Ficción: características especiales

Ficción y temas afines / Ficción: características especiales (15135)

Libros Eliminar filtro Ficción y temas afines Eliminar filtro Ficción: características especiales Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • The Book of Ten
    Paul Cotterell
    A Collection of Short Stories A man at a fete is kidnapped… A demon is trapped in a washroom… A travel agency deals in time travel… A man is befriended by bees… The Book of Ten is a collection of fifty short stories, loosely linked by the theme of quirky thrillers with a twist. A man tries to give away money on a train… A cat befriends a young woman in a chemists sh...
    Disponible

    11,44 €

  • TALES FROM THE FUR SIDE
    Peter Benn
    Revealed! The secret lives of cats - an entertaining collection of bite-size stories as told by the cats themselves. Mischief. Mystery. History. Heroism. Revenge and Reflection - this is life as lived on the fur side, beyond the prying eyes of humans – where wisdom, adventure and love mix abundantly with curiosity, intrigue and exotic locations. Visit Ancient Egypt, foil a cine...
    Disponible

    10,25 €

  • Death of the Snake Catcher
    Ak Welsapar / Lois Kapila / Youssef Azemoun
    This book features people from one of the most closed countries of today's world, where the passage of time resembles the passage of a caravan through the waterless desert. This world has been recreated by a true-born son of that mysterious country, a Turkmen who, at the will of fate, has now  been living for a quarter of a century in snowy Scandinavia. Is that not why two ...
    Disponible

    20,58 €

  • SMOKE
    Brazos Highwayman
    Brazos has frequently and consistently failed in his efforts to take life seriously.  Since resigning from his 30 year stint at Texas A&M he has completely given up on that ill-conceived objective.  Smoke is his latest effort consistent with the described failure.  These stories reflect a self-depreciating brand of humor that highlights his ability to generate or become involve...
    Disponible

    17,12 €

  • Sea Pictures
    Janis Spehr
    Rebellious teenager Phillip is sent to live with Kate, who raised him as a child when his mother Venice was in thrall to heroin. Set in coastal Victoria and then in Paris, Sea Pictures charts Phillip’s coming of age as well as Kate’s life in her local community and her relationship with the glamorous and volatile Venice. ...
    Disponible

    15,12 €

  • AMERICAN INNOVATIONS
    RIVKA GALCHEN
    ...
    Disponible

    15,90 €

  • Harry Danced Divinely
    Marian D. Schwartz
    There is a myth that the 1950s were a simple time.Family life on Giffort Street was never simple.The Whittakers are stunned when their trusted nanny, Meddie, suddenly leaves without giving notice. Meddie always knows everything before everyone else. What does she know that she isn’t willing to tell them?The trouble between Stan and Adele Heussler might have started when Adele b...
    Disponible

    12,66 €

  • Dubliners
    James Joyce
    Unabridged value reproduction of Dubliners by James Joyce is the 1914 classic written during the heyday of Irish nationalism. Every vignette stands alone, yet every vignette is part of the same tapestry, producing both a personal and profound effect for the reader.Shocking for his time because of its realism, today Dubliners is a portal back to the gritty reality of the Irish e...
    Disponible

    17,61 €

  • Keep Running
    Jane Carmody
    They were all running. Running away from or to something. Something as brutal as rejection, lost love or perhaps obsession.  For some it was a matter of running out of time, knowledge, faith or self-belief. But for all, the tender, the bruised, the brash, the feisty, it was the constant urgency to endure, to keep going, to squeeze in moments of reflection into tiny matchbox siz...
    Disponible

    13,80 €

  • [untitled] issue seven
    Les Zigiomanis
    The short story has become an unappreciated commodity in Australian publishing. Many existing journals are compilations of nonfiction, poetry, and a smattering of literary fiction. [untitled] is an annual anthology of prose which looks at promoting and giving exposure to the work of emerging writers, and also providing an avenue for mainstream and popular fiction. Every issue...
    Disponible

    16,66 €

  • Curious Connections
    Karen Sylvia Rockwell
    In this collection of flash fiction pieces Rockwell delivers us into the various ways that people both connect and disconnect in our modern world. Rockwell tackles themes of communication, love, sexuality, identity, and even survival with characters ranging in age and life experience. From cellphone conversations to shared moments with a classic song, these pieces are vignettes...
    Disponible

