Resultados para "Anna" en Antologías y relatos breves

Un viaggio in una Napoli inquieta e indimenticabile attraverso episodi al limite del paradossale che ci permettono di incontrare personaggi che resteranno per sempre nel nostro immaginario. "Una straordinaria discesa agli Inferi: nel regno della tenebra e delle ombre" per usare le parole di Pietro Citati. Una discesa attraverso corpi miseri e disperati nel buio profondo di una disparità intollerabile che ci svela i due volti di una città insieme meravigliosa e conturbante.

Chiara è disperata per essersi lasciata convincere a trascorrere le vacanze natalizie sulle Dolomiti insieme alla sua famiglia, invece di scappare verso l'agognato sole dei tropici. L'ultima volta che ha messo gli sci ai piedi, parecchi anni fa, si è ripromessa di non farlo mai più. Dovrà unirsi agli entusiasti sciatori e sperare di tornare tutta intera. Come se la situazione non fosse già di per sé difficile, dovrà anche avere a che fare con Giulio, l'enigmatico fratello del cognato.

Elles també maten no és un exercici de literatura criminal femenina, que ja existeix i rutlla molt bé. Simplement és un recull de relats que demostra que les autores catalanes escriuen allò que els surt de l’ànima, però que si cal matar, maten. Tretze escriptores han compost un relat ben negre. Fora manies i supersticions. El tretze és un bon número i entre totes han construït una antologia que enlluerna per la diversitat de les veus que la integren.

A fresh post-apocalyptic anthology: the end of the world seen through the salvage and ruins, featuring Emily St. John Mandel, Carmen Maria Machado, and more.

Elles també maten no és un exercici de literatura criminal femenina, que ja existeix i rutlla molt bé. Simplement és un recull de relats que demostra que les autores catalanes escriuen allò que els surt de l’ànima, però que si cal matar, maten. Tretze escriptores han compost un relat ben negre. Fora manies i supersticions. El tretze és un bon número i entre totes han construït una antologia que enlluerna per la diversitat de les veus que la integren.

Gloria lavora in una casa editrice. Quello che fa la appassiona. Quando ormai manca poco alle vacanze natalizie, il suo editore le assegna il compito di lavorare al romanzo di un autore appena acquisito, su cui la casa editrice ha investito molto, Orlando James. Gloria accetta ben volentieri, anche se sa che Orlando ha non poche singolari caratteristiche: è eccentrico, non ama le regole, cela a tutti la sua vera identità. Ma soprattutto – cosa che Gloria non immaginava – comincia a mettere in discussione tutti gli interventi di Gloria sul suo romanzo.

In the not-too-distant future, 2185 AD, anti-gerisone is the new drug that stops ageing. People are now living into their hundreds until it's time to take their own big trip up yonder, and in the case of the Ford family and Gramps, the notable patriarch, families are living and fighting together in one home for much longer. Eventually there are no prisons, slums, asylums, poverty, wars, or disease. and 200 years later the population of the US is set at 40 million people. But since no one gets any older, someone must volunteer to die if a baby is born.

England in the early 1320s is a restless place. Edward II’s barons are disgruntled by his preference for Hugh Despenser, and in 1321 Roger Mortimer rebels against his king. With Baron Mortimer rides Adam de Guirande, Mortimer’s most loyal man. But when Edward II strikes back, things look uncomfortably dark for Adam who finds himself a prisoner—and abandoned by everyone but his wife.

Uma coleção de crônicas sobre a maternidade, sobre a tarefa infinita de ser mãe, que começa muito antes do parto, sobre a expectativa e os preparativos para a chegada da criança, sobre a vida com os filhos. Divertidos, espirituosos, experimentais, os textos falam do parto, dos bebês, de alergias, raivas, choros estridentes, noites em claro e outros dilemas e desafios. Como aponta o título do audiolivro, ser mãe é para sempre. Mãeternidade traz uma série de 60 textos sobre dilemas, ansiedades, descobertas, inseguranças, idas e vindas, perrengues e aprendizados infinitos.

