Resultados para "Lucien" en Literatura de género

The end of the Trial is here... Hunter has never been patient, especially when patience means weakness. While humanity panics, fights against beasts, and tears itself apart under the weight of the Trial, Hunter moves with purpose. One dungeon falls, then a second, a third, a fourth, cleared faster than anyone expected. Every conquest sharpens him. Every boss slain feeds the storm of destructive mana boiling under his skin. His body evolves. His mind calcifies into something ruthless. But speed has a price. The Trial begins to break. And through it all, Hunter fights alone inside the Trial.

Orphaned at birth, Oliver Twist is born into the grimmest of 19th century English workhouses with a life of grinding poverty ahead of him. But the boy is a fighter and after being evicted from the workhouse for asking for 'more' and surviving a stint as an undertaker’s assistant, he walks many miles to London and finds a whole new life with a gang of young pickpockets led by the Artful Dodger and their guardian Fagin.

Following the accidental drowning of her sister, 16-year-old Nif and her family move to a small village on the Welsh borders to escape their grief. But rural seclusion doesn't bring any relief. As her family unravels, Nif begins to put together her own form of witchcraft, collecting talismans from the sun-starved land. That is, until she meets Mally, a teen boy who takes a keen interest in her and has his own secret rites to divulge.

Hunter Graves was the kind of man who lived behind glass—quiet, unreadable, a data analyst with a poker face and a life built on routine. But when a storm of lightning ripped his world apart, Hunter and everyone he knew were thrown into the Multiversal System, a brutal trial of survival where humanity was nothing more than raw material to be tested. Accepting the class of a healer, Hunter should have been relegated to the backline. Instead, his cold pragmatism and honed martial skill make him something far more dangerous: a fighter who refuses to die by the rules others set for him.

Fuori è l'estate luminosa e insopportabile di luglio quando Amande Luzin, trent'anni, entra per la prima volta nella casa che ha affittato nelle campagne francesi dell'Auvergne. Ad accoglierla, come una benedizione, trova finestre sbarrate, buio, silenzio; un rifugio. È qui, lontano da tutti, che ha deciso di nascondersi dopo la morte improvvisa di suo marito e della bambina che portava in grembo. Fuori è l'estate ma Amande non la guarda, non apre mai le imposte. Non vuole più, nella sua vita, l'interferenza della luce.

Directed by the skillful hand of Megan Follows (Directors Guild Award winner) and featuring the voices of Golden Globe® winner Sandra Oh, Emmy Award® Winner Catherine O’Hara, and Emmy Award® Winner Victor Garber, Anne Shirley’s (Emmy Award® winner Michela Luci) adventures come to life in a fresh adaptation of a timeless tale. Immerse yourself in the breathtaking beauty of Canada’s Prince Edward Island with the magic of an original score and immersive sound design.

Running the bakery with my sister is my life—early mornings, endless dough, and just enough sugar to keep me sane. I don't have time for distractions. But when I accidentally text a stranger, everything changes. He's not just mysterious—he's sharp-tongued, wickedly charming, and far too good at making me forget common sense. What starts as playful banter turns into something more…something that stirs my Omega instincts in ways I don't understand.

Estate 1937. In un faro sulla costa normanna i giovani Irene e Ismael scoprono l'oscuro segreto che avvolge la fabbrica di giocattoli Lazarus: un enigma che li unirà per sempre trascinandoli in un mondo labirintico di luci e ombre.

I came here to hide from heartbreak. Not fall straight into it again, times three. One cheating ex, a million shattered promises, and a heat that decided to crash down weeks early. So yeah, I'm not exactly thriving. My only plan? Hide out in a remote cabin, write my next book, and avoid Alphas forever. Instead… Boom. Fire. Cabin gone. No explanation. No warning. Just smoke, ash, and the sinking feeling that maybe it wasn't an accident. Enter three local firefighters who are way too hot, way too kind, and way too Alpha. Atlas. River. Levi.

