Résultats pour "free fall" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

Sammy Mountjoy is an artist who has risen from poverty to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is captured as a German prisoner of war, threatened with torture and locked in a cell of total darkness. He emerges transfigured by his ordeal, realising how his choices have made him the author of his life, interrogating religion and rationality, early loves and formative beliefs - and questioning freedom itself.

I could take whichever I would of these paths. A Penguin Classic Sammy Mountjoy rises from poverty to become an acclaimed visual artist. He is then swept into World War II and somehow, somewhere, he loses his freedom—as a prisoner of war, through torture, undergoing captivity in total darkness...

A stirring literary collection that explores the human experience with wisdom and honesty, by award-winning author Dustin Beall Smith. In Free Fall, author and writing teacher Dustin Beall Smith delivers a powerful collection of personal essays, talks, short fiction, and poetry. With a broad range of subjects—from American culture and academia to desire, failure, love, and the impermanence of all things—Smith delves into the lived life. At the same time, he champions the importance of process over product, attention over intention, and implicit meaning over overt messaging.

High above the Adirondack Mountains, a commuter flight to New York City turns into a rolling, twisting nightmare, plunging from the sky before the crew regains control. Then, in London, a jetliner crashes into the runway, killing fifteen people. Reporter Kate Page believes something beyond mechanical—or human—error is behind the incidents that have air investigators baffled. But the mystery deepens as teams scramble to pinpoint a link between the tragedies, and Kate receives an untraceable message from someone boasting responsibility and threatening another event.

Yoko Akia's mother was only 15 when a wealthy man swept her off her feet with promises of love. Instead, he filled her brief life with horror and misery. The Sisterhood has helped each other exact vengeance on rotten men before, but this time it's different. Their target is none other than America's favorite movie star - a brute who has conned the world into believing he's Mister Perfect. But he's about to learn that nobody - not even a powerful superstar - is above the Sisterhood's special brand of payback...

“I didn’t do it!” is something cops hear all the time. But when the plea comes from a close friend who’s fallen on hard times, it’s tougher to ignore, especially for young Officer Danny Boyle. It’s the start of another action-packed summer for the wisecracking Boyle and straight-arrow cop (now chief of detectives) John Ceepak down the Jersey Shore as they do their best to help Danny’s friend, a young nurse who claims she has been falsely accused of aggravated assault by a prestigious Sea Haven doctor.

Someone has been abducting women with long dark hair across Virginia. When the FBI is called in to help, Alex Donovan, a behavioral analyst, is tasked with putting together a profile. She's aided by her friend and colleague Logan Hart, but he has been acting strangely and won't say why. When the kidnapper demands that Alex meet him at an abandoned amusement park in exchange for the location of all his captives, she takes the bait. But the meeting proves to be a trap, and the building she's in explodes.

A prelude to HIDDEN ORDER, Brad Thor's most recent pulse-pounding Scot Harvath thriller. A prelude to HIDDEN ORDER, Brad Thor's most recent pulse-pounding Scot Harvath thriller...

Will was once a truck driver. When he was on Earth, his days were spent alone, traveling the highways for months until he went home to see his wife and family. Then space trucking became the new thing, and they didn't want pilots. They wanted men like him, the ones who were used to the isolation.

The tension-filled sequel to The Strain, from the world-famous director whose films include Pan’s Labyrinthe and Hellboy. Now a popular Amazon TV show. Humans have been displaced at the top of the food chain, and now understand – to their outright horror – what it is to be not the consumer...

In this epic drama from beloved radio personality Tom Bodett, a host of unforgettable characters from the end of the road - Alaska - venture to the lower 48 to discover an America they barely recognize. The first to arrive is Ed Flannigan, who has one arm, no job, and not a clue about how to get on with his life.

The Alien Legion has a new mission, and this time, they are working for the enemy. Also against the enemy. Like every operation that Emily Perkins plans, it’s complicated. But plans require good intel, and when the plan falls apart, the Mavericks are in freefall....

The fall was brutal. Healing isn’t a solo ascent, and love has a way of sending reinforcements. From a fiercely loyal climbing partner to a steadfast mother figure, from a determined daycare owner to a climbing community they never expected, Dan and Sejin find themselves held by something rare—found family that believes in them. In their love. In their future. The fall is where the real story begins.

Travel back to 2006 and the penultimate moment of Buck Reilly's former success when he discovers the crypt of the Mayan Serpent King and royal treasury in Guatemala, then marries top supermodel Heather Drake, and bask in his 15 minutes of fame - before it suddenly blows apart. By 2008, with the world economy on the brink of collapse, Buck and Jack Dodson's company is already under siege due to fraud, backstabbing, and greed that turn their friends and family alike into adversaries.

Davis Winger has it all. A respected engineer who designs roller coasters in theme parks across the country, he is deeply in love with his wife and has a beautiful young daughter and a happy home. Until an accident strikes on one of his rides. Nothing fatal - except to his career. And to his marriage, when a betrayal from his past inadvertently comes to light. In one cosmically bad day, Davis loses it all.

Prince Manfred and his mentor and bodyguard, the deadly warrior Erik, survived dangers and enemies both natural and supernatural, and if they thought that their new mission was going to be anything but more of the same, they soon gave up on that hope.  

After surviving another attempt on his life, Mario Luna sold off the case sources he had for car accidents and personal injury cases in Los Angeles. Having no idea what he wants to do in the future, he goes on a tour of Europe, and along the way, he meets Sami and Jason, who will change his life. Sami is a sexy, wealthy doctor, and her friend, Jason, is an aviation insurance lawyer. What he learns from them will expand his world and the lives of his team.

DJ has been kidnapped, forced into a playing a wicked game of cat and mouse for the sake of vengeance. All he has to do is stay alive long enough for his friends to find him. But they have problems of their own. To make matters even more difficult, DJ is suffering from PTSD. He must not only outwit the hunters that pursue him, but he must also do battle with the demons in his own mind.

The FBI Hostage Rescue Team is dispatched to engage in resolving critical incidents. This bundle is the first three critical incidents in the series: SuperCel, Free Fall, and Lost Art.

Die vierzehnjährige Anna lebt auf der Straße. Als ihr Vater nach Jahren unerwartet in ihr Leben tritt, schöpft sie wieder Hoffnung auf Geborgenheit und ein Dach über dem Kopf.Doch die Sache endet in einer Katastrophe.