Resultados para "Jam" en Literatura de género

Le Tour d'écrou est une nouvelle fantastique d'Henry James. Le narrateur assiste à la lecture du journal d'une gouvernante. La jeune femme a été engagée par un riche célibataire pour veiller sur ses neveu et nièce, Flora et Miles. Orphelins, ceux-ci vivent dans une vaste propriété isolée à la campagne.

World War III has come to an end after four years alongside global liberty. Under the oppression of the new country of Botania, the global populace finds themselves under the tyrannical thumb of the man who calls himself The Emperor.Jacob Franz, eighteen years old, and a resident one of the last...

Familial Reflections: An anthology of familial horror reflecting love/hate, light/dark, good/evil.Terrifying stories by Richard Thomas, Michael Bailey, Stephen King, Richard Chizmar, Justin Zimmerman and Mercedes M Yardley.Chilling poetry by Erin Sweet Al-Mehairi, Wrath James White, Maxwell I...

Christians are binging this in a weekend. Not your typical Christian Fiction. This one will impact your walk with Christ. Real spiritual warfare unfolds quietly in offices, living rooms, hospital rooms, and everyday conversations where believers decide whether to speak or stay silent.Tommy Finch...

What if everything became free—except the time you already lost?Daniel Bennett spends his life working two jobs to keep his family afloat. Then one night, every price disappears, money stops mattering, and tireless robots arrive promising to make life easier.By morning, the machines have...

Cuando Jennifer Easter aterrizó en su nueva vida, a cinco mil kilómetros de casa, su prima Pat la esperaba con los brazos abiertos y aquella única advertencia. Pero incluso sin haber tenido la oportunidad de conocerlo, sabía que su completa aversión por los hombres guapos hacía del todo innecesario aquel aviso. El tal James no tenía ninguna posibilidad…, entre otras cosas porque, muy a su pesar, apenas podía pensar en otra cosa que no fuera el apuesto desconocido con el que no dejaba de toparse una y otra vez desde que había llegado a Santa Carla.

Em 3 de dezembro de 1976, às vésperas das eleições na Jamaica e dois dias antes de Bob Marley realizar o show Smile Jamaica para aliviar as tensões políticas em Kingston, sete homens não identificados invadiram a casa do cantor com metralhadoras em punho. O ataque feriu Marley, a esposa e o empresário, entre várias outras pessoas. Poucas informações oficiais foram divulgadas sobre os atiradores. No entanto, muitos boatos circularam a respeito do destino deles. Breve história de sete assassinatos é uma obra de ficção que explora esse período instável na história da Jamaica e vai muito além.

1859, Nigeria. In the fishing village of Itu Agan, nine-year-old Alabi and his inventor father test a new steamboat prototype when a platoon of automaton soldiers raid their village. The metal invaders execute the village chief and capture Korede, Alabi's father, leaving him and his mother alone and devastated. There is no choice but to accept the new order. All the village boys begin work as fishermen and plantation farmers as soon as they become teenagers and, for nine long years, Alabi must put the promise of invention nurtured in his childhood to rest.

Aura Sullivan runs his family's empire with precision and authority, certain of what he wants and not afraid to stake his claim. Like his cousin, Enzo, he moves with intention in both business and in love. While Enzo is in the beginning stages of building something meaningful and steady with...

In the summer of 1813, an increasingly crowded group of settlers gathered in an improvised fortification located on the Alabama River in what is now Baldwin County. They strived to avoid attack by hostile "Redsticks," Creek warriors who yearned to return to a way of life free from the advancing European and American cultures. Embracing the policies of Shawnee chief Tecumseh, these warriors, led by William Weatherford, banded together to inflict one of the most serious military defeats in American history. Such a victory was not inevitable or even likely.

After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen—Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom. As internal political strife and a clash of cultures lead to seemingly inevitable conflict, Blackthorne’s loyalty and strength of character are tested by both passion and loss.

«Eres capaz de mirar a lo imposible a la cara y decirle que se siente y se calle. El mundo necesita personas así. El mundo te necesita a ti». Mil desconocidos reciben una invitación. Solo cien superarán la selección. Una competición sin precedentes ideada por MrBeast, el creador de...

Sadina and the islanders are up against both man and nature as they navigate their way to Alaska. There, they hope to meet the mysterious Godhead, unsure of what separates myth from truth. But the Godhead, now led by Alexandra, is fractured. Within the cracks of their sacred trinity, secrets are revealed that blur the lines of good and evil forever.

THE LONG-AWAITED FINAL NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING BRITISH COMEDY SERIES. In the past twenty-four hours, Tash has experienced more of the 1980s than most people managed in a decade. She believed their adventures were over. She should have known better. It’s July 1985. Dallas is unmissable, and everyone knows a Rik or a Vyvyan. Air Mail can change a life, while somebody has translated the year’s biggest UK chart hit into Spanish. A Smurf is going on holiday. A Wallace Arnold coach is on the wrong side of the road.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘This book is a complete delight, not only a fairytale for adults that transports you on a magical journey of childlike wonder, but also a parable that helps you lead a better life’ - JAMES NORTON ‘Magically hopeful. This story will speak to your soul...

Laurel Hearthwick makes memory candles for Bramblefen’s Harvest Moon Social. Her work is precise, her shop is warm, and her village is built on the kind of quiet that can last for decades. Then one candle burns wrong. A witness sees fog, a lantern chain, and a girl going under the black fen water while someone watches from the bank. The vision leads Laurel into archives, workshops, and old boardwalks where every answer seems to have been edited. A map has been recopied. A record altered. A name erased from the village’s shared memory.

The second installment in #1 New York Times bestselling author James Clavell’s Asian Saga, Tai Pan, Part One contains the first half of the sweeping epic of the founding of Hong Kong. “There can only be one Tai-Pan.” Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also...

In the twilight of a collapsing Earth and under the sinister hand of a galactic force known as the Gray Purpose, humanity has traded freedom for order. But not all will bow. When a dying soldier of the Purpose washes ashore on a forgotten beach, he brings with him the first cracks in a carefully maintained reality. He is found by a ragtag band of wanderers a traveling musician with fire in her hair, an aging comedian, a boy genius.

What if the wealth you're working so hard to build isn't the wealth your family truly needs? Mark and Emily Stone have built an enviable life. A thriving business, financial security, the admiration of their peers. But on the night of their biggest celebration, Emily sees what others miss: their adult children slipping away, a marriage running on autopilot, their legacy being measured in money instead of meaning. An unexpected encounter draws them to a mysterious mountain lodge where nothing is quite as it seems.

En Los papeles de Aspern se debaten la pasión de un editor en busca de los "papeles" de su poeta favorito, la astucia de la mujer centenaria que fue amante del poeta y guarda celosamente esos papeles, y la estúpida ingenuidad de la sobrina, que se convierte en el eje de la lucha sorda y tensa entre el editor y la anciana. Toda la narración está envuelta en misterio, casi en suspense.