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"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns iut into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried but failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a nysterious sanctuary for their true narratives."--Provided...
2) Mr. Texas
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2023.
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"Sonny Lamb is an affable, if floundering, rancher with the unfortunate habit of becoming a punchline in his Texas hometown. Most recently, he bought his own bull at auction, saving it from being sold to a slaughterhouse. But when a fire breaks out at a neighbors farm, Sonny makes headlines in another way: Not waiting for help, he bolts to the farm and heroically saves the family's daughter and her horse, riding the animal out of their burning barn....
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2024.
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Stafford Lee Penney is a small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation for winning every case he tries. In his sharp suits and polished Oxford shoes, Penney is Biloxi, Mississippi's #1 Lawyer and top local celebrity. Just as Penney notches his latest courtroom victory, his wife is scandalously killed. He spirals into a legal and personal losing streak, damaging his reputation and ruining his career. That's when Penney makes a bold decision. He stops...
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Extrarradio
Pub. Date
2023
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Español
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Mientras nos cuenta su vida, el protagonísta de Gaston entrega una Polaroid de la soledad y el deseo. El paisaje: Mississippi en los años 60, el personaje: un inmigrante ecuatoriano. La foto es singular, extravagante y deja un gusto especial en el recuerdo. Este cuento de Gabriela Alemán es su primera publicación en varios años y tenemos el honor de presentarla ahora en nuestro catálogo.
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Laguna Libros
Pub. Date
2023
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Español
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Isabel decide hacerse cargo de su prima Lorena, quien sufre de una enfermedad misteriosa que la ha tenido aislada durante toda su vida. Afuera, las protestas estudiantiles y los desaparecidos son noticia; adentro, el encierro distorsiona el deseo y el paso del tiempo. Con precisión y belleza, en Tu sombra de pájaro los cuidados y la amenaza se encuentran.
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" "You are to report to Station X at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, in four days time ... That is all you need to know." This was the terse telegram hundreds of young women throughout the British Isles received in the spring of 1941, as World War II raged. As they arrived at Station X, a sprawling mansion in a state of disrepair surrounded by Spartan-looking huts with little chimneys coughing out thick smoke-these young people had no idea what kind...
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"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm--except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...
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Ernest Cunningham volume 2
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"I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. But, the Ghan is not the respite I'd been hoping for. It turns out I've trapped myself on an 1,800-mile journey with a powder...
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A wealthy family's vacation at their lush winery estate becomes a weekend to kill for in this deliciously twisted novel of suspense
"Absolutely captivating! A riveting and immersive puzzle for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware." —Hank Phillippi Ryan
Every year, the illustrious Van Ness siblings, heirs to a copper fortune, gather at their secluded winery estate for a joint birthday celebration. It's...
"Absolutely captivating! A riveting and immersive puzzle for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware." —Hank Phillippi Ryan
Every year, the illustrious Van Ness siblings, heirs to a copper fortune, gather at their secluded winery estate for a joint birthday celebration. It's...
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A great new beach read from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookstore on The Beach
A summer by the ocean promises new beginnings—until old secrets resurface.
Ismay Chalmers is ready for a relaxing summer reconnecting with her fiancé at his family's luxurious beachfront cottage. But before Remy can join her, a hurricane bears down...
A summer by the ocean promises new beginnings—until old secrets resurface.
Ismay Chalmers is ready for a relaxing summer reconnecting with her fiancé at his family's luxurious beachfront cottage. But before Remy can join her, a hurricane bears down...
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2024.
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Español
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"Alma Cruz ha decidido ponerle punto final a su carrera de escritora, pero teme acabar como su amiga, una exitosa novelista arrastrada a la locura por un libro que jamás terminó de escribir. Por eso, cuando hereda un modesto terreno en República Dominicana, se le ocurre sepultar allí sus decenas de manuscritos inconclusos. Quiere que descansen en paz en la misma tierra donde yacen sus raíces. Pero a diferencia de Alma, los protagonistas de sus...
