Resultados para "Nevada" en Ficción contemporánea

A widow spends weeks haunting a cemetery, desperate to track down an unknown woman who keeps leaving flowers on her husband’s grave; A daughter searches a foreign city for her father, trying to understand why he disappeared forty-five years ago; A former gay lover of Roger Casement stands among the crowds at his state funeral in 1965, paying silent homage to the closeted world they were forced to inhabit at the dawning of the Irish State. A writer at a book launch comes face to face with the person secretly responsible for his success.

Isabel Kramer's dream of running competitively, frustrated since age 17, reveals itself when, on a lark, she joins her daughter in the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco. Now age 60, Izzy challenges her misgivings, the sage and well-intentioned advice of family and friends, and prepares for long-distance running. Izzy, a psychiatrist and professor of psychology at UC Berkeley, has no illusions about the likelihood of success and the possibility of injury, but amazingly, she outperforms expectations.

In this the first of Axel's adventures we join the TT's latest young gun as he arrives in Manx waters. Fulfilling a lifetime ambition, the unique challenge offered by the TT allows Axel to both test his mettle and to learn more about himself that he'd ever imagined.

Wer Mari begegnet, dem fällt auf, dass sie intelligent ist und fast gespenstisch makellos. Aber auch, dass sie Witze nicht versteht, und alles sehr rational sieht. Und wer sie besser kennenlernt, dem fällt auf, dass Mari weder Schlaf noch Nahrung braucht. Denn Mari ist nur fast ein Mensch. Ihre künstliche Intelligenz lernt ständig dazu, um eine Aufgabe zu erfüllen: den Menschen glücklich zu machen.