Résultats pour "William" dans Fiction

*An AI twist on Frankenstein. Perfect for fans of Stephen King and Black Mirror* 'Best thing I've read this year' Will Dean 'Terrifying' Kiran Millwood Hargrave 'A brilliantly plotted story' Guardian 'Gripping . . . A twist on The Shining' New York Times 'Its chilling final twist will have you...

William Stoner is born at the end of the 19th century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments.

A powerful contemporary literary novel about return, revolution, inheritance, memory and the fragile work of founding a country for the second time.Ali Abbasi returns to Dhaka from abroad carrying a wrapped Quran, a rejected paper, a suitcase of old arguments and the accusation of having watched...

From one of the founders of the beat generation and the 1960s counterculture comes this opening novel of a series available now in audio for the first time. An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his execution; and the world's population is infected with a radioactive epidemic. These stories are woven together in a single tale of mayhem and chaos.

Pour Turner, cette mission d'exfiltration d'un cadre de Maas Biolab fait partie de la routine de son boulot de mercenaire. Et il est le meilleur dans sa partie... Au même moment, en Europe, Marly, une galeriste d'art ruinée reçoit une étrange proposition du multimilliardaire Josef Virek : découvrir l'origine de mystérieux coffrets dont le style ressemble à celui de l'artiste qui a causé sa perte... Quant à Bobby, un hacker qui se fait appeler Comte Zéro, il voit son ultime heure venue.

The latest from the master of Brooklyn-set crime fiction is a zany, foul-mouthed, and tender-hearted screwball noir that unfolds over one madcap day, centered around a stolen Joe DiMaggio–signed baseball and the lengths people will go to find it. “William Boyle’s Brooklyn is a place where...

RESONANCEMOVEMENT I: THE SOUND BETWEEN Every song ever played alone went somewhere.And now something is trying to erase it.Fourteenyearold Mara Solano sees sound as color. Voices shimmer. Footsteps glow. Music blooms across the air in vivid, impossible hues. She hasn’t played music in three...

From the bestselling Johnstones comes a blazing new saga of the American West. The epic story of the Hamlins of Luckenbach, Texas—and their fight to build a longhorn empire . . . A LAWLESS LAND. A TEXAS DYNASTY. A NEW JOHNSTONE LEGEND. Caleb Ezekiel Hamlin arrived in Texas in 1850 with nothing...

The Hamlins of Luckenbach, Texas, ride into danger along the perilous Chisholm Trail in a roaring epic of the American West by the bestselling Johnstones. JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WHERE THOSE WHO SURVIVE BECOME LEGENDS. Jake Hamlin has only one thing on his mind: a Chisholm Trail cattle-drive to trade...

A must-listen new western from bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone...

This is the story of a quiet man, destined to be a farmer but who becomes an academic. It is book in which nothing and everything happens and is possibly the greatest novel you've never read. William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English...

In this alternate history adventure set in WW2’s early days, a crippled US military struggles to defend vulnerable Australia against the unstoppable Japanese forces. When a Japanese regiment lands on Australia’s desolate and undefended Cape York Peninsula, Jock Miles, a US Army captain...

JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WHERE JUSTICE NEVER FLINCHES IN A SHOWDOWN. In this action-packed adventure from bestselling Western legends William W. and J.A. Johnstone, a former scout strikes gold and trades lead with a corrupt sheriff’s band of outlaws. The once prosperous town of Bannack in...

Callie: Two years ago, the elite "golden children" of the world fled to Zion Island. While the rest of us watched the world burn, they built a new society. Now, Zion is a myth—a gilded paradise of luxury and dark secrets. With my family gone, a one-way ticket to the island is my only hope for a fresh start.

Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a thousand years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds...

A festive gathering... Private investigator Dan Armstrong, accompanied by his wife and his canine sidekick, Oscar, are spending the days before Christmas in a luxurious Alpine chalet tucked away in a hidden valley. It should be the perfect escape, except the owner is in fear for his life. A...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they’ve come from—and what they’ve left behind. ONE...

Family drama and the legacy of slavery haunt this epic tale of an enigmatic stranger in Jefferson, Mississippi—from one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century. First published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is William Faulkner’s ninth novel and one of his most admired. It tells...

With its Faulkner-esque display of unparalleled literary genius, Allan Gurganus’s The Erotic History of a Country Baptist Church revives the great Southern novel for the twenty-first century. Allan Gurganus, “one of the best writers of our time” (Ann Patchett), burst onto the scene with...

Der Sturm ist vorbei. Ein langer Weg liegt vor ihnen. Das Überleben ist alles andere als sicher. Aus den Trümmern der alten Zivilisation entsteht eine neue – doch wer wird sie beherrschen? Das Streben nach Macht und der Kampf ums nackte Überleben prallen unerbittlich aufeinander, und alle...