Risultati letto da "Romane" in Tutte le categorie

¿Una gran belleza puede ser una desgracia? Para Grace, sí, la envidia que genera en otras mujeres hace que la vean como enemiga. ¿Será encontrar un marido la solución? Cuando a Grace Sinclair tiene que abandonar de su casa, el vicario y su esposa la acogen encantados. Sin embargo, su extraordinaria belleza la convierte en una competencia insoportable para las dos hijas de la familia, que están a punto de ser presentadas en sociedad.

After making me over, my cousin takes me dancing to celebrate me landing my dream job. At the club, a hottie tries to pick me up, but I turn down the player. I'm too focused on my career. But he makes my pulse race, and I find myself watching him from across the room.

Novice pilot John McNeal didn't know what he wanted to do with his life, but he was sure being ripped out of his world hadn't ever been an option. After flying through a mysterious portal and crash landing on a strange alien world, John's rescued by members of a group he thought only existed in fiction; the Lost Boys. Like most, John was familiar with the story of Peter Pan and Hook and Neverland, and like most, the idea of never growing up, clashing with pirates, and flying, was more than a little intriguing.

Una mañana, tras una fiesta en apariencia bastante normal, Tana se despierta rodeada de cadáveres. Solo hay otros dos supervivientes de la masacre: su insoportablemente entrañable exnovio, infectado y al límite, y un misterioso chico que carga con un terrible secreto. Para salvar sus vidas, a Tana no le va a quedar más remedio que ir directa al opulento y cruel corazón de la mismísima Coldtown.

Glenn Armstrong Shepard had his sights set on going to Mars as a flight surgeon, but a training accident on the Moon left him crippled. Now he has a new plan: to be fitted with bionic prosthetics and come back even stronger. Fate and the Space Force have other plans, and Glenn is grounded. Another doctor—his ex-fiancee—takes his place, and Glenn will have to fight to prove he can be an astronaut once more. . .

Le dernier volet de la trilogie Les Filles de Caleb nous transporte à l'hiver 1958, alors que Blanche franchit le cap de la cinquantaine, entourée de ses deux filles, Élise et Micheline. Avec elles, nous traversons les trépidantes années 1960, puis les turbulentes années 1970, pour suivre leur destinée jusqu'en 1992.

Amanda es una joven arquitecta de éxito, felizmente casada. Un día se empiezan a desarrollar extraños fenómenos a su alrededor y siente que hay alguien más viviendo dentro de ella. Amanda no sabe si su salud mental se está deteriorando o si está siendo poseída por una entidad demoníaca.

Sean Barber presents Book 3 in the Paths of Power series.

How does a nurse's day begin? How does it end? What character traits are essential for a nurse to have? Follow nurses in a hospital as they work to keep people healthy and happy. These health heroes do the important work of treating patients. Discover the tools they use as they work with others...

Diana Barton es la dueña de varias líneas de ferrocarril y, como mujer de éxito, está acostumbrada a espantar a los cazafortunas. Para mantener a todos los lobos a raya, tiene un plan: pedirle a lord Bryant que arruine su reputación, y así todos los moscones se olvidarán de ella. Además, siempre le ha caído bien ese sinvergüenza.

The hardworking dwarf has overcome many hardships. He has clashed with formidable opponents, but managed to protect himself and his domain. However, there is no break in sight. The future is an uphill battle, filled with long hours of blacksmithing and digging, and lots of adventures and surprise encounters. Nobody knows what will happen next. For now, the outpost of Gray Peak continues to hold the fort, with no intention of surrendering to the enemy . . .

The Victorian Era. The Age of Enlightenment. The post-9/11 years. We are accustomed to demarcating history, fencing off one period from the next. But societies have not always operated in this way. Paul Hay returns to Rome in the first century BCE to glimpse the beginnings of periodization as it is still commonly practiced, exploring how the ancient Romans developed a novel sense of time and used it to construct their views of the past and of the possibilities of the future.

When dissolute fisherman Abel Davenport discovers an ancient temple in the deep ocean, he under the influence of a long dead god. In his attempts to restore the god's cult, Abel unleashes a plague of twisted doppelgangers on Arkham. Horrified by the consequences, Davenport realizes that he alone cannot stop the monsters from resurrecting the Ancient One. Sometimes the only way to end one cult is to start another.

Das Meiste, was Rich O'Connor als CEO der Beratungsfirma Telegraph Partners tat, hatte zumindest etwas mit einem der 4 Prinzipien zu tun, die auf seinem berühmt-berüchtigten gelben Zettel vermerkt waren. Manche seiner Manager witzelten schon, dass er geradezu besessen von diesen Prinzipien war...

Es ist gar nicht so einfach, am Ball zu bleiben und durchzuhalten mit dem, was man sich vorgenommen hat. Wenn der innere Schweinehund sich meldet, ist die Durchsetzung auch ganz alltäglicher Vorhaben und Ziele mit einer gehörigen Portion Selbstüberwindung und reichlich Kraftaufwand verbunden...

How tough do you need to be to withstand life's storms? What would you do, if everything that you've worked so long and hard to achieve comes crumbling down within an hour? Presumably, when this happens in life, it takes great effort to overcome despair—even if this life is virtual. For the dwarf named Crow, virtual life is no less important than reality. This is because the game holds great meaning, currently known only to the hero of the story, while the listener can only make guesses.

At the foot of the foreboding Gray Peak lies a desolate valley. These are the backwoods of the world of Waldyra—they offer nothing valuable to players, who rarely visit as a result. Yet this is the very place where the calm and good-natured dwarf named Crow is headed. Straight after leaving the Creche, he hopes to make a living there. This hero does not crave epic battles with monsters. Quite the contrary. He wants to be a merchant and develop his blacksmithing skills, while staying far away from fighting, long voyages, and clan squabbles.

Stage Two of Initialization has begun. One week since System Initialization started and over 70% of the worlds population have been slain, groups of survivors are coming together and trying to rebuild civilization. Unfortunately, with Stage Two of Initialization, this will prove to be a daunting task. More complex monsters and beasts are rising, some forming more cohesive and dangerous tribes, unlike the simple goblins and kobolds we have seen so far. 

It's November 1, 1961, in a small town in South Carolina, and nuclear war is coming. Ten-year-old Wilson Porter believes this with every fiber of his being. He prowls his neighborhood for Communists and studies fallout pamphlets and the habits of his father, a scientist at the nuclear plant in town. Meanwhile, his mother Nellie covertly joins an anti-nuclear movement led by angry housewives-and his father, Dean, must decide what to do with the damning secrets he's uncovered at the nuclear plant. When tragedy strikes, the Porter family must learn to confront their fears.

As if things couldn't get any worse, Arthur is trying to survive yet another dreadful shift at the Hammy Burger when a supervillain barges in and takes him as a hostage. It's clear, from the get-go, that this villain is a poor schmuck who just happened on a dose of ChemX. And so, in an attempt to save the poor bastard from the consequences of his foolish actions, Arthur tries to convince him to surrender. But when the caped cavalry arrives, something happens and Arthur is exposed to a leak of the mysterious chemical substance.