LETRAS

The highly anticipated, funny, sad, thrilling novel about sex, class, desire, and power - and the (often misguided) lengths we'll go to to get what we want, from Jennette McCurdy, the three-million copy, Sunday Times bestselling author of "I'm Glad My Mom Died".

Mackenzie Allen Philip's youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant THE SHACK wrestles with the timeless Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain? The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him.

Not for the first time, Jill “Doll” Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth, reconstituting as she falls, right down to her favorite black pumps. She plummets towards her newest charge, yet another soul she must usher into the afterlife, and lands headfirst in the circular drive of his ornate mansion. She has performed this sacred duty 343 times since her own death. Her charges, as a rule, have been greatly comforted in their final moments. But this charge, she soon discovers, isn’t like the others. The powerful K. J. Boone will not be consoled, because he has nothing to regret. He lived a big, bold, epic life, and the world is better for it. Isn’t it?

Everyone at Chantilly’s Bar noticed out-of-towner Camille Bayliss. Red lips, designer heels, sipping a Negroni. But that woman wasn’t Camille Bayliss. It was Aubrey Price. Camille Bayliss appears to have the picture-perfect life; she’s married to hotshot lawyer Ben and is the daughter of a wealthy Louisiana family. Only nothing is as it seems: Camille believes Ben has been hiding dirty secrets for years, but she can’t find proof because he tracks her every move. Aubrey Price has been haunted by the terrible night that changed her life a decade ago, and she’s convinced Benjamin Bayliss knows something about it. Living in a house full of criminals, Aubrey understands there’s more than one way to get to the truth—and she may have found the best way in. Aubrey and Camille hatch a plan. It sounds simple: For twelve hours, Aubrey will take Camille’s place. Camille will spy on Ben, and the two women will get the answers they desperately seek. Except the next morning, Ben is found murdered. Both women need an airtight alibi, but only one of them has it. And one false step is all it takes for everything to come undone.

Con la placidez y tranquilidad de quien ha sabido adaptarse a lo que la vida le ha deparado, Eszter habita la casa que heredó de su padre en compañía de una pariente anciana. Hasta que un día, inesperadamente, recibe un telegrama de Lajos, viejo amigo de la familia, anunciando su inminente visita. Canalla, encantador y sin escrúpulos, con unas magníficas dotes de actor que le confieren un poder de seducción irresistible, Lajos no solo traicionó a Eszter, sino que también destruyó a su familia y les quitó todo lo que poseían, salvo la casa en la que viven, cuyo jardín es su único y escaso medio de subsistencia. Ahora, tras una prolongada ausencia, Lajos regresa y Eszter se prepara para recibirlo conmovida por un torbellino de sentimientos contradictorios.

Richard Friedenthal, editor y gran amigo de Stefan Zweig, reunió, en“El legado de Europa”, aquellos ensayos en que el escritor austríaco rinde homenaje a los artistas que supieron expresar la esencia de la conciencia común europea. Tras la fragmentación de esa patria compartida que fue Europa, Zweig la reconstruyó en el único mundo que le era posible, el del espíritu. En esta reconstrucción le ayudaron aquellos autores que fueron sus compañeros de viaje: Montaigne, Chateaubriand, Wassermann, Rilke, Roth... Artistas y amigos que, a modo de herencia, nos lega para inmortalizarlos en el tiempo, para que permanezcan imperecederamenteen nuestra conciencia.