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Hace quince años, se distanciaron. ¿Podrá un año extraordinario reunirlas nuevamente?Las primas Mari, Erica, Selena y Gracie son inseparables. No solo son familia, sino mejores amigas; comparten secretos, tradiciones y un amor feroz por su abuelita. Pero su infancia idilica termina cuando los padres de Mari deciden divorciarse, obligandola a mudarse lejos. Despues que Mari se va, el vinculo estrecho entre las primas se deshace.Quince años despues, Mari tiene la casa grande y un esposo apuesto, pero su vida esta hecha un caos. El novio de Erica acaba de dejarla, y su nuevo jefe la odia. Selena parece no encontrar su lugar en el mundo: no es lo suficientemente mexicana para su familia, ni lo suficientemente blanca para sus compañeros. Y Gracie es profesora en una escuela catolica con un interes amoroso agotador; ella no puede confiar en si misma cuando se trata de romance.Por mas dificiles que se hayan vuelto las vidas de las primas, nada las prepara para la dolorosa perdida de un ser querido. Cuando la tragedia las vuelve a reunir, ¿recordaran las lecciones que su abuelita les enseño sobre la familia y el perdon, o seran quince años de separacion demasiado para superar?

The hairs are always buried much deeper than you think.. Where the natural collides with the supernatural, these vivid stories situate us at the permeable border between fantastical and mundane. A teenage swimmer tries to remove an ingrown hair that takes on a life of its own. A town grapples with an uncontrollable growth of moss. A horror soundtrack haunts its composer. Testing the boundary between fantasy and reality, Oliver stretches the imagination to its limits in a collection which places the physical body, human connection and the truth at its centre. These tales navigate guilt, grief and explore the nature of victimhood. Olivers honest voice penetrates human truths while ghosting narratives with the uncanny. Journey to the outer limits of bodily awareness as characters dive deep to confront their truth.

Stories traversing identity, sexuality, and human connection across the industrial towns and satellite villages of Northern England. Opening with the Commonwealth Prize-winning "Lech, Prince, and the Nice Things," the collection weaves through teenage sexual awakening, family secrets, and post-pandemic isolation. Characters grapple with class divisions, discrimination, and desires they barely understand themselves. Unflinching and deeply human, these stories capture pivotal moments when lives quietly but irrevocably change course.

In these two novellas and three short stories for adult readers, Hans Christian Andersen displays the imagination and descriptive brilliance familiar from his fairy tales, but turns his eye to subtler social themes: class mobility in a changing Europe; the unfairness with which talents and opportunities are meted out in this world; the struggle between natures claims on humanity and civilizations.The title novella, The Ice Virgin, unites all these ideas in a piece of beautifully structured storytelling considered by some to be Andersens masterpiece. Rudy is orphaned young, rescued as an infant from a glacial crevasse where his mother fell and died. He lives, but the stunning yet unforgiving mountain landscape of Switzerland may yet claim him. His love for the rich millers daughter Babette brings out all his bravery and ingenuity - but also his stubbornness and resistance to change. In a masterfully ambivalent climax Andersen makes us wonder what happiness and fulfilment truly mean.Elsewhere in the collection Andersen turns his gaze to the hostile shores and wooded heights of Denmarks Jutland, where in his time submissive poverty was giving way to feverish social transformation. We meet a shipwrecked youngster struggling to fit into his adopted community, a couple whose wise humility echoes down the wealthy generations that follow with comically unexpected effects, and a steadfast friend whose saintly patience is ill rewarded by the object of her loyalty. Full of irony, enchanting imagery and bravura prose, these stories showcase Andersens perceptiveness, empathy, and deep engagement with the world around him.

Ex-NYPD homicide detective Nico Doyle investigates the murder of a local bartender in the Tuscan countryside.On a late October Sunday morning in Gravigna, local maresciallo Perillo is having breakfast with ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle when he is called back to the station in Greve. Laura Benati, the young manager of Hotel Bella Vista, is worried-her bartender and good friend eighty-year-old Cesare Costanzi has been missing for three days.The next morning, Jimmy, co-owner of Bar AllAngolo, Gravignas local caf , where Nico is a frequent patron, runs out of gas on his way back from Florence. When Nico meets him to help, Nicos dog, OneWag, reacts to the smell coming from Jimmys trunk. Inside Nico finds a body wrapped in plastic: Cesare Costanzi, stabbed several times in the chest.Why would anyone kill Cesare, and how did he end up in Jimmys car? Thats for Nico to find out, as Perillo once again turns to Nico for help with the investigation.

