Resultados para "Adam" en Literatura y ficción

Jonathan Hopkirk, fan número uno de la poesía de Walt Whitman, y Adam "Kurl" Kurlansky, el conflictuado jugador estrella del equipo de futbol americano del colegio, son asignados en la clase de Literatura como compañeros para semanalmente escribirse una carta y así practicar sus habilidades...

Aaron Fortin is new in town. He drives a brand-new Acura—a gift from his parents for uprooting him in the middle of senior year. Showing up on his first day at the local public school in that nice of a car? He knows he’ll never blend in, and he doesn’t care to try. The car, the new-kid mystique, he can use all that.... Crystal Giordano carpools to the same school in her friend Trevor’s beat-up van. In the van along with Crystal and Trevor are Paul, Harmony, and Gayle. Crystal’s technically part of their misfit group, but most of the time, she feels like she’s the only one who doesn’t fit.

OCD-afflicted Griffin has just lost his first love, Theo, in a drowning accident. In an attempt to hold on to every piece of the past, he forges a friendship with Theo's last boyfriend, Jackson. When Jackson begins to exhibit signs of guilt, Griffin suspects he's hiding something and will stop at nothing to get to the truth about Theo's death. But as the grieving pair grows closer, listeners will question Griffin's own version of the truth - in terms of both what he's willing to hide and what true love means.

En un presente alternativo, en el que es posible predecir la muerte con un plazo de veinticuatro horas, Mateo Torrez y Rufus Emeterio acaban de recibir la llamada más temida: la misma que te avisa de que ha llegado tu hora final. Porque les quedan, a lo sumo, veinticuatro horas de vida. Y han decidido recurrir a Último Amigo, la aplicación de citas que te permite contactar con alguien dispuesto a compartir tu carga.

Tennessee Russo has done more difficult things than this before. He's evaded traps, found lost treasures, become kind of famous, gotten over a bad relationship, and survived all that. Filming a new season of his artifact-hunting reality show for a major international streaming service should be...

Though the Joined Cities stand victorious in the wake of the Mimic invasion, Shadebinder plots continue to churn in the shadowy depths of the Eastern Forest. Rumors of a new claimant to the Golden Throne threaten to plunge the entire world into war. Voices from beyond the void offer a borrowed mastery of the darkness, but they demand a terrible price in return.

Blacklisted into the trash. Gil Klanz is a sixteen-year-old in the asteroid belt. He's about to graduate from Belt Corporation high school and he's secured the corporation appointment to the Earth Federation Naval Academy on the Moon. But all his dreams collapse when a prank involving 300 kilos of dessert gelatin, a swimming pool, and his school principal goes terribly wrong. Gil and his mother are black listed by the Belt Corporation. He has to make his way outside the company and becomes involved in an independence movement and the revolt against the greedy Corporation.

Le vacanze sono appena cominciate e Caterina non potrebbe essere più disperata. Solo montagne e valli incontaminate a perdita d'occhio. In preda a una noia mortale, si rifugia con il cane Romeo in un luogo tutto suo, una valletta appartata. Qualcun altro però abita quella radura magica, un'orsa e il suo cucciolo. Quando la ragazza e gli animali si incontreranno, tra loro nascerà un legame speciale, minacciato da chi crede che gli orsi siano sempre pericolosi. Aiutata da Matias, un ragazzo del luogo, elaborerà un piano per metterli in salvo, avventurandosi lungo il dimenticato Sentiero degli Orsi.

Connor Major’s summer break is turning into a nightmare. His SAT scores bombed, the old man he delivers meals to died, and when he came out to his religious zealot mother, she had him kidnapped and shipped off to a secluded island. His final destination: Nightlight Ministries, a conversion therapy camp that will be his new home until he “changes”. But Connor’s troubles are only beginning. At Nightlight, everyone has something to hide - from the campers to the “converted” staff and cagey camp director....

