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Aguas Mortales
by Jacob ParrALGO ANTIGUO SE OCULTA BAJO LA SUPERFICIE… Una importante tarea lleva a James Luna de regreso a su ciudad natal de Alpine Ridge. Un lugar al que juró no volver nunca más, después de ese desafortunado verano en el que perdió a su hermano menor en una tragedia. Al llegar, se encuentra en una situación más allá de sus sueños más salvajes. El peligro y la muerte rodean al pintoresco Lago Trinity en el Bosque Nacional Shasta-Trinity. James debe equilibrar el peso de una familia destrozada, un nuevo romance y mantener con vida a sus seres queridos. Lo que está en juego nunca ha estado tan alto. ¿Será capaz de resolver el misterio y acabar con la amenaza, o la pesadilla continuará?
Aguas Turbias
by Chrys D. Brobbey Claudia CanfieldLas debilidades de la sociedad crean manchas como aguas turbias estancadas. Esta satírica novela ofrece impactantes comentarios sobre la cultura, economía, política, el crimen, la corrupción, alcoholismo y todo lo que es feo, así como hermoso en una sociedad en particular. Las descripciones pintorescas sumergen al lector directamente en los puntos de acción – desde los políticos engañados que creen que están en el servicio público para atender a sus egos, a los adictos al moonshine que consideran la condena de muerte como un trato justo para sus deleites. Es entretenido y provocador hacer preguntas acerca de cuestiones que parecen normales y que se dan por hecho. La lógica es remover las “aguas turbias” de la sociedad, apuñalando la conciencia pública con un nuevo despertar y un cambio.
Aguas oscuras
by Claudia Gray10 de abril de 1912, Southampton.El Titanic, el barco de pasajeros más grande del mundo, está listo para zarpar. En su lujosa primera clase, viaja la señora Regina y sus hijos Layton e Irene, acompañados de su sirvienta, Tess, una chica de dieciocho años que sueña con llegar a Nueva York y empezar una nueva vida lejos de la familia para quien trabaja desde pequeña.Justo antes de embarcar, mientras se ocupa de unos encargos que le ha encomendado la señora Regina, Tess conoce a Alec, un atractivo viajero de primera clase. Alec es hijo de un adinerado magnate y, como Tess descubre esa misma noche, esconde un oscuro secreto: es un hombre-lobo y, además, se encuentra en apuros porque una peligrosa hermandad, cuyo líder también está en el Titanic, lo persigue para intentar hacerse con su herencia...Mientras su obsesión por Alec crece día tras día, Tess deberá enfrentarse a un peligroso juego de poderes. Y el destino se encargará de complicar todavía más la situación cuando el Titanic choque con un iceberg al sur de las costas de Terranova...
Aguas oscuras
by Claudia GrayUna arrolladora historia de amor a bordo del Titanic. 10 de abril de 1912, Southampton. El Titanic, el barco de pasajeros más grande del mundo, está listo para zarpar. En su lujosa primera clase, viaja la señora Regina y sus hijos Layton e Irene, acompañados de su sirvienta, Tess, una chica de dieciocho años que sueña con llegar a Nueva York y empezar una nueva vida lejos de la familia para quien trabaja desde pequeña. Justo antes de embarcar, mientras se ocupa de unos encargos que le ha encomendado la señora Regina, Tess conoce a Alec, un atractivo viajero de primera clase. Alec es hijo de un adinerado magnate y, como Tess descubre esa misma noche, esconde un oscuro secreto: es un hombre-lobo y, además, se encuentra en apuros porque una peligrosa hermandad, cuyo líder también está en el Titanic, lo persigue para intentar hacerse con su herencia... Mientras su obsesión por Alec crece día tras día, Tess deberá enfrentarse a un peligroso juego de poderes. Y el destino se encargará de complicar todavía más la situación cuando el Titanic choque con un iceberg al sur de las costas de Terranova...
