Ergebnis für "Adrift" in Belletristik

Davenport: I thought I found where I belonged with my husband and wife. Everything was perfect until we lost her on the same day our son came into this world. Together, we tried to stay strong and focused on bringing her dream to life, but maybe it's finally time for us to follow our own dreams.

The author of the “master class in suspense” (Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author) The Chamber returns with a “utterly tense and bone chilling” (Wendy Walker, USA TODAY bestselling author) thriller about a family’s descent into darkness that is perfect for fans of Dennis...

Daniel Briggs is a ghost in his own life. A Marine sniper haunted by a brother who died screaming his name, he's been drifting across the country one bus and one bottle at a time — running from a war that won't let go, and from the two words that chase him into every blackout: your fault. He never meant to wake up in Defuniak Springs, Florida. He sure as hell never meant to break a man's nose defending a terrified waitress.

'Haunting, heartbreaking, quietly terrifying. Unforgettable' CHRIS WHITAKER Three of them adrift on the narrowboat. Mother, son, and wickedness. Peggy Jenkins and her teenage son, Samson, live on a remote stretch of canal in the Midlands. She is a writer and he is a schoolboy. Together, they...

Binge listen. Keep the lights on. Lock your doors. A mutating plague has killed two thirds of the world's population. Society has collapsed. And Mike Crenshaw is adrift. From the world of The Traveler Series comes a new cast of characters, new obstacles, and the same devastating, world-altering virus which plunges society into the depth of a dystopian hell. Adrift begins six months after The Scourge takes hold.

That’s the flummoxed state of Edward Stanton, a 42-year-old with Asperger’s syndrome. His job, his therapist, and his best friends are all gone. Even his nightly ritual of watching Dragnet reruns has short-circuited. But a call from his friend Donna in Idaho, telling him that her son Kyle is in trouble, launches Edward from his rigidly scheduled existence in Billings, Montana, to the open road. He and Kyle, a sweet little boy turned sullen adolescent, debate football, music, and bodily functions (“Why do you pee so much?” Kyle asks).

A collection of short stories set in and around Rome from Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies. 'Stimulating, elengant, distinctive and thought-provoking' – Sunday Times In these short stories Jhumpa Lahiri sets her gaze on the eternally beautiful city of...

The dead aren’t just rising. They’re evolving—and humanity is running out of time. As the world continues to unravel, Zoe, Oliver, and the small group of survivors who have become family make the bold and risky decision to push west toward the one place that might still offer hope—Cheyenne Mountain, a Cold War fortress carved deep into the Colorado Rockies. Zoe has her own reason for pushing west. A fragile lead suggests her best friend Alexis may still be alive—and in danger. Zoe isn’t the only one trying to reach the mountain.

In urgent need of repair, the Mary May finds herself forced to flee across dangerous worlds that promise to end their search for home. With no other choice but to flee through the dimensions to save the Mary May, with her engines on the verge of giving up and in search of safe harbour, the crew navigate worlds ravaged by war whilst fighting off space choked with shattered junk intent on destroying them. With the engines eventually repaired, rather than continuing the search for their home, they respond to a call for a good samaritan.

Timely, insightful, and heartbreakingly honest, Grace Leigh’s first novel offers a fresh new voice to examine friendship, love, identity, and what it takes to find your way when it feels like you’re completely adrift.

It is 1755, and the threat of war with France looms over colonial York, Virginia. Chocolatier Esmée Shaw is fighting her own battle of the heart. Having reached her twenty-eighth birthday, she is reconciled to life alone after a decade-old failed love affair from which she’s never quite recovered. But she longs to find something worthwhile to do with her life.

Choose your friends wisely or you might end up alone in the dark. Join Lotus on her quest for belonging in an upside-down underwater city. When up can mean down, everything is not what it seems; the wrong choice could leave you lost in the dark. Will Lotus ever find her way back to the light? Under the same sky where Breeze once learned to fly, are ocean depths yet to be explored. Lotus Adrift is a Christian fantasy novel, that takes place in the world of Breeze. They can be enjoyed in any order.

'Stimulating, elengant, distinctive and thought-provoking' Sunday Times From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies comes an exquisitely crafted work of fiction. Jhumpa Lahiri sets her gaze on the eternally beautiful city of Rome, illuminating...

When nuclear war breaks out and the nations of the Earth are destroyed, a group of nine US astronauts are marooned on the lunar surface. Using the "torsion field generator", a WWII Nazi Wunderwaffe previously known as the Bell, they hope to find an alternate Earth that did not suffer nuclear armageddon. But once they do discover one, how will they return to the planet? They have a single lunar module, which can carry only four astronauts into lunar orbit....

A cyber-attack has destroyed 80 percent of America’s electrical grid leaving hundreds of millions of people in the dark with no infrastructure and no running water. Martial law has been declared, and it has been rumored that Russian troops are assisting with security and continuity of government operations. Terrorists have blown the hydroelectric Dams surrounding a prepper festival stranding the campers on an island with no chance of escape other than using their own wits and ingenuity.

David is a prepper with a heart and he sorrows for those who have not heeded the call to prepare. Those poor souls who have not put food and supplies away in case of a disaster are facing famine and disease from a cyber attack that has taken the electrical grid down. David has other laments, things that only a prepper knows or can share.

A concerted effort by terrorists has taken down America's electrical grid by cyber-attack and sabotage. The survivors who are stranded on an island by an explosive attack on two hydroelectric dams are starving and weak, anxiously waiting for some form of rescue to arrive.