Showing results for "Familiar" in Genre Fiction

Elisa Brown is driving back from her annual, somber visit to her son Silas’s grave when something changes. Actually, everything changes: her body is more voluptuous; she’s wearing different clothes and driving a new car. When she arrives home, her life is familiar - but different. There is her house, her husband. But in the world she now inhabits, Silas is no longer dead, and his brother is disturbingly changed.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was one of the major figures of 19th-century supernaturalism. He helped move supernaturalist fiction away from the gothic's emphasis on external sources of terror and toward a focus on the effects of terror, thus helping to create the psychological basis for supernaturalist and horror literature that continues today. "The Familiar" is one of his most terrifying tales.

Lillian Smith leads an unexceptional life, writing obituaries and killing time with her inattentive husband and disconnected son. Then she meets David, a handsome stranger, in a coffee shop. Lured into an affair, she invents a new persona, one without strings, deadlines, or brooding husbands. Lillian has never felt so reckless, unpredictable, or wanted. But as her affair with David intensifies, she withdraws from everything that’s real, even her closest friend.

Contains volumes one and two of Reincarnated as a Familiar. A young teacher finds herself reborn with only fuzzy, damaged memories of her past life. Even worse, she's stuck in the body of a cat and can't remember her own name. Summoned by a young mage girl named Lesti, she takes up the name Astria and becomes the girl's familiar.

In this “brilliant” (Essence) sequel to The Color Purple, Alice Walker weaves an intricate, rich tapestry of interrelated lives. Celie and Shug from The Color Purple subtly shadow the lives of the dozens of astonishing characters in The Temple of My Familiar, all of whom are dealing in some...

Since Becca Wall’s mother was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s, every day Becca loses a little more of the loving, caring mother who would do anything for her only daughter. But when one day Nancy Wall confesses that Becca is not her child, Becca's world falls apart. Becca tells herself that the words are just a cruel symptom of Nancy’s illness; after all, she has her birth certificate, and pictures of herself as a newborn along with her Mom, Dad and older brother, Danny.

"Neste livro, lugares, fatos e pessoas são reais. Não inventei nada", escreve Natalia Ginzburg sobre sua obra mais célebre, Léxico familiar, de 1963. Nos anos 1930, como consequência da criação de leis raciais na Europa, inúmeras famílias foram obrigadas a deixar seu lar, tornando-se apátridas ou sendo literalmente destroçadas pela guerra que se seguiu. É nesse cenário que se inscrevem as memórias de Ginzburg. Nelas, o vocabulário afetivo de um clã de judeus antifascistas se contrapõe a um mundo sombrio, atravessado pelo autoritarismo.

"Cada familia es un catálogo de las atrocidades de la historia. Y de sus sueños. Cada familia decide la extensión de su memoria: las ramas marchitas de su árbol genealógico, las raíces desaparecidas, la vida completa del sobrino o del tatarabuelo sucinta en tres cuartillas, las réplicas...

Numa pequena cidade universitária da Suécia, dois policiais atendem um chamado e se deparam com uma cena aterrorizante: um casal sem vida dentro da própria casa em um bairro pacato. Novo thriller do autor de Uma família quase perfeita, que deu origem à série da Netflix. Steven e Regina Rytter são um casal abastado, vivem em uma mansão deslumbrante e aparentam uma vida perfeita. Mas há algo fora do comum: a esposa não sai de casa há meses, tomada por uma grave e misteriosa doença.

El último regalo de una autora inolvidable. Demonios familiares es una historia de amor y culpabilidad, de traiciones y amistad, al más puro estilo de la autora. Transcurre en una pequeña ciudad interior española en 1936, con una protagonista femenina que pronto será inolvidable.

Psychologist and criminologist Dr. Gretchen White is a specialist in antisocial personality disorders and violent crimes. She’s helped solve enough prominent cases for detective Patrick Shaughnessy that her own history is often overlooked: Gretchen is an admitted sociopath once suspected of killing her aunt. Shaughnessy still thinks Gretchen got away with murder. It’s not going to happen again.

On the outskirts of a town too tired for its own happenings, the boys were found dead inside a tent. Three years later, their fathers have disappeared too. Ruth Fenn's son was the boy they blamed. For three years, Ruth has accepted her lot as pariah, focusing on her ailing mother and the children left in her care by the struggling single parents of North Falls, Vermont. But now the additional loss of her husband is too much to bear. As she edges closer to the truth, she begins to uncover some secrets that are better left buried.

After failing to save the enslaved magical creatures, Lesti and Astria redouble their training efforts. Now, joined by Aurelia and Fang, they continue to unlock new ways of using magic. However, a critical challenge lies just around the corner: the spring tournament. Lesti will have to win if she is to have any chance of taking the lordship of her homeland. At the same time, Astria spots a girl with unique powers at the academy. But she runs away screaming before she can even learn her name.

"Vida familiar" és un recull de setze històries que giren entorn de relacions de família. Ens fan viatjar per vides inestables i imperfectes que han de superar dificultats per tirar endavant: des d’una separació, la mort d’un veí, un canvi de domicili... a una criatura que no entén els adults o una noia que no sap cap a on tirar. Tots ells són relats que expliquen situacions quotidianes i rutinàries molt pròximes i amb una gran dosi de realitat. Tot i que semblin històries sense cap relació, constitueixen un retrat de les relacions humanes.

When alchemist Lud gets locked up in jail for counterfeit coins, it's up to his mouse familiar, Barnabus, to save the day.

F. Scott Fitzgerald definió Muchos matrimonios una de las mejores novelas de Sherwood Anderson. El libro abraza la tesis del fracaso de la monogamia, es decir de la institución del matrimonio. Por esta razón fue vetado en muchas librerías de Estados Unidos y de Inglaterra y creó no pocos...

Tres parejas de personajes nos cuentan el impacto de la crisis económica en la sociedad española. Historias de gente común y vida cotidiana en Zaragoza, Madrid y Barcelona. Gente que debe adaptarse y sobrevivir a una nueva realidad, donde prevalecen la precariedad, la explotación laboral, y...

Crecer siempre implica alguna forma de violencia, contra uno mismo o contra aquellos que quieren imponer su autoridad. Cuando además la vida trascurre en un pueblo de la margen izquierda del Nervión durante los años 80 y 90, y todo es heroína, paro, detritus medioambiental, cuando en las...