Shane is still reeling from the suicide of his kid sister, Destiny. How could he have missed the fact that she was so sad? He tries to share his grief with his girlfriend, Tara, but she's too concerned with her own needs to offer him much comfort. What he really wants is to be able to turn to the one person on the rez whom he loves - his friend, David. Things go from bad to worse as Shane's dream of going to university is shattered and his grieving mother withdraws from the world.

On several occasions, a half-dozen of Spider-Man's greatest enemies have banded together as the Sinister Six. Now, at the behest of a deadly benefactor known only as the Gentleman, the Chameleon has been tasked with assembling a new Sinister Six with the most ambitious scheme yet! Soon, he has recruited the Vulture, freed Electro and Dr. Octopus from prison, and been joined by the Gentleman's mysterious ward, Pity. That only leaves Mysterio, but the master of illusion has a plan of his own.

University student Adam Wilson and his four friends made a discovery that has been well-kept for hundreds of years. This discovery was exposed because one individual wanted a better life. This discovery led to the unraveling of the lives of the five friends, in which none can recover from. When the friends decide to fight the force that’s been fighting them, things only get worse.

The genuine recollections of a gold rush prospector, barber, dentist, and his frontier philosophy. Set during the mostly forgotten Georgia gold rush of the 1830s this tale focuses on Bob - a lucky, but grumpy gold prospector who doesn’t get along with anybody. When Bob’s exiled by the townsfolk and forced to live alone in the wilderness surrounded by bears, he makes uncanny decisions that result in a fantastical story.

Every morning Laila Bansal wakes up before dawn—hours before her job at the family winery—and trains in hand-to-hand combat with her adopted aunts who, when not tending to their thriving vineyard, are immortal demons sworn to protect Laila’s mythological bloodline. Despite the whole "descendant of Draupadi" thing, Laila leads a peaceful, protected life. That is until Karan, the mysterious and gorgeous new archer in town, tries to cut off her head.

Seventeen-year-old Tennessee Russo's life is imploding. His boyfriend has been cheating on him, and all his friends know about it. Worse, they expect him to just accept his ex's new relationship and make nice. So when his father, a famous archaeologist and reality show celebrity whom he hasn't seen in two years, shows up unexpectedly and offers to take him on an adventure, Tennessee only has a few choices:

In his old life, Parth suffered a string of losses, the tragic deaths of his parents compounding his downward spiral. But transported to this new world and given the incredible opportunity to wield power beyond his imagination, he'll accept nothing less than victory. Parth will win it all or die trying.

Athanasios “Athan” Bakirtzis has made it far in life relying on his charm and good looks, even securing an invitation to a mysterious penthouse soiree for New York City’s artsy elite. But when he sneaks off to the bathroom, he hears a slam, followed by a scream. Athan peers outside, only to be pushed back in by a boy his age. The boy gravely tells him not to open the door, then closes Athan in. Outside the door, the party descends into chaos

Eighteen-year-old Stanyard Dass had every intention of leaving his past behind when he fled a religious containment camp. But his assimilation into society is threatened when his old neighbor Philadelphia, on the run from the law, begs for his help. She carries the key to a chemical superweapon, and the government will kill to get her back. Stanyard agrees to take her to safety—but when everything goes horribly wrong, he must decide which one of them will make it out alive.

Jack Reynolds is the only one who can wield the power of Eden’s Star, but can he control it before it destroys him? Hunted across international cities and secret realms, Jack and his diverse group of boarding school friends are desperate to find the ancient artifacts of the seven Cherub tribes before it’s too late. Emma Bennett’s supernatural gifts have grown, but even she can’t stop the dark forces capturing innocent Cherub and stealing their powers for their own sinister schemes. Jack and Emma must decide if trusting the guiding voice of Eden’s Star is worth the sacrifice.

A coming-of-age teen is thrown into a world of ancient secrets when he discovers a supernatural artifact that protects a weapon of mass destruction. With the help of a diverse group of friends, he embarks on a global adventure, seeking the truth about his sister’s death, and uncovers two clandestine, supernatural societies waging an epic, hidden war that threatens the future of civilization.