Resultados para "The Privateer" en Literatura y ficción

My new job is more than I bargain for. Four demanding, billionaire bosses. Four gorgeous men who make me feel more than I could ever imagine. If I sign on the dotted line, they say I’ll be theirs. Theirs to protect. Theirs to have. Theirs to dominate. New apartment. New wardrobe. Everything I could possibly need they take care of. Looking across the conference room table, my choice is already made for me. The ink isn’t even dry before I let myself fall. Watch Me is a Why Choose billionaire romance with heroes who will do anything to protect and pleasure their heroine.

Stuart Jenner's job is high stress, high stakes, and everything he's strived for. So why, when the apex of his career is within reach, does he stumble? At his doctor's insistence, he books a privately chartered yacht to sail around the Whitsundays for two weeks of sun, surf, and sex. When his friend-with-benefits bails on him at the last minute, Stuart decides to go alone.

When Julia Fouquet lands a job as a private cook for a wealthy family in Malibu, she thinks she’s living the dream. But her new employer, Erica Drake, is far from the glamorous star Julia expected. Her moods range from fawning to furious in an instant and most mornings start with a glass or two of rosé. Her erratic behaviour soon makes Julia wish she’d never set foot in their expansive, beach-side home. As the family’s secrets bubble to the surface, Julia must keep a cool head. She’s worked hard to get so close to the picture-perfect Drakes.

Can Vita Carew expose the truth behind a ruthless doctor and his lethal assistant, save an injured man, and escape unscathed with time to resume her vacation studying?

This audiobook revolves around the life of a twelve-year-old boy Ivan. Orphaned and living an uncomfortable life in White Bridge Children's Home, Ivan craves to escape into a world where he is loved and cared for. One night as he sleeps, he wakes up in a very different world–Dandelion, the Kingdom of Dreams. The kingdom invites young boys and girls to be a part of their army and be an Argan to fight against their venomous rivals, Zagans, the dark Knights. However, Ivan and his friends at Dandelion stumble across an ancient secret, hidden for millenniums.

Here are four unforgettable stories by Yann Martel, the New York Times best-selling author of Life of Pi. In the exquisite title novella, a very young man dying of AIDS joins his friend in fashioning a story of the Roccamatio family of Helsinki, set against the yearly march of the 20th century.

Questa è una storia che comincia una sera a cena, quando Libero Marsell, dodicenne, intuisce come si può imparare ad amare. La famiglia si è da poco trasferita a Parigi e la madre ha iniziato a tradire il padre. Questa è la storia, raccontata in prima persona, di quel dodicenne che da allora si affaccia nel mondo guidato dalla luce cristallina del suo nome. Misura il fascino della madre, gli orizzonti sognatori del padre, il labirinto magico della città. Avverte prima con le antenne dell’infanzia, poi con le urgenze della maturità, il generoso e confidente mondo delle donne.

The greatest threat humanity has ever faced lies beyond the frontier of its galactic civilization, but dangers closer to home have been overlooked and allowed to grow. As greed and personal ambition in the Terran Union push the common good aside, the Navy is forced to turn to unconventional means. Jack Samson is ordered to team up with former allies to uncover and destroy the rot eating the Union from the inside. Chasing down a trail of smuggled alien technology through the Union's underworld, they soon discover the web of treachery reaches farther than anyone could have expected.

Ralph could be described as a rogue on a good day. A bad day involved a lot of cursing, calling him a pirate, or sometimes even having a shoot-out. It wasn't really his fault of course, or so he would have you believe. It was the fault of those who wanted to get in his way of making as much money as possible as a smuggler. His family had been gifted with a letter of marque for the Terran Confed, one that is inherited and has been passed down to him. Essentially, it gives him a lot of loopholes and ways through regulations to be a fantastic smuggler. Or as a legal pirate, a Privateer.

On the eve of his wedding to the beautiful Mercedes, Edmond Dantès is betrayed by jealous rivals and wrongfully imprisoned for treason. Locked away in the dreadful Château d'If, he spends years plotting his escape and planning a brilliant revenge against those who destroyed his life. As the mysterious and powerful Count of Monte Cristo, he returns to exact justice, but along the way, he faces his own vulnerability.

The first time I meet Madison Shore, I’m greeted by her knickers. She’s upside down and trying to untangle herself from my chair at a wedding. I get to see a whole lot more of her later that night. The second time I meet Madison Shore is in my London office. Turns out she’s a journalist writing an article about me. To keep control of my company, I need to convince people I’m more serious about business than my playboy reputation suggests. Madison holds my future in her hands.

Twin gynecologists are found dead in their trash-littered Upper East Side Manhattan apartment. Who killed them? And why? Based on a true story that Linda Wolfe was the first journalist to write about, her novel explores the mystery behind the deaths of these wealthy and prominent doctors, and the dark and perverse secret that ruled their lives - one that they tried desperately to hide until the final moments of their deaths.

Out of a life of poverty and turmoil, Gissing wrote this idyllic fantasy of comfort and good books amid the English countryside. The book is divided into four "seasons", each depicting the narrator's reflections on that period of his life. A charming book with some timely insights!

Welcome to The Manors of Harrington Point; enter at your own risk. These mansions are home to the elite, the famous, the successful, and the eccentric. From the millionaire mega-pastor and his wife to the former child star turned porn star, this neighborhood is filled with old money, new money, and everything and everyone in between. The tale of what goes on behind these gates is as entertaining and unforgettable as the neighbors themselves.

Questo volume comprende i racconti inediti "La prova" e "La guerra privata di Samuele, detto Leli". Le altre storie sono state pubblicate in tempi diversi: "L'uomo è forte" in Articolo 1. "Racconti sul lavoro", Sellerio, 2009; "I quattro Natali di Tridicino" in Storie di Natale, Sellerio, 2016; "La tripla vita di Michele Sparacino" in allegato al «Corriere della Sera», 2008 e Rizzoli, 2009; "La targa" in allegato al «Corriere della Sera», 2011 e Rizzoli, 2015. Una rete di storie, ovvero una proliferazione di intrecci sorprendenti, è questo libro di racconti.

A female private investigator in San Francisco in the 1940s and her adventures.

In this locked-room mystery set in 1960, a washed-up actor puts his on-camera detective skills to the test when a suspicious death shatters the quiet peace for a group of strangers staying at an isolated Greek island resort. Perfect for fans of White Lotus, Benjamin Stevenson, and Anthony...

The lights of a yacht on the French Riviera are reflected in the water and in the eyes of four hilariously mismatched lovers. Perhaps Coward's greatest comedy, Private Lives shimmers with wit, romance, desire, and bittersweet truth.

The pilots of Flyboy, Inc., landed on the alien planet of Iaxo with a mission: In one year, quash an insurrection; exploit the ancient enmities of an indigenous, tribal society; and kill the hell out of one group of natives to facilitate negotiations with the surviving group — all over 110 million acres of mixed terrain.

Extensive training molded Bruce into a finely tuned mercenary. A man capable of scouring the galaxy to protect the innocent and vanquish the corrupt. An assignment to a distant outer system brings mystery, death, and mayhem. During his mission, a chance encounter with a stunning royal in a dimly lit bar results in all hell breaking loose.