Resultados para "Jam" en Literatura de género

Original cast members from the beloved TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, reunite for an all-new adventure about connections that never die—even if you bury them. A decade has passed since the epic final battle that concluded Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV). The game-changing spell that gave power to all potential Slayers persists. With new Slayers constantly emerging, things are looking grim for the bad guys.

Ulysses is regarded by many as the single most important novel of the 20th century. It tells the story of one day in Dublin, June 16th 1904, largely through the eyes of Stephen Dedalus (Joyce's alter ego from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) and Leopold Bloom, an advertising salesman. Both begin a normal day, and both set off on a journey around the streets of Dublin, which eventually brings them into contact with one another.

Though Ulysses is widely regarded as a "difficult" novel, this fresh and lively reading shows its comic genius as well as its great moments of poignance, making it more accessible than ever before.

A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw. Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will he become the very evil he fought to destroy? In his darkening shadow, a new hero rises.

Un día en la vida de Farrington, un oficinista dublinés atrapado en la monotonía y la frustración. Farrington, acosado por su jefe exigente y atrapado en un trabajo que detesta, busca refugio en el alcohol y la compañía de otros hombres en los pubs de Dublín. Su jornada laboral se ve interrumpida por un acto de rebeldía que lo lleva a ser reprendido y humillado, exacerbando su deseo de escapar. La historia sigue su descenso por la tarde y la noche, destacando sus fracasos en el trabajo, en la taberna y finalmente en su hogar, donde su impotencia y su ira culminan en un acto de violencia hacia su hijo.

As a Red, Darrow grew up working the mines deep beneath the surface of Mars, enduring backbreaking labor while dreaming of the better future he was building for his descendants. But the Society he faithfully served was built on lies. Darrow’s kind have been betrayed and denied by their elitist masters, the Golds—and their only path to liberation is revolution. And so Darrow sacrifices himself in the name of the greater good for which Eo, his true love and inspiration, laid down her own life. He becomes a Gold, infiltrating their privileged realm so that he can destroy it from within.

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.

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.

La profezia di Celestino è una parabola piena di verità che si legge come un'avventura mozzafiato. Un antico manoscritto, contenente nove chiavi per interpretare l'esistenza, viene scoperto e diviene oggetto di studi e di ricerche. Il governo e la Chiesa peruviani cercano in tutti i modi di distruggerlo e perseguitano tutti coloro che sono in possesso di alcune sue parti. Uno psicologo americano si lascia coinvolgere nella ricerca del testo completo, per trovare il quale dovrà affidarsi al flusso delle coincidenze della vita di ogni giorno che, una volta interpretate, portano verso il proprio vero destino.

Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he toils willingly, trusting that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and lush wilds spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.

Este relato nos cuenta la historia de Mr. Duffy, un hombre que vive una existencia solitaria y metódica en los suburbios de Dublín. Su vida, marcada por la rutina y el aislamiento, experimenta un cambio significativo cuando entabla amistad con Mrs. Sinico, una mujer casada que encuentra en él un alma gemela. A medida que su relación se profundiza, Mrs. Sinico desarrolla sentimientos románticos hacia Mr. Duffy, quien, atemorizado por la intensidad de estos sentimientos y su potencial impacto en su vida ordenada, decide terminar abruptamente la amistad.

Parecen una familia perfecta, pero sus secretos están a punto de salir a la luz… Cuando invitan a Tim y Louise Cutler, junto con sus dos hijos, a pasar una quincena de julio en una magnífica villa de la Riviera francesa, se imaginan unas vacaciones de ensueño: sol, una casa espectacular con una increíble piscina, viñedos y buena comida en excelente compañía.

After suffering a brutal and random attack, Daniel Henderson is left fighting for his life. As he embarks on the long road to recovery, he begins experiencing disturbing visions. Fleeting and half-glanced, they are visions of women being murdered, women who are victims of the Tallyman, the notorious serial killer whose reign of terror began forty years ago. As Daniel’s family start to put back together the pieces of their life, Daniel dismisses his visions as traumatic hallucinations. But as they become more vivid, he finds himself haunted by details that only the killer could know.

For a decade, Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile, has returned to the Core. Determined to bring peace back to mankind at the edge of his sword, he must overcome or unite the treacherous Gold families of the Core and face down Darrow over the skies of war-torn Mercury. But theirs are not the only fates hanging in the balance.

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society’s mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within. Finally, the time has come.

Form-defining short stories. First published in 1914, James Joyce defined what the short story could be with his collection The Dubliners. A mixture of prose and poetry, each story can be listened to independently, or as a collection. From childhood to maturity, we see what life - and ultimately death - can be, via an extraordinary cast of characters, all of whom experience an epiphany. There’s Father Flynn, the priest; Evelyn, the shop girl who dreams of escape; Mrs Mooney, the butcher’s daughter, who runs a boarding house.

Samantha Valentine didn’t drift into my life, she collided with it. Soon it was like we had been friends forever. She told me everything about her perfect life, but I always felt there was something she was leaving out. Then one night, I get a frantic call from Samantha, hysterical and begging me to protect her from her boyfriend. Rushing to her house, instinct takes over and soon my heart is hammering out of my chest as I stand over the body of a man I had never met before this evening.

Dublineses (en inglés, "Dubliners") el primer libro de Joyce, es una colección de relatos cortos escrita por el escritor irlandés. Los quince relatos son una representación, en ocasiones satírica, de las clases media y baja irlandesas, en el Dublín de principios del siglo XX. Joyce, quien sería más adelante pionero en el uso del monólogo interior como recurso narrativo, utiliza en esta obra un estilo realista para ofrecer una descripción de los personajes y la ciudad.

Joyce hizo un recuento autobiografico de su juventud en Irlanda, donde trozos conmovedores alternan con partes de gran humor y satira. Los acertados bocetos psicologicos de los personajes, asi como el interes de los pasos en la formacion de un gran artista, hace de esta otra obra fundamental.

En route to the Galapagos Islands for a deep-sea diving trip with a group of international college students under his care, marine biologist Chris Black leaves his research vessel for a single night to enjoy dinner with friends. When he returns, the ship has vanished. With crew and passengers on board. Modern-day pirates hijacked the boat, hoping to collect a lucrative ransom. Amidst the storm of the century, indomitable Chris Black chases the pirates from island to island, fighting back to save the students under his care in a battle royal aboard the pirates' mysterious flagship.