Love Changes is an anthology of true love. Sometimes it hurts before it feels good, but for love, it is all worth it.

Żółta tabletka plus to zbiór kilkunastu opowiadań, w których dominuje czarny humor, groteska i absurd doprawione odrobiną surrealizmu i purnonsensu. Humoreski stają się doskonałym antidotum na nudę i zły humor. Łączą różne konwencje, zawierają aluzje literackie. Bohaterami zbioru są nietypowe postaci: zmutowany lis telepata, śmierć ze średniowiecznego dialogu, laleczka voodoo, anioł, samobójczyni czy redaktor na głodzie, których losy pobudzają do refleksji na temat ludzkiej natury.

Beelzebub's got a busy day ahead of him and his printer's gone on the fritz. People to do, things to visit...what's a stressed-out Prince of Darkness to do?

Physician Anna Roberts runs a free health clinic in Kansas City, where she spends her days taking care of the living and avoiding the spirits of the dead.The complete Anna's Nightmare series available in this audiobook: When They Come Calling, When They Come True, and When They Come Alive.

Zbiór składa się z dziesięciu opowiadań. Miejsce akcji: Warszawa, lata 80. XX wieku, środowisko bohemy artystycznej związanej ze studenckim klubem Hybrydy. Miłość i ucieczka od niej uwikłana w polsko-żydowskie stereotypy i animozje. A w tle życie Hybryd. Zbuntowani artyści, a obok młodzi partyjni karierowicze, donosiciele i agenci SB. Jedyny w swoim rodzaju peerelowski przekładaniec z wisienkami w postaci prawdziwych historii z udziałem Agnieszki Osieckiej, Przemysława Gintrowskiego, Wojciecha Młynarskiego, Jerzego Kosińskiego, Jonasza Kofty i Jana Himilsbacha.

Live and work together, or lose everything that matters…The ultimatum tilts Dru Hampton’s contented life in Chandlerville, Georgia, on its ear. The man that Vivian, her cantankerous boss and benefactor, wants Dru to partner with -live- with - is Brad Douglas, who’s let Dru down every way a man can. Sheriff’s deputy Brad has come a long way since his rebellious youth. He’s back home to care for Vivian, his ill grandmother. He’s stayed out of her way all these years to make up for the hurt he once caused.

Although Anna Katharine Green was best known as a crime novelist, this anthology is essentially a collection of horror stories. The Old Stone House is the history of a disastrous love triangle involving a coquettish young girl and two ruthless men determined to win her heart. The other stories share the theme of a manipulative woman whose scheming places the people associated with her in difficult and unfamiliar situations.

Kelvin comes from an isolated community of fierce warriors known as the Xaros. They train rigorously to battle across the portal realms. Through their conquests and tribulation, they allow their society to operate in safety. For Kelvin, he hopes to prove to live up to the legends when he ventures away from home with his twin battle axes infused with magic. He's eager to slay foes and repay the investment sunk into his fancy gear–paid for through the blood and lives of those before him.

Violet Strange is no ordinary well-to-do young New York City debutante. Unbeknownst to family and society friends, she leads a secret life as a professional sleuth for a private detective agency. On a mission to raise money for an undisclosed project, the determined and gutsy young debutante diligently snoops around sleepwalking widows, violent and sinister characters, whispering clocks and concealed tombs, connecting clues to solve tales of murder, mystery and intrigue.

A Lover's Embrace 2 by Skyy: Rayne has a new attitude. After taking six months to travel, Rayne is coming back to Memphis with a new job, a new love, and a new outlook on life. But coming home means coming back to the reality that she left behind. Can she stay strong in the presence of the man who turned her world upside down? Or will she fall back into the disastrous routine that made her run away to begin with?

Season Two, Volume Two. Three more catastrophic crimes lead the Baker Street Team to distant shores as they struggle to save Lucy’s mother and defeat a relentless foe once and for all.