Resultados para "The Little Brother and Sister" en Literatura y ficción

The Little Brother and Sister is a tale from the Brothers Grimm about two siblings escaping their abusive, witch stepmother. She enchants all water sources in the forest to transform anyone who drinks from them into an animal.

"The Little Brother and Sister" is a well-known European fairy tale which was, among others, written down by the Brothers Grimm in their collection of Children's and Household Tales (Grimm's Fairy Tales). It is alternatively known as "Little Sister and Little Brother" or (in the Grimm's version) "Brüderchen und Schwesterchen". Tired of the cruel mistreatment they endure from their wicked stepmother, who is also a witch, a brother and sister run away from home one day. They wander off into the countryside and spend the night in the woods.

A park ranger becomes obsessed with the case of a missing child—a case that mirrors the disappearance of her own brother, whom she lost in the woods years ago—and the possibility that both were taken by something vicious and unnatural that lives deep in the Ozarks. “Fleet-footed...

'Packed full of secrets and lies, Saxon succeeds in putting the 'creep' in creepy.' Valerie Keogh Four sisters, four secrets. Who has the deadliest of them all? Something happened to me when I was nine. My childhood memories before that fateful day are gone. Extinguished. The aftermath has...

David Sedaris tells all in a book that is, literally, a lifetime in the making. For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These...

In an authoritarian near-future America obsessed with digital consciousness and eternal life, two long-lost siblings risk everything to save their mother from oblivion. When Adéla discovers she has a terminal illness, she leaves behind her native Czech village for a chance at reuniting in...

In this #1 New York Times bestseller from the world’s most popular storyteller, a brilliant investigator faces the shock of her brother's arrest for three brutal murders ... and her own exile in the Australian outback. Harry Blue is the top Sex Crimes investigator in her department. But even...

In this angsty debut from BookTok's @ChamberofSecretBooks, a wedding forces one university student to return to her small town where she must finally face the long-buried secrets and heated tension between her and her brother's best friend. Once close to her big family, Magdalen Savoy is now...

“A feisty true-crime obsessive’s erotic awakening.” —Ada Calhoun, author of Crush A “compulsively readable” (Sophie Stava, author of Count My Lies) novel about a San Diego housewife whose love affair with her neighbor’s roofer is interrupted by a murder. Perdita Jungfrau thought...

The police are called to stop two teens ransacking a small-town grocery store. They have no identification. And they won’t speak a word. And the small town of Kokanee Creek is suddenly plunged into a sinister mystery that only #1 bestseller James Patterson could have written. Two teens appear...

College students Trevor and Lindsey are taking an introductory psychology class when they are assigned a group project together. When Trevor discovers that he can use hypnosis to get more than a good grade, Lindsey is in for a steamy class project. He gradually eases her into dropping her clothes, showing off her hot body, and finally getting banged until she loses control. But will their hot after school activities be enough to get them an "A?"

‘Hypnotic’ Chicago Review of Books ‘Rich, complex … vivid’ New York Times Book Review ‘Compelling’ Jewish Week Everything is fine. Everyone is fine. Harry Tabor should be perfectly happy: he’s about to be named Man of the Decade, his wife and children are all distinguished in...

“This fantastic ensemble of narrators excel equally at emotionally connecting to complicated emotional characters, elevating colloquial language, and enhancing mysterious, violent horrors.” —AudioFile (Earphones Award) This program features multicast narration. For fans of Jordan Peele’s...

A 2022 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR for THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, RED, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AND CRITIC 'The kind of rare story you want to nosedive into on a hot hungover weekend and slurp down like iced coffee - cold, sweet and quenching . . . a summer read to devour with suncream and...