Resultados para "The Festival" en Literatura de género

Bryce Peabody is ready to give a scandalous talk at the annual literary festival in the pretty English town of Mold-on-Wold. Scathing in his reviews and unseemly in his affairs, Bryce is known to have many enemies. So when he's discovered dead in his hotel room, festival attendees are desperate to know what happened. Could one of the numerous writers he has insulted have taken revenge? Or perhaps one of his scorned lovers? Soon, author Francis Meadowes is drawn into a role he knows only from his own fiction—that of amateur detective.

At turns funny and strangely sobering, this “found memoir” is a picaresque tale of inspired, heroic deceit, incompetence, and - just possibly - triumph. Follow the flailing escapades of maverick music manager Campbell Ouiniette at the Calgary Folk Festival, as he leaves a trail of empty liquor bottles, cigarette butts, bruised egos, and obliterated relationships behind him. His top headlining act has abandoned him for the Big Time. In a fit of self-delusion or pure genius (or perhaps a bit of both), Ouiniette devises an intricate scam....

Growing up in the island village of Seaview, Willow always dreamed of a bigger life. Then her childhood sweetheart, Luc, betrayed her and she ran, resolving never to look back. Now, 12 years on, her glamorous London life is a mess and the island is her only option. But she's not the only one back for the summer. Luc is now a world-famous heartthrob musician, and he's finally come home to headline the Isle of Wight's annual music festival. 

It's 2006 in the fictional East London borough of Leytonstow. The UK’s pub smoking ban is about to happen, and 38-and-a-half year old John Torrington, a mopper and trolley collector at his local DIY store, is secretly in love with the stylish, beautiful, and middle-class barmaid Lois. John and his hapless, strange, and down-on-their-luck friends, Gabby Longfeather and Glyn Hopkins, live in Clements Markham House - a semi-derelict Edwardian villa divided into unsanitary bedsits, and (mis)managed by the shrewd, Dickensian business man, Mr Kapoor.

Missed out on Glastonbury this year? Solstice Festival promises to be a KILLER weekend… 'Simmering with tensions and twists. A summer must-read!' B E Jones 'Vivid writing, a twisty plot, and an undertone of dark humour' Sarah Clarke Libby can’t believe her luck when she wins two tickets to...

The Festival is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft written in October 1923 and published in the January 1925 issue of Weird Tales. The story was inspired by Lovecraft's first trip to Marblehead, Massachusetts, in December 1922. Lovecraft later called that visit "the most powerful single emotional climax experienced during my nearly forty years of existence." In a flash all the past of New England—all the past of Old England—all the past of Anglo-Saxondom and the Western World--swept over me and identified me with the stupendous totality of all things in such a way as it never did before and never did again.

Orly, Lenny, Mel and Thea have been best friends since school. But now it is 20 years later and inevitably they have drifted apart. It is Lenny's 40th birthday, plus Orly and Mel need cheered up, so Thea suggests a weekend away at a festival in their hometown. It's a chance for them all to reconnect. But their holiday soon takes a sinister turn, and not all of the friends will leave the festival alive....   

Forzado a abandonar su querida Roma natal debido a ciertas irregularidades en el desempeño de su labor policial, Rocco Schiavone es enviado al valle de Aosta, que pese a estar situado en la península Itálica, para un meridional como él es lo más parecido a aterrizar en Marte. Rodeado de imponentes montañas, atenazado por un frío glacial y desconcertado ante el carácter circunspecto de los habitantes del lugar, Rocco encara su segundo caso con el mismo talante de siempre, irritable y transgresor hasta el límite de lo permisible.

Yuki Hirano is just out of high school when his parents enroll him, against his will, in a forestry training program in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. No phone, no internet, no shopping. Just a small, inviting community where the most common expression is “take it easy.” At first, Yuki is exhausted, fumbles with the tools, asks silly questions, and feels like an outcast. Kamusari is the last place a city boy from Yokohama wants to spend a year of his life. But as resistant as he might be, the scent of the cedars and the staggering beauty of the region have a pull.

