Catálogo de libros: Ficción moderna y contemporánea

143629 Catálogo de libros: Ficción moderna y contemporánea

Libros Eliminar filtro Inglés Eliminar filtro Ficción y temas afines Eliminar filtro Ficción moderna y contemporánea Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • The Songs of Angels
    G.A. Weston / G.AWeston
    The nature of man appears to be on a downward spiral. Although a few true souls filter into Heaven, the borders of Hell are rapidly expanding to accomodate the remainder, and God stands by with indifference, watching the crisis unfold. When certain Angels begin to express their distress, God has to act, and Heaven has to decide whether it is wise to interfere once more in the m...
    Disponible

    27,92 €

  • Campus Epidemic
    Monica Chisiwa
    David is HIV positive. He gets recruited at Rickman College for a nursing course. With his ravishing good looks he has no trouble bedding any woman he desires. He indulges in a number of unprotected sex sessions with unsuspecting fellow students until he falls in love with Mischa. A former friend knows about his past and pressures him to confess and be responsible, but he m...
    Disponible

    14,02 €

  • House of Killers
    Tony Dewayne Johnson
    During the late 1980’s, the city of New Orleans became plagued by a drug epidemic that took hold of nearly every major city in the United States, crack cocaine. The ninth ward section of New Orleans was by no means spared. The drug affected both young and old, and propelled the city to the infamous title of ’murder capitol of the world’. House of Killers delves into a world whe...
    Disponible

    17,72 €

  • The Literary World of Ronald Walter Klimmek
    Ronald Walter Klimmek
    Thank you for taking the time to read my stories. I can assure you that reading my works of Art as I call them will provide you with an appreciation for literature and an even deeper one if you already enjoy reading stories and poems. I had an instructor in college who told us that if are to write well, we should write on topics of which we are an authority on. We were also tol...
    Disponible

    18,18 €

  • The Song of the Golden Cocks
    Margaret Donnelly / Trafford Publishing
    Margaret Donnelly delights us with her talent as a writer and social researcher, as she explains the origins of the Latin American death squads. Reality and fiction come together when former SS experts join the military establishment of Argentina after World War II.The Song of the Golden Cocks is a novel that brings together secret and true events that reflect voices of the La...
    Disponible

    25,88 €

  • The Demon’s Trial
    J. C. Costa
    The Demon’s Trial is a psychological novel with an autobiographical touch that aims to awaken people to the reality of how we treat the world and whoever is in it. Written in the form of a diary, it tells the story of an animal welfare campaigner working for a British charity. He considers himself a scientist, somebody that acts more with his head than with his heart. However, ...
    Disponible

    21,76 €

  • No Laughing Matter
    Irv Sternberg
    Comedy meets murder in the Mile High cityAging comic and widower Izzy Brand finds a new reason to face his empty life when his closest friend and owner of a comedy club dies after a mugging in a Denver alley. Izzy’s search for the killer leads him into an underworld of white collar crime, commercial greed, and politics, as well as troubled street people and runaway teens, all ...
    Disponible

    16,28 €

  • The Telemachia
    Michael Barnes Selvin
    To return to his hereditary throne on Ithaca, Telemachus, son of Odysseus and Penelope, musters the cleverness of his father and the wisdom of his mother as he navigates the treacherous waters of the War of the Families. More devastating than the Trojan War, this conflict pits the two greatest clans in ancient Greece: the Pelopides and Heraclides. It is the last gasp of a faili...
    Disponible

    32,30 €

  • The Long Pink Line
    J. Kelly Poorman / JKelly Poorman
    Being in the wrong place at the wrong time could get you killed. There is murder, intrigue, and unexpected love with the background of Rose Pedal Parade float building. Catch a glimpse behind all the hours of preparation to bring these beautiful creations to nearly one billion people worldwide. But not all is a bed of roses. Vice President-Elect, Mitzi Marshall, had pissed off ...
    Disponible

