Resultados para "Gilead" en Acción y aventura

A principios del año 1992, en un pequeño y aislado pueblo de los Pirineos, cerca de un lago que la gente cree habitado por un espíritu maligno, los Ivern sufren un golpe terrible: Ángel, el padre, enloquecido, asesina a su propia familia y se quita la vida. Mientras Clara, su segunda hija, se debate entre la vida y la muerte, la hija mayor, María, que incomprensiblemente ha resultado ilesa, intenta buscar los motivos que han empujado a su padre a cometer un crimen tan abyecto...

Una peculiar novela de ficción prospectiva que nos lleva al año 2035, en el que la inteligencia artificial ha sustituido al ser humano en muchos aspectos relevantes de la vida cotidiana. A raíz de una serie de accidentes robóticos, las empresas genéticas se plantearán traer a la vida a neandertales como mano de obra. En medio de la situación, Laia, una española residente en San Francisco, se cruzará con Tessa, una joven embarazada que alberga en su interior un secreto que podría sacudir el mundo entero.

Llueve desde hace días. Madrid, víctima de una devastadora epidemia, está a punto de convertirse en un cementerio. Para impedir que se consume el Plan de la Sociedad Hermética, los protagonistas de la novela habrán de recorrer palacios y museos saqueados por una muchedumbre furiosa, túneles del alcantarillado, un laberinto llamado el infierno....

Azul marino, última novela de la serie policiaca de Rosa Ribas y Sabine Hofmann, cierra magistralmente la trilogía protagonizada por la joven periodista Ana Martí. Barcelona, 1959. Mientras la Sexta Flota norteamericana permanece fondeada en el puerto, alterando la rutina de una ciudad en plena dictadura, un marinero estadounidense es asesinado en un antro del Barrio Chino en lo que a primera vista no parece más que una simple reyerta arrabalera.

Un relato humano imprescindible de esfuerzo, sacrificio y gloria de la denominada "gran generación del ciclismo español".

Strong sled dogs were in demand, and that’s how Buck, the St. Bernard cross Scotch Shepherd ended up in the wilds of Alaska.

"Tarde o temprano tenía que ocurrir. Desde que Viracocha se le apareció a su antepasado, todos sabían que algún día llegarían sus hijos, seres blancos, barbados, superiores en todo a ellos mismos. Ese día tendrían que postrarse a sus pies y poner su propia vida en sus manos, pues ni el mismo Sol podría oponérseles." Panamá, Castilla del Oro, 1524. En la sacristía de una pequeña iglesia del Nuevo Mundo, tres hombres se reúnen a la luz de los velones.

Texas Ranger Josiah Wolfe and his friend Scrap Elliot are ready to extinguish the loathsome Juan Cortina. Unfortunately, their direct orders are to only spy on Cortina's cattle rustlers, which makes them two easy gringo targets. So much so that their first scuffle leaves Josiah seriously injured and Scrap on his own in his pursuit of Cortina. Recovering from his injury, Josiah is hit with a Dear John letter from his sweetheart. Luckily, a Mexican girl, Francesca, is there to help heal his wounds.

At 50, cattle driver Sam Sawyer thinks he can finally dust off and retire, maybe open an eating house. But after a pack of Apache ambushes him and leaves him to die in Gila River country, he barely makes it to a remote ranch. The owner, Hanna Stewart, has worked the desert spread with her young daughter ever since her husband went for a ride and never returned.

When the SOS came from his pardner, Holt Spainhower knew he had to hit leather for Main City, but he hated like hell to do it. Spainhower had used his fast gun to clean up plenty of other towns, and he was tired of all the killing. But there was something even more sinister about Main City. And when Spainhower met murder on the road to that frontier town, he began to realize just how violent a job lay before him.

