Resultados para "Noah" en Literatura y ficción

Un joven aprendiz de médico con un don para sanar nunca visto recorrerá la Europa sombría y oscura del siglo XI hasta la fascinante Persia, para encontrarse con el mejor maestro imaginable: el mítico Avicena. Rob J. Cole, un joven londinense del siglo XI que pertenece a una familia de carpinteros, queda huérfano a los nueve años y con la responsabilidad de cuidar de sus cuatro hermanos menores, a quienes va encontrando hogar.

Meet Noah - an A-honor-roll student, award-winning swimmer, and small-town star destined for greatness. There weren't any signs that something was wrong until the day he confesses to molesting little girls during swim-team practice. He's sentenced to 18 months in a juvenile sexual-rehabilitation center. His mother, Adrianne, refuses to turn her back on him despite his horrific crimes, but her husband won't allow Noah back into their home.

Languedoc, Francia, finales del siglo XIX. Josep Álvarez descubre de la mano de un viticultor francés el arte de la elaboración del vino. Desde ese momento, su vida estará determinada por esta pasión. A pesar de su juventud, Josep ha conocido el amor, las intrigas políticas y el trabajo duro, experiencia que, junto a su temprana vocación, caracterizará su destino. Tras participar contra su voluntad en un complot que convulsionará la ya turbulenta escena política del momento, huye a Francia, donde trabajará para un viticultor.

Año 2021. Leonor viaja a Escocia con un grupo de amigas para hacer las prácticas de sus estudios de arqueología. En el yacimiento en el que trabajan no parece haber nada interesante, salvo una escultura de alguien a quien llaman el lobo de las Highlands. Sin embargo, un derrumbamiento repentino les descubre un antiguo baúl que parece llevar setecientos años cerrado.

Lothian 1355. Tras la partida de Leonor, Tanarys contrae matrimonio con Evaleen, formando así una alianza entre los clanes más poderosos del sur. Consciente de la inminente invasión inglesa, marcha al norte en busca de aliados. Aunque regresa con el apoyo de otros clanes, es raptado en su propias tierras por mercenarios ingleses, entendiendo que entre sus filas del sur hay traidores. Cuando Tanarys cree que llega su final, el que aceptó a cambio de la marcha de Leonor, flechas y fuego arrasan a sus captores.

Harry Hopeman, miembro de una dinastía de diamantistas, recibe un día una propuesta: recuperar un diamante legendario que ha despertado interés de gente muy dispar. El encargo, que llevará a Harry a abandonar Nueva York para instalarse en Tierra Santa, se convertirá en un viaje casi iniciático en el que el tratante se reencontrará con sus raíces.

Lothian 1356. Tanarys y su séquito viajan al castillo del clan Black para enlazar a Inés con el hijo menor del laird de los cuervos. Consciente de que de un momento a otro Balliol asaltará la frontera y que sus aliados del sur traicionarán a su señor, Leonor no puede dejar solos a Tanarys y a Inés en lo que sería la última oportunidad del sur para liberarse al fin de los ingleses, y se lleva con ella a Alba y Paula.

Dr. Robert Judson Cole travels from his ravaged Scotland homeland, through the operating rooms of Boston, to the cabins of frontier Illinois. In the wilderness he befriends the starving remnants of the Sauk tribe, who have fled their reservation. In the process, he absorbs their culture and learns native remedies that enrich the classical medical education he received at Edinburgh University. He marries a remarkable settler woman he had saved from illness.

An orphan leaves Dark Ages London, taking a dangerous journey and posing as a Jew to study medicine in Persia, in "an adventurous and inspiring tale" (Library Journal). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift - an acute sensitivity to impending death - never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer.

Noah Fairchild has been losing his formerly polite Southern parents to far-right cable news for years, so when his mother leaves him a voicemail warning him that the “Great Reckoning” is here, he assumes it’s related to one of the many conspiracy theories she believes in. But when his own phone calls go unanswered, Noah makes the long drive from Brooklyn to Richmond, Virginia. There, he discovers his childhood home in shambles, a fridge full of spoiled food, and his parents locked in a terrifying trance-like state in front of the TV. 

