Resultados para "The Baron" en Literatura de género

Al sentir próxima la muerte, el barón Béla Wenckheim, que ha pasado buena parte de su vida exiliado en Argentina, decide regresar a su Hungría natal con la esperanza de reencontrarse con su amor de adolescencia. Pero su retorno siembra la confusión en el pueblo, muchos de cuyos habitantes lo reciben como a un rico benefactor capaz de salvarlos de la fatalidad, cuando en realidad ha dilapidado su fortuna en los casinos de Buenos Aires. En la ola de rumores y malentendidos cada vez más extravagantes participarán hasta los políticos y periodistas de la región.

Hear the American frontier brought vividly to life in this full-cast dramatized audiobook featuring professional actors, original music, and immersive sound effects. One act of frontier justice turned Lance Gordon into an outlaw. After avenging his father’s murderer, Lance Gordon discovers the man he killed was a deputy marshal. Now every sheriff, posse, and cavalry patrol in the territory is hunting him. Tired of running and determined to make his stand, he rides toward the one place no lawman dares enter—the domain of the Baron of Coyote River.

Charlie knows he’s not the main character in his own story. He’s just another schmuck in the Ivy League looking to be somebody. He plays in a terrible jazz band, falls in love too easily, and struggles with the human being business. Written in a wry, comedic style, A Comedy of Nobodies: A Collection of Stories traces one fall semester in the lives of four typical but unforgettable university students who, as compensation for their existential anxieties, just want to feel understood.

An utterly relatable and charming new Cornish romance. Nina's life sounds great on paper. Or, more precisely, in her author bio. But, in reality, the farmhouse is crumbling, her gambling ex-husband has run away with all their money, and Nina is just about keeping their (leaking) roof over her...

Arthur Schnitzler esamina le peripezie e le incoerenze del sentimento umano con un'illuminazione che stupisce il lettore per la sua modernità. Il destino del barone Von Leisenbohg si pone come un pullulare di passioni che presentano una capacità duratura di indagine. La prefigurazione di un fato inevitabile e un prisma prolifico di amori rassegnati, traditi o impossibili, pongono le basi per la raffinita struttura di questa novella.

En una torre junto al Mediterráneo, en busca de la foto que nunca pudo hacer, un antiguo fotógrafo pinta un gran fresco circular en la pared: el paisaje intemporal de una batalla. Lo acompañan en la tarea un rostro que regresa del pasado para cobrar una deuda mortal, y la sombra de una mujer desaparecida diez años atrás. En torno a esos tres personajes, Arturo Pérez-Reverte ha escrito la más intensa y turbadora historia de su larga carrera de novelista.

Erica Cantelli feels weighed down and it has nothing to do with the extra pounds she's trying to lose. Juggling a successful career with two children and a deadweight husband, most days can feel she's biting off more than she can chew. In fact fantasising about getting rid of her increasingly...

They say no one is coming to help you. They haven't met Braxton Knox. In Indianapolis, a candy store owner is forced out of business by online social justice warriors. They harass him mercilessly, shut down his store, and threaten his friends, until even his wife and child can't take it...

An engineer finds himself in an alternate reality, Cornwall, in the year 715 A.D. He awakens in the body of a young Baron. A retired Lieutenant General, former head of the Army Corp of Engineers, lies dying at the age of ninety-two. Leading a full life, he is a decorated veteran of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. After a long illness, he lies dying. His last thought is, "What a waste of such wonderful knowledge." As he fades to black, the fun begins. He is to build a modern civilization without being burned as a witch!

O viajante Filipe Alberto PAtroni delicia os leitores nessa crônica editada, cujo título original, "Dos sucessos da viagem do Crato e rio de S. Francisco até o Juazeiro" detalha o percurso feito pelo coração do Nordeste brasileiro, notadamente do Ceará. O linguajar pitoresco e a atenção do cronista ao detalhe fazem da narrativa uma verdadeira cápsula do tempo!

Selah Banning has come of age on the West Indies island of Nevis, shaped by experiences far beyond the typical upbringing of a young British lady in 1776. She never anticipated that the most tumultuous time of her life might await her in the year ahead. Jedediah Reed, a young Methodist preacher with a call to serve the slaves of Nevis, has settled at Selah's family's plantation, the Double T. As Selah's heart is drawn to the same people, their shared purpose brings them together - despite her guardians' concern with a romance that promises little security for the future.

En una época de mentes cerradas en la que reinaban el caos y una concepción errónea del universo aceptada desde hacía siglos, unos pocos hombres se atrevieron a cuestionar esa visión, decididos a descubrir y revelar cómo funcionaba el mundo.

Bloomsbury presents One Summer in Sicily by Nancy Barone, read by Emma Powell. A new fun and fresh rom-com set in Sicily by Canadian-Italian author Nancy Barone. In an attempt to resuscitate her twenty-five-year-old marriage, aerophobic Gillian Dobson knocks down a few tranquilisers and takes a...

Life gives you the choice of love or money - rarely both. George Anderson, a farm boy from Illinois, wants it all. He seeks the other to secure both. His path to success includes the CIA, Colombian drug lords, and run-ins with some of the world's most powerful and secretive people. His drive to become rich is rooted in betrayal. How much is enough? Does money alone make a person rich? Does love have a role? How to Get Rich is a fast-paced thriller over a deep and complex ocean of human desires.

Lily was almost nine when she discovered she had a very serious blood disease. It upended her life and caused her mother and father to move the family from Reverie to Salvation, NY, where Salvation Children's Hospital resided. Three years of treatments hadn't yet cured her, and she was twelve now. Her friends from Reverie never came to visit, and she was too sick to go to school in her new town. With her young imaginary friend Bebette's help, Lily embarked on a journey to find herself, even if only in the recesses of her own soul.

Over ten years ago, Air Force major Nick Baron was part of a failed special ops mission that left a B-2 stealth bomber at the bottom of the Persian Gulf. Now, leading his men - the Triple Seven Chase team - Baron must find the bomber and dispose of it for good before any unfriendly nation can steal the onboard technology for its own purposes. But as the team embarks on its mission, there are greater dangers waiting.

The USA Today bestselling author of The Gown returns with another enthralling and royal-adjacent historical novel—as the lives of three very different residents of London’s historic Blue Lion hotel converge in a potentially explosive climax on the day of Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation. It is...

El rasgo más destacable que comparten las tres obras aquí reunidas es la libertad y la audacia insólitas con que fueron escritas. Las tres retan al lector desprevenido y le exigen abandonar sus expectativas relacionadas con lo que debe ser una novela. Mrs Caldwell habla con su hijo tienemucho de soliloquio alucinado afín al poema en prosa. Oficio de tinieblas 5 es quizá la más visceral de las novelas del autor, que la definió como «la purga de mi corazón».

A Regency romp about a young lady who vows revenge on the rakish lord who loved and left her, only to find herself unexpectedly caught in Cupid's net along with the handsome viscount when her plan to love and leave him backfires...

“Lorraine Heath’s books are always magic.” —Cathy Maxwell “[Heath’s] deftly skilled story-telling entrances and enthralls from the first page to last.” —Karen Hawkins Historical romance readers just can’t get enough of the Lost Lords of Pembrook. In her previous book, She...