Resultados para "Max" en Literatura de género

Es una novela política de ficción distópica, escrita por George Orwell entre 1947 y 1948 y publicada el 8 de junio de 1949. La novela popularizó los conceptos del omnipresente y vigilante Gran Hermano o Hermano Mayor, de la notoria habitación 101, de la ubicua policía del Pensamiento y de la neolengua, adaptación del idioma inglés en la que se reduce y se transforma el léxico con fines represivos, basándose en el principio de que lo que no forma parte de la lengua, no puede ser pensado.

Jessica Niemi, inspectora del Departamento de Homicidios de Helsinki, tiene que investigar un caso de asesinato fuera de lo común. Parece que la esposa del famoso escritor Roger Koponen ha sido asesinada en un extraño ritual. A medida que ocurren más asesinatos, la inspectora está convencida...

College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran-and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder.

Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar - a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness, while the boys wander, savage and unsupervised. In this moment of violent despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, goad, protector, therapist, and babysitter.

Siendo todo un dandi, Beerbohm elaboró sofisticados dibujos y parodias que fueron únicas al plasmar con bondad cualquier actitud pedante, artificial o absurda de sus famosos y bien vestidos contemporáneos.

El corsario es, ante todo, un poema autobiográfico que narra las aventuras de un tal Conrad, un corsario rechazado por la sociedad -no así por las mujeres- debido a su comportamiento escandaloso. El poema inmediatamente atrajo la atención del público debido a la personalidad arrasadora de Byron, incluso algunos adeptos a la estadística afirman que se llegaron a vender diez mil copias durante su primer día en la calle.

This Christmas was supposed to be for reuniting with old friends. I didn't expect to be dealing with a breakup and becoming the seventh wheel. I tried staying positive, but after an embarrassing situation at the security checkpoint, I resigned myself to my crummy holiday fate. Imagine my Santa-sized surprise when I bump into (and subsequently make out with) the hottest man I'd ever met in my entire life. Drunk off our connection, I blurt out a crazy proposal. A proposal that he quickly shoots down. I for sure thought it would all end there. I had no idea it was only just the beginning.

Former pilot Jax Rainer once lived for speed—adrenaline, instinct, and split-second decisions. After a mission ended in scandal, he walked away from both the sky and himself. But when he’s drawn into Velocity, an elite strike team built on precision, everything shifts.

Max is about to finish high school. On the surface it appears he has everything, but underneath he is floundering. Grappling with questions about his birth parents and his sexuality, he feels that there is a seed of badness deep within him that will inevitably be exposed. After an incident at the end-of-year party sets Max's world to crumbling, he must finally figure out who he is and where he came from–and who he is allowed to love.

The ice is a cold mistress. As the league's most eligible goalie, Max Fournier has access to his fair share of willing puck bunnies, but right now he's more interested in bringing home another championship than a one-night stand. A romantic at heart, Max believes in love; he's just not great at relationships. So when he finally meets a nice girl who's not blinded by his celebrity, he's feeling the heat - and the pressure to save her from herself.

They all crossed paths with Stick Elliott, the best race car driver you never knew. A force to be reckoned with, he drives for money, women, pride, and glory. But he lives for speed. And he’s damn good at it. Stick can make a getaway with a trunk full of moonshine across the Carolina backroads faster than any man around. Now with the homemade liquor business running dry, Stick just needs to catch as many checkered flags as he can on the track, and maybe even the heart of the most beautiful woman he has ever seen.

I moved home to take care of my grandmother. Instead, I got caught up with the worst kind of people in town, and now, I'm the personal punching bag for a member of the mafia who has no intention of ever letting me go. He doesn't care about me. He cares about what he owns. I used to care about things like staying alive or trying to be a good man, but the longer this goes on, the harder it is to see a future different from this. I don't even have friends in this town.

Max kämpft. Max flieht. Max sucht. Er kämpft gegen die Verrücktheit einer Welt, die aus den Fugen gerät. Er flieht vor den Menschen, die ihn nicht verstehen. Er sucht die eine Frau, die er wirklich lieben kann. Dies ist die Geschichte eines großen Künstlers des vergangenen Jahrhunderts: Max Ernst. Im Spiegel von sechs Frauenleben erzählt dieser Roman vom 20. Jahrhundert und entwirft das Panorama einer wahnwitzigen Zeit.

Meggie’s in Barrington for her brother’s wedding, local Vet Angus Hamilton. After working overseas for years, she hasn’t told her family she’s not going back. And she hasn’t told them why. Max is the Locum Vet hired to help out in the lead-up to the wedding and during the honeymoon. But he doesn’t arrive alone. They each need to move on from their past. When their secrets are revealed, will it empower them, or tear them apart?

Liz's son Brent has been deployed to a dangerous place in the Middle East. Recently retired, Liz has promised Brent she will volunteer at Pam's animal shelter, and tries not to worry about him. Then homeless Al rescues a dog he names Max and brings him to Pam's shelter. Liz is convinced no one will ever adopt the little terrier mix because of Max's standoffish attitude and appearance. But there's just something about Max that tugs at Liz's heartstrings. When Brent confronts her via Skype, Liz has to admit it, she's a lot like Max, and that attitude has hindered her own relationships.

Ten years have passed since Jack Picaro lost his Ghost Rifle - the firearm he invented, the one that never missed its target. The loss of the rifle calmed the hellraiser in his soul. Instead of returning to the gambling halls and whiskey bars of St. Louis, Jack has spent the last decade as a fur trapper in Wyoming’s Wild River Range, married to Sky, the daughter of an Arikara war chief. Then, after helping rescue US soldiers captured by Crow Indians in the Rocky Mountains, Jack hears the familiar bell-like report of his Ghost Rifle.

In Canyon Diablo by Spur Award winner Max McCoy, two brothers agree to settle their simmering feud at an old desert mission. But then they find a pile of dead bodies there—and one mortally wounded survivor who promises them riches beyond their dreams if they return his prized possessions to Canyon Diablo.

Jacob Gamble is a rough-riding outlaw who happens to be flat broke. But when a failed train robbery leaves him looking like a hero, Jacob lands in uncharted territory. Trying to escape his fame, and a suspicious Pinkerton detective, Jacob agrees to help the beautiful Olivia Weathers find a cave full of treasure hidden deep in Apache country - among the infamous bluffs of Canyon Diablo.

Le temps d'un automne, quatre personnages – Maxime, Tania, Clémence, Gabriel - évoluent avec leurs doutes, leurs questionnements, leurs espoirs. Ils se rencontrent, se croisent, se cherchent, explorent leur passé pour construire leur avenir. Par petites touches, ils reviennent sur des blessures, des erreurs, des souvenirs, pour mettre au jour ce qui les unit et leur permettre de tisser les fils de leur vie future. Chacun d'eux suit sa trajectoire et cherche à donner un sens à sa vie, à se réconcilier avec son passé ou à éclaircir des secrets oubliés.

Harry Bannerman drinks his nightly bourbon on the train from New York City to Putnam's Landing, Connecticut. A typical commuter, he has a bald spot, a house, two mortgages, three children, and a wife who is a committed soccer mom and pillar of the community. Second Lt. Guido di Maggio loves baseball less than his last name implies and his fiancee, Maggie Larkin, more than the army allows. College sweethearts, the couple has their future all mapped out: Guido will complete his military service in Maryland while Maggie starts her teaching career in Putnam's Landing.