Resultados para "Cosmo" en Literatura y ficción

Es la intención de este audiolibro mostrar que en la relatividad general esas dos caras de la cultura muestran el mismo aire de familia que cualquiera puede apreciar entre el rostro delirante que la tradición nos ha legado de don Quijote y ese icono de la modernidad que es el rostro de un Einstein desmelenado.

L'universo è un'immensa foresta abitata da feroci predatori. Nascondersi significa sopravvivere, rivelarsi significa diventare prede. È quello che ha fatto la Terra, e ora i predatori stanno arrivando. Impiegheranno 400 anni, attraverso gli spazi siderali, e la Terra tenta di organizzare una disperata resistenza.

Actor Matthew McConaughey descends into a surreal desert of the soul, an admirer of Miley Cyrus performs a 3,000-word sentence in defense of his passion, an aging porn star dons a dinosaur costume to film the sex scene of a lifetime, and Leonard Cohen shills for Subway: these mercurial and wildly varied stories explode the conventions of short fiction.

Juan Bonilla recupera la figura de Nahui Olin, una de las mujeres más carismáticas del arte mexicano del siglo XX, para una obra merecedora del Premio Nacional de Narrativa 2020. Esta es una historia de amor y fantasmas. Nahui Olin fue, durante los veinte años, la musa de todo el mundo en...

Jóvenes de ambos sexos se encuentran dentro de una nave espacial que tiene un destino desconocido. La única compañía con la que pueden contar, es la de un grupo de robots que les cuidan y asesoran en todo, incluso un poco más de la cuenta.... Pero los jóvenes haciendo gala de esa curiosidad típica en ellos empiezan a investigar.

Es la intención de este audiolibro mostrar que en la relatividad general esas dos caras de la cultura muestran el mismo aire de familia que cualquiera puede apreciar entre el rostro delirante que la tradición nos ha legado de don Quijote y ese icono de la modernidad que es el rostro de un Einstein desmelenado.

In December of 1945, in the Upper Egyptian desert, an Arab farmer and his brother left their village in search of sebakh, a soft soil which was used to fertilize crops, and while digging in the foot-hills of the mountains near the village of Nag Hammadi, they found something else. In the hole the brothers created, they stumbled upon a sealed earthenware jar which contained thirteen books, or codices, all bound in thick leather that was thousands of years old.

Pella, Greece; 341 B.C. Alexandros is a middle child caught between two warring spouses, born to both a king and queen, but never meant to rule himself. When a mysterious young man arrives from the north, fleeing his own family, and meets Alexandros in a garden in the Macedonian capital, the bond that's created between them will soon become unbreakable and ultimately define both the direction of the Ancient World and ours.

"A mulher que ele amava tanto desfazia-se em provas de amor com o marido na hora solene em que se despedia da terra." Ponto de virada na vida do protagonista Cosme, a morte se sua Carlota o faz rever, tarde demais, seus sentimentos. Com notável sensibilidade, Machado de Assis faz o leitor mergulhar na psicologia dos personagens.

On October 28, 1940, Mussolini provides Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas with an ultimatum - either allow Axis forces to occupy their country or face war - and Greece’s response is swift: “Oxi!” they say. “No!” In a small village nestled against the radiant waters of the Aegean Sea, Alexei, the son of a local fisherman, and his best friend Costa - who were both born on the same night eighteen years earlier and have been like brothers ever since - leave their homes, like all the other young men in their village and throughout Greece, to bravely fight for their country.

Richement documenté, ce nouveau roman de Cristina Caboni nous plonge dans l'univers fascinant des souffleurs de verre, et brosse le portrait de deux femmes fortes et farouchement libres qui défient les lois et les préjugés de leur époque.

東洋の化粧品王は、いかにして誕生したか「ほんまに、きみが愛おし！」　時は明治の世。秀才ながらも、山口の家族を支えるため進学をあきらめ、単身神戸に出てきた少年・利一。牛より安い値段で花街に売られてきた少女・ハナ。神戸の花隈での二人の出会いは、やがて日本の生活をも一変させる発明、大ヒット商品誕生へとつながっていく。

Fêter mon anniversaire depuis un cachot ? Ce n'est pas vraiment ce que j'avais imaginé. Mais lorsque le Seigneur du Chaos (un démon sexy à mourir) me prend pour mon double maléfique, c'est exactement ce qu'il se passe. Quand il finit par comprendre que je ne suis qu'une simple mortelle, il me propose un accord que je ne peux refuser : son autorisation de rester dans la ville interdite pour retrouver le meurtrier de ma mère en échange de mon aide.

Les jours passés à la librairie Morisaki resteront à jamais gravés dans ma mémoire. Puisque c'est là-bas que j'ai commencé à vivre, à vivre réellement. Sans cette parenthèse, ma vie aurait été bien moins colorée, bien plus monotone, bien plus triste. Un lieu précieux, inoubliable. Voilà ce qu'est la librairie Morisaki à mes yeux.

Life is tough on space station Belvaille - not for the aristocratic nobles that call it home, but for the poor slobs like Hank. Hank is considered a celebrated cutthroat and the oldest living person in the city. His occupation is to be hired muscle for those people who don't want to get their hands dirty but still want dirty things done.

If Pierra Calasanz-Labrador’s debut poetry collection The Heartbreak Diaries was equivalent to an “ugly cry”, this second volume is an introspective journey, a quiet voice longing to be heard. Like stumbling upon an introvert’s secret diary, these 50 poems chronicle fervent wishes, hidden fears, and everyday acts of bravery that may sound uncannily familiar.

After solving one impossible mystery, Deirdre Green remains stumped by the remaining clues left by her late father. Every time she makes progress with The Monarch Papers, she realizes his cryptic riddles have only created more questions. As Deirdre begins to walk stranger, more dangerous paths, she finds that dark forces hell-bent on her destruction wait in the shadows....

Author of Markman's Home, Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr., has created characters as memorable as any in the realm of magic realism. Set in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1976, the writer recounts what-ifs with spectacular scenes in a rail yard, through hidden tunnels, and in old abandoned buildings. From the beginning when a visitor from another world pops up in a downtown Louisville ad agency, until the spectacular finale, the action ratchets up at a dizzying rate.

He straightened his spine, raised his head, and extended his gun arm towards me in a slow, vertical arc. I saw then what he was, and stood still in front of him, for he was here on business. He was a small, serious, stone-eyed angel of mercy. Janet is a skeptic, a journalist; Maxine revels in New Age fantasies; and Ray, a drifter, is a born-again Christian. The common ground is the house they share. But their fragile domestic balance is about to explode amid the smashing of ukeleles, the unexpected ascension of an angel and a sudden shower of jonquils.

Dark Skies. A poem about the importance of seeing terrestrial bodies at night, like we used to in days of old.