Showing results for "Carbon" in Literature & Fiction

People like an open fire, if they can be bothered with all the work it entails - cleaning out the grate, scrunching up newspaper, laying the kindling, fetching in the fuel. All that effort is worth it to sit and watch the flames dancing, to feel the real heat warm you through.

Due omicidi legati fra loro, tra le campagne di Vendicari e il mare di Portopalo, turbano l'equilibrio imperfetto del paesaggio del Val di Noto nel bel mezzo della primavera siciliana. Il giornalista Giacomo Cassisi segue gli sviluppi dell'inchiesta, nel groviglio reso ancor più ingarbugliato dal filo che lega la sua amica Elena a Gina, la sorella di una delle vittime. La storia è raccontata in 47 brevi capitoli legati tra loro dai titoli di famose canzoni italiane, come fosse una colonna sonora.

Dopo il Capodanno Taormina si svuota. A scuotere la tranquilla vita della cittadina e la rassicurante routine del giornalista Giacomo Cassisi è la misteriosa morte, all'alba di un freddo giorno di gennaio, di Efre Vazzini, rampolla di una potente famiglia di imprenditori. Cassisi sceglie di indagare affidandosi al proprio intuito, cogliendo tracce che possono essere i versi di una canzone o il particolare di un quadro, il titolo di un romanzo o una ricetta culinaria.

Il potente affresco di una terra aspra e arcaica ma profondamente umana, e della sua storia, dall'economia della pastorizia e dell'agricoltura fino all'industrializzazione e all'epoca d'oro del carbone. Il romanzo, infatti, non narra solo le vicende del protagonista Tanì, orfano di madre, venduto dal padre come servo pastore a Zannas, ma anche la storia dell'epoca più antica della pastorizia.

Ryan travels to the snowy wastes north of the 49th parallel to rescue his young son, enslaved in a mining colony. In this forbidding landscape, one of Ryan's oldest enemies lies in wait, orchestrating a deadly finale to their private war. In the biting cold, Ryan must battle a legion of hunter androids designed to track and kill any intruders with ruthless ingenuity. But for Ryan Cawdor, the need to save his son is greater than any threat the one-eyed warrior may encounter.

The loyalties that united the Cerberus warriors have become undone, as a bizarre messenger from the future provides a look into encroaching horror and death. Kane and his band have one option: Fix two fatal fault lines in the time continuum — and rewrite history before it happens. But first they must restore power to the barons who dare to defy the greater evil: the mysterious new Imperator.

Have you ever craved someone so bad that you’d be willing to do anything? Meet Dominique Lewis, a foul, hardboiled go-getter who spends most of her days yearning to be just like her sister and plotting to take her man. For her, it’s all about money, sex, and power. Although she possesses the perfect physique and sexy features, her lifelong dream is to become a household name. She vows to get what she wants by any means necessary.

Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn’t like his job, and the immortal who’s still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago. Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren’s capital city and where a power known as BioChromatic magic is based on an essence known as breath that can only be collected one unit at a time from individual people.

What does it mean to be Asian American? One thing is certain, it’s way funnier, weirder, and wilder than American culture ever imagined. "Minor Legends" follows five friends who serve up stories about their daily lives where they are best enjoyed: at the dinner table. Between mouthfuls, Brian, Lisa, Angela, Kevin, and Henry dish out morsels on their cultural conundrums and debunk stereotypes during their weekly dinner hang in this hilarious new fiction comedy series. Starring Angela Wong Carbone, Lynn Kim Do, Brian Park, Wilfred, Padua, Usama Siddiquee, and Nick Vango.

When Lynn and her husband set out for a weekend retreat to repair their rocky marriage, icy roads lead to a fatal collision that ends Lynn's life. Stranded between the physical world and the afterlife, Lynn experiences the grief of her loved ones as they process her death. Lynn's lifelong friends are tortured by not only loss but also unspoken wounds in their friendship. With clever influences from above, Lynn coaxes them to reunite at a beachside cottage on the one-year anniversary of her death.

