Showing results for "Moses" in Contemporary

Someone found him in a laundry basket at the Quick Wash, wrapped in a towel, a few hours old and close to death. They called him "Baby Moses" when they shared his story on the ten o'clock news.

Allie Kirkland has never been one to take wild risks. But when she's offered a costuming assistant's job on a docudrama in the hills near Moses Lake, she jumps at the chance. She's always dreamed of following in her director-father's footsteps, and the reenactment of the legendary frontier settlement of Wildwood is a first step. The family expectations will have to wait. But in 1861, the real Wildwood held dangerous realities. Town founder Harland Delevan held helpless residents, including young Irish schoolteacher Bonnie Rose, in an iron grip.

I won my first fight when I was 11 years old, and I've been throwing punches ever since. Fighting is the purest, truest, most elemental thing there is. Some people describe heaven as a sea of unending white, where choirs sing and loved ones await. But for me, heaven was something else. It sounded like the bell at the beginning of a round, and it tasted like adrenaline. For me, heaven was the octagon. Until I met Millie, and heaven became something different. I became something different.

Nulla può strapparti una felicità che hai scelto di non avere. Ottimi voti a scuola e un cuore grande, Amethyst è la perfetta incarnazione della ragazza della porta accanto che tutti amano. Tutti, eccetto Ermes. Violinista dal talento immenso e lo sguardo di ghiaccio, è appena stato cacciato da Eton ed è tornato a vivere a due passi da Amethyst, la persona che più detesta al mondo. Passa le giornate a tormentarla e a trovare modi sempre nuovi per ferirla, respingendola con cattiveria. Solo mentre suona, Ermes si trasforma: quando impugna l’archetto, le note del suo violino sono pura poesia.