Showing results for title "The Crossing" in Literature & Fiction

Step into the gritty world of "Crossing Big Coal River," a pulse-pounding story set in the rugged hills of Boone County, West Virginia—a place where the coal runs deep, but the corruption runs even deeper. Quincy Ashford was just a regular sixteen-year-old boy, living life along the banks of the Big Coal River, a waterway that sustains—and takes from—the tight-knit community he calls home. But all that changes when a devastating mining disaster strikes, shattering families and forcing Quincy to leave his adolescence behind. Forced to become the man of the house overnight, Quincy ...

A sinister secret lies hidden in the swamps of East Texas. One which has been kept for centuries. A small town, a headless apparition, and a young man in a hospital hold the keys to unlocking the mystery. Four thousand miles away, Kat Tovslosky, Ken Melbourne, and Bart Andersen prepare to leave Ravens Cove for a routine conference. What begins as a well-needed break becomes the fabric of most people's nightmares. For Kat, Ken, and Bart, though, it's just another day in the life.

Evie Blanchard was at the top of her field. But when burnout forces her to walk away from her job as a paediatric occupational therapist, she moves from Los Angeles to Hope’s Crossing seeking a quieter life. So the last thing she needs is to get involved with the handsome, arrogant Brodie Thorne and his injured daughter, Taryn. A self-made man and single dad, Brodie will do anything to get Taryn the rehabilitation she needs…even if it means convincing Evie to move in with them.

When Mason thinks back to the day he got locked up two years ago, he remembers a story about the residents of Sparkville. Maxine finds out a secret her husband Hakeem is keeping. Raedan finds herself in a financial hardship. Meagan is fighting for her life as her boyfriend Brent struggles with abuse. Will the residents of Sparkville come out alive after experiencing more than a fun-filled weekend?

In the span of a single step, Lone Gunther left one footprint in Montana and made the next in The Pine Barrens of New Jersey. Despite the mystery of that... It is here he continues to Chronicle events of the Zombie Outbreak as they happen on the ground. From a distance, he encounters survivors from all walks of life. The Misfit Soldiers, Kerry ”Cuddlecakes” Hobin, The Mighty DanSam, and Deadly Faun among others. Where their stories lead makes him realize in Montana he was only on the periphery of how deep and truly wicked this tribulation runs.

The first show ever produced by Time To Die Podcast Network, back when it was known as LCP DnD. Fillmore's Crossing is a fantasy wild west story. It's an actual play adventure using Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. The show is filled with vibrant characters and original music, as well as comedy, drama, horror, and suspense.

Addie, also known as Fearless, scales the Ambassador Bridge as supervisor of the maintenance crew. When she spots James Young with camera in hand signaling to join her, she thinks he has to be crazy. Once she’s safely back on solid ground, she agrees to sneak him up for a bird's-eye view. Admiring her bold nature, James jumps at the offer to meet later that night for further explorations. Discovering her penchant for risqué behavior, his interest demands fulfillment. She readily accepts, taking him for a ride in a lift up to a massive concrete bridge support.

Este não é um audiolivro de respostas, de fórmulas e de resumos explicativos da totalidade. As narrativas apresentadas pelo autor, por meio de ensaios, expressam os valores e as ideias de um ser humano em construção, que olha para esse mundão de equívocos e busca aprimoramento, questionando-se também enquanto homem, pai, cidadão, trabalhador.

Jack McPhail is a man on the run from his past, a drifter who lands by accident in a sleepy outback Australian town called Banjo Crossing. Jack - almost despite himself - becomes slowly drawn into the town, its community, its characters, and its concerns. He's on the brink of falling in love with Mardi, a young widow and owner of the local coffee shop, when the community is confronted and divided by an unexpected development. A coal mining company has come to town, intent on buying up the local properties to build an open cut mine.