Lucien is a marine engineer on a Canadian tanker. While on one-month leave in Halifax, he meets Olivia, a brilliant philosophy student at Dalhousie University, who takes an immediate dislike to him. What begins as mutual antipathy changes when they discover how compatible their oddities are. Charged by Olivia not to say he loves her, Lucien returns to sea and to a job characterized by its plodding predictability. Here he discovers that not everything in his life is foreseeable, including his feelings for Olivia. This is a fascinating and different work of fiction.

"A crisp, twisting tale in the hands of a writer in the bloom of his abundant talents." — Graydon Carter A gifted yet financially disadvantaged artist falls victim to the manipulative control of his wealthy, enigmatic Harvard roommate in this incendiary novel from the author of Beautiful...

Nominalizat la International Dublin Literary Award, în 2019 Premiul special al cititorilor "Natalia Gorbaniewska", in cadrul Premiului Literar al Europei Centrale ANGELUS, Polonia, editia 2015 Matei Brunul a fost distins in anul 2012 cu Premiul literar "Augustin...

Prefata de Daniel Cristea-Enache Romanul are drept tema centrala ironia: fata de romanul clasic, fata de temele lui majore, fata de literatura, in general. Protagonistul, un tinar mereu in cautarea nefericirii, pentru a gasi motivatia autocompatimirii, este prins in diverse situatii ce...

"Lucian Dan Teodorovici e un maestru al circului suicidar, al bufonadelor patibulare. În pofida deriziunii însă, cartea lui Teodorovici e tristă, ca existenţialismul de cîrciumă şi gang. Tristeţe amărîtă şi sordidă, insidioasă ca o igrasie care-l îmbibă, finalmente, pe ipocritul...

Prefata de Luminita Marcu. "Povestirile sint absolut surprinzatoare prin umorul lor sec si negru, prin felul economicos in care sint scrise, prin morala (sociala) pe care o au bine incapsulata intr-o aparenta de gratuitate, de poveste spusa fara nici un scop, ba chiar intr-un fel nating...

O poveste reală despre încercarea de a supraviețui prin ficțiune, o narațiune alertă și acaparantă despre lumi care se construiesc acolo unde limitele organismului nu te lasă să ajungi. Romanul autobiografic al lui Teodorovici este locul în care, rînd pe rînd...

Set in a fractured world where justice has long decayed, Lucien Adrien Belland is summoned from obscurity and pulled into a path carved by something far older than war. He carries no banner, but the world recoils at his presence. His silence is not empty—but forged, watched, and waiting.

Voilà deux ans que Maëva s'est confrontée aux démons de son passé. Elle a enfin obtenu les réponses qu'elle croyait indispensables à son équilibre, mais à quel prix ? En pensant trouver la paix, elle a déclenché la guerre et de nouveaux problèmes se profilent à l'horizon.

Maëva s'envole pour Los Angeles où elle a décroché un job de nounou le temps d'un été. Mais ce n'est pas l'attrait du voyage ou un hypothétique amour pour les enfants qui la motive. Non, Maëva tente un coup de poker qui risque bien de la détruire... ou de la sauver. Abandonnée par son père à l'âge de 11 ans au lendemain des obsèques de sa mère, elle n'a jamais renoncé à retrouver sa trace. Et cette photo accompagnant l'annonce lui révèle la cruelle vérité : son père a reconstruit une famille loin d'elle, mais surtout sans elle.

Laura è una studentessa dell'Università Orientale di Napoli, al primo anno di corso di Lingua cinese. Viene dalla Romagna e ha la passione delle arti marziali; da poco giunta nella grande città del Sud si sente un po' spaesata, ma un gruppo di colleghi (che diventeranno poi suoi amici) l'aiuterà a ritrovarsi, o forse a perdersi? Laura ha scoperto infatti, nel frattempo, l'antica storia di un giovane cinese, che come la sua è sospesa tra Oriente e Occidente, libertà e dottrina.