Resultados para "E A Johnson" en Literatura y ficción

Maya Reyes, Aethermere’s most skilled Threadweaver, has fought tirelessly to mend the threads of reality. But now, with the Loom itself weakening, the fabric of the world is beginning to tear apart. As cracks appear across the land, dangerous forces emerge from the growing rifts, threatening everything she has worked to protect.

Gerard Ploilaux, a 17th-century violin enthusiast, makes a rare find in a unique violin, which produces the most incredible sound he has yet experienced. Seeking to replace the strings, he is driven on a quest that takes him to places few have ventured and he meets people he wished he had not. The excursion leaves him wishing he had not ventured from the familiar sanctuary of his life into terror-striken realms he did not know existed.

William Shakespeare has undergone psychological analyses ever since Freud diagnosed Hamlet with an Oedipus complex. But now, two psychologists propose to turn the tables by telling how Shakespeare himself understood human behavior and the innermost workings of the human mind. Psychology...

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.

Forced to flee to the First Hunger and escape the wrath of the Crown and their new, deranged leader, Drake and his companions soon find themselves caught up in a civil war which threatens to tear the cosmos apart. A new enemy, one of the elder gods, has risen from obscurity, aligning herself with Chaos itself in a bid to topple the existing hierarchy and reshape the multiverse to her own designs. Book 4 of The Seven Hungers series places Drake in a new kind of peril, forcing him to battle not only his own inner demons, but the malevolent force of Chaos itself.

As a barrister in 1818 London, William Snopes is a strong advocate who chooses to defend the poorer classes against the powerful. That changes the day a struggling heiress, Lady Madeleine Jameson, arrives at his door. 

This anthology features a wide array of thought-provoking, genre-defining works from the 1900s, showcasing the range of modern storytelling—from existential musings to dark humour and intricate social commentary. These are the stories that have shaped modern literature, offering timeless insights into human nature and society. This collection brings together the finest modernist narratives, political reflections, and social commentaries that have shaped literature as we know it.

A collection of twelve spine-tingling short stories of cursed curios that bring misfortune, madness and death upon their owners, penned by modern masters of the weird and uncanny. Sometimes your possessions own you. Delve into twelve terrifying stories that reimagine a tradition that stretches...

Rhyker Valtheris is what no one thought possible: a draconian prince born without horns or scales, yet able to wield the elemental power of dragons. He's ready for his first mission beyond the Eternal Walls of Flame. Until the dragons burst through them. In one night, the Royal Capital is left in ashes. The creatures Rhyker once revered become the enemy, and wonder turns to vengeance.

Stevie Bell es una entusiasta fan de la investigación criminal. ¿Y qué mejor lugar para profundizar en sus conocimientos que la Academia Ellingham, el centro privado fundado en 1930 por el millonario excéntrico Albert Ellingham en las remotas montañas de Vermont? La prestigiosa y exclusiva academia, en la que solo se acepta a un reducido número de alumnos brillantes, fue la escena de un crimen que lleva décadas sin resolver y del que Stevie lo sabe casi todo.

Sometimes ordinary people can make an extraordinary difference . . . Meet Gracie. At mid-life she’s fed up with her unhappy marriage and humdrum career, so when a new housing estate threatens to sever the last connection to her late father, the oak tree he planted as a child, she decides to...

In 1946, a young female attorney from New York City attempts the impossible: obtaining justice for a Black man in the Deep South. At the NAACP offices in New York City, Regina Robichard opens a letter for her employer and mentor, Thurgood Marshall, surprised to discover it is from M. P. Calhoun...

¿Dónde buscas a alguien que en realidad nunca está? Siempre en una escalinata, pero nunca en la escalera... Los sugerentes acertijos que se ocultan tras los asesinatos de Ellingham siguen esperando que alguien sepa resolverlos, y Stevie sabe que está muy cerca. Pero el camino hacia la verdad tiene más entresijos de los que se imagina... y continuar avanzando implica hacer daño a alguien que quiere. En la segunda entrega de la trilogía El caso Vermont de Maureen Johnson, todo tiene un precio, y alguien pagará la verdad con su vida.

In this short, sharp, Southern Gothic horror novel, home takes on a whole new meaning. From Micaiah Johnson, the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Space Between Worlds. At the end of the Civil War, a daughter of the Confederacy made what she thought was an innocent wish: to build a...

Quill Point, Illinois, used to be like any other small town. Most of its citizens have lived there their entire lives. Each of them is a part of a larger community of friends, neighbors, and coworkers. When the sky changed, no one saw it for what it was: the beginning of the end. When the sky changed, no one saw it for what it was: the beginning of the end. Now, as horrors and monsters rise, and the population of Quill Point dwindles, the remaining citizens must try to survive the evil machinations at the heart of this new apocalypse. They are in the middle of something beyond understanding.

Sobre la Academia Ellingham debe de pesar una maldición. Ya han muerto tres personas. Una, víctima de una broma que salió mal o de un asesinato. Otra, por una fatalidad. Y ahora, un accidente en Burlington se ha cobrado una nueva vida. Y todo justo en el momento de mayor triunfo de Stevie Bell…. Sabe quién es Atentamente Perverso. Lo ha resuelto. El crimen del siglo. Al menos, eso cree. Con esta nueva tragedia, es difícil concentrarse en el pasado. No solo ha muerto una persona en la ciudad, sino que además David ha desaparecido por propia voluntad y está tramando algo.

Ivil Antagonist has everything a woman could want. Power enough to blanket out suns and turn worlds into molten hells, a fleet of warships at her command, and the fear of an entire space-faring nation. But she's silently growing tired of being at the top. There is no place more lonely for someone who has killed all of the competition, and she knows that it will be impossible to find an equal.

Nevada Baylor has a unique and secret skill—she knows when people are lying—and she's used that magic (along with plain, hard work) to keep her colorful and close-knit family's detective agency afloat. But her new case pits her against the shadowy forces that almost destroyed the city of Houston once before, bringing Nevada back into contact with Connor "Mad" Rogan.

Liz Lighty has always believed she’s too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small Midwestern town. But it’s okay - Liz has a plan that will get her out of Campbell, Indiana: attend the uber-elite Pennington College, play in their world-famous orchestra, and become a doctor. But when the financial aid she was counting on unexpectedly falls through, Liz’s plans come crashing down...until she’s reminded of her school’s scholarship for prom king and queen.

Award-winning author Micaiah Johnson invites you to Abernathy House. "You’ve never seen a haunted house like this one before.” —Kylie Lee Baker, USA Today bestselling author of Japanese Gothic A house, itself, is nothing. It’s not a shelter until it is sheltering someone. A house is a...