Ergebnis für "MAiA" in Literatur & Belletristik

Lorsque Maia, l’ainée d’une famille de six filles adoptées, apprend que leur père vient de mourir, elle ne se doute pas que commence pour elle et ses sœurs une authentique chasse au trésor qui bouleversera sa vie pour toujours. Dans le premier tome de cette saga phénomène, Lucinda Riley nous entraine dans un fabuleux voyage.

Emma bringt den Menschen das zurück, was sie einst verloren haben. Als ihr Chef sie damit beauftragt, den angeblich wertlosen Kram zu entsorgen, nimmt sie die lieb gewonnenen Schätze heimlich mit nach Hause und macht sich auf die Suche nach den Menschen, denen sie einst gehörten. Schnell merkt sie, dass hinter jedem Gegenstand eine Geschichte steckt und dass sie nicht nur die Fundsachen, sondern immer auch all das zurückbringt, was die Besitzer einst verloren haben – Erinnerungen, Träume und manchmal sogar die Hoffnung auf Glück.

They’ve been to the moon and they’ve been to Mars. Now they’re going to the most dangerous planet of all: Earth. When the spaceship Intrepid returned from its rescue mission to Mars, Captain Thorn and his crew downloaded and preserved the ship’s artificial intelligence and onboard computer, known as Maia, and returned it to the scientists and engineers who created it. These scientists have been building a synthetic human-like android body, but lack the software to operate it. They upload Maia’s programming, knowledge and memories into their new creation.

Maia D'Apliese y sus hermanas regresan a la impresionante mansión familiar donde crecieron al descubrir que su adorado padre, que las adoptó en distintos lugares cuando no eran más que bebés, acaba de fallecer. Cada una recibe un sobre que contiene una prometedora pista sobre su origen. A Maia, la mayor de las hermanas y nuestra protagonista, la suya le lleva a una casa en ruinas en Río de Janeiro. Allí comenzará a recomponer las piezas de su historia.

Deal Breaker is an M/M holiday romance novella, featuring a one-night stand between two people who thought they’d never see each other again.

Alice und Barbara waren beste Freundinnen aus der Kindheit. Sie haben alles gemeinsam gemacht - Großes und Kleines und haben jedes Geheimnis miteinander geteilt. Als sie nach der Schule getrennte Wege gehen, verlieren sie den Kontakt. Vierzig Jahre später treffen sie sich zufällig wieder und beginnen sich gegenseitig Briefe zu schreiben. Sie stellen sich gegenseitig unbeantwortete Fragen aus der Vergangenheit und noch mehr Geheimnisse kommen nun auf den Tisch!

Hijas de una misma madre y de padres pertenecientes a dos etnias distintas, Effia y Esi son dos hermanas de sangre que nunca llegarán a conocerse. Sus caminos están irremediablemente destinados a separarse: así, mientras Effia es obligada a casarse con un gobernador inglés y a residir en una fortaleza junto a la costa, Esi es capturada y enviada como esclava al sur de Estados Unidos.

Robert Langdon, respeitado professor de Simbologia, vai a Praga para assistir a uma palestra revolucionária de Katherine Solomon – uma proeminente cientista e intelectual com quem ele recentemente iniciou um relacionamento.

Ryland Grace é o único sobrevivente de uma desesperada missão de emergência — se ele falhar, toda a humanidade e o planeta Terra serão destruídos. Mas no momento ele não sabe disso. Ryland não se lembra nem do próprio nome, muito menos de sua missão ou de como cumpri-la. Tudo o que ele sabe é que dormiu por muito, muito tempo. E que despertou a milhões de quilômetros de casa, com apenas dois cadáveres como companhia.

A lively inquiry into a literary genius, the translators who immortalized him, and what it means to cultivate a rich inner life in turbulent times "What happens to a writer's work when it is translated–specifically, what happens if his name is Franz Kafka?" In Kafkaesque, Maïa Hruska traces...

D'un côté il y a Tiphaine et Sylvain, de l'autre il y a Laetitia et David. Deux couples, voisins et amis, fusionnels et solidaires, partageant le bonheur d'avoir chacun un petit garçon du même âge. Maxime et Milo grandissent ensemble, comme des jumeaux. Jusqu'au drame. Désormais, seule une haie sépare la culpabilité de la vengeance, la paranoïa de la haine.

Tout condamnait Nombeko l'analphabète, née dans le ghetto de Soweto en 1960, à une vie anonyme. Mais un accident de voiture et son incroyable facilité à manier les chiffres...

Chris Hooper sonhava com monstros quando criança, mas encontrou apenas escuridão e isolamento no espaço. Até o dia em que ele e seus colegas mineradores descobriram trimonita (o material mais resistente do universo) em um inferno arenoso e devastado conhecido como planetoide LV178. Após um módulo colidir com a nave mineradora Marion, os mineradores descobrem que havia mais do que trimonita nas cavernas profundas. Havia algo maligno hibernando e aguardado a sua presa.

–; Tu crois qu'on retournera un jour à l'opéra ? Je ne sais pas si je peux vivre sans danser. Je me demande s'il ne vaut pas mieux mourir tout de suite. Février 2022, comme toute l'Ukraine, aux premiers jours du conflit, les danseurs du ballet de l'Opéra national de Kiev sont happés par la guerre. Dmytro, danseur étoile, s'engage dans l'armée sans hésiter. Une fois la terreur dépassée, Svitlana, sa femme également étoile, devient secouriste. Eux qui menaient une existence centrée sur leur corps et leur art découvrent la solidarité, la résistance, mais aussi la peur et la mort.

After a local couple's path to the altar is sabotaged, retired spy Irma Abercrombie and sun-deprived nerd Violet Blackheart get roped into lending a hand sorting out the duo's wedding woes—and all the bodies. Meanwhile, Violet preps for her business partner's island arrival—blender drinks at the ready—as Irma secretly tries to track down Violet's former CFO...and their company's former money.

It's summertime on Lake Ontario's Beaver Island, and there's trouble on the horizon. When a remote-controlled tractor goes berserk at the ground-breaking for a new condo development—toppling some magnificent cupcakes in the process—retired spy Irma Abercrombie's finely-honed paranoia goes into overdrive. And after a beloved local is murdered, she and nerdy houseguest Violet Blackheart are drawn into another island intrigue.

Maia’s Game Room is a narrative actual play anthology of rules-light, story-driven TTRPGs. Each season is a standalone story with a new system, setting, and cast—built with cinematic sound design and tight editing. You can start anywhere. Featuring games like The Electric State, Liminal Horror, and Ironsworn: Starforged. Part of the Many Sided Media network.

When one of Irma's friends asks for help vetting a potential suitor, she's sure that a little digging into his past will do the trick. But after she discovers that a robotic appliance might be on a rampage in the almost-beau's swanky houseboat community, she sets out to entice Violet into unravelling another technological snafu.

Former spy Irma Abercrombie wasn't looking for drama when she invited Violet Blackheart—a brainy, sun-deprived acquaintance—for a visit at her island home. But after an armed robbery in town goes terribly wrong, Irma gets pulled into an island intrigue: Was it a simple snatch and grab, or are there darker forces at work?

Harlow has almost everything she ever wanted: a passionate marriage, an adorable stepson, and a fresh start at her husband Gregor’s boyhood home on the water. If only she could get pregnant, her happiness would be complete. But soon after they arrive on the misty, tree-cloaked island, Gregor starts to change—and Harlow is shaken by his odd connection to their neighbor Kirsten, a luminous tradwife influencer.