Resultados para "Puls" en Literatura y ficción

Arrastrados por los efectos de un fenómeno astrofísico, cinco amigos --César, Edurne, Nicolás, Roi y Tomás--, son transportados desde una recreación histórica hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Y allí, en 1940, descubrirán que la representación en el siglo XXI en la que participaban, no los había preparado para afrontar el convulsionado escenario de la más destructiva de las guerras.

Arrastrados por los efectos de un fenómeno astrofísico, cinco amigos -César, Edurne, Nicolás, Roi y Tomás- , son transportados desde una recreación histórica hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Y allí, en 1940, descubrirán que la representación en el siglo XXI en la que participaban, no los había preparado para afrontar el convulsionado escenario de la más destructiva de las guerras.

Al started his day with a cup of cheap gas-station coffee, expecting it to be another mundane day of classes. Instead, he ran for his life as eldritch monsters ripped into his university, bumped into strange characters, and went toe to toe with evil incarnate to save his classmates and crush, almost costing him everything. Just as Al thought his story ended, he awoke in a strange place with strange people, broken and scarred. From there, he is presented a horrifying revelation and a seemingly impossible decision that could impact billions of lives.

Mage-Captain Ivan Halloway has retired from the Royal Martian Navy and the service of the Mage-King of Mars. He has returned to his homeworld to rest, but his only real plan is to avoid the war he sees coming to the Protectorate. Captain Karl Charpentier is his oldest friend - captain and pilot of an interstellar jump-courier. Crewless and drowning in debt due to a series of mistakes, Karl turns to his newly unemployed friend with a desperate plan to solve all his problems.

Imagine a world where soldiers regenerate and continue fighting without pause, and where suicide bombers live to strike again. This is the dream of Richard Ridley, founder of Manifold Genetics, and he has discovered the key to eternal life: an ancient artifact buried beneath a Greek inscribed stone in the Peruvian desert.

Wahnsinn und Tod durch das Mobiltelefon - Stephen King: "Puls". Während Clayton Riddell sich auf einem Geschäftstrip in Boston befindet, bricht plötzlich das Chaos aus. Jeder, der gerade ein Handy am Ohr hat, mutiert zum Zombie: Leute fallen übereinander her, töten sich gegenseitig und laufen Amok. Riddell und zwei weitere Unschuldige flüchten in ein Hotel. Dort müssen sie, abgeschnitten von der Außenwelt, versuchen, Riddells Sohn zu erreichen, bevor auch er dem Wahnsinn zum Opfer fällt.

Sie soll anderen helfen und kann sich selbst nicht helfen. Dr. Chris Rankin, Ärztin am Cheltenham Hospital, leidet an einer Depression, die zu Essstörungen und Panikattacken führt. Als ein Mann bewusstlos auf der benachbarten Rennbahn gefunden wird und unter ihren Händen stirbt, ist Rankin am Ende ihrer Kräfte. Um ihr eigenes Leben zu retten, muss sie wissen, wer für den Tod des Mannes verantwortlich ist, und beginnt, auf eigene Faust zu ermitteln.

The brilliant new collection of short stories from Man Booker Prize-winning author Julian Barnes. The stories in Julian Barnes’ long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. Each character is bent to a pulse, propelled on by success and loss, by new beginnings and endings.

Detective Elijah Wade is on the trail of a serial killer when the skies above Los Angeles erupt into the most spectacular light show humanity has ever seen. And the most deadly. His daughter is in a hospital bed on the other side of the continent, but where does his duty lie now? To her, to justice, or to his species?

As massive solar flares bombard the Earth, an intense electromagnetic pulse brings down America’s long-neglected power grid. The electric age ends and anarchy descends as desperate citizens panic. Artie Drager, whose dream Bahamas vacation turns into every parent’s worst nightmare, finds himself stranded thousands of miles from his home and only daughter, Jessica. As the horrible aftermath unfolds, Jessica is frantic about her father lost somewhere at sea. But first she must save herself right at home.

