Resultados para "Haven" en Literatura y ficción

Jason loves walking dogs, but he has plans to do something bigger with his life. Not big like change the world kind of big. But big enough to change at least a few lives. So when he sees an empty garden center with a fenced yard, he gets an idea. Maybe he and Jesse could set up their doggy daycare business there. Tony owns a small clinic downtown that caters to professionals in need of a flu shot or the uninsured who have no other options. Not a lot of in-between cases. So when Harris calls in a favor for a cute boy with a cut that he'd been ignoring for too long, he's excited for the change.

In this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar...

Six years after four family members died of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods—elder, agoraphobic sister Constance; wheelchair-bound Uncle Julian; and 18-year-old Mary Katherine, or, Merricat—live together in pleasant isolation. Merricat has developed an idiosyncratic system of rules and protective magic to guard the estate against intrusions from hostile villagers. But one day a stranger arrives—cousin Charles, with his eye on the Blackwood fortune.

The best of the golden age crime writers, praised by all the top modern writers in the field including P. D. James and Ruth Rendell, Dorothy L. Sayers created the immortal Lord Peter Wimsey. In his eighth appearance (and the second book featuring Harriet Vane), he solves a murder on a deserted English beach. With an introduction by Elizabeth George. A young woman falls asleep on a deserted beach and wakes to discover the body of a man whose throat has been slashed from ear to ear...

Una huida, un regreso y una apuesta arriesgada para salvar a quienes lo necesitan... Y salvar su amor. Cuando Katherine "Kit" FitzGilbert dio la espalda a la sociedad londinense hace más de una década, decidió no volver a poner un pie en un salón de baile. Pero cuando el negocio la lleva a Londres y se ve obligada a correr por su vida, tropieza no solo con un glamuroso salón de baile sino también con Graham, Lord Wharton. 

Everyone deserves a second chance – both in life and love. Dante's been fooled in love before, and his career is dead in the water – he’s determined he won’t be betrayed again. In between part-time jobs, he’s been tricking at the Haven, a run-down London hotel, and rebuilding his independence. But on a particularly cold winter’s evening, a disaster in Room Four nearly finishes him off for good. Will he and his new friends lose the shelter they’ve come to rely on?

Sofía se siente atrapada en su vida en Bruselas y ya no puede más. Desesperada, decide dejarlo todo atrás y presentarse por sorpresa en casa de su hermano Héctor, en Madrid, con un regalo en el que tiene depositados sus sueños, ilusiones y esperanzas. Sin embargo, la sorpresa la recibe ella cuando descubre que Héctor se ha marchado de viaje y que quien está viviendo en la casa es Mateo. Precisamente Mateo que no puede caerle peor…

She's a former Olympic figure skater whose world turned upside down. He's a pro football player who never let go of the past. What happens when these two finally have their second chance, and a stalker threatens everything?

It was supposed to be a medical marvel. Instead, it triggered the apocalypse. Half of humanity mutated into mindless zombies. Half the survivors mutated into the inhumans: various new species of people with new appearances and abilities. Some grew scales, some grew fur, some could fly, some could survive only underwater. Decades passed, and from the ashes of the old world, a new patchwork civilization rose. Humans and inhumans lived in tentative peace, and the zombies turned out to be not much of a threat once a few generations of survivors had come and gone.

Sadomasochism. Obsession. Death. A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet between two lonely young women in an internet chat room in the early 2000s - a darkness that threatens to forever transform them once they finally succumb to their most horrific desires. What have you done today to deserve your eyes?

The following books are included: Paingod and Other Delusions, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream, and From the Land of Fear.

An Amish seamstress and a single father have a chance to make a fresh start in this heartwarming novel about finding love when you need it the most. Noah knows it's time to think about finding a wife. When Greta offers to play matchmaker on his behalf, Noah eagerly accepts. But none of the women she suggests seems quite right, because, unexpectedly, his feelings of respect and friendship for Greta have grown into something even deeper and richer.

"Legado de amor". Lo que menos esperaba Sarah Gooding era que, al devolverle un camafeo a una anciana señora eso la llevara a conseguir un empleo... y a conocer al nieto de la dama, alguien que, socialmente, está muy por encima de ella. En busca de refugio Margaretta Fortescue necesita desaparecer de Londres y de la vida social cuanto antes.

Set in the pre-Christian world of Glome on the outskirts of Greek civilization, it is a tale of two princesses: the beautiful Psyche, who is loved by the god of love himself, and Orual, Psyche's unattractive and embittered older sister, who loves Psyche with a destructive possessiveness. Her frustration and jealousy over Psyche's fate sets Orual on the troubled path of self-discovery. Lewis's last work of fiction, this is often considered his best by critics.

THE HEART-BREAKING POST-APOCALYPTIC TIKTOK SENSATION Discover the haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy set in a deserted world. Deep underground, 39 women are kept in isolation in a cage. Aboveground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by...

The Tobin family is one of the wealthiest and most influential dynasties in the country. Their name synonymous with power, prestige, and old money. At the center of it all stands Marilyn Tobin, the formidable matriarch whose iron will and sharp instincts have kept the family intact through trials and scandals alike.

Margaretta Fortescue necesita desesperadamente desaparecer de la sociedad londinense, y su única esperanza es seguir los rumores de otra joven que recientemente hizo una vida para sí misma lejos del resplandor de la sociedad. Su búsqueda la lleva a la ciudad de mercado de Marlborough donde, a pesar de sus esfuerzos para evitar la atención, no parece eludir al abogado local Nash Banfield. Todo lo que Nash quiere es una vida tranquila y tranquila, sin riesgos ni sorpresas.

Beekeeper Beckett Walsh is living her dream, working alongside her father in their apiary, until his untimely death sends her world into a tailspin. She suddenly finds she must deal with a new part owner of the family business—one who is looking to sell the property. Beck cannot fathom why her father would put her into the position to lose everything they built together.

From the New York Times bestselling author of This Time Next Year comes a heartwarming and hilarious tale that asks: What if you picked up the wrong suitcase and fell head over heels for its mystery owner? Hopeless romantic and lifestyle reporter Laura’s business trip to the Channel Islands...

You think it will never happen to you: the ring of the bell, the policeman on the doorstep. What he says traps you in a nightmare that starts with the words, 'I'm afraid…' Sally Lambert is also afraid, and desperate enough to consider the unthinkable. Is it really, definitely, impossible to...