Aguas oscuras (Serie Erika Foster #Volumen 3)
by Robert BryndzaTercer libro de la serie de la detective Erika Foster. Por el autor del best seller internacional Te veré bajo el hielo y Una sombra en la oscuridad. La detective Erika Foster recibe el aviso de que la clave para resolver un importante caso de narcóticos está escondida en una cantera abandonada en las afueras de Londres, por lo que ordena que sea registrada. Allí, entre el lodo espeso, encuentran un alijo de droga, pero también lo que parece ser el esqueleto de un niño pequeño. Los restos se identifican como los de Jessica Collins, de siete años, la chica desaparecida que copó los titulares hace veintiséis años. Mientras Erika trata de juntar las nuevas pruebas con las antiguas, también indaga más sobre el pasado de la familia Collins y se pone en contacto con la principal detective del caso en aquella época, Amanda Baker, una mujer atormentada por el fracaso de no haber encontrado a Jessica Collins en su momento. Pero alguien guarda terribles secretos. Alguien que no quiere que este caso sea resuelto y que hará todo lo que esté en sus manos para evitar que Erika descubra la verdad. Reseñas:«Maneja muy bien la intriga, no te deja interrumpir la lectura aunque sus capítulos son breves, te bebes uno detrás del otro porque necesitas saber qué ha pasado, quién es el culpable.»Diario de una chicka lit «Buenmanejo de la tensión narrativa acompañada en todo momento por una ambientación perfecta para el caso.»Carmen en su tinta «Una protagonista muy bien definida y, en mi opinión, muy carismática. Sigue sin defraudarme.»Rosa Dracos, Babelio «Una serie excepcional.»El templo de la lectura«Sencillamente una novela impecable. Una trama escrupulosamente bien construida, ingeniosa y reflexiva.»Edición original «Una protagonista algo más dura y tan brillantemente defectuosa que no podremos evitar empatizar con ella.»Mis lecturas «Una historia magnífica, de esas que se leen en un suspiro porque necesitas saber más.»Libros por doquier«Una tercera parte a la altura, con una trama adictiva y envolvente. Se ha convertido en una de mis sagas favoritas de detectives.»Sueños entre letras «Bryndza nos vuelve a sumergir en otra historia llena de misterio y consigue captar nuestra atención tanto por el argumento como por el seguimiento de los personajes.»Negra y mortal
Aguas oscuras: Elementos 1
by Natalia Steckel Rain OxfordDevon Sanders, un investigador privado conocido por su eficiencia y discreción, no tiene ningún interés en involucrarse con la comunidad paranormal. Lamentablemente para él, la comunidad paranormal sí tiene interés en él, o al menos en su secreto. Devon es extraordinario en la resolución de casos mediante su asombrosa intuición. Cuando Devon descubre un asesinato violento, sabe que no es un delito natural. Para resolver el caso y exponer al asesino, deberá fingir que es un hechicero en la Universidad paranormal Quintessence. Pronto descubre que su talento tiene más que ver con las fuerzas sobrenaturales que lo que él sabía. La magia es elemental.
Aguirre (Signos para la noche #Volumen 2)
by Díaz De TuestaSegunda y esperada entrega de la serie «Signos para la noche» de Díaz de Tuesta. Navegar entre el amor y el misterio, no resulta fácil. Caleb parece haberse alejado definitivamente, o eso se fuerza a creer, y Laura lucha por recuperar las riendas de su vida. Algo difícil de conseguir, puesto que su relación con Jaime sigue siendo un campo minado, en el que los límites entre pasión y culpa parecen difuminarse. Lo único que aporta cierta estabilidad a su día a día es su creciente amistad con el inspector Mikel Aguirre, aunque siempre convive con el temor de que descubra su secreto: que le engañó y manipuló para apartarle de la verdad, en el caso que investiga. Y, mientras, ese hombre peligroso llamado Tony Fontaine, aparece de nuevo, para no permitir que olvide que hay un misterio mayor llamando a su puerta...
Aguirre, el magnífico
by Manuel VicentAguirre, el magnífico narra con su acostumbrada ironía la vida de Jesús Aguirre, el último personaje que se escapó de la corte de los milagros de Valle-Inclán. En su espejo deformante se refleja medio siglo de la historia reciente de España. Este relato no es exactamente una biografía de Jesús Aguirre, decimoctavo duque de Alba por propios méritos, sino un retablo ibérico donde este personaje se refleja en los espejos deformantes del callejón del Gato, como una figura de la corte de los milagros de Valle-Inclán. «Medio siglo de la historia de España forma parte de este esperpento literario. Esta travesía escrita en primera persona es también un trayecto de mi propia memoria y en ella aparece el protagonista Jesús Aguirre, el magnífico, rodeado de teólogos alemanes, escritores, políticos y aristócratas de una época, de sucesos, pasiones, éxitos y fracasos de una generación que desde la alcantarilla de la clandestinidad ascendió a los palacios. Un perro dálmata se pasea entre los libros de ensayo de la Escuela de Fráncfort como un rasgo intelectual de suprema elegancia.»Jesús Aguirre, decimoctavo duque de Alba por propios méritos de una gran escalada, sintetiza esta crónica, que va desde la postguerra hasta el inicio de este siglo. Su vida fantasmagórica, pese a ser tan real, no puede distinguirse de la ficción literaria.»Manuel Vicent Reseñas:«Logra Vicent una estampa original, profunda y divertida, de un tiempo confuso a la que solo puede ponérsele un pero: se le ha a uno corta.»Santos Sanz Villanueva, El Cultural de El Mundo «Nadie, salvo Manuel Vicent, podría haber escrito con tanta propiedad y desparpajo, con tanta ironía y tristeza, esta novela fingida, disfrazada de retablo descoyuntado y tremendo del franquismo medio y tardío.»Manuel Rodríguez Rivero, Babelia
Agujero Negro Masivo
by Andrea Barbosa¿Qué tan lejos llegarán para conseguir lo que quieren? Un encuentro casual reúne a tres jóvenes mujeres y comienza a gestarse entre ellas una amistad insólita que cambiará el curso de sus vidas para siempre. El infierno, como nunca lo habías imaginado. Esta sugerente ficción contemporánea figuró en lista de los 50 Self-Published Books Worth Reading of 2014 (los 50 mejores libros autopublicados que vale la pena leer del 2014), los lectores lo votaron número 5 en ficción contemporánea en Indie Author Land.
