Resultados para "Novelle" en Literatura y ficción

It’s salmon season, the summer of 2022, in Sitka, Alaska. Emily Morrison is a seasonal office intern. Jasper Patchett is a seafood processor at the bayside plant, along with his friends Mason and Luis. And Alma Mendoza, Jasper’s cousin, is a social media influencer—beautiful, charming, and manipulative—and she’s tagging along for the ride. Jasper has fallen obsessively under his cousin’s spell, but he doesn’t know that Alma and Emily are lovers.

Marvin Hoeff never thought he was a selfish bastard. Unfortunately for him, the universe begs to differ. After surveying the grim aftermath of tenant Colette Finch’s death, all petty, miserly landlord Marvin Hoeff wants is his evening takeout and a long, hot shower. The problem is, something has followed him home… something sopping wet, sharp-tongued, and absolutely furious with him. Before he can say “lease violation,” Marvin finds himself the newest guinea pig of a cosmic bureaucracy’s experimental reformation method.

Jury and Imogen Kilgore didn’t expect to bury their sister, Keira, and her family in New Orleans after the explosion of the Seven Sinners Distillery. As sisters, they had never agreed on much, but they now agreed on one thing: something didn’t seem right about this whole business. To cement their remaining sisterly bond, Jury insisted they get memorial tattoos, but the last thing they expected was their visit to Voodoo Ink to send them on a scavenger hunt through the city, orchestrated by their sister and her husband from beyond the grave.

Camí de sirga és un quadre de Brueghel on cada personatge pogués parlar. El llibre comença amb l’enderrocament de la casa número 20 de la baixada de la Ferradura, que desencadena la fi de la vila vella de Mequinensa. Però aquesta explicació simple es trenca de seguida. ¿Com mor un poble? Més que erigir mitologies de circumstància, Moncada fa sonar l’orquestra de destins dels que hi vivien.

For ten years, Lacey Montgomery survived her husband. The cheating. The lies. The hands. The excuses she fed herself so she could make it through another day. Then she found out what he did to the one thing she loves more than her own life. A stranger offers her a way out: five thousand dollars, no questions asked. But the real offer is bigger… and far more dangerous. Because if Lacey wants to be safe, she can't just leave. She has to disappear.

Lilith has been dying since the day she was born. While she long ago came to terms with her own imminent death, the deaths of everyone she loves are an entirely different matter. As her town slowly withers in the clutches of a mysterious god-cursed illness, she takes matters into her own hands. Desperate to find a cure, Lilith strikes a bargain with the only thing the gods hate more than her village: a vampire, Vale. She offers him six roses in exchange for six vials of vampire blood—the one hope for her town's salvation.

Heading out for their first date night in two long years, Yoselyn and Joel Cooper entrust their son, two-year-old River, to their frequent babysitter, Kristine Sloan. Kristine has proven to be reliable and caring, looking after River like a little brother. So, it was supposed to be a quiet, peaceful, romantic night for the couple.

DEMON CLAWS: The battle against the demons has been won. The town of Tibbet’s Brook is enjoying a peaceful winter until the body of local businessman Rusco Hog is discovered on the old Tanner farm, his fatal injuries pointing towards a demon attack. BUTTER COOKIES: For Selia Barren, the Town Speaker, the evidence doesn’t add up. She suspects foul play. Rusco didn’t become the richest man in town by making friends, and it seems everyone in Tibbet’s Brook has a motive.

Questa imponente raccolta di novelle (237) scritte tra il 1884 e il 1936, è uno dei capolavori della letteratura italiana. Nel progetto originale dovevano essere 365, ma la scrittura si interruppe per la morte dell'autore.

Before you knew him as the king or the Immortal, he was Commander Xavier “X” Rodriguez—with ninety-six dives under his belt, the most experienced Hell Diver on the airship known as the Hive. Time after time, he dived through the electrical storms, returning with parts to keep his home in the sky. Then, on a jump into Hades, the most hostile environment in North America, he sacrificed everything for mission and team. They returned to the airship with the fuel cells needed to keep the Hive running, but X was left behind.

Vektal & Georgie: What happens after happily ever after? Quite a bit, actually. Georgie and Vektal are mated, but Georgie has a few things on her mind before she settles into her new life . . . why not have a honeymoon?

