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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it 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 and 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 mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives."--...
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Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Entre ironías, burlas, improperios, maldiciones, blasfemias, este librito sin pretensiones hará reír a muchos e iluminará a montones. Trata modestamente de apresar el cambio frenético que se ha apoderado del mundo. Su autor vive en la Luna y desde allá dispara. Es un francotirador lunático que abre fuego contra el que sea: presidentes, papas, reguetoneros, raperos, médicos... Y con especial delectación contra las reverendas madres, perpetuadoras...
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Language
English
Formats
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"The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly--and dangerously--collide in this dramatic debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a city at war with itself. Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. Instead, she's locked away playing...
Author
Publisher
Plata
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
Español
Description
"Kiara Johnson no sabe lo que es tener la vida de una chica de diecisiete años normal. Con su madre en un hogar de transición tras salir de la cárcel y un hermano mayor que solo dedica su tiempo y su dinero a un estudio de grabación, tiene que valerse por sí misma; también intenta ayudar a Trevor, un crío de nueve años a cuya madre le da por desaparecer varios días seguidos cuando le viene en gana. Cuando el arrendador de su bloque de pisos...
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After having her heart broken, seventeen-year-old Nora Nichols decides to escape her hometown and take a summer job as an arts and crafts counsellor at an all-girls' camp in the mountains of West Virginia. There, she meets girls and women from all walks of life with their own heartaches and triumphs. But when a letter from home comes bearing unexpected news, Nora finds inner strength in her devastation with the healing power of female friendship....
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Perfect for fans of Daisy Jones & The Six and Almost Famous, a gripping debut about the complicated legacy of a legendary rock band and the ghostwriter telling their story. Three Rock & Roll icons. Two explosive tell-all memoirs. One ghostwriter caught in the middle. Mari Hawthorn has just landed the biggest job of her ghostwriting career. Anke Berben, the legendary model and style icon, needs someone for her hotly anticipated memoir. In the 1960s,...
Author
Publisher
B del Bosillo
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
"Danielle Kohan es una joven y ambiciosa abogada que está consiguiendo todo lo que se ha propuesto en la vida y tiene muy claro dónde va a estar dentro de cinco años: casada con su novio David y socia de un importante bufete. Sin embargo, la misma noche en la que uno de los más prestigiosos despachos de abogados de Manhattan la contrata y en la que su novio le propone matrimonio, Dannie vive una experiencia de lo más extraña: se ve en un loft...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Terrosa, Extremadura, agosto de 1850. Un calor sofocante y despiadado. Una mujer que aguarda la llegada de un carruaje. Un viajero que cambiará el futuro del pueblo. Hace tiempo que Candela asumió que nunca obtendría el amor de su padre, Bernardo Salazar, el hombre al que más admira y al que más le gustaría odiar. Ahora solo desea casarse con la persona que ella ya ha elegido, llenar por fin esa necesidad de afecto y vivir para siempre en Terrosa...
Author
Series
The kings of Avalier volume 2
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In an effort to save her sick aunt, nineteen-year-old Kailani took out a loan she knew she would never be able to repay. Now, the only way she has any chance of paying it back is if she accepts a job as the Elf King's personal assistant. Rather than fulfilling her dream of studying medicine, she has no choice but to help the king find a wife so his council will fund his war against the bloodthirsty queen who killed his entire family. The king is...
11) Hereafter
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This film peers at an intriguing question--is there an afterlife?--through the lens of George, Marie, and Marcus, who are each tortured in different ways by the thought of life after death. George Lonegan is psychic. It was once his career: he was "the man who can speak to the dead," with a high-traffic website, and a popular biography. But he fled that life, unable to cope with the emotional burden of his abilities. Marie Lelay is a French TV presenter...
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