Agviq: The Whale
by Michael Armstrong"AGVIQ" is the totem of the "Real People," the Inupiaq, who endured the Arctic territories for 7,000 years -- until the modern world destroyed the ancient ways. But then the modern world itself was destroyed. Among others, a white archeologist named Claudia has survived. The People need her to teach what has been taken; she needs them -- to live. And together, they must face the ice and confront the ancestors' greatest challenge...
Agyar
by Steven BrustA young man lives in an abandoned house, awaiting his death from the person who controls him, when he meets a young woman and falls in love.
Agyatvas
by Shrilal ShuklaA classic story written by Shri Lal Shukla where a husband leaves his wife and wants to get her back after leaving although she has died but the desired to get her back never end. In the remembrance of his wife never cared for his daughter.
Agú, Agú, Agú
by Robert Munsch Michael MartchenkoRobin encuentra a un bebé (que solo puede decir "agú, agú, agú") en la caja de arena de su patio trasero y se embarca en una serie de aventuras para encontrarle un hogar. Este es un libro electrónico de diseño fijo, que mantiene el mismo diseño y formato de la edición impresa del mismo libro.
Ah Ha!
by Jeff MackFrog is settling in for a relaxing day at the pond. (AAHH.) But wait--there are other creatures at the pond as well. (AH HA!) And some of them are out to get Frog. (AHHH!) Not to worry, Frog gets the last laugh. (HA HA!) Using only two letters, along with many brightly colored and lively illustrations, Jeff Mack brings his hallmark humor to this rollicking book that will leave young readers guessing, laughing, and on the edge of their seats.
Ah Ha!: Ah Ha!
by Jeff MackFrog is settling in for a relaxing day at the pond. (AAHH.) But wait—there are other creatures at the pond as well. (AH HA!) And some of them are out to get Frog. (AHHH!) Not to worry, Frog gets the last laugh. (HA HA!) Using only two letters, along with many brightly colored and lively illustrations, Jeff Mack brings his hallmark humor to this rollicking book that will leave young readers guessing, laughing, and on the edge of their seats. Plus, this is the fixed format version, which will look almost identical to the print version. Additionally for devices that support audio, this ebook includes a read-along setting.
Ah, Sweet Mystery
by Celestine SibleyKate Kincaid Mulcay has a tranquil life in her country log cabin and a pleasant routine of writing thrice-weekly columns for an Atlanta newspaper. All that is shattered when she discovers that Miss Willie Wilcox, a beloved eighty-five year-old neighbor, has calmly confessed to the brutal murder of her stepson, Garney. But Kate knows Miss Willie too well to believe she could kill anyone, and a little investigation shows that the facts don't add up. Soon she's off on the trail of the real murderer, a dangerous chase that leads her from the drug deals of downtown Atlanta to the wealthy new subdivisions of her own hometown. Kate finds herself attending three funerals related to the case and she and two little girls she is sheltering are threatened. Set in big city Atlanta and the remnants of rural Georgia, and featuring many colorful characters from disappearing and emerging cultures, this is an engrossing mystery with heart.
