Results for "The Race" in Literature & Fiction

Pour la première fois de son existence, Emmy Ryder, championne de barrel racing, est perdue. Elle est de retour au ranch familial, à Meadowlark, la petite ville du Wyoming où elle a grandi et qu’elle a tout fait pour quitter. C’est ce qu’on appelle revenir à la case départ… Mais...

In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality. "There is a signature motif discernible in...

Bij het begin van het nieuwe academiejaar krijgt hoofdinspecteur Thomas Berg een bizarre brief. Daarin eist de anonieme afzender dat het aantal buitenlandse studenten aan de Leuvense universiteit drastisch moet verminderen. Om die eis kracht bij te zetten, zal hij drie studenten van vreemde origine opsluiten in een ruimte met een beperkte hoeveelheid zuurstof, maar omdat hij slachtoffers wil vermijden, belooft hij de politie aanwijzingen te geven om de studenten te redden. Een misplaatste grap, denkt iedereen. Tot Berg een sms'je krijgt met de locatie van de eerste ontvoerde student.

A massive asteroid has struck the Pacific. Two young friends embark on the harrowing tale of survival as they try and outrace the two mile high tsunami. Strap in and prepare yourself for a wild ride as these two friends do anything they can to survive. Will they make it to the mountains before the world ending wave catches them?

"J'ai longtemps rêvé que l'histoire de ma naissance exhibe ses entrailles. Quelle que soit l'odeur qui en surgisse. La pire des puanteurs, c'est le silence." PRIX D'HONNEUR FILIGRANES 2020. Je m'appelle Hildegard Müller. Ceci est mon journal. Le Troisième Reich m'a enfantée. Je suis une oubliée de l'histoire. La seule race que les SS aient créée, c'est la race des orphelins. Qui est Hildegard Müller ? Le jour où il la rencontre, l'homme engagé pour écrire son histoire apprend qu'elle a 76 ans, qu'elle sait à peine lire, à peine écrire.

Corey Grace - a handsome and charismatic Republican senator from Ohio - is plunged by an act of terrorism into a fierce presidential primary battle with the favorite of the party establishment and a magnetic leader of the Christian right. A decorated Gulf War pilot, Grace insists on voting his own conscience rather than the party line, and this stubborn independence—together with his growing romance with Lexie Hart, an African-American movie star.

Can an honest man become president? In The Race, this timely and provocative novel from bestselling author Richard North Patterson, a maverick candidate takes on his political enemies and the ruthless machinery of American politics. Corey Grace—a handsome and charismatic Republican senator...

It is 1910, the age of flying machines is still in its infancy, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first daring aviator to cross America in less than 50 days. He is even sponsoring one of the prime candidates - an intrepid woman named Josephine Frost - and that's where Bell, chief investigator for the Van Dorn Detective Agency, comes in.

Roman Diego, a thoroughbred assistant trainer, is found dead in his tack room at the Rainier Meadows Racetrack. Is the confused, barely covered young woman who had awakened next to the dead man a killer? As Detective David James investigates the death of Roman Diego, a syringe containing a mystery liquid is discovered. The mystery deepens as the list of suspects gets longer. Who would want to kill Roman Diego, one of the "good guys"? David James searches for a common denominator between the suspects and the victim as the motive becomes harder to ignore.

A sizzling new standalone contemporary romance by New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Katy Evans. A bad boy with something to prove. A woman with a mission. The race of their lives. The love of a lifetime. I don’t think his parents expected him to live up to his name—Racer...

Can an honest man become president? In The Race, this timely and provocative novel from bestselling author Richard North Patterson, a maverick candidate takes on his political enemies and the ruthless machinery of American politics. Corey Grace—a handsome and charismatic Republican senator...

Set in the universe of the New York Times bestselling Three-Body Problem trilogy, The Redemption of Time continues Cixin Liu’s multi-award-winning science fiction saga. This original story by Baoshu—published with Liu’s support—envisions the aftermath of the conflict between humanity and...

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It's not been a good morning for Thraxas. A vindictive judge has just fined him every guran he has, and two old enemies have threatened his life. And to cap it all, the rainy season has started and it's as wet as a mermaid's blanket in the magical city of Turai. He desperately needs a winner in the big chariot race. And he needs a job. But not even Thraxas with his sorcerous investigating skills could have predicted that his two requirements might just be connected in a strange and potentially disastrous way.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Britain, in the days before Rome. A young Briton riding alone through the forest is ambushed, struck down from behind and carried off underground into a maze of caves lit by torches. His captors are small, dark, misshapen men who speak a language older...

Mage-Captain Ivan Halloway has retired from the Royal Martian Navy and the service of the Mage-King of Mars. He has returned to his homeworld to rest, but his only real plan is to avoid the war he sees coming to the Protectorate. Captain Karl Charpentier is his oldest friend - captain and pilot of an interstellar jump-courier. Crewless and drowning in debt due to a series of mistakes, Karl turns to his newly unemployed friend with a desperate plan to solve all his problems. 

In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe. Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she's...

A newly minted graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1890, Dr. Thomas Parks heads to the big timber country of Puget Sound to practice trauma medicine. An hour after stepping off the boat, he's nearly crushed to death by a less-than-sure-footed mule and finds himself a patient rather than a physician. As he convalesces, he discovers that his host, a venerable physician friend of his father's, is running an elaborate medical scam, selling worthless concoctions nationwide, with enormous sales.

From a celebrated New York Times bestselling author comes a Cotton Malone adventure in which Cotton unravels a mystery from World War II involving a legendary lost treasure known as Yamashita’s Gold. 1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast quantities of gold and other stolen...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. While exploring the depths of a remote mine shaft, an American traveler falls through a dark subterranean chasm and stumbles into a hidden world beneath the Earth's surface. There, he discovers the Vril-ya: an ancient, telepathic, and highly evolved...