Resultados para "Angels" en Ficción contemporánea

L'Anton Bellart veu com la seva vida fa un tomb inesperat després de l'èxit del seu primer llibre. Empès per un editor expert, es proposa escoltar una novel·la mentre intenta trobar el seu lloc en un món literari tan fascinant com exigent. La Sílvia Cors, una autora que sembla posseir ja un estil propi, esdevé una persona essencial en aquesta nova etapa. El matrimoni, la paternitat i l'afany de destacar, aviat porten l'Anton a descobrir la fragilitat de l'equilibri entre la creació i la vida personal.

Un relat sincer que mostra que quan necessites escoltar-te, una bona manera és escoltar els altres. Una dona en crisi s'instal·la en una casa a les muntanyes amb l'esperança de poder-se refer escrivint en solitud. No preveu, però, que les persones ferides es reconeixen i s'ajuden, i és així com serà acollida per una família després d'una vivència colpidora.

Ada, la protagonista está en el hospital esperando ser informada sobre el estado de su hermano Darío, que dicen que se ha pegado un tiro con su propia arma y está en coma. Todos creen que ha sido un intento de suicidio, pero Ada sabe que su hermano jamás pensaría en matarse porque se quiere demasiado: ¿quién pensaría en suicidarse por la tarde si se ha pasado toda la mañana poniéndose en forma el gimnasio?

Meg Giry grew up with tales of the Opera Ghost, a spectral being said to haunt the Paris Opera House. But when he rescues her from rape in the streets of Paris, Meg learns that the stories are true, that the ghost, also known as the Phantom of the Opera, is a real man, with his sights set on her best friend, Christine Daae. Despite being warned to stay away, Meg is drawn deeper into a world that has remained secret for years....

The complete list of narrators includes: Louise Anne Bateman, Ryan Kirwan, Lynne Fallowell, Victoria Bowes, Joshua Plank, David Plank, Kathy Stokes, Bernard Tagliavini, Jonathan Hope, David Burton, Gabi King, and Shaun Blake.

Un vestido puede parecer ser solamente eso, o resultar ser mucho más. Si alguien, especialmente una mujer, fuera capaz de insuflar a un vestido una personalidad propia, todas las mujeres querrían tenerlo. Se convertiría en un talismán, en un objeto de culto ya que la poseedora, experimentaría un sentimiento de seguridad, de atractivo sexual y otras particulares características que la harían infinitamente poderosa.

Boomtown Los Angeles, 1929: Into a world of movie lots and speakeasies comes Xas, stunt flier and wingless angel, still nursing his broken heart and determined only to go on living in the air. But there are forces that will keep him on the ground. Forces like Conrad Cole, movie director and aircraft designer, a glory-seeking king of the grand splash who is also a man sinking into his own sovereign darkness. And Flora McLeod, film editor and maimed former actress, who sees something in Xas that no one has ever seen before, not even God, who made him, or Lucifer, the general he once followed.

Ravid Rockulz has a good life as a dive leader in Hawaii: good friends, good times, plenty of willing female tourists. But something is missing. What’s more, he’s increasingly disillusioned with Hawaii. The influx of new residents seeking Paradise with all the modern conveniences is dragging the islands ever closer to that scab on the world, LA. An unexpected heartbreak and a disconcerting attempt on his life push Ravid out of his rut: Tahiti calls, untrammeled and pure. There, Ravid rediscovers a passion for photography.

Meteors aren't really stars. Lizbeth knows this. But she is a descendant of the Choctaw, who believe that meteors are really stars cast out of heaven - they are the fallen angels, the bringers of bad luck. When one of them lands nearby, Lizbeth sets out to find it. She returns with a mason jar full of magic even greater and darker than she could ever have imagined.