Ergebnis für "Mind's Eye" in Literatur & Belletristik

Als Nick Hall blutüberströmt und ohne Gedächtnis in einem Müllcontainer erwacht, kann er sich nicht vorstellen, wie es noch schlimmer werden könnte. Doch dann versuchen gleich mehrere Attentäter, ihn zu töten. Hall entdeckt bald, dass ihm fortschrittliche Elektronik ins Gehirn eingepflanzt wurde und er nun über erstaunliche Fähigkeiten verfügt. Aber wer hat die Implantate eingesetzt? Und warum will ihn jemand unbedingt umbringen? Während Hall versucht, Antworten zu finden, erfährt er, dass weit mehr auf dem Spiel steht als nur sein Leben.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace. With a new introduction by...

Following the Sevora's guidance has brought Kaishi and her people back from ruin and into prosperity, but as miracle after miracle pours from the voice in her head to the forges in Kaishi's great city, interstellar eyes take notice. Sax arrives on Earth with a single goal: find the Sevora, and destroy it, along with its hosts. Until, on the brink of victory, Kaishi's life is spared by a strange intervention, one that will take her away from Earth and into a galaxy far larger, and far more dangerous, than she ever imagined.

Ist er mein Retter oder mein Untergang? Ein dunkler Wald, Blut an meinen Händen und keine Erinnerung an meine Vergangenheit. Ich bin auf der Flucht vor jemandem, der mich jagen will. Meine einzige Hoffnung auf Rettung ist ein geheimnisvoller Fremder. Düster, sexy... und ein echtes Arschloch. Kann ich ihm vertrauen? Oder habe ich den Feind bereits viel zu nahe an mich herangelassen?

Charlotte Anne Mattas longs to turn back the clock. Before her husband, Sam, went to serve his country in the war, he was the man everyone could rely on—responsible, intelligent, and loving. But the person who's come back to their family farm is very different from the protector Annie remembers. Sam's experience in the Pacific theater has left him broken in ways no one can understand—but that everyone is learning to fear.

San Francisco attorney Mike Webster does not lose medical-malpractice cases. But his stellar reputation and faith are put to the test when he agrees to defend Dr. Johanna Anderson, a brilliant and beautiful psychologist. Jo is accused of failing to prevent the death of Seth Bell, a senator's son she was treating with a revolutionary technology-assisted therapy called the Mind's Eye.

A young woman harnesses her newfound power to challenge the ruthless man who controls her, in this brilliant and provocative novel from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower. Mary is a treacherous experiment. Her creator, an immortal named Doro, has molded the human race for...

At the age of 12, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti - to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence in a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people.

”Family dysfunction on an epic scale!” Greed, lust, drugs, and Capodimonte combust in this low-rent, Southern fried twist on a literary classic.Leah’s won the state lottery’s biggest prize, and while her three daughters are elated by her good fortune, when one of them dares to speak truth to power it sets off a devastating chain of events. Long-held grievances and newfound wealth lead to a fateful, jaw-dropping conclusion! Leah’s Gals contains mature content and adult themes: listener discretion is advised.

It's A Wicked Good Life is a fun-filled parody of that classic holiday favorite: It's A Wonderful Life. It's A Wicked Good Life is the story of Norm Peabody, a Downeast fisherman who lives in a small Maine coastal village, and helps run the local co-op. Mr. Duffy is a wealthy businessman who's been trying to take over every business in town.

Nine brilliantly told and connected stories take place in a post-apocalyptic world sometime in the near future and follow the narrator at different stages of his life, trying to survive in a savage landscape of climate change, plague, larceny, and a new sexual order.