    6,86 €

  • Surfing After Nationals
    Penelope Dyan
    ’Surfing After Nationals’ by Penelope Dyan is the seventh book in the Surfer Girl Book Series, the story of a girl named Summer who leads an ordinary, yet extraordinary life as she travels the world swimming and surfing and fulfilling her legacy. The Open Water Nationals are over until next year, but Summer’s excitement is is just beginning. Summer travels to London and swims i...
    Disponible

    27,08 €

  • Comes the Hunter
    James Tannehill
    ...
    Disponible

    21,90 €

  • The Duffer
    Bob Kocher
    Stressed by the strain of work and an irreconcilable marriage, a talented young man is drawn to more desirable aspects of life -- attractive women and golf-gambling addiction. ...
    Disponible

    22,94 €

  • Stratagem
    Jacques Vallee
    Two high-tech executives from Silicon Valley witness unexplained phenomena while on vacation in Brazil. They become the targets of a classified project ready to kill them to capture their data. ...
    Disponible

    35,96 €

  • THE LITERARY WORKS OF RANGANATHAN MAGADI
    Ranganathan Magadi
    ’THE LITERARY WORKS OF RANGANATHAN MAGADI’ cantains four works namely, 1 REWRITING FATE-A NOVEL 2 TWILIGHT ZONE- AN ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES 3 INDIA RISES IN THE WEST-BIOGRAPHIES 4 AN ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY. ...
    Disponible

    75,82 €

  • Pieces to the Puzzle
    Pierce Kelley
    (None) ...
    Disponible

    11,06 €

  • Don’t Depend on God
    Janice Tarbox
    DON’T DEPEND ON GOD     Janice TarboxI’ve written hundreds of short stories. But then - I didn’t start until I was sixty.  I wrote one poem. This is that poem.What Have I To Give To You?Bouquets of stars to spread on your bedSabers of moonbeams crossed over your headPrisms of silhouettes to dance into viewOceans of laughter is your dueWarmness and softness wherever you roamA ho...
    Disponible

    6,48 €

  • The Insatiable Man
    Adam Philip Stern
    The Insatiable Man is the story of a college student suffering through a lingering discontent which he cannot seem to shake. The protagonist, Matt Quibley, arrives at the conclusion that the core of his unhappiness stems from his evolutionary predisposition for polygamy. Despite being in a relationship with a seemingly perfect girl, he cannot overcome his instinctual belief tha...
    Disponible

    7,89 €

  • Cologne No. 10 for Men
    Richard Morris
    A soldier in Vietnam invents a uniquely absurd solution to the horrors of war. A relatively naïve Wilfred Carmenghetti comes to the Far East to outmaneuver the draft and save the Western world, but when he lands at the First Battalion to join an air-mobile platoon in the 13th Cavalry, the young Army lieutenant is greeted with a profane censure of communism and the offer of a $...
    Disponible

    11,80 €

  • Guarded Moments
    William J Sunke
    HE SENTENCED HIMSELF TO PRISON AS A CORRECTIONAL OFFICERThe harrowing journey of a boy raised by a brutal criminal father who sentenced himself to prison as a correctional officer rather than be sent there as an inmate.Guarded Moments is an unblinking descent into the solitary confinement of one man’s heart Seeing the terror in the eyes of a child visiting his father a...
    Disponible

    12,79 €

  • Rodney
    Dick Baldwin
    Teenager Rod Rodoggio is the sexiest man on earth. Being accosted by beautiful women and having clothes ripped from his body in pure sexual frenzy is a tribulation beyond belief. Arousing every woman who sets eyes on him may seem like heaven, but in reality, Rod is buckling under the responsibility. Above all, he yearns to consummate his lust for buxom beauty, Betty Bunz, but h...
    Disponible

    14,05 €

  • Portrait of Her
    Ellen P. Bloomenstein / Ellen PBloomenstein
    My heart is broken in two. Gosh, I really never knew it could be so finite or just this definitive. I never knew a slice could be so even-or a paring knife this sharp.They say, 'Out of sight, out of mind.' They say, 'Friendship is the only rose without a thorn.' They say, 'It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.' And they say: 'Happiness is two scoop...
    Disponible

