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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
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"Escapando de un país violento que no le ofrece futuro alguno, Violeta emigra de la Ciudad de México a San Francisco para comenzar de nuevo y cumplir su sueño de convertirse en escritora. En California conoce a Anders, un joven sueco que la motiva tanto intelectual como afectivamente, pero con un aura de tristeza que la intriga. Al paso de los días, la conexión entre ellos se hace más fuerte y Violeta siente que ha recuperado esa fe en la humanidad...
3) Susceptible
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Trapped in a disabled van, Dan Stark finds himself surrounded by darkness concealing his enemy and igniting his imagination. A supernatural presence that, for years, had hovered on the fringe of his awareness also looms outside; as real as the black night engulfing that deserted country road, and as real as Mack, a demented psychopath, and his cohorts closing in on Dan’s hapless traveling acting troupe.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"La novela premiada es un intenso thriller psicológico protagonizado y relatado en primera persona por Raquel, una joven profesora de literatura en horas bajas que acepta una suplencia en un instituto de Novariz, el pueblo de donde, casualmente, procede su marido. En su primer día de trabajo, la joven se entera de que Elvira, su predecesora, se ha suicidado y al finalizar las clases encuentra en su bolso una nota que dice: "¿Y tú cuánto vas a...
5) Méjico
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
In Méjico, Antonio Ortuño presents two tales that traverse the Atlantic in a way like no one has before. This is a story of the militian men who fled to Mexico following the failure of the Republican cause, but also a story of one of their descendants, living in Guadalajara, who is forced to flee to the Iberian continent in order to escape a sour settling of accounts with a local politician.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"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...
7) Girl in ice
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of The River at Night and Into the Jungle comes a harrowing new thriller as a linguist, broken-hearted after the apparent suicide of her glaciologist brother, ventures hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle to try to communicate with a young girl who has thawed from the ice alive"--
8) Breathless
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Journalist Cecily Wong is in over her head. She's come to Mount Manaslu, the eighth highest peak in the world, to interview internationally famous mountaineer Charles McVeigh on the last leg of a record-breaking series of summits. She's given up everything for this story--her boyfriend, her life savings, the peace she's made with her climbing failures in the past--but it's a career-making opportunity. It could finally put her life back on track....
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Nueva York, 2011. Una chica de quince anos aparece crucificada en una iglesia de un suburbio a las afueras. Miren Triggs, periodista de investigacion del Manhattan Press, recibe de manera inesperada un extrano sobre. En su interior, la polaroid de una chica amordazada y maniatada, con una sola anotaci?on: "GINA PEBBLES, 2002". Miren Triggs y Jim Schmoer, su antiguo profesor de periodismo, seguiran la pista de la chica de la fotografia mientras...
10) Fin de guardia
Author
Series
Bill Hodges trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
Español
Description
Al detective retirado Hodges, que dirige una agencia de investigacion privada con Holly, le diagnostican un cancer de pancreas: le quedan meses de vida. En ese momento Hodges investiga una serie de suicidios recientes con un punto en comun: todos los fallecidos tuvieron relacion con Brady Hartsfield, el tristemente famoso Mercedes, que hace anos planeo volar una sala de conciertos de rock llena de adolescentes. Hodges y Holly dejaron al asesino en...
11) Radiant heat
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When a catastrophic wildfire suddenly rips through a woman's hometown, she thinks she is lucky to have survived...until she finds a dead woman in her driveway, clutching a piece of paper with her name on it.... Alison is alive. She rode out the fire on the damp tiles of her bathroom, her entire body swaddled in a wet woolen blanket. The flames crackled around her, the bitter char of eucalyptus settling in the back of her throat. The wildfire devastated...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Ibon Martin, the master of suspense, is back. After the success of The Tulip Dance, Ibon Martin returns with a sinuous, magnetic and impeccable thriller, in which Ane Cestero and his special unit confront an enemy with multiple faces: the irrational hatred that can inhabit any of us.
Nadie como Ibon Mart?in para sumergirnos en uno de los enclaves m?as sobrecogedores de la costa vasca. El odio es el enemigo m?as peligroso. Las gaviotas sobrevuelan...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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"--
17) La herida
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Una monja desaparece, dejando un enigmático mensaje, y un colaborador del papa Francisco les encarga a dos agentes de Inteligencia buscarla por cielo y tierra. En paralelo, una operadora política despedida por la Casa Rosada es contratada por el gobernador de un feudo patagónico para mejorar su imagen y evitarle una catástrofe electoral. Con la ayuda de Remil ?un perturbador agente que trabaja desde las sombras?, ella se vale de todo: espionaje...
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
In this riveting medical thriller--from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author--Dr. Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origins and cure of a mysterious new killer virus as it brings the world to its knees.
Un thriller medico escrito antes de la pandemia sobre la llegada de un virus letal que arrasa con la poblaci?on mundial, de la mano del ganador del Premio Pulitzer, Lawrence Wright. Cuando el epidemi?ologo...
19) Out of the rain
Author
Series
(Virginia C.).Umbrella lady volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Out of the Rain follows Saffron Anders as she leaves the clutches of the umbrella lady and reunites with her family. But this reunion may not be as happy as it seems.
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