Résultats pour "isolation" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

The product of a troubled and violent youth, Amanda Ripley is hellbent to discover what happened to her missing mother, Ellen Ripley. She accepts an assignment with a Weyland-Yutani team being sent to retrieve the Nostromo flight recorder from space station Sevastopol, which they find out of control due to a Xenomorph that was brought there with the recorder. A conspiracy unfolds, revealing ever greater threats - including an entire Xenomorph hive.

In this collection, explore a variety of poems depicting a time of loneliness, growth, and self reflection. How change can often be unwanted, and the feelings that transpire with overcoming it.

Sono gli inizi di ottobre, il giornalista Luca Banti è in arrivo a Lampedusa per seguire una pista: è convinto che la strage di 366 migranti avvenuta un anno prima davanti all'isola sia da imputare a un errore del comandante della Guardia costiera, il tenente Camarda. In quelle stesse ore, sulle coste della Libia, centinaia di uomini vestiti di nero e armati come un esercito si stanno imbarcando su dei pescherecci diretti verso Lampedusa. Sono i Leoni del Jihad, un gruppo terroristico pronto a invadere l'isola nel nome di Allah.

The “propulsively intriguing, staggeringly addictive” (USA TODAY) novel from master storyteller Stephen King—a #1 New York Times bestseller. It is a typical October morning in Chester’s Mill, Maine: glorious weather, a perfectly blue sky, and quiet. Then, all hell breaks loose...

Ten celebrities have arrived to take part in the most gruelling - and lucrative - reality survival show ever devised: two weeks completely alone on a remote Scottish island, in the depths of winter. With a production team that seems incapable of keeping them safe, a gathering storm and the unrelenting gaze of hidden cameras, the contestants are stretched to the limit as they try and outshine their fellow competitors and hide their darkest secrets. But when a contestant winds up dead, it soon becomes clear that the players are not just fighting for the prize, but for their lives.

After tragedy in Papua, New Guinea, a missionary couple returns to America and begins drifting apart from each other and from God. When their family moves into a Smoky Mountains retreat, they can't imagine the terror that awaits.

Taking on supervillains has never been a problem for Jim (a.k.a. Kid Sensation). It’s what he’s been trained to do, and he does it well. Completely intrepid in the face of danger, he’s never shied away from a crisis, no matter how difficult the assignment or how great the menace. But now he faces a task that even he dreads: hunting down his friend and mentor, Mouse.

Cole Evans thought he'd found a safe haven for his family and a growing band of survivors of the most lethal virus the world has ever known. But he finds continued survival is far from guaranteed as they battle hostile encounters with other survivors, nature, and devastating accidents. Are they prepared to survive their first brutal Wisconsin winter after the rest of the world has perished?

Keith’s in his early twenties. No girlfriend, no hobbies, no future. He spends his days working in an office and his evenings, weekends, and just about all his free time looking after his alcoholic dad. And then, the zombie apocalypse changes everything. Suddenly, Keith’s free. For the first time in a long time, he’s got nothing to worry about (apart from several hundred thousand reanimated corpses heading his way).

Straight out of today’s hospitals and labs–and tomorrow’s headlines–comes a frightening, scalpel-sharp thriller from medical insider Joshua Spanogle. In an astounding debut, Spanogle takes us on an all-too-real race against time…as a young doctor enters the dark side of scientific...

Può una vacanza alle Hawaii diventare un viaggio di formazione? A Davide e Samuel succede. Arrivati a Honolulu scoprono, per caso, l’esistenza nell’isola di una vetta sacra raggiungibile attraverso una scala proibita che decidono di affrontare non immaginando nessuna delle peripezie con le quali toccherà loro scontrarsi. Magia, superstizione e fantasia si confondono e si intrecciano con la realtà. Un viaggio ricco di emozioni che diventa la scoperta di una terra inattesa, mitologica e bellissima, in un non luogo che non sanno dove li porterà.

Pare che l’espressione “piantare in asso” si debba a Teseo che, uscito dal labirinto grazie all’aiuto di Arianna, anziché riportarla con sé da Creta ad Atene, la lascia sull’isola di Naxos. In Naxos: in asso, appunto. Proprio sull’isola di Naxos, l’inquieta e misteriosa protagonista di questo romanzo sente l’urgenza di tornare.

Devlin Miski thought coming out on national TV would be the hardest part about being a gay football player. But it's when his press conference is over that the trouble really starts. The athletic tiger and his boyfriend Lee, a fox with a tongue as quick as his wit, still won't get many breaks in their fight for understanding. They'll need to deal with a stubborn reporter determined to get a story any way he can, furious parents, and hostile teammates - not to mention each other.

This book has a duet narration....

In una Rimini mai dimenticata, un po' felliniana e un po' rock, si incrociano le vite di quattro ragazzi uniti da un'amicizia nata sui banchi di scuola: Giulio, l'incorreggibile vitellone, Giacomo l'avvocato, Lorenzo, figlio del proprietario del Grand Hotel e l'inquieto ingegnere Simone. È l'estate del 1967, e nulla sembra impossibile. Nemmeno costruire una piattaforma in acque extraterritoriali per accogliere una comunità di giovani artisti, poeti, musicisti, dove la ricerca del bello sia l'unico scopo da perseguire.

Straight out of today’s hospitals and labs–and tomorrow’s headlines–comes a frightening, scalpel-sharp thriller from medical insider Joshua Spanogle. In an astounding debut, Spanogle takes us on an all-too-real race against time…as a young doctor enters the dark side of scientific...

Bailey Meadows has just moved into the remote Topanga Canyon home of thriller author Jack Beckham. As his writer-in-residence, she’s supposed to help him once again reach the bestseller list. But she’s not there to write a thriller—she’s there to find Sam Morris, a community leader dedicated to finding missing people, who has disappeared in the canyon surrounding Beckham’s property. The missing woman was last seen in the drought-stricken forest known for wildfires and mountain lions.

"Il carcere è come la giungla amazzonica, come un paese in guerra, un'isola remota, un luogo estremo dove la sopravvivenza è la priorità e i sentimenti primari sono nitidi": forse è per questo che, da narratrice attratta dai luoghi dove "l'uomo è illuminato a giorno", Daria Bignardi trent'anni fa è entrata per la prima volta in un carcere.

Film star Amelie Hart is the darling of the silver screen, appearing on the front pages of every newspaper. But at the peak of her fame she throws it all away for a regular guy with an ordinary job. The gossip columns are aghast. Any hope the furore will die down is crushed when Amelie’s boyfriend, Dave, is arrested on charges of child sexual abuse. Dave strongly asserts his innocence, and when Amelie refuses to denounce him, the press witch hunt quickly turns into physical violence and she has to flee the country.

Bellissima, selvaggia, inquietante: è Meroe, isola al largo delle Hawaii del tutto disabitata, poco più di un sasso lanciato nel mezzo del Pacifico, con una storia misteriosa di naufragi e scomparse. La destinazione perfetta per chi vuole un po' di avventura e qualche brivido. O per chi vuole scappare da qualcosa. E scappare è esattamente quello che Lux fa da una vita: scappare dal passato, da una famiglia che l'ha delusa troppo presto, da una versione di se stessa che non le è mai piaciuta.