    15,58 €

  • Bentham’s Theory of Fictions
    C.K. Ogden
    This is Volume VI of eight in a series on the Philosophy of Mind and Language. Originally published in 1932. Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume - to his five great predecessors Bentham acknowledges his debt. It is the purpose of the present volume to give some indication of the debt which future generations may acknowledge to Jeremy Bentham, when he has taken his place as si...
    Disponible

    93,20 €

  • Il Blaterone - diario antologico semiserio di un ex studente
    Stefano Pelloni
    Ore 12,45. Mancano pochi minuti al suono della campanella. Si sente un rombo lontano, seguito da urla. Appena il trillo ha inizio il rombo aumenta spaventosamente e dopo pochi istanti una porta si spalanca ed un gruppo di forsennati si lancia lungo il corridoio urlando come selvaggi; classe VA 1986/87. Questo è uno dei tanti eventi che sono descritti nel Blaterone dove uno stud...
    Disponible

    20,17 €

  • Up in Suzie’s Room
    M. G. Coleman / MGColeman
    July 13th 1985 - Live Aid - A day everyone can remember; the day when the world sang as one - the day Andy Carter murdered his ’glossy mag’ perfect girlfriend, Angel. Andy and Mike have been best friends since childhood and when Mike’s mum inherits the ’Dirty Money’ from her wayward brother they take full advantage; absorbing themselves in a hedonistic, playboy lifestyle, ignor...
    Disponible

    28,37 €

  • Seven-O Echo
    Jonathan Richards
    Theresa Robbins is a New York cop, single mother and Brooklynite. These are three non-consecutive days in May and the events and thoughts that fill them.Life as a street cop is anything but dull. There’s that which makes you laugh, that which beggars belief and that which you wish you never saw. ...
    Disponible

    9,18 €

  • Turbulence
    Jamilah Kolocotronis
    Brad Adams appears to have it all. A devoted wife. Two intelligent sons. A large house in the suburbs. And a successful career. But the death of his mother in a plane crash disturbs his tranquil existence. His brothers are able to mourn and get on with their lives, but Brad finds he cannot put his grief behind him. Instead he enters a world of panic and nightmares. A...
    Disponible

    22,72 €

  • Raven in the Forest of Illusion
    Leah SkyBird
    Is it possible to be born a witch and not know it? It was during a visit from her brother-in-law, Brandt, that Raven Red Wing begins to wonder if this can be so. It has long been rumored that women of past generations of her family had been blamed for witching practices. True, they were herbalists, as is Raven herself, and oft-timer herbalists have been accused of alchemy a...
    Disponible

    29,20 €

  • Shadow of the Gun
    Elliot Graves
    Dante Branson’s life is a perilous tightrope walk between the light that shines on a world of virtue and promise and the darkness that constantly calls out to his reckless and unruly nature. His journey is beset on all sides by an assortment of individuals hoping to sway him in one direction or the other. But when the unthinkable happens it will be left up to Dante alone to dec...
    Disponible

    28,45 €

  • Gone and Back
    Mike Robertson
    Paul Waite is a hopelessly middle aged man with two sons, a heart condition and a conventional disposition. He unexpectedly loses his wife of 20 years to a traffic accident. Gone and Back follows Mr. Waite as he makes his farewell to her. In finalizing her affairs after she is gone, Paul comes across a startling discovery, a clue to a mystery regarding his wife that he is deter...
    Disponible

    22,88 €

  • Shadow of the Gun
    Elliot Graves
    Dante Branson’s life is a perilous tightrope walk between the light that shines on a world of virtue and promise and the darkness that constantly calls out to his reckless and unruly nature. His journey is beset on all sides by an assortment of individuals hoping to sway him in one direction or the other. But when the unthinkable happens it will be left up to Dante alone to dec...
    Disponible

    17,83 €