Risultati letto da "André Alexis" in Tutte le categorie

Dopo trent'anni di prigionia, Dottor Destino (Luca Ward) si è liberato e cerca vendetta contro gli ex alleati che lo tradirono nel V-Day.

Eva can't wait to go camping with her classmates! They pitch tents, eat yummy campfire treats, and build useful inventions. Best of all, they go on a treasure hunt through the forest. Join Eva and her friends as they work together to find the treasure!

Botanist Alfred Homer, ever hopeful and constantly surprised, is invited on a road trip by his parents’ friend, Professor Morgan Bruno, who wants company as he tries to unearth the story of the mysterious poet John Skennen. But this is no ordinary road trip. Alfred and the Professor encounter towns where Black residents speak only in sign language and towns that hold indigenous parades; it is a land of house burnings, werewolves, and witches.

Este relato nos presenta una sociedad animalizada, salvaje, la de un país llamado El Cráter, en el que descubriremos una ciudad, una región, un pequeño país desaparecido. Nos toparemos con una enfermedad rara e inquietante que convierte a un muchacho en una especie de hombre lobo. Con un...

Winner of The Story Prize Longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize Shortlisted for the 2025 Toronto Book Award A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2025 The award-winning author of Fifteen Dogs conjures up worlds – real, invented, uncanny – in this ingenious, electrifying collection. A...

There were plans for an official welcome. It was to take place the following Sunday. But those who came to the rectory on Father Pennant's second day were the ones who could not resist seeing him sooner. Here was the man to whom they would confess the darkest things. It was important to feel him out. Mrs. Young, for instance, after she had watched him eat a piece of her macaroni pie, quietly asked what he thought of adultery. André Alexis brings a modern sensibility and a new liveliness to an age-old genre, the pastoral.

Visionary rapper of the groundbreaking "The Humpty Dance," producer of Tupac Shakur's iconic "I Get Around," and driving force of legendary hip-hop group Digital Underground, Shock G shares his story in Keep It Beautiful. This illustrated memoir by Gregory "Shock G" Jacobs, as told to Alexis...

The definitive biography of Ange Postecoglou, Australia's first Premier League manager and instigator of the 'Angeball' phenomenon that has taken the football world by storm. With unparalleled access to Postecoglou himself and a career spent pitch-side, leading Australian football writer Vince...

Although the Green Dolphin is a bar of ill repute, it is there that Tancred Palmieri, a thief with elegant and erudite tastes, meets Willow Azarian, an aging heroin addict. She reveals to Tancred that her very wealthy father has recently passed away, leaving each of his five children a mysterious object that provides one clue to the whereabouts of a large inheritance. Willow enlists Tancred to steal these objects from her siblings and solve the puzzle.

A bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic. Suddenly capable of more complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old ‘dog’ ways, and those who embrace the change. The gods watch from above as the dogs venture into their transformed world, as they become divided, as each struggles with their new existence.

Dos hermanas gemelas adolescentes y su mejor amiga, la Nena, forman parte de un grupo de música experimental y perversa. Una de las hermanas es sordomuda y la otra fantasea con la idea de cortarle esa lengua inútil… La historia reflexiona sobre la condición sordomuda, sobre escuchar, sobre...

Un coleccionista de información y de fetiches sobre los grandes homicidas psicópatas responde a un anuncio clasificado, entra en una cárcel de máxima seguridad y hace realidad su sueño… pero no de la manera en que esperaba. En una historia desquiciada y carnavalesca, esta sátira da un...

Un hombre infunde una violencia absoluta a las mujeres de su propia familia. Dos hermanas, una que es tratada como un ser humano; la otra que es tratada como un animal. Una de ellas no habla y la otra es la joven voz que nos narra, desde el amor y el miedo, cómo un padre despótico rige su...

Una fiesta inesperada, un viaje psicodélico, un roce que tal vez significó deseo, una mujer y la pérdida de una mujer, muchos años en medio. Lo único que atraviesa el tiempo y une el ayer con el ahora son un disco de Pink Floyd y un hombre, nuestro hombre, al que han abandonado, quien se ha...

Esta es una historia de huida, de supervivencia y de venganza. En el medio, asistiremos a una fiesta de disfraces estrafalaria y sangrienta donde Gladelí, una mujer transgénero a la que le roban sus ahorros para operarse las tetas, pasará de víctima a verdugo en una aventura acuática y...

It’s a hot summer night, and Hugh Dalgarno, a 31-year-old clerical worker, thinks his brain is broken. Over the course of a day and night in an uncannily depopulated public park, he will sift through the pieces and traverse the baroque landscape of his own thoughts: the theology of nosiness, the beauty of the arbutus tree, the pathos of Gene Hackman, the theory of quantum immortality, Louis Riel’s letter to an Irish newspaper, the baleful influence of Calvinism on the Scottish working class, the sea, the CIA, and, ultimately, thinking itself and how it may be represented in writing.

An Bord einer Segeljacht begleiten Professor van Dusen und Hannah Hatch eine englische Reisegruppe an die Südwestküste von Portugal. Dort zwischen den schroffen Klippen befindet sich ein Haus: Charonion. Es ist düster, verwinkelt und birgt zahlreiche Geheimnisse. Mindestens eines davon erweist sich für eine Mitreisende als tödlich. Van Dusen und Hatch beginnen mit der Jagd nach einem Mörder und lassen dabei keinen Raum aus. Bis der Professor an die einzige verschlossene Tür des Hauses gerät. Doch was erwartet ihn dahinter?

In der ersten Folge von Sherlock, der kleine Detektiv finden sich Sherlock Holmes und seine Freunde Johnny Watson und Lea Hoffmann an ihrem ersten Schultag nach den Sommerferien inmitten eines mysteriösen Falls wieder. Als ihre Klassenlehrerin, Mrs. Bennett, plötzlich von der Hausmeisterin vertreten wird, kommen Sherlock und seine Freunde einem Geheimnis auf die Spur. Mrs. Bennett steht unter Polizeischutz, nachdem sie Zeugin eines spektakulären Juwelendiebstahls geworden ist.

In der zweiten Folge der spannenden Hörspielreihe Sherlock, der kleine Detektiv stehen Sherlock und seine Freunde Johnny und Lea vor einem tierischen Rätsel: Der Klassenhamster Biscuit ist aus seinem Käfig verschwunden! Zunächst glauben die Kinder, dass der Hamster einfach ausgebrochen ist. Doch Sherlock merkt schnell, dass es sich um ein Verbrechen handeln muss, denn der Käfig ist verschlossen, und es gibt keine Fluchtspuren. Gemeinsam machen sich die drei jungen Detektive auf die Suche nach dem Dieb.

A locked room mystery about a group of classmates reunited to mark the tenth anniversary of a tragic accident, only to have one of the survivors disappear, from the bestselling author of The Last House Guest and All the Missing Girls. Ten years ago, a tragic accident tore through a community...