Resultados para "the fox" en Literatura de género

La vida de Maddie Miller dista mucho de ser normal. Dirige junto a su padre una agencia de detectives en pleno corazón de Chicago mientras lidia con las secuelas de un accidente sufrido dos años atrás, del cual despertó con una amnesia completa… y embarazada de dos meses. Su vida ya era lo...

¿Embarazada? ¡¿Cómo era posible?! Sí…, aquello era una pregunta retórica. Lindsay Madock tenía marcado a fuego en la memoria cómo y… con quién. El verdadero problema era otro: un bebé es cosa de dos y él… no tenía motivos ni para sospechar. Por desgracia, la gala centrada en la...

Two women isolated on a lonely Cornish farm face an evil greater than all others: A fox has begun carrying off hens and roosters, and nothing they do seems to stop him. And then one day, a mysterious young man appears at the door. Now the women have to fend off not one, but two foxes.

What's that, bald monkey? Think everything's dandy because you've got a few missions under your belt and made a bit of a name for yourself on that backward planet of yours? Ha! Think again! I bet you'll be singing a different tune after you've been offered a personal assignment. You'll be a superstar rolling in credits if you succeed, but if you mess it up, you could lose everything. I'm talking "Legionnaire-career-over" kind of everything.

Un testamento oculto, un amor disfrazado de odio y demasiados interrogantes… Cuando Alyssa Hollister recibió aquella carta citándola a la lectura de un testamento perdido seis años atrás, estuvo a punto de sufrir un colapso nervioso. Hacía justo ese tiempo que se había exiliado de su Kentucky natal sin mirar atrás, llevándose el corazón destrozado y un bebé en su seno, al que estuvo a punto de perder tras un misterioso accidente a caballo antes de partir, cuando aún crecía en su interior.

A hilarious and moving debut novel about a woman who writes a ‘f*ck-it’ list to reclaim herself after her marriage unexpectedly implodes. Forty-nine-year-old Grace Miller is the ultimate good girl. Good wife, good mother, good role model. She has to be, she’s been married to a notable...

«Novela autoconclusiva Nunca se me ocurría mirar a Pat como mujer… ni aunque fuera la última sobre la tierra». Pat Maloy jamás pensó que unas simples palabras, escuchadas por error, pudieran hacerle tanto daño. Durante años, había relegado sus sentimientos por Nick a un segundo plano, centrándose en ser solo su gran amiga…, hasta que a su traicionero cuerpo le dio por estremecerse y entrar en combustión cada vez que él la miraba o la rozaba, aunque fuera solo por accidente.

Tras dos años de dolor y desolación, la vida de Jennifer al fin parecía encarrilarse. Ya casi podía dormir de un tirón y disfrutar de su preciosa hija, sin ver reflejado a su padre en cada una de sus expresiones. Sus heridas parecían estar cicatrizando poco a poco…, hasta que James, con su encanto arrollador y su maldita sonrisa, regresó a la ciudad para convertir su vida de nuevo en una montaña rusa. Y esta vez parecía venir dispuesto a conquistarla a toda costa.

The new novel from the bestselling author of Where'd You Go Bernadette ⭐ 'Smart, funny and devastating in a great way' Jennette McCurdy ⭐ ⭐ 'I felt both cleverer and sillier after finishing this book' Guardian ⭐ ⭐ 'Loaded with Maria Semple's signature wit' Bonnie Garmus ⭐ Adora...

In the mountain village of Fox Crossing, Maine, everyone knows the story of The Fox. According to local legend, one of the town's founders crossed paths with a curious-looking fox with a distinctive white ear and paw. The unusual fox sighting not only inspired the town's name, it sparked a fantastical piece of folklore that's been passed down for generations. Some people say that whoever sees The Fox will be rewarded with good fortune, love, and happiness. Others say it's just a silly folk tale....

Birdie lost everything when her son died. Now, on track to rebuild her life, she has to evade her abusive partner Russ's rage and manipulations while also worrying about a home-invading serial killer that has descended on her community. Told through multiple POVs, from a decomposing murder...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a darkly comic short story about the unintended consequences unleashed by our quest to tame the natural world. Fox 8 has always been known as the daydreamer in his pack, the one his fellow foxes regarded with a knowing snort...

In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and handsome men. Bao, a detective with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman’s identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they’ve remained tantalizingly out of reach—until, perhaps, now.

Normally little happens in these mixed streets of families, retirees, podcasters and gossips. A little group create a community garden. An ageing journalist writes nature columns. A left-wing Scotsman longs for the glory days when he interviewed Castro. A disabled professor plans a book clearance. Supine Mario takes far too many drugs. And Wilf Kelly decides to get a fox as a pet.

Ein Streuner mehr oder weniger, was ist da schon dabei, denkt Paula, als sie die Ausreißerin in ihrer Scheune entdeckt. Besser, als sich den Kopf über einen bestimmten Tierarzt zu zerbrechen. Die dreizehnjährige Leslie traut ihrem Glück nicht. Kann es wirklich sein, dass sie bei der netten Frau mit dem großen Herz und den wundervollen Tieren, wo sie zufälligerweise gelandet ist, eine neue Familie gefunden hat? Der Tierarzt Nate hingegen kämpft mit eigenen Problemen.

Ein Unfall hat die Karriere von Starballerina Tyler abrupt beendet. Um ihre körperlichen und seelischen Wunden zu lecken und herauszufinden, wie sie ohne ihr geliebtes Tanzen weitermachen soll, kehrt sie zu ihrer Familie nach Independence, einer Kleinstadt in Colorado, zurück. Dass ausgerechnet Pat, ihr einziger One-Night-Stand, inzwischen in die Stadt gezogen ist, macht ihr das Leben nicht leichter. Pat hingegen freut sich über das Wiedersehen, ist Tyler ihm doch nie aus dem Kopf gegangen.

When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in night clothes and with blood stains on the ground near her body, the finger of suspicion points at her wealthy, landowning husband, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox. A coroner's inquest gives a verdict of 'natural causes' but the gossip surrounding him refuses to go away.

In The Revenge of the Foxes, Ak Welsapar crafts a moving and darkly humorous narrative set in a Moscow hospital during the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Through the lives of young patients awaiting heart surgery, Welsapar explores love, loss, and the human desire to cling to life amidst uncertainty. The contrasting characters—a poetic Turkmen, a Stalinist with a mechanical heart, and the ill-fated Mary—represent a clash between the “robotic” future and soulful resilience, embodying the struggles of a generation on the brink of change.

A collection of five addicting standalone small town romances by USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charity Ferrell.

Nyla thought the worst thing that could ever happen to her was losing her first love and her unborn child. In the mist of struggling to overcome certain hardships, Nyla hangs out with a new beau who violently rapes her on their first outing. Scared to death, she promises him she’ll keep her mouth shut and not tell a soul. Somehow the cat’s out of the bag and now she fears for her life.