Resultados para "The Twenty" en Literatura y ficción

For nearly three thousand years, Homer’s Odyssey has captivated audiences with its tale of Odysseus’s perilous return journey after the Trojan War. In The Wisdom of the Odyssey, mythologist Phil Cousineau distills the epic into twenty-four chapters that mirror Homer’s original books and connect their lessons to our own lives. Listeners follow Odysseus through his ordeals and changes of heart, as he’s sustained not only by cunning and grit but by love for his wife, Penelope; his son, Telemachus; and his homeland, the island of Ithaka.

Time travel is real—and used for high-end tourism. Every moment of the past is open to visitors, and no matter what they do then, everything now waits for them, thanks to the sure hand of an experienced time travel technician. Come spend a day behind the controls of the time machine, and discover why, this day of all days, it’s time for this technician to make a change. Because sometimes, time travel is more than just an adventure. Sometimes, it’s a moral imperative.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Something is attacking ships in the world's oceans. It is fast, nearly indestructible, and capable of punching holes through iron hulls. The scientific consensus, led by Professor Pierre Aronnax of the Paris Museum of Natural History, is that it must be...

Against a backdrop of enigmatic nights scattered with spoken word poetry in London, Venice, Accra and Paris, Ekuah tries to reconcile her personal journey with the love she struggles with for Dee Emeka, a gifted musician who is both passionate and aloof in his treatment of Ekuah. After 18 months together, he disappears from her life, confirming her worst fears about the unstable foundation of their relationship. She attempts to graduate university whilst retreating into herself, searching for new validations and preoccupations from heartbreak.

At age 55, Meg's life is too filled with loss for her to remember what magic feels like. All she has left is a yard brimming with plants that are wilting in the scorching Iowa summer - and a bone-deep feeling that she's through with living. Meg has something else too: a bottle of mysterious pills, given to her years ago by an empathetic doctor. He promised that they would offer her dying mother a quick, painless end in exactly 20 days. Though her mother never needed them, Meg does. But a strange thing happens after Meg swallows the little green pearls....

Twenty days to go-live. One CRM & ERP project. What could possibly go wrong?Liam Lane has spent years implementing business systems and has learned one important lesson:The software is rarely the problem.With go-live approaching, the project is held together by stand-ups, status reports...

One question has haunted the claustrophobic town of West Wilmer for the past ten years: why it took Phoebe Deans brother and driver of the car, Grant, 27 minutes to call for help on the fateful night of the accident. Grant Dean lost everything that night: his sister, his future, his standing in...

A luminous new recording of Jules Verne’s modern classic read by Aria Mia Loberti, star of Netflix’s limited series adaptation of All the Light We Cannot See “The year 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident…Vessels had been met by ‘an enormous thing,’ a long object...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the oath of youth survived time, politics, betrayal, and the bitter knowledge of age? In *Twenty Years After*, Alexandre Dumas returns to the legendary world of the Musketeers with a richer, darker, and more politically charged sequel to *The...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. *Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas* (1870) is a classic science-fiction adventure by French author **Jules Verne**. Professor Pierre Aronnax, his devoted servant Conseil, and the hot-tempered Canadian harpooner Ned Land are swept aboard the...

Professor Arronax, in search of a sea monster, discovers it to be Captain Nemo and his remarkable submarine, the Nautilus, on which the professor and his party eventually become imprisoned.

When the power dies without warning, Mel knows it isn’t just a storm. Cars stall. Phones go silent. The town goes dark. With her daughter at her side and panic spreading fast, she must turn her quiet homestead into a fortress before the world realizes it’s already fallen.

On the eve of her fortieth birthday, a woman wakes up from a pickleball accident with the unexpected chance to relive her twenties in this sparkling novel from a fresh, new voice. Sutton Layne is almost-forty and fabulous, with a happy marriage, three beautiful children, and a successful...

There are 21 ways to get there. Which way would you choose?

A flash fiction with elements of horror and suspense.

A wonderful selection of some of the most bizarre and unsettling stories ever written.

“The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten…For some time past, vessels had been met by ‘an enormous thing,’ a long object, spindle-shaped, occasionally phosphorescent, and infinitely larger and...

Leo McKay Jr.'s best-selling novel is set in a small Nova Scotia town, where a family is changed forever after a devastating mining accident claims the lives of 26 men. As the story shifts back and forth in time and between characters, we meet the men and women of the Burrows family: brothers Ziv and Arvel, drawn to the mine for different reasons; their father, a former union organizer; Ziv's ex-girlfriend, now living in Japan; and Arvel's wife, who hopes for a better life for herself in the city.

A man and woman play a strange game of Twenty Questions with a boy they've just met. McSweeney's is a literary journal based in San Francisco.

Twenty Years After is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, first serialized from January to August 1845. A book of The d'Artagnan Romances, it is a sequel to The Three Musketeers and precedes The Vicomte de Bragelonne (which includes the sub-plot Man in the Iron Mask). The novel follows events in France during the Fronde, during the childhood reign of Louis XIV, and in England near the end of the English Civil War, leading up to the victory of Oliver Cromwell and the execution of King Charles I.