Resultados para "Novelle" en Literatura de género

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.

Adored by all, Britta is an ambitious waitress working at Sluggers. The popular bar holds a special place in her heart and is a regular hangout for the Bridgeport Bandits, the local hockey club. With a half brother on the team, Britta has a strict no-dating policy for hockey boys. But she does have a soft spot for one particular player.

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.

A girl suffering from paralyzing night terrors finds a missing poster hanging from the door of her apartment building. On that poster is a photograph of a frighteningly familiar face. It's her. Only, she's never seen this photo before and something about its grin scares her. How its eyes seem to follow her no matter where she finds herself in the room.

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.

Carol Langstrom hates Christmas. Growing up in a dysfunctional home, with a birthday on December 25 and too many dashed childhood expectations, she would rather avoid the holiday season. And working in the design industry where she manages seasonal decor for wealthy, entitled clients certainly hasn't helped!

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.

In questo volume si trovano raccolti alcuni dei più noti racconti di Arthur Schnitzler. A tenerli insieme, la comune atmosfera di'incertezza che incombe all'interno dell'orizzonte in cui si muovono i personaggi. Le tecniche di scrittura sono differenti senza che ci sia la predominanza di una rispetto alle altre.

Adelaide Smith is too busy for fairy tales. She’s been working hard to put herself through law school, and she’s determined to stay focused on her goals. Then she receives a letter notifying her that she is a direct descendant of King Maximillian Konig V, the ruler of a small European principality called Montovia. What? No. That’s the stuff of cheesy made-for-TV movies, not real life. Still, curiosity gets the best of her, leading to a Christmas break trip chock-full of surprises.

Christmas should be celebrated with family. But for Vera Swanson, that's not an option this year. Widowed and recently relocated, she is lonely in her condo-for-one—until little Fiona Albright knocks on her door needing help. With her mother seriously ill and her father out of town, Fiona enlists Vera's help, and when she finds out her new neighbor is a quilter, she has a special request—a Christmas quilt for Mama. Vera will have to get a ragtag group of women together in order to fulfill the request.

The Ancient Ones are coming to consume our world, and only the bold investigators of Arkham Horror stand in their way in this chilling collection of eldritch novellas.

Tre novelle per vivere il Natale insieme al Premio Nobel per la Letteratura siciliano: "Sogno di Natale", "La messa di Natale" e "Un Goj". Quello di Pirandello è uno sguardo diverso dal solito sul Natale, uno sguardo che mischia ironia e disincanto come sempre nelle opere di uno dei giganti della nostra letteratura.

Il come, il quando e il perché, una novella che analizza le vicende di un abile dongiovanni, Polidori, che tenta di corteggiare in ogni occasione una donna oziosa e romantica, Maria Rinaldi, moglie di un ricco e prestigioso borghese, che sfiora ed evita il tradimento del marito. Rosso Malpelo è un ragazzo selvatico, dai capelli rossi, oggetto di pregiudizi popolari a causa del colore dei suoi capelli, ossessionato dal perduto affetto del padre e mosso da pietà per il compagno storpio - Ranocchio. Il ragazzo lavora in una cava di rena e vive in una condizione di totale isolamento.

“Delicious…I defy you to stop reading The Christmas Guest once you begin.” — New York Times Book Review New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson pens a spectacularly spine-chilling novella in which an American art student in London is invited to join a classmate for the holidays...

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011 From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes Train Dreams, an epic in miniature, and one of Johnson's most evocative works of fiction...

Karl Rabensteiner ist auf einer Zugfahrt nach Berlin, als in der Hauptstadt ein vermeintlicher Anschlag verübt wird. Obwohl er nichts mit der Sache zu tun hat, kommt der junge Mann in Untersuchungshaft. Als ihn sein Lebenspartner Pascal dort besucht, wird für Rabensteiner alles noch viel komplizierter.

Schauplatz der Geschichte ist ein kleiner Ort in Österreich um 1900, in dem der Landstreicher und Wilderer Pachler im Alkoholrausch seinen treuen Hund Krambambuli um eine Kiste Schnaps an den Förster verkauft und sich schließlich mit diesem in eine tödliche Feindschaft verstrickt. Der Hund ist hin- und hergerissen in Hundeliebe und Hundetreue zwischen altem und neuem Herrn und stirbt an diesem Konflikt in Qual und Pein. Eine traurige und bittere Tiergeschichte vom Feinsten, die das Herz zu Tränen rührt.

Lucy Alexander has a hopeless case of writer's block. But all that changes when her handsome UPS guy delivers a box of vintage teacups from the estate of her namesake and beloved Aunt Lucille. Happy memories of tea parties they shared when Lucy was young flood her mind. And with them, the forgotten stories her aunt loved to tell over tea and Scottish shortbread. Colorful tales of fascinating characters woven together with the undeniable power of love. Some were true, most weren't, but it was her aunt's extraordinary gift of storytelling that first ignited Lucy's passion to write.

11 korte og tankevækkende noveller om bedraget i alle dets afskygninger. Vi bedrager alle. Hver dag. Andet vil ikke være til at holde ud. Bedraget kan være åbenlyst gennemskueligt. Herved bliver det underholdende og tilgiveligt. Men det kan også foregå i mørke med økonomisk eller personlig gevinst for øje. Det får næsten altid konsekvenser. Endelig er der selvbedraget uden for alt lys og mørke. Ren uskyldighed eller snigende katastrofe. Beatrice Dragsholm (f. 1972) er uddannet advokatsekretær. "Bedrag" er hendes første novellesamling.

A year after the tragic death of her four-year-old son, Charlotte Fleming is sleepwalking through life, trapped in a spiral of devastating grief. Then, she sees something online that jolts her awake: her son, Sebastion, alive and well . . . in a stranger's social media post.