Resultados para "Calypso" en Literatura y ficción

A man in exile, banished to a planet far from home and cursed with immortality, discovers that a ship has crash-landed near his settlement. After two hundred years, his heart’s desire has come true. A visitor has finally arrived on his lonely little speck in the stars. He’ll have companionship again. Someone he could love forever. As the weary traveler heals, the two men form a tender bond. But all they’ve come to share may not be enough to curb the visitor’s irrepressible wanderlust.

Den betörend geheimnisvollen Namen "Calypso" teilen sich unter anderem eine griechische Meeresnymphe, ein afrikanisch-karibischer Tanzrhythmus und ein Saturnmond. Fragt man David Sedaris, ist Calypso ein besonders bescheuerter Name für eine Katze. Aber auch ein betörend geheimnisvoller Titel für die lang erwartete neue Geschichtensammlung eines der erfolgreichsten Humoristen unserer Zeit, der es wie kein anderer versteht, zarte Schönheit im Hässlichen zu entdecken und die banale Komik des schönen Scheins zu entlarven.

A saga of colony ships, shattering moons and cataclysmic war in a new Eden. Rochelle wakes from cryostasis to take up her role as engineer on the colony ark, Calypso. But she finds the ship has transformed into a forest, populated by the original crew's descendants, who revere her like a saint. She travels the ship with the Calypso's creator, the enigmatic Sigmund, and Catherine, a bioengineered marvel who can commune with the plants, uncovering a new history of humanity forged while she slept.

Indomitable marine biologist Chris Black arrives in Florida intending to assist young aquanauts on an internationally funded mission to Calypso, the new undersea laboratory deployed on the edge of a coral reef. But as online trolls jeopardize the integrity of the mission and mysterious attacks suggest that someone would prefer that Calypso never come up for air, Chris is called upon to join the underwater team. Already embattled by financial, political, and scientific skepticism, the mission goes awry when a tropical storm builds and threatens the safety of the scientists onboard.

Deep in the far reaches of the universe, there is a tale of two species attempting to survive in a harsh environment, where the days are covered in light, but the night brings severe cold. Sophie and her people are fighting to belong and thrive on their new home (planet?) after the destruction of their homeland. Now they are sharing this new world with the Calypsans, whose technology is highly advanced, and their world steeped in the folklore of the stars. Their leader, Ziven, wants nothing but peace, yet their civilisation is destined for war.

For 155 days, Will Foster has been locked in medical quarantine without his consent. The doctors claim he is infected with a deadly virus, but this is a lie. Encoded in his DNA is a mutation that provides immunity from disease for all who possess it, source code that Vyrogen Pharmaceuticals aims to commercialize as a multi-billion dollar gene therapy. Against all odds, Foster escapes his laboratory prison and steals a virulent strain of bubonic plague as insurance. To help him unravel the mystery inside him, Foster contacts the only person he can trust - a former lover and microbiologist living Vienna - and the two become fugitives.

Fall festivities are underway in Coral Shores, Miami. Cuban-American cooking-show star Miriam Quiñones-Smith wakes up to find a corpse in her front yard. The body by the fake tombstone is the woman that was kicked out of the school's Fall Festival the day before. Miriam's luck does not improve. Her passive-aggressive mother-in-law puts her in charge of the Women's Club annual gala. While making plans at the country club, they hear a volatile argument between the new head chef and the club's manager. Not long after, the chef swan dives to his death at the bottom of the grand staircase.

Brought to you by Penguin. Award-winning classicist and historian Emily Hauser takes readers on an epic journey to uncover the astonishing true story of the real women behind ancient Greece’s greatest legends, and the real heroes of those ancient epics, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey . . . Contrary...

Shelby Conan walks in on her fiancé in bed with one of her bridesmaids on the morning of her wedding. She decides to go on the honeymoon cruise solo, to get away from it all. Little does she know, her cheating ex-fiancé is also on the cruise, and he's got another woman in tow. How could she bear to spend two weeks on the same ship with him and his new paramour? She needs to get off the vessel, but the ship has already left the docks. Her only chance of escape is to swim back to shore. Shelby is livid when Ben Wellington, the handsome owner of the cruise line, thwarts her plan....

