Ergebnis für "The Voyager" in Literatur & Belletristik

Diana Gabaldon’s magnificent historical saga, begun with Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber, continues with this New York Times bestseller. Set in the intriguing Scotland of 200 years ago, the third installment in the romantic adventures of Jamie and Claire is as compelling as the first.

An epic saga of America’s might-have-been, Voyage is a powerful, sweeping novel of how, if President Kennedy had lived, we could have sent a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s. Imaginatively created from the true lives and real events, Voyage returns to the geniuses of NASA and the excitement of the Saturn rocket and includes historical figures from Neil Armstrong to Ronald Reagan who are interwoven with unforgettable characters whose dreams mirror the promise of a young space program that held the world in thrall.

Vingt années se sont écoulées depuis le périple de Claire Beauchamp-Randall dans l'Écosse du XVIIe siècle. Si l'infirmière britannique a refait sa vie depuis, le souvenir de Jamie Fraser et des années tumultueuses vécues ensemble reste intact. Aussi, lorsqu'elle apprend qu'il a survécu à la sanglante bataille de Culloden ayant marqué la défaite de l'armée écossaise, elle se trouve confrontée à un terrible dilemme.

Axel Lidenbrock est le neveu d'un éminent géologue et naturaliste allemand, le professeur Otto Lidenbrock. L'histoire commence à Hambourg, dans la maison du Pr. Lidenbrock.

"Voyage au bout de la nuit", chef d'œuvre littéraire incontesté dont Denis Poadalydès nous restitue toute la force brute, est présenté pour la première fois en version numérique (en coédition avec l'Historial de la Grande Guerre, et en accord avec Gallimard et la Succession Céline).

Die Voyager soll diplomatische Beziehungen zur Konföderation der Welten des Ersten Quadranten aufnehmen, eine Zivilisation, deren Macht der der Föderation in nichts nachsteht. Obwohl der Captain der Voyager der Konföderation dankbar ist, dass sie sie vor einer fremden Armada gerettet hat, kann er nicht vergessen, auf welchen Gräueltaten die Konföderation gegründet wurde.

Captain Regina Farka von der U.S.S. Vesta stellt einen vielversprechenden Erstkontakt mit dem Nihydron her - humanoiden Fremden, die Geschichtsforscher sind. Selten interagieren sie mit den Spezies, die sie studieren. Allerdings haben sie eine riesige Datenbank zahlreicher Rassen, bewohnter Planeten und geo-politischer Informationen eines großen Teils des Quadranten zusammengestellt. Bei einem Treffen zum Datenaustausch sind die Vertreter der Nihydron sichtlich schockiert, von Admiral Janeway begrüßt zu werden.

Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps...

The Hunter rides for vengeance . . . and embarks on a voyage of bloodshed and death. His pursuit of the escaped Groebus Dayblood and his assassin accomplices leads to the shores of Einan and beyond, across the Frozen Sea. But danger follows wherever the Hunter goes. Sailing with him are parties unknown plotting bloody murder. Their deadly blades are aimed at him, and trapped aboard a ship in the middle of the ocean, there is nowhere to run or hide.

Il était une fois un jeune psychiatre nommé Hector qui n'était pas très content de lui : il voyait bien qu'il n'arrivait pas à rendre les gens heureux. Hector décide donc de partir en voyage autour du monde pour comprendre ce qui fait vraiment le bonheur. Pourquoi rêvons-nous souvent d'une vie plus heureuse sans apprécier la nôtre ?

Setting out from New Bedford in 1878, the crew of the Esther is confident the sea will be theirs: in addition to cruising the Pacific for whale, they intend to hunt the teeming northern grounds before the ice closes. But as they sail to their final destination in the Chukchi Sea, where their captain Arnold Lovejoy has an urgent directive of his own to attend to, their encounters with the natural world become more brutal, harrowing, ghostly, and strange.

""In the tradition of Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Meg Charlton’s Voyagers is a finely written and propulsive novel about the enduring power of friendship. It takes on big issues: the reliability of memory, the price of childhood fame, the ways adults use children...

An original novel set in the universe of Star Trek: Voyager, from the New York Times bestselling author! As the Federation Starship Voyager continues to lead the Full Circle Fleet in its exploration of the Delta Quadrant, Admiral Kathryn Janeway remains concerned about the Krenim Imperium and...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Library Journal | Vulture | The Verge | SYFYWire Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. A. Chakraborty perfect for fans of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and Uprooted, in which the future of a magical Middle Eastern...

L'éminent professeur de minéralogie Otto Lidenbrock découvre un jour, caché dans un manuscrit dont il vient de faire l'acquisition, un parchemin rédigé en caractères runiques dont le sens lui demeure obscur. Dès lors, il n'a de cesse de décrypter ce mystérieux message, aidé par son neveu Axel Lidenbrock. Ils découvrent alors quelque chose d'incroyable : le rédacteur du message serait un certain Arne Saknussemm, un alchimiste qui aurait vécu au seizième siècle, et qui aurait découvert un passage vers le "Centre de la Terre".

Admiral Kathryn Janeway ist besorgt über das Krenim-Imperium und seine Fähigkeit, die Zeit nach Lust und Laune umzuschreiben. Auf Captain Chakotays Vorschlag hin befiehlt sie jedoch, die Aufmerksamkeit auf einen einzigartigen Planeten zu richten. Auf dieser ansonsten unbewohnbaren Welt existieren mehrere Biosphären, von denen jede eine unterschiedliche Atmosphäre enthält – alles deutet darauf hin, dass einst andere intelligente Wesen auf der Oberfläche gelebt haben.

If Earth is going to stand against the Elder's retaliation, she cannot do so alone. One place holds out hope for humanity. Unexplored space. Outside the borders of the Elder Empire, the possibilities are endless. Advanced races, new allies, technologies to overcome the Elder’s vast numerical advantage, all are opportunities humanity can’t ignore.

The Voyage Out is Virginia Woolf's haunting tale about a naïve young woman's sea voyage from London to a small resort on the South American coast. In symbolic, lyrical, and intoxicating prose, her outward journey begins to mirror her internal voyage into adulthood as she searches for her personal identity, grapples with love, and learns how to face life intellectually and emotionally. Its wit and exquisiteness, and its profound depth and insight into humanity, will capture the imagination of the listener.

An alternative history of the US space programme, dramatised by Dirk Maggs. What if John F. Kennedy survived the assassination attempt and developed the space programme? President Nixon, with the help of former president JFK, has just green-lit NASA’s first manned expedition to Mars. Aboard the expedition is Natalie York, a geologist who risks everything she loves for the chance to go to space; Phil Stone, former X-15 test pilot; and Ralph Gershon, a Vietnam War hero intent on being the first African American to reach another planet.

“Terrific. A wild ride….I loved it. It hooked me and I couldn’t put it down.” —Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy ""Brom is that rare breed: a person who is skilled in more than one area of artistic expression. Here's hoping that he will continue to share his dark and often beautiful...