Resultados para "Das Tor" en Literatura de género

A Brida, una joven irlandesa de veintiún años, le interesa la magia, pero quiere ir más allá y profundizar en sus poderes. Para ello, irá en busca de personas de gran sabiduría, y conocerá al Mago, quien la guiará en su camino. En la exploración de su destino, Brida descubrirá, junto al lector, el poder transformador del amor y tratará de encontrar el equilibrio entre sus relaciones y el deseo de convertirse en bruja.

Dos hermanas gemelas adolescentes y su mejor amiga, la Nena, forman parte de un grupo de música experimental y perversa. Una de las hermanas es sordomuda y la otra fantasea con la idea de cortarle esa lengua inútil… La historia reflexiona sobre la condición sordomuda, sobre escuchar, sobre...

Marcus was never a hero... and he never wanted to be. He never wanted a lot of things. He didn't want to go to school for a pointless degree. He didn't want to be an office drone, working nine-to-five to barely make ends meet. Most importantly, he didn't want to play by other people's rules. He wanted to do things his way and live life on his terms. Some people might have called him a criminal, but he called it freedom. Too bad it got him killed. When everything changed, death didn't take like it used to.

I'm a Navy SEAL sniper, a trained killer. When the boy turns up, the son of my late brother, I'm the last person who should be looking after him. But I'm the only one who can. I've got three weeks to turn my bachelor pad into a home fit for a six-year-old. Alana, the cute caseworker, doesn't think I'm up to the job. I've got to prove to her and my new charge that I'm dad material.

Estamos en una fiesta. Se trata de una celebración que más bien parece un campo de batalla, un sueño absurdo, la realidad en ruinas, porque la percibimos a través de los ojos de un extraño que observa y espera pacientemente para dar golpe. El crimen parece inevitable. Jorge Carrión nos...

Dive into this thrilling standalone MM romance that's filled with suspense and sizzling chemistry by the USA Today bestselling authors Kimberly Knight and Rachel Lyn Adams. This heart-pounding story follows a devoted Secret Service agent and the sassy-mouthed son of the president, whose forbidden love story will keep you on the edge of your seat with every twist and turn.

Este relato nos presenta una sociedad animalizada, salvaje, la de un país llamado El Cráter, en el que descubriremos una ciudad, una región, un pequeño país desaparecido. Nos toparemos con una enfermedad rara e inquietante que convierte a un muchacho en una especie de hombre lobo. Con un...

En octubre de 2016, el director de cine colombiano Sergio Cabrera asiste en Barcelona a una retrospectiva de sus películas. Es un momento difícil: su padre, Fausto Cabrera, acaba de morir; su matrimonio está en crisis, y su país ha rechazado unos acuerdos de paz que le habrían permitido terminar con más de cincuenta años de guerra.

Jodi Picoult's poignant number one New York Times best-selling novels about family and love tackle hot-button issues head on. In The Storyteller, Sage Singer befriends Josef Weber, a beloved Little League coach and retired teacher. But then Josef asks Sage for a favor she never could have imagined - to kill him. After Josef reveals the heinous act he committed, Sage feels he may deserve that fate. But would his death be murder or justice?

Una familia ha alquilado una cabaña por Airbnb. Xoán, anfitrión de esta, se comporta de un modo extraño. A la vez, a otra cabaña cercana no paran de llegar coches con personas que parecen estar por celebrar algo. El padre, académico, intenta trabajar; la madre ha salido a dar un paseo; la...

En usædvanlig tør sommer udtørrer Thornfield-reservoiret, og frem dukker resterne af Hobb's End, den lille Yorkshirelandsby, der blev oversvømmet 60 år tidligere. Det samme gør skelettet af en brutalt myrdet kvinde, og kriminalkommissær Alan Banks må nu finde frem til en morder, der har undgået straf i over et halvt århundrede. I en tør tid udkom første gang i 1999 (og på dansk i 2003) og er nummer 10 i serien om kriminalkommissær Alan Banks.

The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits 100 years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.

As the eldest son of Seattle’s current mob boss, Carmine Martinelli’s life has never really been his own. But he doesn’t mind because his family means more to him than his life. Which is why he's determined to make those responsible for the death of his aunt and uncle pay—in inventive and gruesome ways. And what better way to do that than to infiltrate the Russian Mafia from the inside? It’s a good thing the bratva’s princess is stunning and seemingly willing to do whatever he asks. This vengeance could be the perfect mix of business and pleasure.

Tan pronto conoce a Ricardo Laverde, el joven Antonio Yammara comprende que en el pasado de su nuevo amigo hay un secreto, o quizá varios. Su atracción por la misteriosa vida de Laverde, nacida al hilo de sus encuentros en un billar, se transforma en verdadera obsesión el día en que éste es asesinado. Convencido de que resolver el enigma le señalará un camino en su encrucijada vital, Yammara emprende una investigación que se remonta a los primeros años setenta.

Czechoslovakia, 1944. Hilda and Sheindy's quiet lives are overturned the day the Nazis march them out of their village home and onto a train bound for the unknown. Separated from their parents and five older siblings, the girls cling to each other for survival in their new reality—between the cold, lonely walls of Auschwitz. Hilda knows that if they want to live, they will have to escape.

Im post-revolutionären Ägypten bestimmt das Tor über das Schicksal der Menschen. Ein nicht näher benanntes Land im Nahen Osten: Seit der Niederschlagung der Revolution brauchen die Bürger für jede noch so kleine Kleinigkeit in ihrem Leben die Genehmigung des Staates - sei es für die Überweisung zum Arzt oder für die Erlaubnis, Brot zu kaufen. Um die zu erhalten, müssen sie sich vor einem riesigen Tor anstellen, das angeblich jeden Tag nur einer gewissen Anzahl an Anträgen stattgibt.

What do ice cream and Sadie Montgomery have in common? They're both ice cold, but one taste is never enough. I wanted to be friends - I would have even settled for her seeing me as anything but a nerd - but there was no getting through. So just like any hard-headed, red-blooded man out there, I made up my mind. I'd make my coworker fall for me.

Nora Steinfeld arbeitet in einem Seminarhotel und soll ihre Chefin für vier Wochen vertreten. Kurz nachdem sie die Herausforderung angenommen hat, erhält sie die Diagnose Hirntumor, inoperabel. Und nun? Sie beschließt vorerst niemandem davon zu erzählen. Unbeabsichtigt betritt sie einen der Seminarräume. Ein Professor der Psychologie hält gerade einen Vortrag über die Seele des Menschen. Was sie da hört, ist völlig neu, rüttelt sie auf und führt sie schließlich zu einem ungewöhnlichen Plan.

Pastor Adams tries to welcome everyone who comes into his church. When a weird stranger begins to attend his services, he struggles to balance his beliefs with his gut instinct. And when is daughter goes missing, he begins a frantic search to find the strange man that he suspects of abducting her.

This title is a mystery and romance by Malú Huacuja del Toro of her native Mexico. When a female journalist visits the city in an attempt to escape her heartbreaking past, she finds herself surrounded by corruption.