Resultados para "Monster" en Narrativa literaria

A powerful story about a mother struggling to keep her family together amid unsettling events: the family dog goes missing, her teenage daughter has become increasingly rebellious, and a bloated, unidentifiable animal corpse washes up on the local beach. As her two younger children hang up missing dog posters around the neighborhood, she discovers that a class ring identical to one worn by her old flame was found in the mysterious creature, and now the local news and her children are beginning to ask questions.

As Ricky stares into the mirror, he no longer sees the monster that he once saw there, but the memory of his past still haunts him - the story he has never really told. This audiobook portrays exceptional depth and clarity in how if feels to be born in a male body and realize something is not quite right. As a small child, Richard grows up in a dysfunctional family that does not know quite how to fix his supposed shortcomings and make him "normal." Tragically, he suffers horrendous abuse through most of the adult male family members in his life, as well as fellow classmates.

Dragon's Flame is an English-language paranormal romance audiobook by Cassie Alexander. This Tolino draft was prepared from the supplied retail audiobook files and is part of the Wardens of the Other Worlds series...

Wardens of the Other Worlds — Book 2: Wolf's Princess — Audiobook 🎧 Narrated by Matthew Holland & Bunny Warren Rough-and-tumble Austin knows better than to flirt with his best friend's younger sister — she's a princess, part-dragon, and 100% off-limits — he just can't stop himself...

Andi Ngo hasn't met a bad decision she won't make, but this one might turn out to be the best bad decision of her life. Desperate for money after her deadbeat brother left her holding the bill for his bail bond, night nurse Andi agrees to take on a mysterious one-time nursing gig. When she finds...

Prince of the Other Worlds — Book 3: Dragon Fated — Audiobook 🎧 Narrated by Victoria Mei Andi Ngo tried to walk away but destiny kept calling. Time will tell if fate made the right choice. Although she tried to make the right decision to protect herself and her heart, Andi couldn't resist...

Prince of the Other Worlds — Book 2: Dragon Destined — Audiobook 🎧 Narrated by Victoria Mei Andi doesn't do feelings and she definitely doesn't do dragons. Andi is familiar with making bad decisions. For once in her life, she's making the right choice, the safe choice. But why does it...

Prince of the Other Worlds — Book 4: Dragon Mated — Audiobook 🎧 Narrated by Victoria Mei Andi knew taking a chance on love with a dragon might be a risk, but she never guessed that the greatest threat would come from herself. As a human, falling in love with a dragon shifter was always...

Dragon's Captive is an English-language paranormal romance audiobook by Cassie Alexander and Kara Lockharte. This Tolino draft was prepared from the supplied retail audiobook files and is part of the Wardens of the Other Worlds series...

Written as a report to the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, our unnamed narrator recounts his own undoing. Hired as a promising young historian, he soon becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination at concentration camps in Poland during World War II and guides tours through the sites. The job becomes a mission, and then an obsession. Spending so much time immersed in death, his connections with the living begin to deteriorate.

After the Sickness has killed off her parents and the bombs have fallen on the last safe cities, Monster emerges from the arctic vault which has kept her alive. When she washes up on the coast of Scotland, everyone she knows is dead, and she believes she is alone in an empty world. Monster begins the long walk south, scavenging and learning the contours of this familiar land made new. Slowly, piece by piece, she begins to rebuild a life. Until, one day, she finds a girl: feral and ready to be taught all that Monster knows.  

저자: 히로시마 레이코 (Reiko Hiroshima,ひろしま れいこ,廣嶋 玲子) 가나가와현 출생. 일본의 판타지 소설 작가로 어린이들의 두터운 지지와 사랑을 받고 있다. 2006년 『물 요정의 숲』으로 제4회 주니어모험소설대상을...

저자: 히로시마 레이코 (Reiko Hiroshima,ひろしま れいこ,廣嶋 玲子) 가나가와현 출생. 일본의 판타지 소설 작가로 어린이들의 두터운 지지와 사랑을 받고 있다. 2006년 『물 요정의 숲』으로 제4회 주니어모험소설대상을...

“Reveals on every page how love can persevere and take shape over time and space.”—Boston Globe "Transporting and deeply emotional.”—Glamour “One of the most inventive and talented stylists of her generation.” —Vulture From the award-winning author of Land of Love and Drowning...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the book that changed the world. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and a movie starring Elle Fanning as Mary Shelley, Monster is a brilliant fictionalized biography akin to The Other Boleyn Girl. Two centuries ago this year, the young woman who invented science fiction was only 20 when she wrote the book that became Frankenstein. Mary Shelley said, “People ask how I, then a young girl, could think of, and dilate upon, so hideous subject?”

“ The best kind of vampire story—one in which the real evil is us.” —Peng Shepherd “Deliciously monstrous and demanding of our attention, Anna Kovatcheva crafts a feminist vampire story like no other.” —Ms, Magazine A heady, dark-hued Gothic gem of a debut novel: in...

Wexford had almost made up his mind that he would never again set eyes on Eric Targo. And yet there he was, back in Kingsmarkham, still with that cocky, strutting walk. Years earlier, when Wexford was a young police officer, a woman called Elsie Carroll had been found strangled in her bedroom. Although many still had their suspicions that her husband was guilty, no one was convicted.

In the year 2008, a Malamute arrives in New York City, followed by a pack of German Shepherds, Dobermans, and Great Danes, all dressed in grand old Prussian style. They become the toast of Manhattan - Monster Dogs. But who, or what, are they really? Outfitted with voice boxes and prosthetic arms, the dogs are the result of an experiment begun years ago in a tiny Canadian village. But their creators did not anticipate that these decadent dogs would be threatened by a strange, incurable illness.

I wos a secrit shy and tungtied emptyheded thing. I wos tort to read and rite and spell by my tenda littl muther & by Mr McCaufrey the butcha & by Missus Malone and her gosts. So I am not cleva, so please forgiv my folts and my mistayks. I am the won that glares into your harts & that prowls...

“A beautiful, hallucinatory dream of a novel.” –J.M. Miro, Author of the National Bestseller Ordinary Monsters “A fantastically moody, unsettling novel.""–Sarah Waters, New York Times bestselling author of The Paying Guests and Fingersmith A ""bold ... hypnotic"" (The New Yorker)...