Resultados para "FREEDOM" en Literatura de género

The boy on the gurney is dying. Held at gunpoint by a subterranean terrorist, Dr. Rayne Garcia fights to save his life. One false move will put everyone in danger. She's seriously regretting volunteering at the third-floor free clinic when she usually works in one of the Eastern Coastal City...

In mid-nineteenth-century Ireland, charming Kathleen and dashing Michael harbor secrets and dreams. Imagining a life beyond the kitchen and fields of the wealthy family they both work for, they plot to leave their homeland, marry, and raise the child Kathleen is secretly carrying. The luck of the Irish, however, is not on their side. Soon, they find themselves swept up in circumstances they never could have fathomed. Kathleen is forced to marry against her will and immigrate to New Zealand.

WWII flares again. This time in space. It's 2207, and the Allies and Axis clash. On Earth, the Wehrmacht marches across America, heading toward Washington. Across the solar system, Nazi starships bombard our fleet. And among the stars, the SS hunts us like ghosts. But we fight back! Two universes. One of freedom, one of tyranny. One universe in which we won WWII. Another where the Nazis conquered the world. Now they're here. In our reality. They conquered their universe, and now they want ours. They cannot have it. James King, admiral of the Freedom Fleet, is an old space dog.

The new novel from the author of The Corrections. Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul – the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbour who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and...

"Masterful describes not only Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel but also David Ledoux’s reading of the book . . . Ledoux gives a vibrant performance." —AudioFile Magazine From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a darkly comedic novel about family. Patty and Walter...

After a harrowing journey to Canada, Elsa and her friends are safe, but the need to free their homeland from GreenCorps domination forces them back into danger. With renewed hope, they return to join the rebels. Some sneak into SoCal to free Elsa's family, others lead teams to collect seeds from the bunkers, and others bring hope to the populace and free the downtrodden. Like Elsa, Janna grew up in SoCal, but instead of escaping, her brother sold her as a prostitute.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In Drifting, the men from Gathering return-older, wounded, stubbornly alive-and still determined to help others navigate the fear, grief, and wild hope that arrive when cancer uproots a life. The story opens in the shadow of Cohen's death, where his...

A shot-down airplane in the Bermuda Triangle...A drug lord seeking revenge...A woman and her black lab sailing alone caught in the middle... Chad Dawson, an undercover DEA agent and former Navy SEAL, is tasked with taking down drug lord Jack Connors, the man responsible for his wife's death. Losing her, he no longer cares if he lives or dies and takes every opportunity to hunt the drug lord. Chad unintentionally puts Kris Hill in danger when she rescues him from his shot-down airplane in the moonlit Atlantic Ocean, just yards away from her sailboat, the Freedom.

Jonathan Franzen est né en 1959 dans l’Illinois. Il a obtenu le National Book Award pour Les Corrections (Éditions de l’Olivier, 2002). Il est également l’auteur de Pourquoi s’en faire ? (2003) et de La Vingt-septième Ville (2004). Paru aux États-Unis à l’automne 2010, Freedom y...

Nolan Clark is the last man standing. While he is happy his teammates have found love, he's even happier to be single. But fate is a funny thing. When a one-night stand turns into a friends with benefits agreement, he starts to question why he's holding the beautiful Reagan at arm's length. Nolan Clark should've been off-limits. He's my closest friend's teammate and a man that I'm not prepared for. I lied and told him I understood he'd never offer me a white picket fence and jumped straight into bed when he offered me the only thing he could...sex.

 As the nineteenth century draws to a close, the struggle for women’s suffrage has finally reached New Zealand. But when the tide of change rolls in, it threatens to engulf two young women from very different backgrounds, who are coming of age amid the tumult. 

Beth Wild was born as a Subterranean and after almost dying in a fire set by raiders from the skyscrapers, she joins the resistance movement. Now fleeing the Celestial authorities with her team of freedom fighters, Beth is strapped into a SkyBird escape vessel and hurtles to the ground. There...

"For Freedom of Spelling: The Discovery of an Art" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic. It is curious that people do not grumble more at having to spell correctly.

When a young girl's life is torn apart by the terror and fear of a new communist government, she has to learn to survive within its harsh confines. As she grows, so does her understanding and her hatred of the political situation, and she becomes determined to escape its confines. Can Suk Hing survive the arduous journey that is fraught with danger, or will she be captured and have to suffer the consequences of being branded a traitor? This is a novelization of a true story of one young woman's struggle, an epic journey - the story of the Freedom Swimmers.

Because Thomas Bishop was born to a slave mother, he is condemned to a life of slavery even though he has a White father out there somewhere he has never met. But he has a dream - an impossible one. His dream to one day be free and prosperous enough to offer a secure future to the woman he loves seems unlikely.

A thirst for independence sent him halfway around the world, but the desperate woman he discovers in the treacherous Canadian mountains gives him his greatest challenge yet. Adrien Lockman is through with the political unrest and bloodshed in his home country of France, so he sets off to the...

The story of a person searching for freedom through his relationship with a bird. How can this relationship teach us about true freedom?

Find something to believe in... Jamil renounced a life of jihad when he encountered the life-changing message of Jesus Christ. But his new mission as an itinerant health worker in the hills of Afghanistan is met with skepticism and even violence. Returning to Kabul, relief worker Amy Mallory is...

It is a dark hour. Admiral James King and the Freedom Fleet face war on two fronts. In space, the Weltraumwaffe conquers planet after planet. Nazi Germany's space force seems unstoppable. Its grip tightens around Earth, and the Freedom Fleet struggles to survive. The Nazi shadow spreads. Down on Earth, hope is fading fast. Millions of Wehrmacht troops are marching on Washington DC. The city's brave defenders are cut off. Trapped. Facing destruction. King and his crew must triumph in space, then deliver salvation to our dying world.

Twenty years ago, his Chicago political column was syndicated in two hundred papers, but he had an affair—and a son—with his intern, and lost it all. Now he writes a local column and drives for Uber to pay his bills. Jake is playing out the string when his tranquil world is turned upside down. His biracial son—an ambitious entrepreneur—is marked for death by a street gangster, his alcoholic daughter is pregnant and wants an abortion.