Showing results for "Plane" in Genre Fiction

Sita Dulip has missed her flight out of Chicago. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport, she discovers a method of bypassing the crowds at the desks, a nasty lunch, whimpering children, their punitive parents, and the blue plastic chairs bolted to the floor: she changes planes—literally. Sita discovers entire planes of existence and visits societies not found on Earth—bizarre societies that share similarities with Earth's cultures and sometimes open doors into the alien.

A CHICAGO TRIBUNE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR An urgent, fiercely intelligent debut novel about "two couples, an ocean apart—one wounded by a war crime, the other just starting to reckon with being implicated in it.... An insightful book about the slow, zigzag work of healing that nonetheless...

Daniel T. Drunk, Jr. if you really wanna know. And I’m on a plane headed to Paradise Isle on the trip of a lifetime. The occasion? My honeymoon. Except, there’s only one problem. I’m riding solo. It’s a really long story, and if you don’t mind, I’d prefer to leave it at that. Really? You must know? Fine, I get it. You’re the nosey type. Here’s the abbreviated version. I came within an inch of marrying a cheating slut. There. Get the picture? Good.

She's sunshine. He's frostbite. They've got 1,600 miles to go—and he's about to discover his new enemy might be his anonymous online soulmate. Oliver Fletcher has one goal, and he's not happy about it: get home for his brother's wedding. After extreme weather cancels every flight, his only...

Humor and heart collide when two fake dates accidentally ruin a wedding and must play matchmaker to fix it, perfect for fans of Christina Lauren and Tessa Bailey.

Mick is a nice guy from a small town. He lands himself a FIFO job. "Wow! I am going to be jet-setting around Australia just like a rock star." So he thought. Hear what really happens after the plane takes off.

A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER A lusty young woman seeks out experience on a remote Alaskan homestead in this erotic and darkly humorous novel "Rukeyser weaves a dreamlike spell—'Twin Peaks’ by way of ‘Northern Exposure.’" —LA Times "Fantastic.” —The New York Times Mira is a...

A Great Evil lurks over the horizon in Kalamar. So, too, does a great Good. Benjamin and Kay-Lee, The Chosen, may finally be ready to fulfill their destinies and save Kalamar from Darkness.

Avery could no longer stand to be humiliated by others for her belief in The Storytellers and the loss of her only child. Her loss, like others, was too great to bear and broke her heart. The memory hurt and continued to fill her with pain. With each shallow breath, her lips quivered as her mind raced. She leaned forward, placing her head down in her arms on the table. The soft sobbing, unnoticed by all except one, continue. Between each sob, she began to feel him touch her mind, with his thoughts overtaking hers, calming her.

A Hasidic gunslinger tracks the renegade teacher who betrayed his mystic Jewish order of astral travelers across the demon-haunted American Southwest of 1879. In this acclaimed first volume, four sequential novellas and one bonus short story chronicle the weird adventures of the Merkabah Rider. Featuring The Blood Libel, The Dust Devils, Hell's Hired Gun, The Nightjar Women, and "The Shomer Express."

Benny, a young boy of three, lies on the kitchen floor bleeding profusely. This was no accident, but the first assassination attempt. The assassins are not from Earth, sent from The Third Plane of Kalamar to kill the young child. Benny is no ordinary child. He is one of The Chosen, hidden on earth to escape the evil lord of darkness.

David O. Strickland's darkly comic novel is set during Egress Recap - the return of American POWs from Vietnam's "Hanoi Hilton" in 1973. Like Kurt Vonnegut's classic Slaughterhouse-Five, The First Man off the Plane features POWs bombed by their own planes.

Als Emma und Aidan beschließen, ihre kleine Pension in Lobster Bay zu erweitern, ist Emma Feuer und Flamme, denn sie ist sich sicher, dass dies genau das Projekt ist, das sie braucht, um ihren schönen Rückzugsort am Meer attraktiver zu machen – und um sie und Aidan noch mehr zusammenzuschweißen. Sie hat drei Monate Zeit, um das Projekt abzuschließen, bevor ihre Gäste zu einem üppigen Weihnachtsfest eintreffen. Doch unvorhergesehene Hindernisse bereiten Emma und ihre Liebsten schon bald wenig festliche Probleme.

Nueva York, 1991. Cuando Elton era un niño, sufrió un cruel ataque de odio en la escuela que aún lo traumatiza. A los 17 años, se muda desde su pueblito natal a la gran ciudad para cursar el último semestre de la secundaria y comenzar una nueva vida. La Calle que Cambió mis Planes es un poderoso coming of age que toca temas como la amistad, la vocación, el primer amor, y profundiza en el daño que provocan el acoso escolar y la homofobia.

Tourists arrive all summer, by boat or seaplane, at Stu and Maureen Jenkins's Lavender Island Wilderness Lodge in the Kodiak Archipelago, expecting adventure. But the spontaneity of their authentic Alaskan wilderness experience is meticulously scripted, except when real danger rears its head. Stu and Maureen's lodge is failing, as is their marriage. Mira has been hired for the season as the lodge's baker and housekeeper.

The Pilot is in love with fighter planes, a beautiful woman, and Paris. He must choose one of the three. One choice would betray the woman he can't resist, who may be a spy or someone much more. The Pilot has mastered many fighters, from the treacherous Sopwith Camel to the stiletto F-104 Starfighter, from the Spitfire to the F-16 Viper. But this challenge is different. He can't shoot down the future, but the past may hold the key to his present.

David hat Job und Wohnung gekündigt, das Flugticket in der Tasche, den Koffer voller Geld. Da ruft die siebzehnjährige Nicole an und behauptet, er sei ihr Vater. In der leeren Wohnung erwartet David das Eintreffen der vermeintlichen Tochter. Davon unbeeindruckt zieht die attraktive Nachmieterin Angelina ein... Die desillusionierte, verheiratete Maria hat den alten Pietro bis zu dessen Tod gepflegt und sein heruntergekommenes Hotel geführt.