Resultados para "Spin" en Literatura y ficción

In the Los Angeles suburbs, the Crawfords seem like the average American family. Leo is a rising star in advertising. His wife, Rose, is brilliant, restless, and pregnant with their second child. Their teenage daughter, Melinda, is already leaning toward rebellion. Then Rose vanishes during a family vacation. When she comes back, she’s not the same.

In the aftermath of a NASA rocket launch gone terribly wrong, Captain Calli Chase comes face-to-face with her missing twin sister - as well as the startling truth of who they really are. Now, a top secret program put in motion years ago has spun out of control, and only Calli can redirect its course. Aided by cutting-edge technologies, the NASA investigator and scientist turned Space Force pilot sets out on a frantic search for the missing link between the sabotaged rocket launch and her predetermined destiny…a search that someone else seems very interested in stopping.

Le premier livre de la série Campus Diaries, un spin-off des séries Off-Campus et Briar U, de Elle Kennedy. Gigi Graham a trois objectifs : se qualifier pour l'équipe nationale de hockey féminin, remporter l'or olympique et sortir de l'ombre de son célèbre père. Jusque-là, tout va bien...

During a weekend escape to a remote cabin, Cole and his best friend, James, join their girlfriends for a game of spin the bottle that takes an unexpected turn. What begins as lighthearted fun quickly unravels into a journey of self-discovery as Cole and James confront emotions and desires they never imagined.

Public Relations expert Emery Bates has exactly one problem she's willing to admit, and it's that she doesn't have a girlfriend to take as her date to a wedding. Not because she needs a girlfriend, but because she needs an easier way to come out to college friends she hasn't seen in five years. Her job is about controlling the narrative, and as she sees it, there's no reason why that can't extend to her personal life. When her ends up single a few weeks before the wedding, Emery realizes inviting Jordan along and faking romance for a week in Hawaii could be perfect for both of them.

En el REINO de SION, donde la luz del REY SUPREMO guía a quienes buscan la verdad, comienza la historia de ARON, hijo de la CASA DEL LOBO. Desde joven es formado para servir y proteger, pero pronto descubrirá que el mayor campo de batalla no se encuentra en los muros de las ciudades ni en los valles del REINO, sino en el interior del corazón humano.

How far would you go to get what you wanted? That's the question author Catherine McKenzie addresses in Spin - a delectable debut novel that takes listeners into the connected worlds of pop culture, tabloid journalism, and celebrity rehab. The story of a newbie undercover gossip reporter who follows a troubled starlet into a rehab clinic intending to dig up all the dirt she possibly can, Spin is smart, hip, utterly engaging contemporary fiction in the vein of Jennifer Weiner and Emily Giffin.

Charlotte Kingston, étudiante en dernière année d'université, mène deux vies et les réussit toutes les deux. Le jour, elle est la parfaite fille de sororité, une étudiante en génie biomédical et la fille adoptive d'une famille de surdoués. La nuit, elle est Charlie : une casse-cou qui...

Extrajudicial–adj.–done in contravention of due process of law. The Warlock. He is unseen and anonymous. A covert agent in charge of a program designed to disrupt one of the most dangerous alliances in the history of the world. Although the black budgets fund his work, no American authority...

Anno 3959. La Terra non è mai stata tanto ricca e rigogliosa. Nello scenario mozzafiato di una società verde e solare, l'umanità allargata prospera grazie al lavoro degli animali, con spettacolari arbopoli senzienti che svettano fronzute, prendendosi cura di chi le abita. La maestria dei bioarchitetti nel generare casealbero dalle forme e dai colori strabilianti non ha limiti. Ellie, però, è nata nel buio di una colonia spaziale. Vuole vedere la Terra e sbarca da clandestina, ma la gioia dura poco, perché qualcuno vuole ucciderla.

Spin Cycle tells a wickedly funny, shamelessly erotic story of lovers and liars, exes and children, parents and other strangers. This hip and hilarious new novel by the acclaimed author of Neurotica introduces a heroine who never loses her sense of humour and who discovers, somewhere between the rinse and spin cycles, that love - and laughter - can truly conquer all.

Part autobiography, part a history of the Gay Revolution, part writing manual, part juicy gossip, with a few tasty recipes thrown in for good measure, Spine Intact, Some Creases is a summing up - alternately hilarious and touching, instructive and impassioned, and always entertaining - of the remarkable life and work of a writer hailed by top gay pulp historian Michael Bronski as "one of my heroes."

The Empire’s ancient foes have come to destroy, bringing with them threats new and old. The Blood Clan pirates and the savage Hudar Horde cavalry are joined by the magic of the Vandil, long believed lost to the ages. Kullen and Natisse must fight to preserve the threads that hold Dimvein together. Only together can they and their allies both high and low keep the enemy from burning everything they’ve built to the ground. It’s a race to the end, blades slashing and fire raging.

Ran McGhie's world has been turned upside down. A young, lonely and frustrated writer, and suffering from mental health problems, he discovers that his long-dead mother was related to one of Glasgow's oldest merchant families. Not only that, but Ran has inherited Newton Hall, a vast mansion that belonged to his great-uncle, who appears to have been watching from afar as his estranged great-nephew has grown up.

Nel settembre del 1985, a Leonardo Sciascia capitano due cose: la morte di Italo Calvino nell’Ospedale di Siena, e la morte di Aurelio Arriva, giudice, in casa sua. Una pistolettata: suicidio, dicono. Il giudice e lo scrittore siciliano, amici fin dall’infanzia, avevano litigato e non si parlavano da tempo. Qualcuno, in paese, continuava a dire per invidia; qualcun altro insinuava che l’invidia non c’entrava niente, era Sciascia che non avrebbe dovuto mettere l’amico in un libro – anzi, continuava quel qualcuno, Sciascia della Sicilia non avrebbe dovuto proprio parlare.

Un’incantevole storia di tradimenti, segreti e magia. Due ragazze che parlano il linguaggio segreto dei fiori. 1815 – Cornelia ha un segreto che deve rimanere ben custodito, perché nessuno accetterebbe mai la sua capacità di comprendere il linguaggio dei fiori e ascoltarne le voci, in una misteriosa connessione che ha sin da bambina. Il polveroso e cupo accampamento della Grande Armée di Napoleone non è il luogo dove aveva immaginato se stessa quando è fuggita in Francia, lasciandosi alle spalle una vita agiata, ma un passato di dolore.

Un mondo di oscuri affari stipulati al chiaro di luna, città infestate da spiriti, foreste inquietanti e bestie parlanti. Qui la voce di una giovane sirena può evocare tempeste mortali e un fiume può eseguire gli ordini di un ragazzo innamorato, ma solo a un prezzo indicibile.

毎回、様々なジャンルから話題の書籍を１冊ピックアップし、その書籍の書評を本好きの２人、羊文学のギターヴォーカル・塩塚 モエカ、本好きモデル・小谷実由が紹介。

1988 doesn’t end well for me. In just one week I turn thirty, get fired from my day job, and lose the role of Ophelia to a younger actress. But Jessica Abraham does not give up on her dreams without a fight, and I manage to score a part at a theater outside Boston. But when I learn that my costume could be taken from Cosmo’s Don't columns, I'm not so sure this career move will work, because I won’t be able to rely on my carefully managed physical charms. Only my craft will count.

2019 Audie Winner – Best Original Work 2018 SOVAS Voice Arts Award – Best Voiceover in Children's Audiobook 2018 SOVAS Voice Arts Award – Outstanding Production in Audiobook 2018 Parents Choice Award – Silver Honor for Audiobook SPIN - THE AUDIOBOOK MUSICAL: A witty musical re-imagining...