Resultados para "Forest" en Literatura de género

Makalani Pahukula, interpretive ranger for Pu‘ukoholā Heiau National Historic Site, craves some rejuvenating hard work on Hawai‘i Island. When cousin-in-law Rosie offers Makalani a chance to help at the Hiapo family ranch, it’s the perfect opportunity. But something else weighs on Rosie’s mind. Her father recently died in a gruesome accident—trapped and cornered in a pit by an aggressive bull.

"Per loro il mondo fisico era colmo di misteri, e la vita stessa era un sortilegio" Kate Cold, i suoi amici fotografi, il nipote Alex e l'inseparabile amica Nadia ricevono dall'"International Geographic" l'incarico di preparare un reportage sui safari che si svolgono a dorso d'elefante. A Nairobi Alex e Nadia incontrano però un'indovina che li avverte di un pericolo imminente. Quando ormai il lavoro sta per concludersi, entra in scena fratel Fernando, un missionario in cerca di aiuto. Non ha più notizie di due suoi confratelli che si sono persi in una regione inaccessibile.

This freewheeling black comedy features a bizarre cast of characters, including a Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American CEO with three arms, and a Brazilian peasant who discovers the art of healing by tickling one’s earlobe with a feather. By the end of this hilarious tale, they each have risen to the heights of wealth and fame, before arriving at disasters—both personal and ecological— that destroy the rain forest and all birds of Brazil.

Liadan dovrà intraprendere un viaggio alla scoperta di un mondo che sa essere tanto meraviglioso quanto oscuro e crudele. Un'esperienza che la cambierà per sempre, insegnandole a quale prezzo è stata conquistata la serenità che ha sempre conosciuto. Tra insidie e dilemmi, Liadan avrà bisogno di tutta la sua forza per fronteggiare proprio coloro che ama di più. Perché la sua ricerca del vero amore potrebbe essere per tutti loro una condanna... o la salvezza.

After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises. The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles.

The Forest of Assassins is a historic thriller set in the earliest days of the American involvement in the Vietnam War. It involves the earliest of Navy SEAL teams. It is set in a time when the Navy still did not admit these men existed - much less had they determined if those units would survive until the next conflict, or if the experiment would be abandoned.

«Mai più. Due avverbi sono sufficienti a divorarmi il cuore, frantumare le ossa. Mai più lo rivedrò. Mai più lo abbraccerò. Mai più mangiare insieme, sorseggiare del vino, ballare, leggere pagine ad alta voce, ridere, camminare mano nella mano, a Roma, a Parigi, incontrare persone, viaggiare in treno, guardare il mare, le nuvole, un fuoco nel camino, la neve. Fare l’amore. Scopare. Cantare, recitare una poesia, piangere al cinema, ascoltare la musica. Mai più il suo odore su di me, le sue braccia.

Philomena Webster, a quiet woman in her late forties, is seen as a dry old hag by most people in her village. She forms a friendship with a father and his son in the same village, but otherwise keeps to herself. Yet, there is much more to Philomena than meets the eye. She has had love affairs, is knowledgeable about music and literature and has written a series of best-selling novels under a pen-name, which gives her financial independence.

Vega Jones escapes an abusive relationship with nothing but her two-month-old baby and the van she grew up in. Her destination is a small Ohio town her late vagabond mother left years ago. It’s one full of nobodies, her mother warned. That makes it the ideal refuge for Vega to lie low, feel safe, and maybe learn more about a past her mother never spoke of.

Eliza Ellis has stayed hidden in Balfour Forest for as long as she can remember. Perhaps her only friends are the trees, or her little dog, or her story-telling father called Captain. But at least she is safe from the cruel world outside, a world Captain has warned her against and protected her from. That is, until a handsome stranger named Felton Northwood invades her quiet forest and steals her away. Why does he tell such lies?

Philomena Webster, a quiet woman in her late forties, is seen as a dry old hag by most people in her village. She forms a friendship with a father and his son in the same village, but otherwise keeps to herself. Yet, there is much more to Philomena than meets the eye. She has had love affairs, is knowledgeable about music and literature and has written a series of best-selling novels under a pen-name, which gives her financial independence.

In a quiet forest in Belarus, two boys stumble across a long-kept secret: the mass grave where Stalin's police secretly murdered thousands in the 1930s. The results of the subsequent investigation have far-reaching effects, and across the Atlantic in Toronto, Leah Jarvis, a lively, curious young lawyer, finds herself tasked with an impossible case: the deportation of elderly Stefan Drozd, who fled his crimes in Kurapaty for a new identity in Canada.

Was, wenn ich dir sage, dass du einen Wunsch frei hättest? Was, wenn es die Möglichkeit gäbe, das Leben, das dich unglücklich macht, hinter dir zu lassen und es gegen ein viel besseres zu tauschen? Was du dafür tun musst? Nicht viel. Du musst nur mit mir in den Forest gehen... Eine mysteriöse Legende. Der unbändige Wunsch nach Veränderung. Kian hasst sein Leben. Beziehungsprobleme, Pech im Job, Eintönigkeit und Unzufriedenheit bestimmen seinen Alltag.

It's been five years since Bridget Theroux's death shocked the small town of Dalton, Maine, leaving behind husband Nate and daughter Sophie, now a vibrant young child. Nate doesn't always know how to answer her questions, but he is intent on raising her with joy—and shielding her from her grandmother, Annette, who remains dangerously locked away in her grief.

With night at hand and a rainstorm brewing, Milt Dale takes shelter at an old log cabin in the forest. It is here he overhears vengeful men scheming to kidnap Helen, the niece and heiress of a prominent rancher in poor health, and take over her uncle’s vast property themselves. Determined to thwart the men, Milt leaves his wild paradise and springs into action. After narrowly escaping, Milt leads Helen and her kid sister away from man-made danger and deep into the perceived safety of the forest...but the kidnappers are not far behind, and they are set on carrying out their evil plot.

Questo breve romanzo, pubblicato nel 1903, e considerato uno dei più famosi di Jack London, è stato per molto tempo catalogo come letteratura per ragazzi. Ma l'ambientazione nello Yukon, durante la caccia all'oro, la vita brutale e di violenza scatenata dalla cupidigia che caratterizzò quel periodo può servire solo come monito ed esempio negativo.

Le straordinarie imprese del cane Buck, strappato da un'esistenza serena, per essere usato come cane da slitta durante la caccia all'oro.The extraordinary undertakings of the dog Buck, snatched from serene existence, to be used as a sled dog during the hunt for gold.

Venduto ai cercatori d'oro che lo mettono al traino delle slitte, Buck impara presto a sopravvivere alle fredde notti e alla legge primitiva e violenta degli uomini. Sullo sfondo dei ghiacciai del Klondike, Buck si lancia in imprese memorabili e, tra fatiche impervie e nuovi legami, si risveglia irrefrenabile in lui un istinto atavico che lo spinge verso la foresta, lo spazio aperto e selvaggio.

Based on meticulously researched historical fact, "Brown on Resolution" marks C.S. Forester's first novel about the British Navy and his subsequent sea-faring novels. It charts the life and death of Leading Seaman, Albert Brown, beginning with the story of how his mother, Agatha, meets and spends five days with a young Lieutenant Commander (RN) and becomes pregnant with Albert.

In this 1920 best seller, Milt Dale, a lone camper, overhears a conversation that persuades him to leave his forest paradise to save a young woman from certain doom.