David Arnold
1) Mosquitoland
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"When she learns that her mother is sick in Ohio, Mim confronts her demons on a thousand-mile odyssey from Mississippi that redefines her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane"--
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New York Times bestseller David Arnold's most ambitious novel to date; Station Eleven meets The 5th Wave in a genre-smashing story of survival, hope, and love amid a ravaged earth. When a deadly Fly Flu sweeps the globe, it leaves a shell of the world that once was. Among the survivors are eighteen-year-old Nico and her dog, on a voyage devised by Nico's father to find a mythical portal; a young artist named Kit, raised in an old abandoned cinema;...
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"Evan Taft has plans. Take a gap year in Alaska, make sure his little brother and single mother are taken care of, and continue therapy to process his father's departure. But after his mom's unexpected diagnosis, as Evan's plans begin to fade, he hears something: a song no one else can hear, the voice of a mysterious singer . . . Shosh Bell has dreams. A high school theater legend, she's headed to performing arts college in LA, a star on the rise....
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EL AUTOR BEST SELLER DE MOSQUITOLAND NOS TRAE OTRO GRUPO DE PERSONAJES INOLVIDABLES EN ESTA TRAGICOMEDIA SOBRE EL PRIMER AMOR Y LA PÉRDIDA DEVASTADORA. "Consideren esto: millones de personas en el mundo, cada una con millones de yos. Soy un observador pasivo, experto en ser invisible. Soy amante del arte, de los Mets y del recuerdo de papá. Represento aproximadamente a una siete billonésima parte de la población; estas son mis multitudes trascendentales...
7) The Street
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The Street is a book that defies categories. It is many things. It is inspiring and heart-breaking. It shows us the darkness as it turns on the light. It emphasizes doctrine while breaking the traditional mold.
The Street is a story about a long-time evangelist who is convinced to give up the road to become the senior pastor of a small church in a violent and crime ridden neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio.
The Street is a series of 16 dreams and visions...
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This high caliber reference offers readers a dynamic colorful depiction of handguns significant to days gone by. More than 20 models from the 1900s are covered - the Colt SAA, Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum, Walther P-38, Beretta 92 - reminiscent of the days of gunfighters and cowboy action heroes. Based on the series of featured 20th century handguns from Handguns magazine, each chapter will include thorough coverage of a specific model, including historical...
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In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract Hind Swaraj, laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization. Despite his protestations, Western technology endured and helped to make India one of the leading economies in our globalized world. Few would question the dominant role that technology plays in modern...
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Noah está obsesionado con cuatro cosas:
UN VÍDEO DE YOUTUBE.
UN DIBUJO.
UNA FOTOGRAFÍA.
Y UN ALMA SOLITARIA
QUE RECORRE LAS CALLES DE SU CIUDAD.
Tras una fiesta, Noah accede a ser hipnotizado y al despertar comienza a notar pequeños cambios: su madre tiene una cicatriz en la mejilla que antes no estaba allí, su perro ya no cojea, su mejor amigo obsesionado con DC, ahora es un discípulo de Marvel...Comportamientos sutiles, fragmentos de la historia,...
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David Alan Arnold is an Emmy Award-winning TV cameraman who flies in a helicopter - but he started his Hollywood career with a broom in his hand. Somehow, sweeping the floor got him into some of the world's biggest TV shows. David's first book tells the unlikely story of mistakes and miracles that took him to some of the most dangerous places on Earth-soaring through the clouds, straight into a deadly phenomenon known as The Deadman's Curve. Buckle...
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In his second memoir, David Alan Arnold takes us on a Life and Death Adventure, in his helicopter, flying for Ice Road Truckers and Deadliest Catch. But, he also gets into adventures at home, picking a fight with an Organized Crime Ring that took over a school bus stop. David's town has so few residents that good people are afraid to speak about the crime ring, for fear of reprisal. When killers and dirty cops out-number town residents, it's wise...
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"This is Noah Oakman, sixteen, Bowie believer, concise historian, disillusioned swimmer, son, brother, friend. Then Noah gets hypnotized. Now Noah sees changes--inexplicable scars, odd behaviors, rewritten histories--in all those around him. All except his Strange Fascinations"--
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When Lucy and Edmund Pensive, along with their cousin Eustace, are swallowed into a painting and transported back to Narnia, they join King Caspian and a noble mouse named Reepicheep aboard the magnificent ship The Dawn Treader. The courageous voyagers travel to mysterious islands, confront mystical creatures, reunite with the Great Lion Aslan, and embark on a mission that will determine the fate of Narnia itself!
17) Independence Day
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On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. At first thought to be meteors, the United States military suspect that a number of enormous alien spacecraft are on a collision course with Earth. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less...
18) Amazing grace
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Based on the life of William Wilberforce, his passion, and perseverance to pass a law ending the slave trade in the late 18th and the people, including his minister, who pushed him to pursue it to the end.