Resultados para "Miles" en Psicológica

Veinticinco mil días son los que un ser humano vive de media en su vida adulta. Este libro cuenta 32 historias cortas sobre cómo vivir esos 25.000 días. "Veinticinco mil días es la cifra aproximada de oportunidades que la vida le brinda a una persona durante su periplo vital. Los seres humanos tenemos alrededor de 25.000 vidas, que empiezan y acaban cada día, para el elegir cómo vivir cada una de ellas..."

Con una voz que ronda entre la parodia y el humor negro, la narradora nos invita a recorrer los rincones de su memoria. A través de los lugares que marcaron distintas etapas de su vida, conoceremos a personajes tan particulares y entrañables como el Padre, la Chica o El Niño. Desde el espacio de la reclusión, atravesaremos las puertas que formaron su carácter, acompañándola a tomar decisiones, a veces extremas y cuestionables que la llevaron a intentar salvar del sufrimiento a esos Otros tan queridos.

New York Times Bestseller ""Inspired. . . . Kundera's most brilliantly imagined novel. . . . A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last."" — Cleveland Plain Dealer Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a...

Jo was the last person to see Martha Scott alive. She was helping Martha unlock a repressed memory. But during the session, Jo unlocked more than she bargained for. An alter personality introduced himself as the reincarnation of Jack the Ripper - and thanked Jo for setting him free to kill again. As Ferguson’s team race to find Martha’s killer, a series of copycat killings begin, replicating ‘The Autumn of Terror’ in 1888. But if Jack is just a figment of Martha’s damaged mind, who killed her?

Rebecca is living a peaceful life in Nevada with her husband, Tom, and their two young children. Her past is in the past and she does a good job of keeping it there, until her old friend, Danny, shows up on the doorstep one morning, throwing her sweet family life into turmoil. Danny is nothing but a reminder of what Rebecca fled all those years ago, and all the secrets she’s keeping from Tom. She tries her hardest to manage the situation and figure out what Danny wants, but all Rebecca seems to find are layers upon layers of deception.

A tragic accident: One woman is left dead after she and another woman, both running away from their marriages, collide in the fog on a highway. The survivor, Isabelle, is left to pick up the pieces, not only of her own life but of the lives of the devastated husband and fragile son that the other woman, April, has left behind. Together, they try to solve the mystery of where April was running to, and why.

WKBA news in Chicago is reeling. Their ratings are the lowest in town, and company morale has plummeted. At the end of their ropes, five women band together to correct injustices and hopefully shoot WKBA up the ratings chart. Their ideas are inventive, and their convictions are infectious, but they’ll need to crack the good-old-boys network before they ever get a chance to prove themselves.

Baroota is a fictional tale of Nick Hudson, an aging, retired cop attempting to get in one last mission to make a difference. He gets sucked in to an off-the-books black ops mission to rescue victims of human trafficking being sold into sexual slavery. He meets Nõnkos Zia or Nõn, a woman born in South Africa and a former victim of Muti-medicine - a type of medicine still practiced in South Africa that weaves the occult and human sacrifices into the locals belief system. She is also a victim of human trafficking.

When college professor Ellie McKay walks into the Maverick Bar in Farmington, New Mexico, late one evening, she plans to get drunk, not engaged. But within 30 minutes, she’s met cowboy Al Robison, he’s proposed to her, and she’s accepted. Al only knows that Ellie is attractive, vulnerable, and single; he doesn’t know that she has been on the run for weeks from a sociopath who killed her surgeon boyfriend in Pennsylvania and raped and tortured her.

Milo Slade, a 33-year-old home healthcare aide, is witnessing the rapid dissolution of his three-year marriage to a polished, high-powered attorney named Christine. Though Milo doesn't quite know the root of his marital problems, he inevitably blames himself, or more specifically, he faults the demands his obsessive compulsive personality place upon him. Yet Christine is still none the wiser about these inexplicable quirks as Milo has painstakingly hidden them from her and everyone else for years. No one knows the true Milo, and such is the root of his profound loneliness.

A man running from the remnants of his past in New Orleans—and from Hurricane Katrina—struggles to adapt when he's stranded in small-town Virginia in this "marvelous" literary novel (Ron Rash). "You have lost everything, yes?" Everything? Henry thought; he considered the word. Had he lost...

Chance—an anthropomorphized Lucky Strike—narrates its journey from leaf to factory to ration box in the pocket of Philip Martin, a Missouri farm boy. On the Channel and at Omaha, Chance observes courage in many forms: Sally’s brief blaze, Winston’s unlit benediction, Terry’s loud luck, Philip’s quiet endurance. The landing’s chaos yields a long aftermath—hedgerows, letters unsent, and a silence that follows Philip home.

Zwei Seelen im Einklang mit dem Meer: die neue, berührende Liebesgeschichte von Kindle-#1-Bestsellerautorin Mila Olsen. Können die weiß schäumende Weite des Ozeans und das Sternfunkeln darüber eine Seele heilen? Auf der Flucht vor ihrem gewalttätigen Ehemann Tyrone versteckt sich die junge Emery im Küstenort Pine Cape. Eine vorübergehende Bleibe findet sie bei dem zurückgezogen lebenden Sawyer. Doch auch wenn ihr der stille Fremde gefällt: Sie will sich auf gar keinen Fall verlieben und bleibt auf Distanz.

Die angehende Schriftstellerin Haven kennt nur die Einsamkeit ihres Zimmers und die Stille ihrer Gedanken. In Moose Creek soll sie bei Freunden ihrer Eltern im Restaurant aushelfen und lernen, mehr auf andere zuzugehen. Kaum in Alaska angekommen, verliebt sie sich jedoch ausgerechnet in Hayes Henderson, den attraktiven Außenseiter der Kleinstadt, über den es jede Menge Gerüchte gibt. Die Katastrophe scheint vorprogrammiert.

June hat drei Ziele: die Angriffe ihres Stiefbruders zu Hause zu überleben, sie vor der Öffentlichkeit geheim zu halten und das Sorgerecht für ihre Geschwister zu bekommen, wenn sie achtzehn wird. Im Rahmen eines Kleinstadt-Kunstwettbewerbs lernt sie jedoch den faszinierenden Jesse kennen und verliebt sich in ihn. Durch ihre Beziehung gefährdet sie nicht nur ihre Ziele, sondern geht auch einem schrecklichen Familiengeheimnis auf den Grund.

Kaveh Akbars faszinierender, von Presse und prominenten Leserinnen und Lesern gefeierter Debütroman führt vom Iran der 1980er-Jahre bis in die heutigen USA und ist eine Hymne auf all das, was uns bei der Suche nach Sinn und Bedeutung im Leben helfen kann: auf die Kunst, den Glauben an uns selbst, auf Liebe, Freundschaft und Mitmenschlichkeit. Nominiert für den National Book Award 2024. Cyrus Shams, 29, ist kein Meister des täglichen Lebens. Er schreibt umwerfend gute Gedichte und nimmt zu viele Drogen.

The daughter of a diplomat disappears on a school field trip--lured into the Santa Monica mountains and killed in cold blood. Her father denies the possibility of a political motive. There are no signs of struggle, no evidence of sexual assault, leaving psychologist Alex Delaware and his...

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.