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Inspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naiveté and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up.

Arcade and Daffodil are twins born one minute apart. With their fiery red hair and thirst for escape, they form an unbreakable bond nurtured by their grandmother’s stories. Together, they disappear into their imaginations and forge a world all their own.  But what the two sisters can’t escape are the generational ghosts that haunt their family. Growing up in the shadow of their rural Ohio town, the sisters cling tightly to one another. Years later, Arcade wrestles with the memories of her early life, just as a local woman is discovered drowned in the river. Soon, more bodies are found. As her friends disappear around her, Arcade is forced to reckon with the past while the killer circles closer. Arcade’s promise to keep herself and her sister safe becomes increasingly desperate and the powerful riptide of the savage side becomes more difficult to survive. Drawing from the true story of women killed in Chillicothe, Ohio, acclaimed novelist and poet Tiffany McDaniel has written a moving literary testament and fearless elegy for missing women everywhere.

Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enough, ex—military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. He knows this shooter–a trained military sniper who never should have missed a shot. Reacher is certain something is not right–and soon the slam-dunk case explodes. Now Reacher is teamed with a beautiful young defense lawyer, moving closer to the unseen enemy who is pulling the strings. Reacher knows that no two opponents are created equal. This one has come to the heartland from his own kind of hell. And Reacher knows that the only way to take him down is to match his ruthlessness and cunning–and then beat him shot for shot.

When Wren realizes her fiancé is in love with someone else, she thinks her heart will never recover. On the other side of the world, Anders lost his wife four years ago and is still struggling to move on. Wren hopes that spending the summer with her dad and step-family on their farm in Indiana will help her to heal. There, amid the cornfields and fireflies, she and Anders cross paths and their worlds are turned upside-down again. But Wren doesn't know that Anders is harboring a secret, and if he acts on any feelings he has for Wren it will have serious fall-out for everyone. Walking away would hurt Wren more than she can imagine. But, knowing the truth, how can she possibly stay?

Inglaterra, 1972. En plena Guerra Fría la joven estudiante Serena Frome es reclutada en Cambridge por el MI5. A partir de ese momento nada en su vida será lo que parece. Cada verdad oculta una mentira y detrás de cada lealtad se agazapa una traición. La misión que le encargan es crear una fundación para ayudar económicamente a novelistas prometedores, pero la verdadera finalidad es generar propaganda anticomunista. Y en su vida dominada por el engaño entra Tom Haley, joven escritor del que acabará enamorándose. Hasta que llega el momento en que tiene que decidir si seguir con su mentira o contarle la verdad, y será entonces cuando acaso se sabrá quién está engañando a quién. Esta deslumbrante novela se organiza como un ingenioso y perverso juego de muñecas rusas que atrapa y sorprende al lector con sucesivas vueltas de tuerca en las que realidad y ficción se funden y confunden. El autor se sirve de una trama de espionaje con toques de thriller para construir una historia en la que indaga el choque entre la lealtad y la traición, el amor y la redención, la honestidad y el engaño, la literatura y la realidad. Con esta narración de extraordinaria sutileza psicológica y precisa arquitectura, de trama trepidante y fina ironía, Ian McEwan demuestra una vez más que es un maestro consumado del arte de la novela.

En el amor y en la guerra las cosas no siempre son lo que parecen. Cuando hay espías de por medio, nunca lo son. Los servicios de inteligencia españoles han detectado en Madrid unas extrañas comunicaciones entre un ciudadano ruso y un miembro del Frente Polisario. Pronto se dan cuenta de que el Kremlin está buscando crear un nuevo conflicto entre Marruecos y Argelia que distraiga la atención sobre la guerra de Ucrania. El CNI ha de actuar con rapidez si quiere evitar otro conflicto internacional, y la única manera de hacerlo sin dejar ningún rastro es volver a recurrir a Asís, quien ha iniciado una nueva vida con su mujer en Mallorca. Sin embargo, cuando has sido espía, aunque fuera por accidente, tu pasado siempre acaba llamando a la puerta.