Showing results for "the-vitals" in Literature & Fiction

200 years in the future, environmental catastrophe has befallen the Earth, leaving the skies and weather systems transformed into a nightmarish maelstrom of rainbow chemicals, and the city of London wiped off the map (opinion remains divided on whether or not this was the best outcome for the country).

Jake Fortina can’t believe the news. Children—over 20,000 since February 2022—are disappearing as Russia invades Ukraine. Ukrainian Air Force Colonel Hennadiy Kovalenko and his wife, Mila, suffer heart-rending losses. Private Margarita Romanova, a medic in the Russian Army, faces a terrible dilemma, one that also holds the possibility of love and redemption. And in the background, Sergiy and Gleb, two young Ukrainian boys deported to Russia, must endure devastating and hellish circumstances. An unlikely confluence of Ukrainian, American, Italian, and Russian citizens unites to mount a rescue.

Un amor prohibido. Un pasado que lo destruyó todo. Un viaje que hará tambalear los cimientos de una relación vetada. Los lazos de la familia atan, y los de la pasión pueden hacerlos saltar por los aires. Traiciones, secretos, intriga y mucha mafia te sumergirán en un mundo que no te permitirá salir indemne.

A unique machine named VL-15 is on the cusp of freedom and answers to its existence when the world ended in catastrophic war. Sixty-five years later, a group of tech salvagers known as the Exhumers find it out in the Wastes. But before they can bring it back to their home, a storm comes and separates them. At the same time, the storm surge reawakens VL-15. It once again goes on a journey to find the truth of its existence, all while memories haunt it. Will the truth come from the Machine City where it was made, or within its own mind?

Vengeance came at a high cost. Paxton Locke not only lost his job, but he’s also the subject of a Federal manhunt. On the run, with no backup or resources, he still has a mission, albeit a cryptic one, issued by his angelic patron. But his old Division M coworkers aren’t the only threat. Renaissance Gitano—an elite operative from a secretive order of magicians Paxton has faced before—also hunts him. She will go to the ends of any Earth to bring him to justice and satisfy her own need for revenge.

20 years after the publication of Vital Remnants: America's Founding and the Western Tradition, a book that set out to help America remember her vital roots in the western tradition, Dr. Gary L. Gregg II takes up the title of Vital Remnants once more to continue the mission of serving the future by remembering, thinking about, and learning from the great thinkers of the past. Join Dr. Gregg as he guides listeners through some of the most important texts in human history. Whether you are looking for help in reaching a long abandoned reading goal and continuing your life-long learning, or ...

Faith, Hope and Glory charts the lives of three African-Caribbean families, connected forever by the theft of a beautiful pram in Tilbury in 1946. As they live through the eighty years since then, they witness and take part in the emergence of the modern United Kingdom.

Emily a vu sa mère se faire tuer par un groupe de cinq intellectuels, il y a quinze ans. Aujourd'hui, alors qu'ils occupent tous des postes importants, elle est bien décidée à se venger et à les éliminer un à un...