Resultados para "Noah" en Literatura y ficción

Un joven aprendiz de médico con un don para sanar nunca visto recorrerá la Europa sombría y oscura del siglo XI hasta la fascinante Persia, para encontrarse con el mejor maestro imaginable: el mítico Avicena. Rob J. Cole, un joven londinense del siglo XI que pertenece a una familia de carpinteros, queda huérfano a los nueve años y con la responsabilidad de cuidar de sus cuatro hermanos menores, a quienes va encontrando hogar.

Meet Noah - an A-honor-roll student, award-winning swimmer, and small-town star destined for greatness. There weren't any signs that something was wrong until the day he confesses to molesting little girls during swim-team practice. He's sentenced to 18 months in a juvenile sexual-rehabilitation center. His mother, Adrianne, refuses to turn her back on him despite his horrific crimes, but her husband won't allow Noah back into their home.

Languedoc, Francia, finales del siglo XIX. Josep Álvarez descubre de la mano de un viticultor francés el arte de la elaboración del vino. Desde ese momento, su vida estará determinada por esta pasión. A pesar de su juventud, Josep ha conocido el amor, las intrigas políticas y el trabajo duro, experiencia que, junto a su temprana vocación, caracterizará su destino. Tras participar contra su voluntad en un complot que convulsionará la ya turbulenta escena política del momento, huye a Francia, donde trabajará para un viticultor.

FBI agent Nate McIver hasn't been able to get sexy, impetuous Maddie Worth out of his mind since the last time he saw her—and made out—at a wedding. If only she weren't his best friend and colleague's sister. That's about the only thing that gave him the strength to back away from the steamy encounter they shared. But now take-no-prisoners Maddie wants his professional help with trapping a drug lord. And with her life on the line, all bets are off.

Harry Hopeman, miembro de una dinastía de diamantistas, recibe un día una propuesta: recuperar un diamante legendario que ha despertado interés de gente muy dispar. El encargo, que llevará a Harry a abandonar Nueva York para instalarse en Tierra Santa, se convertirá en un viaje casi iniciático en el que el tratante se reencontrará con sus raíces.

Un hombre tiene un cuaderno viejo, traído y llevado mil veces, en su regazo. Una mujer a su lado escucha lo que él le lee cada mañana, aunque no acaba de entender. Muchos años antes, Noah Calhoun vuelve a casa, a Carolina del Norte, después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Noah intenta que la plantación de la que procede vuelva a su antigua gloria, pero las imágenes de la preciosa joven que conoció catorce años antes -una mujer a la que amó como a ninguna otra- no paran de perseguirle.

Anna Atwood returns to Breckenridge, where she spent one blissful summer as a young woman. This time, though, she comes to the quaint town as a penniless spinster with a single hope: to build a life free from the constraints her father’s death put on her and free from the persistent suitor Mr. Green, whose plans for marriage are Anna’s worst nightmare. When she runs into David Tate, the boy she knew from that memorable summer, she finds he has grown into a confident and striking man.

María es una mujer viuda que vive con su hijo en la costa de Zahara. Una noche el pueblo es asaltado por corsarios musulmanes y ambos son capturados. Tras ser separados en un mercado de esclavos, María se promete encontrar y liberar a su hijo, a pesar de ser esclava y mujer, sin importarle las consecuencias, aunque estas sean ser la esclava de una leyenda del mar.

He's supposed to be on hiatus. Former military and ex-FBI agent Ethan Worth is searching for a new way to serve and protect. On a break in Beaufort, North Carolina, he might have found it. Although saving a tipsy damsel in distress from a shady troublemaker isn't what he had in mind, it ends with the surprisingly sober beauty outraged by his rescue. That's all Ethan needs for his expert instincts to kick into high gear.

An orphan leaves Dark Ages London, taking a dangerous journey and posing as a Jew to study medicine in Persia, in "an adventurous and inspiring tale" (Library Journal). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift - an acute sensitivity to impending death - never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer.

