Ficción - Literatura en otros idiomas

"I'm just a girl, standing in front of her phone, asking her landlord to come for dinner."Cute and fun Cordelia is history. From now on, I'm serious and focused CJ Thompson. No more snappy one-liners....

An old man dies, and with him goes "the last hope of the mad and desperate" in Paris. Alexander Reisden, ex-madman, refuses to be mad or desperate anymore. He intends to live a normal life. But he takes...

Art isn't priceless when you're a sitting duck!The storage auction world is not always an exciting one. Yet life is anything but boring for Maddy as trouble and mayhem have a way of finding her. Follow...

There are things in the dark corners of the world which are better left unseen. Shadowy imprints of people and objects long forgotten, rubbing against the fabric of our reality, ready to stab through...

Shopgirl. Telephone operator. Lady's companion. Smashingly good secretary. All jobs that Dorothy Lundegaard possesses the skills to excel at. And even at the tail end of the Great Depression in St. Paul,...

Shopgirl. Telephone operator. Lady's companion. Smashingly good secretary. All jobs that Dorothy Lundegaard possesses the skills to excel at. And even at the tail end of the Great Depression in St. Paul,...

Dorothy Lundegaard helps her brother John run Lundegaard Investigations, a business their father ran from his retirement from the St. Paul, Minnesota, police force until his death in 1935. The business...

Sometimes you have to go off-script to find your true role in life ... Carrie Anderson has always put others first, following the path that was expected of her over her own desires. But when she finds...

Patience Carruthers is a bluestocking with no interest in the fleeting uncertainty of love. Her passion is for books, knowledge, and the improvement of the world. When she learns of Mrs. Oliver's work,...

Welcome to the captivating debut novel by the talented B.C. Charles—Starfall. This fast-paced, high-energy story introduces a rich tapestry of complex characters and sets the stage for an unfolding epic,...

"A Ratchet City Hustler's Unexpected Halloween Surprise" is a gripping urban tale of secrets, survival, and redemption. Treylon Taylor has been separated from Kiara Kelly for five years, but his life...

In the not-too distant future, A191, a Codex with artificial intelligence, feels like a misfit in Paradise, a walled city in the middle of an endless desert where humans imprisoned his race long ago....

An accidental female pugilist…Lady Annette Page is twenty-four and ready to climb onto the shelf. Her first Season was a disaster after a duke's son pinched her by the punchbowl, and she walloped him...

One rejected destiny. Two lives magically bound in blood. A quest for freedom that will topple a kingdom. Audrey has long endured the cruelty of her father, the Duke of La'Angi. Infamous for his brutal...

Joy Spencer is an overprotective mother to seven-year-old Chantal, who lives with cerebral palsy. They're on the Christmas train to raise money for the Cerebral Palsy Association. She's prepared to do...

A sweeping story of love and war, prejudice and acceptance...Tirren, heir to the ruler of Thiery, has raised his half-Elven son in a land that hates and fears the Elves, but his son's struggle for acceptance...

Cato Living in a small town where everyone knows my name is one thing. Living in a small town where everyone knows my name and the names of all my family members going back a century, is another. But...

Following the magical trails of missing books, Inric's quest has brought both companions and complications to the Great Library. Chief among the complications is the growing evidence that the Library...

Smoke and MirrorsIn the aftermath of their fiery clash, an uneasy truce forged between Sophia's Hunters and the Dwellers of Rome allowed life to resume its relatively untroubled rhythm... almost…… but...

When Jo Leicester gets a call from her friend Kirsty, she is relieved to be offered some gardening work. She isn't so relieved to discover it is for Kirsty's formidable father, ex-Prime Minister Edward...

An eminent scientist is pushed into the path of an oncoming train at King's Cross Station. When asked, few if any of his university colleagues actually liked the man. One of his former university colleagues...

Australia, 1937. Frieda, with her four children, left the city to follow her husband, Jack, to Cloncurry, a small town in Western Queensland, unaware of the tragedy and sorrow that lay ahead. Stability...

The Williams family have been living on the hulks, derelict warships moored alongside Sheerness dockyard, homes for the dockyard workers and their families. Still grieving for her mother, Emily is determined...

It is 2046, a year since Vancouver was devastated by an earthquake and tsunami. Taylor West, Carlie Fleming, Mai-Li Wong, and Willie Arbuckle, four young adults, and three children, twin brothers Rusty...

Tom Thomson, one of the painters belonging to the Canadian Group of Seven, disappeared on Canoe Lake in 1917. His death was confirmed eight days later when his body was recovered. Did he commit suicide...

When Joyce is born in the East India Company's Madras Presidency, her bad mother rejects her but her father, an earl's youngest son, adores her. As a child Joyce is afraid of her mother. Only time will...

The Aesir, the Norse Gods, enjoyed watching over Midgard, the realm of humans, who provided them with curiosities and entertainment. Odin, the All-Father, took a vested interest in his Nordic believers,...

Why I was really late for school, the perfect cup of tea, and more in this collection of seven flash fiction stories by Melissa Gijsbers.Each story features a colour of the rainbow - red, orange, yellow,...

Drop dead gorgeous, strong male lead Garrett Kavanagh has never met his biological father. He is the son born of his mother's adulterous affair while married to Bart Kavenagh, a ruthless man who hated...

Deep in the New Zealand bush, where the past holds sway over the present, army sergeant Taine McKenna is about to face a terror that defies time itself.As McKenna leads his squad into the treacherous...