Now that Emily Cooper has walked away from her first love, she finds herself running toward her only love. Unraveling fast, but clinging to hope, Emily risks all she has left on the man that has consumed her every thought and dream since the day they met. Will Gavin take her back? And if so, will their reunion be a collision of two hearts destined to complete one another and rekindle a love that knew no boundaries? Or will scars from their past rip open, tearing slowly at what each of them was meant to be? Can fate, the ultimate game changer, mend the shattered road it laid out from the start? Only time will tell…Tick-Tock…

Jackdaws by Ken Follett is an irresistible novel of the French Resistance, love, courage and revenge set in the Second World War, read by Emilia Fox, who expertly brings the story to life. A Failed Mission Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance try to destroy a telephone exchange vital to...

The story of a Boston murder that defies all expectations—optioned for film by 21 Laps, the company behind Stranger Things and Arrival Boston, 1976. In a small apartment above Kenmore Square, sixteen-year-old Daniel Fitzsimmons is listening to his landlord describe a seemingly insane theory...

Jessica Roth dumped her boyfriend, moved to New York, and wanted desperately to start her new life off with a bang - a literal mind-blowing, soul-shaking night of pure, raw, memory-making sex. She thought her one-time chance encounter with attorney Nathan Moore in a hotel room would become a jumping point for her exciting, single, and adventurous life in the city. One night turned into two, into four, and into more - always at the same place, always at the same time, no last names, no personal details, and absolutely no complications.

When an EMP devastated the nation's power supplies and left the country in ruins, Jack, Wayne, Susan, Emma and Logan all fought to seek shelter in a treacherous first day. But surviving the first day was just the beginning. Jack has found his way home. But when tragedy strikes, he is forced on a personal journey across the country to seek new shelter - and face up to the harrowing demons of his past. Wayne's search for Candice is going nowhere. But when a stunning discovery breathes new life into his journey, he is determined to make one final push through.

The first pulse occurred in the old calendar year of 2022. Gigantic solar flares created massive electromagnetic pulses that stopped the heart of our modern world and returned us to the Dark Ages. And Marine Master Gunnery Sergeant Nathaniel Hogan finds that he has been changed by the gamma radiation in the solar flares. They have enhanced his natural abilities, giving him increased speed, strength, and healing; indefinitely extending his life span and enabling him to be able to draw on the power of the solar flares to create magik. But even he was not prepared for what happened next.

The world has no shortage of moral ambiguity, especially in the emergency room. In Pulse, Dr. Jackson is an emergency room physician who seems to have the big house, beautiful wife, and an impeccable reputation as one of the most respected emergency physicians in Dallas. As the layers get peeled back, Dr. Jackson's life isn't so perfect after all. Filled with unique twists, complex medical cases, personal issues, and even a chess game, Pulse proves that there is always more to the story!

Piper Green was known as a bookworm, her nose always buried in the pages of some novel or textbook. She had grown used to being called that, even by her college bully. But one fateful night, everything changed. While at a football game, Piper stumbled upon a group of drunk men harassing a young girl. Without hesitation, she stepped in and saved the girl from harm's way. As fate would have it, the girl turned out to be none other than the sister of Piper's bully.

In the aftermath of the cataclysmic Exitium Mundi, the world has been reduced to a lawless wasteland where only the strongest and most ruthless survive. As mutated flora and fauna overrun the planet, the few remaining humans are left to fend for themselves, often resorting to savage tactics to stay alive.

My Poetic Pulse by Patrick Louis is a heartfelt collection of poems that delves into the real and raw emotions of our everyday lives. Each poem offers a glimpse into the ups and downs of being human, from the joy of love to the pain of loss, and from the challenges of finding oneself to the strength found in overcoming obstacles. Patrick’s words are simple yet powerful, making it easy for listeners to connect with the emotions and stories he shares.