Resultados para "Echo" en Literatura de género

From Sunday Times bestseller Katherine Webb. A long-buried crime. A marriage built on lies. Could the truth be a second chance? England, 1902. More than a decade has passed since a wrongful accusation sent a young man to the gallows, an injustice that shattered the lives of those left...

In the aftermath of The Swarm’s relentless assault, and the brief but bloody civil war, Anderson and the other survivors must find a way to secure their future in their new home. With tensions running high, and the ever-present threat of the next moon phase, a plan is devised to take them to the source of the danger. To Europe. To ECHO site.

Sutter Cane’s Most Anticipated Novel Has Arrived In the Mouth of Madness is the long-lost novel fans have been waiting for. Listeners of his earlier book (The Hobbs End Horror, The Thing in the Basement, The Breathing Tunnel, Haunter in the Dark, The Feeding and The Whisperer of the Dark) will...

After a strange meeting leads to dire prophecies of a horrible future, a Hacan war hero must chart an expedition across the galaxy to locate a mysterious planet to save the universe from destruction in this high stakes thrilling space opera tie-in to Twilight Imperium: Thunder's Edge. Harrugh...

Echoes of the Frontier gathers thirteen unforgettable tales by literary giants such as Jack London, Willa Cather, Mark Twain, and Bret Harte—each story capturing a different facet of life at the edge of civilization. From the perilous ride of The Denver Express to the poetic solitude of On the Divide, and from the chilling desperation of Love of Life to the dry wit of Nevada Sketches, these stories illuminate the grit, dreams, and humanity of those who dared to tame the wild.

Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for "dead souls"—deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them—we are introduced to a Dickensian cast of peasants, landowners, and conniving petty officials.

A BRAND NEW unmissable dual-timeline historical novel from bestselling author Victoria Scott. Perfect for readers of The Midnight Hour and The Lost Bookshop! 🌹Some stories wait centuries to be told... ‘Intriguing and haunting ... draws the reader in from the first pages.’...

Who can you trust if you can't trust yourself? Estrel Beck doesn’t want to be a software salesman. Yet here he is, newly arrived in the city-state of Trinity, for a make-or-break meeting with the local Administration department. Under-prepared, under-motivated and over-sensitive, every little thing about this strange place seems to stress Estrel out. When he discovers a message scrawled on the back of a napkin, in his own handwriting, telling him he’s trapped in a time loop, he knows for sure that he’s in over his head. Then the Administration building explodes.

1992. Ein kleiner Junge wird Zeuge eines schrecklichen Verbrechens. Jahre später begleitet die 28-jährige Lena ihren Jugendfreund zu einer Preisverleihung. Dort lernt sie den skrupellosen Filmproduzenten Konrad Felsinger kennen und trifft eine fatale Entscheidung. Zu spät erkennt sie die Gefahr, in die sie nicht nur sich selbst begibt. Die 50-jährige Marie hat indes ihren Frieden gefunden, denn sie trauert nicht mehr um Christian Gottlieb. Dieser außergewöhnliche Mann, der ihr so viel bedeutet hat und dessen plötzliches Verschwinden sie einst völlig aus der Bahn geworfen hat.

Anthony C. Yu’s translation of The Journey to the West, initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, The Journey to the West tells the story of the fourteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Xuanzang, one of China’s most famous religious heroes, and his three supernatural disciples, in search of Buddhist scriptures.

When rock star Risk Keller shows up in Frankie’s diner with his heart on his sleeve, it turns her world upside down. Letting him go was the hardest thing she ever had to do. For years, his voice has been a reminder of everything she sacrificed, and now it’s time to face the music. For Risk, coming home shows him what he’s always known deep down - every song, every gig, every drink, every girl - it’s always been about Frankie.

What happens when the past refuses to stay silent? When Mab and Nessa's mother died and their father disappeared to New Zealand, their lives changed forever. But the loss of their parents wasnt the only thing that cast a shadow over their childhood Twenty years later, when Mab and Nessa receive...

He's my enemy, and I don't trust him. So why does he make my heart beat faster? I'm Aria Delgado, and this is my story. Ten years ago, my fiancé betrayed me in the worst way—he chose my sister. I swore I'd never set foot on Longhorn Ranch again. But now, I don't have a choice. My father is...

Rare-book dealer Ashlyn Greer’s affinity for books extends beyond the intoxicating scent of old paper, ink, and leather. She can feel the echoes of the books’ previous owners—an emotional fingerprint only she can read. When Ashlyn discovers a pair of beautifully bound volumes that appear to have never been published, her gift quickly becomes an obsession. Not only is each inscribed with a startling incrimination, but the authors, Hemi and Belle, tell conflicting sides of a tragic romance.

She can feel what you’re feeling. Now someone is weaponizing it. Dr. Emily Harper experiences other people’s emotions as if they were her own. Fear arrives as physical pain. Grief settles behind her sternum. Other people’s attention becomes information she cannot turn off. Nine days ago, Emily exposed the conspiracy behind the terminal gene—a discovery powerful enough to change humanity’s understanding of death. The revelation cost her fiancé, Tyler, his life. Now the people who want to control her have learned how to turn the discovery against her.

A gripping, emotional drama of love and courage set in the Philippines during WW2.1960: Nancy Drayton, an American nurse living on Lake Sebu, is visited by a stranger who hands her some faded letters, given to her by a dying man. Reading them transports Nancy back to the terror of the war years.1941: When Nancy’s world is blown apart by the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, she volunteers to travel to the Philippines to serve at the front. She soon finds herself working in a field hospital on the Bataan Peninsula in the thick of the fighting, experiencing the horrors of war first hand.

After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The 26-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and “be among people”. Even before he reaches home, he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant’s son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement.

When the grid goes dark, some men become monsters. John Kerrigan remembers he used to be one. An EMP attack silences America in three pulses. No power. No phones. No cavalry. The country plunges into chaos. John Kerrigan—ex-Tier 1 operator, mechanic, father—recognizes the silence for what it is: the end of everything. He's spent years trying to be normal. A husband to Lisa. A dad to Max and Emily. The guy who fixes classic cars instead of pulling triggers. But Bedford, Pennsylvania, has other plans.

Some disappearances are never solved. Others never stop happening. When Dallas Florian wakes in a hospital bed after a near-fatal accident, he begins slipping into places that should no longer exist. A vanished colony. A burning house. A frozen forest where a child disappeared without a trace. A plane lost somewhere over black water. The farther he falls into these unfinished histories, the more he realizes the mysteries are not asking to be solved. They are asking to be remembered.

Reid Scott is a brilliant computer-software developer. His devotion to the companies he has established ensures that they will become highly prosperous. However, in choosing to spend long hours at work, he has become increasingly estranged from his family. When his seventeen-year-old son is brutally murdered, Reid is forced to face the fact that he has been a lousy dad. Consumed by rage fueled by guilt, he vows to reap vengeance on his son's killer. But then, as a new Christian, he learns that he must forgive to be forgiven, a requirement that seems absolutely impossible.