Resultados para "The Group" en Literatura de género

The Group follows eight graduates from exclusive Vassar College as they find love and heartbreak, and choose careers and husbands against the backdrop of 1930s New York.

Surorile Grey au fost întotdeauna apropiate. După moartea mamei, fetele au devenit cele mai bune prietene, mai ales pentru că tatăl lor pare mai interesat de reputația lui decât de binele copiilor. Pentru Henry Grey, cel mai mult contează aparențele și, chiar și atunci când fiicele lui devin adulte, încă le mai cere acestora să-l respecte.

Într-o noapte oarecare, pe un drum pustiu, viața lui John s-a schimbat pentru totdeauna, atunci când a trecut pragul unui mic local, numit Cafeneaua de la capătul lumii. După o noapte întreagă petrecută acolo, a căpătat o cu totul altă perspectivă asupra vieții, în general, și a vieții sale, în particular.

În aceste vremuri nesigure și periculoase, Elsa Martinelli trebuie să aleagă dacă rămâne să lupte pentru pământul iubit sau pleacă în căutarea unei vieți mai bune în California. Cele patru vânturi este un portret înduioșător al Americii și al visului american, văzute prin ochii unei femei de nezdruncinat, ale cărei curaj și putere de sacrificiu sunt definitorii pentru o întreagă generație.

In the year 2048, 30-year-old Ang (Angelica) tells the story of what happened to her twenty-four years earlier, in August 2024, when she was 14; when she and her brother Sal, 16 ½ at the time, fled from their home in Oregon in hopes of reaching their grandparents’ farm at Whirl’s End, Pennsylvania. It is a period of crisis, tragedy, collapse of social order, balkanization of the United States, and the rise of tyranny.

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Alexa lives a sheltered life with her widowed father, feeling stifled by his helicopter parenting. When she secures a marketing job and apartment in New York City — much to her father’s and therapist’s concern — Alexa has high hopes of finally sneaking her way into adulthood. But her newfound freedom is cut short when her estranged twin sister Beth, after a long stint in a psychiatric setting, unexpectedly shows up at the doorstep of her tiny apartment.

The year is 2100, and the chaos of the early internet era is long behind us. Mathematical proof ensures that neural implants can’t be hacked, and the Board of Reality Overseers blocks false information from spreading. When undergraduate Sergei Kraev, who dreams of becoming a professor, is accepted into a prestigious graduate program in computer science, he is thrilled and throws himself into his assigned research project - one important enough that if he succeeds, he’ll earn the academic appointment of his choice.

A city cloaked in a legend too fanciful to be true. An ancient tribe, who have vowed to protect their Gods until the end of time. A shipwreck scattered with gold, and drawings of a mythical beast. Sam Reilly is on the hunt to find an ancient tomb, before El Dorado is lost forever....

Part romance and part suspense novel, Fireworks and Fertility follows Julia Holland as she struggles to oversee a tumultuous national merger of the nation’s best fertility clinics and resolve a series of strange incidents that lead her to discover her true identity. Complex and enthralling, author Macye Lavinder Maher vividly captures the high-stakes emotional world of reproductive medicine and the nuances of the heart.

Douglas McCombs is an accomplished engineer and recent widower driven to discover the truth of who he is by studying the people and places he comes from. After losing his wife to a battle with Alzheimer’s, Douglas is left devastated until a chance encounter with a sharp, compassionate librarian named Suzy Hamilton on the steps of the New York Public Library shakes him from the throes of grief.

After witnessing both his parents killed by a vicious gang, Samuel “Cully” McCullough has devoted his life to putting such outlaws either in their graves or prison. Having worked both as a US marshal and a bounty hunter, he ruthlessly pursues villains who plague the West. The son of a clergyman, Cully has strayed from the faith but not from righteousness. As committed as Cully is to law and justice, shrewd and ruthless outlaw “Smiley” James lives a life of crime. With his hardened gang of killers, he has created a horrific mail-order bride scam.

In AD 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, and a small girl raced for her life along the cobblestone streets of Pompeii. She needed to survive. She needed to tell someone what she had done so that it could never happen again. In present day, while Sam Reilly is on a mission to locate the long-lost shipwreck of legendary explorer Ernest Shackleton, a strange code begins to circulate on the internet.

Fifteen years ago, eight-year-old Ethan Jones watched a stranger bury something in the mining ruins of the Rhyolite Desert in Nevada. Even at his young age, he knew what he’d just seen was important. In present day, a US Navy SEAL takes refuge in a secret chamber beneath the ancient streets of Syria and discovers an unusual stone artifact, like nothing he’d ever seen before.

A civilization stolen from the history books. A billionaire's obsession to unlock its secrets. A brotherhood determined to hide the truth. And time is running out. Only a handful of people know what destroyed the ancient Atlanteans, whose very existence is a secret that they will kill to protect. Unfortunately, the very same catastrophe that destroyed that once proud civilization is drawing near once more. The question is, can marine biologist Sam Reilly discover the truth in time to prevent it?

Extreme weather conditions are wreaking havoc on the world, and baffled scientists are unable to discover the cause. The most powerful hurricane in history approaches New York, while at the same time atmospheric rivers flood Las Vegas. Most bizarre of all: a tempestuous mass of dark, foreboding sky seems to be spreading across the globe. In Arizona, an astronomer tries to decipher the hidden message inside a 13,000-year-old megalithic stone, which just might hold the key to everything. Can Sam Reilly and his unique team break the Code to Extinction?

In 1562, Michel de Nostradamus led a small party on an expedition deep into the hostile Desert of Barbary, now known as the Sahara. Without any knowledge of what they might find, the small party entered the vast desert in search of a miracle. In the present day, Dr. Zara Delacroix enlists the help of Sam Reilly to hunt for answers about a book she believes was buried in the Sahara centuries earlier to protect humanity from some great catastrophe. This ancient manuscript was named The Book of Nostradamus.

Divorced and done with her dry spell, Holly Prentice is ready to get back in the game. But with two conditions: her future mate can't be married to his career, and he has to have a couch. After one spontaneous and explosive night, Holly decides that her search for Mr. Right can wait. Nick can be Mr. Right Now. Nick has waited years for Holly. Now that she's dating again, he's determined to be the only man in her life. He wants what Holly wants: forever. Convincing her of that won't be easy....