Resultados para "Brennen" en Narrativa literaria

El mundo de Mariana Enriquez no tiene por qué ser el nuestro, y, sin embargo, lo termina siendo. Bastan pocas frases para pisarlo, respirarlo y no olvidarlo gracias a una viveza emocional insólita. Con la cotidianidad hecha pesadilla, el lector se despierta abatido, perturbado por historias e imágenes que jamás conseguirá sacarse de la cabeza.

En el verano de 1976 una niña 'perspicaz, observadora e intuitiva' está lista para dejar atrás la infancia. Su pequeño mundo familiar y suburbano, atravesado por las tensiones del esfuerzo diario y el resentimiento de las ilusiones perdidas, está dominado por una figura central y referente...

¿Querés leer La constelación de Andrómeda? No lo intentes. No vas a poder. Es un artefacto inclasificable, irreductible a la categoría de "texto". Puede recorrerse como un álbum de fotografías, proyectarse como una película o escucharse como una banda de sonido. Simultáneamente. La...

Manuela Espinal Solano tenía cuatro años cuando escribió su primera canción. En su casa la música crecía como las plantas: Espinal veía a sus abuelos cantar, a su mamá cantar, a su tía cantar e iba grabando melodías que se le ocurrían de repente. Quería ser cantante, sospecharon...

When a witch is born, a doppelganger is created. For the witch to master her powers, the twin must be killed. Until now.... Created by the merging of witch and doppelganger, Mirei is a unique being. Her extraordinary magic makes her the most poweful witch alive - and a notorious social outcast. While Satomi, the leader of the witches' ruling Primes, hails Mirei as a miracle, rival Primes proclaim that Mirei is an evil abomination...and that those who champion her must be destroyed.

I can’t talk. I can’t walk. I’m alive, but am I living? My name is Lily Cooper, and I have cerebral palsy. I can’t seem to control my muscles. My body refuses to cooperate. I may be confined to my wheelchair, but my mind is sharp, and I’m stubborn as hell. I will not allow my disability to define me. I will pave my own path in life. I choose strength. I choose to live.

Biddy Weir is a quirky girl. Abandoned by her mother as a baby, and with a father who's not quite equipped for the challenges of modern parenting, Biddy lives in her own little world, happy to pass her time painting by the sea and watching the birds go by. That is, until she meets Alison Flemming. Because there are a few things about Biddy that aren't normal, you see. And Alison isn't afraid to point them out to the world. All of a sudden, Biddy's quiet life is thrown into turmoil. If only there was someone to convince her that, actually, everyone's a little bit weird....

Ein sengend heißer Freitagnachmittag in Durton, einer Kleinstadt im ländlichen Australien: Ronnie und Esther, beste Freundinnen, fahren gemeinsam nach der Schule nach Hause - doch nur Ronnie kommt schließlich dort an. Die zwölfjährige Esther bleibt zunächst verschwunden, eine groß angelegte Suche beginnt - bis wenige Tage später ihre Leiche gefunden wird. Was ist geschehen? Die kleinstädtische Gemeinschaft kämpft mit Trauer und Schrecken ob des Verlusts - und mit gegenseitigen Verdächtigungen, die nicht lange auf sich warten lassen.

Leslie Jamison erkundet die Tiefe von Verlangen, Intimität und Obsession und testet dabei auch die Grenzen ihrer eigenen Offenheit und ihres Mitgefühls für andere aus. Wie kann man empathisch über menschliche Erfahrung schreiben, ohne die kritische Distanz zu verlieren? Wie das Beteiligtsein verarbeiten, ohne der Selbstbezogenheit zu erliegen?

Lucy Kincaid returns in Allison Brennan's Stalked—as a killer's obsession. IN THE GAME OF CRIME A new trainee at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Lucy Kincaid has already seen more than her share of murder and mayhem. Still reeling from the sex-crime case that sealed her reputation, she's found a...

KISS THE GIRLS AND MAKE THEM DIE Lucy Kincaid has firsthand experience dealing with deadly criminal predators, and she’s fully prepared to share her many talents with the FBI. But when her career plans are derailed, her boyfriend, security expert Sean Rogan, asks for help on his latest...

When a young widow's reclusive life in a charming beach town is interrupted by a surprise visitor, she is forced to reckon with dark secrets about her family, her late husband, and the past she tried to leave behind. Lauren Adelman and her high school sweetheart, Rory Kincaid, are a golden...

“World-class nail-biter . . . [Allison] Brennan is in the groove with this one.”—Lee Child Six years ago, Lucy Kincaid was attacked and nearly killed by an online predator. She survived. Her attacker did not. Now Lucy’s goal is to join the FBI and fight cyber-crime, but in the meantime...

On a summer afternoon in 1998, six-year-old Iris Neff walked away from a barbecue in her small suburban town...and vanished. Missing persons investigator Brenna Spector has a rare neurological disorder that enables her to recall every detail of every day of her life. A blessing and a curse, it began in childhood, when her older sister stepped into a strange car never to be seen again, and it’s proven invaluable in her work. But it hasn’t helped her solve the mystery that haunts her above all others - and it didn’t lead her to little Iris.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her sixteenth riveting novel featuring forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan, whose examination of a young girl killed in a hit and run in North Carolina triggers an investigation into international human trafficking. When Charlotte...

'A haunting and darkly beautiful retelling of Dickens's Great Expectations.' Karen Brooks, author. The icily enigmatic anti-hero of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations tells her own story ... and changes the ending in this beguiling feminist take on a classic for readers of Pip Williams and...

In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam came home to Sam Hughes, whosefather was killed there before she was born. The soldier-boy in the picture never changed. In a way that made him dependable. But he seemed so innocent. ""Astronauts have been to the moon,"" she blurted out to the picture...

An abridged selection of Mark Twain's finest work.