Resultados para "Visionair" en Literatura y ficción

Los soldados, como hijos del pueblo del que proceden, han sido un fiel reflejo de las virtudes y defectos del conjunto social a través del tiempo. Constituyen una herencia de nuestra realidad histórica y un arquetipo que define nuestra propia existencia acumulada en el tiempo.

1854, California. En una tierra donde las mujeres escasean, los hombres del rancho de Curtis Loan han solicitado esposas para convertir Loan’s Valley en un pueblo próspero y con futuro. Shannon Blythe es una de las mujeres que acepta la solicitud y viaja desde Independence en la caravana que la llevará a su nueva vida, donde espera encontrar un marido que la acepte tal y como es.

Thea Fox tiene la vida que siempre quiso. Se ha convertido en una reconocida diseñadora de videojuegos, un trabajo que le ha permitido regresar a Redbud Hollow, el lugar donde transcurrió su infancia, junto a su querida abuela. Cuando descubre que su nuevo vecino es su amor platónico de la adolescencia, el guapo cantante líder de la banda Code Red, parece que la vida no puede ser mejor. Sin embargo, el camino para llegar hasta ahí no ha sido fácil.

El Mundo Tal Como Va... Visión de Babuc Escrita por el Mismo es un cuento filosófico de Voltaire. La narración sigue a Babouc, un viajero que visita varios países y es testigo de las costumbres y modales de sus habitantes. A través de sus observaciones, Babouc reflexiona sobre los absurdos del comportamiento humano, las normas sociales y la búsqueda de la felicidad. Voltaire utiliza la sátira y el ingenio para criticar aspectos de la sociedad europea del siglo XVIII, incluida la política, la religión y las jerarquías sociales.

Isaac Asimov, creador de la palabra robótica, nos ofrece treinta y seis relatos cortos y ensayos sobre robots, que resumen todo su preclaro pensamiento sobre el desarrollo futuro de esta ciencia.

What do St. Louis, Chicago, Colorado, quirky relatives, songwriting contests, Christmas Eve, angels, and demons all have in common? They are all found in "Vision," the second in the "Awakening" series. This sequel to "Counselor" follows Liz’s journey of faith into unknown territory – love and romance, faith over fear, trust in her calling over rejection, and the reality of unseen spiritual forces of good and evil.

This tale from 1869 is the very first vision of an artificial satellite, which accidentally also becomes the first space station. Sailors could fix their latitude easily enough by the height of the North Star above the horizon, but longitude, without a comparable fixed point in the sky, had cost...

Tariq Cross has it all—fame, fortune, and a fiancée on his arm. As the league’s golden-boy quarterback, he dominates on the field and basks in the spotlight off it, his arrogance as legendary as his talent. But when a routine play leaves him with a devastating, career-ending injury, Tariq’s world unravels. His teammates pull away, the fans move on, and even Talia, the woman he thought would stand by him, begins to slip out of reach. Enter Erika Hall, a makeup artist and student specializing in coping management for sports injuries while also in school for ophthalmology.

Wounded war hero Captain Wolf Sinclair has recovered physically from the hell he endured fighting for his country, but in his head, he still exists in the dark. Living among a big, boisterous family allows him somewhere to hide, until the day Rose Abernethy storms into his life. She challenges him, makes him feel again. Soon he’s addicted to her touch, and her kisses have him wanting more. But danger stalks her, and Wolf realizes he must keep her safe because in Rose he’s found someone to bring him into the light.

George Orwell’s 1984 brings renewed clarity to a world defined by surveillance, manipulation, and the suffocation of individuality. In this unforgettable vision of the future, citizens live under constant watch. Truth is no longer a shared foundation—it is whatever the Party declares it to be.

Lucy Fairbanks dreams of working as a photographer at the Rocky Creek newspaper. Her deepest hope is that her father will see her as an artist, the way he thought of her deceased mother, whose paintings still hang on their walls. But disaster follows Lucy on every photo assignment: a mess of petticoats and ribbons, an accidental shooting, even a fire. When Lucy meets David Wolf - a rugged, reclusive man who lives on the outskirts of town - she thinks she can catch the attention of the town with his photograph. She doesn't count on her feelings stirring whenever she's near him.

Once upon a time, I used to be famous. Then semi-famous. Now I'm obscure, mostly because I'm trying to stay out of the limelight, while trying to keep one of Hollywood's biggest secrets. And I'm sort of miserable. But with three weeks in the Big Apple, child free, maybe I can figure out what exactly I'm doing with my post-Sassy Cat life. I know what I want, but I don't know how to get it.

Butchers, bakers, brewers, businessmen, farmers, fabric workers, entertainers, comedians, gluttons, lechers, spongers and swindlers, prostitutes and parasites, the pope and his priests, the king and his courtiers, compete for attention in this lively and subversive vision of corruption in fourteenth-century England.

Lady Anya Montgomery wakes up one day 20 years in the past, in a different body, with a controlling father, and an unwanted fiancé. Each day brings a new surprise, but she has one goal: to return to where she belongs. However, when she starts to fall in love, she wonders if she is exactly where she is supposed to be....

It’s 1963, and Jane James knows that she was born for better things than evenings spent eating Heinz tinned potato salad in her Aunt’s house. She dreams of a glamorous life filled with beautiful things. When Jane finds a crocodile handbag left in a pub, it leads her to Suzy, a...

Beautiful, brilliant, and dangerous, Morn Hyland is an ex-police officer for the United Mining Companies - and the target of two ruthless, powerful men. One is the charismatic ore-pirate Nick Succorso, who sees Morn as booty wrested from his vicious rival, Angus Thermopyle. Thermopyle once made the mistake of underestimating Morn and now he's about to pay the ultimate price. Both men think they can possess her, but Morn is no one's trophy - and no one's pawn. Meanwhile, within the borders of Forbidden Space, wait the Amnioin, an alien race capable of horrific atrocities....

Summer vacation isn’t all fun and hanging out when you’re a wizard-in-training. For partly reformed warlock Chance Fortunato, it’s even worse. In addition to the constant study and training, he has to prove he’s ready to be a full-fledged apprentice before he starts at the Franklin Academy. Plus, he’s beginning to think someone has it out for him. If things weren’t bad enough with a snooty proctor monitoring his every move and demons trying to capture him, his father finally makes his first attempt to get his wayward son back under his control by trying to frame his mom. 

Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media (altrusiangrace.com) and human-narrated by Matthew Schmitz. The Story of Aridæus is the most detailed and graphic Vision of Hades preserved to us from classical antiquity, and exceeds in interest even Plato’s Story of Er and Cicero’s Dream of Scipio, not to speak of the less known Visions of Krates and of Zosimus. It brings to a striking conclusion the instructive treatise of Plutarch, the Greek title of which may be rendered, On the Delay of the Deity in Punishing the Wicked or On the Delay of Divine Justice."

Written in the late 19th century by H. G. Wells and first published in The Butterfly (September 1899), (and collected in The Obliterated Man and Other Stories, [Dec 1925]), A Vision of Judgment is a short story in 9 sections. It portrays a Last Judgment in which God and the archangel Gabriel laugh at sinners and saints alike, embarrassing them until they flee "up the sleeve of God." After every human soul has taken shelter there, all of humanity, "enlightened" and "in new clean bodies," is given a second chance.

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of stories and novels and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction. 'A Vision of Judgment' tells the story of a man who is awakened from his grave by a trumpet sounding for the last judgment. As the first souls are called before God, he realises that things are not quite as he had expected....