Resultados para "Sunset" en Literatura y ficción

Una mirada realista, viva y totalmente actual de la familia y la sociedad norteamericana posterior a la crisis. Miles Heller es un joven introvertido que a los 20 años decidió dejar Nueva York y romper toda relación con sus padres. Siete años después no ha retomado el contacto y reside en Florida, donde trabaja en una empresa que se dedica a vaciar y a limpiar los pisos de los desahuciados para venderlos de nuevo. A diferencia de sus compañeros, que saquean lo que pueden, Miles fotografía los objetos abandonados para demostrar que las familias desaparecidas estuvieron alguna vez allí.

En el Londres de 1857 la mayoría de las jóvenes de su edad sueña con encontrar marido, casarse y cumplir así con lo que la sociedad espera de ellas. Pero que Olivia Turley no es como la mayoría de jóvenes lo saben todos los que la conocen. Su belleza e inteligencia compiten por igual y su innata curiosidad derrotará a todo aquel que pretenda convertirla en un mero objeto decorativo. Rodeada de intelectuales y filósofos, crece acostumbrada a dar su opinión sobre cualquier tema y con un elevado sentido de la justicia.

Septiembre de 1860. Sunset Bayou, Oakville.Han pasado tres años desde que Olivia se trasladó de Londres a la plantación que su tío John le dejó en herencia.Después de su matrimonio con Tyler Hudson nada ha sido como ella había imaginado. La plantación ha seguido funcionando como siempre y los doscientos veintitrés esclavos que eran de su tío ahora son suyos. Los ánimos de los sureños están alterados y su resistencia a lo que consideran intolerables ataques por parte de los yanquis está a punto de llegar a su fin.

The most acclaimed Scottish novel of all time, Sunset Song is a powerful portrait of a land and people in turmoil, seen through the life and struggles of its heroine, Chris Guthrie. In the years up to and beyond the First World War, Chris' resilience, like the land itself, endures despite everything and is portrayed with a lyrical intensity that echoes through the years and still resonates today.

From the renowned creator of The Electric State and Tales from the Loop, Stålenhag returns with his long-awaited new work of retro-futuristic dystopia within the mysterious zone of an abandoned Swedish military facility. Beginning in 2024, yet set largely during the early 2000s, Sunset at Zero...

A book of modern contemporary poetry using forms from around the world.

This bundle contains first four books in the best-selling series Sunset SEALs. Great way to get started exploring Sunset Beach with the four couples in this series, which is ongoing.

La gioventù e il caso, il cinema e il sesso, New York e la scrittura, le ambizioni e il rimorso, la morte ma soprattutto la vita. Miles Heller ha ventotto anni e vive in Florida. Ha poco, eppure ha tutto: l'amore di un'adorabile ragazza, la passione trasmessagli dal padre per il baseball, e i libri. Il lavoro non è un granché, ma lui sembra farlo come se vi intuisse un misterioso legame con la sua esistenza: affinché le banche possano rimetterle in vendita, deve entrare nelle abitazioni abbandonate e fotografare gli oggetti che gli inquilini vi hanno lasciato.

Blakesley Thorne moved to San Diego to escape a horrendous history in Los Angeles; a divorce, betrayal, and murder were only part of it. A distant cousin of marshal Wyatt Earp, Blakesley intends to start a new life with her three young daughters in the homestead that has been in her family for generations. The home is full of legends of cursed gold and evil tidings.

My name is Sally. For over thirty years I’ve stalked the night, a slave to the vampire nation. I’ve walked among you – a wolf in sheep’s clothing – committing countless atrocities in their name. Now, on the eve of Armageddon, I’ve been offered a chance for redemption, however slim. My past has caught up to me, beckoning me back to the city of my rebirth. I’ll need to seek out those responsible for my turning and confront them once and for all. I’m outnumbered and outgunned, but they’re dead wrong if they think I’m outclassed.

Los Angeles. Christmas, 1967. A city on fire as a killer strikes. A young nurse, Kerry Gaudet, travels to the City of Angels desperate to find her missing brother, fearing that something terrible has happened to him: a serial killer is terrorising the city, picking victims at random, and Kerry has precious few leads. Ida Young, recently retired private investigator, is dragged into helping the police when a young woman is discovered murdered in her motel room. Ida has never met the victim, but her name has been found at the crime scene and the LAPD wants to know why.

Claire Cooke lost her sisters in a plane crash thirty years ago. She adopted her three nieces and built a life as best she could, and at fifty-two, the girls' distant uncle surprises her with a six-million-dollar inheritance. Claire decides to take a risk and buy The Grand Madrona Hotel on beautiful Orcas Island to start a new chapter in her life.

A promise given, a promise kept...a star returned to its heaven. The circle of giving becomes the gift of receiving. Love completes its journey.

Colonel James Donovan finds himself again knee-deep in another conspiracy, with a plot hatched in the Bahamas that takes him back to Havana. This time, Dono and Maggie battle Russian oligarchs and rogue Congressmen in a deadly plot to kidnap an American ambassador and steal her inheritance of $1.2 billion dollars.

Mr Punch Presents: Sunset Boulevard, nominated for 11 Academy Awards, Billy Wilder’s brilliant 1950 film is about the flamboyant silent-movie star Norma Desmond played by Gloria Swanson and her pitiful attempt to stage a comeback to the silver screen through her friendship with a young, opportunistic screenwriter, played by William Holden. Re-created for the radio with the original stars in this special radio production.

Trueman Rock is a daring young cowboy and rider. Six years ago he had to leave the cowtown of Wagontongue because of a history of gunfights and run-ins with bad hombres. Since then, he's become a man who only uses his gun when he needs to, on rustlers and crooks. Now, he's returning to his hometown. But things have changed. The town and its people aren't what they used to be. He expects to find some of his enemies there to welcome him, but instead finds they're all dead. In their place is the Preston family.

Includes three Max Brand Westerns: The Gift, Jerico's Garrison Finish, and Sunset Wins.

Jason Thanou: a time traveler with a burning mission. When the gods of ancient Greece proved to be not only monstrously real, but totally alien - and poised to dominate humanity forever - Jason took care of the situation, at least in Minoan Crete. Now he's got what looks like a normal assignment: to lead a time-traveling expedition of scholars to the battle of Marathon and record for the benefit of future historians the magnificent stand of Greece's hoplite warriors against Persian invaders. But the Olympians are not done with their attempt to dominate humanity.

Willie Talburt, a talented but down-and-out screenwriter, thinks his luck is changing when he snatches $300 off a drunk's shoes at a legendary West Hollywood bistro and then meets exotic Veronica Blainewell. He would do anything to see his name on one of the giant billboards that loom high over the Sunset Strip, and she offers him the chance. But the deal and the dame don't turn out to be as sweet as Willie's dreams.

Weltberühmt und wohlhabend, aber argwöhnisch beschattet von den Chargen der McCarthy-Ära, lebt Lion Feuchtwanger 1956 noch immer im kalifornischen Exil - der letzte der großen deutschen Emigranten.