Resultados para "The Future" en Literatura y ficción

A waiter, strapped for cash, has a watchful AI implanted before work. With a new body, an injured woman is brought face-to-face with trauma from her past. A microchip lets pet owners gain too much insight into their dog’s thoughts. In their debut anthology, Futures Gleaming Darkly, Clinton W. Waters offers a window into the human experience in a world that is both mundane and fantastic. Join a host of queer characters as they navigate love, loss, and life in a technology-enhanced, not-so-distant future.

Tucker and his boyfriend are the best in their field. They organize estate sales, using their keen eyes and marketing know-how to earn big bucks for their clients. But when they're hired to clear out a mysterious Gothic manor house, Tucker discovers a set of vintage sunglasses that changes his life forever.

Alinta is determined to make sure she never becomes a victim again, but what can she do when Mel’s previous love shows up at the outback station they are building together? The white woman, with her proper English ways, is like no one she has ever seen before. How can she compete with someone who once held her own love’s heart?

My future had been planned out for almost ten years. I was to marry Mia, my best friend, and we were supposed to live happily ever after. There was one major problem though; I realized I had no interest in women. Even so, I still planned to make my best friend's wish come true.

In this sequel to Future Leaders of Nowhere, Finn and Willa come home from camp to find everything is different. Even as they grow more sure of their feelings for each other, everything around them feels less certain. When Finn gets involved in a new community project, she's forced to question where her priorities lie at school. Meanwhile, her dad has moved interstate, her mother is miserable, and her home feels like a ghost town.

THE NEBULA AWARD WINNER BEFORE. Luce Cannon is on the road. Success is finally within her grasp: her songs are getting airtime; the venues she's playing are getting larger. But mass shootings, bombings and now a strange contagion are closing America down around her. The gig Luce plays tonight...

Empolgada para o show de sua cantora preferida, Sofia parte em uma excursão cheia de expectativas. No entanto, seus planos são desafiados com a chegada de Tória, uma garota descontraída e atraente que atrasa a viagem. À medida que os contratempos surgem, Sofia se vê dividida entre a frustração e uma crescente atração por Tória, que vão lhe mostrar que imprevistos podem revelar oportunidades inesperadas e mudar o rumo de sua vida.

A story described by Katherine Paterson as "didactic camp", a very funny but also thought-provoking fantasy about the issue of gayness. This controversial tale has given enormous comfort to many young people struggling with their own sexual identity.

A big-hearted, funny and sad novel about the messiness of love, family and belief LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD ‘Hilarious and timely, a dazzling debut’ John Boyne ‘Bustling, bubbly, bittersweet fun’ Daily Mail ‘Bulging...

In this “gorgeously compassionate” (Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling author of An American Marriage) debut reminiscent of Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight, two men in Atlanta reconcile their human dignity against the price of their professional ambitions working for a real estate...

Bloomsbury presents The Lost Future of Pepperharrow by Natasha Pulley, read by Thomas Judd. Escape into the enchanting world of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. This extraordinary sequel transports readers to Japan, where time, destiny and love collide to electrifying effect 'A Japan that...

‘WOW, what a book… I don’t remember the last time I stayed up until 4am because I couldn’t put a book down… Absolutely loved… I was on the edge of my seat’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ganymede’s is no ordinary boarding school. Behind its spiral towers and manicured lawns, boys are forged...

Bloomsbury presents The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley, read by Thomas Judd. For readers of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, an enchanting, bestselling novel that sweeps readers into a magical Victorian London inhabited by a clockwork octopus and a mysterious watchmaker who is...

Du bist der Rhythmus meines Herzens. Der Teil in mir, der mich zu dem macht, der ich sein will. Oakley Mein Bodyguard rastet aus und wird entlassen? Check. Ich werde von meinem Manager gezwungen, einen neuen einzustellen? Doppel-check. Dieser ist ein übellauniger und distanzierter Arsch? Jackpot. Will ich ihn trotzdem? Hell, yeah! Blake Einen Pinguin entführen und mir selbst die Zukunft ruinieren? Check. Daraufhin meinen Job beim FBI verlieren und Personenschützer werden? Doppel-check. Bodyguard für den vorbelasteten Frontsänger der Colliding Angels werden? Verdammt.

Callum MacLaren, a professor from Scotland, visits Willow Springs, Vermont, during winter solstice to study and explore the rich history of St. Joseph's Cemetery. His encounter with a sexy soldier in a tattered Civil War uniform is a captivating puzzle, and the more he learns, the deeper his attraction. A hundred and fifty years ago, Elijah Freeman was killed during the Second Battle of Fort Wagner and woke up in Willow Springs, the only home he'd known. Alone, he roams the town, unable to leave or interact with a single soul until an intriguing Scot addresses him.

Ben and Nikolas know that if they were to compare recollections of their life together, they’d remember things very differently. Ben never asks about their time together in the Department because he doesn’t want to hear Nikolas lie. Nikolas never talks about those early years because he can’t afford for Ben to know the truth. For the first time, since their strange meeting in Whitehall 14 years ago, Ben is forced to rethink his claim that nothing Nikolas could ever do would make him stop loving him.

Fred recebe uma oferta irrecusável de sua editora para escrever justamente o que não suporta: comédias românticas. Sem saber como começar, ele chega à única solução possível: para escrever um romance, ele precisa se apaixonar!

Willkommen zum Finale der 1. Staffel! Das Psi Corps ist zurück, und diesmal wird es persönlich-zumindest für Colonel McQueen. Ein im letzten Krieg gesunkenes Schlachtschiff seiner Kameraden wurde geplündert, unbekannte Diebe haben sich am stählernen Sarg tief unter der Wasseroberfläche des Südchinesischen Meers zu schaffen gemacht. Schlimmer noch, ihre Spur führt in die unendlichen Weiten des Alls-weit entfernt von der Gerichtsbarkeit der UNO, dem Einsatzgebiet des Corps und auch den Argusaugen der sich langsam an den Westen annähernden chinesischen Führung.

The sensational new novel from the highly-acclaimed author of Dreamland: a once-in-a-lifetime love story ‘Electrically entertaining’, The Times, ‘Best Books to Read this Summer’ ‘Ambitious… brilliant… exhilarating… Custom-built for fans for The Thick of It, Succession and...

In Quarterly Essay 49, Latham argues that the time has come to go beyond criticism to solutions. In that spirit, he offers a timely assessment of the future for Labor. He examines the key challenges: the union nexus, the Keating settlement, a real education revolution, a new war on poverty, climate change, and handling the Greens. With wit and insight, he suggests that Labor's biggest problem is the steady erosion of its traditional working-class base.