Resultados para "Max" en Literatura y ficción

Some mysteries are better left unsolved. Some insurance claims are better left unpaid. Max Payload has had enough of murder. After a particularly unpleasant case involving five dead debutantes and an exceptionally ugly cat, the hard-boiled Boston private detective decides it’s time for a quieter line of work. Life insurance. His first assignment for Eternal Rest Mutual Life & Casualty seems simple enough. A fellow named Wilbur Whateley wants to collect $2,500 on his mother’s life insurance policy. There’s just one problem. Nobody can find the body.

He’s saved the world across countless lifetimes. Now he just has to survive a magical academy. Ancient archmage Lucien has lived through centuries of brutal time loops and catastrophic wars. When he is reborn - yet again - into the body of a disgraced nineteen-year-old noble, he has one simple...

Meet Max Starkey—disgraced CIA operative turned underworld fixer—whose past loves, rivals, and indiscretions close in on him in the jungles of Southeast Asia. Seven years after a CIA mission in Laos went sideways, Max lives in the gray spaces between criminals and justice, recovering stolen...

In the twilight of a collapsing Earth and under the sinister hand of a galactic force known as the Gray Purpose, humanity has traded freedom for order. But not all will bow. When a dying soldier of the Purpose washes ashore on a forgotten beach, he brings with him the first cracks in a carefully maintained reality. He is found by a ragtag band of wanderers a traveling musician with fire in her hair, an aging comedian, a boy genius.

1984. Ronald Reagan runs for re-election. A risque young singer named Madonna scandalizes audiences at the first ever MTV Video Music Awards. Teens flock to the multiplex to watch Ghostbusters, Sixteen Candles, and The Karate Kid. Wendy’s poses the question: Where’s the beef? And at the Newingston Mall in suburban New Hampshire, every shopper simultaneously dissolves into a fizzing slurry of goo.

Zane Holden hasn't had the easiest go of things. The only good thing in his life would be Stonewall Investigations, an investigative company he found to work primarily with the LGBTQ community. Lorenzo De Luca is a cocky defense attorney dripping in Italian charm. He's well known as one of the best lawyers in New York City, a title he worked hard to achieve. When he picks up a difficult case, he finds that he needs extra help. This leads him to Stonewall, where he meets Zane for the first time and instantly feels himself falling for the mysterious and stone-cut detective.

Dragons were dying. All over the world, a curse was taking us out one by one, and nobody knew how to stop it. I watched my mother burn, I watched my little brother fall sick. That's when Robby practically falls into my lap, with his big brown eyes and charming smile and his penchant for being hunted by vampires. After saving him twice from certain death, we soon come to realize that there's a reason he's being hunted. And that reason may be the answer to all our problems, and the start to a whole new set of them.

The war is here. The cost is higher. And some things refuse to stay lost in time. Max Abaddon has fought demons, monsters, and things that shouldn’t exist. This time, it’s everything at once. The Old Gods have finally returned. Not to conquer… but to reclaim. The realms are collapsing. And the cost of stopping it isn’t measured in blood, but rather in souls. Max is out of time. Out of options. And closer than ever to becoming something he can’t come back from.

En español neutro, narración humana: El huésped de Drácula, La Squaw, La casa del Juez, El entierro de las ratas.

La extraordinaria historia de amistad entre un gato, su dueño y un simpático ratón mexicano. Mix es el gato de Max, un joven estudiante que lo siente como un verdadero amigo: los dos han vivido cientos de aventuras y han aprendido a la vez creciendo juntos. Pero cuando Max acaba sus estudios...

Zane Holden, the founder of Stonewall Investigations, has been haunted by the same case for years. He's had loved ones taken by the serial killer known as the Unicorn, and his drive to find the monster is higher than ever. Finally, he feels like he's getting close. Something else that's getting closer? His wedding day to the man of his dreams. Lorenzo De Luca found the love of his life in Zane. He's the happiest he's ever been. His career as a high-powered defense attorney is at a peak, and his daydreams are filled with wedding bells and honeymooning.

En español neutro, narración humana. Es una obra de teatro de Pedro Calderón de la Barca estrenada en 1635 y perteneciente al movimiento literario del barroco. El tema central es la libertad del ser humano para configurar su vida, sin dejarse llevar por un supuesto destino.

The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched firsthand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living - or at least the undead - hell of that dreadful time.

The world’s best-known fairy tales have changed beyond recognition since entering folklore many centuries ago. Characters disappeared, endings were rewritten and darker themes gradually softened, leaving modern adaptations far removed from their earliest surviving forms. The Grimm Origins of Children’s Stories explores that transformation, revealing how familiar favourites developed from unsettling beginnings into the celebrated classics recognised throughout the world today.

A fugitive on the run, Ahnna has one goal: return to Ithicana with warning of the greatest threat her homeland has ever faced. But as she escapes into the wilderness, it is with the man who broke her heart hunting at her heels—and James wants more than justice. He wants revenge. Desperate to prove his loyalty to his family, James ventures into dangerous territory to capture his father’s killer. But the longer he follows Ahnna’s trail, the more his certainty of her guilt is tested—and the more the passion they once shared reignites.

En Ciudadano Max, Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa se sirve del suceso real de la muerte del millonario Robert Maxwell, sucedida en 1991 en Canarias, para urdir una trama de intriga, secretos y espionaje internacional. El comisario Arcadio Baeza es sacado de su excedencia para investigar la muerte en extrañas circunstancias del magnate Max Campbell. Pronto su investigación revelará que Campbell era más de lo que parecía ser. Baeza se verá atrapado por una red internacional de espionaje, servicios secretos, estafadores y asesinos en cuyo centro se encuentra el enigmático Max Campbell.

Elijah Roberts: I'm a grumpy ass drag queen who loves what I do and never wants to stop. Drag gives me an escape, a way to embody the star inside me. A way to be happy. Imagine how pissed I get when a stalker pushes me to quit drag after an extra spooky message is left on my mirror in red lipstick. Enter Ryan Diaz, a smoldering and perma-smiling detective at Stonewall Investigations. He offers to take my case, which isn't the only thing I want him to take . . .

I thought I was going to be a successful sports star, maybe a famous veterinarian, or maybe I'd open up another sanctuary, following in my moms' footsteps. None of that happened. Life's light seemed to turn off for me, and I was having a really hard time turning the spark back on. Then, on my twenty-fourth birthday, in comes the one surprise I wanted most and liked the least: Rex freaking Madison. My older brother's best friend, my first crush, my first time. And my absolute worst nightmare. Somewhere, deep down under the cobwebs in my chest, a spark lit.

Publicada por primera vez en 1886, es una novela corta del escritor ruso Lev Tolstói. Dentro de su bibliografía, se encuentra hacia el final de su producción. Para algunos analistas de la obra de Tolstói, esta historia reflejaría las luchas intelectuales y espirituales que poco tiempo atrás el autor había atravesado, en la crisis que tuvo cuando alcanzó los 50 años y que superaría con un radical cambio espiritual.

Declan Rose-Covington, part of a luxury hotel dynasty, is coming into Stonewall Investigations because he needs help with a family issue. With his mom's huge holiday retreat around the corner, he's hoping to solve it before Santa comes to town. The last thing he's expecting is to enter the detective agency and fall for the strikingly handsome man sitting behind the front desk.