Showing results for "Eclipse" in Genre Fiction

Alexander Cleave, actor, has left his career and his family behind and banished himself to his childhood home. He wants to retire from life, but finds this impossible in a house brimming with presences, some ghostly, some undeniably human. Memories, anxiety for the future, and more particularly, for his beloved but troubled daughter, conspire to distract him from his dreaming retirement.

Mentre Seattle è funestata da una serie di strani omicidi e una vampira malvagia continua a darle la caccia, Bella Swan si trova ancora una volta in serio pericolo. È arrivato per lei il momento delle decisioni e dei sacrifici: basterà il fidanzato Edward a farle dimenticare il migliore amico Jacob? Troverà il coraggio necessario a diventare una Cullen? Obbligata a scegliere fra l'amore e l'amicizia, è consapevole che la sua decisione rischia di riaccendere la millenaria lotta fra vampiri e licantropi. Nel frattempo l'esame di maturità è alle porte e per Bella...

The upcoming eclipse was anxiously awaited by Clay Jeffries as he prepared a private observatory on the plateau above his father's ranch near Rawlins in Wyoming territory. Then, he received a visitor with an unusual request. The stranger asked the ex-professor if he would tutor his frumpy but brilliant daughter in astronomy. Clay reluctantly agreed, but only if she proved to be an exceptional student. While the young girl surely proved to be both brilliant and frumpy, her arrival also brought with it many potentially deadly consequences that neither she nor her father realized.

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In this fast-paced, reflective novel, (the second in a trilogy following Strangers and Sojourners) Michael O'Brien presents the dramatic tale of a family that finds itself in the path of a totalitarian government. Set in the near future, the story describes the rise of a police state in North...

THEY DIDN’T NEED TO WIN A WAR OF BULLETS. THEY JUST NEEDED TO TURN OFF THE LIGHTS. On a Tuesday evening, every circuit from the Pacific to the Atlantic dies at once. No warning. No coming back. Fire Captain Jacob Rome is twenty-five miles from home. He walks. Past stalled cars, past the first...

Nothing was ever simple between a Madison and a Harte. The feud that had divided their families still simmered. Now, only months after their siblings' wedding, Lilian Harte and Gabe Madison are at each other's throats.

Bestselling author Richard North Patterson's Eclipse tells the spellbinding story of an American lawyer who takes on a nearly impossible case—the defense of an African freedom fighter against his corrupt government's charge of murder. Damon Pierce's life has just reached a defining moment: a...

The spellbinding story of an American lawyer who takes on a nearly impossible case—the defense of an African freedom fighter against his corrupt government's charge of murder Damon Pierce's life has just reached a defining moment: a gifted California lawyer, he's being divorced by his wife and...

Sioban, Caleb et Logan se retrouvent séparés et parcourent le territoire dans une course à l'ultime bataille ! Pour sauver les siens, Sioban Calypsa a sacrifié sa vie en s'unissant au prince héritier des Sang-de-Soleil. Seulement voilà, leur fils est mort.

Graham’s goal in life is to get a basketball scholarship and become a doctor so he can help people and be free of his controlling aunt. His plans are derailed when he finds himself transported to a strange and magical world. With the help of new friends, Graham must confront the problem the adults are afraid to act on. As Graham becomes involved in an ancient prophecy, he comes to suspect he might not be a stranger to Akkron after all.

A solar eclipse sends a couple of teens hurtling through time, as they find themselves several centuries in the past. Without the slightest of clues as to what had allowed the impossible to happen, Cameron and his companion struggle to survive in a dangerous world, while working toward piecing together the time-traveling puzzle back to their time. Does the pair of spoiled brats have what it takes to not only survive but work together to get back to the year 2020?

Celebrated for more than fifty years as a world-renowned novelist, essayist, and political figure and commentator, Gore Vidal is less known for the exquisitely crafted short fiction he wrote as a young man. Like the work of Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams, his stories have been overshadowed by the author’s triumphs writing in other genres. Still, Vidal’s short fiction offers us a portrait of the young artist in the 1940s and 1950s. His subtle and comic tales often center on adolescence and homosexual themes.

Andy thought of flying. She imagined the air under her arms, her hair lifting and floating. She felt her heartbeat separate from the faraway beat and form its own rhythm: light, quick, a dancing thrum. When she opened her eyes, her yard was dusky and her mood had lightened. She let her gaze drift across the darkening landscape. Andy’s heart filled with exultation. She raised her arms, fanned out her fingers, and arched her feet until she was on her toes. She was assaulted by memories. Her mother was dying, and Danny had been dead for years.

In a plea for political reform, Chinese students and workers alike take matters into their own hands by running poster campaigns, holding demonstrations, and protesting the communist party. But when the government begins to feel threatened by the activists, the peaceful protests lead to riots and what is now known in history as the Tiananmen Square Massacre. In mid-April 1989, Dan Norton was finishing up his year as a professor at Shaanxi Teachers University. Little did he know that in two weeks’ time, he would be sought out by the police under threat of Chinese prison.

A storyteller in the very best southern tradition, Lee Smith pens unexpected plots vibrant with luminous prose. Her powerful short stories in Me and My Baby View the Eclipse capture those extraordinary moments in everyday life when greatness and tragedy shimmer through the surface. This collection was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Here are four psychological thrillers where love and shame collide, creating a warped kind of sexual chemistry. Abduction, paranoia, addiction, and obsession thicken the mix.

The legendary “Clipper,” Jackson Cole, is tasked with an impossible mission – to be a handler for the dangerous Salazar guild. Haunted by the shadows of his past, Jackson must find a way to outwit a hacker threatening to make his connection to the mayor public. Armed with his weapons and skills, Jackson must venture into the unknown, risking it all to complete this mission. Will he succeed in his quest, or will it be the job that finally sends him over the edge?