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Annie Walker is on a quest to find her perfect match—someone who complements her happy, quiet life running the local flower shop in Rome, Kentucky. But finding her dream man may be harder than Annie imagined. Everyone knows everyone in her hometown, and the dating prospects are getting fewer by the day. After she overhears her latest date say she is “so unbelievably boring,” Annie starts to think the problem might be her. Is it too late to become flirtatious and fun like the leading ladies in her favorite romance movies? Maybe she only needs a little practice . . . and Annie has the perfect person in mind to be her tutor: Will Griffin. Will—the sexy , tattooed, and absolutely gorgeous bodyguard—is temporarily back in Rome, providing security for Amelia Rose as excitement builds for her upcoming marriage to Noah Walker, Annie’s brother. He has one personal objective while on the job: stay away from Annie Walker and any other possible attachments to this sleepy town. But no sooner than he gets settled, Will finds himself tasked with helping Annie find the love of her life by becoming the next leading lady of Rome, Kentucky.

A los veintidós, Veronique Vincent desfila por las pasarelas de todo el mundo. Entre la semana de la moda de París y una sesión fotográfica en Tokio, tiene la oportunidad de hacer un pequeño descanso, pero su vida da un giro a causa de una trágica explosión en el aeropuerto de Bruselas. En el hospital, Veronique descubre que el atentado le ha arrebatado a las dos personas que más amaba y que, además, las heridas han cambiado para siempre su apariencia. Es entonces cuando el testamento de su madre y una carta inesperada le ofrecen oportunidades que nunca creyó posibles. Poco a poco, forja nuevos vínculos y revisita los antiguos, encuentra paz en ayudar a los demás y redefine lo que es realmente la belleza.

Generations of readers have fallen in love with Jane Austen’s beloved classic Pride and Prejudice. The sparkling Elizabeth Bennet, the taciturn Fitzwilliam Darcy, and an array of characters that range from irrepressible to almost irredeemable, move through this comedy of manners about the danger of first impressions. Set in a provincial world away from London, Austen’s novel pokes fun at the machinations of courtship rituals while celebrating the importance of friendship and sisterhood.

Jane Austen began writing Pride and Prejudice when she was just twenty years old, though it would not be published until seventeen years later, in 1813. Widely regarded as one of the first romantic comedies in literary history, the novel’s entanglements and misunderstandings are deftly interwoven with a sharp, ironic critique of English society. Mrs Bennet is determined to secure a prosperous future for her five daughters through advantageous marriages. Her second-eldest, Elizabeth, is just as resolute that Fitzwilliam Darcy – the most arrogant, self-important man she has ever met – will not be one of her suitors. Darcy, in turn, considers Elizabeth an unfit match due to her lower social standing and limited connections. Yet the heart seldom obeys reason, and both are forced to examine their own prejudices in the pursuit of true love.

No novel in English has given more pleasure than Pride and Prejudice. Because it is one of the great works in our literature, critics in every generation reexamine and reinterpret it. But the rest of us simply fall in love with it--and with its wonderfully charming and intelligent heroine, Elizabeth Bennet. We are captivated not only by the novel's romantic suspense but also by the fascinations of the world we visit in its pages. The life of the English country gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century is made as real to us as our own, not only by Jane Austen's wit and feeling but by her subtle observation of the way people behave in society and how we are true or treacherous to each other and ourselves.

Un visión humana sobre el exilio y la dictadura en la que, curiosamente, no llegamos a perder la esperanza. Primavera con una esquina rota es un testimonio directo y dolorido que trata de una sociedad escindida, fracturada por la represión y el autoritarismo, e intenta ser un puente entre dos regiones -el Uruguay bajo la dictadura y el Uruguay del exilio- que constituyen un solo y lacerado país. Más allá de los acontecimientos políticos, la novela se centra en la profunda conmoción que estos provocan en las relaciones humanas de los individuos que los sufren. Como en el resto de su obra, Mario Benedetti combina aquí ternura, denuncia, pasión, amor e Historia para transmitir al lector un mensaje de esperanza: la primavera, aunque mutilada, relevará por fin a un invierno que se anunciaba inacabable.