Resultados para "The Swim" en Literatura y ficción

So, when she decides to train to swim the English Channel, she understands why no one believes she can do it. She doesn’t really believe she can either, but she’s determined to try. As she strides into the Channel with hours stretching ahead of her, Cordelia swims against every milestone in her life so far. Every failed relationship, every friendship let go, every exam failed, every tricky job she quit. A life lived never giving it her all. Until now.

Carson Chow is a high functioning addict. For years, he's been able to meet the increasing demands from his aging immigrant parents while hiding his crystal meth use every other weekend. One Friday night, as he's passed out from a drug binge, he misses 38 phone calls from his father, detailing first the collapse and eventually the death of his mother. Carson has always been close to his mother. He throws himself into the preparation of his mother's funeral. Will this tragedy plunge him deeper into his abuse or finally rouse him from his addiction stupor?

Trapped on a cruise ship with a man I absolutely hate is not how I wanted to spend this fake honeymoon. Especially when my "fiance" has a deadly ex on the same boat. Jackson is everything I'm not: brash, careless, and a former fossil thief. But he's my ticket to getting what I want - the original Spinosaurus fossils that have been lost for decades. Now I have to play the part, win the fossils, and try not to kill him in the process.

For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.

Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899) wrote over 100 ‘rags-to-riches’ novels, often about teenage boys forced by circumstances to earn their own living selling newspapers, blacking boots, carrying luggage, or tending store. Alger’s heroes are honest, temperate, generous, and brave, good in a fight and ready to protect a weaker boy from a bully. Alger stresses work, study, and thrift as ways to escape poverty. Alger’s villains, on the other hand, are usually dishonest, sometimes alcoholic or brutal.

In 1970s Boston, the glossy veneer of 16-year-old Sarah Kunitz’s wealthy family is starting to show cracks. Her parents’ constant fighting and her mother’s prescription pill abuse drive Sarah into two romantic relationships with unforeseen consequences. With grief fresh in her heart, Sarah wonders if she or her family will ever love again.

Dr. Alton Silas, the owner of a failing public aquarium, accidentally stumbles upon the greatest zoological discovery of the new century. Pisciviri sila, the "Silas Merman": A primal, humanoid, deep-sea creature with a disturbing secret. Against all odds, Silas’s new exhibit fails. The merman refuses to appear before the public, except to scare and try to attack those who linger too long. Now, it's Dr. Sean Morgan's job to keep the creature happy. That is, until people start disappearing.

A simple mile swim to a tropical island, a waiting beauty back on the mainland beach, and the anguish of despair. The Swim mixes the excitement of being a young traveller with psychological horror.

In this heartfelt and heart-pounding, serial killer thriller, a sleepy coastal community is shaken awake when a baby is found swimming alone in the ocean at dawn. By happenstance the local Chief of Police Wade Davis becomes in charge of the lost child’s temporary placement with DSS. Wade’s wife Grace, a former social worker and force to be reckoned with, visits the police station while the baby is in her husband’s care. Grace forms a nearly instant kinship with the baby that compels her to foster her.

Brought to you by Penguin. The essential companion to Toni Morrison’s work, written by Namwali Serpell, ‘one of the most innovative and intelligent writers today’ (Financial Times) Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate and most beloved of writers, has inspired generations of readers. But her...

Sabine Kuegler wuchs im Dschungel von Westpapua auf, ihr Buch "Dschungelkind" wurde ein weltweiter Millionenbestseller. Mit 17 Jahren kam sie nach Europa und erfuhr einen Kultur-Clash. Heute lebt sie in Hamburg, hat Kinder, Freunde und Arbeit. Aber noch immer ist sie eine Zerrissene zwischen den Welten und der innere Kampf um ihre Identität quält sie. 

Lou can't sleep at night. Bud and Lou talk about universal military training. Bud tells Lou to propose to Susan, but Lou needs money. Susan wants a lifeguard for a husband. Lou decides to learn to be a lifeguard. He takes swimming lessons from a lady named Olive and is able to land a job as a lifeguard.

From Ann Packer, author of the New York Times best-selling novels The Dive from Clausen’s Pier and Songs Without Words, a collection of burnished, emotionally searing stories, framed by two unforgettable linked narratives that express the transformation of a single family over the course of a...

Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award in the Debut Fiction “Swim Home to the Vanished is a lush and fantastic journey through strange lands and minds from an incandescent new voice full of my kind of melancholic brilliance and unromantic magic.”—Tommy Orange, author of There...

An older woman forms a bond with her younger friend over a Christmas tradition of swimming in the sea, with Sally Cope noticing just how much her darling Lee has grown.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner Graham Swift’s first collection of short stories confirms his power to bring an edge of the extraordinary, the dangerous or the subversive into otherwise familiar, safe, even comforting...

Abigail Jex never expected to see any of the Radleys again. They were extraordinary, captivating creatures transplanted from a bohemian corner of North London to outer suburbia, and the young Abigail found herself drawn into their magic circle: the eccentric Frances, her new best friend; Frances' mother, the liberated, headstrong Lexi; and of course the brilliant, beautiful Rad. Abigail thought she'd banished the ghost of her life with them and the catastrophe that ended it, but 13 years later a chance encounter forces her to acknowledge that the spell is far from broken.

Ettie is trying to figure out her future. Dominic’s just trying to forget his past. But with the help of some unlikely friends, young and old, a secret lake hidden in the grounds of a beautiful estate and a scruffy dog, a new community is formed–right when they all need each other the most.

From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been...

Beloved and bestselling poet Jack Prelutsky and New York Times Best Illustrated artist Carin Berger team up to create a new collection of silly, strange, and sensational animal poems! Told through couplets and visually arresting shadow boxes, dioramas, and cut-paper collage, Stardines Swim High...