Títulos em Literatura Mundial

Pero descubre que los niños parecen poseídos por una pareja de amantes ya fallecidos: la antigua niñera y un empleado de la casa. Más que el hecho de que sepamos si realmente existen esos fantasmas, la novela es un estudio del impacto psicológico que sufre la niñera a través de una narración que no busca esclarecer la verdad si no que juega a poner en duda cualquier interpretación.

In 1813, Marie Dorion and her husband Pierre, both of Lakota and French descent, and their two small sons are part of an expedition that sets off from Astoria to establish a fur trade outpost in the wilderness of the Oregon Country. While out trapping with a small party, the men are brutally killed by a rogue Shoshone war party. With no rescue mission coming from Astoria, Marie knows if she and her children are to survive, everything is up to her. They'll need to evade detection by the Shoshone and battle the snowy landscape of the Blue Mountain Range to get back to the great Columbia River.

In this reimagining of the American West, a young surveyor arrives in a remote Montana valley with orders to divide the land—and a firm belief in progress. Elias Hawke carries a federal commission and the confidence of a man trained to measure the world in straight lines. But Chief Stone Crow and the people who call the valley home refuse to vanish into the margins of his ledger. And as Elias drives his survey stakes into wind-scoured earth, the ground beneath his convictions begins to shift.

Teddy Starr has it all. A beloved pastor in a small Midwestern town, a devoted husband and father of three, and a rising real estate magnate, he has built a life that gleams with virtue and success. Self-made in every sense, Teddy is a man of conviction, or at least it seems. But behind the pulpit and the polished smile lies a fractured past, and when a figure from that buried life reemerges, the once-sturdy walls of his world begin to fall.

The derogatory Mandarin phrase Ménggǔ dàifu, Mongol healer, means charlatan. It is what a celebrated qigong master calls his quiet neighbor, Grandma Wú. He has status, credentials, and devoted followers. Wú has none of these, and yet people find healing in her presence.

Carmen Larrañaga parece tener todo en contra. Ante la plaga de violencias que padecen las mujeres, ha decidido lanzarse como candidata a diputada federal por su ciudad. Sin embargo, los dirigentes de su partido—el Partido Democrático del Pueblo Bueno—le niegan su apoyo, pues impulsarán al oportunista Vega Fernández, cuyas alianzas se extienden como tentáculos hasta el crimen organizado. Pero éste no será su mayor obstáculo. En su primer acto de campaña como candidata independiente, Carmen recibe dos balazos de un tirador furtivo, que la dejan malherida.

Formas de volver a casa habla de la generación de quienes aprendían a leer o a dibujar mientras sus padres se convertían en cómplices o víctimas de la dictadura de Augusto Pinochet. Alejandro Zambra muestra el Chile de mediados de los años ochenta a partir de la vida de un niño de nueve años. El autor apunta a la necesidad de una literatura de los hijos, de una mirada que haga frente a las versiones oficiales. Pero no se trata solo de matar al padre sino también de entender realmente lo que sucedía en esos años.

When Lucille, Catherine, and Victoria are invited to participate in a trial semester for women at Alabama's most prestigious university, they each have their own reasons for accepting. Lucille wants freedom from both her father's control and reminders of her traitorous first love. Catherine wants to escape an arranged marriage meant to halt her attraction to women. And Victoria wants to run from the guilt that haunts her after the death of one of her fellow mill girls.

Publié en 1909, La Poudre aux yeux réunit cinq nouvelles où René Boylesve observe, avec une ironie fine et une sensibilité précise, l’empire des apparences. Jeux mondains, vanités tranquilles, pudeurs et mensonges: derrière la politesse des gestes, chacun tente de sauver la face ou de se faire valoir, quitte à jeter un peu de «poudre aux yeux». En quelques tableaux ciselés, l’auteur dévoile les failles du cœur et les petites comédies du quotidien, avec une lucidité douce-amère.

Teacher Salma Chaudhry lives a quiet life, avoiding all attachments. But after a call from her estranged father, the protective shell she lives within starts to crack and the trauma she's buried for eighteen years emerges. Salma and her older sister Asma were inseparable growing up in small-town Rosebud. While Asma was bold and fearless, Salma tried to keep the peace in their fractured family. But amid their mother's decline and their parents’ rigid expectations, Asma makes a choice that tears the family apart.