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl
by Roald Dahlroald dahl's new book is a wonderful collection of stories, most of which were written in the late 1940s, originally published in various magazines and collections in the forties and fifties, and are gathered here together for the first time. Set in one English village and sharing a cast of characters, these stories--each bearing the inimitable, antic, slightly wicked Dahl touch--have the vivid effect of a novel, giving us the larger picture of this small world in the years just after World War II. And leave it to Dahl to find the most unusual, the eeriest, the funniest, and the most shocking details lurking inside this (or any) pastoral. There's the ratcatcher who looks--and acts--alarmingly like his quarry...the grand backfiring of the greatest pheasant poaching (a "sporting type of stealing") ever almost pulled off...the strange disappearance--and gruesome reappearance--of Ole Jimmy, the elderly, sweet-tempered, tipsy playground attendant...the comings and goings at the illegal greyhound racetrack where the dogs are far tamer than the bookies...the surprisingorigin of the expression "bull's eye" (and a lesson in assuring the sex of your cow's next calf)... Seven stories that delight us with their mixture of the charming and the charmingly perverse, and that remind us--as only a Roald Dahl story can--that the mystery of life isn't always as sweet as it seems.
Ah, Treachery!
by Ross ThomasAh, Treachery!, the last novel Thomas wrote before his death, tells the story of one Captain Edd "Twodees" Partain, drummed out of the Army and hounded by rumors of his involvement in a secret operation in El Salvador. Twodees gets hired on to help a fundraiser for the "Little Rock folks" recover funds that were stolen from an illicit stash used to smooth over problems and pay off hush money. Meanwhile, Partain is involved in a storefront operation called VOMIT (Victims of Military Intelligence Treachery) trying to defend former intelligence operatives such as Partain from those who are trying to cover up the past permanently.
Ahab (Modern Literary Characters)
by Harold BloomCritical extracts by Evert A. Duyckinck, D. H. Lawrence, Lewis Mumford, R. P. Blackmur, W. H. Auden, Lawrance Thompson, Marius Bewley, James Baird, Alfred Kazin, Denis Donoghue, A. R. Humphreys, Joyce Carol Oates, Raney Stanford, Martin Leonard Pops, Ann Douglas, Carolyn L. Karcher, David Simpson, Tony Magistrate, Joseph Allen Boone, David S. Reynolds, Wai-Chee Dimock, Bruce L. Grenberg, and Pamela Schirmeister Critical essays by F. O. Matthiessen, Maurice Friedman, Robert Zoellner, Bainard Cowan, Michael Paul Rogin, William B. Dillingham, Larry J. Reynolds, Neal L. Tolchin, Edward J. Ahearn, and Leo Bersani
Ahab Unbound: Melville and the Materialist Turn
by Meredith Farmer Jonathan D. S. SchroederWhy Captain Ahab is worthy of our fear—and our compassion Herman Melville&’s Captain Ahab is perennially seen as the paradigm of a controlling, tyrannical agent. Ahab Unbound leaves his position as a Cold War icon behind, recasting him as a contingent figure, transformed by his environment—by chemistry, electromagnetism, entomology, meteorology, diet, illness, pain, trauma, and neurons firing—in ways that unexpectedly force us to see him as worthy of our empathy and our compassion. In sixteen essays by leading scholars, Ahab Unbound advances an urgent inquiry into Melville&’s emergence as a center of gravity for materialist work, reframing his infamous whaling captain in terms of pressing conversations in animal studies, critical race and ethnic studies, disability studies, environmental humanities, medical humanities, political theory, and posthumanism. By taking Ahab as a focal point, we gather and give shape to the multitude of ways that materialism produces criticism in our current moment. Collectively, these readings challenge our thinking about the boundaries of both persons and nations, along with the racist and environmental violence caused by categories like the person and the human.Ahab Unbound makes a compelling case for both the vitality of materialist inquiry and the continued resonance of Melville&’s work.Contributors: Branka Arsić, Columbia U; Christopher Castiglia, Pennsylvania State U; Colin Dayan, Vanderbilt U; Christian P. Haines, Pennsylvania State U; Bonnie Honig, Brown U; Jonathan Lamb, Vanderbilt U; Pilar Martínez Benedí, U of L&’Aquila, Italy; Steve Mentz, St. John&’s College; John Modern, Franklin and Marshall College; Mark D. Noble, Georgia State U; Samuel Otter, U of California, Berkeley; Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College; Ralph James Savarese, Grinnell College; Russell Sbriglia, Seton Hall U; Michael D. Snediker, U of Houston; Matthew A. Taylor, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Ivy Wilson, Northwestern U.
