Showing results for "Noah" in Literature & Fiction

Veronica Cruz has been through hell and back. After disconnecting with the world two years ago to be at the side of her dying mother, she's left alone, unemployed, overweight, and feeling a decade older than her 28 years. When her best friend coaxes her into joining the local gym to ditch her depression and rejuvenate her life, she meets Noah. What she least expected was for him to fall for her, but he has. There's just one problem: Noah is eight years younger.

Accused of treason and stripped of his knighthood, Crispin Guest has survived on the gritty streets of London by reinventing himself as The Tracker, an investigator for hire who can locate lost objects and uncover secrets. When the merchant Nicholas Walcote hires Guest to investigate his young wife Philippa for adultery, he discovers an underground world of danger and dirty dealings. Philippa is indeed hiding something—but she's not the only one. Walcote himself is rumored to possess a holy relic so powerful that some would even kill for it.

Winner of an Obie and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and directed by Tony nominee Leigh Silverman, Yellow Face is as timely as ever, wrestling with issues of cultural appropriation, complicity, and artistic freedom. It’s brought to life in this audio-only revival by a stunning all-star cast (many playing themselves) led by Daniel Dae Kim.

Meet Noah - an A-honor-roll student, award-winning swimmer, and small-town star destined for greatness. There weren't any signs that something was wrong until the day he confesses to molesting little girls during swim-team practice. He's sentenced to 18 months in a juvenile sexual-rehabilitation center. His mother, Adrianne, refuses to turn her back on him despite his horrific crimes, but her husband won't allow Noah back into their home.

Eigentlich stehen sie auf verschiedenen Seiten, nur wissen sie es noch nicht. Aniello. Ich bin der Capo der Melcores und Oberhaupt der Chicagoer Unterwelt. Auch wenn mich Filomena Carusso fasziniert, geht das blutige Geschäft immer vor. Das wird sie noch früh genug am eigenen Leibe erfahren. So lange behalte ich es mir vor, meinen Spaß mit ihr zu haben. Filomena. Onkel Giacomo hat mir die Bestattung vererbt und es wartet eine Menge Arbeit auf mich, deshalb ist die Ablenkung in Form dieses schönen Mannes mit der düsteren Ausstrahlung mehr als willkommen.

After an accident cut my life short, a realm keeper gave me a second chance: be resurrected as a realm guard in another world. Bold heroics and brave adventures? Occasionally; this is a peaceful realm, and outside of guard patrols I need to help protect the beautiful women in the local community. If I can keep the tavern across the street safe, clear the local mine of monsters, and track down the local potion master's missing assistant, things might just work out.

I was just a normal guy making his way in the big city—until I found myself transported to another world to train at the Alpha Warlock Academy. Not only do they want me among their ranks, but they want me to train among the most powerful of warlocks at the Academy. I've got a lot on my plate: cramming spells, training for combat, and trying not to get myself killed during my initial challenges. Fortunately, I've also got plenty of friends to help me out, including my hobgoblin neighbor and the smooth-talking genie across the hall.

Mama, Daddy, and Granny claim to see signs of rain in the strangest things, even though there isn't a cloud in the sky. They predict that a great storm is on the way, but nobody believes them.

The future is a dangerous place. Keeping the world stable and peaceful when competing corporate interests and nation-states battle for power, wealth, and prestige has only gotten harder over the years. But that's the United Nations' job. So the UN has changed along with the rest of the world. When the UN's "soft" diplomacy fails, it has harder options. Quiet, scalpel-like options: The Dead - biologically enhanced secret operatives created by the UN to solve the problems no one else can.

An orphan leaves Dark Ages London, taking a dangerous journey and posing as a Jew to study medicine in Persia, in "an adventurous and inspiring tale" (Library Journal). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift - an acute sensitivity to impending death - never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer.

Top Gun heads to outer space in this throwback to the classic science fiction of Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein. Strapped in to artificial wings spanning 25 feet across, your arms push a tenth of your body weight with each pump as you propel yourself at frightening speeds through the air. Inside a pressurized dome on the Moon, subject to one-sixth Earth's gravity, there are swarms of chiseled, fearless, superbly trained flyers all around you, jostling for air space like peregrine falcons racing for the prize.

