Resultados para "The Monument" en Literatura y ficción

Previously published as The Empress of Idaho Bestselling and award-winning author Todd Babiak's acclaimed novel—an immersive and affecting story about a teenager's fascination with an enigmatic new woman in town whose past is catching up with her. Monument, Colorado, July 1989...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024 A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST NEW DEBUT 'This is a party I'm glad I was invited to' EILEEN MYLES 'Fizzing with ideas' OBSERVER * Isn't every family home a monument? The provocative debut novel from the award-winning author. Olga Pavic's...

Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. A MONUMENT OF FRENCH FOLLY: It was profoundly observed by a witty member of the Court of Common Council, in Council assembled in the City of London, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty, that the French are a frog-eating people, who wear wooden shoes.

'Tell me who it is' 'What difference will it make?' 'After six years I'm entitled to know who you're leaving me for.' 'Ok. It's someone I grew up with . . . from the village. It's Marcus Harding.'

One small handwritten letter, sent from a dark, remote corner of the planet and lost in the system for 60 years, is about to change the entire human race. Outside Denver, Colorado, Joe Rickards stands over a small aircraft wreckage, studying burnt remains still smoldering in a field of freshly fallen snow. He's an investigator for the NTSB, working to carefully roll back the last several hours and identify the cause of the accident. But this time, he can't.

Mike Mansfield’s cases are never easy. They’re dangerous and unpredictable, but there are patterns. Patterns in how criminals act and how they think. But this time, something is off. After a recent rescue, the emerging details seem very odd to Mansfield. Of his three culprits, one has no...

Neapel im 15. Jahrhundert: Arnau Estanyol, Enkel einer der größten Baumeister Spaniens, dient dem König von Aragonien bei der Eroberung Neapels. Arnaus Halbbruder hat sich gegen ihn verschworen und ist bereit, ihm alles zu nehmen. Seine Angriffe treffen die Menschen, die Arnau am wichtigsten sind, angefangen bei seiner Stieftochter. In diesen dunklen Zeiten wird Arnau miterleben, wie sich die Welt um ihn herum verändert, wie sich die Kunst des Krieges wandelt und wie die Liebe selbst das härteste Herz berühren kann.

This priceless collection of once lost stories brings to life a time of desperate violence and true courage in a wide-open country of fortune seekers and dreamers, lawbreakers and pioneers. A newly sworn-in marshal must outwit a mysterious killer who’s fleecing his neighbors while secretly...

Is it possible for books to dream? For books to dream within books? Is there a literary subterranea that would facilitate ingress and exit points through these dreams? These are some of the questions posed by David Keenan's masterly fifth novel, Monument Maker, an epic romance of eternal summer...

From a bestselling author of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world’s greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge. A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a...

As president of the Pennsylvania Antiquarian Society in Philadelphia, Nell Pratt relies on the generosity of philanthropists. But when someone starts killing benefactors, it's Nell's turn to come to their aid.... When Nell reads the obituary of a former board member, Adeline Harrison, she makes a mental note to send flowers and doesn't think twice about it - until FBI agent James Morrison shares his suspicions about the nature of Adeline's death.

En los barrios siempre hay una plaza. En la plaza suele haber un monumento. Aquí hay uno encantado (encantado de conocerlos). También hay calles difíciles de cruzar, peatones ingeniosos, vecinos con nombres bien raros, y un lugar que cada mañana sorprende a sus habitantes... ¿Pueden creer algo?

In about 1450 AD, an exceedingly prosperous generation of Native Americans, known then as the Anasazi, vanished from their strongholds in the American Southwest--disappeared without so much as a trace. However, the Native Americans of the present day Navajo Nation dispute the theoretical findings of modern day archeologists and anthropologists.

There's Always a Trail When a stranger named Handy offered to track down Cass Bailey's stolen money for a stake in the CB range, Bailey has nothing more to lose. But his pretty hot-tempered daughter, Ann, was certian that Handy couldn't find the money unless he'd had a hand in stealing it. So...