Resultados para "Storm" en Literatura y ficción

Nadie dijo que fuera una buena persona, ni pretendo serlo. Podría achacarlo a mi mal carácter, mi profesión o mi falta de infancia, pero sería una necia. Soy quien soy y hago lo que hago porque me gusta, porque soy la mejor y porque necesito la adrenalina que me genera hacer rugir un coche bajo mis pies, un hombre entre mis muslos y aceptar encargos por los que me pagan cantidades indecentes de dinero. ¿Materialista? Puede, pero ya viví suficientes miserias como para saber que el dinero es lo único que me mueve.

1774: Rob Courtney is growing up in Fort Auspice, Nativity Bay, a trading outpost on the east coast of Africa, and has always dreamed of going to sea. When his grandfather Jim Courtney dies and the mysterious Captain Marston calls into the fort, Rob's passion is ignited, and he stows away on Marston's ship as it sails to England. Arriving in London, Rob is seduced by its charms and makes friends with a group of fast-living men and ends up in terrible debt.

Although his work has somewhat fallen into obscurity, Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886) is considered to be one of the greatest of Russian dramatists. He was one of the pioneers of a realistic style, which later found exponents in celebrated European dramatists like Ibsen and Strindberg. Of Ostrovsky's 47 plays, one of the best known is The Storm, the portrait of an idealistic young woman trapped in a world of crushing and venal orthodoxy. The Storm formed the basis of Janacek's opera, Katya Kabanova.

She is lightning and storm. A spy, driven out of her home by a tyrant ruler. He is granite and earth. A guard, ordered to keep her contained. To protect herself and her family, she’s learned to go unnoticed, unseen. Suddenly, a refugee in a land that once was enemy and now must be home, she isn’t certain where she belongs, or what her duty is beyond her family. She can’t protect them alone this time, but the only man who can help her is the only one she cannot ask.

Una nuova avventura del il re degli abissi Dirk Pitt nella serie amatissima di un maestro dell'avventura... E se la fortuna avesse smesso di sorridere a Dirk Pitt? Mentre sta indagando insieme ad Al Giordino, suo inseparabile compagno d'avventure, su una terribile e misteriosa epidemia che dilaga nel Mar dei Caraibi e che rischia di minacciare gli Stati Uniti, Dirk Pitt, l'Indiana Jones dei mari, si trova coinvolto suo malgrado in qualcosa di infinitamente più pericoloso: una lotta per il controllo del potere nella Cuba post Castro.

When fourteen-year-old Dorea endured the trial of Mother's Wrath, she hoped to be the recipient of one of its three elemental powers: water, lightning, or wind. To her surprise, she was the first in her village to be gifted all three, making her the most powerful mage of her generation. But outside peaceful Whitecliff, the winds of war are blowing once again.

"Si ya estaba desconcertada, no fue nada en comparación con lo perpleja que se quedó tras abrir el paquete. Dentro de la gran caja marrón había un montón de regalitos de distintos colores. Todos estaban envueltos con papel de regalo de Navidad y un lazo rojo. Con cada lazo había un papelito con un número escrito. Jessica rebuscó en el interior de la caja durante un rato y encontró un sobre blanco que decía: «léeme». Se le aceleró el corazón cuando abrió el sobre y lo leyó."

La descripcion de la tormenta que ataca un barco que va a Asia con un grupo de chinos pobres que vuelven a la patria con sus ahorros de toda la vida guardadas en cajitas de madera sirve para hacer notables descripciones de los peligros del oceano.

Carter Morelli survived a dark childhood and dangerous missions. When he emergency lands a small aircraft on the ocean, he faces something worse: having someone depend on him. He has to keep innocent June Porter safe on the deserted island. Except they aren't alone here… A man hides among the broad leaves. He's almost feral. There are secrets in his cabin. Desire, too. Carter doesn't want to care about beautiful June. He doesn't want to care about the mysterious and sensual man who's almost part of the wilderness. But scorching chemistry draws all three of them deeper.

