Showing results by publisher "Author's Republic" in Genre Fiction

Una serie de muertes tiene lugar en una Residencia de Ancianos. Los fallecidos son todos enfermos crónicos que han llegado al final de la última etapa de su enfermedad. A nadie llaman la atención estas muertes excepto a Pedro Fernández, un anciano que acaba de ingresar como residente y cuyo pasado como inspector de policía le hace ver más allá de los hechos. La inagotable búsqueda de pistas para esclarecer las muertes «sospechosas» se alterna con escenas cotidianas de la vida de la residencia donde el amor.

A satirical expose' comparing Trump to the Emperor in the tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Pointing out that his words and deeds echo those of previous and current dictators, and make him, in the author's opinion a threat to our Constitution and Republic.

In 1950, in a world before #MeToo, charming Jake plays fast and loose with the women - until the conservative Alice stops him short. Their romance changes the rogue...or seems to. On the other side of the tracks, a brain-damaged teen in the “crazy house” delivers a mixed-race baby. Her sister Ruby races to rescue the child - and find the white man who did this. When the baby brings them all together, each one - Jake, Alice, and Ruby - has secrets to preserve, as they wrestle with rage and fear, doubts and suspicions.

Whether his syndicate knew it or not, the take down of the biggest crew in the city is his absolute motive so work has to be done. Klonovsky is contemplating on killing Crimson. It has been suggested he work as hired muscle for Percilla, who may be his permanent downfall. He knows he can satisfy the escort turned madam, and kill his enemy while making it look like retaliation from a rival crew. The hood knows he's getting money now, like on a major scale. So the God needs pawns and life is like a chess game.

Esta es la historia de dos parejas cuyas vidas se entrecruzan cuando el tiempo de la realización de los sueños había pasado, pero no el de los sueños. Daniel un joven guapo, soñador quien la búsqueda de una mejor calidad de vida lo lleva a explotar su cuerpo con el turismo femenino en el ardiente calor del caribe. Alfonso desciende de buena cuna, nacido para ser feliz, amo y señor de su microuniverso, pero no de si mismo, logra casarse con el amor de su vida, una dama, pero dentro una mujer ávida de ser deseada y amada con pasión.

In this retelling of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tim DeRoche dares to imagine Huck Finn is alive today. Chased by his vengeful and psychotic father, Pap, Huck escapes down the concrete gash that is the Los Angeles River with his friend Miguel, an illegal immigrant who has been falsely accused of murder. Riding the dangerous waters of a rainstorm, the two fugitives meet a strange cast of Angelenos both animal and human who live down by the river. They learn the true value of love and loyalty.

Does anyone know who they are when they lose the foundation of their world? I tried to be the person I was before, the “good girl”, but I needed more. That’s when I met Ryder and Zack. My body felt magnetically drawn to Ryder, but with each step, I fought the initial pull. I couldn’t trust my impulses; they were telling me to give myself to him, and I didn’t even know him. When Zack kissed me later that night, I pulled away breathless, hypnotized, and unsteady. The months following were a whirlwind of desire and reckless choices I’d never in my life thought I’d take.

An audio collection of poetry excerpted from the novel Unchain My Heart, based on the true story of the songwriter who wrote "Unchain My Heart" for Ray Charles. This collection takes you on a journey through personal struggles and redemption. Overcoming odds, triumph and ultimately hope. A mother’s strength – and – love. The author does a beautiful job condensing this story through these excerpted poems.

The Goddess Brigit makes a colossal error and has to deal with the consequences. The effectiveness of the band Angel's mission comes into question. Alexa and Bob undergo a transformation to enable them to explore their ideas for straightening out the human race.

A mysterious young woman is discovered on a planet in deep space and brought to Earth. She turns out to be a very unusual person and joins Angel (from the first book of the series, Angel in White Leather) in her rock band, whose mission is to save the human race from itself.

Enter a dystopian future where integration with technology may cost us our humanity. A bleak prediction of a world where consumerism and technological advancement has been taken to the extreme. In an anthology of short stories, Upgrade attempts to answer the fundamental question: What does it mean to be human?

We find Rachel a dressmaker in a poor neighborhood in London, living with her stepmother and two apprentices. Unloved and lonely, she loses herself in contemplation of God, charity, and the beauty of life; but her daydreaming has led to the reputation of being "slow" or "dim-witted", and she is despised by all except Richard Jones, the father of one of the apprentices.

On a farm in Jutland, Fredrik Gregersen struggles to keep his children fed, supplementing his income by smuggling refugees through Denmark into Sweden. Meanwhile, in Copenhagen, Polina, a young Polish Jew, has been forced into prostitution by the Nazis. When Fredrik steals an heirloom necklace from a helpless Jewish family, his fate becomes intertwined with Polina's, entrapping them both in a complex web that takes decades to unravel.

A young woman from Nebraska follows her friends to Princeton, NJ, where she meets some very unusual people and becomes an internationally famous rock star fronting the band Angel.

Nandia has gone missing. The disease-stricken planet Erylia has undertaken a program to replace its ailing youth with healthy breeding stock from Praesepe. Nandia's home is now under siege, and her grandchild is one of the many incarcerated. With the help of new allies, Bernard, Elli, and Dunstan must use all their resources to infiltrate the Erylian command structure and find a way to restore the fate of two societies on the verge of decimation - one desperate to recover its future as it steals the tomorrows of another.

At home, with a baby, no one can hear you scream. Most people think that once you’ve had your happy ever after, nothing can go wrong. But for Millie and Tom, their love did not have a fairy tale beginning. It was not love at first sight, at least not for Millie. When the strength of their love for each other finally brings them together, their marriage is a chance to heal the wounds of their past and build a brighter future. For Tom, the arrival of their daughter is everything he ever dreamed about. But for Millie, the reality of motherhood becomes a lot darker.

The Scarlet Plague, by Jack London, was the first example of a post-apocalyptic fiction novel in modern literature. Set in a ravaged and wild America, the story takes place in 2073, 60 years after the spread of the Red Death, an uncontrollable epidemic that depopulated and nearly destroyed the world in 2013. One of the few survivors, James Howard Smith, alias “Granser”, tells his incredulous and near-savage grandsons how the pandemic spread in the world and about the reactions of the people to contagion and death.

El Caballero de Olmedo es una obra de Lope de Vega escrita seguramente en 1620 y basada, como otras del mismo autor, en una canción popular: "Que de noche le mataron al Caballero, la gala de Medina, la flor de Olmedo". La obra suele clasificarse como una tragedia (o tragicomedia), ya que introduce elementos propios de este género en su tradición clásica, como la presencia de un coro, el desenlace fatal de su protagonista o la temática del destino como fuerza inexorable que se impone a los personajes.

He could not sleep with anticipation of taking his date to a wonderful dinner and to a dance club. As he finally sleeps, he imagines telling her while they were on the dance floor, how she has affected him from the first time he saw her.

This book is about a man who encounters a magical fox. It describes how his life changes because of the fox.