Resultados para "A" en Literatura y ficción

Fierce and unapologetic, Spoilt Creatures is an intoxicating debut that pulls back the skin of the patriarchy and examines the female rage that lies beneath. They thought they knew everything about us. The kind of women we were. When Iris—newly single and living at home with her mother—meets...

She knows the life she wants. She just never imagined what she might have to risk to reach it. Sabrina Thompson has spent years fighting to build a life that finally feels like her own. She knows who she is, she knows what she wants, and she is determined to finish the journey she began long ago...

Charlie Dillion is a guitar playing busker. He's lived his life (mostly) off the grid. Playing and surviving on the streets. While performing in Duffy Square behind the TKTS booth in NYC, a chance meeting aligns him with a regular gig. He goes viral and everything about his life is challenged.

A stylish, ambitious novel—touching on themes of power, money, and desire—that evokes the art world and all of its moral complexities. Thomas Haller has achieved the kind of fame that most artists only dream of: shows in London and New York, paintings sold for a fortune. The vision he...

Malachite: I have a wonderful life. I have no room to complain; between my brothers and their new mates, this is the most alive our home has felt since my parents died. Unfortunately, all of them being mated is making me miserable. When it was just the four of us, it was us against the world...

Chameleon is a story about vulnerability, slowburn desire, and the courage it takes to let someone in — one brave step at a time. Dr Catherine Truscote has spent her life ordering other people’s chaos while keeping her own under wraps.

One wouldn't think that getting magically whisked away to a new world would make someone suddenly feel at home, but that's exactly what being transported to Makera has done for Phoenix Fraser. Gone are the ailments that kept her bedridden, the body that didn't fit her soul, and the endless loneliness. Reborn are her strength, passion, and hopes of building the community she never knew she needed. But while the burdens of Phoenix's old life have been lifted, that doesn't mean her new existence is without its struggles.

Emilio recuerda cómo entrevió a través de la piel translúcida de la barriga de su madre la réplica de Murillo que colgaba en el hospital madrileño donde nació. Se pregunta, desde dentro de un lienzo de Magritte, por qué al final del hilo rojo que ataron a su dedo meñique tras nacer leyó entonces el nombre de un mes. Octubre desconoce de dónde viene su nombre; nosotros tampoco lo sabremos. Recuerda aquel primer amor al que besó debajo de las faldas de una menina del Prado. Se pregunta dónde estará ahora, mientras bucea bajo las aguas de la laguna Estigia de Patinir.

Ivil Antagonist has everything a woman could want. Power enough to blanket out suns and turn worlds into molten hells, a fleet of warships at her command, and the fear of an entire space-faring nation. But she's silently growing tired of being at the top. There is no place more lonely for someone who has killed all of the competition, and she knows that it will be impossible to find an equal.

In 1998, a 21-year-old gay man named Matthew Shepard was kidnapped and murdered just outside the college town of Laramie, Wyoming. Following the tragedy, members of Tectonic Theater Project wove together over 200 authentic voices from the community in a powerful tapestry of grief, reflection, and hope that became The Laramie Project.

Flamboyance ignites every aspect of our lives, from art and entertainment to ritual and protest. The word conjures exuberance and unashamed passion; in thought, expression and dress. Yet historically the term 'flamboyant' has been reserved for the over-the-top and the outré, invoked at times as a pejorative innuendo or worse.

Todo comienza en la habitación de Marta. Marta solo tenía dieciocho años cuando tocó a la puerta del bar de Mati en busca de trabajo. No era más que una niña desesperada por conseguir su propia independencia. Mati se apiadó de ella y la contrató pese a ser la camarera más patosa que jamás había conocido. Diez años después, Marta es una mujer segura de sí misma y aspirante a escritora, pero también una conquistadora sin escrúpulos que seduce a todas las mujeres que se le antoja, algo que asusta a Mati.

Every book in the Society of Scandalous Witches can be read as a standalone. Secrets. Scandal. Hexes. And a desire that refuses to be tamed. In gaslit Victorian England, reputation is everything—and Lady Cynthia Burrows has perfected hers. A flawless hostess. A dutiful wife. A paragon of the...

Uma releitura potente, ambiciosa e envolvente de um dos maiores mitos da Antiga Grécia: Ariadne, a princesa de Creta, desejada por homens e deuses... e irmã do temível Minotauro.

Benji I'm the sunshine one. The one that no one ever worries about. The one who makes everyone laugh. The one who keeps his crap together. But one night with a rockstar threatens to unravel all my carefully built defenses. Nolan pushes all my buttons, transforming me into someone I've never been...

Dice una antigua leyenda, que las almas gemelas son dos mitades de un alma que fue dividida, y que estas, a lo largo de su existencia, se buscan para volver a unirse y convertirse en una sola alma. Todos tenemos un alma gemela que en alguna parte nos espera, con quien estamos predestinados a reencontrarnos para no separarnos jamás. Algunos ya la encontraron, otros estamos a una luz roja y un choque, de encontrarla. Victoria y yo estábamos destinadas a encontrarnos, pero el destino no lo pondría muy fácil, porque yo tenía novio.

Ein lesbischer Liebesroman über zwei außergewöhnliche Frauen und ihren Versuch, eine Liebe jenseits des Scheinwerferlichts zu leben. Als Anna in der Londoner U-Bahn Jess begegnet, wirkt die attraktive junge Frau, als sei sie auf der Flucht. Anna hilft ihr und bietet ihr einen Zufluchtsort in...

Aquel verano vi mi primer muerto, morado, hinchado, guapo aún, con los rizos revueltos. Ahogado en la laguna, aunque quizás estaba ya muerto cuando se puso de pie. Muerto antes que ahogado, esto decían los del pueblo. Yo lo sigo viendo muchas noches, hermoso, amoratado y frío. Fosforescente...

A Opus Sky—o conjunto dos três principais satélites de telecomunicação do território nacional, também conhecidos como a starlink brasileira, exigem observação e manutenção constante. Porém o seu bom funcionamento está ameaçado, desde que a astronauta Lilith, que chefia a nave de reparos sozinha, parou de desenvolver seu trabalho, além de não responder a seus superiores na Terra.

"A ruthless meth dealer is torching Atlanta's streets, and God and Day are striking back with two of Hollywood's legendary pyro experts." The war raging through Atlanta isn't just about drugs—it's about power, leverage, and survival. God and Day's task force is the only barrier standing...