Resultados Editorial "Bolinda audio" en Literatura y ficción

A remote Florida island is the perfect wedding destination for the upcoming nuptials of Anita's fellow US Marshal and best friend, Edward. For Anita, the vacation is a welcome break, as it's the first trip she gets to take with just wereleopards Micah and Nathaniel. In this tropical paradise, Micah discovers a horrific new form of lycanthropy, one that has afflicted a single family for generations. Believed to be the result of an ancient Greek curse, it turns human bodies into a mass of snakes.

She is a young maid in a stately home; he is a dashing British army officer trapped in an unhappy marriage. The pair strike up a close friendship and, just as he's departing for war, they surrender to their passion. Years later, he returns triumphant from defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, to reunite not only with his wife and their two sons, but also with the maid Mary Ann and their illegitimate daughter, Elizabeth.

Amid the chaos and political upheaval of 1970s America, three very different women must accept the world as it is, or act to change it. Phyllis Patterson is a housewife in White Plains, Illinois. Her son Jimmy returns to the family home from Vietnam with a Korean wife and two children. Andrea Dworkin is an activist in Amsterdam. Muriel Rukeyser is a poet in New York.

In the remote village of Mandryn, Tessia serves as assistant to her father, the village Healer - much to the frustration of her mother, who would rather she found a husband. Despite knowing that women aren't readily accepted by the Guild of Healers, Tessia is determined to follow in her father’s footsteps. But her life is about to take a very unexpected turn. When treating a patient at the residence of the local magician, Lord Dakon, Tessia is forced to fight off the advances of a visiting Sachakan mage - and instinctively uses magic.

Will, who has given up everything to raise his twin daughters, has a terrible choice to make when both girls suffer kidney failure at age 16. Should he save one child? If so, which one? Should he buy a kidney – be an organ tourist? Should he sacrifice himself?

Artist and single mother Ginny is offered a place on a three-month artist retreat on a remote Scottish island. She leaps at the chance. Even better, her host is happy for her to bring her daughter Isla. But the island is not what it seems. The inhabitants greet Ginny and Isla with stares and avoid contact wherever possible. And the house they're staying in is old and strange. Eerie whispers follow Ginny through the corridors. Artworks once covered become uncovered. And unexplained smells clings to the walls lavender, cigar smoke and vomit.

My name is Anita Blake. I'm a vampire hunter and necromancer, and I'm about to learn that evil is in the eye of the beholder. I've never seen Damian, my vampire servant, so vulnerable. He's being bombarded with violent nightmares and blood sweats, but now is the time I need him most. The ruthless vampire who created him might be losing control, allowing rogue vampires to run wild and break one of their kind's few strict taboos.

Krissie and Sarah – best friends for years – have always wanted different things from life. So when Krissie becomes pregnant after a fling and Sarah can't seem to conceive, things get a little tense. They decide to go on holiday along with Sarah's husband in the hope of getting their friendship back on track. But what starts as a much-needed break soon becomes a nightmare of sexual tension, murder and mayhem...

Since her husband passed away, Simone's days in Australia have become repetitive and predictable. When she is offered a house swap, she takes the opportunity to begin a new chapter of her life in England. Meanwhile, in Wiltshire, wildlife photographer Russ has just taken possession of a new house to enjoy the quiet of the countryside while he recovers from a serious injury.

By day Miles Franklin, named after the famous author, is a successful lawyer. By night, in secret, she writes historical romance novels under the pen name Emma Browning. When her novel wins one of Australia's biggest literary awards, Miles's perfectly ordered life begins to unthread – especially when Lars Kristensen, CEO of the publishing company, insists on meeting the author. Socially anxious Miles and supremely confident Lars have nothing in common.

After a traumatic childhood, hotel manager Callie is looking for the stability of a quiet life. Callie is understandably shocked, then, when the very same man who was her ardent lover that night three months earlier turns up at her foster-parents' home in small town Hope Creek to be the best man at her sister's wedding. This is no normal post-one-night-stand reunion because Callie is pregnant – and Jack is the father.

The New York State Library. A silent sanctuary of knowledge; a 100-year-old labyrinth of towering bookcases, narrow aisles and spiralling staircases. For Doctor Stephen Swain and his eight-year-old daughter, Holly, it is the site of a nightmare. For one night, the State Library is to be the venue for a contest. A contest in which Stephen Swain is to compete – whether he likes it or not. The rules are simple: seven contestants will enter, only one will leave.

Blackmail and extortion in 1950s Hollywood – can Lily uncover the truth? 1950s Hollywood has a strict code of 'morality' and will stop at nothing to protect the reputation of its stars. But gossip columns start to reveal hidden secrets of some of the great and good of Tinsel Town. Then a young starlet is found murdered. When a producer is found dead a few weeks later, Lily starts to connect the targets of the gossip column with the victims. As she investigates, she uncovers a brutal web of deceit, blackmail and murder...

Three years after eating the rich, Paprick Bessa is an infamous war chef known as the Butcher. Numbed by grief and the ongoing war with the ousted rulers, Paprick no longer enjoys cooking and can't create new recipes. So when Ranch finally reaches a tenuous ceasefire with the Rare, Paprick seizes the chance to rekindle his passions, opening a restaurant with a menu all his own. But conspiracy interrupts the opening night, his own emphon destroy the restaurant, and all signs point to the neighbouring Empire of the Badgeboar.

On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother of four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling. How far will she go to save her family? And what – or who – is she willing to leave behind?

Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959. At the end of a scorching hot day, a local deliveryman makes a terrible discovery. A police investigation is called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most shocking and perplexing murder cases in the history of South Australia. Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Having lived and worked in London for nearly two decades, she now finds herself laid off from her full-time job and struggling to make ends meet. Until a phone call out of nowhere summons her back to Sydney.

In Oe's masterpiece of the human condition and family psychology, estranged brothers Mitsusaburo and Takashi have long since left their family home in a remote forested valley on Shikoku, in the south of Japan: Mitsusaburo for work in Tokyo; his younger brother Takashi for the United States, to atone for his part in anti-American student protests. Takashi's return to Japan coincides with a local Korean supermarket magnate's offer to buy the brothers' ancestral storehouse, pitting the brothers against one another and dredging up family histories best forgotten.

Deep in the English countryside, Marshwood has always been much more than just a house. When the roof starts to cave in and the money runs out, 80-year-old Bella resists the pressure to sell and instead begins to peel back the layers of the past. As this imposing house gives up its secrets of marriage, war and forbidden love, patterns begin to repeat themselves when Bella's granddaughter's childhood sweetheart returns from the war in Bosnia. And as all three characters explore whether you can ever truly go back, the past and the present collide with shattering consequences.

Cornwall, 1628. A young girl guards a dangerous secret: she can leave her body and fly. Steeped in herbal lore and forbidden spells, the girl becomes a woman, while across the land whispers of witchcraft turn deadly. When witchfinder Matthew Hopkins sets out to hunt her down, their meeting will change the course of history. In a world that fears what it cannot explain, a story shared is the most potent magic of all.

What starts out as the perfect gift, and a way of keeping the family connected forever, quickly devolves into an emotional power struggle. Half of them want to keep the legacy intact, while the others want to sell – and each side will do anything to make it happen. Soon, CC can't tell friend from foe. When a body is found on the shack's beach, has this family dispute turned deadly?