Resultado narrado por "Antonia" em Todas as categorias

Casi una década después de la publicación de su última antología de cuentos cortos, Jeffrey Archer regresa con esta esperadísima colección de catorce relatos, "Tell tale", en la que nos presenta una visión fascinante, emocionante y a veces afilada de la gente a la que ha conocido, las historias con las que se ha cruzado y los países por los que ha viajado en los últimos diez años.

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Leningrado, Rusia, 1968. Desde su infancia, está claro que Alexander Karpenko está destinado a liderar a sus compatriotas. Sin embargo, cuando su padre es asesinado a manos del KGB por haber desafiado al estado, Alexander y su madre se verán obligados a escapar de Rusia si quieren tener la oportunidad de sobrevivir. En los muelles se les presenta una disyuntiva de la que no hay marcha atrás: embarcar en un navío mercante que va de camino a América o en otro con destino a Gran Bretaña. Alexander lanza una moneda para decidir a cuál suben...

Todo ocurre en el futurista Londres del año 1984, en Oceanía, la nación que agrupaba todos los pueblos angloparlantes del mundo, el gobierno que imperaba era de índole totalitario, controlado por el Partido y liderado por el Gran Hermano, la figura a quien todos los ciudadanos le deben absoluto respeto y admiración.

"Cuidado con lo que deseas", cuarta entrega de las crónicas Clifton de Jeffrey Archer, comienza con la carrera desesperada de Harry Clifton y su esposa Emma al hospital para saber qué destino ha corrido su hijo Sebastian después de un fatal accidente de tráfico. Pero, ¿quién ha muerto, Sebastian o su mejor amigo, Bruno?

D. H. Lawrence is dying. Exiled in the Mediterranean, he dreams of the past. There are the years early in his marriage during the war where his desperation drives him to commit a terrible betrayal. And there is a woman in an Italian courtyard, her chestnut hair red with summer. Scattered and blown by the winds of history, their stories are bound together and brought before the jury. On both sides of the Atlantic, society is asking and continues to ask: is it obscenity - or is it tenderness?

Abigail Jex never expected to see any of the Radleys again. They were extraordinary, captivating creatures transplanted from a bohemian corner of North London to outer suburbia, and the young Abigail found herself drawn into their magic circle: the eccentric Frances, her new best friend; Frances' mother, the liberated, headstrong Lexi; and of course the brilliant, beautiful Rad. Abigail thought she'd banished the ghost of her life with them and the catastrophe that ended it, but 13 years later a chance encounter forces her to acknowledge that the spell is far from broken.

La Meditación en el silencio es paz total, es acceder al espacio entre dos pensamientos y anclarse allí, sumergidos en la auténtica paz, en el verdadero descanso, en la ausencia total de pensamientos. El Buda encontró a través de la Meditación la respuesta a sus grandes interrogantes sobre el dolor, el sufrimiento, la vejez y la muerte. Así también, todos podemos encontrar estas respuestas utilizando esta maravillosa técnica.

Joe Pike non si aspettava di salvare una donna, quel giorno. Ma quando Isabel Roland, "Izzy", giovane e solitaria cassiera in banca, esce per la pausa pranzo dall'edificio in cui lavora, Joe si accorge che due uomini stanno tentando di rapirla. Riesce a fermarli e i malviventi vengono arrestati, ma si tratta solo dell'inizio dei guai per Joe e Izzy. Usciti su cauzione, i due uomini vengono uccisi e Isabel scompare all'improvviso. Pike capisce immediatamente che la ragazza è in grave pericolo e chiede al suo amico Elvis Cole di aiutarlo a far luce sulla vicenda.

Casting off a northern winter and an orderly life, a family decides to sell everything and go to Italy to search for art and its meanings, for freedom from routine, for a different path into the future. The award-winning writer Rachel Cusk describes a three-month journey around the Italy of Raphael and rented villas, of the Piero della Francesca Trail and the tourist furnace of Amalfi, of soccer and the simple glories of pasta and gelato.

