Resultados para "led" en Literatura y ficción

La gran novela de Tolstoi sirve de base para mostrar la vida de la alta sociedad de San Petersburgo que mira con preocupación la llegada de las tropas francesas hacia 1805. Este audiolibro mezcla los hechos históricos con las experiencias privadas de distintos personajes relacionados entre sí.

When the cracked harbor bell of Greyhaven rings without wind, the town wakes to something old and listening beneath the tide. The Quiet That Walks: The First Echo begins the Greyhaven saga—a slow-burn supernatural thriller about resonance, memory, and the cost of hearing what should remain unsaid. Archivist Nora Callow captures a recording of the bell’s impossible tone; sound engineer Mara Vale studies its frequency; and choir director June Harlow feels the vibration beneath her own voice.

El miedo es una de las sensaciones más intensas que puede sentir el hombre. Desde las épocas más remotas, las historias de terror le permitieron poner bajo control sus emociones más profundas. Situaciones que sobrepasan las leyes naturales, fenómenos desconocidos, fuerzas ocultas, seres imaginarios o reales, pero siempre enigmáticos, siempre monstruosos. Porque la incertidumbre es atractiva, el relato de horror genera nuevos sentimientos, y devela luces allí donde sólo habitan las sombras.

Dee Blum has a plan. Or rather, her parents do. Graduate college. Go to law school. Become a divorce attorney. Be “successful.” But Dee wants more—more purpose, more passion, more than checking off someone else’s boxes. A surprise gig leading eco-tours of ethical coffee farms in Costa Rica offers a fresh start.

Minister Rossi Tolliver is ready to settle down, but there is a good reason he isn't married. Besides the outward attraction, he desires a woman who is sweet, humble, and loves the Lord. As the family minister, everybody had an opinion about what type of woman would be his perfect mate: one not prone to anger, have a gentle spirit, be kind to others, and be a faithful churchgoer. What an impressive resume. They were all good qualities, but his family had forgotten the most important criteria: She had to have his heart.

London 1851. Den stora världsutställningen ska just gå av stapeln. Phoebe har alltid längtat till teatern och nu står plötsligt dörren öppen. Men hon motarbetas ständigt av pappa Jonah, faster Abby och hennes kärlek Freddy. Är det Lilith som ligger bakom? Lilith som helst inte bör nämnas vid namn ... Claire Rayners krönika över Lackland-släkten sträcker sig från början av 1800-talet till långt in på 1900-talet. Serien består av 12 delar som både kan läsas fristående och kronologiskt. Claire Rayner (1932-2010) var utbildad sjuksköterska och arbetade på flera olika sjukhus i London.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A fascinating portrait of journalism and the people who make it, told through pieces collected from the incomparable six-decade career of bestselling author and longtime New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin “The Lede contains profiles . . . that are acknowledged...

A boy seeks cosmic revenge on the adults in his life. The darkest of carnivals rolls into the neighborhood. The Devil haunts a man’s entire life in a possession story unlike anything you’ve ever listened to. A Nazi officer is tormented by time’s most cursed seductress. The whole world is truly held in the hands of Gods - and much more.

Discover a brand-new, pulse-pounding, nail-biting, heart-stopping gangland thriller from bestseller Evie Hunter that’s guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat! ⚡ Perfect for fans of Martina Cole, Kerry Kaya, Caz Finlay and gripping, glamorous, gangland thrillers! The final payback...

The BRAND NEW utterly gripping historical novel from NUMBER ONE bestseller Louise Douglas 🗝️📚 Inspired by an incredible true story!Perfect for fans of Fiona Valpy, Lucinda Riley and Jane Eyre ✨ 1864, Bristol, England The seamstress is found in the darkened docks, floating, silenced...

Continuing the charming tales of the Ried family, younger sister Julia now embarks on her own journey of overcoming temptation, making tough choices, and finding her way on the path to true faith and love. Facing exceptional and difficult situations with her family, Julia sets out at a young age to find ways to support herself and her ailing mother.

Despite multiple waves of feminist revolution, today's single woman is still mired in judgment or, worse, pity. But for one brief exclamatory period in the 1930s, she was all the rage. Marjorie Hillis was working at Vogue when she published the radical self-help book Live Alone and Like It: A Guide for the Extra Woman. With Dorothy Parker-esque wit, she urged spinsters, divorcees, and old maids to shed derogatory labels, and her philosophy became a phenomenon.

In the dead of night, on the morning of March 21, 2003 a team of 12 highly-trained U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers aboard three Special Operations Chinook helicopters, flying at low-altitude, watched in awe as a barrage of Tomahawk missiles, launched from ships in the Red Sea, flew less than 300 feet over their aircraft on the way toward Baghdad, Iraq. It was the opening “Shock and Awe” salvo of the Invasion of Iraq and the soldiers of 5th Special Forces Group’s Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) 551 were about to be dropped off for one of the most critical missions of the war.

In an ancient land, rulers have always fought for power but when warriors from the east land on the Central Continent an upheaval of power like never before unfolds. The world turns upside down as more secrets emerge that will shake the accepted ways to their core. Kings Theodorif, Fenir and Haakon lead their people, the Gota, to new lands with the hopes to raid and conquer the lands but what they find instead of opportunities is an ancient evil bent of devouring the world. The once fertile lands have been damaged by centuries of war and the people are blinded by distrust and hate.

'This book will change every person who reads it. A total masterpiece' Caro Claire Burke 'Audacious and instantly gripping . . . Whidbey is deeply satisfying' Catherine Chidgey, New York Times 'There is, to put it simply, no book quite like Whidbey' Vogue 'In the realm of Patricia Highsmith and...

“Affecting narrative about consent, power and loneliness.”—Time “Intoxicatingly ominous.”—Kirkus Reviews In a hothouse of collegiate sex and ambition, one young woman mysteriously disappears after a wild campus party, and another becomes obsessed with finding her. It’s Halloween...

En 1963, el franquismo puso en marcha una operación secreta para desarrollar una bomba atómica en España. Los detalles de aquella operación han permanecido ocultos durante seis décadas. Hasta ahora.

"Dvenadtsat' stul'ev", chast' 2, radiopostanovka po odnoimennomu proizvedeniyu Il'i Il'fa i Evgeniya Petrova. V rolyah - Oleg Basilashvili, YUriy YAkovlev, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Evgeniy Vesnik i dr.

Trapped in the Sierra Nevada without food, the Donner Party are led to the slaughter. After being manipulated and coerced into a string of bad decisions, the travelers, frozen and abandoned, find themselves unable to go forward or back and are preyed upon by werewolves in their midst - the very people they thought were friends.

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, it gave so little warning that Pompeiians were caught unawares, and many bodies were preserved in volcanic ash. Two thousand years later, in 2079, Pompeii is a popular theme park eagerly anticipating Il Giubeleo, the Jubilee celebration of the great anniversary. But Vesuvius is still capable of erupting, and even more threatening are terrorists who want to use the occasion to draw attention to their cause by creating a huge disaster.