Resultados para "Invisible" en Literatura de género

David Salas, un prometedor lingüista del Trinity College de Dublín, se encuentra, después de aterrizar en Madrid para pasar sus vacaciones, con Victoria Goodman, una vieja amiga de sus abuelos, y con su joven ayudante, una misteriosa historiadora del arte. Ese hecho trastocará sus planes y lo empujará a una sorprendente carrera por averiguar qué ha sucedido con uno de los alumnos de la escuela de literatura que regenta lady Goodman. Para su sorpresa, la clave parece esconderse en el mito del grial y su vinculación con España.

En 1967, Adam Walker, un aspirante a poeta y estudiante de la Universidad de Columbia, asiste a una fiesta donde conoce a una enigmática pareja formada por el sofisticado Rudolf Born y la silenciosa y seductora Margot. En poco tiempo, Walker se encuentra atrapado en un triángulo perverso que tras un repentino acto de violencia alterará el curso de su vida para siempre.

Antonia Adams is the product of a loveless marriage between a beautiful young model and an aristocrat. As a child, she is abandoned in the abyss that yawns between them, blamed by her mother, ignored by her father, and neglected by both. Unprotected and unloved, she learns that the only way to feel safe is to hide from the dangers around her, drawing as little attention as possible to herself, to be "invisible."

Andrea and Julián haven't seen one another in twenty-one years—not since that tragic, fateful night their senior year of high school that marked their group of friends forever. A shocking phone call brings the two together again in Houston, where they begin to unravel the truth of that year, picking open long scabbed-over wounds from their upper-class adolescence in 1990s Bolivia and the scandal that ripped them apart.

Una extraña y solitaria adolescente es internada en un psiquiátrico. Día a día, va cambiando de personalidad, de edad, de actitud y, mientras el misterio crece en torno a ella, un joven médico intenta, como si fuera un detective, desenredar poco a poco la historia detrás.

Si el terror irrumpió en la literatura del siglo XVIII para contraponer la potencia latente de lo inexplicable por sobre la fe racionalista de la Ilustración, estas tres nouvelles de Diego Muzzio encuentran el momento preciso en que esas fuerzas colisionan en la historia local: el brote de...

Un anciano funcionario había dedicado su vida coleccionar grabados de los maestros más famosos de la época llegando a tener la mejor colección de Alemania. Como estaba ciego y su escasa pensión apenas les daba para comer era el mujer y a su hija, estas a escondidas van a empezar a vender los valiosos grabados de su padre sustituyéndolos por copias.

Euridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While Antenor is busy congratulating himself on his excellent catch, Euridice spends her spends her humdrum days ironing his shirts and removing the lumps of onion from his food, dreaming of the success she could have made of herself - as a writer, dressmaker or culinary whiz - in another life.

En la ciudad de Nueva York, las vidas de tres exitosas profesionales se verán alteradas tras la muerte accidental de un reconocido empresario de la industria textil. Rodeadas por el sofisticado ambiente de la ciudad de los rascacielos y la industria de la moda, las tres mujeres, que en principio no deberían haber coincidido nunca, deberán aliarse para enfrentar un futuro incierto, pues sus vidas profesionales y sentimentales serán expuestas y cuestionadas por una élite empresarial que está dispuesta a verlas caer.

"[Narrator Julia] Whelan's performance is unforgettable in this darkly romantic fantasy about one young woman cursed always to be forgotten...Her depiction of the darkness is smooth with a low cadence, capturing listeners' attention and their heart strings." –Booklist In the vein of The Time...

When Sean O'Brien watches a girl darting through traffic to pick up money she dropped, he stops to help. The next time he sees her face it's during a TV newscast. She's vanished. As the case grows cold, Sean can't forget the touching story she shared with him. To find her, he must enter the dark web, infiltrate a global criminal ring, and outwit one of the sharpest and most inhuman minds he's ever faced in a battle where the girl's life is reduced to a matter of days. 

Hijo bastardo de una adolescente expulsada de su comunidad rural y adoptado por una excéntrica pareja de acomodados dublineses, Cyril es un niño educado que crece acostumbrado a enmascarar sus emociones.

Step into the chilling, fast-paced world of The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells, a groundbreaking classic of science fiction and psychological horror. When the mysterious scientist Griffin unlocks the secret of invisibility, his triumph quickly descends into obsession, paranoia, and terror. Unseen by the world yet increasingly unhinged, he stalks the streets, spreads fear, and tests the limits of power without accountability.

Beginning with the emergence of the New Left out of the tumultuous 1960s, the first two installments of Tribulation Cult stretch over three generations, climaxing with the election of 2048. Center stage are four college friends who follow divergent life paths—two Christians who become ministers and their liberal counterparts who rise to the summit of world politics.

Palahniuk’s fashion-model protagonist has it all - boyfriend, career, loyal best friend - until an accident destroys her face, her ability to speak, and her self-esteem. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a bona fide woman.

She’s a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful center of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up something better. And that salvation hides in the last places you’ll ever want to look.

Whilst Paul and Kate work alongside each other as doctor and nurse on the surgical ward, strains in their relationship emerge. And when Kate's baby dies and Paul's inexperience costs lives, doubt and despair hang in the air and their marriage appears to be doomed.

Listening to the chatter of her six-year-old daughter, Cammi, Connie Cantland begins to wonder if Cammi’s imaginary friend could be more than just imaginary. Connie knows her friend and coworker, Dani, believes in the survival of souls after the death of bodies, and the reincarnation of souls, so she shares her concerns with Dani about Cammi’s supposed friend. Dani introduces Connie to Dacque LaRose: A friend and mentor on souls and reincarnation. Connie and Dacque’s conversations propel Connie and her husband Carson into an educational journey.

For high-powered personal injury attorney Noah Byron, the good things in life come with a price tag - cars, houses, women. That's why he represents only cases that come with the possibility of a nice cut of the action. But as a favor to his ex-wife, he meets with the mother of twelve-year-old Joel, a boy poisoned by tainted children's medicine. While the official story is that a psycho tampered with bottles, the boy's mother believes something much more sinister is at work...and the trail leads right back to the pharmaceutical company.

Un événement familial les amène néanmoins à se retrouver : l'enterrement de leur père à Loisel, village perché sur les falaises normandes. Pendant les obsèques, une inconnue leur remet une lettre. Quelques mots seulement qui résonnent pourtant avec la force d’une énigme. Antoine se détourne de ce qu'il juge n'être qu'un joli message et rentre à sa vie rangée avec sa femme et ses enfants. Mais Valentine est troublée ; dans ces lignes, elle ne reconnaît rien de son père, ni des rires de son enfance.