Lagos, 1960er Jahre: In einer Stadt voller Energie und Aufbruchsstimmung nach der Unabhängigkeit lernt die selbstbewusste Margaret den in Großbritannien geborenen Benjamin kennen, der eine nigerianische Großmutter hatte und auf der Suche nach seinen Wurzeln ist. Sie verlieben sich und entdecken schon bald, dass sie mehr gemeinsam haben, als sie dachten. Aber dann wird Margaret psychisch immer labiler, und die Schatten jahrzehntealter Ereignisse in einem kleinen Dorf weit weg von Lagos bringen langsam aber unaufhaltsam den Bruch.

The Iliad depicts the terrible and long-drawn out siege of Troy, the quarrel of Achilles and Agamemnon, the interactions between Olympian Gods and humans, remains among one of the classic campaigns and the heroism and treachery of the combatants have been unmatched in song and story. The Odyssey is the first and quite possibly the greatest adventure story of all time. After the long hardships of the Trojan War, Odysseus is on his way home.

London, 1941. Polly Hope is bravely working as an air raid warden during the Blitz when she saves the life of the charming Freddie Fairbank. Over a thank-you breakfast at the Ritz, he asks Polly to help requisition a sprawling English country house for the war effort. Petherbridge Hall has grand rooms, lovely views and will be a perfect nursing home for injured troops, if they can only persuade the family to give up their house. But then they find the lord of the manor dead behind the gardener’s shed.

Sous les franges jaunes et rouges d’une tente de toile, la grande danseuse a fini de danser. La nuit tiède venue du sud les fait frissonner; des autos noires, de luxe, silencieuses et souples, s’arrêtent au bord du trottoir: l’or ou l’argent d’un soulier de bal, puis, derrière la vitre, un visage de femme, un peu las sous les fards, mais fier, heureux d’avoir été vu trois heures durant au fond d’une loge.

Clark Thomas has a lot on his plate. A new book. A beautiful woman far from home. A missing fiancé. And a mysterious dead body plunges him headfirst into his latest real-world Myrtle Beach investigation. As he unravels the case involving renowned food bloggers, restaurant reviews, and The Grand Strand, Clark learns that there is more to the story than meets the eye–and more to his wife’s death. And the one dead body may not be the last. With his world turned upside down after uncovering new information about Autumn’s death, Clark must get to the bottom of this mystery while he still can...

Every morning, Evelyn Silver walks the shoreline before the rest of Portheast wakes, gathering what the tide leaves behind. Broken cups. Lost trinkets. Objects others have discarded. In her small Museum of Maritime Curiosities, each one earns its place—because to Evelyn, every forgotten thing deserves to have its story told.

Harry Sanders is found dead in a derelict pub. The authorities call it a tragic accident, but Victor recognises the signs of something far more sinister. He knew Harry from his own days on the streets—and Harry had been scared, convinced someone was following him. Working with private investigators Kasper and Zofia Dąbrowski, Victor inherits Harry’s dog, Cleo, causing friction with Oscar, his own wilful dog, and uncovers a disturbing pattern. Homeless men with dogs are disappearing across the city.

With her waterfront home on the market, marriage over, and teen daughter, Elsie, threatening emancipation, Rosalynn Yates finds her nerves well frayed, and that’s even before a Category Three hurricane approaches the Carolinas. Fortunately, Rosalynn’s mother, Lillian, arrives to help with the evacuation, going into full Mama Bear mode—whether Rosalynn likes it or not.

1950s China. In a land of misty hot springs and star-kissed hills lives Lazo, a woman of the Moso people, who follow a matriarchal tradition where women freely choose their lovers and marriage doesn’t exist. Lazo, beautiful and free-spirited, longs to become a mother. When two brothers, Noah and Adam Starlings, arrive stranded and starving, they are met with Lazo’s generosity. Adam, a charming artist with a restless heart, is intrigued by the no-marriage custom, but Noah, a physician with a traumatic past, values fidelity above all.

In this first Volume of Merlin's Isle, join the prophesied youth, Sir Galahad, and the other knights of the quest as they set out from Camelot to achieve the Holy Grail. The accomplishment of their goal will heal not only the wounded Fisher King, but will bring about the long-hoped for healing of the land itself.