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Calabria, 1960. Francesca Loftfield, a twenty-seven-year-old, starry-eyed American, arrives in the isolated mountain village of Santa Chionia tasked with opening a nursery school. There is no road, no doctor, no running water or electricity. And thanks to a recent flood that swept away the post office, there’s no mail, either. Most troubling, though, is the human skeleton that surfaced after the flood waters receded. Who is it? And why don’t the police come and investigate? When the local priest’s housekeeper begs Francesca to help determine if the remains are those of her long-missing son, Francesca begins to ask a lot of inconvenient questions. As an outsider, she might be the only person who can uncover the truth. Or she might be getting in over her head. As she attempts to juggle a nosy landlady, a suspiciously dashing shepherd, and a network of local families bound together by a code of silence, Francesca finds herself forced to choose between the charitable mission that brought her to Santa Chionia, and her future happiness, between truth and survival. Set in the wild heart of Calabria, a land of sheer cliff faces, ancient tradition, dazzling sunlight—and one of the world’s most ruthless criminal syndicates—The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia is a suspenseful puzzle mystery, a captivating romance, and an affecting portrait of a young woman in search of a meaningful life.

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A murder victim dumped at the dead end of a lonely country road, face and hands obliterated by a shotgun blast, is not the way sheriff’s detective Nick Fourcade wants to start his week. His only lead takes him to the family of a hometown hero suddenly gone missing. Marc Mercier left his home for a weekend hunting trip and hasn’t been seen since. Meanwhile, sheriff’s detective Annie Broussard begins her first day back on the job after suffering a brutal attack by taking on the case of B’Lynn Fontenot, a mother desperate to find her grown son, a recovering drug addict. Robbie Fontenot has been missing for eight days, but the local police have no interest in the case, telling B’Lynn that an adult has the right to disappear, and a missing addict is no big surprise. But B’Lynn swears her son was turning his life around. Sympathetic to a mother’s anguish, Annie agrees to help B’Lynn, knowing she’s about to start a turf war with the city police.

Hace diez años la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española pensó este Quijote para todos. Hoy se reedita -en edición limitada- para conmemorar los 400 años de la muerte de su autor. Los años 2015 y 2016 conforman un bienio de aniversarios cervantinos. A la celebración del IV Centenario de la publicación de la segunda parte de Don Quijote (2015), le sigue, en 2016, la conmemoración del IV Centenario de la muerte de su autor, Miguel de Cervantes. Como ocurrió hace más de una década, las Academias de la Lengua Española y la editorial Alfaguara se unen a esta celebración con la reedición de este clásico universal, que llevaba siete años fuera de las librerías. Esta edición reproduce el texto crítico y las notas de Francisco Rico, a su vez coordinador del volumen, y se completa con estudios de escritores y filólogos de la talla de Mario Vargas Llosa, Francisco Ayala, Martín de Riquer, José Manuel Blecua, Guillermo Rojo, José Antonio Pascual, Margit Frenk y Claudio Guillén.Como novedad, la presente edición cuenta con un prólogo de Darío Villanueva, director de la Real Academia Española, escrito especialmente para la ocasión. La crítica ha dicho... «Lo considero un libro para el siglo XXI.» Mario Vargas Llosa «Uno de los grandes acontecimientos literarios del año.» ABC «El volumen tiene una sobria y elegante presentación y una cuidadísima realización.» José Andrés Rojo, El País