When Nico receives a phone call late at night, he tries to ignore it. A phone call at that time could only mean trouble. Sure enough, its Perillo of the local carabinieri. A woman was found dead in her home, and the only person at the scene of the crime only speaks English. Nico reluctantly agrees to help Perillo with the case. Judging by the crime scene, Perillo and Nico determine foul play was likely, and they dont have to look long for suspects. Following the death of her husband, the late Signora Nora had taken on a number of lovers, her two daughters arent on the best terms with her, and theres a lot to be gained from the sale of her residence. Nico and Perillo have their hands full as they try to solve the murder and restore peace to the otherwise sleepy Gravigna. Travel to the cyprus-lined roads of Tuscany in this new installment of acclaimed author Camilla Trinchieris warm, engaging, and deliciously unpredictable mystery series.

When Nazi forces invade Oslo, quiet librarian Liv Dahl becomes an unlikely resistance leader, risking everything to safeguard secrets and lives. As danger tightens around her, Liv must outwit Gestapo agents, protect hidden allies, and navigate a forbidden romance with a mysterious spy. But when betrayal strikes and Liv is deported to Ravensbruck concentration camp, survival becomes her only mission. An unforgettable heart-wrenching story of a woman who dares to resist, and the quiet heroism that changes the course of lives including her own.

This is a story of love between a father and a son. 13-year-old Ved is a sweet, inquisitive boy living in a world where love must hide in plain sight. His adoptive father, Da, is his entire universe fiercely loving, fiercely protective, harbouring a secret that could destroy them both: Da is gay at a time when Section 377 makes homosexuality a crime. Set in an Indian metropolis in 2013, Da is a tender story of a boy caught between devotion and fear, chronicling the everyday courage it takes to love someone the world refuses to accept.

When a "software error" erases Zala from the system, she discovers that officially, she and her newborn dont exist. As Zala fights desperately to prove her existence, and her child from adoption, she uncovers the Kafkaesque reality of Slovenias system one that erased 25,671 citizens on February 26, 1992. A chilling thriller about bureaucracy as violence, and one mothers battle against the state.

The follow-up to Murder in Chianti finds ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle recruited by Italian authorities to investigate the murder of a prominent wine critic.One year after moving to his late wifes Tuscan hometown of Gravigna, ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle has fully settled into Italian country life, helping to serve and test recipes at his in-laws restaurant.But the town is shaken by the arrival of wine critic Michele Mantelli in his flashy Jaguar. Mantelli holds his influential culinary magazine and blog over Gravignas vintners and restaurateurs. Some of Gravignas residents are impressed by his reputation, while others are enraged-especially Nicos landlord, whose vineyards Mantelli seems intent of ruining.Needless to say, Mantellis lavish, larger-than-life, and often vindictive personality has made him many enemies, and when he is poisoned, the local maresciallo, Perillo, has a headache of a high-profile murder on his hands-and once again turns to Nico for help.First published as The Bitter Taste of Murder.

((Vorschau))Wie erzahlt man ein Leben? In diesem bewegten Portrat eines Sommertags im Leben einer Londonerin setzen die Vorbereitungen fur ein Fest einen Gedankenstrom in Gang, der Literaturgeschichte schrieb: In der Uberlagerung innerer und auerer Stimmen erleben wir Clarissa Dalloways Welt in all ihren Facetten. Poetisch und voller Ironie, stellt Virginia Woolf den konventionellen Roman ihrer Zeit auf den Kopf.((ONIX))How do you narrate life? In this vivid portrait of a summer day in the life of a London woman, Clarissa Dalloways preparations for an evening party initiate a unique stream of thoughts and memories. Accompanied by the chimes of Westminsters Big Ben, the interference of inner and outer voices allows us to experience the world of Clarissa in its rich plurality. Poetic, full of irony and audacity, Virginia Woolf explains how our memories and surroundings affect our reality and thus turns the conventional novel of her time upside down.

((Vorschau))Eigentlich wurde der Hexer fur tot erklart. Doch jetzt treibt der beruchtigte Killer erneut sein Unwesen in Londons Straen. Seine Mission: Rache fur den Mord an seiner Schwester. Scotland Yard-Inspector Wembury und Polizeiarzt Lomond ermitteln, aber dieser Gegner ist ein Meister der Verkleidung In seinem Krimiklassiker verbindet Edgar Wallace eine rasante Geschichte mit elegant gezeichneten Charakteren. Kein Wunder, dass The Ringer (1926, dt. Der Hexer) in gleich mehreren Kultfilmen aufging.((Onix/Online))The Ringer was supposed to be dead. Now the notorious killer walks the streets of London again. His mission: vengeance for his sisters murder. Scotland Yard Inspector Wembury and police doctor Lomond investigate, but this villain is a master of disguise ...In this classic crime thriller, Edgar Wallace blends a well-paced story with delightfully crafted characters, and its no surprise, that The Ringer (1926) has been adapted as a cult movie more than once.

