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.

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...

In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep. Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart—he breaking under the...

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.

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?

L'isola dove volano le femmine.Alicudi, una terra battuta dal vento tra majare a llucinazioni collettive.L’isola dove volano le femmine è un podcast originale prodotto da Neri Pozza Podcast, ispirato all’omonimo romanzo di Marta Lamalfa.Scritto da Marta Lamalfa. La voce è di Marta De Lorenzis.Il coordinamento di produzione è di Francesca Colletti.Post produzione e sound design a cura di Francesco Ferrari per Frigo Studio.

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.

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).

Luke Stonebride flees London for a fresh start in a remote, off-grid commune. Nine days later, he is found in a coma. His fellow commune members lie lifeless in the forest. Was it the work of a brutal intruder or something darker lurking within? To find out, we need to go back to the beginning: a rainy day in July, a clearing in the forest, thatched cabins and woodsmoke–and the ominous signs of the dangers to come.

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.

Volevo qui parlare di un percorso misterioso e segreto, uno speciale viaggio interiore, in cui si fa reale la simbiosi con l'altro da noi, quella dimensione terrena e naturale in cui tutto parla, contemporaneamente e poi si ascolta, cioè "sente se stesso" con un udito quasi cosmico, la terra, gli animali, gli esseri umani. E di ciò ha trovato significato questo piccolo, simbolico romanzo, scritto dal gennaio al febbraio del 2005, dopo il disastroso tsunami che cancellò la vita nelle isole indonesiane.

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.

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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...