Títulos en Literatura y ficción

"Listeners will have no trouble discerning among curmudgeonly Marty, cynical Ted, and good-natured grief counselor Mariana. Nor will they lose interest in the character-driven tale while anticipating each witticism and relishing Duchovny's droll delivery. A highly recommended and essential...

Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic story of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the...

Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence...

A charismatic young tech entrepreneur, Chase Stapp, played by Haley Joel Osment (Goliath, The Kominsky Method), concocts a designer cannabis brand and has high hopes of disrupting the entire budding industry.

Un pilota cinese, durante una manovra d'emergenza, approda su Marte, e scopre che il pianeta è abitato da uomini gatto. Accolto da uno di loro, chiamato Grande Scorpione, impara a parlarne la lingua e ne scopre via via usi e cultura, apprezzando gli effetti stupefacenti delle foglie di loto di cui si nutrono. Man mano che si addentra nella conoscenza della loro società, tuttavia, si accorge che quella a cui assiste è la fase finale di una civiltà in declino, ormai irrimediabilmente corrotta, soggiogata dagli stranieri, priva di valori morali.

Well, this year, after the Spring Planting season, I’m really gonna relax and put down roots. It’s the slow life for me. Sure, the talking animals and cultivators coming to live with me are a bit weird, but this year everything is gonna be basically normal. There definitely won’t be any Heavenly Tribulations, ancient formations, or cultivator issues to deal with . . .

لابد أن تتوقع ممن أصدر كتابًا أسمه (شاي بالنعناع) أن يصدر كتابًا آخر أسمه (قهوة باليورانيوم).. هذا شيء حتمي له قوة القانون، ولا نسأل لماذا اليورانيوم بالذات، فلا...

Cortesãs, nobres, artistas, padres e médicos, decadentes ou influentes, ninguém era poupado pela verve satírica de Molière, dramaturgo que Rubem Fonseca transforma em personagem neste romance. Autor de comédias clássicas como Escola de mulheres, Tartufo, D. Juan e O avarento, Molière morreu em 1673, logo após uma apresentação de O doente imaginário, sua última peça. A partir desse acontecimento real, Rubem Fonseca cria um personagem fictício, o marquês que escreve anonimamente O doente Molière.

Adrian Mole continues to struggle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life in this second volume of his secret diary.

It’s been two years since Rose wrote the article that exposed Poppy as a socialite grifter. Normally, one of her articles going viral would be cause for celebration, but the highly publicized trial that followed turned Poppy into the internet’s favorite celebrity. And Rose has been reeling from the aftermath ever since. Although Poppy served her time for defrauding some of the richest, most powerful men in the world, Rose knows this is only the tip of the iceberg for Poppy’s crimes. She just can’t prove it yet … At least not without the help of a devilishly handsome FBI agent gone rogue.

A commentary on guilt, material wealth, community, religion, and more, this novel is a thought provoking yet heartwarming tale. Banished from his church after being falsely accused of theft, Silas Marner becomes a bitter hermit consumed only by the wealth and goods he has been able to attain in exile. After losing everything he loved from his past, he clings now to the materials he has gained since. However, he must suffer through losing those too and instead gain the love of an innocent orphan to find the redemption he didn’t know he needed.

A piercingly raw debut story collection from a young writer with an explosive voice; a treacherously surreal and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what it's like to be young and black in America.

Do you want to be free from bulimia? You cannot let your destructive relationship with food continue. Do you find yourself constantly thinking about what you last ate and how much you regret it? Do you worry about other people finding out what you are doing? If bulimia has taken over your life you need to stop it now. Finding freedom from bulimia can transform everything you do and open up your life in ways you have never dreamed of! Food should be something that you enjoy and look forward to, not something that casts a shadow over every day of your life.

The award winning series of classic and contemporary fiction returns with a collection of darkly funny short stories by the likes of Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Aimee Bender, A.M. Homes, Nathan Englander, Kim, Addonizio, and George Saunders. Readers include Anjelica Huston, Neil Gaiman, Michael Imperioli, Harris Yulin, Christina Pickles, Jefferson Mays, and Christine Ebersole.

For Beatrice, working at one of London’s boutique hotels is a dream come true. She doesn’t need a social life. She just needs an ordered diary, crisply folded sheets and happy guests. But Beatrice’s routine comes to an abrupt halt when her hotel is raided by the police. Suddenly she finds herself released on bail, and trapped in London, with only the hotel chef Jock for company.

Butchers, bakers, brewers, businessmen, farmers, fabric workers, entertainers, comedians, gluttons, lechers, spongers and swindlers, prostitutes and parasites, the pope and his priests, the king and his courtiers, compete for attention in this lively and subversive vision of corruption in fourteenth-century England.

Quizá hace mucho tiempo que no montas en una patineta para deslizarte cuesta abajo a toda velocidad; o que no subes a una torre para hablar con una nube; o que no afinas puntería con un tirachinas; o que no escuchas un cuento de miedo bien contado; o que no te sientas a silbar con tus...

Desde que David Valenzuela, un joven ingenuo y poco lumbrera, mató en defensa propia a uno de los hermanos Castro, conocidos narcotraficantes del Triángulo Dorado en la región de Sinaloa, su vida se convierte en una huida llena de oportunos golpes de suerte y en la que se cruzará con los más variopintos personajes que, sin él pretenderlo, le involucrarán en situaciones tanto trágicas como cómicas.

Diversión garantizada. Libro perfecto para regalar y disfrutar en compañía.

Una comedia prodigiosa de Roberto Santiago. Antonio lo tiene todo: un buen trabajo, una buena esposa, una buena casa. Bernardo es su mejor amigo. No tiene nada. Ahora Bernardo se ha enamorado de Sophie, la mujer de Antonio. Por lo visto, es algo imparable. Sophie es artista. Atraviesa una...