Resultados para "Life" en Literatura y ficción

When retired Maths teacher Grace is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the Balearics, Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past.

After working outdoors for years, I had built the kind of strength that many only dream about. Intent on building a new life for myself, I set my sights on the road so that I could explore the wilderness all over the country. But to explore, a man needs the right kind of vehicle. And then I found it—an old RV sitting in a dusty old lot, with a price tag so cheap that it was an absolute steal. Buying it seemed like a no-brainer, but before I could pull out of the lot, the RV had other plans about where it was going, and sent me to a whole other world.

Primera parte de la trilogía "La lucha por la vida", escrita por Pío Baroja, notable escritor español perteneciente a la Generación del 98. Cada una de las tres novelas que componen la trilogía ("La busca", "Mala hierba" y "Aurora roja"), comprende una de las fases de la vida de Manuel...

Una llamada de teléfono lo cambió todo. Cuando Gala emprende el viaje para despedirse de su abuela Rosario no puede imaginar que pronto descubrirá que nada es lo que parece en su familia: a pesar de las apariencias, o precisamente por ellas, todos tienen una vida pública que muestran al mundo, una vida privada reservada para unos pocos y una vida secreta que permanece oculta para todos.

Segunda parte de la trilogía "La lucha por la vida", escrita por Pío Baroja, notable escritor español perteneciente a la Generación del 98. Cada una de las tres novelas que componen la trilogía ("La busca", "Mala hierba" y "...

On the secluded continent of Edenvale, possessing magic is a death sentence. Those who have it are labeled Cursed, and by order of the king, they are Cleansed—a horrific event utilizing a hot, hungry pyre and an iron collar. Enemy to the king, a group known as the Cursed rebels defend their lands from his reach, creating an ongoing bloodthirsty war. When Sage's brother is conscripted for the war, she is forced to trade in her cozy, peaceful cottage life and join the Cursed rebels to get him back.

Tercera parte de la trilogía "La lucha por la vida", escrita por Pío Baroja, notable escritor español perteneciente a la Generación del 98. Cada una de las tres novelas que componen la trilogía ("La busca", "Mala hierba" y "Aurora roja"), comprende una de las fases de la vida de Manuel...

In this collection, Vivian Gornick turns her attention to a large theme in literature: the struggle for the semblance of inner freedom. In the essays collected here, she explores the work of V. S. Naipaul, James Baldwin, George Gissing, Randall Jarrell, H. G. Wells, Loren Eiseley, Allen Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth.

Rachel has orchestrated the perfect plan to win back her husband’s attention. A bloody handprint. Signs of a struggle. And a disappearance staged by Rachel herself. He’ll follow the clues, rescue her, and feel needed again. But when Jake doesn’t come looking, Rachel realizes that their marriage has turned darker than she thought.

It seems like a lifetime ago that Thedeim was a mortal man. After a fatal accident, he was transported to a strange realm to begin again as a living low-level dungeon. But he didn't stay small for long. With a powerful will, he built his dungeon self into a force to be reckoned with, full of minions, creepy crawlies, and a hedge maze to die for. Except Thedeim isn't a place where delvers die. He's a different, friendlier kind of dungeon, which suits both him and his many allies just fine. But being a nice dungeon means taking on some not-so-nice entities.

One boy, one boat, one tiger.... British comedian, actor and broadcaster Sanjeev Bhaskar, OBE performs this brilliant edition of a work of fiction that is loved by fans around the world. After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a 16 year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orangutan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for an extraordinary adventure.

Colección de cuentos en los que el autor, mediante historias que ocurren en nuestros días, habla de ilusión, de relaciones, de ser fiel a uno mismo y también de la forma en la que, a veces, nos enfrentamos a nuestros miedos. Con la creatividad como telón de fondo, el libro es una invitación a salir de nuestra zona de confort y a ver la vida en positivo.

Moments of change, chance encounters, twists of fate that create a new way of thinking or being: The stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. The collection includes four powerful pieces, "autobiographical in Feeling", set during the time of Munro's own childhood, in the area where she grew up.

The usual result of a human taking a runaway semitruck head-on is a very sudden, very fast track to the pearly gates. But for one newly noncorporeal man, there's another option: become a dungeon. Feeling sorry for the desperate angel assigned to him, the man relents. Heck, if it doesn't work out, he can always chat with Saint Peter about it later. Next thing you know, he's a dungeon. Admittedly, a small run-down, somewhat unimpressive dungeon (more of a house, actually), but you gotta start somewhere, right?

For the first time in years, my staff, Ashmaker, is gathering dust. But Aerenvale has secrets of its own. Ancient machinery churns beneath the mud, and hidden tunnels hint that our quiet village was once something far older. When those buried powers begin to wake, I must protect my newfound farmstead…and the women who make it home.

Myrna, Leonie, and Chrissy meet every Thursday to sample fine cheeses, to reminisce about their former lives as professors, and lately, to muse about murder. Decades ago, a vicious cabal of male poets contrived—quite publicly and successfully—to undermine the writing career, confidence, and health of their dear friend Fern. Now, after Fern has taken a turn for the worse, her three old friends decide that it’s finally time to strike back—in secret, of course, since Fern is far too gentle to approve of a vendetta.

Catalina Micaela was the younger daughter of Philip II and granddaughter of Catherine de Medici. Aged just seventeen, Catalina married Carlo I, duke of Savoy, and moved from the royal court in Madrid to Turin to begin a new life as a duchess. Overlooked by historians and little known today, Catalina was nonetheless a key figure in sixteenth-century Europe.

When they were young, Josie and Shane thought both they and their band were headed for greatness. But fast forward three decades, and Josie's life looks more like this: A dead-end job in a niche London bookshop, a boyfriend who thinks the answer to their financial problems is Josie sharing photos of her feet on OnlyFans, a grown daughter who'd rather Josie stayed out of her new family's business. Then Ravi – their band's fearless frontwoman and Josie's oldest friend – dies, leaving one last request: for Josie and Shane to finish the 'tour' they abandoned all those years ago.

Now in the pantheon of great thinkers, Simone Weil (1909–1943) lived largely in the shadows, searching for her spiritual home while bearing witness to the violence that devastated Europe twice in her brief lifetime. The letters she wrote to her parents and brother from childhood onward chart her intellectual range as well as her itinerancy and ever-shifting preoccupations, revealing the singular personality at the heart of her brilliant essays. The first complete collection of Weil's missives to her family, A Life in Letters offers new insight into her personal relationships and experiences.

Walking away from the love of her life after his betrayal was the hardest thing that Odette had ever had to do, but it wasn't just about her anymore. It was about her daughter, Lux. It was about showing her what she deserved out of this messy thing called life. But what if your past won't give up? Do you forgive and forget, or do you forgive to move on?