Resultados para "Charly" en Literatura y ficción

Gabriel Kensington and his wife, Lydia, have been brutally slain in their luxurious home in New Mexico. A frantic, whispered phone call from their teenage daughter, Addis, and her best friend, Emerson, quickly alerts the authorities to the killings. But when detective Alyssa Wyatt and the squad appear at the house, the unthinkable has happened. The girls are nowhere to be found...and neither is the killer. In a race against time, it's up to Alyssa Wyatt and her partner, Cord, to find the missing girls - and discover just why the Kensingtons have been targeted.

À la suite d'un burn-out, Alicia, 28 ans, se retrouve seule et sans boulot à Paris. Un matin de déprime elle est soudain assaillie de souvenirs d’une vie qui n’est pas la sienne : la mort d’un chien qu’elle n’a jamais eu, un homme menaçant dont elle ne voit pas le visage ou encore cette très jolie rousse qui la perturbe… Ceux-ci se multiplient, Alicia croit devenir folle. Prête à tout pour découvrir la vérité, elle décide de mener une enquête avec tous les indices qu’elle a pu rassembler parmi ces faux souvenirs.

Kennedy Farmer, an experienced athlete, never returns after leaving for her usual running route through the dusty mountain trails of New Mexico. While the search for Kennedy begins, Detective Alyssa Wyatt and her squad face a terrifying new case when the body of a young woman, Rheagan Pembroke, is discovered in the desert terrain surrounding Albuquerque. Her wounds horrify even the hardened squad of the Albuquerque P.D.—and the case takes an even darker turn when they discover a polaroid stuffed into the victim's mouth, showing the body of Gunner Galveston, a murder victim from years ago.

It's their usual Thursday girls' night in, and best friends Skye, Elena, and London are enjoying hanging out at Skye's house in New Mexico, eating junk food, drinking wine, and playing with Skye's little children, Carter and Abigail. Until the intruders arrive. Hearing the horrific screams from Elena and Skye, London hides the children, tiptoes out to see what has happened . . . and disappears. After Carter raises the alarm, Detective Alyssa Wyatt is called in to investigate a bloodbath that appears to have no motive, no evidence, and worse still—no sign of London.

All around Albuquerque, New Mexico, young women are going missing, seemingly vanished into thin air. With no link between the victims, Detective Alyssa Wyatt is quickly plunged into a horrifying case with no obvious clues. And when Jersey Andrews, the best friend of Alyssa's teenage daughter, Holly, joins the list of vanished girls, the case becomes personal. But this investigation will lead Alyssa and partner Cord into the most sinister depths of humanity; an evil place where life is expendable and where the depraved can fulfill their darkest desires - if they have the money.

A woman is found naked, badly beaten and barely alive in the New Mexico mountains. The shocking discovery plunges Albuquerque Detective Alyssa Wyatt into a case that will test her to the limit. It appears that Callie McCormick is the latest plaything of a shadowy psychopath that leaves a long shadow on the streets of New Mexico - an individual linked to a string of deaths but leaving no evidence. But when Alyssa makes a breakthrough that just might reveal the killer, she unknowingly puts herself in the crosshairs of a brutal maniac - one with an old score to settle.  

Ernest Hemingway was not only one of the most important 20th-century American writers, but also a man whose adventurous and colorful life has become the stuff of legend. War correspondent, ambulance driver, and big-game hunter, he was married four times and his love life was inextricably bound up with his artistic endeavors.

An important medical breakthrough has a shameful history. In 1840s Alabama, a slave-owning doctor performs medical experiments on involuntary subjects - enslaved women - in an effort to solve the problem of fistulas, a post-childbirth anomaly. As the experiments proceed, and he gets close to a solution, the women try to survive and even find dignity in the face of inhuman treatment.

Dans un village suisse, un pasteur recueille une jeune fille aveugle, Gértrude, qu’il élève avec tendresse, convaincu d’agir avec piété et bonté. Mais derrière cette bienveillance se tisse une relation complexe, où l’amour paternel glisse insensiblement vers un sentiment plus trouble. Quand Gértrude recouvre la vue, la réalité qu’elle découvre–et qu’elle impose au narrateur–bouleverse l’harmonie fragile qu’il croyait avoir bâtie.