Ahab's Return: or, The Last Voyage
by Jeffrey Ford“Jeffrey Ford is one of the few writers who uses wonder instead of ink in his pen.” – Jonathan CarrollA bold and intriguing fabulist novel that reimagines two of the most legendary characters in American literature—Captain Ahab and Ishmael of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick—from the critically acclaimed Edgar and World Fantasy award-winning author of The Girl in the Glass and The Shadow Year.At the end of a long journey, Captain Ahab returns to the mainland to confront the true author of the novel Moby-Dick, his former shipmate, Ishmael. For Ahab was not pulled into the ocean’s depths by a harpoon line, and the greatly exaggerated rumors of his untimely death have caused him grievous harm—after hearing about Ahab’s demise, his wife and child left Nantucket for New York, and now Ahab is on a desperate quest to find them.Ahab’s pursuit leads him to The Gorgon’s Mirror, the sensationalist tabloid newspaper that employed Ishmael as a copy editor while he wrote the harrowing story of the ill-fated Pequod. In the penny press’s office, Ahab meets George Harrow, who makes a deal with the captain: the newspaperman will help Ahab navigate the city in exchange for the exclusive story of his salvation from the mouth of the great white whale. But their investigation—like Ahab’s own story—will take unexpected, dangerous, and ultimately tragic turns.Told with wisdom, suspense, a modicum of dry humor and horror, and a vigorous stretching of the truth, Ahab’s Return charts an inventive and intriguing voyage involving one of the most memorable characters in classic literature, and pays homage to one of the greatest novels ever written.
Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of "Moby-Dick"
by Richard J. KingAlthough Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing—or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick is the “best book ever written about nature,” and nearly the entirety of the story is set on the waves, with scarcely a whiff of land. In fact, Ishmael’s sea yarn is in conversation with the nature writing of Emerson and Thoreau, and Melville himself did much more than live for a year in a cabin beside a pond. He set sail: to the far remote Pacific Ocean, spending more than three years at sea before writing his masterpiece in 1851. A revelation for Moby-Dick devotees and neophytes alike, Ahab’s Rolling Sea is a chronological journey through the natural history of Melville’s novel. From white whales to whale intelligence, giant squids, barnacles, albatross, and sharks, Richard J. King examines what Melville knew from his own experiences and the sources available to a reader in the mid-1800s, exploring how and why Melville might have twisted what was known to serve his fiction. King then climbs to the crow’s nest, setting Melville in the context of the American perception of the ocean in 1851—at the very start of the Industrial Revolution and just before the publication of On the Origin of Species. King compares Ahab’s and Ishmael’s worldviews to how we see the ocean today: an expanse still immortal and sublime, but also in crisis. And although the concept of stewardship of the sea would have been entirely foreign, if not absurd, to Melville, King argues that Melville’s narrator Ishmael reveals his own tendencies toward what we would now call environmentalism. Featuring a coffer of illustrations and an array of interviews with contemporary scientists, fishers, and whale watch operators, Ahab’s Rolling Sea offers new insight not only into a cherished masterwork and its author but also into our evolving relationship with the briny deep—from whale hunters to climate refugees.
Ahab's Wife
by Sena Jeter NaslundFrom the opening line-"Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last"-you will know that you are in the hands of a master storyteller and in the company of a fascinating woman hero. Inspired by a brief passage in Moby-Dick, Sena Jeter Naslund has created an enthralling and compellingly readable saga, spanning a rich, eventful, and dramatic life. At once a family drama, a romantic adventure, and a portrait of a real and loving marriage, Ahab's Wife gives new perspective on the American experience. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Ahankar
by Shankar KarhadeThis is a story of mankind. When God had created everything in this world. He gave all different qualities and did not have anything to give to the man he created. So he gave him some knowledge about himself and voice. The man was left alone he had pride of knowledge and did not remain with any god. He was thrown on earth and did not see any god since then. He was left wondering on earth and took other objects and worshiped them as the god. He is still in search of god.
Ahava Is Love (World of Love)
by Avery DuranBrooklyn Realtor Josh Perlman desperately wants to settle down. Unfortunately he can’t find a man who wants the same. Tired of disastrous dates, he travels to explore his heritage. Yaron is an Israeli security guard and medic charged with looking after Josh and his pilgrimage group. For Yaron, the need to protect has become more a duty than an honor since he lost his long-term boyfriend to a terrorist attack—a loss that continues to haunt him. As they embark on their journey through the Holy Land, it’s hard to deny the attraction that sparks between Josh and Yaron. Yet with America calling Josh home, and Israel, and the death of his lover holding Yaron prisoner, it seems only a miracle can keep them together. But Israel is an ancient land, one that has seen miracles before. Surrounded by structures that have been destroyed and rebuilt time after time, Josh and Yaron might just learn that their futures can be found in the wisdom of the past. World of Love:Stories of romance that span every corner of the globe.