Resultados para "Love" en Literatura y ficción

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Fue un gran autor de novelas y relatos de terror y ciencia ficción. Se le considera un gran innovador del cuento de terror, al que aportó una mitología propia (Los mitos de Cthulhu).

La difícil situación que viven en la Galicia rural, obligará a José y Jesús a emigrar en el verano de 1931, a La Habana. Durante el trayecto en el trasatlántico Orinoco conocerán a Armando y Mara se cruzan en su camino para empezar a ser parte importante de sus vidas. La nueva tierra, llena de oportunidades, es testigo de su evolución, a base de un encomiable esfuerzo personal y de su condición de trabajadores incansables. La década de los 50 será el momento álgido en la vida de los protagonistas de esta historia.

Mientras Lina Ortega camina hacia el altar con un casi desconocido, empieza a replantearse las decisiones que ha tomado en los últimos días. Una romántica empedernida, se pregunta cómo ha llegado a esta complicada situación en la que no tiene más remedio que casarse con un hombre al que apenas conoce.

He should be excited about their win streak, but he's distracted by his best friend, Lacey Daniels, sitting in the stands at his game with a date. When Lacey's date refuses to kiss her on the kiss cam, she's mortified…until Shawn saves the day, jumping in to kiss her in front of seventy thousand screaming fans.

Marry the girl I've had a crush on my whole life? Check. Inherit a hundred-billion-dollar company? Check. Produce an heir.... Wait, what? I have 90 days to knock up my brand-new fake wife. There's only one problem - she hates my guts. And in the fine print of the contract is the requirement that we produce an heir. She can't stand to be in the same room with me. She says she'll never be in my bed. But I've never backed down from a challenge, and I'm not about to start now.

"El horror de Dunwich" (título original en inglés: The Dunwich Horror) es un relato corto escrito por H. P. Lovecraft en 1928 y publicada por Weird Tales en marzo de 1929. Transcurre en el pueblo ficticio de Dunwich, Massachusetts. Se lo considera una de las obras principales de los Mitos de Cthulhu.

Two years after leaving the neighborhood to pursue an opportunity she couldn't pass up, Sydnee Scott is back. She's smart, sassy, and maybe a little bit spoiled, but she's ready to reclaim her place in her family, and in the family business.... Or not. That spot is currently filled by Harlan Ramsey, head manager. He came to Stacks - the man, and the restaurant named after him - looking for connection, and he got it, in the form of a surrogate family.

La joven pelirroja Demelza nació fruto del amor entre una escocesa y un vikingo, algo que Urd, la mujer de este, nunca perdonará. Demelza, a la que todos llaman Pelirroja salvaje, creció con unos hermanastros que la adoraban y un padre que la veneraba. Urd, sin embargo, se la tiene jurada y, con la ayuda de un malvado vikingo llamado Viggo, urde un plan para destrozar el futuro de su hijastra. El padre de la joven, creyendo todo lo que se dice de ella, la obliga a casarse con Viggo, algo de lo que más tarde se arrepentirá y que, sin duda, marcará el resto de su vida.

As a doctor, I walk a dangerously delicate balance of being compassionate but not overly invested. The same is true in my personal life - love is a luxury I can’t afford. It isn’t until Dr. Westin Grant breaks down all my walls and offers me a future, I find myself wondering if I’m brave enough to risk my heart. When who I was and who I’ve tried to become collide during my clinical trial, the fate of one patient changes everything.

The last ten years of my life have been nothing but tears and pain, but finally, a light is shining at the end of the tunnel. After leaving Texas and my past behind, I've started a new life journey in Estes Park, Colorado. I have a second chance and don't plan to waste it. I found work as a live-in nanny for a darling little girl named Hadley. Her father, Aiden, is a single dad with a troubled past he is desperately trying to move on from. When I find myself drawn to Aiden in a way I've never experienced before, I long to help him see what a wonderful father he is.

El metodo casi periodistico y descarnado de Hemingway muestra al joven idealista Frederick Henry, quien despues de cumplir como voluntario en el ejercito, se enamora y huye, para encontrarse con dramas incluso superiores a los del campo de batalla. Es una novela llena de significados y con un fondo, que a pesar de su realismo es de un romanticismo digno de los grandes creadores del siglo XIX.

Frances Hadley ha sacado adelante la hacienda familiar ella sola durante años. Así que, ¿por qué no puede reclamar su propia dote? Para conseguirla, decide viajar a Londres y meter en la cabeza de su hermano y del administrador un poco de sentido común. Sin embargo, para una mujer joven y guapa un viaje así resulta peligroso por lo que Frances se disfrazará de hombre para tener algo menos de lo que preocuparse.

The Jacobs family has lived at Orley Court for generations. But when Vanessa Jacobs is widowed and left to manage the property, she finds costs spiralling out of control. In order to stay in their beloved home, she and her daughters will have to sell part of it off - a decision that drives a wedge between Vanessa and her mother-in-law. The new owners of the north wing are Laurence Sturridge and his father, Marcus. Both of them long for an escape: Laurence from the monotony of his City career; Marcus from the grief of losing his wife.

Toledo, 1479. Nace Juana I de Castilla, tercera hija de los Reyes Católicos. A pesar de tener una educación esmerada, ni sus padres, Isabel I de Castilla y Fernando II de Aragón, ni su esposo Felipe de Habsburgo por el que sentía un amor y unos celos desmedidos, la consideraron capaz de gobernar. Relegada a un segundo plano, y olvidada, su padre y su esposo ejercieron la regencia hasta que su hijo Carlos I tuvo la mayoría de edad.

Arranged marriage? Check. Cocky new husband? Check. It's a marriage of convenience - one I'm determined to keep strictly professional. I can't be stupid enough to fall for this sexy playboy's charm or advances. I have to be strong, even if he is my husband. Except he has a big cock with an even bigger ego, and his main goal in life seems to be getting me to stroke both. The arrogant bastard is like sweet, sugary candy for my libido. I know he's bad for me. But I want to devour every wicked inch of him.

Marry the girl I've had a crush on my whole life. Check. Inherit a $100 billion company. Check. Produce an heir...Wait. What? I have 90 days to knock up my brand-new fake wife. There's only one problem: she hates my guts. And in the fine print of the contract? The requirement that we produce an heir. She can't stand to be in the same room with me and says she'll never be in my bed. But I've never backed down from a challenge, and I'm not about to start now. Mark my words, I'll have her begging for me, and it won't take 90 days.

A haunting meditation on love, loss, companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark, Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is one of the most important and influential short story collections in contemporary literature. In his entry in the esteemed Bookmarked series, acclaimed author Brian Evenson offers his personal and literary take on this classic Carver collection.

Mientras el doctor Marcus intenta atrapar algunos momentos tranquilos de sueño, al final de un día ajetreado, oye su voz. ¿Quién es esta extraña mujer que pide ayuda en sus sueños? Valerie está atrapada en una pesadilla médica. Trata de explicar lo que necesita, pero nadie puede oírla. Y entonces, alguien responde. Pero ¿puede conseguirle la ayuda que necesita, o ya es demasiado tarde?

Rachel will do anything to save her mother, even steal the money needed for her surgery. So when an old woman leaves a golden spindle on the Chicago's Navy Pier, she grabs her prize—and is hurtled back in time to 874 AD. Awakening near a village in Norway, she finds chests of jewels and gold ripe for the picking…and a dreamy Viking warrior she'd rather kiss than rob.