O propósito deste livro é dar-te uma visão de um certo grau da realidade do mundo do narcotráfico, uma informação básica e essencial e a história de uma operação em território Paraguaio, na fronteira com o Brasil, das Forças Especiais Comandos Sombra.
The stories collected in The Consequences of Desire describe a modern urban society in its extraordinary complexity, its often apparent absence of fixed values, and its resistance to easy understanding.
In these stories by Melissa Pritchard, the past brushes up against the present, the voices of both the sane and the obsessed are heard, and the spirits speaking unbidden through the mouths of some spurn others who desire them most.
An anthology of stories and poems chosen for performance at the Sosltice Shorts Festival 2019, in Greenwich, Maryport, Hastings, Peterhead, Clydebank, Holyhead and Lisbon.
Delving into lecturing spiders, Helen of Troy, seaside libraries, computers that fall in love, murder and memory; but most of all humour, and a delight in all that women can be.
With a reporter's eye for the inside story and a historian's grasp of the ironies in our collective past, Greg Downs affectionately observes some of the last survivors of what Greil Marcus has called the old, weird America.
Poetry and short stories are the makeup of this insightful book; the goal of the author is to inspire and cause the reader to think upon the stories that were read and decide how he/she would have taken action if standing in the shoes of each character in this book.
Appearing here in its first English translation, Into the War contains three stories drawing on Italo Calvino's memories of the Second World War in Italy.
Share the adventures of three unlikely sleuths, Maggie Williams in "e;Evening Shade"e;, Lizzie Morton in "e;The Vacation I Will Never Forget"e; and Mary Ann Bevington in "e;The Hardware Mystery"e;, as they solve mysteries that will change the course of their lives forever.
Simon Van Booy knows a great deal about the complex longings of the human heart, and he articulates those truths in his stories with pitch-perfect elegance.
