Resultados para "The Race" en Literatura y ficción

A massive asteroid has struck the Pacific. Two young friends embark on the harrowing tale of survival as they try and outrace the two mile high tsunami. Strap in and prepare yourself for a wild ride as these two friends do anything they can to survive. Will they make it to the mountains before the world ending wave catches them?

Don't miss the next instalment in DC Alden's explosive Invasion UK series. BRITAIN IS BURNING. THE WAR IS SURGING SOUTH. AND SURVIVAL IS ABOUT TO GET PERSONAL. As savage fighting rips through northern England, Jack Novak and his unit go rogue to help a desperate comrade reach his young family...

In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe. Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she's...

Robert E. Howard’s The Lost Race is a gripping fantasy adventure of ancient Britain, forgotten peoples, and deadly forest conflict. When the Briton Cororuc encounters a mysterious tribe of Picts, he is drawn into a tale of survival, vengeance, lost civilizations, and the violent clash of...

From island life in the Caribbean to a new beginning in France, a young man comes of age in a sweeping and lyrical novel about family, loss, secrets, and finding freedom from the past. Eighteen-year-old Salomon Destin graduates high school and anxiously trades life on Guadeloupe in the Caribbean...

In 1968, nine competitors set out in a race that had never before been attempted: to sail around the world, alone, without stopping. The route took them through the most dangerous waters on earth. Seeking help was forbidden, and psychologists speculated that the 10 months alone at sea could drive the sailors mad. The winner was promised money and attention, but everyone knew that the real prize was to become a legend. What no one predicted was how.

Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping YA novel about one girl's struggle for justice. Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them...

It’s 1969, and President Kennedy is serving his third term, and is maybe not quite himself—he has pushed America clean off the edge of the Space Age. Nancy Kranick (Emmy nominee Natasha Lyonne) is a night nurse on an orbiting space station who hates her job, is sick of space, and wants nothing more than a safe place to smoke a cigarette that won’t blow everyone up. Then she stumbles into an outer-space conspiracy tangled around President Kennedy, a miserable and long-forgotten estate lawyer named Richard Nixon, and an intergalactic object that could rewrite the course of history.

They came to our world a hundred years ago. Before we knew it they overran the world, destroyed our infrastructure and now we live in habitats. That's the best we can call our living accommodations. They terraformed the world… What remains of humanity whispers about a plan to evacuate some of us. They claim that scientists hid away in a bunker somewhere where they retro-fitted one of their spaceships.

Roman Diego, a thoroughbred assistant trainer, is found dead in his tack room at the Rainier Meadows Racetrack. Is the confused, barely covered young woman who had awakened next to the dead man a killer? As Detective David James investigates the death of Roman Diego, a syringe containing a mystery liquid is discovered. The mystery deepens as the list of suspects gets longer. Who would want to kill Roman Diego, one of the "good guys"? David James searches for a common denominator between the suspects and the victim as the motive becomes harder to ignore.

A brilliant engineer and a cocky racecar driver pair enter a forbidden arrangement in this spicy enemies-to-lovers romance. Phaedra Morgan is one of the best race engineers in Formula 1. She’s a math prodigy with dazzling skill, cutting wit, and no patience for matters of the heart. Of course...

In this charming rom-com about two star-crossed lovers, a woman whose life is guided by her belief in the red-string of fate finds her perfect match—but his skepticism about true love puts a knot in their chances. “I devoured this! Beautifully written, DEEPLY romantic, real, funny, heartfelt...

The New York Times bestselling Culture novel. . . The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years...

In Thoughtless, Kiera told her story. Now it's time to hear from the sexy rock star who captivated us all . . . THOUGHTFUL The only place Kellan Kyle has ever felt at home is onstage. Gripping his guitar in a darkened bar, he can forget his painful past. These days his life revolves around three...

Tedd has always outrun his problems. The map just ran out. Phoenix is spreading north like a virus, chipping humans, crushing machines, and dipping into a deep warchest. Tedd's side is flat broke. An old ally nobody saw coming is about to change the math. In war, the first thing you run out of isn't hope — it's credits.

For fans of Stacey Abrams and Blake Crouch, this engrossing psychological suspense novel of deception and power follows a fearless journalist whose search for truth collides with the rise of AI, political corruption, and family secrets too dark to remain buried. “An intriguing, fast-paced...

As a species, people have tamed the Earth. Individually, in the face of a superior predator, we're all just as helpless as the day we were born. And a superior predator is out there. Humans may be the Apex predator, but there's something even more deadly. It's the Super Apex.

An edge-of-your-seat thriller about China's secret role in the space race—written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Apollo Murders and one of the most experienced astronauts alive. Houston, 1975. A new Apollo mission launches into orbit, on course to dock with a Russian Soyuz...

As the Big Island of Hawai'i faces an eruption of unprecedented intensity, the U.S. military contends with the consequences of a long-held doomsday secret. The master of the techno-blockbuster joins forces with the master of the modern thriller. Eruption is the passion project Michael Crichton...

A drive-by shooting of an aging white woman at a gang-plagued housing project sets the absorbing thriller in motion—from the #1 bestselling author of Presumed Innocent. The victim of a drive-by-shooting turns out to be the ex-wife of a prominent state senator and an old acquaintance of Judge...