Showing results for "Zone" in Genre Fiction

Annabelle Jordan and her two sisters were orphans in frilly dresses when they went to live with their sports-lawyer uncle in his world of locker rooms, bookies, and gambling. Now the girls are publicists in their uncle’s firm, the Hot Zone.

In a post-catastrophic dystopian future—peaceful, prosperous, and corporate-controlled—non-conformity is a diagnosable disorder, and the human race is being genetically "corrected" to establish peace on Earth. However, Taylor, a Class 3 Anti-Social Person confined to Quarantine Zone 23, and Valentina, a Variant-Positive Normal from the upscale Residential Communities, have other plans for their future.

The guys in the Regiment know they face their fiercest enemies when they fight the Taliban. No-one is tougher, more deadly - or more cunning. And if they enter the Taliban's kill zone, they know just what to expect.... When three deadly Stinger missiles go missing in Helmand Province, the Regiment is tasked to retrieve the weapons at all costs. SAS legend Jack Harker has a mission to lead an eight-man team into a suspected Taliban facility. He's suspicious about what the aims of the mission really are....

The guys in the Regiment know they face their fiercest enemies when they fight the Taliban. No-one is tougher, more deadly - or more cunning. And if they enter the Taliban's kill zone, they know just what to expect... When three deadly Stinger missiles go missing in Helmand Province, the...

Walking into Jake's bachelor party to see my professor motorboating a stripper was awkward. It wouldn't have been so bad if I wasn't completely hot for the guy. I had been since I first walked into that feline anatomy class and saw him performing chest compressions on a Persian cat named Andrew. So, as I sat in that strip club and knocked back my third tequila, I started thinking...I should make a move on him. When our eyes locked over the busty, blonde stripper who was gyrating against me and he smiled, it was all the encouragement I needed. I have no idea what happened next.

Esta novela demuestra una vez más que a Martin Amis no le tiembla el pulso a la hora de abordar temas controvertidos. Después de la demoledora Lionel Asbo. El estado de Inglaterra, que levantó ampollas por su crudo retrato de lo peor de la sociedad británica, el autor regresa al nazismo y al Holocausto, que ya había tratado en La flecha del tiempo. Y lo hace desde un ángulo cuando menos sorprendente, cediendo la palabra a los verdugos, y sin renunciar a incomodar al lector con ciertos toques de comedia negra.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A knockout punch of a novel.” —Mark Greaney Pike Logan uncovers a geopolitical scheme that has spiraled out of control in India in this latest pulse-pounding thriller with ripped from the headlines themes from New York Times bestselling author and former special...

Od kiedy jej brat odebrał sobie życie po pierwszej wojnie światowej, Ruth Emeraldine decyduje się pomagać ludziom cierpiącym z powodu chorób psychicznych. Zakochuje się w charyzmatycznym Robercie Apterze – genialnym lekarzu i orędowniku nowej radykalnej terapii – lobotomii. Ruth wierzy, że jest to cudowny lek. Kiedy jednak jej mąż traci kontrolę nad sobą i wpada w złudną megalomanię, Ruth nie może dłużej ignorować swoich rosnących podejrzeń. Robert operuje pacjentów nie zważając na nic, często z przerażającymi rezultatami, a wrażliwa młoda matka Margaret Baxter ma się stać jego kolejną ofiarą.

ZROBIŁABYM WSZYSTKO, BY CHRONIĆ SWOJE DZIECI. TO MOJA WINA, ŻE SĄ W NIEBEZPIECZEŃSTWIE... Nasz dom wakacyjny jest piękny. Z pastelowoniebieskimi ścianami, basenem na zewnątrz i promenadą ciągnącą się aż do brzegu. Moje dzieci bawią się w falach, a mój mąż grilluje hamburgery na pokładzie. Jest tak spokojnie. Ale nie mogę się zrelaksować. Kiedy jadę do sklepu lub spaceruję po plaży, zawsze oglądam się przez ramię, a serce mi wali. Szukam go. Człowieka, który rok temu prawie wszystko zniszczył z powodu sekretów, które skrywałam.

In this fourth installment of his acclaimed Rants series, the bestselling author, Emmy Award-winning talk show host and wise-cracking analyst for ABC's Monday Night Football makes hamburger out of society's most sacred cows as only he can, with the kind of allusions that require high SAT...

