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2023
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Español
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Una historia de confusiones, errores y cómo aprovechar al máximo las segundas oportunidades, esta es la nueva novela del autor número uno en ventas del New York Times, Jojo Moyes, autor de Me Before You y The Giver of Stars ¿Quién eres cuando estás? ¿Obligado a caminar en los zapatos de otra persona? Nisha Cantor y Sam Kemp son dos mujeres muy diferentes. Nisha, de 45 años, vive la vida trotamundos de los realmente ricos, hasta que, inexplicablemente,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"In the heady days before a New Year's Eve party on the bustling sands of Brazil's Copacabana Beach, a family reckons with a matriarch's long-awaited return, causing old secrets to come to light in this infectiously vibrant debut that explores the heartbreak and hope of what it means to be from two homes, two peoples, and two worlds"--
5) ¡PING!
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Susana siempre compró la idea de tenerlo todo: la carrera como hábil y temida consultora política; el matrimonio de ensueño; los gemelos que corren felices sembrando el terror por su casa. Sólo había que adaptarse, administrar el tiempo y aceptar el sentido natural de las cosas. Pero la realidad es traicionera. El trabajo no admite los medios tiempos; las labores de cuidado te devoran; la exigencia familiar de perfección no te quita el ojo;...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"From the author of the New York Times-bestselling sensation Mostly Dead Things: a surprising and moving story of two mothers, one difficult son, and the limitations of marriage, parenthood, and love If she's being honest, Sammie Lucas is scared of her son. Working from home in the close quarters of their Florida house, she lives with one wary eye peeled on Samson, a sullen, unknowable boy who resists her every attempt to bond with him. Uncertain...
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Series
Compactos 50 volume 49
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
La familia de Addie Bundren se prepara para cumplir su última voluntad: enterrarla en la tierra de sus antepasados. El viaje de los Bundren –blancos, pobres, pero sobre todo muy humanos– se convertirá en una odisea coral donde el trayecto se entrecruza con sus respectivos itinerarios vitales: los de unos personajes guiados por un enconado sentimiento de deber al honor que, no obstante, irá desenmascarando también actitudes y sentimientos menos...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"A ... psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family, about a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for--and everything she feared. Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting, supportive mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter--Violet rejects...
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Series
Peachtree Bluff novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Leaving fans "practically [begging] for a sequel" (Bookpage), critically acclaimed author Kristy Woodson Harvey returns with the second novel in her beloved Peachtree Bluff series, featuring a trio of sisters and their mother who discover a truth that will change not only the way they see themselves, but also how they fit together as a family. After finding out her military husband is missing in action, middle sister Sloane's world crumbles as her...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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Cuando la joven Victoria regresa a Madrid después de unos años en Viena, se enfrenta a la encorsetada vida social de las mujeres de la alta burguesía española. La época en que frecuentaba los salones literarios vieneses y cultivaba su afición por la escritura parece haberse quedado atrás, pero ella no está dispuesta a resignarse. Mientras tanto, en la zona más popular de la capital, Diego trabaja en la imprenta familiar al tiempo que lucha...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
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Con humor y una escritura ágil, Ana Lucía Guerrero nos hace viajar por el México revolucionario entre refranes, matrimonios concertados y la ruptura de una familia que necesita perdonarse Teresa, la abuela, creció aislada en un orfanato en medio de la Sierra Gorda queretana, y desde pequeña ha visto con vergüenza su facilidad para servir como médium a las almas en pena. A través de ellas recibe la ubicación de un tesoro escondido y una popularidad...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"An uneasy alliance forms as two widows delve into their husbands' deadly and dangerous secrets--as they try to protect their own.... Together, these two widows will face a powerful foe determined to write a false narrative about the murders. In doing so, neither Flora nor Kirsten will remain the women the world thought they were"--
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"De'Andrea Whitman, her husband Malik, and their five-year-old daughter, Nina, are new to the upper-crust white suburb of Rolling Hills, Virginia-a move motivated by circumstance rather than choice. De'Andrea is heartbroken to leave her comfortable life in the Black oasis of Atlanta, and between her mother-in-law's Alzheimer's diagnosis, her daughter starting kindergarten, and the overwhelming whiteness of Rolling Hills, she finds herself struggling...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"From Booker-prize winning author Anne Enright, an astonishing novel about the love between mother and daughter--sometimes fierce, often painful, but always transcendent. "Carmel had been alone all her life. She had been alone since she was twelve years old. The baby knew all this. They looked at each other; one life into another life, and the baby knew exactly how alone her mother had been." Nell--funny, brave and so much loved--is a young woman...
19) Last summer
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Lifestyle journalist Ella Skye remembers every celebrity she interviewed, every politician she charmed between the sheets, and every socialite who eyed her with envy. The chance meeting with her husband, Damien; their rapid free fall into love; and their low-key, intimate wedding are all locked in her memory. But what she can't remember is the tragic car accident that ripped her unborn child from her. Ella can't even recall being pregnant. Hoping...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"The story of the unrivaled desire for healing and the power of familial bonds across five generations of Métis women and the land and bison that surround them"--
Written like a crooked Métis jig, A Grandmother Begins the Story follows five generations of women and bison as they reach for the stories that could remake their worlds and rebuild their futures. Carter is a young mother, recently separated. She is curious, angry, and on a quest to find...
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