Two hundred years after Earth's destruction, humans are on the run from the Warrior Alphas, who have taken over the planet. Only old, leather-bound books pulled from the rubble tell the story of who once inhabited most of Earth. Calypso is one of the last survivors, hiding in one of remaining human safe havens. But she’s different than the rest of her kind; her hair a silvery blue and her eyes like ice, due to a mutation in her genes from past nuclear fallout. She has always been warned about the large, merciless enemy, and that if they found them, they would be killed or enslaved.

After her husband wipes out their savings, sells the house, and walks away, Mina is left with nothing but her teenaged twins and a broken heart. But when she unexpectedly inherits her late uncle’s diner, she sees a flicker of hope. Mina has no experience running a diner, and in this tight-knit island community, her resilience is tested in ways she never imagined. With the business losing money and no backup plan, she’s faced with the daunting possibility of failing herself, the diner’s staff, and leaving her children homeless.

In March 1987, Mercedes Lackey, a young author from Oklahoma, published her first novel, Arrows of the Queen. No one could have envisioned that this modest book about a magical land called Valdemar would be the beginning of a fantasy masterwork series that would span decades and include more than two dozen titles.

Treffen sich eine Pazifistin, ein Kriegstreiber und eine Söldnerin... Was klingt wie der Anfang eines schlechten Witzes, ist Alltag im Leben von Lieutenant Hope Reaper. Begleitet von ihrem Bodyguard Nesaia ist sie wild entschlossen, die Kolonialisierung ihres neuen Heimatplaneten nicht in einem Blutbad enden zu lassen – doch ihr Vorgesetzter sabotiert sie. Als ihr Schiff, die Hekate, zur Landung ansetzt, bricht unter den Ureinwohnern Panik aus. Der neu gewählte Anführer Mataminai sieht sich mit einer fremden Spezies konfrontiert und muss entscheiden, wie er ihr begegnen will.

Brought to you by Penguin. Narrated by BAFTA winning actress Joanna Scanlan. From the prize-winning author of Reasons to be Cheerful comes a story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime Susan and Norma have been best friends for years, at first thrust together by force...

The burning temptation that came with loving my brother’s alien best friend, I didn’t know what I was going to do. Now, I am in his grasp and there is no way that he is going to let me go now that I am his. When it comes to relationships, I can say that I have never had easy ones. My brother was quick to chase off anyone who wanted to get close and that in turn was helped by his best friend. It would take me a long time to learn the truth and I have no clue what I was going to do with it.

Shana is in a sexless marriage, and her needs are growing out of control. However, the opportunity presents itself in the tenants that rent the buildings her husband gave her to stay occupied.

Cosmic Bond Chronicles is a short novella with beautiful human women and their sexy alien partner who crave to claim and mate them. Every handsome alien warrior knows who they want, who they want to spend the rest of their life with, and who they ache to breed. The need to dominate is in each and every one of the alien men who long to do it with the one that they love. Filled with sex, drama, danger, and hung alien men, their happily ever after is just on the horizon. Each story in this series is standalone and can be listened to in any order.

Meeting my sexy alien CEO, I never dreamed that he wished to devour me as well. Now, I’m opening up my heart to him and I have to accept everything he gives me. After I gave up my fake boyfriend to my sister, I knew it was time for me to get away. I had no clue what was going to come from it, thinking that after everything, I need to do it for me. Being an assistant, it was supposed to be an easy job.

Being asked to nanny for a sweet boy was the easy part. Dealing with his grumpy, handsome alien father, that was something entirely different. My best friend is having a baby, and she needs my help. All I have to do is nanny her client’s child, making them happy. But when I met his father, I don’t know what to do next. Neo, a handsome alien CEO who has the world at his fingertips but is worried about allowing someone else in. I don’t know how I feel about him, wanting so much more.

Finding the love of my life wasn’t it when a handsome, alien warrior walks into my life. As a nurse, I have seen so much that would make others freak out. It’s just the line of this job, having to do this. But one night when walking home, I find someone that I least expected. Jin, an enemy warrior who could hurt me. I noticed how handsome he was, but I knew he was equally dangerous. I decided to give him a chance, hoping I would regret it. He showed me just that he wasn’t what I would have expected him to be.