Old House Fiction

En esta novela, Antonio Pérez Henares nos traslada, gracias a una prosa evocadora y a un exhaustivo rigor histórico a galope entre el siglo XII y el XIII, a las fronteras de la extremadura castellana por las sierras, las alcarrias, el Tajo y el Guadiana. A través de sus personajes—cristianos y musulmanes, campesinos y pastores, señores y caballeros—nos muestra la historia de los que sembraban y segaban, de los que levantaron las ermitas e hicieron brotar pasiones, amistades, rencores, pueblos y vivencias.

Emily Winters would do anything for her best friend Josie. Every week they meet for a catch-up at the Old Boathouse - an idyllic little café by the Thames where Josie’s boyfriend Jack works. As the summer draws on, life seems perfect. Emily’s writing career is taking off and she’s throwing herself into the dating scene. There’s just one problem: she compares all the men she meets to Jack. And none of them measure up.

Casa Velha é um romance do escritor Machado de Assis, que aborda neste clássico da literatura brasileira, temas como intrigas imperiais, tragédias e jogos de interesses. A história começa com a perspectiva de um padre que deseja escrever sobre a formação do Primeiro Reinado de D. Pedro I. Para iniciar a sua obra, ele investiga a casa de um ex-ministro para colher documentos importantes para as suas pesquisas.

Aquí se dan cita nueve autores nacidos entre 1976 y 1981 a sendas orillas del Atlántico. Son cinco magníficas escritoras, cuatro magníficos narradores. Voces maduras, quizá de floración tardía. Son nuestros nueve viejísimos cuentistas. Hace dieciocho años, cuando nació Reservoir Books, tenían alrededor de dieciocho. Y sobre eso escriben precisamente. Son miradas nostálgicas, agridulces, satíricas, elegíacas... realizadas desde el ecuador de la segunda edad, cuando se acerca la cuarentena, quizá bajo amenaza de próximos cambios vitales.

Twelve-year-old Janie Rutland somewhat grudgingly befriends Reggie Rankin - the weird new kid at school - and finally has someone to investigate her curious sightings in the abandoned house next door. When they find there's an impossible world in danger of total destruction, they face a choice. Do they have what it takes to save it? An eccentric fellowship gathers as they embark on a perilous quest in a race against time and their own fears.

Amerikában Észak és Dél küzdelme zajlik. Winnetou és Old Shatterhand elveszítik az apacs főnök családját meggyilkoló bandita nyomát, és útjaik egy időre elválnak. Charlie kényszerűségből nyomozónak áll New Yorkban. A polgárháború után - híres nevét eltitkolva - egy veszélyes kalandor üldözése közben New Orleansba érkezik, ahol a városi öltözékű "zöldfülűt" pártfogásába veszi a Vadnyugat legtapasztaltabb vadásza.

The “Old Woman” lives in the wild, searching for food, raising her cubs, and avoiding the two-legged creatures who come into her territory. But she is more than an animal—she is a mythic creature who haunts the lives and the dreams of men. Joseph Brandt has been captivated by the mountain lion’s legend since childhood, and one day he steps into the forest to seek her out. A classic in the making, The Hunter and the Old Woman is a mesmerizing portrait of two animals united by a shared destiny.

Although Anna Katharine Green was best known as a crime novelist, this anthology is essentially a collection of horror stories. The Old Stone House is the history of a disastrous love triangle involving a coquettish young girl and two ruthless men determined to win her heart. The other stories share the theme of a manipulative woman whose scheming places the people associated with her in difficult and unfamiliar situations.

Seventeen-year-old Devon Alante squinted in the darkness of her bedroom. Even though she couldn’t recall many of the details, the message was very clear: Her dreams weren’t wrong. Something or someone was letting Devon know for certain that her best friend Gwen’s boyfriend, Andrew, wasn’t all that he appeared to be.

Popular radio humorist Tom Bodett once again journeys to the End of the Road and introduces listeners to some of the colorful inhabitants of the remote Alaskan town.

When a lonely pensioner finds an abandoned baby on her doorstep, she has no idea that the child is the illegitimate offspring of a member of a royal family. But the secret is soon out. The authorities and the press pull out all the stops to find the missing child - but so does Charles, a violent man with his own agenda who, it soon becomes clear, will stop at nothing.

Magdaline Spencer es una joven con una dura vida a la espalda: una madre que falleció prematuramente y un padre alcoholizado que, para pagar sus propias deudas, la vendió al mejor postor. Jessie Fitzpatrik, Jess, un ángel que renuncia a sus alas para ayudarla, llega para salvarla, aunque eso implique no volver a verla.

This classic novel and winner of the Pulitzer Prize tells the story of an Italian-American major in World War II who wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople when he searches for a replacement for the 700-year-old town bell that had been melted down for bullets by the fascists. Although stituated during one of the most devastating experiences in human history, John Hersey's story speaks with unflinching patriotism and humanity.

A brief, lyrical novel with a powerful emotional charge, Rules for Old Men Waiting is about three wars of the twentieth century and an ever-deepening marriage. In a house on the Cape “older than the Republic,” Robert MacIver, a historian who long ago played rugby for Scotland, creates a list of rules by which to live out his last days. The most important rule, to “tell a story to its end,” spurs the old Scot on to invent a strange and gripping tale of men in the trenches of the First World War.

Az évek múlnak, a zöldfülű Charlie a Vadnyugat tapasztalt hőse lett, akit mindenki Old Shatterhand-ként ismer. A regényfolyam harmadik részében a lángoló prérin, ostromlott hegyi sziklaváron és perzselő sivatagon át ellenséges indiánok táboráig lovagol, védelmezve az ártatlanokat és üldözve a gonosztevőket. A kalandok során mellette küzd testvére, Winnetou, az apacs nemzet főnöke, s új barátai: Sans-ear, a híres félfülű vadász és a Vadnyugat másik legendás 'öregje': Old Firehand.

Randy could taste the cool foggy air, and he knew right then that he shouldn't be appraising houses at midnight. Considering he had never been to this area before, he approach this old house cautiously. But before he was able to approach the house he was greeted by an unexpected guest. When the guests suddenly get stabbed in the back, things go a little haywire for Randy.

For Valentine Denning, peace is elusive, as she tries to reconcile her love of photography with the perils of her career, not to mention the claims on her heart. From war in Kosovo to tracking down a celebrity artist in Mexico, Val can't ease her sense of searching for something, a sense that will lead her to retrace paths she thought were left behind.

Jenny is on the way to the Halloween party of the season. School is out and all her friends will be there, including her football player boyfriend, who she plans on getting down and dirty with for the very first time - her very first time! Things don't go exactly as planned for her once she gets to the house, though. At first it seems dark and creepy, but not long after she gets there a party does seem to be going on. Just not the party Jenny thought it was going to be. Jenny is overcome with lust when two strange, unidentified men in masks ravage her in an upstairs bedroom.

The colorful cast of characters in End of the Road, Alaska, congregate around the coffeepot at the Big Garage to share wit and wisdom.

Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. AN OLD STAGE-COACHING HOUSE: Before the waitress had shut the door, I had forgotten how many stage-coaches she said used to change horses in the town every day. But it was of little moment; any high number would do as well as another.