On the surface, Berryville, Kansas looks to be a perfect Midwest town to raise a family. But buried in the halls of Lincoln High School are the effects of teen bullying and the hidden impact it has on its victims and perpetrators. Will the truth stay buried or the ugly effects of bullying come to light? Learn what happens through the experiences of four teenagers. Jessie, a girl with a tragic past, made worse by the turn of her best friend into her biggest bully.

Young football prodigy Gary Marshall and his closest friend Arnie Dolan spend their teen lives battling adversity on the rundown estate where they live. Torn apart by a series of life-shattering events, gang leader Arnie wants a reunion with his old partner-in-crime, keen to impart a secret he has kept all his life. But where is Gary? And why is he so keen to let the past stay in the past. The mysteries are about to unravel.

Isaac Gilpatrick witnesses the killing of old Marshall Blodgett, and when his mother Ione is threatened with death - or worse - he is intimidated into remaining silent. But the guilt he carries wears at Isaac's nerves, until he can bear it no longer and vows to put the information into the new marshal's hands. Unfortunately, Marshal TJ Osgood arrives in town too late. He finds Isaac silenced for good after a crooked judge ordered him hanged.

On the surface, Maud and Tim seem ill-matched. Maud is a scientist, an only child from a modest background; Tim is a musician from a large, rich family. She is emotionally cool, he wears his heart on his sleeve. Yet they make a home together, have a child and restore an old yacht. One day they will sail it, all three. Then a dreadful tragedy occurs. The strange thing is, Maud appears unscathed by it. Tim's family are horrified - what is wrong with her?

Heller is caught up in a dangerous crossfire as he cozies up to the local "coyote," a slimeball that takes desperate Mexicans across the river in the dead of night for a heavy fee and then sets them up to be robbed, beaten, and even raped by bandidos. The frightened prey are powerless, nobody cares, except Heller, and that ole mountain boy knows more than one way to skin a coyote.

Written by multiple Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award nominee Jay Lake, "Crossing the Seven" was first published in the 2007 anthology Logorrhea. Over his long career, Jay Lake has published 10 novels and more than 300 stories. He was honored with the 2004 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

It's a story about making a choice between taking justice into our own hands or acting merciful toward our enemies. Nearly three decades have passed since Andy Burden forgave his greatest enemy, the cult leader of his youth, Peter Smith. Andy has since married, divorced, and is now a single father. But an email from Andy's brother, Simon, sets a mystery into motion. Peter Smith may have faked his own death. Andy wants to know if Peter Smith is still alive.

Home is where you start from, but where is a swallow's real home? And what does native mean if the English oak is an immigrant from Spain? In 90 richly varied poems and illuminating prose interludes, Ruth Padel's original new book weaves science, myth, wild nature, and human history to conjure a world created and sustained by migration.

'We're all from somewhere else,' she begins, tracing the millennia-old journeys of cells, trees, birds and beasts.

Home is where you start from, but where is a swallow's real home? And what does native mean if the English oak is an immigrant from Spain? In a selection of richly varied poems and illuminating prose interludes from her collection The Mara Crossing, Ruth Padel weaves science, myth, wild nature, and human history to conjure a world created and sustained by migration. 'We're all from somewhere else,' she begins, tracing the millennia-old journeys of cells, trees, birds, and beasts.

Thrust into a war she did not choose, Sarah Fanum yearns for simpler times. Times when all she had to worry about were bad crops or bad weather. Unfortunately, fate had other plans. Set in 1776, my short story A Christmas Crossing describes the night that changed the course of the Revolutionary War. It is not your typical Christmas story, but one that has affected every fabric of our lives as Americans.

Eight years ago, Mary and Freddy Gale's young daughter was killed by a drunk driver on her way home from school. The driver, a young man named John Booth, was sentenced to eight years in prison. Unable to absolve their own guilt, the Gale's marriage dissolves and Mary takes their two remaining children away from Freddy. Quenching his thirst for vengeance with alcohol, Freddy Gale waits for John Booth's release, planning his revenge. He becomes a man obsessed.