Ханну уговорили поехать в соседний городок на танцы в честь праздника начала лета. Две дочери Микке помогают ему подготовиться к приезду четверых потенциальных невест. Микке и его друг Йокке решают пропустить по маленькой перед танцами, но вскоре к ним присоединяется Леннарт и события принимают несколько щеоктливый оборот… Для любителей книг Фредрика Бакмана! Милый скандинавский сериал о том, что и в деревне можно найти свою любовь.

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Blackstone Audio is proud to present the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s brilliant, modern production of Shakespeare’s disturbing and psychologically rich masterpiece Hamlet. Whether you’re a Hamlet scholar or being exposed to this work for the first time, this stunning work of audio theater, fully dramatized with performances by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival cast, is a must-listen.

Boyd Darrow is a young American living in Puchai, a tiny Southeast Asian country that tourist brochures refer to as "The Kingdom of Winks". In a series of letters written to a mysterious recipient, Boyd tells of the delights, humiliations, and brain-bending misadventures he experiences while adjusting to life in the small college town of Mai Mor. He and his somewhat less-than-faithful girlfriend, Ulla, were hoping to start their lives over in Puchai, but Puchai has an agenda all its own. Ulla's been hired to organize the talent show at the town's annual "Festival ofTaang", but she seems more interested in the possibilities of cultural exchange with a local revolutionary.

“Slender but weighty. . . . What is moving about this novel is its embrace of what has always driven Kundera, the delicate state of living between being and nothingness.”— Boston Globe From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, an...

Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated by the reality of the contemporary world and at the same time completely avoiding realism - that's The Festival of Insignificance. Listeners who know Kundera's earlier books know that the wish to incorporate an element of the "unserious" in a novel is not at all unexpected of him.

When Ruby Simon wanted something, she usually got it and didn’t mind working hard for it. Her small town had never done anything for Pride Month, and she was determined to change that. Starting with a parade would be a little much, so Ruby started planning a festival. Chance Curtis was used to always being pulled into her best friend’s orbit. She was an ally to the community, believing that love was love and that she’d find her person one day, but she never had anyone in her life like that, so it didn’t matter anyway.

Musicaldarstellerin zu sein, das ist Lenis größter Traum. Doch wann immer sich eine Chance ergibt, kneift sie. Und so lässt sie sich auch dieses Jahr von ihren Eltern als Touriguide einspannen – statt auf die große Bühne geht es im umgebauten Bulli durch Deutschland. Einziger Lichtblick: die Aussicht auf das Wiedersehen mit ihren Freundinnen Ella und Charlotte nach der Tour in Berlin. Doch alles ändert sich, als ausgerechnet Edward sich für die Bulli-Tour anmeldet.

Es liegen Welten zwischen uns. Und doch trennt uns nichts. Tagsüber arbeitet Ella als Erzieherin, nachts veranstaltet sie als DJane verbotene Untergrund-Partys in Berlin, bei denen sie unzählige Feierwütige zum Tanzen bringt. Als eine davon hochgenommen wird, trifft Ella das erste Mal seit dem Rockfestival auf Polizist Otis und liefert sich kurzerhand eine heiße Verfolgungsjagd mit ihm. Eigentlich kann sie den ungehobelten Kerl nicht ausstehen.

Bloomsbury presents Madame Sosostris & The Festival for the Broken-Hearted by Ben Okri, read by Phyllida Nash. What do you do when your heart has been made a wasteland by love? Viv, who’s in the House of Lords, had the idea for the festival on the twentieth anniversary of the day her first...

‘An evocative, romantic and deeply sensuous read. Wonderful escapism' Santa Montefiore ‘Fragrant and fabulous, brimming with tender romance and hope. The perfect book for summer’ Milly Johnson ‘A sublime summer read – it will fill your heart to the brim with every turn of the page.’...