En abril de 1991 vio la luz por primera vez el "Testamento del pájaro solitario". Pocas semanas más tarde, el 11 de junio, nos dejaba su autor, José Luis Martín Descalzo; o, mejor, "vio la Luz", vio el "Amor sin enigmas ni espejos". Desde su salida, muchas personas encontraron el "Testamento" su propia alma, su autobiografía personal, tal como José Luis soñaba que ocurriera en la introducción de su obra. En los versos de este libro -sinceros, profundos-, muchos se vieron reconocidos.

A farm in Norfolk in the 1970s. A Japanese girl comes to visit her English lover in the house where he was born. She arrives on a day of perfect summer, stands with his mother in a garden filled with roses, watches as his brother walks fields of ripening wheat. But between the two brothers lies the shadow of their father’s violent death almost 20 years before, the unresolved narrative of their childhood - a story that has gone untold, a story that began in the last war. In the presence of the girl, the old trauma begins to surface as the work of the harvest begins.

Charlie’s experiences at the Battle of Kohima and the months he spent lost in the remote jungles of Nagaland during the Second World War are now history. Home and settled on a farm in Norfolk and newly married to Claire, he is one of the lucky survivors. Starting a family and working the land seem the best things a man can be doing. But a chasm exists between them. Memories flood Charlie’s mind; at night, on rain-slicked roads and misty mornings in the fields, the past can feel more real than the present.

Edith e Andrea, una giovane un po' trasgressiva e un capitano molto rigoroso, si incontrano per caso su un traghetto in direzione Grecia. Da quel momento, le loro vite cambiano per sempre. I due andranno ad abitare su un'isola e lì costruiranno la loro vita insieme. Una storia d'amore semplice eppure deflagrante, che ci pone domande fondamentali: sui legami che forgiamo tra persone, sugli ostacoli che la vita ci mette davanti e sul destino che unisce e separa.

Chegando em Fernando de Noronha para o casamento, Yasmin se depara com um homem do seu passado, só que completamente mudado. E sua amiga a coloca no meio de um contrato de casamento, para que fiquem com todo o dinheiro do bilionário.

Copeland Cane V, the child who fell outta Colored People Time and into America, is a fugitive. He is also just a regular teenager coming up in a terrifying world. A slightly eccentric, flip-phone loving kid with analog tendencies and a sideline hustling sneakers, the boundaries of Copeland’s life are demarcated from the jump by urban toxicity, an educational apparatus with confounding intentions, and a police state that has merged with media conglomerates - the highly rated Insurgency Alert Desk that surveils and harasses his neighborhood in the name of anti-terrorism.

In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk’s marriage of 10 years came to an end. Candid and revelatory, Aftermath chronicles the perilous journey as the author redefines herself and creates a new version of family life for her daughters. She discovers previously unknown strengths and freedoms, but also finds herself suddenly vulnerable to outsiders, unwelcome advice, social displacement, and the absence of a clear authority. The pressure to reconstruct a “normal” life for her daughters competes with the sense that nothing feels normal at all.

Existen algunos elementos que llaman la atención a una persona que observe detenidamente el diario vivir y la manifestación de la Vida en el Multiverso.

Deva Landry is relieved to be rescued from the MC princess life. But now the angel who saved her is back to collect payment.The cost? Deva is assigned to babysit bad-boy cage fighter Aleksei Voronov, forcing her back into the murky underworld of Chicago. Prepared for the worst, she’s shocked to uncover a kindred spirit, a wounded soul like hers. Chaos strikes, and the two are thrown together on an impromptu mission to stop a city-wide massacre.

La familia de un joven juez se encuentra amenazada. ¿Por qué los Young tienen que elegir entre la vida o la muerte? Tucson, Arizona, 2015, Día de Acción de Gracias. Rex y Sarah Young reúnen a toda su familia en su nueva casa. Los Young acaban de mudarse a la ciudad para que Rex se incorpore como juez. El día del desfile de Acción de Gracias Salma, la hija de catorce años de la pareja desaparece durante veinticuatro horas. Tras una búsqueda angustiosa por toda la zona, encuentran a la chica que tiene una nota para su padre.