Resultados para "FREEDOM" en Literatura y ficción

Under the rule of Communist president Nicolae Ceaușescu, citizens of Bucharest live with the eyes and ears of the government ever present. During a visit to her aunt’s apartment, 15-year-old Adriana walks through a wardrobe that leads into a hidden room filled with forbidden novels. As her family begins to unravel, her life strangely parallels those of her novels’ heroines. Adriana’s childhood loyalties, and her belief that God doesn’t exist, are called into question as her circumstances force her to rethink things she once believed were certain. 

Fight for Freedom just got darker, twistier, and downright impossible to put down. Brace yourself for a heart-pounding ride—this one will keep you on the edge of your seat!

Jakob Kestrel seeks to free the Highlands. To succeed, he must defeat both man and monster, Stalkers, Wraiths, and slavers all seeking to kill him. Talia strives to eliminate the pirates haunting the Sea of Mist. But before she can do that a more lethal hazard threatens, and only Davin can save her. With battles raging all around them, Bryen and Aislinn begin to realize that they need to go to Shadow’s Reach, suspecting that the heart of the darkness seeking to smother New Caledonia lurks there.

Hi. My name's Lea, like the field. I'm sixteen and I live on a farm that's too far away from the public schools so I'm home-schooled, but not, like, Christian home-schooled. My parents pulled me out of that a few years ago. My younger brother and I read a lot of books and learn what we want to learn. All that knowledge gets me in trouble though, because I mouth off to my dumb neighbors when they stick God and guns in my face. And I stick up for the people that they hate-the outsiders, the freaks, the people who live different lifestyles than them.

Fantasy of Freedom is the final action-packed title in the Tainted Accords series. This is the heaviest the veil has ever felt. But I am the strongest I have ever been. The veil is nothing. A part of me knew when I was taken from Osolis that when I returned—if I lived long enough to return—I would carry death and destruction to her doorstep. That is the irony of peace. It comes only after war. Warning: cliff-hanger ending. Recommended for mature young adults.

Play. Win. Survive. There’s one building on her island that Halley has never visited: the Mercenary House. Perched atop a mountain, surrounded by unnaturally evergreen foliage, the House is rumored to be a breeding ground for criminals. Mercenaries are liars, cheats, spies . . . and maybe...

On the eve of war, the good tremble. Dearen and the Ice Tigers are bringing the fight for hearth and home to the Bareskins. And on the eve of war, something stirring within Dearen draws her north into the mountains, searching for an ethereal promise that might bring peace.

Sara needs to cross the US border illegally to help her Tía Elena after learning her parents and siblings were killed in an accident. She needs to elude kidnappers and FBI agents on her way to live with her criminal uncle. Survival depends on her successful trip from Baja to Oregon. Will she thrive or only survive? Will she meet the love of her life along the way?

After dealing with the Goblin King, Lucius is unsure how to harness his unlocked power. He finds himself in a desperate race to the top as everyone scrambles to master their strange new abilities. The other players are the least of his worries. War is coming. The trials of Freedom have only just begun.

The government has accelerated their super soldier program. Their new Virtual Reality system is the perfect tool to train soldiers for the coming war. There is a shortage of enlisted men and women that possess the "talent". Everyone from athletes to professional gamers must be sorted and vetted. Humanity is on the line. Lucius is one of those lucky few selected to participate in Codename: Freedom, a new game that promises to push Virtual Reality to the ultimate level.

Cuando Sara, de 17 años, se entera de la muerte de su familia, acepta su papel de ganarse la vida cruzando la frontera a los Estados Unidos ilegalmente para vivir con un tío al que no conoce. Necesita ganar el suficiente dinero para pagar al coyote y ayudar a su tía Elena sobrevivir. Su viaje al norte está lleno de aventura y un nuevo amor. 

Freedom’s Slave is the exhilarating end to Heather Demetrios’s Dark Caravan Cycle—a modern jinni fantasy-adventure trilogy, which Publishers Weekly called “an intricate and smartly written story,” perfect for fans of Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke & Bone series and Leigh Bardugo's...

This powerful novel set in the tumultuous times surrounding 9/11 follows a teenage American army private and an Afghan boy living under the Taliban as they discover they have much more in common than they ever could have imagined.​ Baheer, a studious Afghan teen, sees his family’s life...

What Jewel Neuman thought was just one more thing to battle at Katy High turns out to be so much more. At first, she didn’t want a part of this fight. But, when she comes face to face with a darkness uglier than she ever knew, now comes the most crucial choice of her life. Maybe God is using this mission to call her to His purpose. As Jewel learns to find freedom in fulfilling her calling, will she be able to pass that on to those she’s fighting for? Listen to her Mission of Freedom.

Born a slave in 1776, Gabriel grows up capable and literate only to be taken from his mother and sent to the capital city as a blacksmith’s apprentice. There in the forge, a meeting point for many travelers and news bearers, his work awakens him to the sparks of resistance that are igniting into rebellion around the globe. When he is unable to both defend the love of his life and earn the money to buy her freedom, Gabriel makes a decision: freedom for just his own family would not be enough.

Forty years ago, the plague wiped out England’s working class. Using a time portal, bi-dimensional creatures are imported from another dimension, to be used as labor for 19th century enterprises. Now, in 1886, Aspen and Lori Wolfe are determined to end the slave trade. But, their schemes are soon exposed to their new guardian and playboy, Keagan Myrack.  

A SIBERT INFORMATIONAL BOOK MEDAL HONOR BOOK Discover the power of youth activism in this moving memoir about the Civil Rights Movement, ideal for young readers interested in America’s fight for equality. “A testament to the power we each have within us to stand up for what is right and...

A must-read for fans of Morgan Matson and Kasie West, this YA novel in verse and conversation—cowritten by bestselling authors Jeff Zentner and Brittany Cavallaro—follows a girl trying to outrun her problems and a boy just discovering the outside world as they embark on a life-changing road...

It’s been 15 years...15 years since my life fell apart. Music and my baby brother, Dillon, are the only things that keep me sane. After running from myself and my parents’ ministry for so long, I’m off to a foreign country to serve at a safe haven for people just like me. I can't escape the irony of the situation, but something tells me that this trip may help me find what I’ve been searching for. Then a bus accident that was no accident and Dillion's disappearance force me into action. Now, it’s a race against time again to find my brother before he’s gone forever. 

The fight for freedom continues as Jewel, now happily married and mother of four beautiful children, is sucked into another mission. When she and her team answer a mysterious call for help, the situation quickly escalates to life threatening proportions. Adira, Jewel’s oldest daughter, vanishes, and it’ll take people from drastically different backgrounds to pull together and find her before time runs out. They can’t do it on their own. They’re going to need faith stronger than any fear. Will the only man who can save her resist the darkness clutching his soul?