Résultats pour "The Stranger" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

Two years before the events of Stranger Things: Season 4, Eddie Munson—Hellfire Club leader, metalhead, and Hawkins outcast—has one shot to make it big. Hawkins, Indiana: For most, it’s simply another idyllic, manicured all-American town. But for Eddie Munson, it’s like living in a...

Following the events of Stranger Things: Season 4, Nancy Wheeler and Robin Buckley are hot on the heels of a new mystery—and they won’t stop until they solve it. Hawkins, Indiana, is in recovery. It’s been two months since Vecna’s earthquake tore through the town, and its residents are...

English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory.

Here is a collection of joined-up stories for these disjointed times, for the exiled and the out-of-place. Letters from love poets and blood-stained dictators, memos from corrupt businessmen and out-of-touch courtiers. The action stretches from Chislehurst to the Chagos Islands, from bathos to Billericay.

Chief Jim Hopper reveals long-awaited secrets to Eleven about his old life as a police detective in New York City, confronting his past before the events of the hit show Stranger Things. Christmas, Hawkins, 1984. All Chief Jim Hopper wants is to enjoy a quiet first Christmas with Eleven...

Dreaming of a Stranger by Sheila O'Flanagan - a best-selling novel about taking destiny into your own hands. When Jane O'Sullivan meets blue-eyed Rory McLoughlin, she knows that he is who she's been waiting for. All she's ever dreamed of is falling in love and getting married, but until Rory no one has come close to the ideal man she imagined. And when Jane walks up the aisle to marry Rory, she believes all her dreams have come true. What Jane doesn't know is that she's not going to get the happy ending she expects. Dreams are not always what they seem....

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER If you think you know the truth behind Dr. Brenner’s experiments at Hawkins Laboratory, prepare to have your mind turned Upside Down in the first official Stranger Things novel—“the prequel story that fans have been waiting for” (Kirkus Reviews). It’s the...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Olivier Award winner Rory Kinnear, star of Penny Dreadful. Kinnear is also known for his portrayal of Bill Tanner in Spectre and for his role in The Imitation Game. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Robert...

From the bestselling author of the wildly inventive Strange Pictures and a phenomenon in Japan—unnatural layouts, trap doors, windowless rooms— a sinister conspiracy is concealed within a house’s warped and unsettling floor plans When a writer fascinated by the macabre is approached by an...

"Richard Armitage...steps in and sweeps us away on his deep, velvety voice, one much worth the marathon listening time. Listeners will know they are in for a treat immediately as they hear his voice change between reading the front matter and the first moments of the novel...this new edition...

Ex-SAS soldier Ben Rider falls in love with his enigmatic married boss Sir Nikolas Mikkelsen, but Nikolas is living a lie. A lie so profound that when the shadows are lifted, Ben realises he's in love with a very dangerous stranger. Ben has to choose between Nikolas and safety, but sometimes danger comes in a very seductive package.

What if the person you love finally returned home… but something about her felt quietly, disturbingly different? In "The Stranger", tension doesn’t explode—it builds. A reunion meant to be warm and joyful slowly turns uncertain… then uneasy… then quietly haunting. Small details begin to matter. Silences stretch too long. Emotions shift in ways that can’t quite be explained. With her signature psychological precision, Katherine Mansfield draws you into an intimate moment where love, perception, and reality begin to blur.

Dr. Garrett Gibson, the only female physician in England, is as daring and independent as any man - why not take her pleasures like one? Yet she has never been tempted to embark on an affair - until now. Ethan Ransom, a former detective for Scotland Yard, is as gallant as he is secretive, a rumored assassin whose true loyalties are a mystery. For one exhilarating night, they give in to their potent attraction before becoming strangers again. But she is soon drawn into his most dangerous assignment yet.

Margaret, Elsie, Phoenix, Cedar : quatre femmes, mères et filles, issues de la communauté amérindienne du North End, un quartier défavorisé de Winnipeg, Manitoba. Quatre membres d'une même famille, les Stranger, chacune hantée par ses propres démons. Quatre personnages qui cherchent désespérément la lumière. Dans cette fresque poignante, Katherena Vermette immerge le lecteur dans l'univers mouvant d'une lignée de femmes autochtones, dessinant la force de leurs liens, la souffrance héritée du passé et l'espoir de briser enfin la fatalité.

The last cowboy in the world faces a new threat that seems surreal and absurd. Despite strange happenings that are seemingly impossible, he confronts the mystery. What awaits him on this expedition is something far beyond sane.

Alice Pendelbury believes everything in her life is pretty much in order - from her good friends to her burgeoning career. But even Alice has to admit it’s been an odd week. Not only has her belligerent neighbor, Mr. Daldry, suddenly become a surprisingly agreeable confidant, but he’s encouraging her to take seriously the fortune-teller who told her that only by traveling to Turkey can Alice meet the most important person in her life. What’s more, the peculiarly insistent Mr. Daldry has even agreed to finance Alice’s trip - one that against all reason seems to be predestined.

She betrayed him, and now he wants revenge against the sister who became his forbidden obsession the second he laid eyes on her. After she sends him to prison for years, he’s free and ready to haunt her.

In this poignant drama by the esteemed German playwright August von Kotzebue, a close friend of Ludwig von Beethoven, we delve into the complexities of love and identity. Originally published as Menshenhass und Reue, the play took the English-speaking world by storm in the late 1790s, captivating audiences in both Great Britain and the United States. Its enchanting tale of lost love, hidden identities, overwhelming guilt, and the promise of redemption resonated deeply with 19th-century theatergoers, leaving them spellbound. Join us for a journey through a fairytale-like narrative that has ...

Sie hat ihn verraten, jetzt will er sich an seiner Pflegeschwester rächen. Sie ist seine Obsession, seit er sie das erste Mal gesehen hat. Nachdem sie ihn für Jahre ins Gefängnis gebracht hat, ist er nun frei, und lässt sie nicht mehr aus den Augen. An Halloween kann er sich nicht länger in den Schatten verstecken. Alles, was ihm bleibt, ist ihr Herz, selbst wenn er es sich selbst nehmen muss.

In this collection, 15 writers try to find answers to how we can truly know each other; on the way, they find psychedelic worms, supernatural roommates, new dimensions and the deeply rooted question of how to know even ourselves.