Resultados para "Bump" en Literatura y ficción

Set in Ireland, this SFW collection of short horror stories is recorded in amazing 3D audio technology that engages all of your senses for a truly immersive ASMR listening experience. What makes these short stories even more special is that the listener is placed at the center of all the action. You get to play the lead role as Gaelforce speaks directly to you — up close and personal.

When Claudia gets pregnant, she has a very clear plan for how she wants to give birth. Her prenatal anxieties inspire her father to create a device for safer deliveries, and Claudia realizes that nothing ever goes quite as expected. Includes a conversation with playwright Chiara Atik and Dr. Judith Reichman, an OB/GYN and longtime medical contributor to The Today Show.

Keith is an 18-year-old high school student living in Harlem. He has a life plan that includes being the class valedictorian and going to Columbia University. His mother is a recovering drug addict and his family is broken in most meanings of the word, but he has remained unfazed by his surroundings. He meets two cousins, Jesse and Derrick, and his senior year is turned on its head as he finds himself in a love triangle that leads to the discovery of details from his past that his mother wanted to keep hidden forever.

"With a fresh mix of Little Miss Sunshine and Planes, Trains and Automobiles, The Bump takes us on a laugh-out-loud and moving adventure. Wyatt and Biz are such vivid, relatable characters to root for as they navigate love and family with tears and hilarity. It's another sweet book from Sid and...

Dreams do come true, they suddenly find, as a staggering string of successes changes the fledgling academy to a small federation almost overnight. Chris and his friends are living their dreams, but to stay on this unlikely trajectory, they're forced to keep topping themselves. Can the Ramsay boys keep satisfying the blood-lust of the die-hard fans before the stakes reach life and death? What if they never had a choice in the first place?

In this powerful, edgy, and funny debut novel about making right and wrong choices, Bump gives us an unforgettable and lovable protagonist, Claude McKay Love. Claude is a young black man in search of a place where he can fit; born on the South Side of Chicago, he is raised by his civil rights-era grandmother, who tries to shape him into a principled actor for change. After a riot consumes his neighborhood, Claude decides to escape Chicago for another place, to go to college, to find a new life and identity. But he discovers, there's no escaping the people and places that made him.

Mary Wilkins Freeman's "The Southwest Chamber" and "Shadows on the Wall", Gertrude Atherton's "The Bell in the Fog", Charlotte Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper", Kate Chopin's "Her Letters", and Madalene Yale Wynne's "The Little Room" comprise this eerie collection.

While portraying life in a new settlement on New York's Lake Otsego in the final years of the 18th century, Cooper deftly explores the cultural and philosophical underpinnings of the American experience. He contrasts the natural codes of the hunter and woodsman, Natty Bumppo, and his Indian friend John Mokegan with the more rigid structure of law required by a more complex society.

The Prairie marks the final chapter in James Fenimore Cooper's great saga of American frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Though nearly 90 in 1804, Bumppo is still competent as a frontiersman and trapper, now on the Great Plains. Once more he is drawn into conflict with society in the form of an emigrant party led by the surly Ishmael Bush and his miscreant brother-in-law, Abiram White. And once again this great man of nature is called upon to exhibit his courage and resourcefulness to rescue the innocent.

A man-eating vixen from the eighties is brought back to life. Lanetta Bushar appears to be a beautiful young woman in search of love. However, a few unsuspecting people have started to notice her strange behavior. To most, it looks like Lanetta is simply having fun—mingling with high-profile men at the bar of Chil Lacz, a popular nightclub in downtown St. Louis. Bump in the Night is a short horror tale that gives listeners a front-row seat to a two-person mission to expose and stop a hungry man-eater once and for all.

In the future, Las Vegas is nearly destroyed. Rebuilt under a dark cloud that blocks all sunlight, Sin City takes on a whole new meaning. Beneath the neon, The Pagliacci Serial Killers are on the loose and a new drug called “Colors”, infused with nanotechnology, is killing thousands. Violence erupts as the mutant population take to the streets to protest working conditions and the disappearance of their loved ones.

In his bestseller, “The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry,” John Mark Comer suggests that a Christian can best celebrate the joy of “Sabbath” in two delicious ways. First, the family must bake a foot-square chocolate-chip cookie, smother it with ice cream, then joyously devour said cookie. But I love Idea #2: curl up on Sabbath afternoon with a great novel. I assume he means winsome adventures where the protagonist has heaven as their ultimate goal, and the Body of Christ as their highest passion! Which is where these Bangkok love stories come into play.

This is a collection of the first four titles from the Jake Stark Mysteries series with a short bonus story. It includes The Gorham Vampire, The Burning Town, Whispers of the Lost, Heart of Ice, and A Jake Stark Christmas.

Bumper is a young white rabbit who lives in the city, in a crowded pen with lots of other rabbits. The old woman who raises bunnies takes a few downtown every day to try to sell them. Bumper is sold to Aunt Helen who gives him to Toby, a spoiled nephew. Toby mistreats Bumper, and a little red-headed girl named Edith takes Bumper from Toby to rescue him. After being put outside in a pen, Bumper manages to escape the pen and his adventures, some not so nice, begin. Eventually, Bumper manages to meet some of his forest cousins, not to return again to the little red-headed girl.

Bumper is a young white rabbit who lived in the city but escaped from a pen where a nice little red-headed girl had put him. After avoiding some dreadful animals, Bumper has ended up in the woods where he is mistaken for the promised king because he is white and has pink eyes. Bumper quickly realizes that he does not have forest smarts and sets about to learn all he can about the woods hoping to fit in with the rest of the forest rabbits. He quickly finds out that the forest is not what he expected.

David Hammond and Anna Braddon arrive in Milbourne, Connecticut where the horribly mutilated body of Anna's brother has been discovered. Nobody knows what caused Jeffery's death, or the mysterious disappearance of other townspeople. Only one man has the courage to seek the truth, and in a subterranean cavern beneath Milbourne's quiet streets, he has come face to face with a horror beyond description. But he can never share his dreadful knowledge, for the sight has driven him insane.

Critically acclaimed, for readers of Paul Beatty's The Sellout and Jennifer Egan's The Candy House, a moving and darkly funny novel about an attempt to found an underground Utopia. An abandoned restaurant on a hill off the highway in Western Massachusetts doesn't look like much. But to Rio, a...

Jack Colton dedicated his life to two things, the law and the love of a good man named Martin. When Martin dies, Jack goes into mourning so deeply that he starts to see his late husband everywhere. Martin tells Jack that he needs to move on and find another relationship, but Jack is holding on too hard to his past to see love when it speeds through the small sleepy town he guards. Rebel Marino lives up to his name. He fights hard not only with his fists but keeps a shield tightly around himself to keep from letting anyone get close.

Eddy has a rare talent. As the newest bartender on a luxury cruise ship, he has a way of making people spill their innermost secrets. He’s not only the most charming jerk on the cruise, but also the most desired, having appeared on the cover of a hardcore magazine in the past. Eddy plays his way into the hands of a wealthy millionaire and leader of an exclusive club called The Seagulls. His flirtatious manner earns him a seat beside the leader, but he’s going to have to work hard in order to keep it.

Take one werewolf, a pair of twins, and a scared young man and see what happens, you'd be surprised. August finally has a place he feels accepted for who he is. He even has a new job working for Vance Winters one of the twins who helped him realize he was worth something, helped him see it was alright to be who he wants to be. August was happily plodding along in his new life when one short 20 minute period altered his path without him even realising it'd done so at the time. Will he be able to come to terms with his animalistic urges or will he deny his wolf what it carves?