Roberta Jeanne d'Arc Cole is favored to be named associate chief of medicine at a Boston hospital. She is married to a surgeon. They own a trophy residence on historic Brattle Street in Cambridge and a summer house in the Berkshire Hills. Everything melts away. Her gender and her work at an abortion clinic cost her the hospital appointment. Her marriage fails. Crushed, she goes to the farmhouse in Western Massachusetts, thinking to sell it, and finds an unexpected life.

María es una mujer viuda que vive con su hijo en la costa de Zahara. Una noche el pueblo es asaltado por corsarios musulmanes y ambos son capturados. Tras ser separados en un mercado de esclavos, María se promete encontrar y liberar a su hijo, a pesar de ser esclava y mujer, sin importarle las consecuencias, aunque estas sean ser la esclava de una leyenda del mar.

A man travels to Israel to uncover a diamond's remarkable past in this vivid historical saga from the New York Times best-selling author of The Physician. A diamond cutter and seller from a long, respected line of precious-gem dealers, New Yorker Harry Hopeman is asked to broker a deal that will return a legendary gemstone to Israel. Arriving in the volatile Middle East, Hopeman soon discovers that his assignment will be anything but easy. Representatives of the Holy Land's three major religions are all laying claim to the priceless jewel.

"Aquí encontraréis poemas llenos de nostalgia por una vida con mucho sentido pero, en muchos momentos, con pocas opciones. Noah sabe mucho de dolor y habla de esa "vida pendiente" que se tiene cuando se deja de vivir para aferrarse a sobrevivir (...) Leyendo tus poemas que llegan a lo más hondo, que sobrecogen y son en algunos momentos desgarradores, se llega a comprender que hasta la esperanza puede marchitarse, pero aun así demuestras que existe una valiente mujer.

After working outdoors for years, I had built the kind of strength that many only dream about. Intent on building a new life for myself, I set my sights on the road so that I could explore the wilderness all over the country. But to explore, a man needs the right kind of vehicle. And then I found it—an old RV sitting in a dusty old lot, with a price tag so cheap that it was an absolute steal. Buying it seemed like a no-brainer, but before I could pull out of the lot, the RV had other plans about where it was going, and sent me to a whole other world.

When Saffron Hope asks me to find my great-grandmother’s half of an old wine formula as her bachelor-auction favor, I figure it’ll take a few hours of searching through dusty files. But when I discover her family’s winery is three months from bankruptcy, everything changes. Now, we’re racing against the clock to solve a seventy-year-old mystery, and I’m falling for the determined woman who sees salvation in a bottle of wine.

In the year 1492, the Inquisition has all of Spain in its grip. Yonah Toledano, the 15-year-old son of a celebrated Spanish silversmith, has seen his father and brother die during terrible days - victims whose murders go almost unnoticed in a time of mass upheaval. Trapped in Spain by circumstances, he is determined to honor the memory of his family by remaining a Jew. On a donkey named Moise, Yonah begins a meandering journey, a young fugitive zigzagging across the vastness of Spain.

The Trail has been a lively ride so far. I've survived monsters, upgraded my magic and kept my RV safe, while my RV has kept me and my girlfriends just as safe in return. I've got enough gold and firepower to deal with all the threats that the wilds can throw our way. Now it's time to trade cool weather for blue skies. We're heading to the beaches of the bay in the south, parking up my rig at a fishing cabin nestled among the trees by the shoreline, and enjoying a well-earned drink (or several).

In Ravens before Noah, Susanna Harutyunyan paints a vivid and haunting portrait of resilience and survival amidst the Armenian mountains. Beginning with a newborn and an old man fleeing the Hamidian massacres, the novel traces the lives of exiles who form a hidden community, cut off from the world and bound by shared traumas.

Three young men from different backgrounds have graduated from medical schools and have become surgical fellows at a leading teaching hospital in Boston. They learn to become surgeons, to communicate with patients and families, and to be observed and appraised by their peers and professors on daily rounds. And each month, each attends the meeting of the Mortality Conference, known to all as the Death Committee, which examines every patient loss for possible human error, in order to prevent it from happening again.