General & literary fiction Books

Quique, publicista venido a menos, está fuera de lugar, aturdido y sin ilusión. Un día recibe, para su sorpresa, la noticia de que ha ganado el premio a hombre del año en su pueblo natal. Entonces volverá para recoger el galardón con su madre senil, lo...

Un insieme di racconti di diversa ambientazione sia geografica che psicologica, collegati però tra loro dalla contiguità con mondi personaggi spesso ai margini dell'esperienza

Luca, sessantenne professore universitario, vive da solo a Firenze. L'incontro casuale con Stella, una giovane donna che pulisce le scale del suo stabile, risveglia in lui il desiderio e, insieme, la speranza di costruire un rapporto intenso, che dia un...

Among the protagonists of these stories there are the minor characters that were present in the former books of the series dedicated to the Irish amateur detectives who settled in Tuscany. The main characters, just for once, don't appear at all. But the...

Una serie di brevi storie ambientate in un bar di borgata, dove si alternano personaggi pittoreschi, bizzarri ma autentici, dove le umanita'si incontrano in un clima caldo, tra amici che si sopportano e si sostengono a vicenda anche quando sembra che ci...

IN 1592. Elizabethan England is a perilous place. rife with plague, civil unrest, highwaymen, violent animal sports, and Spanish plots against the Queen.Hamnet Shakespeare, young son of renowned playwright William buys an abandoned bear cub in the market...

Die weitreichenden Folgen eines Stapels versteckter Liebesbriefe stehen in der Erzählung: Die Alberthöhe im Mittelpunkt. Die Alberthöhe ist ein altes Gasthaus von dem aus sich die Schicksale der Protagonisten über Jahrzehnte miteinander verweben.Nur die...

This book was not the result of a design or plan. It results from spontaneous on-the-spot decisions to recall a story or idea and find a fitting image from the Internet or related source.Variety is the sauce of life, they say.

When a science experiment backfires and two deadly beasts, Dinosaurs and Dragons, combine into one monster, it is up to Fred Mcgreen and his friends to save the world. It's man vs monster, and the world is at stake.

Zen Master Udo is really irritating, and dangerous too when the razors fly but you can you love him? Well, maybe, perhaps, after enough Fiery Jack to blow your brains onto the ceiling. His pupil, Crudo Bhappat, is never sure but at least he has the...

The Spanish Navy sentenced Patrick, a British sailor, to indentured labour in San Luis (St. Louis). During his sentence, he witnessed a double homicide. Despite his cooperation with the investigation, he became the prime suspect of both killings as well...

L'acqua è la protagonista dei due romanzi brevi che compongono questo libro, acqua sulla quale scivolano le vicende dei protagonisti

Enrique es un niño de la calle con un destino poco común. Tiene un sueño : construir una gran casa para su tan querida esposa. Laura coquetea. Don Miguel piensa que va morir pronto y se preocupa por su herencia. Luz María trata de sobrevivir. Cruzando...

Una serie de cuentos cortos a veces sentimentales, a veces fantásticos, divertidos, siempre tiernos o a veces crueles que se pueden leer donde quiera, dejar descasar o reponer par reflexionar o deja el espíritu vagabundear. A guardar consigo, en su...

An aspiring nurse's coming-of-age tale, and the two men who would help sculpt it. A burgeoning career is intersected by a junior baseball star, and an outdoorsy paramedic.Strong female personalities help shape her worldview. Michelle Winters struggles to...

Being a grownup at any point that isn't the 'best of times' is pretty fucking vicious, regardless of who you know or what you own. It's the human condition.As an adult human who's ever felt exhausted, deflated, sad, confused, lost, horny, isolated,...

At age 10, Luisa is separated from her birth country and family when she is adopted and transported from Colombia to Canada. Seven years later Luisa still has questions. Why did her mamá die of pneumonia when antibiotics could have saved her? Why did her...

"The truest, most authentic freedom in this Universe, is found in love..."-Cosmo, Chapter 14, "Coming in from the Cold"This is one of many seeds of wisdom prudently planted by Cosmo: a mysterious yet engaging and compassionate mentor to Jake Johnson, Jr...

As Bibi-Gul takes a pill to get to sleep, she thinks about how little her family knows about her. But the pill does not work, and she finds herself stuck in a strange place. When she sees she cannot escape, she strives to find out where she is, and how...

"What if you could listen in on any phone conversation in town? With great humor and insight, The Operator by Gretchen Berg delivers a vivid look inside the heads and hearts of a group of housewives and pokes at the absurdities of 1950s America, a...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Beach comes another heartwarming story of four generations of women who reunite in their crumbling family mansion by the sea for a dramatic summer filled with love, family, secrets and sisterhood.The...

From the acclaimed author of The Evening Spider and The Broken Teaglass comes this psychological thriller about the murder of a psychologist in a quiet New England town and his former patient whose unreliable thread will keep readers guessing until the...

Following the death of their mother from a botched backwoods abortion, the McAlister daughters have to cope with the ripple effect of this tragedy as they come of age in 1950s Mississippi and then grow up to face their own impossible choices--an...