Welcome to Big Bend—my nightmare and my home, all in one. I don't fit in here. I don't fit in anywhere. I've made so many mistakes. Over and over. Two of those mistakes haunt me. One, being responsible for a friend losing his job and reputation in this town. And two, well, that one is even worse. I ruined so many lives with one stupid decision I barely even remember. And now, I'm going to pay for it.

It is 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona Fernández's mesmerizing and terrifying novel The Twilight Zone is a child when she first sees this man's face on the magazine's cover with the words "I Tortured People". His complicity in the worst crimes of the regime and his commitment to speaking about them haunt the narrator into her adulthood and career as a writer and documentarian.

Em meio a um cenário de festividades e paixões efêmeras do carnaval, Miguel e Ana encontram-se em uma jornada de romance e descobertas. Contudo, o destino reserva surpresas inesperadas quando uma pandemia se espalha pela cidade, desencadeando um apocalipse que transforma vidas e destinos. Enquanto Miguel enfrenta a dor da rejeição e descobre uma doença que ameaça sua existência, ele mergulha em uma busca por esperança e renovação.

*This program is abridged* An American general is captured in the Middle East. They threaten to behead him within days. But moments before he is rendered unconscious during the attack, the General realizes that his unseen captors are American. Gunnery Sergeant Kyle Swanson, a top level Marine...

Eine Wüste im Nahen Osten: General Middleton gerät mit seiner Einsatzgruppe in einen Hinterhalt von Terroristen. Sie töten seine Männer und nehmen ihn gefangen. Kurz bevor er das Bewusstsein verliert, hört er, wie sich die Terroristen unterhalten: Sie sprechen Englisch mit amerikanischem Akzent. Mit Rettung des Generals wird Gunnery Sergeant Kyle Swanson beauftragt- einer der besten Scharfschützen der Marines. Als Swanson und seine Männer in Syrien landen, laufen sie in eine Falle. Nur Swanson überlebt den Angriff. Woher hatte der Feind Informationen über diese streng geheime Mission?

Little Starhorodivka, a village of three streets, lies in Ukraine's Grey Zone, the no-man's-land between loyalist and separatist forces. Thanks to the lukewarm war of sporadic violence and constant propaganda that has been dragging on for years, only two residents remain: retired safety inspector turned beekeeper Sergey Sergeyich and Pashka, a 'frenemy' from his schooldays. With little food and no electricity, under ever-present threat of bombardment, Sergeyich's one remaining pleasure is his bees.

Krewni z bliska i z daleka zmierzają na obchody dziewięćdziesiątych drugich urodzin sióstr bliźniaczek Anny i Simony. Pierwszych urodzin, na które zostali zaproszeni po ponad pół wieku. Nieoczekiwane sploty zdarzeń, okraszone dużą dawką humoru i oświetlone słońcem Toskanii. Książka dla tych, którzy są przekonani, że metryka nie ma znaczenia jeśli ma się apetyt na życie, a pesel jest często kłopotliwym stygmatem.

Izzy Gam wants to be buried on the Mount of Olives, known as "the number one place for a Jew to be buried", as the resurrection is supposed to begin there. Unfortunately, it turns out that his planned resting place is already occupied, as is every other place in Israel that his increasingly flustered family tries to put him.

"Spider Shepherd squatted on his heels outside his tent, drinking his first brew of the day from a battered mug as he watch the wind stirring dust devils from the dirt floor of the compound." When an inexperienced officer sends out innocent paratroopers to be betrayed by a surrendered Taliban sniper, Spider Shepherd is the man chosen to clean up the mess. With his old friends Jock and Geordie to help, along with SAS hopeful Lex, can they take their revenge? Or are they just putting themselves in the kill zone?

"C'era una volta un re, e questo re incaricò il suo mago prediletto di fabbricare uno specchio magico. Questo specchio non ti mostrava il tuo riflesso. Ti mostrava la tua anima - ti mostrava chi eri realmente". E il campo di concentramento è quello specchio. Nella zona d'interesse del campo, Golo Thomsen, nazista mediocre, riscopre un sentimento che pareva impossibile in quel luogo e in quel tempo. S'innamora di Hannah Doll, una donna sposata, che come lui sta scrutando lo specchio per capire chi è. Ma c'è un problema: Hannah è la moglie del Comandante: il cinico, spietato, grottesco Paul Doll.