Powerful Circe, daughter of the sun-god Helios, is sad to see Odysseus, King of Ithaca, depart from her island, Aeaea—but her heartbreak is eased after dolphins take her to Delos, where she explores a new love relationship. Circe has a strained relationship with her mother, Perse, but when she finally listens to Perse's encouragement to seek out the amphibian god Glaucus, she's glad she's heeded her advice. Together, the two embark on underwater adventures, and Circe shares with Glaucus her knowledge about the healing and harmful power of herbs.

Little Sister has vanished. The prototype device - real name IPD400 - has powers of surveillance that governments and terrorist organizations would kill for. They might yet. James Palatine, a trained killer with a surplus of conscience, invented the device and is the only person who can operate it. He's determined to retrieve it, and so is Natalya Kocharian - the arms dealer who "inadvertently" sold the prototype to a rogue dealer.

Varennes Saint-Jacques, 1260. Tras un trágico revés familiar y económico, los hermanos Balian y Blanche Fleury, descendientes de una antaño próspera familia de Varennes Saint-Jacques, deciden embarcarse en una arriesgada expedición comercial a la remota isla de Gotland. Su objetivo primordial es mantener a toda costa el negocio de sus antepasados, pero su juventud también les empuja a la búsqueda constante de aventuras y a la persecución del amor.

Peter LeFroy is fifteen years old, but the tales are anything but adolescent tales. They are hardened sailor tales complete with life and death at every turn. On his adventure, Peter becomes a Pirate—against his will; lives with some Eskimos—who save his life; lives through on-board fires, iceberg disasters, brutal whale hunting, and falls in love with a young girl named Mary. This book is about courage and perseverance. It was one of the first in the YA genre from England and was published the same year as Melville’s Moby Dick.

El destino de un niño. Erik tiene apenas cuatro años cuando pierde a su madre en el gran terremoto que destruye Waliria, la capital de Ariok. Su padre, el carpintero Bertrand de Lis, y Astrid, la humilde viuda de un herrero, no pueden imaginar que la catástrofe no solo cambiará sus vidas para siempre, sino que, sin quererlo, les hará dueños de secretos que nunca hubieran querido tener que guardar.

After hijacking a balloon from a Confederate camp, a band of five northern prisoners escape the American Civil War. Seven thousand miles later, they drop from the clouds onto an uncharted volcanic island in the Pacific. Through teamwork, scientific knowledge, engineering, and perseverance, they endeavor to build a colony from scratch. But this island of abundant resources has its secrets. The castaways discover they are not alone. A shadowy, yet familiar, agent of their unfathomable fate is watching.

Bohemia. 1370. A lost soul named Galien leads a band of hardened mercenaries on a mission for Mother Church. But in the dark forests of central Europe, a darker secret awaits. The Sunday Times best-selling author Giles Kristian (Lancelot, The Raven Viking Trilogy), takes us on an unnerving ride into fear and paranoia, bloodshed and redemption.

Two months and a jukebox ago, I met a man in a tie-dye shirt who was rough around the edges to say the least. Somewhere between the steamy nights and sweet nothings, I found myself as I got lost in him.

Years have passed since the clash of shieldwalls echoed across the land. The Saxons are now the lords of Britain. And yet the bards still sing of Arthur - 'In our darkest time, when we need him most, shall he come again.' Yet old Beran has no love of bards' songs. Nor of people, unless they are paying him to steal or kill. He is a mercenary, in the employ of the cutthroat Nabor ap Nabor, and he has been ordered to murder a boy fleeing a burning city. No ordinary boy either. No, this boy is the son of King Constantine and the grandson of High King Ambrosius.

Sigurd Haraldarson has proven himself a great Viking warrior and a dangerous enemy. He has gone a long way towards avenging the murder of his family. And yet his vengeance is not complete. The oath breaker King Gorm - who betrayed Sigurd’s father - still lives, and, so long as the king draws breath, the scales remain unbalanced. But Sigurd and his wolf pack of warriors are not at full strength, and to confront the king now would mean death.