Showing results for "2012" in Action & Adventure

A mysterious alien presence unexpectedly bursts out of sacred sites all over the world and begins to rip human souls from their bodies, plunging the world into a chaos it has never before known. Courage meets cowardice; loyalty meets betrayal as an entire world struggles to survive this incredible end-all war. Heroes emerge, villains reveal themselves, and in the end, something completely new and unexpected happens that at once lifts the fictional characters into a new life and sounds a haunting real-world warning for the future.

In the vein of Jurassic Park, this high concept thriller follows a group of graduate students lured to Hawaii to work for a mysterious biotech company—only to find themselves cast out into the rain forest, with nothing but their scientific expertise and wits to protect them. An instant classic...

Read by Eleanor Matsuura BOND TAKES ON A DEATH-DEFYING NEW MISSION TO SECURE KEY JAPANESE INTELLIGENCE James Bond is shattered by the murder of his wife at the hands of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and only the prospect of a particularly challenging mission can draw him out of his deep depression...

JAMES BOND INVESTIGATES A VILLAIN WITH THE POWER TO LAUNCH A NUCLEAR WARHEAD Sir Hugo Drax is a multimillionaire tycoon and war hero, revered by the British public for his new Moonraker missile defense system. But there’s more to this enigmatic millionaire than he lets on. When M suspects Drax...

L'Ismael no ha tingut una infantesa gens fàcil, però ha aconseguit estudiar i es guanya la vida com a professor de llengua i literatura. Un dia, per atzar, es retroba amb una antiga veïna i a poc a poc comencen a intimar, fins que una altra trobada aparentment casual, ara amb el conserge de l'institut on treballa, porta l'Ismael a una situació límit, de conseqüències traumàtiques. Recuperar la memòria i aconseguir treure l'entrellat dels fets en què es troba atrapat serà una tasca difícil, que la traça de Jaume Cabré combina magistralment.