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A haunting and emotionally satisfying novel from a much-loved and critically acclaimed author, which weaves fairy tale and gritty realism together to dazzlingly effect. ''The Story Sisters'' charts the lives of three sisters -- Elv, Claire and Meg. Each has a fate she must meet alone: one on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. Inhabiting their world are a charismatic man who cannot tell the truth, a neighbor who is not who he appears to be, a clumsy boy in Paris who falls in love and stays there, a detective who finds his heart''s desire, and a demon who will not let go. What does a mother do when one of her children goes astray? How does she save one daughter without sacrificing the others? How deep can love go, and how far can it take you? At once a coming-of-age tale, a family saga, and a love story of erotic longing, ''The Story Sisters'' sifts through the miraculous and the mundane as the girls become women and their choices haunt them, change them and, finally, redeem them.

This haunting, poignant and addictive story travels effortlessly across three generations and through time. Unravelling the years from the present to the 1950s, The Third Angel is a compelling novel, set mainly in London, about girls and women who make the wrong choices and have to live with the sometimes unbearable consequences. The Third Angel opens in London in the present day, when an envious sibling comes to her sisters wedding. Their mothers illness cast a shadow over their childhood, and both Madeline and Allie are still searching for something missing in their lives. Back in the Swinging Sixties, the bridegrooms conventional English mother, Frieda, behaves in a wholly unconventional way, and the ghosts of that era still haunt all their lives and a Knightsbridge hotel. Even before that, the seeds of tragedy are sown in the Fifties, when twelve-year-old Lucy first visits London and the same hotel. Precocious, impatient, wise beyond her years, Lucy becomes a go-between for two star-crossed lovers and then holds herself agonisingly responsible for what happens...

El lenguaje de Arnelle narra la vida de las hermanas Story, Elv, Meg y Claire, que viven felices en Long Island con su madre, Annie, que está divorciada. Pero el fatídico encuentro de Elv y Claire con un siniestro desconocido cambiara sus vidas para siempre. Elv cada dia esta mas y mas sumergida en el cuento de hadas que ha inventado. Annie no comprende el sufrimiento de su hija y, cuando por fin se da cuenta, ya es demasiado tarde. Elv tendra que vivir con las decisiones que ha tomado y las tragicas consecuencias de sus acciones afectaran a toda su familia. ¿Que hace una madre cuando uno de sus hijos pierde su camino? ¿Como salva a una hija sin sacrificar a las demas? ¿Hasta que punto puede llegar el amor, y hasta donde puede llevarte? Estas son las preguntas que plantea esta luminosa novela. El lenguaje de Arnelle es un relato sobre el paso de la adolescencia a la edad adulta, pero es tambien una cronica familiar, y una historia de amor y deseo. Es un retrato de todo lo extraordinario y cotidiano que viven las hermanas al convertirse en mujeres. Hay pocos escritores que capten el poder de redencion del amor como Alice Hoffman hace. Con El lenguaje de Arnelle nos ofrece un maravilloso relato que nos hara mas conscientes de la fragilidad y la belleza de vivir.

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of the Practical Magic series comes an enchanting novel about love, heartbreak, self-discovery and the enduring magic of books.Sixteen-year-old Ivy is pregnant and alone. Cast out by her family, she runs away and finds safety in the arms of Joel Davis. He offers a simpler life than the one she had in Boston, a quiet, rural life of rules, peace and community. Little does she realise, Joel is the charismatic leader of a cult known as the Community, and all is not quite as it seems. Daughter Mia has only known the claustrophobic life of the Community. While out serving the Community one weekend, she secretly commits a transgression reading. Discovering a world beyond the edges of the Communitys property is intoxicating. But breaking rules carries serious consequences, and sends Mia on a path she could never have imagined.

"Alice Hoffman can write about love like no-one else" Jodi Picoult Twig lives in a remote area of town with her mysterious brother and her mother, baker of irresistible apple pies. A new girl in town might just be Twig's first true friend, and ally in vanquishing an ancient family curse. A spellbinding tale of modern folklore set in the Berkshires, where rumours of a winged beast draw in as much tourism as the town's famed apple orchards.

Hoffman certainly knows how to enchant (The New York Times Book Review) in this breathtaking conclusion to the Practical Magic seriesa spellbinding and bewitching novel that asks how far will you go to change your fate?For over three-hundred years a curse has kept the Owens family from lovebut all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in dangerthe curse is already at work.

