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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?

En marzo de 1948, Fintan Allen, que apenas tiene doce años, sube temeroso con su madre, la italiana Maou, a bordo de un buque que zarpa de Francia con destino a Onitsha, a orillas del río Níger. Allí les espera Geoffroy Allen, un ingles que trabaja para la compañía comercial UnitedAfrica y que partió a Onitsha movido por sus fantasiosos deseos de recorrer Egipto y Sudán para buscar las huellas de Meroe, el "último reino del Nilo". Mientras Maou cree que el reencuentro con su marido será el comienzo de una epoca feliz, Fintan desconfía de ese desconocido que es su padre y de lo que le aguarda en ese remoto continente. Lo cierto es que Çfrica ha abrasado a Geoffroy "como un secreto, como una fiebre", y que este ha quedado cautivado por las creencias y la historia de varios de sus antiquísimos pueblos. Y Maou y Fintan descubren, cada uno a su manera, un mundo nuevo, poblado por personajes singulares, como Okawho, Oya o Sabine Rodes. Ninguno de los tres, no obstante, se siente a gusto entre los blancos que componen la colonia, lo que les acarreará graves problemas. Veinte años despues, Fintan, profesor en Bristol, comprenderá que todo lo que vivió y vio en Çfrica lo marcó para siempre.

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.

«Había una vez una prostituta llamada María...» así, comienza la novela que conmovió al mundo. Once minutos es una obra de realismo social y crítico a través del erotismo y el sexo. Reclama la importancia de no negar los instintos que surgen del lado oscuro del deseo. Es la reivindicación de la sexualidad femenina y la exploración del miedo a la entrega total más allá de tus propias barreras. Porque el mundo gira alrededor de algo que dura solamente once minutos.

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.

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.