    8,12 €

  • The Ghost of Nackawick Portage
    George Frederick Clarke
    George Frederick Clarke was a born storyteller. He was once New Brunswick’s best-known writer. His short stories contain some of his best writing, but they have been unavailable since they were published in magazines between 1908 and 1938.  The Ghost of Nackawick Portage brings Clarke’s stories together for the first time along with the original illustrations. The evocative il...
    Disponible

    27,79 €

  • Losing Found Things
    Brett Garcia Rose
    'We're all broken, and the scars we trade are all that remain of our fragile, once complex lives.' Losing Found Things is the raw, unforgettable debut collection of fifteen short stories from award-winning writer and novelist Brett Garcia Rose, who takes readers past what lies on the surface and into the darkest corners of human experience. A young man boards a cruise ship pl...
    Disponible

    7,09 €

  • El corazón delator y otros relatos - The Tell-tale Heart and Other Stories
    Edgar Allan Poe
    Locura, misterio y muerte: cuatro cuentos inolvidables del maestro del terror gótico.El corazón delator y otros relatos reúne cuatro impactantes relatos de Edgar Allan Poe que muestran su maestría en el horror psicológico, el misterio y el suspenso gótico. Esta colección breve pero poderosa es perfecta para amantes del terror clásico, la ficción oscura y los thrillers literario...
    Disponible

    11,96 €

  • ANTOLOGÍA «RELATO 48» (2025)
    Myriam Roth
    ¿Qué tienen en común un jubilado en guerra con el arte moderno, una tienda que nunca cierra y un asesino que intenta dejar atrás su oficio? Esta antología reúne cuarenta y ocho relatos breves que exploran lo absurdo, lo cotidiano, lo inquietante y lo conmovedor con una mirada aguda y sorprendente. Aquí caben el humor negro, la melancolía, el surrealismo y la crítica social, tod...
    Disponible

    15,00 €

  • Other Sides
    Simon Strantzas
    In Other Sides, Strantzas invites you to explore the eerie fringes of reality, where the familiar twists into the unexplainable. A hungry house that demands a price from its occupants. A boy who may have glimpsed a ghost-or something far worse. A researcher journeys to a remote village in search of the strange herbaceous anomaly called the Witch’s Clutch, only to discover folkl...
    Disponible

    16,80 €

  • HISTORIAS DE MESA CAMILLA
    Loly Santana Lara
    ¿Te has preguntado alguna vez cómo era amar, luchar o simplemente vivir siendo mujer en la posguerra española? Este libro te lo cuenta. Pero no desde los grandes nombres ni los salones oficiales. Aquí la historia se escribe al calor de la lumbre, con pan duro, secretos guardados a voces y lágrimas que nadie se atrevía a nombrar. Historias de mesa camilla es un mosaico de relato...
    Disponible

    10,00 €

  • Emocionalismo
    Ángeles Córdoba Tordesillas
    «Emocionalismo» es la etiqueta que mejor define mi estilo, tanto literario como artístico, pues la emoción es un estado recurrente en mí, desde el cual siento la necesidad de crear, casi de forma compulsiva.La mente es una “máquina de producir pensamientos y deseos”, pero el ser humano no es solo racional, sino que es además una “máquina de sentir”.Cada uno tenemos una determin...
    Disponible

    19,91 €

  • Oportunidades
    Andrés Tacsir
    En contraste con la visión idealizada de lo que significa emigrar a los países ricos, los relatos que componen Oportunidades nos recuerdan ciertos aspectos de la experiencia de vivir afuera que muchas veces se los disimula, oculta o, directamente, se los hace desaparecer del discurso. Como muestran estos diez relatos, la inmigración da oportunidades, pero también es una imparab...
    Disponible

    8,84 €

  • Space Lizards of Canada
    R.M. Kozan
    From the folks at Fresh Blue Ink, a new set of satiric tales (tails?) that take aim at current political upheaval and explore Canadian angst in our uncertain times.How is everything in Canada these days? Are we feeling secure, or do we perceive lizard eyes upon us?From the back cover of Space Lizards of Canada:Fifteen fantastic tales of an insidious invasion!Each story reveals ...
    Disponible

    12,26 €

  • Banjo Grease
    Dennis Must
    Intriguing, Interlocking Stories ...
    Disponible