She was disappearing inch by inch, vanishing into thin air, and then one day a postcard arrived . . . There was no return address, no signature, only a scrawled message: Say something. Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl growing up on Long Island until one night a terrible road accident brings her life to a halt. While her best friend Helene suffers life-changing injuries, Shelby becomes overwhelmed with guilt and is suddenly unable to see the possibility of a future she'd once taken for granted. But as time passes, and Helene becomes an almost otherworldly figure within the town, seen by its inhabitants as a source of healing, Shelby finds herself attended to by her own guardian angel

She was disappearing inch by inch, vanishing into thin air, and then one day a postcard arrived . . . There was no return address, no signature, only a scrawled message: Say something.Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl growing up on Long Island until one night a terrible road accident brings her life to a halt. While her best friend Helene suffers life-changing injuries, Shelby becomes overwhelmed with guilt and is suddenly unable to see the possibility of a future shed once taken for granted.But as time passes, and Helene becomes an almost otherworldly figure within the town, seen by its inhabitants as a source of healing, Shelby finds herself attended to by her own guardian angel. A mysterious figure she half-glimpsed the night of the car crash, he now sends Shelby brief but beautiful messages imploring her to take charge of her life once more . . .What happens when a life is turned inside out? When you lose all hope and sense of worth? Shelby, a fan of Chinese food, dogs, bookshops, and men she should stay away from, captures both the ache of loneliness and the joy of finding oneself at last. From the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers comes this spellbinding, poignant and life-affirming story of one womans journey towards happiness and the power of love, family and fate.A great atmospheric storyteller . . . Her books are a real pleasure Kate Atkinson Alice Hoffman reminds us with every sentence that words have the power to transport us to alternate worlds Jodi Picoult

"With her glorious prose and extraordinary eye, Alice Hoffman seems to know what it means to be human." (Susan Isaacs, Newsday) The courage to face the unthinkable is at the core of this magnificent new novel. How do we manage to confront the truths in our lives and find forgiveness in the most unforgiving of circumstances? How do we love truly and deeply in a world that is as brutal as it is beautiful? When Ethan Ford fails to show up for work on a brilliant summer morning, none of his neighbors would guess that for more than thirteen years, he has been running from his past. His true nature has been locked away, as hidden as his real identity. But sometimes locks spring open, and the devastating truths of Ethan Ford's history shatter the small-town peace of Monroe, affecting family and friends alike. This deeply felt and compelling novel makes it clear why Alice Hoffman has been called "one of the best writers we have today" (Cleveland Plain Dealer). Honest, shattering, seductive, and ultimately healing, Blue Diary is an unforgettable novel by a writer who tells "truths powerful enough to break a reader's heart" (Time).

For more than two hundred years, the Owens women had been blamed for everything that went wrong in their Massachusetts town. And Gillian and Sally endured that fate as well; as children, the sisters were outsiders. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, but all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. One would do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they shared brought them back-almost as if by magic... "A beautiful, moving book about the power of love and the desires of the heart."-Denver Post "Charmingly told, and a good deal of fun." -New York Times Book Review

Told from Gretel Samuelson''s sly and knowing perspective, Local Girls charts her progress as she navigates from childhood to the brink of womanhood, picking her way though the tragedies and absurdities of everyday life in a family which is rocked by divorce and disaster, bad judgement and fierce attachments. Her father has left them, her chain-smoking mother, Franny, is falling apart and refuses to learn the simple lessons of life, her perfect brother has fatal flaws, and even her best friend Jill - blonde, enviable and beautiful - is moving too fast into the unfathomable world of women.

El camino a casa nos descubre la vida de una adolescente, Gretel SamueLson, y el mundo que la rodea: su mejor amiga, Jill su madre, Franny y la prima de Franny, Margot. Estos cuatro personajes tejen cada una de las quince historias que componen la cronica de los complicados años de la adolescencia de Gretel. Conocemos a Gretel cuando sus padres estan a punto de separarse y seguimos con ella cuando Jason su inteligentisimo hermano se convierte en drogadicto, su madre debe batallar contra el cancer y cuando ella se enamora por primera vez. JiIL tambien la acompañara, creciendo junto a su amiga y descubriendo juntas lo dificil que es convertirse en adultas. En esta novela fragmentada en historias cortas, que la prosa brillante de Hoffmann dota de humor y que consigue insuflar de urgencia por seguir leyendo hasta el final, Gretel y su familia se convierten en amigos irresistibles, entrañables y muy humanos.