Showing results for "The Canon" in Genre Fiction

Sofía acaba de perder a su padre y con su madre nunca pudo contar, y eso que aparece como un final inapelable se convierte inesperadamente en un inicio. Su espíritu de aventura y la necesidad de reconocerse en su propia sangre la lanzan a emprender el viaje de su vida, en el que todos los cabos sueltos y preguntas sin respuesta irán poco a poco, pero sin tregua, develándose. Carne de cañón inicia con el dolor de la muerte, pero no se queda ahí. Va transmutando a medida que se amplía el mundo de su protagonista, a medida que la vida se resignifica a través del sexo, los encuentros, las pieles..

Vuelve el Enrique Vila-Matas de Bartleby y compañía. Vidal Escabia, el protagonista de esta historia, ha seleccionado setenta y un libros en un cuarto oscuro de su casa con la idea de escribir un canon desplazado, intempestivo e inactual, disidente de los oficiales. Cada mañana, elige al azar uno de ellos, y saca a la luz un fragmento con destino al Canon, pero lo que desentraña su lectura influye en su vida y también en su escritura.

Three 12-year-olds, two notorious gunfighters, a half-crazed albino, and a grieving woman vie for $30,000 in gold coin, buried 20 years ago in treacherous Doubtful Cañon.

We have no intention of explaining how this correspondence which we now offer to the public fell into our hands. Inside you will find letters exchanged between the diabolical Madame Hoaxrot and her junior devil Hemlock, who are scheming against a young woman’s relationship with her Creator. They plot to sabotage every feature of her life from sex to female friendship to empathy, motherhood, and aging.

Max Brand (real name: Frederick Faust) wrote hundreds of stories, books, films, and TV shows. His output was so voluminous that though he died in WWII, posthumous books have been published approximately every four months since. This book collects three stories from his early work in Western pulps.

The trouble began for Sheriff Claude Rainey when the Hightower Ranch cowboys discovered a mummified man and his horse in a desert canyon near Springville, Arizona - both shot in the head. Ordinarily that should have been the end of it. Few men riding the outlaw trail up out of Mexico make it through that godforsaken country. What troubled Rainey and the townsmen, however, was what Hightower foreman Al Trail had brought into town and given to the sheriff.

BOOK 2 IN THE BESTSELLING CANON CLEMENT MYSTERY SERIES 'The best of the new cosy crime writers' Daily Telegraph 'First-class entertainment' Daily Mirror It's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Clement tries to steady his flock, the parish...

The long-awaited second book of the fourth story arc – Sword of the Canon – in the epic fantasy series, the Wars of Light and Shadow. Lysaer’s unstable integrity lies under threat of total downfall, and as his determined protector, Daliana will face the most frightening decision of her...

Soon to be a TV Series on AMC starring Pierce Brosnan and co-written by Philipp Meyer. The critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling epic, a saga of land, blood, and power that follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family from the Comanche raids of the 1800s to the oil booms of the...