Novidades

Con un lenguaje preciso y directo, fluido y ameno, lleno de imágenes sugerentes y desgarradoras, Jardín de moras nos introduce en una literatura de nuevo cuño en la que se aúna la desbordante capacidad imaginativa y literaria de esta increíble autora novel con el realismo más pregnante y concreto de una realidad social y política que desborda cada una de sus páginas. En ellas encontrará el lector no sólo las interesantes y multifáceticas peripecias de sus personajes, sino a la vez una profunda reflexión moral y social de la que no es posible salir indemne.

Fue Tolstoi quien dijo que todas las familias son infelices a su manera. En su tercera novela, Mauricio Bernal nos descubre un mundo tan doméstico como horrendo: los hijos y nietos concurren a varios almuerzos familiares desvelando en cada escena no sólo su sed codiciosa sino sus pasiones más bajas. En Los grotescos, los lazos familiares pertenecen, sin duda, a lo patético y brutal: la avaricia es solo uno de los siete pecados capitales que aquí se cumplen.

El primer y único libro de Juan Pablo Roncone lo situó de inmediato como uno de los escritores más admirados y enigmáticos de su generación. Los protagonistas de estos cuentos son sujetos solitarios y arrepentidos. Hay un amigo traicionado, un hermano culposo, un peluquero vengador, un hijo abandonado, un falso escritor. Algunos perderán la lucha, otros se conformarán con una esperanza recelosa ante el futuro.

Suddenly Brooke Hayes's life is turned upside down. Again. For the past months she has fought to get it back together by overcoming her addictions, revitalizing her neglected stage career, and putting behind her the devastation left by her bitter divorce. She has also been a mother again to her nine-year-old daughter, Charly, whose upcoming visit has meant the world. Everything was fine.

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In The Hollis Code, HB Welbourne takes you on a high-stakes, suspense-filled journey, where one woman’s miraculous condition is tied to ancient prophecies and powerful players determined to keep it hidden. Denise, a renowned geneticist, suddenly finds her world spiraling out of control when she learns she’s pregnant—under inexplicable circumstances. Her groundbreaking research is now under threat, and her life is in danger, as dark forces, both corporate and governmental, will stop at nothing to unlock the secret she carries.

إنّها مادةٌ ملائكية، عذبة وصانعها يستحقّ نوبل على هديته للبشرية بل يستحقّ الجنة فلقد منح البشرية القدرة على الاستمرار، هذا ما يشعر به "شاهر" والمخدِّر الجديد يتسلل إلى دمه، لم يقتنع بمخاطره يومًا بل هو يعتبره وقود الحياة إلا أنّه سقط ذات مرة طريح الموت داخل مستفى حكومي نتيجة جرعةٍ زائدة، أصدر الأطباء قرارهم بأنَّ المريض قد مات موتًا سريريًا ولا فائدة من وجود الأجهزة وسط دموع الموجودين وحسراتهم وفي لحظةٍ معجزة استيقظ المدمن.

الجزء الأول من سلسلة روايات "روكامبول" لمؤلفها بونسون دو ترايل، وهي رواية "الإرث الخفي"، التي تتحدث عن الصداقة وكيف أنها دُفنت في تربة المادة والطمع الرخيص، حيث وثق الأمير "أرمن دي كركاز" بصديقه الذي ظنه خليلاً مخلصاً وهو "فيليبون"، لكنه خيب ظنه فيه وقتله وفوق هذا تزوج من امرأته ونهب جميع أملاك ولدها واستولى عليها، ومن ثم ألقى الولد في اليمّ كي تكون جميع الأموال والأملاك لقمةً سائغةً له ولولده، لكن الخادم المخلص والوفي "بستيان" استطاع أن يَكت.

Schonungslos,schillernd und mit tiefschwarzem Humor schildert Lina Wolff die dämonischen Abgründe einer Beziehung und bringt dabei die Realität ins Wanken. Der Teufelsgriff ist ein Buch für unsere Zeit. Eine Frau entflieht ihrem Alltag und zieht nach Florenz. In der südlichen Stadt wirkt alles fremd und verlockend zugleich, die Ziegeldächer, die Kirchtürme, die Liebespaare, der Mann, den sie kurz nach ihrer Ankunft kennenlernt.

Net zo onvergetelijk als Daar waar de rivierkreeften zingen en Ga als een rivier. Als de wolven huilen (voorheen Alice, het wolvenmeisje). In het ruige noordwesten van Amerika ligt het Olympic National Forest – ruim een miljoen hectare aan ondoordringbare duisternis en onvoorstelbare schoonheid. Uit dit diepe woud verschijnt op een dag een zesjarig meisje. Ze draagt een wolvenjong op haar arm, kan niet praten, en er is geen enkele aanwijzing over haar identiteit. Dr. Julia Cates was een beroemde kinderpsychiater, tot een schandaal haar carrière ruïneerde.

