Resultados para "The Mad Man" en Literatura y ficción

Her ring belongs to the most dangerous man in town... but her heart belongs to a mountain man who's ready to fight for her…

I've always known Charlotte was off-limits. She's my best friend's daughter. The one woman I can't have. But when I find her stranded in a storm, I can't stop myself. One night together, and I break every rule. I said it wouldn't happen again. I lied. I'll do whatever it takes to make her mine. And no one, not even her dad, is going to stop me.

GAME ON! The time has come for Fayte to create a guild—the first one in Age of Gods. But creating a guild is a lot easier said than done, especially when the place Fayte wants to create hers is the most dangerous location currently within the game. Stampede. The term refers to an event that happens when humans leave the city and a horde of monsters gathers to attack them. It’s guaranteed to happen while their sect is being built, which means it is up to Adam, Aris, Fayte, Kureha, Lilith, Susan, and Titania to defend the construction workers while they build it.

I swore I'd never touch Lainey Daniels. She's my son's ex and too sweet for a man like me. I try my best to resist her, but one night, I give in. I take her to my cabin in the mountains to keep her safe. Now, she's mine, whether she's ready for it or not. I expect her to run, to hate me for the filthy things I want to do to her, but she doesn't. She meets my darkness with a blaze of her own. And I'll burn the whole world down before I lose her.

More than a hundred years into the future, as the US approaches its 400th anniversary, Tomas, a young graduate student, searches for the real identity of one of the cyborgs that maintained American homes. He has been haunted for years by an audio clip of a cyborg named Felipe and is intent on writing Felipe’s biography. In the clip, Felipe can only recite that he was made in America, but Tomas must find out: Where was the Self-made Man really from?

Lysander Hawkley combined breathtaking good looks with the kindest of hearts. He couldn't pass a neglected wife without rushing to the rescue, which invariably led to ecstatic bonking, which didn't please their erring husbands one bit. Let loose among the neglected wives of the ritzy county of Rutshire, Lysander causes absolute havoc. But it is only when he meets Rannaldini, Rutshire's King Rat and a temperamental, fiendishly promiscuous international conductor, that the trouble really starts....

In the 1990s, strong-willed Irene Maxwell embarks on her path toward ordination as an Episcopal priest, confident in her calling but unprepared for the hidden obstacles she'll face. During a job interview with the dean of a cathedral-conducted uncomfortably in his car-he asks Irene questions, only to interrupt her responses by poking her leg, forcing her into silence. Even though women in the priesthood had become more acceptable by then, Irene soon discovers that gender biases haven't disappeared-they've simply gone underground, devolving into a form of guerilla warfare.

A mysterious man emerges from the wilderness of the mountains. On a journey to understand the modern world, this truth seeker explores the difficulties and obstacles on the path to self-awareness and self-care. In The Man the World Forgot, you are taken on a whirlwind journey down the West Coast with Enoch, who carries his own unique perspective on the world we live in. Are you struggling with social pressures and expectations? Are you finding yourself overwhelmed with the news bytes and social media treadmill? Join Enoch on his travels to understand our modern world.

A mysterious force tears around the globe, erasing anything man-made. Skyscrapers vanish with their occupants flailing to the ground, and jetliners disappear, leaving the passengers to plunge to their deaths. No one is killed directly, but hip replacements and dental work disappear, along with everything fashioned by the hand of man, from hydroelectric dams to museums to GMO crops. Is it a natural phenomenon, a prelude to alien invasion, an act of God, or a reappearance of magic in the world? And most important, what (if anything) can we do to stop this potential extinction event?

This is A Madman's Diary, and Other Stories by Lu Xun, a renowned writer of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun was a novelist, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, and poet who wrote both in Vernacular Chinese and Classical Chinese. He became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai in the 1930s.

Samuel Hinton learned at the tender age of 15 just how violent some men could be. But as a detective with the police force in 1910, he must deal with the murder of a schoolteacher, and he is shocked by the brutality. Kathleen Campbell travels to rural Florida to seek justice for her sister’s death. What she finds is an instant and unexpected attraction to the handsome investigator who swears he will find the killer. Another murder fills Samuel with a sense of urgency as he struggles with the depth of his feelings for Kathleen, knowing she could be the man’s next victim.

The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! Frank Herbert's second installment explores new developments on the desert planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and its strange threatening environment. Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Maud'dib, heir to...

From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary. Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves up a...