Resultados para "Sidekick" en Literatura y ficción

My name is Sawyer William Vincent - I know, it sounds like three first names - but most people know me as the Red Raptor. Well, technically no one knows I'm the Red Raptor, he's just a bit more popular. Wow. Enough about my name. Let me start over. I’m a superhero - the legendary Black Harrier’s partner. Not sidekick. I don't care if I'm still in high school. We work together to bring down the city's most dangerous villains. When the Black Harrier gets a mysterious note, then goes missing in New York City, things are pretty much left up to me. But don’t worry...I’ve got this.

Welcome to Andover, where superpowers are common, but internships are complicated. Just ask high school nobody, Jessica Tran. Despite her heroic lineage, Jess is resigned to a life without superpowers and is merely looking to beef-up her college applications when she stumbles upon the perfect (paid!) internship only it turns out to be for the town's most heinous supervillain.

Das Ende des deutschen Fernsehens – als unterhaltsames Roadmovie Sebastian Hotz' zweiter Roman ist ein gekonntes Spiel mit »kultigen« TV-Figuren und den Kulturkämpfen unserer Gegenwart – eine Mediensatire als Roadmovie, in der Ähnlichkeiten mit realen Personen selbstverständlich rein zufällig sind. Nach Jahrzehnten der TV-Geschichte ist es so weit: Der legendäre Showmaster Falk Anders kündigt seinen Ruhestand an.

It’s a perfect location for… murder When sisters Jennifer and Lizzie Christie inherit their aunt’s dilapidated B&B, in the beautiful Lake District village of Lupton Water, the only thing they have in common is how much they hate their housemate, a Declan Moss. The two of them fell out...

Welcome to Tombstone, Arizona. Michael can both see and talk to ghosts. He can also talk to certain animals. Penny, a calico cat, you can't trust, and she is snarky. Neil, the Raven, is very nosy and always has something to say, whether you want to hear it or not. Michael meets Doc Holliday, who then introduces him to all the local ghosts of Tombstone and the weekly ghost stagecoach that arrives weekly, picking up and dropping off Tombstone's best and worst. These ghosts can't keep from revisiting Tombstone.

So you want to fight crime? Save people from villains? Be the good guy? If the answer is "yes" to all these questions, then the life of a sidekick just might be for you. Davis might come to regret the day he decided to become a sidekick, but now that he has already put in the time to complete the certification program, he was going to see it through. But first, he needs to survive in the wilds for a couple of weeks with his fellow wannabe sidekicks; nothing like teen angst and drama to make a man feel his years.

Welcome to Trippton, Minnesota, where life moves at a leisurely pace...until your dog gets stolen, someone decides to cook meth next door, or the school board votes on a motion to murder you. Sandford's beloved sleuth takes on three intertwining mysteries in Deadline, a fun and intriguing addition to the Virgil Flowers series.

In the fourth book of Day's Crossfire Series, Gideon and Eva find themselves facing some of the strongest challenges their relationship has yet encountered. Even as the newlyweds fight for their future, they find themselves ensnared by the past - a past they will have to confront if they ever want to truly move forward.

Man Alone is set in and around a complex Seattle where Rat City meets the Billionaires' Club. Zene, a man alone, lives in a chaotic, sexually disruptive and violence-wrecked world.

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As Jerry and family are moving into their newly built house in the outskirts of Sandusky, Michigan, Jerry receives a call from Fred, who lets him know the cameras are now installed around his parents’ Florida property, assuring him the agency now has eyes on the whole family.

Voiced by multiple narrators, including Cassandra Campbell, the narrator for Gillian Flynn's Dark Places and John Grisham's The Whistler Remember Tuesday Morning by #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury is a heartfelt story of grief, redemption, and learning to love...

Twenty years after the events of To Kill a Mockingbird, Jean Louise Finch returns to her hometown of Maycomb, Alabama. As she speaks with her father, now an old man, she begins to question her innocent childhood memories - and to gain a deeper understanding of the tensions that grip the small southern town as the civil rights movement progresses.

Hunter Blackwell is aptly named: he pursues his desires with ferocity, and he nearly always gets what he wants. And when what he wants is a temporary marriage to the fiery matchmaker Gabi Masini, he gets his way. But unknown dangers lurk in the shadows, and soon both Hunter and Gabi will have to confront their pasts to build a future - and decide whether they want to face that future together.

Nathan McBride is on the case again - and this time, the stakes are personal. His friend just saw two people killed, and he believes he knows the man responsible. But as McBride and his partner, Fontana, pursue the investigation, they find themselves on the brink of a shadow war, fought in secret by the powerful and wealthy - a war in which a single decision could change the course of history.