Resultados para "The Mister" en Literatura y ficción

A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA...

Londra, 2019. La vita è sempre stata facile per Maxim Trevelyan. Molto attraente, ricco, aristocratico, non ha mai dovuto lavorare e ha dormito da solo nel suo letto molto di rado. Ma un giorno, improvvisamente, tutto questo cambia quando una tragedia lo colpisce ed eredita il titolo nobiliare della sua famiglia: un'immensa ricchezza e tutta la responsabilità che ne deriva. E questo non è un ruolo per il quale Maxim è preparato e si deve sforzare per affrontarlo.

Es la noche más embarazosa de mi vida. No solo me he chocado, literalmente, con el hombre más guapo que he visto nunca en el vestíbulo de un hotel, sino que los bollos de nata montada que llevaba (no se admiten preguntas) han acabado aplastados contra mi cuerpo. Cuando por fin consigo cambiarme de ropa, ese mismo tipo —el hombre más sexy de la historia— hace una puja por veinticinco mil libras en una subasta benéfica…

Deep in the mountains, The Oncoming Storm finally finds the other Storm Casters. However, learning to control her powers turns out to be more difficult than she expected. In order to improve, she needs someone to train her but that comes at a cost. On the other side of the continent, the stars...

The small town of Harrods Reach has seen its fair share of the macabre, especially inside the decrepit old train tunnel around which the town was built. After a young boy, Sully Dupree, is injured in the abandoned tunnel and left in a coma, the townspeople are determined to wall it up. Deputy...

Jasper Gwyn è uno scrittore. Vive a Londra e verosimilmente è un uomo che ama la vita. Tutt'a un tratto ha voglia di smettere. Forse di smettere di scrivere, ma la sua non è la crisi che affligge gli scrittori senza ispirazione. Jasper Gwyn sembra voler cambiare prospettiva, arrivare al nocciolo di una magia. Gli fa da spalla, da complice, da assistente una ragazza che raccoglie, con rabbiosa devozione, quello che progressivamente diventa il mistero di Mr Gwyn.

Skadi first met her husband-to-be with blades in hand on the opposite side of a battle. She lost, and he claimed his prize. To her horror, the king of the shadow elven agrees to marry her off to Jonas, a prince in the fae realms, as a way to unite their kingdoms against a shared enemy—the light elves. Skadi knows the marriage is nothing but a political game. Feelings won't come into play. Except her new husband makes not falling in love... challenging. When new threats arise, Skadi must decide either to love her enemy or keep him alive by betraying him to another.

Solo un perro viejo en viajes y experiencias por todo el mundo como Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa puede presentarnos una novela como "Adiós, Mr. Trump". Con una maestría apabullante a la hora de mezclar ficción y realidad, el autor nos presenta el entramado de intereses financieros y comerciales entre Estados Unidos y México a través de la figura de su presidente, en una trama que mezcla narcos, inmigrantes, arquitectos, políticos y una enorme obra de ingeniería que supondrá crear un canal interoceánico que atraviese México para unir el Atlántico y el Pacífico.

The first volume of Gene Wolfe's powerful story of Latro, a Roman mercenary who received a head injury that deprived him of his short-term memory. In return it gave him the ability to converse with supernatural creatures, gods, and goddesses who invisibly inhabit the ancient landscape.

The fourth book in Julia Quinn's globally bestselling, Regency-set, Bridgerton Family series, now the inspiration for the Netflix series Bridgerton created by Shondaland. Welcome to Colin and Penelope's long-awaited story... Everyone knows that Colin Bridgerton is the most charming man in London...

Our enemy claims that the darkness lives in all Arcana. That in a world of light and shadow, one cannot exist without the other. That we're all but one tragedy away from giving in. Even the mages who've sworn to love and protect me. Even me - the Star herself. We call ourselves the Light Arcana, but you know what? The enemy's right. I've seen that darkness. Tasted it. Felt it flickering inside me like a black flame.

A new world. Old knowledge. A unique path to power. Reincarnated into a land of cultivation, Yuan Zhou uses his Earth knowledge and assumptions to become a genius under the heavens for both business and cultivation. However, he walks the path of defiance, exceeding all rational cultivation...

Emelin has finally found the bindings, the key to her victory. But to use them, she needs one last piece of the puzzle… and the only person who can give her that information is a stubbornly silent Thysandra. An uncooperative captive is the least of Em's problems.

The best of plans are made to be disrupted. Yokïmi Kikuchi discovers this in a difficult way as she receives a frantic message from her Farrum, the man who took her in when she was at her lowest point following her brother's betrayal. She owes it to him to answer his call. But his final words haunt her. "I'm sorry." What could that mean? It tells her only that whatever she is going to find, the truth will not be simple. She ventures forth from her new home in the Sanctuary earlier than she anticipated, focused on finding the truth and to seek justice for him.

The best enemies make the best lovers... There are three things I hate: Bratwurst in any form, my neighbors boinking like farm animals at 3 AM, and Chase Jett. Mostly I hate Chase Jett. It's been ten years since he took my virginity—I'd make a bratwurst joke, but the unfortunate truth is that...

A ghostly child haunts Sophia Keegan while a violent gang of rumrunners invades her New England hometown. Stony Harbor is quietly bleeding to death as the Great Depression and Prohibition suck away its vitality, exposing disturbing histories best left buried. But Sophia can’t leave them alone. The bootleggers threaten her family, innocent people die, and a ghost tears at the fabric of her reality. Sophia must untangle the horrible truths before the rumrunners kill her or the ghost drives her to madness.

La première rencontre entre Skadinia, princesse des elfes des ombres, et Jonas, prince des clans faés de la terre, s’est faite sur le champ de bataille, épée à la main. Elle a perdu, et il a remporté la victoire. Pour contrer la menace grandissante d’une invasion des elfes de la...

Los Estados Unidos, México, y el controvertido presidente Trump están en el foco de un tinglado de negocios, intrigas e intereses creados que sumerge al oyente en una trama de acción en la que solo se plantea una duda: ¿Ficción o realidad?

Standing butt-naked in long grass and reincarnated in a game land packed full of monsters, what would you do first? A voice fills the sky and announces you as a Lord of that land—how would you feel about that?

This 2-in-1 bundle collects both installments of P. C. Cast's Into the Mist duology: Into the Mist and Out of the Dawn. In this post-apocalyptic thriller about feminine power, a group of women fight for a just future in the aftermath of global destruction. The world drastically changed when the...