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Author
Publisher
Plaza Janes, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
La calma ha llegado lentamente a la mansion. Franziska se ha reencontrado con su antiguo hogar y con su gran amor, Walter. Su nieta, Jenny, esta luchando para construir un futuro en la propiedad de la familia y se siente dichosa al lado de Uli. Pero, desafortunadamente, no todo es color de rosa: el restaurante recien inaugurado no acaba de funcionar y un hallazgo durante los trabajos de construccion en el sotano vuelve a sacudir los recuerdos de los...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Set in a West Country farming village, The House of Broken Bricks lays bare the complexities of day-to-day life for a mixed-race family. Jess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in a city where she easily blends in into a creaking house on a floodplain where predatory birds hover over fields, eels coil in the river mud, buses run twice a day, neighbors barter honey for cider and no one looks like...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Equal parts fantastical -- a pair of talking dolls help twins escape a stifling home, a heart boils on the stove as part of an elaborate cure for melancholy -- and true to life -- a mother and daughter try to heal their rift when the daughter falls unexpectedly pregnant, a woman reexamines her father's legacy after his death -- the stories in this collection are hopeful and heartbreaking, full of danger and full of joy. Chung is a master at capturing...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Get ready for another twisty domestic thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of THE SOULMATE. From the outside, Alicia, Jessica and Norah might seem like ordinary women you'd meet on the street any day of the week. Sure, Jessica has a little OCD and Norah has some anger issues. And Alicia has low self-esteem that manifests itself in surprising ways. But these three have a bond that no one can fully understand. It's a bond that takes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alpina deti
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Russian
Description
Konni decides she's big enough to get an allowance -- she wants to buy so many new toys! But a toy pony costs more than a couple of rubles, so she needs to save up. Learn about money, saving and banking along with Konni as she saves for her toy pony.
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape
Pub. Date
2016
Language
Español
Description
"Han pasado dos décadas desde que Julia, la hermana mayor de Claire y Lydia, desapareció sin dejar rastro a los 19 años. Tiempo después, ellas dejaron de comunicarse y tomaron caminos opuestos. Sin embargo, ninguna de las dos se había recuperado del horror y la tristeza de su tragedia compartida: una herida atroz que se reabrió cruelmente al morir asesinado el esposo de Claire. ¿Qué relación podía haber entre ambos hechos?"--Cover.
10) Day One
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Marty seems to do no wrong. Trent can't seem to get things right. When they are thrown together by tragedy, they find their futures may be defined by more than just their good intentions. Stonesmere is an English seaside suburb, defined by poignant traditions passed from generation to generation. Marty is a golden girl here, albeit one who quietly chafes against the legacy of her father's accomplishments and the care of her saintly mother--an outsider...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
"Marcus Vega mide seis pies de altura, pesa 180 libras y luce un incipiente bigote. Cuando tienes esta apariencia y apenas estás en octavo grado, te conviertes en una figura imponente y, al mismo tiempo, en un blanco fácil. Después de un altercado en la escuela que resulta en una suspensión para Marcus, su madre decide que es hora de un cambio de ambiente. Los lleva a él y a su hermano menor a Puerto Rico para pasar una semana con parientes a...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a tumultuous childhood, Christa Liddle has hidden away, both figuratively and literally. Happily studying sea snails in the middle of the Indian Ocean, Christa finds her tranquil existence thrown into chaos when her once-famous father--long thought dead after a plane crash--turns out to be alive, well, and ready to make amends. The world goes wild, fascinated by this real-life saga, pinning Christa and her family under the spotlight. As if...
14) It had to be you
Author
Series
Under suspicion (Mary Higgins Clark) volume 8
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Years after their parents' murder, identical twin brothers, determined to clear one name at the expense of the other, ask Laura Moran and her Under Suspicion crew to solve this brutal crime and as they get close to the truth, they find the danger from the past finding its way into the present.
Author
Series
Dark empire volume 1
Publisher
Dark Ink Publishing
Pub. Date
©2020 [2022]
Language
English
Description
"His family killed my brother, so I stole his bride...I was there to murder her father, but then I saw her walking down the aisle. She's been my secret obsession for too long. The sinfully beautiful Calabresi princess. Sloan was the perfect payment for their crimes. Now she's mine. Mine to claim. Mine to possess. Mine to destroy. Her fiance is still hunting for us, but his bride might not be so innocent by the time he tracks her down. I'm lining her...
Author
Series
Castle Knoll files volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A dual narrative, feel good mystery in which a woman, Frances, spends a lifetime trying to prevent her murder as predicted by a fortune teller at a country fair when she was just 17. When she is in fact murdered nearly 60 years later, her great niece Annie must solve the crime to avenge her great aunt's death, and in so doing uncovers the dark heart of the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, where she might just find herself in the path of the...
17) The limits
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A novel set in French Polynesia and New York City about three characters--a fifteen year old girl toggling between her mother, a marine biologist studying coral reefs on an island off the coast of Tahiti, and her father, a surgeon in Manhattan--who undergo massive transformations over the course of a single year"-- Provided by publisher.
From Mo'orea, a tiny volcanic island off the coast of Tahiti, a French biologist obsessed with saving Polynesia's...
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