Resultados para "peru" en Literatura y ficción

Han pasado diez años desde que un grupo de amigos universitarios hicieron una promesa: el primero que se volviera millonario rentaría un yate y los invitaría a navegar. Ahora los amigos se encuentran varados en un lujoso hotel en la Costa Amalfitana, en Italia. Mientras que su yate es reparado, no pueden evitar observar la rutina diaria de un huésped de su hotel. Un hombre misterioso, de barba blanca, quien cada noche se sienta en la terraza y se fuma un cigarrillo, a veces dos.

Del autor revelación de la novela negra vasca, una trepidante y peligrosa investigación. "Altamente inquietante." Carmen Mola. Un lugar perdido en las montañas del País Vasco. Una misteriosa desaparición en plena borrasca. Una investigación al límite.El cadáver de una montañera aparece en el santuario de San Miguel, en la sierra de Aralar (Navarra). Todo indica que la destructiva borrasca Cordelia ha sido la culpable de su muerte. Pero cuando el forense Aitor Intxaurraga acude al lugar de los hechos, descubre algo extraño en el cuerpo de la mujer. Su muerte pudo no haber sido accidental.

It’s been 10 years since a group of college friends made a vow: that the first to get rich would rent a boat and invite the others on a cruise. Now, the friends find themselves marooned at a luxurious hotel on the Amalfi Coast in Italy. While their boat is being repaired, they can’t help but observe the daily routine of a fellow hotel guest - a mysterious, white-bearded stranger who sits on the veranda each night and smokes one cigarette, sometimes two.

El Inca Atahualpa, Señor del Principio, ha sido capturado por unos extraños barbudos que han llegado hasta Cajamarca montados en llamas gigantes y premunidos de mortales cilindros en los que habita Illapa, el dios del Trueno y el Relámpago. El Mundo de las Cuatro Direcciones se encuentra en peligro mortal.

Uma família celebra o Natal meses antes por conta de o pai ter falecido num 25 de dezembro. Crescido, seu filho decide acabar com essa extravagância, exigindo que um peru seja preparado no dia de Natal. Toda a família vê com apreensão e curiosidade sua proposta, já que o tem como louco, mas, simultaneamente, apreciam libertar-se da obrigação do luto.

Rejected from prim, proper, polite society, wild-child ElizabethAnn and her hot-rod-driving Grandma find a dystopian world to take them in, but can they uncover its hidden truths before it's too late?

THE #1 BESTSELLING INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON - NOW WITH A NEW PREFACE You have never read a book like this before--a book that comes along once in a lifetime to change lives forever. In the rain forests of Peru, an ancient manuscript has been discovered. Within its pages are 9 key insights into...

A work of purest fiction and the world’s first arctic gothic horror, The Reeking Hegs is a bristling adventure story of the dramatic kind with a high-thrill quota with every listen. The action takes place among the crashing ice packs, tidal waves ,and frozen desolation of old Ugzcyk, a remote city somewhere north of latitude 66 ruled by the despotic solid King Solid Fume, III, and menaced by the threatening horror of The Hegs.

An early warning of disaster brings International Rescue to Peru to assist in relief efforts following a series of earth tremors—and sends the Thunderbirds in search of an ancient Inca treasure trove hidden beneath a long-lost temple deep in the South American jungle! When Lady Penelope is kidnapped by sinister treasure hunters, Scott Tracy and Parker are soon hot on their trail. Along the way they'll have to solve a centuries-old mystery, brave the inhospitable wilderness of the jungle and even tangle with a lost tribe—with the evil Hood close behind them all the way.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE In The Feast of the Goat, this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' (Bookforum), Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the birth of a terrible democracy, giving voice to the...

""As close to perfect a moral fable as we are ever likely to get in American literature."" —Russell Banks ""There are books that haunt you down the years, books that seem to touch and stir something deep inside you. . . . Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey is of this kind."" —The...