Mostrando resultados por título "The Crossing" en Literatura y Ficción

In self-exile on the remote island of Tasmania, Taylor Bridges is the only ranger of an isolated national park, its town slowly drowning beneath the rising waters of the new dam project. Still struggling with the guilt of losing his daughter, Claire, Taylor is a chronic sleepwalker. So, when another little girl goes missing in his park a year to the day of his own child’s unsolved disappearance, Taylor’s sense of redemption finds him wading in over his head to find her.

With its breathtaking terrain and welcoming people, the Western town of Caribou Crossing is the perfect place for a heart to heal and for love to blossom once more.... Since the death of her husband three years ago, young widow Sally Ryland has kept to herself and focused on her struggling business, Ryland Riding. Folks assume she's still grieving, because Sally has never shared the truth about her abusive marriage or the trust issues that remain.

When Brianna’s fiancé Braden flakes on her again, leaving her alone with their canceled plans, she decides she’s had enough. She can’t stay married to a man who views her as nothing more than a distraction and a plaything. Fortunately for her, her fiancé's hot Daddy has another idea.

When the Revolutionary War begins, Guy Watson is a slave to the Hazzard family in Rhode Island, but he is soon engaged in service for the American army by Samuel Ward, head of one New England's most prominent families. Torn about leaving his beloved June and the other slaves who have become his family, Guy eventually sets out with Samuel Ward and a battalion of men on a treacherous and legendary trek to Quebec.

Will Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living. In a small town called Butcher's Crossing he meets a hunter with a story of a lost herd of buffalo in a remote Colorado valley, just waiting to be taken by a team of men brave and crazy enough to find them. Will makes up his mind to be one of those men, but the journey, the killing, harsh conditions and sheer hard luck will test his mind and body to their limits.

Vicky, a writer in Vancouver in the early 1960s, doesn't consider herself the type of woman who would end up in a bad relationship. Struggling to come to terms with herself, she navigates an emotionally abusive relationship with Mik, a violent logger and ex-con. Mik and Vicky's physical, often violent affair offers an honest and unflinching look at relationships and female suffering. Crossings caused a furor when it was first published and was banned from some feminist bookstores.

Quincy Ashford enlists in the Army to serve his country and is sent to Vietnam, where his strength of character and leadership enable him to lead, survive and return home. He returns to his West Virginia home and arrives simultaneously as Mother Nature delivers more hardship to the people of Big Coal River. Quincy must fight to save his family, friends, and his home. The people you grew to love in Crossing Big Coal River prove worthy of your love in Crossing Bridges - Big Coal River Rising #SurvivalStory #DisasterResponse #NeighborsHelpingNeighbors #GrippingNarrative #MustRead #...

Dave Cousins, owner of the Wild Rose Inn, is known throughout Caribou Crossing as the nicest--and loneliest--guy in town. He's had his heart broken more than once, and he's determined not to let it happen again. So it's no wonder he's wary when a free-spirited drifter leaves him longing for more than just a steamy fling...

In Crossing Thresholds: Island Reflections, Amba Gale, Amazon best seller, transformational coach, and founder of Gale Leadership Development, invites us to join her through her heartful poetry, breathtaking photographs, and, what she calls “teaching questions” to embrace and complete the endings in our lives and to create new futures - futures that bring us more fully alive.

Tony is tall, muscular, and perfect! He has the sexiest eyes of any man alive and I’ve been crushing on him forever. Of course, he’s Daddy’s best friend so I know my crush will never turn into anything more. Then, one day, I move into my new apartment and out of nowhere, he’s there. I know I’m playing with fire but I can’t help myself. I want him! The good news is he wants me too. My very own forbidden Daddy! What will come from this forbidden romance?

Faith Cadena hopes to make a new life for herself on a new world far from Earth. After doing hard time for a crime committed in her youth, all she wants now is a chance at a fresh start. Booking passage on an interstellar colony barge, Faith expects an uneventful three-year voyage spent in cryogenic stasis. But her dream of a better life becomes a nightmare when she is prematurely awakened halfway through her journey and finds herself trapped aboard a ship of horrors.

She's just going camping. City girl Ira Jenkins needs some time away from society. When she ventures into the off-limits section of Yellowstone National Park, she expects two weeks void of human interaction. She has no idea she would stumble upon a sexy park ranger - one capable of blowing her away. But he's not just a park ranger. Ricky Greene, with his prim and proper uniform may look like another run of the mill park ranger, but he is much more than that.

Successful yet emotionally stifled artist Kate Flaherty stands at the deathbed of her estranged father, conflicted by his morphine-induced confession of his part in her mother's death. While racing home, Kate's car mishap leads her to a soul-searching discussion with a lone diner employee, prompting Kate to confront the true reasons her marriage hangs in the balance. When her night takes an expected turn, however, she flees for her life, a life desperate for faith that can only be found through her ability to forgive.

Have Gun - Will Travel was already a hit on television when it made its CBS Radio debut in in 1958. John Dehner starred as the mysterious, cultured gunfighter known only as Paladin. He lived in a San Francisco hotel, dressed in black, left calling cards, and used the chess knight as his symbol. More than 100 episodes were broadcast before the program went off the air in 1960. This episode originally aired on November 8, 1959.

A modern-day Southern Gothic anthology taking place in a bizarre town in the north Georgia mountains. The show features crime-dramas, coming-of-age tales, and supernatural thrillers.

When Emily discovers Jacob is cheating on her, she wants to get revenge. She decides she’ll tell the man Jacob respects all about his son’s behavior. When she says she’s doing it for revenge, Hubby’s Daddy misunderstands what she wants, and before long, he’s helping her with an altogether different kind of revenge. She never expects to sleep with her father-in-law, but once she starts, she just can’t stop. What will come from their forbidden romance?

Neville 'Pom' Darling is on the hunt for the perfect photograph. Skye Stewart is searching for her long-lost grandfather. It's 1939, and Neville, escaping an unhappy marriage and his memories of the Great War, finds himself in Mackenzie Crossing on the day of the terrible Black Friday bushfires. He meets the beautiful Georgie Mackenzie and in an instant knows that she is the subject he has been looking for. As the heat intensifies, Georgie and Pom begin to wonder if they have a future together, but first they must survive the blaze.

In South Africa, the Vaal River divides Theo, the English sugar plantation owner, from Lizzie, the Dutch orphan girl he finds in the Transvaal. When the second war between the Cape Colony and the Boers breaks out, Theo and Lizzie are on opposite sides. Theo is bound to do what Cecil orders, and Lizzie is promised to Louis, the Boer leader. Without his mistress Vala and his friend Harish, all could be lost when Theo crosses the Vaal.

Having spent the last seven years in Texas, Border Patrol Agent Peyton Cote is returning home to northern Maine, hoping it will be a safer environment for her young son. But the criminal element has turned what was once a quiet corner of the country into an illicit trade route... and there's no telling what they'll do to protect their interests.

A wanderer with a troubled past follows a sensitivity to magic that pulls him hard to a mountain in the middle of nowhere, where he's caught up in impending apocalypse, powerful practitioners...and a blood feud.