Resultados para "Tape" en Literatura de género

“An unusual, bittersweet coming-of-age novel that’s also a fascinating mystery steeped in Cold War history...Sarginson’s novel movingly captures the private and at times painful evolution of a resilient and inventive protagonist.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review A sweeping and...

At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices -- those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved...

Terminus: A "The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher" Essay by Hilary Mantel The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher is The New York Times bestselling collection, from the Man Booker prize-winner for Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, that has been called "scintillating" (New York Times Books...

Ante el inminente cierre del viejo hospital psiquiátrico de Cauldstone, en Edimburgo, las autoridades comunican a Iris que debe hacerse cargo de su tía abuela Esme Lennox, quien será puesta en libertad tras sesenta y un años de internamiento. El desconcierto inicial de la joven, que desconocía la existencia de la anciana, se verá pronto superado por una genuina curiosidad. ¿Qué motivo llevó a la reclusión de Esme cuando tenía solo dieciséis años? ¿Por qué se ocultó su historia al resto de la familia durante décadas?

In a coming-of-age story, young Mattie and Kip tap dance and ride the rails during the Great Depression. Separated by a perceived betrayal and a train crash, the two friends lose each other for a lifetime. At ninety-nine, Mattie recalls the roving youth who set her life in motion and confides her deepest regrets to her granddaughter, who discovers lessons in the past for present challenges.

With Magic Comes Mayhem For the Nameless Restaurant, once a discreet hole-in-the-wall meant for a cast of supernatural regulars, the increasing levels of background magic has brought with it that most dreadful of locustsnew customers. The staff of the Nameless Restaurant are finding the influx...

Mt. Clemens, Michigan, 1887. Seventeen and headstrong, with marriage on her mind, Maggie is sure she has found her one true love. But when she collides head-on with betrayal, overwhelming loss, and ill-treatment, her life unravels. In a time when women had few rights, Maggie rises above adversity through rare determination and grit, becoming an independent woman ahead of her time. Yet before she can truly find peace, one heartbreaking, life-altering decision remains.

Eve is clearing her father’s house when she finds an old cassette player and a box of tapes. Though grieving, she smiles at the spark of nostalgia. One tape is labelled ‘Eve’–in her mother, Angela’s, scrawled handwriting. She disappeared for good more than ten years ago. The tape whirrs. A voice crackles. ‘My name is Angela’. Tears fill Eve’s eyes at the familiar voice–at the thought her mother recorded this message just for her. But the next words make her heart pound.

Más que una ciudad, Estambul parece un gran barco de ruta incierta, cargado de pasajeros de distintas nacionalidades, lenguas y religiones. Esa es la imagen que acompaña a la joven Armanoush, que viaja desde Arizona para visitar por primera vez la ciudad y descubrir sus orígenes. Lo que la joven aún no sabe es que su familia armenia y la de su padrastro turco estuvieron ligadas en el pasado, y que la vida en común de los dos pueblos fue un día apacible.

After a devastating bombing rocks Whitehall, British Prime Minister Gabriel Bryce awakens in hospital—injured, disoriented, and one of the few Cabinet members left alive. As the country descends into chaos, another explosion rips through Britain's largest mosque, killing hundreds. The perfect scapegoat? Danny Whelan, an Afghan war veteran with a murky past—now Europe's most wanted man.

Can you trust the billionaires behind AI to act in your best interests? Westminster has always run on spin. Now it runs on an AI. In a near-future Britain where algorithms guide government policy, Sarah Perriam is a journalist who no longer believes in the stories she writes. Once an investigative reporter who held power to account, she’s now a burnt-out tech correspondent stuck producing safe coverage about the very companies reshaping the world. Questioning them isn’t encouraged. So Sarah tries not to. Until a government AI quietly recommends demolishing a major housing estate.

Para Esther, el recuerdo de su infancia y juventud se reduce a la enfermedad mental padecida por su hermana, a los cuidados necesarios y a las precauciones siempre insuficientes. Luego, a su desaparición y asesinato. Entonces, ¿cómo es posible que en ese arranque de enero de 2013, en Barcelona, su figura se le aparezca en pantalla? ¿Cómo podría ser esa mujer, en medio de disturbios en la sierra hidalguense transmitidos por la televisión española, su hermana víctima de feminicidio?

You're back? And you want to know what happened next? Well okay then, pull up a chair, and I'll tell you what went down in Minot. Yes. North Dakota. That Minot. Just goes to show not all the strange is confined to the big city. We went up there looking for the missing daughter of a friend of mine, and wound up neck-deep in trouble when instead of the missing girl, we found a drug ring. And a mind-controlled cult. Ruse did something stupid, Cougs got jealous, Kahni caused trouble, I got arrested again, and by the end of it, half the town was gunning for my hide.

When a group of young Native Americans launches a series of protests against climate change and its effects on the waters and woods of Maine, veteran FBI agent Ryan Tapia is assigned to monitor the movement. The protestors, who become determined to split away from American society, are led by "Peeled Paul" Soco, a Malpense hermit who played a key role in one of Tapia's previous investigations. When the marchers begin making camps on the lawns of luxurious summer mansions along the Maine coast, they win national media attention—and the wrath of a reactionary president.

Con el mordisco a una guayaba nació el pecado original de esta singular familia latinoamericana. Un pecado en forma de hombre que haría enloquecer a cuatro generaciones de mujeres cultas e inteligentes. Al ver a Alfonso nacer, la bisabuela vaticinó el destino trágico de las mujeres en su familia. Cuatro generaciones después, Primitiva Serapio, una niña tímida, aburrida y temerosa, cede ante la locura y da rienda suelta a Mulatona Montiel, su alter ego, una mujer libre, voluptuosa, irreverente y fuerte. Ambas cohabitan el mismo cuerpo, pero no tardará una en sobreponerse a la otra.

Hannah has always dreamed of dancing, but her body is too weak. When Max attends the clinic for his infusion therapy, something about her draws him. Not knowing that this connection is linked to his own childhood experiences, Max gradually transforms from a furious and bitter man, and Hannah blossoms under his tutelage as their medical fates follow widely differing trajectories.

Set in Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1870s, Gunsmoke aired on CBS Radio until June 1961. William Conrad starred as U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon, and he was joined by three other regulars: Howard McNear as "Doc" Charles Adams; Georgia Ellis as Kitty Russell; and Parley Baer as Chester Proudfoot. This episode originally aired on July 30, 1955.

Late-night shock jock Sophie Morelle has been fired, dumped by her network after an embarrassing incident cost them big bucks. But she knows just how to get back on her feet - by filming a raw, gritty documentary about MMA fighters starring the hottest welterweight around. The only problem? He's the one responsible for ruining her life. MMA champion-turned-model Caden Kelly is hell-bent on reestablishing himself as the best fighter in the country. He'd been on a roll, too, until that loudmouth reporter hit him in the head with a camera on national TV.

Read by fan-favorite narrator Natalie Naudus Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in Shelley Parker-Chan's She Who Became the Sun, a bold, queer, and lyrical reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty from an amazing new voice in literary fantasy. To possess the Mandate of...

Everyone craves retirement from the Civil Service, don’t they? That time for an ageing patriarch to enjoy the fruits of a well-earned pension and the respect of his family; maybe even to indulge in a love of music halls and metropolitan life. If only people would listen and do as they were told… His fourth son William, the long-suffering narrator, is the constant butt of his father’s jokes and victim of his brother’s indifference. But as death, divorce and other darker dramas follow, father and son slowly establish a strange harmony.