12) Brujas
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Español
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«[...]Un vórtice de gravedad que condensa toda la literatura de Brenda Lozano, donde conviven lo oral y lo escrito, las tradiciones populares y cierta perspectiva cosmopolita, el humor y la tragedia. Una inyección de electricidad, una música que se sigue escuchando mucho más allá de sus páginas.» Mauro Libertella
Paloma está muerta. Ha sido asesinada. Pero antes de ser Paloma, su nombre fue Gaspar. Antes de ser Paloma, Gaspar hacía ceremonias...
13) La encomienda
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Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2022
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Español
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Una inquietante novela sobre la incertidumbre, los recuerdos, los miedos, la soledad, las relaciones familiares y los anhelos de futuro.
La narradora de estas páginas vive a cinco mil kilómetros de su país natal, trabaja para una agencia de publicidad, quiere tramitar una beca para irse a escribir a Holanda y mantiene periódicas videoconferencias con su hermana. Esta le manda encomiendas, paquetes que incluyen
...14) No es un río
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Pub. Date
2020
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Español
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*Finalista del International Booker Prize 2024*
Durante una salida a pescar de tres varones se revela la complejidad con que se trama la amistad y se devela, como el fluir de un río, la historia de los afectos y la crueldad con la que a veces está hecho el presente. Mención especial Premio Sara Gallardo de Novela
Finalista del Premio de Novela Fundación Medifé Filba
Finalista del Premio Bienal de Novela Mario Vargas Llosa
Uno los mejores libros...
15) Goodbye girl
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 18
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English
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"Piracy costs the movie and music industry billions. No one has been able to stop it. But that won't stop Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck. His latest client, Imani Nichols, is a Grammy-winning popstar whose career has skyrocketed. Despite her success, she's the most underpaid superstar on the planet because of an onerous record contract she signed as a teenager with her now ex-husband Shaky Nichols, who has made himself rich off her royalties....
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* A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 Selected By * The Millions * Chicago Review of Books * Hey Alma * Stylecaster * And Many More! *
Prize-winning author Katya Apekina's Mother Doll is a sharp and visceral nesting doll of a novel, about four generations of mothers and daughters and the inherited trauma cast by Russian history.
"A profoundly moving story . . . Strange, wild, offbeat, and hilarious. I absolutely loved it." -Lauren...
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A woman learns she's still married to her millionaire husband and agrees to work for him while the divorce is finalized—until love conquers all her plans.
The last time Rose Tucker saw her ex-husband, Lincoln Hart, he was fleeing their newly minted marriage. Now the man she fell in love with at first sight has returned to say those three little words: "we're still married!" And while the lawyers fix the clerical glitch, the handsome millionaire...
The last time Rose Tucker saw her ex-husband, Lincoln Hart, he was fleeing their newly minted marriage. Now the man she fell in love with at first sight has returned to say those three little words: "we're still married!" And while the lawyers fix the clerical glitch, the handsome millionaire...
18) Final appeal
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"When whip-smart criminal defense lawyer Joanna Chylka is tasked with defending the son of her law firm's biggest client, she is stumped for the first time in her career. Her client, Piotr Langer Jr., does not admit guilt, but neither does he claim innocence. Assisted by the firm's newest trainee, Kordian Orynski, Johanna finds herself in a maze of tangled evidence. Piotr is alleged to have sat in his apartment for ten days with two corpses before...
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Todo comenzó en una cena con los vecinos...
La pareja de al lado: «El thriller del que todo el mundo habla». (Stylist)
Libro del año para WH Smith en Gran Bretaña.
En la lista de más vendidosdurante semanas de The New York Times.
Número 1 en más vendidosen Canadá.
En la lista de más vendidos de The Sunday Times.
Uno de los mejores libros de 2016 para The Globe.
Finalista de los Premios Goodreads 2016.
Tu vecina te dijo que preferiría que...
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2023
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Vuelve Agatha Raisin, la heroína más aclamada del cosy crime,
con más de diez millones de lectores en todo el mundo.
Increíble pero cierto. James Lacey, el soltero más deseado de los Cotswolds, se ha rendido al encanto de su vecina, la chispeante y cincuentona Agatha Raisin. El día de su matrimonio amanece brillante y despejado, pero el cuento de hadas dura poco: en el momento en que los tortolitos están a punto de darse el sí, Jimmy, el ex...
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