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Félix Chacaltana Saldívar es un burócrata que lleva una vida sin sobresaltos como fiscal del distrito adjunto en Lima. Pero todo cambia cuando es enviado a su natal Ayacucho, al que regresa después de muchos años y donde debe encargarse de una extraña investigación de asesinato. En medio de las celebraciones de Semana Santa y enfrentado a la indiferencia de sus superiores, las pesquisas lo llevarán por caminos cada vez más oscuros, en los que descubrirá hasta dónde pueden llegar un hombre y la sociedad cuando la muerte se convierte en la única certeza. En este impactante thriller Santiago Roncagliolo explora los últimos años de un periodo sangriento y aterrador en la historia de Perú, cuando la ideología terrorista de Sendero Luminoso y un gobierno marcado por el hambre y la corrupción se enfrentaron en una guerra terrible, en la que sobornos, intrigas, torturas, asesinatos y desapariciones fueron el pan de cada día.

En los albores del siglo XIX, viajamos de la mano de Jane Austen a Sanditon, una localidad costera decidida a convertirse en el reclamo turístico del momento: un balneario excepcional para recibir a la más alta sociedad, un lugar de recreo y sanatorio gracias a las virtudes del mar. Allí, asistiremos a la pugna de sus personajes por lograr ubicar Sanditon en el mapa. En pleno cambio social, la autora, sagaz observadora, desenfunda el sable de su afilada ironía y retrata a una comunidad excéntrica, dividida entre personajes pretenciosos y arrogantes. Sanditon es su última e inconclusa novela y un regalo póstumo para sus lectores.

Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht-the night his family loses everything. As her child's safety becomes ever harder to guarantee, Samuel's mother secures a spot for him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin. Arizona, 2019. Eight decades later, Anita Dìaz and her mother board another train, fleeing looming danger in El Salvador and seeking refuge in the United States. But their arrival coincides with the new family separation policy, and seven-year-old Anita finds herself alone at a camp in Nogales. She escapes her tenuous reality through her trips to Azabahar, a magical world of the imagination. Meanwhile, Selena Durán, a young social worker, enlists the help of a successful lawyer in hopes of tracking down Anita's mother. Intertwining past and present, The Wind Knows My Name tells the tale of these two unforgettable characters, both in search of family and home. It is both a testament to the sacrifices that parents make and a love letter to the children who survive the most unfathomable dangers-and never stop dreaming.

The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother’s husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects his wealth no matter the cost, all the while war cries are heard from France, as Napoleon sets forth a violent master plan to become emperor of the world. As institutions are challenged and toppled in unprecedented fashion, ripples of change ricochet through our characters’ lives as they are left to reckon with the future and a world they must rebuild from the ashes of war.

What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke and fled the country? The answer is in The Exchange, the riveting sequel to The Firm, the blockbuster thriller that launched the career of America’s favorite storyteller. It is now fifteen years later, and Mitch and Abby are living in Manhattan, where Mitch is a partner at the largest law firm in the world. When a mentor in Rome asks him for a favor that will take him far from home, Mitch finds himself at the center of a sinister plot that has worldwide implications—and once again endangers his colleagues, friends, and family. Mitch has become a master at staying one step ahead of his adversaries, but this time there’s nowhere to hide.

En una mansión del elegante barrio de Chelsea, la policía encuentra a una bebé en su cuna. Bien alimentada, cuidada y feliz, espera a que la cojan en brazos. En la cocina de esa misma casa hay tres cadáveres en estado de descomposición. Junto a ellos, una nota escrita a toda prisa. Veinticinco años después Libby, esa bebé a quien encontraron con vida, regresa al lugar que esconde su origen familiar y el más oscuro de los secretos.