Résultats pour "The Dream" dans Fiction contemporaine

A farmhouse is being reproduced a dozen times, with slight variations, throughout a valley. Three small graves have been dug in the front garden, the middle one lying empty. A woman in a wheelchair sorts through boxes while her husband clambers around the old demolished buildings, wondering...

Alice Ferguson is eight years old when a bushfire tears her family apart and she is sent to live with her aunt. Lost and lonely, Alice finds comfort in the beauty of the outback. As her confidence grows she dreams of creating her own home and of one day breeding the best wool in the country. Alice's strength and spirit take her far from her roots and the land she loves. As tragedy strikes again, Alice must summon every ounce of her will to keep her dream alive, but nothing can prepare her for the treachery of her jealous cousin or the betrayal of the only man she ever loved.

Are dreams, so often seen as folly, more than what they seem? To most, they are flashes of memory, snapshots of a life in motion. But to a chosen few, dreams are much, much more. Listen and go on a journey you won't forget.

Bestselling author Torey Hayden's novel is a fascinating study of a fractured family, a troubled child, and a psychiatrist's attempts to rescue them. Conor, aged nine, arrives in the play therapy room of child psychiatrist James Innes with the diagnosis "autistic". His mother Laura, an aloof, enigmatic novelist, can't handle him. His rancher father, embroiled in divorcing Laura, does not feel there is anything wrong with Conor. His six-year-old sister Morgana insists he really does see ghosts.

Halifax had been in French Africa for five years, doing whatever foolhardy, dangerous thing Serailler ordered him to do. It was some time before he finally snapped, but when he did, he opened the throttle, eased back the stick, and lifted straight and high into a dream.

"It was the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring... except a clot of blood, creeping up from Ted's leg to his brain, to kill him as he slept..." Recently widowed Philly keeps dreaming of her dead husband Ted – strange dreams of a paranormal alternate reality: why is her new husband Robbie so interested in them? He works for a mysterious genetic research company called Portal Inc. But what exactly is Robbie's job? Did he seduce Philly by feeding her experimental new drugs? Was Ted's death intended? Such suspicions make Philly doubt her own sanity.

Vides creuades en un país de somni. Un viatge a Islàndia impossible doblidar. Un rellotger que mai no ha sortit de Sabadell i ha danar a Islàndia a reparar un antic rellotge. Un jove nòrdic que busca un grup per tocar la música que li agrada. Una parella de geòlegs que fan el seu viatge somiat. Un escriptor de culte retirat i un jove periodista que lha dentrevistar. I un presumpte triomfador.

During a long, hot summer, a young man, inspired by Bobby Darin's "Dream Lover", becomes infatuated with a beautiful girl only to make an emotionally wrenching discovery.

Ah! yes, that was little Tuk: in reality his name was not Tuk, but that was what he called himself before he could speak plain: he meant it for Charles, and it is all well enough if one does but know it. He had now to take care of his little sister Augusta, who was much younger than himself, and he was, besides, to learn his lesson at the same time; but these two things would not do together at all.

Stories to help you sleep, guest writers from around the world. Share with your friends, family, sit solo, or in a group. Become the words and let them melt into your imagination for a moment. Take their essence with you and call upon them when you need.

With life comes happiness, friendship, heartache, unforgettable moments, and sometimes unimaginable pain. In this incredible and moving story, Isabelle Scott allows us to see life through her eyes. Her life was hindered at a tender age when her stepfather started becoming too friendly. After years of abuse, she finally finds the strength and courage needed to put an end to it.

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.