Resultados para "The List" en Literatura y ficción

Tasha Ancel, de dieciséis años, se gira para echar un último vistazo al lugar que le ha robado la libertad y la infancia. No sabe cómo ha sobrevivido; la mayoría ha muerto tras las puertas del campo de concentración. Por primera vez en meses, su corazón late con la esperanza de un futuro y de sacar adelante a los niños que ahora se aferran a ella. Las SS arrancaron a Tasha de los brazos de su madre unos días antes de que la deportaran. De ella, solo conserva un mechón de cabello pelirrojo.

Toni Montero fue sentenciado a la edad de diecisiete años a cadena perpetua por un asesinato que no cometió. Recluido en la prisión de San Quintín conoce a un recluso influyente: Marc Lecury, acusado de homicidio. Lecury y su socio, el abogado Leko Tabone, se valen de la Proposición 47 y logran la libertad de Toni Montero después de dieciocho años.

Inglaterra, 1820. Rosalind Newbury quiere a su familia y haría por ella lo que fuera. Así que, cuando nada menos que un duque pide su mano, ella dice sí sin pensárselo. De ese modo asegurará su futuro y el de los suyos. Pero un día todo se tambalea cuando encuentra una lista de deseos que había hecho cuando era jovencita.

Bertram y sus tres amigos, Jack, Kasper y Felix, acaban de terminar la escuela y formaron una pandilla de poca monta, llamándose a sí mismos "Los Halcones". Trabajan para el Mediador, que les paga por entrar a propiedades y robar muebles costosos de diseñador, a petición de sus clientes. Bertram vive solo con su madre, que trabaja como mesera en un restaurante.

Jack Valentini isn't my type. Sexy, brooding cowboys are fine in the movies, but in real life, I prefer a suit and tie. Proper manners. A close shave. Jack might be gorgeous, but he's also scruffy, rugged, and rude. He wants nothing to do with a "rich city girl" like me, and he isn't afraid to say so. But I've got a PR job to do for his family's farm, so he's stuck with me and I'm stuck with him. His glares. His moods. His tight jeans. His muscles. His huge, hard muscles.

A Jocelyne le quedan quince millones y un solo deseo. Deshacerse de ellos.Jocelyne tenía todo lo que necesitaba para ser feliz, pero su vida se hizo añicos el día que ganó el bote del Euromillón. Su marido la traicionó y le robó el premio, y después acabó con su vida. Ahora está sola con los 15 millones que él no consiguió dilapidar, y su vida no parece tener rumbo.Perseverante y luchadora, Jocelyne se inscribe en Ganadores Anónimos y descubre una particular galería de personajes que, como ella, han visto cómo su vida daba un vuelco.

Holly Greene is on a mission to find her happily ever after. And her journey to love does not include a detour to Bad Boy Bartenderville, population Jax Grainger. Jax may be witty, smart-mouthed, and handsome, but he’s the kind of guy who views love as a four-letter word…and the last thing Holly needs is to waste any more time.

Esta colección de relatos está protagonizada por niños, sí, pero tiene tan poco de inocente como la misma infancia. Como todos los niños del mundo, rebosa mala uva, es imprevisible, caprichosa, vengativa. Estos cuentos tienen alma de dictador y manos de asesino. Como todos los niños del mundo.

After an untimely firing caused by what could only be the best donkey meme ever created, I find myself back in my snowy hometown of Blushing, Colorado. As beautiful as it is, there's one big reason why I haven't been home in six years. Nicholas Stone—Blushing's most eligible bachelor and the love of my life. I have one goal and one goal only—get in and out of Blushing before Nick realizes I'm here. Only avoiding him is much harder than I could have anticipated.

Él era Oskar Schindler. Un empresario alemán, miembro del partido nazi, que, con osadía e ingenio, se convirtió en un héroe en medio del horror de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En este gran hito de la literatura sobre el Holocausto, Thomas Keneally recrea magistralmente sus peligrosas proezas y cómo utilizó su fortuna para comprar una fábrica cerca de un campo de concentración y así salvar la vida de más de 1.300 judíos.

Dramatizing explosive events in London and Palestine in the years directly following World War II, The List follows the lives of Edith and Georg, Austrian refugees who are expecting their first baby in a world unfriendly to Jews. Anti-Semitism sweeps across the streets of London even as the world learns of the atrocities of the Holocaust. As Edith and Georg desperately search for surviving family members, they struggle to stay afloat in a world riddled with terrorism, assassination attempts, and fear.

Es el comienzo del verano y la protagonista de Listas, guapas, limpias quiere dejar a su novio, pero hay algo que se lo impide. También hay algo que le hace dudar cuando llega a una fiesta llena de desconocidos y le piden que sea ella la que ponga la próxima canción; o cuando está con su madre en el supermercado del barrio y tiene que escoger una marca de pizza congelada para la cena; o incluso cuando está hablando con su amiga de infancia, Yaiza, y no es capaz de sincerarse sobre sus planes de futuro.

A woman falling out of sync with the world; a king’s servant hypnotized by his murderous horse; a transplanted ear with a mind of its own—the characters in these 25 stories live as interlopers in a world shaped by mysterious disappearances and unfathomable discrepancies between the real and imagined, revealing the breadth and depth of Evenson’s uncanny vision.

Arriving in New York City full of idealism, Paul discovers the queer community gathering strength in the face of government inaction and social stigma. As he protests, parties, and makes a new home, he finds himself pulling away from his HIV-negative boyfriend to pursue an intense bond with a passionate, HIV-positive artist. Paul’s awakening parallels ACT UP’s rise, successes, and controversies. And then everything shifts again, as his family is thrust into their own life-and-death struggle that tests him even further.

This recording features the highlights of this historic 1995 event sponsored by the Temple of Understanding and includes a talk by the late cosmologist Carl Sagan. Visions for the 21st Century was a powerful forum for religious leaders, diplomats, nongovernmental organizations, and educators to present their visions for the next century.

As a struggling young attorney fresh out of law school, Renny Jacobson was pining for the day he could afford the fast cars and sprawling homes of the partners in his Charlotte firm. And with news of his father's death and an ancient, secret inheritance, Renny's life was sure to change forever. But the inheritance and membership in the clandestine society which provided it soon threatens to change him in more ways than one.

They thought the Enemy was the worst of their foes. They were wrong.

The Long List Anthology is designed to recognize the short works that were nominated for the 2015 Hugo Awards but did not make it into the top five short list for the final ballot. Thus, voted into the Hugo Award's long list of works - the top 15 works nominated for each category - were these nine short stories and three novelettes, now made available to a wider audience by award-winning narrators.

Ella Edwards is loving her dream life in the city of London, doing "naughty" things for a living and adoring every second. Her clients are getting naughtier, her paychecks are getting bigger, and she's dating another crazy hot 'entertainer' who's driving her wild. Josh, otherwise known as Weston—one of the greatest Agency Hardcorers of them all. The flames are burning bright, and the passion is scorching hot, so what could possibly go wrong?

From the award-winning author of Chemistry comes a sharp and poignant short story that follows a young medical student working in clinical research and grappling with the realities of a future in her chosen field.