Resultados para "metroid" en Literatura y ficción

World War Three wiped out the humankind. The planet is empty now. Huge cities became dust and ashes. Railroads are being eaten by rust. Abandoned satellites hang lonely in their orbits. Radio is mute on all frequencies. The only survivors of the last war were those who made it into the gates of the Metro, the subway system of Moscow city. It's there, hundreds of feet below the ground, in the vaults of what was constructed as the world's largest air-raid shelter, where now people try to outlive the end of days.

Solo necesitas 7 m2 para conocer al gran maestro de la novela negra.El desenlace de la serie, el mejor Jussi Adler-Olsen.El inspector Carl Mørck está en la cárcel. Después de quince años, un caso nunca resuelto del pasado lo ha alcanzado de lleno, y los cargos de tráfico de drogas y asesinato amenazan con destruir su vida y su carrera. Pero todo indica que lo están incriminando injustamente. Alguien ofrece una recompensa de un millón de dólares por su cabeza, y así lo pone en grave peligro entre los criminales y los funcionarios corruptos de la prisión, pero ¿por qué?

Now including a new translation, this is a chilling piece of Russian dystopian fiction by Dmitry Glukhovsky and the basis of the bestselling computer games Metro 2033, Metro: Last Light, Metro: Exodus, and the highly-anticipated Metro 2039 A WORLD IN DARKNESS. A SINGLE HOPE. The year is 2033...

Dr. Ashlee Logan's world changed forever on a snowy December night in Boston. She has spent the last two years on the road, trying to escape the memory of that fateful night. With only her Great Dane, Drake, as her companion, she has worked her way across country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, working as an ER physician along the way. While serving her country, former Navy doctor Dale Parker had her life shattered in a single moment on a hot, windswept desert roadside. Now, three years later, although her physical wounds have healed, Dale is forever changed by the experience.

Dr. Kimberly Donovan's life is in shambles. After her medical ethics are questioned, first her family, then her closeted lover, the Chief of the ER, betray her. Determined to make a fresh start, she flees to California and LA Metropolitan Hospital. Dr. Jess McKenna, LA Metro's Chief of the ER, gives new meaning to the phrase emotionally guarded, but she has her reasons. When Kim and Jess meet, the attraction is immediate. Emotions Jess has tried to repress for years surface. But her interest in Kim also stirs dark memories.

The “Metro” of the title of this brilliant and mordant social comedy refers to the Moscow underground - the sparkling subway system that enchants its young hero, seven-year-old Sasha, on his first visit to Moscow. The vaulted ceilings and gleaming escalators appear to his young eyes as emblems of a higher life, of beauty, harmony, and hidden strength. Years later, Sasha escapes the jaws of a provincial ammunition factory and returns to Moscow as an aspiring actor, whereupon he enters quite another “Moscow underground”.

2033. Une guerre a décimé la planète. La surface, inhabitable, est désormais livrée à des monstruosités mutantes. Moscou est une ville abandonnée. Les survivants se sont réfugiés dans les profondeurs du métropolitain, où ils ont tant bien que mal organisé des microsociétés de la pénurie.

Veteran police officer Sam McKenna has no trouble facing down criminals on a daily basis, but breaks out in a sweat at the mere mention of commitment. A recent failed relationship strengthens her resolve to stick with her trademark no-strings-attached affairs. Dr. Riley Connolly, a successful trauma surgeon, has spent her whole life trying to measure up to her family's expectations. And that includes hiding her sexuality from them.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Un eccentrico medico in pensione, a metà tra un filosofo e un vagabondo. L'ex dottore trascorre le sue giornate viaggiando in metropolitana. Attraverso i vagoni, osserva la gente, ascolta i discorsi e legge le menti umane come fossero organi malati da...

I am the worst person in the world. Bad mother. Bad lover. Bad worker. Bad woman. Bad friend ... An exploration of motherdom and ego, culture and art, love and pain, The Sea in the Metro tells the story of a new mother in Paris trying to make it work – and failing. What happens when the...

Historia corta sobre las andanzas del metro londinense.

After his daughter's tragic death, Ismail struggles to continue living. A divorce, years of heavy drinking, and sex with strangers only leave him more alone and isolated. But Ismail's story begins to change after he reluctantly befriends two women: Fatima, a young queer activist kicked out of her parents' home; and Celia, his grieving Portuguese-Canadian neighbour who lives just six metres away. A slow-simmering romance develops between Ismail and Celia.

“A nuanced, engrossing novel about conviction and terrorism in a cosmopolitan, complicated world.”—National Book Review From the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 to the terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015, Paris Metro is a story of East meets West. Kit, a reporter, has spent several years...

"Milano, 1629: Renzo e Lucia divisi dalla peste cercano di ritrovarsi, lui perso in una città fantasma devastata dal dolore, lei chiusa nel Lazzaretto… Stessa città, ma quasi quattrocento anni dopo, stesso silenzio e stessa angoscia. Un nuovo lessico familiare, un unico antidoto: l'amore. E' cominciata la quarantena, sento le sirene che mi entrano nel cervello senza tregua.

Juliette é uma jovem e solitária parisiense que leva uma vida metódica - todas as terças vai ao supermercado e às sextas, ao cinema. As viagens de metrô para o trabalho, típicas da rotina, possibilitam que Juliette observe sempre os mesmos passageiros e os livros que cada um lê. Todos têm suas particularidades, como a idosa que folheia um livro italiano de culinária e sorri diante de algumas receitas ou a garota que lê romances e sempre derrama minúsculas lágrimas quando chega à página 247. "Por que a página 247?", pergunta-se Juliette.

2034. La station Sevastopolskaya produit de l'électricité qui alimente le métro moscovite, mais la dernière caravane d'approvisionnement n'est jamais réapparue, pas plus que les groupes de reconnaissance envoyés à sa recherche. Ils seront trois à devoir résoudre cette énigme.

La sinceridad y la comunicación son elementos claves en las relaciones de pareja. Al menos eso proclamaba un artículo que ella leyó en una de las revistas de su estilista. Sin embargo, cuando le preguntó a su novio sobre sus fantasías sexuales, se sintió insegura y salió corriendo del piso para subirse al metro, ahí recapacitará sobre lo sucedido mientras observa a los otros pasajeros.

A member of the Texas Twelve has a young relative murdered in Florida. The police in Florida write the murder off as a mugging gone bad. Tex sends his two adopted sons, Kale and Ellis Baylock, and his right hand man, The General, to Florida, and they begin to unravel the tangle of lies. The evidence leads them to the big city of Metro. Once the truth is uncovered and the criminals identified, Tex and his men can give the criminals a dose of Forty-Five Caliber Texas Justice.

Celia está cada día más ocupada, entre un trabajo acaparador y una hija pequeña, no le queda tiempo para conocer a nadie. Los únicos momentos que le quedan son los de la vida diaria: los viajes en transporte público, las compras... Y ella les saca el máximo partido ya que, al fin y al cabo, en esos momentos cruza la mirada con otra gente y eso le lleva a encuentros inesperados y sinceros con la posibilidad de compartir algo de placer -o más bien mucho- con otra persona, ya sea hombre o mujer.

"Työnnän pyllyäni häntä kohti, ja hänen paljas selkänsä ja takamuksensa painuvat ovea vasten. Nostan hamettani, että hän saa kätensä sen alle. Hän laskee vasemman kätensä lantiolleni. Toisella kädellä tunnen hänen ohjaavan elintään kohti klitoristani..."