Risultati per "Lila" in Antologie e racconti brevi

The long-awaited return of a quintessentially American storyteller "You're as likely to be hit twice by lightning on a Monday as see a wood chipper pull a man into its maw." So begins North of Ordinary, John Rolfe Gardiner's virtuosic story collection of survivors getting by despite the odds in...

Descubre en este encantador relato corto el místico vínculo entre Adrienne Farival y el convento que visita cada primavera, impulsada por el perfume de las lilas en flor. La llegada de Adrienne es siempre un evento de alegría para las monjas, especialmente para Sor Agathe, cuya amistad con Adrienne aporta una dulzura peculiar a la narrativa. Sin embargo, este año, la tradición se ve perturbada por un giro inesperado que sacude los cimientos de su relación.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the heart of unexplored Africa lies an ancient secret - the lost city of Eridu. When adventurer Bill Kirby and his scientist companion stumble upon this forgotten Sumerian civilization, they're plunged into a world of dark rituals, forbidden love...

Das Flüstern im alten Schloss ist eine atmosphärische Kurzgeschichte mit einem Hauch von Mystik, Nostalgie und feiner Melancholie. In einem scheinbar verlassenen Schloss entdeckt die Protagonistin nicht nur Spuren der Vergangenheit, sondern auch eine Wahrheit, die tief unter dem Staub der Geschichte verborgen liegt.

Contains books four, five, and six of the Deliver series: Devastate, Take, and Manipulate.

When one of his best guys calls in sick, he's happy to lend a hand. The client is paying top dollar for kid gloves, and they'll need all the help they can get. That's when he meets Wren York, a pampered princess who thinks she can do his job better than him. She's an uptight control freak who needs to supervise every move he makes. She's cute but insufferable. Hot but a colossal pain in the butt. He just wants to do his job and go home. But she's making it impossible. If only he could figure her out. If only he could make her smile. Because the longer he stays, the more he's tempted.

‘The history of crime detection has produced no more famous name than that of Sexton Blake’William Franklyn stars as paperback hero Sexton Blake, with David Gregory as his assistant Tinker, in four original BBC Radio dramatisations from 1967. Lost from the BBC archives for over 40 years...

Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours. Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true. The Beast stands ahead of...

The best and most revered works of famed poet and author, Edgar Allen Poe...

Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hours A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed...

From the founder of the #1 Stephen King news website Lilja’s Library comes a terrifying and deliciously creepy anthology of horror stories, including a rare story from Stephen King himself, classics by Clive Barker and Edgar Allan Poe, and a novella by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One...

Auf Jahrmärkten zwischen Schiffsschaukeln, Messerschleifern und fahrendem Volk sind sie anzutreffen: Goldtatze, der Tanzbär, und Gnom, sein gestrenger Herr und Meister. Roh an der Kette geführt, muss Goldtatze tanzen, wenn die Trommel schlägt, den Körper hoch aufgerichtet und die Schnauze gegen den Himmel gereckt, bis er fast umfällt vor Müdigkeit und Erschöpfung. Soll dies nun ewig so weitergehen? Kann nicht der Bär einmal trommeln und der Mann dazu tanzen, bis ihm die Schuhsohlen rauchen?

In dieser sinnlichen Kurzgeschichtensammlung geht es sogar in der Obstabteilung eines Supermarkts heiß her! Die Freundinnen Chantal, Philippa, Helen und Julia treffen sich regelmäßig zum Kaffeeklatsch, um sich über ihre neusten Liebesabenteuer auszutauschen. Die angehende Romanautorin Philippa liest ihnen dabei aus ihren erotischen Geschichten vor, was die Fantasie aller vier Frauen ordentlich beflügelt. So beginnen sie zu erzählen: Von exotischen Liebhabern, feurigen One-Night-Stands und kuriosen Bettgeschichten.