Resultados para "The Group" en Acción y aventura

June, 1976. Western Europe is caught in the grip of a relentless and sweltering heatwave. In London, the summer marks a milestone of a different kind for Edie - a decade married to the love of her life, and their first child on the way. But on the night that she plans to tell Joe their news, he...

The Prisoner of Heaven returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop. It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957, one year after Daniel and Bea from The Shadow of the Wind have married. They now have a son, Julian, and are living with Daniel's father at Sempere & Sons.

Fermin still works with them and is busy preparing for his wedding to Bernarda in the New Year. However something appears to be bothering him.

Cowl is a high-octane time travel adventure from Britain's master of widescreen science fiction, Neal Asher. He's the nightmare you never imagined . . . In the far-future, the Heliothane Dominion triumphed after a bitter war. But some enemies escaped into the past, to wreak havoc across time...

Kain Asheld put a marker to the three people closest to him on a quiet ridge overlooking the valley where they'd always promised to meet. His brother Mark never wanted the mercenary life. He wanted to farm. He never got the chance. Kain bought the land with his share of a final bounty and a desperate need for silence. The locals call it Madder's Place. Ten acres of rotting floorboards, a collapsed roof, and fields the wild took back a decade ago. They'd been talking about burning it down.

What happens when you sell everything, pawn your championship ring, and hit the road with nothing but two backpacks and a motorcycle? Land of the Free is Woodrow “Pack” Landfair’s raw, lyrical debut—a 48-state odyssey through odd jobs, dive bars, and endless highways in search of freedom and identity. Praised for its evocative prose, layered metaphors and breadth of expression, this 10th Anniversary Edition reignites a cult classic of the American road.

The Final Covenant–The Chosen Project: Book Three continues the powerful saga of survival, faith, and transformation that began in The Custodian’s Trial. The storm that Enoch once dreamed of has arrived, not a storm of weather, but of men. When armored riders descend upon the village, the fragile peace of covenant is shattered, forcing every villager to choose between fear and unity. As the enemy closes in, Enoch, once the quiet seer, must rise as the unshakable center of a people on the brink. His wisdom is tested, his leadership forged in fire.

Emily is dead! Killed by an unknown assailant. Honore Lechasseur is called to identify the body, but who should arrive there as well, but Emily! Honore and Emily find themselves caught up in a plot reaching from the future to their past, and with their very existence, not to mention the future of the entire world, at stake, can they unravel the mystery before it's too late?

Born in Newgate Prison and abandoned soon after, Moll Flanders is searching for a secure place in society. Her desire to belong propels her into all kinds of trouble from numerous marriages, bigamy and incest to theft. Charting her progress from an innocent but determined young girl to a contentedly resigned elderly woman, Defoe’s novel casts a light on the splendours and iniquities of life in 18th century England and America.

Jules Verne’s career as a novelist began in 1863, when he struck a new vein in fiction—stories that combined popular science and exploration. In Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions £20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days—and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the reserved Englishman immediately sets off for Dover, accompanied by his hot-blooded French manservant, Passepartout.

Billy Budd, Sailor is a classic confrontation between good and evil, and the story of an innocent young man unable to defend himself against a wrongful accusation.

After concluding their adventures in the "Journey of Miracles," they turn their focus towards China's mysterious relics such as the Sanxingdui site, the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the Mogao Caves, the Himalayas, Shennongjia, Poyang Lake, and Lop Nur. In order to unravel ancient mysteries, they embark on thrilling and daring adventures once again.

The story tells of a mysterious figure in black suddenly appearing on the campus of Tianjiao Elementary School, handing a scroll made of sheepskin to the leader of the Young Dragon Exploration Team, Qin Xiaolong.

Guy Pickering fell in love with Dorothy when they were just kids. Many years later, instead of enjoying their Florida retirement, he’s plotting ways to kill her. At her request. Dorothy has received a terminal cancer diagnosis and has asked Guy to help end her suffering. But there’s a problem; he can’t imagine killing her, and can’t fathom living without her. So, Guy concocts a plan to deceive Dorothy with a fake terminal diagnosis of his own, hoping he can saunter through the pearly gates right beside his beloved.

'Thick fog, shifting alliances and clever magic make the perfect backdrop for a sweeping romance - One Dark Window is enthralling from beginning to shocking end' Hannah Whitten, bestselling author of For the Wolf ELSPETH NEEDS A MONSTER. THE MONSTER MIGHT BE HER. An ancient, mercurial spirit is...

Silas Beckham went from hunting monsters in Karst's sewers to inheriting a death trap of an estate overnight. Now he stands as the last Beckham, with twenty-eight thousand gold in taxes due and assassins gunning for his head. Good thing he's got a mythic frost wolf by his side and a talent for turning deadly creatures into unlikely allies. With his undead butler Bonereghard hiding family secrets and a flesh golem chef cooking his meals, Silas heads straight into Bastian's Summoner's Tournament.

A dream-eating World Tree feeds upon the people of the Floating City, slowly devouring their souls. As a religious resistance builds against the Tree and its tyrannical inquisitors, the city is filled with prophecies of a time traveler who will return their stolen dreams. The Tree dispatches the slave Saya, a shape-shifting faerie whose wings were stolen from her, to locate the time walker. When she confronts him, Saya can’t shake the feeling that this untamed traveler named Andreas is the same boy who once gifted her wings in a dream.

Once a celebrated author of scientific romances, Erik Clevedon is an old man now. But as Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish discover after a chance encounter with a strangely gifted young pickpocket, his fiction conceals a dangerous truth. Born between the Wars, the superhuman children known as "The Peculiar" are reaching adulthood - and they believe that humanity is making a poor job of looking after the world they plan to inherit.

"Deus Le Volt!"..."God Wills It!" The cry of the first Crusade in 1098, despatched by Pope Urban to free Jerusalem from the Turks. Honoré and Emily are plunged into the middle of the conflict on the trail of what appears to be a time-travelling knight. As the siege of Antioch draws to a close, so death haunts the blood-soaked streets...and the Fendahl - a creature that feeds on life itself - is summoned. Honoré and Emily find themselves facing angels and demons in a battle to survive their latest adventure.

Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the "monster" turns out to be a giant submarine, commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, by whom they are soon held captive. So begins not only one of the great adventure classics by Jules Verne, the 'Father of Science Fiction', but also a truly fantastic voyage from the lost city of Atlantis to the South Pole.

Edmond Dantès, an innocent young sailor, falls into despair when he is arrested on a false charge of treason and thrown into prison without a trial. He learns of his friends' betrayal from the Abbé Faria, an equally innocent prisoner, and plots his revenge following a daring, if nightmarish escape from the Chateau d'If. After becoming a wealthy man, he assumes the guise of the urbane Count of Monte-Cristo and begins to entrap his enemies one by one.