Dynamic traveling preacher Purlie Victorious Judson returns to his small Georgia town hoping to save Big Bethel, the community’s church, and emancipate the cotton pickers who work on oppressive Ol’ Cap’n Cotchipee’s plantation. With the assistance of Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins, in a Tony Award-winning performance by Kara Young, Purlie hopes to pry loose an inheritance due his long-lost cousin and use the money to restore his beloved church.

El último judío es una apasionante novela histórica de Noah Gordon que transporta al oyente a la España de finales del siglo XV, una época marcada por la Inquisición y la expulsión de los judíos. A través de la vida de Yonah Toledano, un joven obligado a ocultar su identidad para sobrevivir, la historia se convierte en un intenso viaje de valentía, aprendizaje y resistencia.Mientras cambia de oficio, de nombre y de destino para escapar de la persecución, Yonah descubrirá el valor de sus raíces, el poder del conocimiento y la fuerza necesaria para mantenerse fiel a sí mismo en un...

Moonshaw was supposed to be a clean break—a relaxing life with the backwoods right on my doorstep, where all I had to worry about was lively herbs and the occasional stray monster. But when a magical anomaly tears through the town archive, it doesn't just leave a mess. It digs up a skeleton and a contract written in a lost language. It turns out that Moonshaw is in the firing line of an ancient entity that's about to come roaring back into this world.

Rentt Faina has achieved Existential Evolution, evolving from a skeleton into a ghoul. His next objective: rising the ranks and becoming a Copper-class adventurer! But to do so, Rentt must face his next greatest challenge . . . A written test?! Using his years of wisdom and the help of two...

Mein Name ist Noah. Ich bin erst siebzehn, doch ich habe bereits alles verloren – mein Zuhause, meine Familie, meine Freunde. Den Glauben an eine Zukunft hat Noah längst verloren, als plötzlich zwei Fremde auftauchen. Sie suchen einen Weg nach England. Doch die Insel gilt bereits seit Jahren als durchseucht, niemand wagt sich freiwillig dorthin. Was wollen die beiden Fremden dort und weshalb brauchen sie ausgerechnet Noahs Hilfe?

Vier Morde, vier meisterhaft inszenierte Tatorte – Berlin wird von einer rätselhaften Mordserie erschüttert. Kommissariatsleiter Christian Hartwich setzt alles auf eine Karte und holt einen mysteriösen Berater ins Team, ohne zu ahnen, wie tief dieser in das Netz aus Lügen und Geheimnissen verstrickt ist. Während Hauptkommissarin Stefanie Piehler dem undurchsichtigen Berater misstraut, wagt Professor Hornoff den riskanten Schritt in die Abgründe der Täterpsyche – und erkennt: Wer den Mörder stoppen will, muss das Kind in ihm retten.

Ein junger Mann wacht nach fünf Jahren aus dem Koma auf. Die Polizei hält ihn für einen Serienmörder, der kleine Mädchen zu Engeln macht. Nur der Psychologe Doktor Hornoff könnte den jungen Mann vor lebenslanger Haft bewahren und seine Unschuld beweisen. Doch jedes Detail, an das sich Marcel Krähenfuß nach und nach erinnert, lässt ihn selbst an seiner Unschuld zweifeln. Während die Ermittlungen andauern, geraten Karl Breuer und Johannes Hornoff ohne ihr Wissen selbst in Gefahr. Denn die Wahrheit erweist sich als schlimmer als anfangs vermutet.

After witnessing the murder-suicide of his parents as a child, Noah suffers from a form of PTSD that has left him without emotion, without a conscience, and without the ability to function as a normal human being. Noah finds structure in the US Army and becomes an exemplary soldier, but when his self-imposed programming is put to the test by the murderous acts of his superior officer, Noah finds himself quickly made expendable. Now, an ultrasecret organization known as E & E wants Noah's talents, offering him a chance to survive - as the most deadly assassin the world has ever known.

“Atrações físicas são comuns; conexões mentais são raras.” Em um mundo tão hostil e perigoso, nasce um amor digno de um conta de fadas. Almas gêmeas realmente existem? Se existem, Noah certamente é a alma gêmea de Cecília. Mas o que fazer quando a sua outra metade já tem compromisso firmado com alguém? Desistir, nem pensar!