Resultados para "Pro" en Literatura y ficción

Esaú Falconi, Ismael Nero, Ángela de Ory son la presa apetecida de un plan concebido hace milenios. Una anciana con memoria de humo y conocimiento del misterio, un sacerdote de pobres enfrentado al fascismo italiano y los horrores sin nombre de las calles de Roma, sacrificios abyectos en...

Seven centuries into the future, aliens and humans compete for the greatest prize in the universe: the Galaxy Bowl trophy. Quarterback Quentin Barnes enters his third season at the helm of the Ionath Krakens. He's reshaped the team in his image, and the time for excuses is over; it's win, or be replaced. Quentin's championship quest carries him and his teammates across the galaxy in a brutal 12-game season fraught with injury and death. But he faces more than just on-field challenges.

Eine Zeitreise in die wilde Jugend unserer Großeltern, als wärst du live dabei! Verrückte Schlaglichter in eine unbekümmerte Zeit ohne Handy und Social Media, aber mit weit offenen Augen für das Wesentliche: Liebe, Erotik, Verwirrungen. Und dabei absolut keine Gebrauchsanweisung für nichts! Michael Schwarzmaier, Schauspieler und Autor, entdeckt nach über fünfzig Jahren eine Autobiografie, die er mit Mitte zwanzig geschrieben hat.

Inspired by the events of his 2022 award-winning book, Captured by COVID: Deceit, Conspiracy, and Death—A True Story. Michael E. Bowers’s Olivia is a story of adoration, hatred, desolation, exhilaration, and heartbreak. Caught between two forces far beyond her control, Olivia’s quiet life is shattered when she becomes collateral damage in a deadly clash between the DEA and a ruthless Mexican cartel. As her world unravels, those around her spiral into darkness—none more than Allen, whose descent into unthinkable acts reveals a side no one ever imagined he possessed.

Sins, Tragedies, and Other Things That Make Us Human is a collection of five thought-provoking short stories that blend historical fiction, dark humor, and contemporary drama.

It is 1827, and Sarah Seely DeWitt finds herself at the center of Texas history in its earliest and bloodiest period. Sarah's journey from St. Louis to Texas catches her up in a love triangle, forces her into a struggle for her family's survival, and pitches her headlong into the whirlwind of war. Based on actual events leading up to the 1836 Texas Revolution, The Empresario's Wife chronicles the struggles of a young American Everywoman and the events that change her and the nation forever.

Crystal ball reader Isadora wants to prove she's up to the leadership responsibility to keep Philadelphia staff safe from Hitler's occult attacks until their team leader can return from special assignment in D.C., but a Nazi spy murdered the temp secretary D.C. sent and assumed her identity. The spy's mission is to steal an ancient book of spells coveted by Hitler. After finding the book, the spy's obsession is to avenge her spy lover's disappearance by leaving this U.S. facility in paranormally induced flames.

From the Cajun swamp cabins to the great river plantations of the Mississippi and the glittering night spots of Jazz Age New Orleans, Bayou sweeps listeners into the mysterious and fascinating Louisiana delta and into the hearts and lives of four indomitable women: Olivia, a headstrong Cajun beauty, Celisma, a fiercely loyal mulatto slave, Manon, the toast of New Orleans, and Zoe, a convent-bred Creole who seeks and finds her destiny on her own terms.

Sea Star is a swashbuckling historical novel that chronicles the adventures of beautiful red-haired, green-eyed Anne Bonny, the Pirate Queen. The saga passionately brings to life Anne's rebellious Southern girlhood, her sensual awakening in the arms of a buccaneer, and the courageous mastery of her own ship and crew. Pamela Jekel's sparkling tale transports you to the exotic Charles Town of the precolonial South; to teeming Port Royal, Jamaica; and to the infamous pirate island of New Providence for duels, plundered treasures, and torrid love scenes on palm-fringed cays.

From the first settlement on Roanoke Island and the birth of Virginia Dare through the revolution that created a new nation and the Civil War that tore it apart, Pamela Jekel weaves a vast, colorful tapestry, bursting with the tempestuous beauty of the land, surging with human drama, peopled with courageous women and bold men whose joys and sorrows forged the triumphant history that is the glory of the Carolinas.

Natchez is a stunning saga by NY Times bestselling author, Pamela Jekel, the second in her Southern trilogy. Spanning four generations of proud, strong-willed women, Natchez tells the story of hardships of frontier life, the glitter and opulence of plantation balls, the ravages of the Civil War, and the Great Flood of 1885.

Columbia is a rich, vivid canvas of heroes and scoundrels, of men and women and their dreams of land, gold, timber, salmon, and power--dreams that begin when a nomad hunter kills a mastodon and ends with an archaeology team working frantically to uncover evidence of that kill before the Columbia's waters rise to cover the past forever--and a family destiny that proves "some things must be believed to be seen."

The debut novel, Bridget, by Jerilyn Ring is a historical novel that takes place in a backdrop of mystery and suspense. A past relationship triggers events, exposing Bridget’s secret. An outer journey becomes an inner journey. As she acknowledges that all she has left is the truth which will not set her free. The setting is Chicago and San Francisco (1915 -1945). Bridget, a product of incest, abandoned, and raised in an orphanage, yearns for a family but is passed up for adoption because of an unsightly facial birthmark.

“Don’t tell anyone we’re Democrats,” warned Mother when we moved to Bakersfield, CA, a town often referred to, back then, as redneck central. “And for heaven’s sake, don’t tell them you’re Jewish.”

Long ago in the distant Kingdom of Dycentia, storytellers sang the legend of one of their own; a hero the likes of which were only born in forgotten lands, in forgotten times. This Dycentian’s name was Horian, and although his life was cloaked in shadows, the secrets the storytellers sang have been passed down through the ages, known to only a select few and now preserved in these pages so that they may never be forgotten.

Still struggling with her new identity as the Singer for the Anyala Stone, Ani returns to her home world in search of her twin, known as The Balance. The Anyala Stone has been mortally injured by her own grandmother, and only The Balance can save it.

When Alex takes on a mission to reclaim stolen Bedouin land, he finds himself imprisoned and branded a criminal. Meanwhile, Caitlin faces her own dangers, becoming the target of an extremist plot. But the rules of warfare change forever when Caitlin condenses an electromagnetic pulse into shootable ammunition and deploys an AI chatbot–quantum computer that can use the internet to control secure Israeli communications and provide strategic intel.

Only the one known as The Blood can save Lrakira . . . but is there time? The women of Lrakira have begun to die and the Stones have chosen Renloret to rescue Lrakira’s only hope of survival, a five-year-old child living on Teramar. When his ship crashes on Teramar, Renloret races against time to find the child whose blood carries the cure for his people. But the child cannot be found, and to complicate matters, Renloret is falling in love with Ani, a female Teramaran blade ring champion with serious alien issues and a need to be accepted for who she is.

The Enclave family, once known for their distinctive jazz, blues, and rock sound, has risen to the forefront of the Dallas music scene. But their world takes a dark turn when Manny and Norma Lee introduce a bright and resourceful young man, Jack Miller, to their manager, Clinton Carroll. Jack's arrival ushers in a new era for the Enclave—one that goes beyond music and into the dangerous world of security and investigation.

棋士生活三〇年、ある日突然襲ってきた病魔

「ふざけんな、ふざけんな、みんないい思いしやがって」
藤井聡太ブームに沸く将棋界。そのウラで羽生世代の棋士が脳の病と闘っていた。