Resultados para "Black Box" en Literatura y ficción

You know those summer night, cool breeze, everybody is outside and kicking it? Music blaring, you chilling with your girls, watching the guys? Well, that’s how it went for Moët. Moët Rubins was sitting on her best friend’s stoop with her girls, kicking it and having drinks, when a drop top...

Need to hide something from the fae? Got a tricky trans-dimensional delivery to make? Need a big ball of magic that can destroy the world? Call Black Box, Inc. The world as we know it is gone. Since the "extradimensional happening", every creature, monster, and fairy tale goblin has turned Asheville, North Carolina, into their personal playground. An uneasy truce exists between the races, but Chase’s unique ability puts him squarely in the crosshairs of treachery, feuds, and monsters.

Robert E. Howard wrote a total of 21 Conan stories. They became very popular so he kept writing them. These stories feature Conan embarking on heroic adventures filled with fantasy elements such as princesses and wizards. The stories in this boxed set are "The Devil in Iron, "The Phoenix and the Sword, "The Pool of the Black One, "Red Nails," A Witch Shall be Born," and "Shadows in the Moonlight."

An international crisis threatens to plunge the world into war at the dawn of the 20th century, but the British Foreign Office finds itself blinded by the bizarre deaths of crucial agents and informants as it struggles to stave off the coming conflagration. For help, they turn to an unconventional outsider, Inspector Jenkins of Scotland Yard, who soon finds himself on the trail of a mysterious man with a deadly black box and a host of devoted accomplices.

During World War II, a star baseball player trades his bat for a rifle and discovers that some battles can't be won on any field. Will Jamison has it all as a rising star for the Washington Senators when Pearl Harbor changes everything. Driven by patriotism and family legacy, he enlists in the Army, leaving behind fame, fortune, and his secret affair with the married Kay Barlow. During the Battle of the Bulge, Jamison's unit makes a heroic stand near Bastogne against overwhelming German forces. He earns a Silver Star, but the brutal carnage leaves invisible scars that no medal can heal.

Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates Jr's legendary Harvard course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way. From Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, to Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, these writers used words to create a liveable world – a “home” – for Black people destined to live in a bitterly racist society.

A New York Times Notable Book Shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Society's Christian Gauss Award for Outstanding Books in Literary Scholarship “Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought...

Movie star Alan Ladd played Dan Holiday, retired newspaperman turned fiction writer and adventurer extraordinaire. To gain ideas for his books, Holiday placed an ad in the Star-Times newspaper: "Adventure wanted - will go anywhere, do anything - Box 13." It wasn't long before his Box 13 became jammed with adventures galore.

Movie star Alan Ladd played Dan Holiday, a former newspaperman turned mystery novelist and adventurer. To gain ideas for his books, Holiday placed an ad in the Star-Times newspaper: "Adventure wanted - will go anywhere, do anything - write Box 13, Star-Times." It wasn't long before his post office box became jammed with adventure offers galore. The stories follow his escapades when he responds to the letters.

In naher Zukunft, irgendwo am Mittelmeer. Eine namenlose Agentin ist auf einen mutmaßlichen Staatsfeind angesetzt. Um an wichtige Informationen zu kommen, muss sie gefährlich nah an den brutalen und skrupellosen Mann heran. In staccatohaftem Stil schildert die Pulitzer-Preisträgerin Jennifer Egan eine atemberaubende Verfolgungsjagd. Der Agentinnenroman wurde zuerst in Form von Twitter-Meldungen vom US-Magazin "New Yorker" veröffentlicht.

Shane Black is trapped in New York, and vicious protesters are burning the city to the ground. He has no gun, no way out, and he’s 1,000 miles from home. America’s financial doomsday. A wayward son. The epic struggle to survive. Country music icon Shane Black is this year’s headliner for the New Year’s Eve bash in Times Square, but when violent riots break out, he’ll need more than a six string to escape the maelstrom. After decades of abuse as the world’s reserve currency, the US dollar’s day of reckoning is at hand.

Spectral demons tear victims apart from the inside out, leaving nothing but gory destruction in their wake. And their next victim is one of the biggest extradimensional crime lords around—the One Guy. To survive a fate equal to but also worse than death, he’ll have to convince Black Box Inc. to save his sorry ass. Chase Lawter and his crack team—an omnisexual yeti, an ex-Fae assassin, and a business savvy zombie—are tasked with transporting the One Guy to Washington, D. C. where the Department of Extradimensional Affairs will put the crime lord into protective custody. That is, if Chase and Black Box Inc. can evade blood ghasts, dimentionalist rednecks, vengeance-seeking kobolds, and whatever other enemies are in hot pursuit of the One Guy. He’s made a lot of enemies. Including Chase, who knows you can’t trust the One Guy as far as you can throw him.

One fifteen-minute encounter as teenagers changed everything for Rex Goode and Truce Redmond. They both walked away different people. For him, it catapulted his career in boxing. For her, it challenged her commitment to family. Years later, Rex is a retired boxer, single father, and furniture store owner who has left his fighting days behind him. Truce is a dutiful daughter, loving big sister, and owns the popular soul food restaurant, Redmond’s. On the outside, her life is perfect, until it’s not.

Vor zehn Jahren wurde mein bester Freund wegen Mordes verurteilt. Zehn Jahre, in denen ich verzweifelt versucht habe, meinen Namen reinzuwaschen und die Welt davon zu überzeugen, dass ich nichts von seinen abscheulichen Taten wusste. Ich dachte, die Vergangenheit hätte mich endlich losgelassen – bis nach all der Zeit die Privatdetektivin Veronica »Ronnie« Fraser auftaucht und wortwörtlich beginnt, im Dreck zu wühlen.Ich habe keine andere Wahl, als mit ihr zusammenzuarbeiten. Nur so kann ich kontrollieren, welche Geheimnisse sie ans Tageslicht zerrt...

Enjoy this wonderful collection of Sherlock Holmes' adventures.

One Voice Recordings presents amazingly versatile voice actor David Ian Davies performing three of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories: "Oblong Box", "The Pit and the Pendulum", and "The Black Cat".

William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was a prominent abolitionist, historian, novelist, and playwright. Brown was an African-American pioneer in various literary genres. His novel Clotel; or, The President's Daughter (1853), was published in London, England in 1853. It is the story of Clotel and her sister Althesa who are fictional slave daughters of Thomas Jefferson, and explores the destructive effects of slavery on African-American families, the difficult lives of people of mixed-race, and the degraded and immoral relationship between master and slave.

In 81 brief chapters, Lao-Tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, provides advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit, and teaches us how to work for the good with the effortless skill that comes from being in accord with the Tao—the basic principle of the...

Movie star Alan Ladd played Dan Holiday, retired newspaperman turned fiction writer and adventurer extraordinaire. To gain ideas for his books, Holiday placed an ad in the Star-Times newspaper “Adventure wanted - will go anywhere, do anything - Box 13.” It wasn’t long before Box 13 became jammed with adventures galore. Holiday always had more adventure than he’d originally sought, because those who responded to his ad never revealed all of their glorious, unusual, and sometimes sinister details until they met in person and the adventure had already begun.

“Delivering authentic action from someone who has lived it, Chameleon is on target and scores a direct hit!” —Jack Carr, former Navy SEAL and #1 New York Times bestselling author From filmmaker, memoirist, and former Navy SEAL Remi Adeleke, on the heels of his featured roles in the hit...