    28,06 €

  • Short Stories And Tall Tales
    Chuck Suave
    In a world of sprawling novels and epic sagas, this short story collection dares to offer you something different-a breath of fresh literary air, a chance to travel through stories that pack a punch without overstaying their welcome.It’s a collection of fleeting adventures, all carefully crafted to be devoured in under fifteen minutes. Meet a werewolf who wears his sadness like...
    Disponible

    14,55 €

  • Whispers in the Wind
    M. K. McCollom
    Faced with the knowledge that her time is running out, Amelia has one wish: to spend her final days surrounded by her family in the cabin where so many of their cherished memories were made. Her children, in-laws, and grandchildren come together for one weekend of connection, laughter, and reflection.In the peaceful embrace of the woods, the family grapples with old tensions an...
    Disponible

    5,78 €

  • Para cuando decidas volver
    Sandra Faura
    «Tarde o temprano, los tres llaman a tu puerta: pasado, presente y futuro. Todos exigen su parte. No se puede olvidar ni lo que uno ha vivido ni lo que uno ha hecho, hay que aprender a vivir con ello. Aunque a menudo es más sencillo huir que enfrentarnos a nuestros fantasmas».¿Cómo seguir adelante cuando bajo tu cama se esconde un fantasma que no te deja dormir?Para cuando deci...
    Disponible

    16,00 €

  • Leyendas a los pies de Almanzor
    José Antonio Tiemblo García
    José Antonio y yo nos teníamos que encontrar. Estaba escrito en algún lugar del Universo.Todo empieza a fraguarse cuando, en aquel lejano año de 1975, acampé unos días con mi mujer y mis dos hijos pequeños al pie de la Garganta de Tejea.Por allí apareció Eusebio Garro, de los Moreta que nombra José Antonio en una de las historias.Al decirle que vivíamos en Madrid pero que querí...
    Disponible

    12,00 €

  • X Certamen de Narrativa Allende Sierra
    Varios Autores
    El jurado del Certamen Allende Sierra tiene el gusto de presentarles los diez relatos seleccionados en la décima edición del concurso. Este año se han presentado a competición cuarenta y cinco relatos, de temática heterogénea y variada. Los textos finalistas han sido escogidos de entre un abanico de propuestas de gran calidad e ingenio. Los relatos podemos encuadrarlos en los s...
    Disponible

    12,00 €

  • PARES Y NONES
    Lozano Rivera, Bryan Steven
    Prepárate para sentir, reír, llorar y querer un poquito más. Pares y nones no es solo un libro, es una montaña rusa emocional con las puertas abiertas de par en par. ¿Te subes? Entre versos atrevidos, notas en el espejo, besos con sentido y domingos con calcetines, esta colección de relatos breves, cartas sin dirección y pensamientos sin filtro te va a agarrar del corazón (y no...
    Disponible

    10,00 €

  • Amores Misterios y Terrores
    Mario Antonio Cadena Trejo
    ¿Y si lo más aterrador no viene de la oscuridad, sino del corazón humano?Amores, misterios y terrores reúne una serie de cuentos que desvelan lo extraordinario en la vida cotidiana. En cada historia, el amor, la pérdida, el deseo y el miedo se entrelazan con lo inesperado, llevando al lector a un terreno donde lo emocional se convierte en una experiencia inquietante.Mario Anton...
    Disponible

    23,92 €

  • 13 КОРОТКИХ РАССКАЗОВ
    Cathy McGough
    Сделай шаг в сборник канадского автора CATHY MCGOUGH, где каждая короткая история перенесет тебя в мир новых персонажей и жанров:Первый рассказ Вино из одуванчиков стал финалистом конкурса Readers’ Favourite 2019 года в жанре Short Story/Novela и получил FIVE STARS от Readers Favourite. Это флешбэк в 1967 год о маленькой девочке с целью, живущей в небольшом канадском городке.Вт...
    Disponible

    30,09 €

  • It Might Have Been
    A. K. Frailey
    Enjoy the drama and excitement of a novel experience in compact short stories-contemporary lives moving through dark trials to light and hope.A collection of contemporary short stories involving families, friends, and distant relations. It is the hazards of daily life that test the soul. Nobility, bravery, decency, kindness, and mercy are the shafts of light that pierce the dar...
    Disponible

    23,02 €