Resultados para "Hard Times" en Acción y aventura

An engineer finds himself in an alternate reality, Cornwall, in the year 715 A.D. He awakens in the body of a young Baron. A retired Lieutenant General, former head of the Army Corp of Engineers, lies dying at the age of ninety-two. Leading a full life, he is a decorated veteran of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. After a long illness, he lies dying. His last thought is, "What a waste of such wonderful knowledge." As he fades to black, the fun begins. He is to build a modern civilization without being burned as a witch!

Stone Barrington allies with a former foe when his west coast vacation turns into a dangerous situation in this riveting novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. When Stone Barrington embarks on a trip to Bel-Air to check in on some business and personal concerns, he expects a...

Here is E. L. Doctorow’s debut novel, a searing allegory of frontier life that sets the stage for his subsequent classics. Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there comes one day one of the reckless sociopaths who wander the West to kill...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art...

Brought to you by Penguin. Late at night in a New York café army-cop-turned-drifter Jack Reacher orders coffee in a cup made of foam, not china, so that he can move on at a moment's notice. He owns nothing, carries less, has never encountered a female colleague he can't bed, or a case he can't...

My teammate’s little sister is all I’ve ever wanted. Now I’ll do whatever it takes to keep her. I’ve loved her in secret for years. I kept her safe from the sidelines, even though I knew better. Everyone knows me as the good times guy, the player with a million dollar smile. Never taking anything too seriously.

Miles Garrett, pro basketball player and star of every one of my fantasies, has decided I’m moving in with him. My brother’s teammate has always protected me out of loyalty. He makes me feel like everything will be okay even when my life is on fire. But when he looks at me, I wonder what it would be like if he was truly mine. If I had the dream life and dream job and the dream guy.

John Twelve Hawks, bestselling author of The Traveler, returns with a masterful journey through the near future of Artificial Intelligence, in which a wise, orphaned ten-year-old girl goes on the run with only her trusty "Interactive Toy" to guide her toward New York City, where a dark landscape...

Veteran pilot Tyler Zahn is finally recovering from the tragedies that cost him his family and drove him from the Air Force, when his best friend, Kristee Li, disappears on a remote search and rescue mission. A massive effort to find her fails. No clues. No body. Kristee is presumed dead. A fellow team member claims the disappearance is no accident and Zahn begins to question what really happened in the mountains. Who would have wanted Kristee dead? More importantly...why? Plagued with grief, Zahn probes for answers.

In Neal Asher's The Technician, the Theocracy has been dead for twenty years, and the Polity rules on Masada – but it is an order that the rebels of the Tidy Squad cannot accept, and the iconic Jeremiah Tombs is top of their hitlist. Tombs, meanwhile, has escaped his sanatorium. His insanity...

Kirusk hat sich für Jarek nach dem Mordanschlag zu einem Alptraum entwickelt und die große Stadt ist fremder und bedrohlicher für ihn als je zuvor. Er muss sich der Frage stellen, ob er unter diesen Umständen seinen Kontrakt als Memo Ebangas weiter erfüllen kann – und ob er das überhaupt noch will. Doch dann geschieht etwas, das wieder einmal alles verändert und völlig unerwartet finden Jarek und seine Freunde und Gefährten eine Spur zu Ollo, wo sie diese als letztes vermutet hätten.

Line War is the fifth and final novel in Neal Asher's action-packed Agent Cormac series. The human Polity worlds are under attack from Erebus, a renegade AI. And it’s now merged with lethal Jain technology, and isn’t afraid to use it. When Erebus kills millions, on a world of no apparent...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Jason M. Hough’s pulse-pounding debut combines the drama, swagger, and vivid characters of Joss Whedon’s Firefly with the talent of sci-fi author John Scalzi. In the mid-23rd century, Darwin, Australia, stands as the last human city on Earth. The world has...