Dr. Robert Judson Cole travels from his ravaged Scotland homeland, through the operating rooms of Boston, to the cabins of frontier Illinois. In the wilderness he befriends the starving remnants of the Sauk tribe, who have fled their reservation. In the process, he absorbs their culture and learns native remedies that enrich the classical medical education he received at Edinburgh University. He marries a remarkable settler woman he had saved from illness.

Año 2021. Leonor viaja a Escocia con un grupo de amigas para hacer las prácticas de sus estudios de arqueología. En el yacimiento en el que trabajan no parece haber nada interesante, salvo una escultura de alguien a quien llaman el lobo de las Highlands. Sin embargo, un derrumbamiento repentino les descubre un antiguo baúl que parece llevar setecientos años cerrado.

When Saffron Hope asks me to find my great-grandmother’s half of an old wine formula as her bachelor-auction favor, I figure it’ll take a few hours of searching through dusty files. But when I discover her family’s winery is three months from bankruptcy, everything changes. Now, we’re racing against the clock to solve a seventy-year-old mystery, and I’m falling for the determined woman who sees salvation in a bottle of wine.

Lothian 1355. Tras la partida de Leonor, Tanarys contrae matrimonio con Evaleen, formando así una alianza entre los clanes más poderosos del sur. Consciente de la inminente invasión inglesa, marcha al norte en busca de aliados. Aunque regresa con el apoyo de otros clanes, es raptado en su propias tierras por mercenarios ingleses, entendiendo que entre sus filas del sur hay traidores. Cuando Tanarys cree que llega su final, el que aceptó a cambio de la marcha de Leonor, flechas y fuego arrasan a sus captores.

With my house looking better than ever, the people of Willow Lane safe, and my many girlfriends sharing my home, things in the town of Emberfall seem like they can’t get much better–at least until my beautiful new neighbour moves in next door. In between getting to know my new neighbor and hanging out with my girlfriends, the local community still has plenty of needs to be served, from mischievous creatures causing havoc to magical anomalies that need dispelling.

Roberta Jeanne d'Arc Cole is favored to be named associate chief of medicine at a Boston hospital. She is married to a surgeon. They own a trophy residence on historic Brattle Street in Cambridge and a summer house in the Berkshire Hills. Everything melts away. Her gender and her work at an abortion clinic cost her the hospital appointment. Her marriage fails. Crushed, she goes to the farmhouse in Western Massachusetts, thinking to sell it, and finds an unexpected life.

Lothian 1356. Tanarys y su séquito viajan al castillo del clan Black para enlazar a Inés con el hijo menor del laird de los cuervos. Consciente de que de un momento a otro Balliol asaltará la frontera y que sus aliados del sur traicionarán a su señor, Leonor no puede dejar solos a Tanarys y a Inés en lo que sería la última oportunidad del sur para liberarse al fin de los ingleses, y se lleva con ella a Alba y Paula.

From the author of The Physician and Shaman now comes this story of a young man - the grapes he grows, the wine he fashions, the women he loves, and his struggle against an evil that seeks to destroy him. Josep Alvarez is a young man in the tiny grape-growing village of Santa Eulália, in Northern Spain, where his father grows black grapes that are turned into cheap vinegar. In Madrid, an assassination plot creates a storm of intrigue that sucks into its vortex a group of innocent young farm workers in Santa Eulália.

"Aquí encontraréis poemas llenos de nostalgia por una vida con mucho sentido pero, en muchos momentos, con pocas opciones. Noah sabe mucho de dolor y habla de esa "vida pendiente" que se tiene cuando se deja de vivir para aferrarse a sobrevivir (...) Leyendo tus poemas que llegan a lo más hondo, que sobrecogen y son en algunos momentos desgarradores, se llega a comprender que hasta la esperanza puede marchitarse, pero aun así demuestras que existe una valiente mujer.

Life in the magical town of Emberfall has never been better. Work on my subterranean spa is complete, the sun is shining, and a new neighbor is due to move in next door any day now. I’ve got plenty of time to spend with the beautiful women I live with, too: Sophie and Victoria are helping me to solve a few magical mishaps in the area, while Surani and Eva are continuing to combine their natural magic. I’ve even started crossing paths with Jessica Elvyre, the redheaded realtor working on selling the house next door.