Resultados para "The Heroes" en Narrativa literaria

Beatrice Johnson Greene, a bestselling crime writer, has an unusual favor to ask. When a chance encounter brings Emma Fern into her life, she thinks she's found just the person for the job. Soon Beatrice will wish they'd never met. For Emma, desperate to please, it's an offer she can't refuse. All she has to do is lend her name to Beatrice's next novel, her first in a new genre. But when the book becomes a huge triumph, Emma finds herself the toast of the literary world.

Harlow hasst die Götter. Doch als ihr Heimatdorf von Bestien angegriffen und ihre beste Freundin tödlich verwundet wird, geht sie einen Pakt mit Loki ein, dem Gott der List und Lügen. Für ein Heilmittel hilft Harlow ihm, an den heiligen Pfeil des Liebesgottes Amor zu gelangen. Auf ihrer Mission werden sie von einem perfiden Fluch getroffen: Die beiden können sich nicht voneinander entfernen, ohne tödliche Schmerzen zu erleiden. Und je mehr Zeit Harlow mit dem verführerischen Gott verbringt, desto mehr hinterfragt sie alles, was sie über ihn zu wissen glaubte.

This collection of fiction includes six of Gabriel García Márquez’s short stories and a novella, Innocent Eréndira, in which a young girl dreams of freedom after her vicious and avaricious grandmother sells her into prostitution.

The state war raging outside the home of the Al-Fakhoury extended family, who live in a border town buffeted by the turmoil of the Arab Spring, entwines with the familial conflict raging within. The patriarch of the family, Mohammed, is an aggressive, dominant man who bullies his wife and four children and wages paranoiac diatribes against his sister and her family. It is only when Mohammed leaves for work every morning that the house relaxes into the rich interconnectivity of familial relationships....

Una caricatura del provinciano que vive alardeando. Alfonso Daudet supo reflejar en sus obras el caracter del hombre de provincia, exuberante, alardeador y que vive en su pequeno mundo como si se tratara de el centro del universo. Ese es el caso de Tartarín, heroe de una serie de novelas de Daudet, que se inventa historias y acaba creyendolas el mismo.

Indoors are servants, meals, and furniture. There, too, is The Man of Wrath, her upright Teutonic husband, inspiring in Elizabeth a mixture of irritation, affection, and irreverence. But outside she can escape domestic routine, read favorite books, play with her three babies and garden to her heart's content. Through Elizabeth's eyes we watch the seasons, from May's "oasis of bird-cherries and greenery" to the time when "snow carpets her Pomeranian wilderness".

Así arranca esta intensa aventura de realismo mágico que, a través de un viaje a las memorias de la abuela Amelia, nos cruza con personajes tan alucinantes como Serapio, un valiente perro; Domingo, un héroe en forma de machete; o el mismísimo pueblo ardiente de Las Choapas, en el borde de Veracruz con Tabasco. A quienes decidan adentrarse en sus calles de tierra, llenas de pasión, rencor, odio, amor y, sobre todo, perdón, los espera un rompecabezas armado con una entrañable destreza narrativa, que nos recuerda la mágica pluma de Laura Esquivel o Sofía Segovia.

“ The best kind of vampire story—one in which the real evil is us.” —Peng Shepherd “Deliciously monstrous and demanding of our attention, Anna Kovatcheva crafts a feminist vampire story like no other.” —Ms, Magazine A heady, dark-hued Gothic gem of a debut novel: in...

Philippa Gregory's first story in the best-selling Wideacre trilogy. A compelling tale of passion and intrigue set in the 18th century. From the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgin's Lover. Wideacre Hall, set in the heart of the English countryside, is the ancestral home that Beatrice Lacey loves. But as a woman of the 18th century, she has no right of inheritance. Corrupted by a world that mistreats women, she sets out to corrupt others.

Pages for Her is the story of two women, Flannery and Anne, each at a personal turning point, and the circumstances that lead to their reunion. Twenty years after their brief but passionate affair, chronicled in Sylvia Brownrigg's earlier novel Pages for You, Flannery has the chance once again to meet Anne, who opened young Flannery up to the possibility of love - then left her heartbroken. Pages for Her is an exhilarating, passionate work that explores marriage, sexuality, and the transformative power of love over time.