Quests and Chaos plays Carbon 2185, a cyberpunk rpg from Dragon Turtle Games, utilizing the 5e ruleset. Featuring: Warren Reid - GM - https://twitter.com/UrbaNMasquE Aaron Acosta - Monium - https://twitter.com/AaronAccosted Amy Puzia | Kyroga - https://twitter.com/AmyPuzia Tiana Hanson - Dejah - https://twitter.com/Vana1895 Thomas Koch - Ryoga - https://twitter.com/ThomasAKoch We are blending homebrew and official module material from Dragon Turtle Games.

Gaelan Starfire is a farmer, happy to be a husband and a father; a careful, quiet, simple man. He’s also an immortal, peerless in the arts of war. Over the centuries, he’s worn many faces to hide his gift, but he is a man ill-fit for obscurity and all too often he’s become a hero, his very names passing into legend: Acaelus Thorne, Yric the Black, Hrothan Steelbender, Tal Drakkan, Rebus Nimble.

Three seemingly unrelated events are part of a mosaic created by Satan’s warriors to lure Brady, the young man who talks with angels and who can call on the Light of the Blessed Virgin, to a place where his maddening interference will be destroyed once and for all. But Brady is anointed by God for such a time as this. With his brothers and an ancient line of Hebrew warriors at his side, he again charges boldly into battle, facing Satan’s foulest in Rome, Paris, and a place of unspeakable horror in Calcutta, India, as he comes to the aid of an Albanian nun.

Storie di anime senza nome, di vasi rotti. Donne e uomini alle prese col caos che genera crepe sulla superficie; alla disperata ricerca di un senso o di una direzione. Storie di sensazioni, nevrosi, di nulla e di nessuno; in cui ritrovare di colpo, una parte di noi stessi. Uscita episodi: SettimanaleAutore: Daniele Carboni

Pensieri pratici per una vita a prova di imprevisto. ​Un viaggio tra Menate Mentali, Filosofia Spicciola, Marchette per i miei libri, Resilienza, idee felici e chi più ne ha più ne ometta! Luca Carbone: non è solo teoria: è vita vera, gestione del rischio e creatività per costruire un futuro sereno, anche (e soprattutto) di fronte alle sfide più grandi. Perché oggi è meglio di domani.

En un viaje que hice a los Estados Unidos cuando todavía trabajaba como corresponsal de noticias de la cadena Univisión en Colombia, una familia se me acercó, me entregó una estampita religiosa y la mamá me dijo las siguientes palabras: Que la Virgencita de Guadalupe lo guarde. Sabemos el...

A bad jump from a near-space Gateway leaves Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists in the devastated heart of the American Midwest. Moving through the ruins in the safety of an abandoned war wag, they discover a small community that was once the sprawling metropolis of Chicago. The town seems devoid of life, until the first night, when Krysty Wroth vanishes without a trace. Then the group is attacked, leaving Doc Tanner gravely wounded. Ryan realizes that someone, or something, wants them gone — or dead.

Lo que se viene es Los bailarines del fin del mundo, una novela negra de aventuras, si cabe. De aventuras más o menos fantásticas o por venir. Algo así, saludablemente inclasificable. Hay que dejarse ir, tomarse el buque imaginario y empezar a andar por arriba y por debajo de la Buenos Aires...

"César Sodero tiene una voz narrativa consciente del maravilloso ejercicio de la escritura. Con su mirada cinematográfica inventa un universo de historias mínimas con personajes conflictuados, sensibles y vulnerables. Un mosaico de escenas literarias donde la soledad, la violencia y el drama...

La acción transcurre en el invierno del año 2012, post bicentenario de la revolución de mayo en la República Argentina, en una Buenas Aires caótica, con cortes de luz, autopistas inutilizadas y constantes lluvias. Hay dos obeliscos, el barrio de Constitución ha sido incendiado por...