Umberto e Angela si incontrano. Lui alla soglia della pensione, alcolista, cresciuto al CEP – esperimento di aggregato popolare affacciato sulla laguna di Venezia – e lei poco più che ventenne, appena uscita dal carcere della Giudecca, proveniente da una rispettata famiglia ottusamente cattolica, la cui infanzia è stata scandita dalle ossessioni di un padre bigotto. Quando si incontrano per la prima volta, Umberto è il serio, scorbutico e apprezzato macellaio di un supermercato di Mestre che porta sulle spalle il peso di una terribile tragedia accaduta vent’anni prima.

Theo Fester é um inteligente e poderoso magnata do Vale do Silício, empresário mundialmente conhecido e pai de três filhos orgulhosos, frios e bem-sucedidos – mas sua história inicial foi dramática. Filho de um sobrevivente do Holocausto, ele começou a empreender para sobreviver à dor de seu pai, à pobreza e ao bullying na infância, tornando-se especialista em se reinventar.

Questo romanzo è la storia dell’amore, lancinante e assoluto, di una figlia, Marie, nata da uno stupro, per la madre, Eugénie detta Génie, che, ripudiata dalla famiglia e respinta dalla comunità dopo che ha generato una bastarda, si è murata nel silenzio e nella lontananza. Una madre che sa dirle soltanto: «Non starmi sempre tra i piedi», che raramente la abbraccia; una che tutti, in paese, bollano come matta e sfruttano facendola lavorare nei campi e nelle fattorie in cambio di un po’ di frutta, di un pezzo di carne.

Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now newly rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist, the composer Adrian Leverkühn, is the flower of German culture, a brilliant, isolated, overreaching figure, his radical new music a breakneck game played by art at the very edge of impossibility. In return for twenty-four years of unparalleled musical accomplishment, he bargains away his soul—and the ability to love his fellow man.

In the heart of a languid July, eleven-year-old John Reddy Heart drives a traffic-stopping, salmon-colored Cadillac into the quiet upstate town of Willowsville, New York. His mother, Dahlia Heart, a blackjack dealer, has brought her family east from Las Vegas to claim the rambling mansion left to her by a wealthy suitor. But it is John Reddy—already growing into a heartbreaking hybrid of James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Elvis Presley—who will claim the town itself.

Sara Goldfarb is devastated by the death of her husband. She spends her days watching game shows and obsessing over appearing on television as a contestant—and her prescription diet pills only accelerate her mania. Her son, Harry, is living in the streets with his friend Tyrone and girlfriend Marion, where they spend their days selling drugs and dreaming of escape. When their heroin supply dries up, all three descend into an abyss of dependence and despair, their lives, like Sara’s, doomed by the destructive power of drugs.

On a trip to the South of France, a shy young woman falls in love with Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower. Although his proposal comes as a surprise, she happily agrees to marry him. But as they arrive at her husband's home, Manderley, a change comes over Maxim, and the young bride is filled with dread. Friendless in the isolated mansion, she realizes that she barely knows him. In every corner of every room is the phantom of his beautiful first wife, Rebecca, and the new Mrs de Winter walks in her shadow.

Meet Noh Inji: thirty years old, five wedding rings and counting, and she’s never once been in love. When Inji takes a job at Wedding & Life, the popular matchmaking service, she never imagines her role will be with NM, their secretive marriage division that rents out “field spouses” for a fixed period to their elite clientele. Just like a real marriage, Inji’s assignments involve a wedding, some sex, and a spot of housework. It’s all tailored exactly to the client’s desires—no legal battles, no fights, no emotional baggage.

Christy Ward is the lead producer of Hindsight, a true crime podcast, and she has stumbled across an unresolved triple murder case that will make the perfect next feature. Sixteen years ago, the police were convinced that they had found their killer. But the case was unexpectedly shut down, it never went to trial and their main suspect walked free. Will Christy and her team be able to solve the case, or will they be silenced too....

Julie’s mother Kate is a force of nature–a glamorous woman of seventy, a self-made real estate developer, a grande dame in Florida society, and a power broker in Florida politics. It wasn’t easy for Julie to grow up in the shadow of such a dynamo, but she loves her mother, and she and her husband Eric are thrilled when Kate marries her long-lost high school sweetheart, a salt-of-the-earth man named Charlie. But their storybook romance ends abruptly.