Resultados para "barrier" en Antologías y relatos breves

Lourdes Márquez Barrios es una narradora prodigiosa. Tiene un talento innato que se ve reflejado en las historias que cuenta, historias que logran tocar la médula del ser humano. Estamos hablando de una autora sensitiva, dotada de una prosa elegante, sorprendente y rica en matices

Amores patológicos fue el primer libro de Nuria Barrios, que ahora ha vuelto a intervenir en él para celebrar los veinticinco años de su publicación. Su escritura suscitó en su momento tantos elogios como reacciones escandalizadas ante aquel mundo apasionado y excesivo, atento a la exploración del cuerpo como lenguaje del eros.

The Fantasy Fiction Collection contains: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Jungle Book, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Peter and Wendy, and Alice's Adventures Under Ground.

Mysteries of Golfton Hills is a set of sixteen gripping psychological suspense, crime, and thriller audio short stories by bestselling author R. Barri Flowers, set in the fictional town of Golfton Hills, Florida, situated in the Panhandle.

Tío Vaina es una selección de cuentos enmarcados en escenarios habitados por personajes urbanos que describen experiencias que el autor ha vivido, imaginado o escuchado sobre Bogotá, tratadas con una buena dosis de humor negro, ironía y burla que conducen a desenlaces insospechados. Premio...

En estos seis cuentos, el autor explora las relaciones de pareja, el amor y el deseo, a través de las historias de unos personajes que tratan de conciliar sus pulsiones y sus manías con los condicionamientos y las expectativas sociales. Como ya es característico de la narrativa de Barrios, el...

A couple's cat leaves offerings of dead birds freighted with mysterious import. A foreign worker helps construct a concert hall that reawakens his musical longings. A young diver hunts venomous cone snails for a lovelorn researcher. With disarming simplicity, Barrie Sherwood charts how the...

Ocho relatos sobre la vida cotidiana en México En una tlapalería de la ciudad se oye, se ve, se huele el alegre ajetreo de los barrios, pero también la insidia y los dimes y diretes que le dan color a las historias que regocijan nuestra imaginación. Elena Poniatowska Amor muestra sus dotes...

Tot canvia després d'un altre got d'absenta. Deixes el got damunt la taula, mires per la finestra i tens temps de veure una línia de llum que recorre fugaçment el carrer, il·lumina per un instant la roba estesa en un balcó i es clava al portal de casa. Darrere dels vidres encesos endevines les siluetes dels Nohisom, que es deixen engolir per la fosca de l'escala. Ara passen les cosines Tonell, que corren cap al teatre aferrades a la bossa.

Home is where the heart is this holiday season! Cozy up and unwrap the gift of romance with beloved bestselling authors. In these unforgettable short stories, second chances sparkle brighter than Christmas lights, and finding that special someone under the mistletoe feels like coming home at last.

Would you trust a complete stranger? After Chloe and her daughter Freya are rescued from disaster by a man, Chloe decides she must find him again to thank him. But instead of meeting her knight in shining armour, she comes across Nadine Caspian, who warns her to stay away from him. The man is...

A medieval swindler gets caught with his proverbial pants down; a foolproof plan is put into place to pick up some cash via AI, until things take an unexpected and deadly turn; a legendary bodyguard is hired to protect precious cargo, but who will protect the cargo from him? The 14 brand-new stories deal with the complex idea of morality and will make listeners wonder what side is the right side.

A Pandemic is a bad thing – or is it? Could you use it to your advantage? Suppose you had an inclination to start a Totalitarian State? Suppose you wanted to commit a murder whilst in lockdown? Who is the angel by the hospital bedside? How safe is that Amazon package sitting on your doorstep? What if you’re obsessed with someone you only see on TV? Should you try and start a relationship just before going into lockdown? How does the lockdown affect a once famous artist who has slipped into depression and alcoholism?

The British, it is often said, have a stiff upper lip and a dry sense of humour. It's true, we usually do, and in the case of this perfect compendium of short stories we absolutely do. Listen to our Scottish raconteur J. M. Barrie and English wits Jerome K. Jerome and Edward Lear for perfect proof of that. But humour is many things and from many places, so we also feature Mark Twain, our very talented American friend, to complete this rather witty and clever volume of short stories.

From the twice CWA Dagger shortlisted author of The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas come 12 never-before-published stories to transport you to the macabre world of inexplicable phenomena. With returning characters from the Essex Witch Museum series and a weirdly wonderful tale for each day of Christmas, these spooky stories are the perfect companion for long, dark winter nights.

At the heart of each of these great classic stories is an adoptee with an indomitable spirit who becomes the heroine (or hero) of her own life. "The bravery it takes for an unwanted orphan to forge their own path in life was as great when these stories were written as it is today," says narrator Alison Larkin, who draws on her own adoption experience to bring these stories to authentic new life.

A delightful collection of humorous classic tales by some of the world's greatest racconteurs.

Over 24 of the best humorous stories ever written, including: "The Inconsiderate Waiter", by J. M. Barrie; "Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger", by Saki; "Curried Cow", by Ambrose Bierce; "Cannibalism in the Cars", by Mark Twain; "A Love Knot", by W. W. Jacobs; "A Bottomless Grave", by Ambrose Bierce; "Biffin on the Bassoon", by Harry Graham; "Esme", by Saki; "Germans at Meat", by Katherine Mansfield; and "Adrian", by Saki.

The beloved story collection from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Vacationers, All Adults Here and This Time Tomorrow In Other People We Married, Straub creates characters as recognizable as a best friend, and follows them through moments of triumph and transformation with wit...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. Whether they hail from the Lowlands or the Highlands, to be a Scottish author is to part of a quite an extraordinary band of authors and its literary traditions. These beguiling stories example the full range and majesty of their talents and the subjects they explore.