Nanny to a wealthy family, 18-year old Alexandria "Lexi" Greendale sends most of what she earns home to support her disabled brother. She is determined to help him get the surgery he needs to walk again. Her dreams come to an abrupt halt when she rescues a man from drowning. How does he repay her? Captain Storm Orath abducts her, claims her as his chosen mate, and takes her to a magical island that is centuries behind times with barbaric customs.

After fleeing for their lives, Rowan's band of survivors makes it to the Underground. The last to find her way, the welcome that greets her is not a warm one. She's about to find out just how far the web of betrayal spreads, touching everything she holds dear. All the while, her family is kept from her, too far away to reach. Longing for Sam and desperate to escape, her powers grow stronger, but will it be enough?

Surviving is all they can do until the storms end their disastrous attack on the world. The fight isn't over, no matter how much Rowan wants to believe they've found safety. The future she envisioned tells a different story, and it's one she can't ignore. Sam wants Rowan and everything that comes along with her. He adopted her nephews, and they share them as sons. Their future grows in Rowan's belly, and they want nothing more than to leave the past behind for good.

I’ve been betrayed. I spent years hiding my magic from the world, but now I've got new powers I can’t control. Everyone around me is at risk, and if my secret is revealed, I’ll be hunted. But I don’t have time to worry about the monster I might become. Someone has stolen a dangerous artifact that could turn my world upside down. It could get me and my friends killed and bring destruction down on my city.

Kai and Caleb Goodacre have been kidnapped just as rumors of a cult sweeping across the reservation leads Maggie and Hastiin to investigate an outpost, and what they find there will challenge everything they’ve come to know in this action-packed sequel to Trail of Lightning. It’s been four weeks since the bloody showdown, and Maggie Hoskie, Diné monster hunter, is trying to make the best of things. Only her latest bounty hunt has gone sideways, she’s lost her only friend, Kai Arviso, and she’s somehow found herself responsible for a girl with a strange clan power.

After being forced from her home five years ago, Alana Zaya has finally been given the opportunity to return and claim her rightful place on the Okaron throne. When her voyage is waylaid by pirates, she soon finds herself stranded at sea, surrounded by strangers harboring dark secrets. But hers are perhaps the darkest of all.

His beautiful commander - his only way back, and the only person who has any faith in him - has caught the eye of a freakish crime lord backed by a shadowy cult. Tristan has his own magic, but to save them both, he'll need to confront his doubts and bind willing women brandishing destructive fallen powers. If Tristan succeeds, will he even want to return? It's a question as unsettling as his enemy, and one he can only answer after defeating the rising tide of foes.

In London, early in the nineteenth century, five-year-old Mary Godwin, daughter of philosopher William Godwin, plays with her sister Fanny, mourns her deceased mother, and marvels as a hot-air balloon lands not far from the Thames River. Nearby, in Sussex, eleven-year-old Percy Shelley entertains his three sisters by telling them stories and performing tricks with chemicals and fire. A few years later, Mary and Percy meet and fall in love in the Godwin bookshop near Black Friar’s Bridge.

I'm the one who broke up the golden couple - the woman people still whisper about, point at, and give dirty looks to. Did I sleep with the prom king? No. Did I sleep with the town's golden boy on vacation from college? Yes. Did I believe that he was going to marry me? Wholeheartedly. Did he? Not even close. He got engaged right in front of me, and then his father threw $200 at me and told me to take the trash out.

My name is Vayo, and I am a slave. My people lived in Argia, the City of Light, before Nabonidus the Defiler swept across the land. He conquered, murdering and enslaving the other tribes. I was born after the fall, in a crumbling pit of despair and sadness. Nabonidus crowned himself ruler of the land, building his new kingdom from the rubble of our fallen world. I live and serve them now, my head bowed, and my eyes down. That is, until a master servant chose me.

Having shown courage and strength on the battlefield, Will and Grace are back in the UK and working at the cutting edge of modern medicine. At every turn, they see a country in flux. The postwar years are heady and unpredictable. Many of their contemporaries are following serious paths, committing to causes of the day—workers' rights, votes for women, an independent Ireland. Others seek refuge in more earthly and bohemian pleasures. But as young parents and practising medics, they have—more than anything—duties of care and compassion that cannot be ignored.