Títulos em Literatura e Ficção

In a tiny flat in West London, sixteen-year-old Marina lives with her emotionally delicate mother and three ancient Hungarian relatives. Imprisoned by her family’s crushing expectations and their traditions, she knows she must escape. At Combe Abbey, a traditional English private boarding school in the Dorset countryside, Marina realizes she’s made a terrible mistake. Here, among the boathouses, chapel services and unspoken social hierarchy, she is the awkward half-foreign girl who doesn’t know how to fit in, flirt, or even exist.

Infallible tells the story of Pope Thomas I, an admired populist pope who, during a State visit to the White House, trips over the First Lady's annoying Pomeranian on the White House stairs and suffers a mild head injury. When he returns to Rome, he begins to openly question some of the most sacrosanct positions of his church.

Eine heitere Geschichte um den Charme Italiens, ums Loslassen und die Chance auf ein neues Glück von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Tessa Hennig. Lieben und küssen wie im Kino! Die attraktive Elli ist nicht mehr jung, aber sie träumt immer noch vom ganz großen Gefühl. Filmträume, die sie täglich in ihrer aus der Zeit gefallenen Videothek im beschaulichen Rosenheim einsortiert. Ein Brief aus Italien stellt ihr Leben völlig auf den Kopf: Elli hat eine kleine Pension auf der Ferieninsel Capri geerbt! Kurz entschlossen macht sie sich mit ihrem klapprigen VW Käfer auf den weiten Weg nach Neapel.

Un clásico de la comedia. Según Las Buenas y Acertadas profecías de Agnes la Chalada Bruja (el único libro fiable de profecías, escrito en 1655, antes de que ella explotara), el fin del mundo tendrá lugar el sábado. El próximo sábado, para ser exactos. Justo antes de la hora de la cena. Los ejércitos del Bien y del Mal se están agrupando, la Atlántida está resurgiendo, llueven sapos y los ánimos están algo alterados así que... todo parece ajustarte al Plan Divino.

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.

What do you get when a city writer moves to the country? Fifty-two short funny stories from a guy who doesn’t know beans about corn and gets a crash course on rural folk, country living and critters. He learns about driving backwards down a dirt road, tree frogs in his basement, crashing family reunions, gargoyles, stuff in the yard and the guy on the corner. Plus much more!

Gabriel Dax is a young man haunted by the memories of a tragedy: every night, when sleep finally comes, he dreams about his childhood home in flames. His days are spent on the move as an acclaimed travel writer, capturing the changing landscapes in the grip of the Cold War. When he’s offered the chance to interview a political figure, his ambition leads him unwittingly into a web of duplicities and betrayals.

The Blood Demon, renowned general of said civil war, was tired of all the fighting and politicking that had described the last four decades of her existence. All she really wanted to do now is to go out into the world and see the many lands from her father's stories. This is the story of what happens when you toss a (retired) war machine with somewhat lacking common sense into an unsuspecting world at peace.

Aleya’s world starts to unravel after a café customer leaves behind a collection of short stories. Surprised and disturbed to discover that it has been dedicated to her, Aleya delves into the strange book. A mad scientist seeks to steal his son’s dreams. A struggling writer, skilled only at destruction, finds himself courted by Hollywood. A woman seeks to escape her body and live inside her dreams. Citizens panic when a new city block manifests out of nowhere. The more Aleya reads, the deeper she sinks into the mysterious writer’s work.

Der 3. Fall für Radioreporterin Franziska Mai und Kommissar Kay Lorenz auf der Sonneninsel Usedom. Ein Mord vor aller Augen versetzt das sommerliche Usedom in Aufruhr. Franziska Mai ist dank ihrer Radio-Show auf Usedom inzwischen ein kleiner Star und wurde als Moderatorin für das große Abschlussspektakel des Ahlbecker Stadtfests engagiert. Was eigentlich der Höhepunkt des maritimen Sommervergnügens sein sollte, wird jedoch zur Katastrophe: Der Jetski des Stuntmans explodiert mitten im finalen Salto.

