Showing results for "Human" in Contemporary Fiction

Once it had been the great forest of Lythe - a vast and impenetrable thicket of green.And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor, visited once by the great Gloriana herself. But over the centuries the forest had been destroyed, replaced by Streets of Trees.The...

Once it had been the great forest of Lythe - a vast and impenetrable thicket of green.And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor, visited once by the great Gloriana herself. But over the centuries the forest had been destroyed, replaced by Streets of Trees.The...

Un llibre on s'explica la infància i l'adolescència des del punt de vista actual d'un tipus d'uns 40 i pocs anys, però també on es recullen anècdotes del dia a dia actual de l'autor. El lector d'entre 35 i 50 anys s'identificarà gràcies a l'humor i al retrat d'una època (anys 70) i l'homenatge als pares d'aquesta generació que van fer mil i un esforços per aconseguir una vida millor per als seus fills, però també per la tendresa despullada i brutal dels personatges i les situacions.

No Humans Involved stars necromancer Jaime Vegas. She’s on a television shoot in Brentwood, Los Angeles when weird things start to happen. Invisible hands brush her arms, she sees movements out of the corner of her eye, and unintelligible fragments of words are whispered in her ear. Jaime’s used to seeing the dead and hearing them clearly. But now, for the first time in her life, she knows what humans mean when they say they’re being haunted.

I Himmerige og helvede mistede drengen sin bedste ven til havet og uvejret. I Englenes sorg mødte han og postbudet døden i snestormen på fjeldet. I Menneskets hjerte, som er det tredje og sidste bind i Stefánssons trilogi, bor han i landsbyen hos Geirtrud, en egensindig kvinde, som må slås for sin selvstændighed mod købmændene, der er byens magtfulde mænd. I landsbyen handler alt stadig om fiskeri, men også her melder de nye tider sig med dampskibet, telefonen og nye ideer. Menneskets hjerte er en bog om kærlighed og frihed.