O trabalho pesado, os maus tratos, a falta de liberdade, o desrespeito aos direitos básicos... Um dia, os trabalhadores resolveram dizer "basta" e deram início a uma revolução, expulsando de vez seu carrasco para bem longe! Infelizmente, o paraíso de justiça e igualdade com que sonharam não passou de uma grande ilusão. Claro que, neste livro, os trabalhadores são animais e os líderes do novo regime, porcos. Uma fábula satírica, genialmente criada por George Orwell, aclamada mundialmente e que chega em uma edição super especial para os leitores da Editora do Brasil.

From the international best-selling author of The Simple Wild comes Forever Wild, a novella that continues the story of Calla's journey to the Alaskan wild and a life she never imagined for herself.

Some dreams are worth waiting for. When the proud, reserved Mr. Darcy arrives in Hertfordshire, he brings more than his considerable fortune and consequence. He brings Atlas—a gentle, aging gelding who once taught Darcy himself to ride. And in Elizabeth Bennet’s wistful longing, he recognizes something he cannot ignore. What begins as riding lessons becomes something far more precious. As Elizabeth learns the joy of the saddle, Darcy discovers the woman who has captured his heart.

Every year, Caroline Reed takes a trip with her best friend, Esme Lamont. They’re usually accompanied by their spouses - but this year, everything’s changed. Esme has just gone through a bitter divorce, and Caroline's wondering if her own marriage is reaching its breaking point as she and her husband, John, cope with the discovery that their son has been abusing drugs. Still, the inseparable duo books a weeklong stay at a beach-front home in Shoreham, Florida, inviting Esme’s brother, Nick, and his new husband. After a blissful first night in the vacation home, tragedy strikes.

In Legacy, Colorado, our inheritance is simple: Fire and Heartbreak. Sebastian Vargas . . . he's both. He was my best friend. My first love. My everything. Until he was my nothing. It's been ten years since the wildfire that turned our small town to ashes, taking the lives of our fathers and their elite hotshot crew. Six years since Bash disappeared with my heart. No explanation. No goodbye. But now he's home, fighting to resurrect the very thing that destroyed us both.

Questo libro contiene tutte le raccolte di novelle scritte da Verga, prima pubblicate su varie riviste e poi in libro: "Primavera e altri racconti", "Vita dei campi", "Novelle rusticane", "Per le vie", "Drammi intimi", "Vagabondaggio", "I ricordi del capitano d'Arce", "Don Candeloro e C." e "Racconti e bozzetti". Alcune raccolte sono focalizzate sull'ambiente più tipico e confacente alla scrittura di Verga, la realtà siciliana, altre sono ambientate nelle varie citta in cui Verga ha vissuto o che ha visitato, soprattutto Milano.

Le voci delle narratrici interpretano quattro novelle del 'maestro' del Decadentismo italiano Gabriele D'Annunzio. Egli ha esplorato il misticismo estetico e l'irrazionale mettendoli in relazione con la sua natura sensuale. Coll'abbandono della ragione come mezzo di conoscenza D'Annunzio si arrende all'istintualità e alla sensualità, vedendo in esse la via per vivere la vita più profondamente e sondare i misteri dell'Ego, come dire sondare i misteri della natura.

Afro Samurai meets The Sword of Kaigen in this anime-inspired novella. This is no revenge story. I ain’t got time for that. I’ve got errands to run and things to do and barely enough time to make it home before sundown. I don’t care why folks are going around stealing ink. I don’t care why the monks are acting kinda strange. I don’t care that everybody is expecting me to save them. I might be a Sistah Samurai but those days playing hero were back when my knees didn’t ache, and I wasn’t the only one left. So leave me alone.

When overwhelmed stay-at-home mom Alexis finds herself at odds with her husband after she’s charged with a DUI, she is given one chance to get her family back: complete AA and admit her faults. The problem is, she’s never had a drinking problem and has no idea what caused the blackout that led to her arrest. Still, she’s committed to working through the program, if that’s what it takes to be reunited with her two young children. But when she connects with a new friend, Farrah, she’s empowered to take a closer look at her husband’s role in her downfall.