After getting her heart broken in her early twenties, Abi Mason vowed to live by a simple (but non-negotiable) rule: no second dates. Who needs a boyfriend, or anything else for that matter, when you have a career to think about? But life has other plans: with some unexpected time on her hands, Abi finds herself on holiday in Tuscany. Among sun-dappled vineyards and olive groves, Abi meets dashing American Tony, and it seems the universe is conspiring to force her out of her comfort zone...

Le timbre légèrement éraillé de Stéphane Ronchewski vous plonge dans un récit haletant et plein d'humour. Il aura suffi d'une seule mauvaise, très mauvaise idée. Rien de plus. Un 31 décembre, dans une petite ville suédoise, un individu entre dans une banque pour la braquer, ressort bredouille, et fait malencontreusement irruption dans un appartement pendant une visite groupée. Ce qui est évidemment une très mauvaise idée, puisque le braquage se transforme alors en prise d'otage.

Pauline soll Gaylord helfen, sich von einem Vampir in einen Menschen zu verwandeln. Wer ahnt denn, dass man die Pest mit der Cholera bekämpfen muss? Eine halbe Stunde – mehr braucht Pauline nicht, um Gaylord klarzumachen, dass er ihre Entführung bereuen wird. Nur das Flüchten, das muss sie noch üben. Denn Gaylord kommt jedem ihrer kreativen Fluchtpläne zuvor. Als plötzlich seine Verlobte vor der Tür steht, wendet sich das Blatt und Pauline fasst einen Entschluss. Sie will ihrem Entführer das vampirische Leben endgültig zur Hölle machen.

Once upon a time, Dr. Emily Nichols—the academic kind, not the physician kind—was an eco-crusader who was shot with water cannons, hunted by poachers, and chased by a bulldozer. Now? Action Emily lives in a bland condo with gray walls and teaches disengaged students at a university alongside a risk-allergic boyfriend, asking herself every day: How did I get here?

At times funny, at other times sad, and more than often a mixture of the two, Giving Up by Mike Steeves is a deeply felt account of what goes on in the inner sanctum of the modern couple's apartment.

The story of The Happy Prince has three major themes. Firstly it shows that apparent beauty is nothing and the real beauty is to bestow love and sacrifice. Secondly, it discusses that love and sacrifice are two saving forces. Thirdly, it shows that there is a large gap between rich and poor people the rulers and the masses. When the happy prince is alive he lives a happy life without sorrows, he is living a care free life but after his death he sees through a tall Colum that life has another view except happiness and that is helplessness poverty, hypocrisy and corruption of elite and ruling class.

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis is a satirical novel that depicts the rise of a fascist government in the United States, exploring themes of power, democracy, and individual freedom. Through the story of a demagogic politician who becomes president, Lewis warns against the fragility of democracy and the dangers of authoritarianism. The novel is a critical examination of American society and politics in the 1930s, highlighting the potential for tyranny even in a democratic nation.

В книге представлено 33 лучших юмористических рассказа, вышедших из-под пера блестящих русских и зарубежных писателей, «королей смеха», творивших на рубеже XIX–XX вв. Смех — это одно из наиболее ценных достояний человека, свидетельство его свободы и гарант хорошего настроения. Благодаря этой книге Вы узнаете как и над чем смеялись в разных уголках земли более ста лет назад. Тематика рассказов различна, однако их объединяет величайшее авторское умение подмечать веселое и комичное даже в самых скучно-серых бытовых вопросах, меткость характеристик и легкий

The Earth is my Ant Farm, The Creational School gave it to me but I'm a bit bored with it now. A bigger boy threw a rock at it in the classroom and wiped out all my dinosaurs, I liked them. Now I'm stuck with the ants and they like to multiply. I have a favourite Ant, his name is Derek. This is about him, he likes to travel. He doesn't know how but I will tell him one day.

Everybody’s got their coping mechanisms. Val Fremden is no exception. But when her longtime boyfriend Tom Foreman takes off without even saying goodbye—well, that’s just the kind of thing that can make a good woman go bad. Out to track down Tom or die trying, everyone Val meets seems like a potential suspect. Especially her new coworker, Gary. Ever since he showed up, women around town have begun disappearing. And the macabre clues left behind at each woman’s last known address keep Val on the run like a chicken with its head cut off.