Resultados para "The Piper" en Narrativa literaria

A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of the Monaro. She does not believe in God, doesn't know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive life almost by accident. As she gradually adjusts to the rhythms of monastic life, she ruminates on her childhood in the nearby town. She finds herself turning again and again to thoughts of her mother, whose early death she can't forget.

Oxford, finales del siglo XIX. Huérfana de madre e irremediablemente curiosa, Esme crece en un mundo de palabras. Escondida debajo del escritorio de su padre, uno de los lexicógrafos del primer Diccionario Oxford, rescata las fichas de las palabras que se han extraviado o se han desechado, y que la ayudan a dar sentido al mundo.

Best-selling novelist and award-winning audiobook narrator Alison Larkin changes the gender of two of Dickens' most famous characters in these critically acclaimed recordings of Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol. These are the same beloved stories; only one thing has changed. In these versions, Pip and Scrooge are women.

It is the winter of 1985. Hope Farm sticks out of the ragged landscape like a decaying tooth, its weatherboard walls sagging into the undergrowth. Silver's mother, Ishtar, has fallen for the charismatic Miller, and the three of them have moved to the rural hippie commune to make a new start. But here, at just 13, she is thrust into an unrelenting adult world, and the walls begin to come tumbling down, with deadly consequences.

Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned property in the middle of a desert. The Natural Way of Things is a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and be hunted. But most of all, it is the story of two friends, their sisterly love and courage.

In Seattle, they're calling him The Pied Piper - someone who comes in the night and takes children away. To newly promoted police lieutenant Lou Boldt and police psychologist Daphne Matthews, it's clear this isn't about a single lunatic or random kidnappings: these crimes are well orchestrated, well executed, and, most chilling of all, occurring in cities across the country.

The Digital Storm is an ingenious science fiction retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest set in the near future, inside a bank’s intranet.

Mutterlos und unbändig neugierig verbringt Esme ihre Kindheit im Scriptorium, einem Gartenschuppen in Oxford, in dem ihr Vater und ein Team von Lexikographen das erste Oxford English Dictionary zusammenstellen. Esmes Platz ist unter dem Schreibtisch, ungesehen und ungehört. Heimlich liest sie die Zettel auf, die zu Boden flattern. Und sie erkennt, was die männlichen Gelehrten aussortieren: Wörter und Bedeutungen aus der Erfahrungswelt von Frauen. Als Esme ihre eigene Sammlung beginnt, keimt eine Entschlossenheit in ihr, die sie ihr ganzes Leben lang prägen wird.

Mutterlos und unbändig neugierig verbringt Esme ihre Kindheit im Scriptorium, einem Gartenschuppen in Oxford, in dem ihr Vater und ein Team von Lexikographen das erste Oxford English Dictionary zusammenstellen. Esmes Platz ist unter dem Schreibtisch, ungesehen und ungehört. Heimlich liest sie die Zettel auf, die zu Boden flattern. Und sie erkennt, was die männlichen Gelehrten aussortieren: Wörter und Bedeutungen aus der Erfahrungswelt von Frauen. Als Esme ihre eigene Sammlung beginnt, keimt eine Entschlossenheit in ihr, die sie ihr ganzes Leben lang prägen wird.

Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor “Ms. Demeanor is a complete and utter delight. Of course it is. What Elinor Lipman novel isn’t?”—Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and Chances Are . . . “Who knew house arrest could be sexy and fun? Not me, at least not until I read...

It would take a perfect storm in time to create the need, the money, and the politics that would create in the 1860s the birth of the Sicilian Mafia. It will take a perfect plan by Don Leonardo La Barbra to save his ancient family's estate and business from his weak son and his twin uncles who now control it all. A bred male for a near-impossible job was trained from birth to be a solder, analytical thinker, and to be a fearless leader in any situation.

If you love the emotionally complex novels of JoJo Moyes and the dramatic books of Jodi Picoult, you won’t want to miss this newest book about second chances, redemption, and the power of hope from USA Today bestselling author of Shelter Me, Juliette Fay. On her own since the age of eighteen...

A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR A LOS ANGELES TIMES TOP FIFTEEN BOOK OF THE YEAR Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, a novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be good, from the award-winning author of The Weekend. “Stone Yard...

A jigger of tranquility is all Em Johnson wants, but now that her beloved Tiki Goddess Bar has been chosen as the location for Trouble in Paradise, TV’s hot new reality show, life is anything but tranquil. When a member of the camera crew is found dead in her kitchen - stabbed to death with Chef Kimo’s sashimi knife - the scene on the sleepy North Shore of Kauai goes from eccentrically crazy to downright dangerous.

Sophy Hedge, the artistic daughter of the town's minister, falls in love with Gideon Birdsall, a driven theology student assisting her father with a Hebrew lexicon. Sophy is drawn to Gideon's intellect, passion, and spiritual nature while Gideon glimpses in her a free soul unbound by convention. Yet Gideon's restlessness after they wed worries Sophy, and she finds his friendship with Leander Solloway, the charismatic new schoolmaster, a cause for anxiety.

When a woman discovers a rare book with connections to her past, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood in the English countryside during World War II are revealed in this “beguiling blend of hope, mystery, and true familial love” (Sadeqa Johnson, New York Times...

John Irving’s fifteenth novel is “powerfully cinematic” (The Washington Post) and “eminently readable” (The Boston Globe). The Last Chairlift is part ghost story, part love story, spanning eight decades of sexual politics. In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier...

“Mr. Wilder has brought to his character the warmth which was totally lacking in the Caesar of schoolbooks and Shakespeare, and in his hero’s destruction there is the true catharsis.”—Edward Weeks, Atlantic First published in 1948, The Ides of March is a brilliant epistolary novel of the...

A collection of the year’s best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor JesmynWard says that the best fiction offers the reader a “sense of repair.”The stories in this...

“The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes is a page-turning peek inside the glamour and brutality of life as a pop star. Sloan takes us on a wild ride through the world of music video shoots, expensive hotels, and arena tours—showing us the darkness that threatens just below the surface.”...