Héroes cuenta la historia de un chico que se encierra en su habitación para vivir fuera de un mundo sin alicientes y dentro de las canciones. Una chica rubia, amigos, viajes que le llevan lejos de lo que no quiere ver... todo está en ese cuarto, ese territorio propio en el que él está siempre solo. En el exterior, las cosas ya no son como le gustarían, no le interesa la madurez. Es una estrella que únicamente saldrá convertido en un ángel.

"A dark valentine of a novel." --TIME Magazine "A sly subversion and exemplar of the [romance] form." --The New York Times A big-hearted, wise, unceasingly buoyant love story about a woman who, after escaping a bruising marriage, theorizes that happiness is possible solely with the eradication...

Her First Ball is a 1921 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in The Sphere on 28 November 1921, and later reprinted in The Garden Party and Other Stories. A young girl called Leila has come to the city to stay with her cousins. They are going to a ball. Leila is very excited: this is her first ball. Once there, she is both excited and terrified. After dancing with several young boys her own age, she dances with a wrinkly balding man who has been coming to balls for a while.

An unnamed Visitor travels to Berlin with a camera looking for reckonings of her own. The city itself is a character - vibrant and post-apocalyptic, flat and featureless except for its rivers, its lakes, its legions of bicyclists. Here in Berlin, she encounters a people's history: the Cuban teen taken as a POW on a German submarine only to return home to a family who doesn't believe him, the young Jewish scholar hidden in a sarcophagus until safe passage to England is found, the female lawyer haunted by a childhood of deprivation, and more.

Vowing to honour her dead father's memory, 23-year-old Wanda throws herself into the Polish resistance, risking her life to transport ammunition for the uprising against the Nazis. But a clandestine meeting with an informant reveals a shocking twist. The man before her is the very soldier who took her father's life. Claiming to be a double agent, the informant sparks doubt, forcing Wanda to make a life-altering decision: trust the man she hates most in the world or jeopardize her network's crucial mission.

Here Goes Nothing, Eamon McGrath’s brave second offering and follow-up to 2017’s widely acclaimed Berlin-Warszawa Express, once again explores the world of touring musicians - but this time McGrath expands his scope and perspective from the inner dialogue of a traveling songwriter into the wider range of a multi-member touring band. Told in two interwoven narratives that blur the lines between past and present, Here Goes Nothing explores the complex relationships that are both created and destroyed by the perpetual-motion engine that is the touring van.

Hi, I'm Paul. I'm a little different to most people. I kind of have a gift that enables me to see people inside out. I know that sounds weird. But basically, I see what's in their heart first and then I notice the box it's wrapped in. To be honest, most of the time, I think it would be better if the whole world could see people this way.

It took everything she had for FBI Special Agent Danica Beckett to walk away from the man she loved. But if she wants to save his life, she has to keep her distance. Now, with a killer on the loose and the stakes higher than ever before, the Department of Covert Ops is forcing these former lovers into an uneasy alliance...whether they like it or not. The last thing Clayne Buchanan wants is to be shackled to the woman who broke his heart. She gets under his skin in a way no one ever has and makes him want things he has no right to anymore.

Surpass all odds, break the chains, defeat a God... Heracles’ trials are far from over. Carrying the weight of the heavens, accompanied only by his most loyal friend, Iolaus, he will do anything to atone for his crimes. But all is not as it seems. Gods and men alike plot against him... First Heracles must obtain the girdle of the Amazonian Queen, Hippolyta, steal cattle from the monstrous Geryon, and take apples from the Garden of Hesperides.

From the streets of Danang, Vietnam, where a boy falls in with a young American missionary, to fishermen lost off the islands of Honduras, to the Canadian prairies, where a teenage boys infatuation reveals his naiveté and an aging rancher finds himself smitten, the short stories in Here the Dark explore the spaces between doubt and belief, evil and good, obscurity and light.