace descends upon Earth from beyond the solar system in this gripping tale of cosmic horror. Frank Belknap Long delivers a chilling narrative that marks the first work of cosmic horror within the Cthulhu Mythos not penned by H. P. Lovecraft. Experience the uncanny dread that captivated readers in Weird Tales, July 1928.

Driven by the desire to rescue his abducted son and a relentless thirst for retribution, the zombified gunfighter, Dead-Eye, continues his search for the renegade vampire, Jules Holland, and his unholy entourage. Accompanying him on his journey is the Louisiana mojo man, Job, who is hellbent on putting an end to his daughter Evangeline's wicked shenanigans. As long as she possesses the demonic tome, Necronomicon, and holds the ability to open the otherworldly Hole Out of Nowhere, no territory is safe from the infinite evil the dark enchantress has at her fingertips!

Have you ever read a book or watched a movie and felt like talking about it for hours? Well, don't bore your friends to death, come listen to us instead.It'll feel like a conversation, we promise.This is a podcast where two sisters read a wide variety of books and watch an unholy amount of their film and tv adaptations, and every week, they lock themselves in a cupboard and have a chat about it...because why not?

The New United States Army has taken over, and America has devolved into a full-on dragon apocalypse. Smoke eaters are banned and have gone into hiding to avoid being held prisoner by the soldiers. Guiellermo Contreras is a private in the NUSA, and when he's accused of potentially being a smoke eater upon pain of death, he escapes and sets out to find the heroes who disappeared years before. But what he discovers is that the NUSA has been working on something unthinkable, and it's going to take more than a few smoke eaters to stop them.

An NPR Best Book of 2021 NYPL 10 Best Books for Adults, 2021 A story collection, in the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, spanning worlds and dimensions, using strange and speculative elements to tackle issues ranging from class differences to immigration to...