Warren Wood wurde von der schonen und berechenbaren Magnolia zutiefst enttauscht, und will sich das Leben nehmen. Sein Freund Edgar halt ihn davon ab und uberredet ihn mit ihm durch Afrika zu reisen, da er ein Buch schreiben will. Die beiden erleben unzahlige Abenteuer und Entbehrungen und kommen nach einem Jahr wieder in Paris an, bevor sie nach England ubersetzen. Kaum angekommen, erhalt Warren einen Brief von seiner Mutter, in dem sie im schnellstmoglich zur Ruckkehr auf den Familienbesitz bittet, da sein Onkel erkrankt sei. Er findet auch einen Brief von Magnolia vor, in dem sie ihn von ihrer Liebe uberzeugen will. Warren trifft am Seine Ufer auf Nadia, einem schonen, aber sehr unterernahrtem Madchen, das ein Geheimnis zu umgeben scheint. Warren uberredet Nadia mit ihm nach England zu kommen. Wird Nadia ihr Geheimnis preisgeben und der Gefahr, die ihr droht, entkommen? Wird Warren Magnolias Charme widerstehen konnen und die wahre Liebe finden?

When the Stalbridge family gathers at their grand ancestral manor to meet the Dukes soon-to-be Duchess, the occasion is meant to herald a brilliant future. Instead, a shattering revelation destroys the Dukes carefully laid plans and exposes a betrayal that leaves him furious, humiliated and desperate.With the family assembled and expectations impossible to escape, he needs a stand-in fiancee and fast. His unlikely solution appears in the estates orphanage, where he encounters a striking young woman who agrees to the pretence. But she carries secrets of her own, cloaked in silence and fear.Who is she? What past is she running from?As danger closes in and the truth begins to unravel, the Duke finds himself fighting not only for the deception to hold, but for the woman he never expected to need. How they overcome the past that threatens to destroy them both is all told in this story of fear, trust and the power of love.

NESTA SÉRIE DE COMÉDIAS ROMÂNTICAS REGENCIAIS, AS IRMÃS SHACKLEFORD ABALAM UMA SOCIEDADE QUE NEM IMAGINA O QUE A ESPERA...Nesta série de comédias românticas regenciais, as irmãs Shackleford abalam um

Alloa never meant to fall for a thief - especially one as dangerously charming as Dix. She caught him once, poised to steal a priceless miniature from a wealthy heiresss bedroom. But she could not forget him even after he had vanished from her life as swiftly as he had stolen her heart - was he merely a thief, or something far worse?When Alloas work takes her to Europe, fate intervenes, and she finds herself face-to-face with Dix once more. But this time, their reunion comes with peril. Dix is entangled in crime, and getting close to him could cost her everything - including her life.As danger closes in and a knife finds her throat, Alloa must confront the truth about the man she thought she could save - will she walk away, or trust the man she never stopped loving? All is revealed in this tale of passion, deception and courage, where love is tested against all the odds.

Once the toast of Londons stage, Christine Dillon now finds herself forgotten and adrift. When a solicitor delivers news of her brothers death - and the guardianship of his three children - she is drawn back to the village she left long ago.Among the rolling fields and whispering gossip, Christine must face the ghosts of her past: a stern fathers shadow, a lost loves betrayal, and the choices that shaped her downfall. As she begins to rebuild her life and connect with the children, she discovers strength she thought shed lost - and an unexpected ally in Michael Farley, a man as wounded by life as she is.But as tragedy strikes and the mistakes of the past catch up with her, Christine must decide whether to chase the illusion of who she was or embrace the woman shes become. What choices Christine makes, and how she finds happiness at last, are all told in this powerful story of redemption, resilience, and the courage to begin anew.

Foi assim ― com a memória do corpo e o corpo das histórias ― que Nilza Menezes plasmou em palavras mais de meio século de íntimas Macondos, Alices em bosques de espelhos, em que o olhar do outro nos

Lo cotidiano se vuelve pesadilla¿Pondrías la mano en el fuego por ella?Pablo Rivero regresa con su nueva novela, un domestic noir lleno de adrenalina. La convivencia puede matar.LOS TRAPOS SUCIOS SE LAVAN EN CASA.Vivo encerrada con mis hijos desde que nacio mi pequeña.Solo salgo en contadas ocasiones.Siempre por el garaje.Protegerlos es mi prioridad, pero necesito ayuda.No va a ser facil.He de encontrar a la persona adecuada.Una canguro que entienda la importancia de mis normas.Que no haga preguntas.Que no cometa errores.Nadie, ni siquiera mi marido, puede descubrir la verdad.De lo contrario, me vere obligada a actuar.

¿Qué pasa cuando el universo conspira para que todo se desordene… y justo entonces aparece él?Sheila Medina debuta en ficción con una novela romántica guiada por las teorías de la astrofísicaCarlota