Lone Cone Library

Un insólito alarde de osadía narrativa. -- Pronto adivina el lector que esa travesía no es más que una excusa, o uno de los muchos hilos con los que está tejida esta trama. Construida según el modelo del relato-dentro-del-relato, Travesía del horizonte añade a la aventura marítima de Kerrigan otras historias y personajes no menos novelescos, en deliberada parodia de ciertos maestros del género que van desde Joseph Conrad hasta Henry James...

Presenting the idea of wilderness as a sustained metaphor for grief, this compassionate guide explores the unique responses inherent to the grief felt by those who have experienced the suicide of a loved one and offers information about coping with such a profound loss. Likening the death of a loved one to the experience of being wrenched from normal life and dropped down in the middle of nowhere, the handbook employs 10 touchstones, or trail markers,...

This companion to The Girl on Train includes: • Summary of the book• Character Analysis• A Discussion on Themes • And much more!

Joe Abercrombie, jove promesa de la literatura fantàstica, inicia amb aquesta addictiva novel·la la nova i emocionant trilogia «El mar Trencat» -- -- Després d'una terrible traïció ordida pels seus éssers estimats, en Iarvi es trobarà de sobte tot sol en un món governat per la força física i els cors freds. Incapaç de dur una armadura o d'aixecar una destral, haurà d'afilar i aguditzar la seva intel·ligència. Però una estranya germandat...

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Even if you save the world, there’s always some evil jerk you still have to deal with. That’s what our Denver Cereal friends discover when they arrived at the Fire of Hell. Levi Johanssen is, finally, and summarily dealt with by Abi.At the same time, Ivan moves to Paris where he finds Sissy thriving in the ballet world as well as personally. They begin to a new phase of their life together.Blane and Nelson begin to explore a relationship together....

A reimagining of the early years of Catherine the Great traces the story of a naive German duchess as observed by young Barbara, a servant who watches her mistress's elevation and rises to become one of Russia's most clever royal spies.

Although P.J. and his friends refuse to let Donna and Honey Bunny go camping with them because "camping is not for girls", the girls follow and get proof that camping is hard work even for boys.

"The eerie, suspenseful debut novel -- hailed as "an amazing piece of fiction" by Stephen King -- that is taking the world by storm. When the remains of a young child are discovered during a winter storm on a stretch of the bleak Lancashire coastline known as the Loney, a man named Smith is forced to confront the terrifying and mysterious events that occurred forty years earlier when he visited the place as a boy. At that time, his devoutly Catholic...

When night fell on the lawless streets of old San Francisco, Matthew Covington-;seemingly just another wealthy society idler-;became the mysterious crime-fighter known as the Black Bandit. Nothing could tempt him to reveal his secret identity, until the English gentleman met Georgia Waterhouse, whose pseudonymous newspaper accounts had made his daring exploits famous. He was coming to care deeply for this woman, who shared his passionate devotion...