Showing results for "Hinterland" in Literature & Fiction

Two kids meet in a hospital gaming room in 1987. One is visiting her sister, the other is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there. Their love of video games becomes a shared world—of joy, escape and fierce competition. But all too soon that time is over, fades from view. When the pair spot each other eight years later in a crowded train station, they are catapulted back to that moment. The spark is immediate, and together they get to work on what they love—making games.

Following a suicide bombing in central London, series SAS hero Danny Black is recruited to be part of an assassination squad, directed by a joint MI5/MI6/CIA committee and tasked with hunting down and killing the terrorist cells believed to be planning further atrocities.

Am Stammtisch im "Nobody“ ist alles Spiel und gleichzeitig Ernst. Heute sind Ersatzspieler nicht notwendig. Lothar Altmann nimmt einen anderen Aufsichtsratposten wahr. Der Drexler ist stumm, der Pudel schlafende Kulisse. "Karo zugeben", verlangt der Fleischhauer, der fitgespritzt ist und die Karte auf den Tisch wirft. "Hab ich nicht", sagt der Postenkommandant. Er will den Stich mit seiner kleinsten Tarockkarte machen. Gleich muss er sich korrigieren, weil er mit Schrecken die Karo-Dame in seinem Blatt entdeckt hat.

1896. In the vast network of the Niger Delta waterways, where palm oil and blood flow from the hinterlands, the ancient kingdom of Benin is under siege. Legendary trader and leopard hunter Brendan Donivan battles to protect his adopted homeland's sacred civilization from the colonial expansion of the British while balancing his commerce with the White man's world. Brendan's reality is fractured by the arrival of....

Myron enters the Jonesbridge Industrial Complex as a worker, a prisoner, commanded to harvest the scant resources that enable the powers that be to continue waging an unwinnable war. When Sindra - a fellow prisoner and a spirited fighter - joins him at the salvage line, he finds a new reason to live and to escape. Even though any attempt to leave will lead to execution, Myron and Sindra plan a daring escape.

As Jonesbridge descends into chaos, Myron seizes an opportunity as a member of a mobile recovery squad sent to salvage metal. He wanders the Nethers, where he meets a nomad who seeks out people for delivery to a mysterious place called Mesa Gap in exchange for fresh water and supplies. On their journey they encounter dangerous groups of cultists and fanatics as well as refugees as desperate as Myron for a way out.

Meus sertões de você conta a trajetória da rendeira Isabel, uma mulher simples que, após a morte da mãe, é atravessada por encontros inesperados, despedidas e outras formas de amar. Mas nesses novos caminhos ela se depara com uma outra busca ainda mais importante: sobre sua verdadeira origem e identidade.