Plongez dans l’univers troublant de Guy de Maupassant avec Le Horla, un chef-d’œuvre de la littérature fantastique qui vous fera frissonner jusqu’à la dernière ligne.

Als renommierter Informatiker und KI-Experte entführt der Autor in diesem fesselnden Buch die Leser in eine mögliche Zukunft der Menschheit. Ängste, die immer mehr Menschen heimsuchen, werden hier Realität: KI-Systeme erhalten unerwartet starke Verbündete in Form von freiwilligen Cyborgs - Menschen, die bereitwillig einen Chip in ihr Gehirn eingepflanzt haben. Doch wer wird die Kontrolle behalten? Begleiten Sie Mike, Cynthia und Charly auf ihrer spannenden Reise durch eine Welt, in der die Grenzen zwischen Mensch und Technologie verschwimmen und die Zukunft der Menschheit auf dem Spiel steht.

Hazel and Alfie have just moved in together as flatmates. They've also just slept together, which was either a catastrophic mistake, or the best decision of their lives. Before they can decide, Hazel's sister Emily and her wife Daria arrive for a visit, setting in motion a chain of events that will turn everything upside down. What follows will bind the four of them together, bringing joy and heartache, hope and anxiety, and reshaping their relationships in ways that none of them quite predicted.

Wunder … wenn nicht zu Weihnachten, wann dann? Ben glaubt nicht an Wunder. Gefasst sieht der Achtjährige einem Weihnachtsfest entgegen, bei dem seine sehnlichsten Wünsche sicher wieder nicht in Erfüllung gehen werden. Charlotte, Bens alleinerziehende Mutter, hofft auf ein Wunder. Wie sonst soll sie sich und ihren Sohn über Wasser halten? Grayson, Charlottes bester Freund, hat mit Wundern abgeschlossen. Der junge Witwer hat sich mit dem Schicksal abgefunden, das ihm vor Jahren seine Frau genommen hat. Gibt es mehr Dinge zwischen Himmel und Erde, als Charlotte ahnt? Zeit für Wunder?

Meet Grace Bernard. Daughter, sister, colleague, friend, serial killer. Grace has lost everything. And now she wants revenge.

Charly Waite was born in 1847. It was just the right time to experience the Wild West. He was a part of the Pony Express, Indian Wars, cattle drives, railroads, and the taming of the West. It all lasted barely more than 20 years.

Créé au sein du bar le One More (Paris 11e), le plateau One More Joke accueille régulièrement le meilleur de l'humour français (Blanche Gardin, Kyan Khojandi, Haroun, Roman Frayssinet, Gad Elmaleh) ainsi que les futurs talents du stand-up (Pierre Thevenoux, Remi Boyes, Tania Dutel, Certe Mathurin, Nordine Ganso).

Créé au sein du bar le One More (Paris 11e), le plateau One More Joke accueille régulièrement le meilleur de l'humour français (Blanche Gardin, Kyan Khojandi, Haroun, Roman Frayssinet, Gad Elmaleh) ainsi que les futurs talents du stand-up (Pierre Thevenoux, Remi Boyes, Tania Dutel, Certe Mathurin, Nordine Ganso).

The knife slashed one way across her mouth, then the other, silencing her words. The last thought she had as the knife plunged down was that at least it would all be over soon... When Jennie Killingbeck goes missing while driving back to Albuquerque, Detective Alyssa Wyatt and the squad quickly...

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was born in Paris during a time of great social and political upheaval, a ferment that is dealt with extensively in his monumental work In Search of Lost Time. He was a sickly child and spent the earlier part of his short life pursuing a variety of sometimes frivolous activities, which led to his not being taken seriously as a writer. It was not until 1909, when he was 38 years old, that he began work on the groundbreaking novel for which he is known, a task that consumed the rest of his life.

Jeanne a été placée en maison de retraite par ses enfants. Et le pire, c'est que chacun se renvoie la balle pour déterminer qui a été à l'initiative de cette mascarade. Elle a beau avoir 81 ans, une ribambelle de petits-enfants et des tonnes de carnets noircis au fil du temps, preuves de son (très) long passage sur Terre, elle n'a pas dit son dernier mot. Son plan : simuler la démence et les rendre tous dingues. Sauf que, ce lieu dans lequel elle ne voyait qu'hostilité va lui révéler bien des surprises.