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

Pyralis’ boy is nine years old. A simple fact only in contention if you ask him. His actions today seem a little unstable. Not knowing what day it is, claiming conversations that have never happened, asking Hadriel if he's going to the forest again. Hadriel has no intention of going to the forest. He just wants to try cooking a damn fish.

Another great audiobook classic from the world’s most prolific and prestigious new company, Icon Audio Arts. Presented by actor author Geoffrey Giuliano, here is an exciting "listen while you learn" audio production which promises to entertain, enlighten, and enliven the listener. Icon productions offer a daring, fresh perspective on the hundreds of perennial favorite tales which have inspired generations and imbued a deep love of literature and art in millions over time.

Fortunata y Jacinta, dos historias de casadas, es un extraordinario relato decimonónico que metaforiza a la perfección la sociedad española de su época, describiendo con lupa científica a Madrid y sus habitantes. Los usos y costumbres, las ideologías, los cambios sociales, políticos, económicos e ideológicos, se reflejan en la historia de una familia, en sus intrigas, infidelidades, pasiones y amores, que igual se lee desde el punto de vista analítico y sociológico, que desde el espectador de culebrón.

The opening story in this collection follows Vinny, Kevin, and a mourning family from Liverpool on a journey to Wales. What should be a simple trip turns into something much darker. A cross between Roddy Doyle and Ken Follett, this political storytelling meets you wherever you are on life’s journey, and stays with you.

In Vietnamese: Nguyen Cong Hoan was cultivated in love with literature, cultivated with patriotism, protested against unjust oppression, and his eyes were full of splendor. When he started to write, he did not write poetry, but went straight into prose, as he thought prose is just as common as words. From the beginning, he sought to write in a simple, bright, easy to understand way. Due to reading poetry, he had a vision of life with a poet's soul, all of which has created his own style.

Le parole piene di sentimenti, quasi non possono essere credute, perché nessuno le pronuncia mai. Le parole piene di sé minano le sensibilità più rare, perché saziano al punto di avere paura di un'indigestione. Non servono parole per amare, non ci si innamora delle parole, ma di quanto chi le pronuncia ci vive e ci muore dentro. Resi è la dimissione alla sentimento puro. Lontani dalla menzogna (Lie). Attaccati all'amo (Enza) della verità.

Andrew Brewster Crawford, AKA “A.B.C.”, a playwright obsessed with the glamour, glory, and gloom of the Kennedy era, has written a play about the last day of JFK’s life in order to cast himself as the martyred president, win the love of a beautiful “Jackie Kennedy type”, and live happily ever after in a Camelot of his own creation. .

Lila & Theron is set in rural America and relates a personal story of love and sacrifice. Lila and Theron do not imagine themselves poor, nor do they covet what they don’t have. They are whole in themselves and on their land - in marked contrast to today’s victim culture of safe spaces and narcissism. Bill Schubart grew up among farmers and loggers in Vermont’s rural Northeast Kingdom, where survival depended not on institutions but on family, neighbors, hand tools, and the bounty of wilderness.

Turning 40 is a wake-up call for Hazel. All her friends are united in their pity and concern for her single state. It's now or never, girl! She's still attractive, but a tragedy in her past has marred her life, and now, her romantic prospects are dimmer than ever. When a fascinating stranger makes advances, Hazel is skeptical but intrigued. Jeffrey is handsome and suave, worldly, wise, and definitely well-heeled. He seems to be the perfect gentleman, but he may just be too good to be true.

Fat People is an entirely unique fictional look at the emotions and experiences of those who live to eat: the estrangement, loneliness, embarrassment, fear, defeated sexuality, unresolved anger, but also the simple pleasure of food.

Trumpeter Didi Heron criss-crosses the country searching for the lost recording of her jazz pianist father's last gig. Drawing inspiration from a potpourri of stories from the American jazz tradition, notably those of trumpeter Clifford Brown, Now’s the Time is a fictional work rooted in historical fact.

A missing artist has painted a fantastic mermaid portrait that is taking the art world by storm. Larry Settlebottom, a lonesome Chicago museum curator, is hired to find the artist and his model at any cost. His encounters with sea pirates, exotic gypsies, and oceanographers lead him toward a secluded island with a secret guarded by a madman. Did mermaids once inhabit the Earth? To unravel the mystery, Larry must also face his own buried past.

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.

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.

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.

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

Anita Feng has crafted in Sid a delightful jewel that captures both the classic story of the Buddha, as well a deeply personal and familiar reflection of the story in a contemporary retelling.