NOVEDADES

John Grisham is known worldwide for his bestselling novels, but it’s his real-life passion for justice that led to his work with Jim McCloskey of Centurion Ministries, the first organization dedicated to exonerating innocent people who have been wrongly convicted. Together they offer an inside look at the many injustices in our criminal justice system. A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty, there is very little room to prove doubt. These ten true stories shed light on Americans who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic hard-fought battles for exoneration. They take a close look at what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place and the racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and corruption in the court system that can make them so hard to reverse.

La historia resumida de nuestra frontera con Haití realmente llena un espacio importante en lo que es la historiografía en nuestra nación. Enfoca su autor un tema trascendente que debe ser conocido, no solo por el estudiantado de este país sino de todos los dominicanos, dada la importancia que significa para toda la nación, conocer los confines que definen su soberanía territorial.

Huir parecía su única salida. Y lo era. Rosaura Castán ha tenido poca suerte en la vida. Su madre murió cuando ella era una adolescente en un accidente y se culpa de esa tragedia. Ese hecho provocó el extrañamiento de su familia. Desde muy joven aprendió a vivir sola; tuvo un niño, Adrián, fruto de una relación esporádica y a quien quiere con toda su alma. El muchacho era el hijo perfecto, excelente estudiante de la carrera de matemáticas, adoraba a su madre… aunque había cosas que no le contaba. Cuando Adrián aparece asesinado en un parque de Madrid, Rosaura, literalmente, enloquece de dolor, hasta el punto de que, ciega de ira, arrolla con un coche a un joven conflictivo al que todo apuntaba como el autor del homicidio. Rosaura es llevada a juicio y condenada a prisión por la muerte de un inocente. El asesino de su hijo sigue libre, así que la única obsesión de la mujer cuando obtenga su primer permiso penitenciario será encontrar como sea al verdadero culpable del crimen.

A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common. Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak. Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them? But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex…right?

The Nightbirds were once their city’s best-kept secret, but now the secret’s out. What’s more, they can do magic no one has seen in centuries. They’re like the Fyrebirds of old: the powerful women who once moved mountains, parted seas, and led armies. Some say that when four join together, they become a force that shakes the earth and sends magic rippling through it. It does seem as if something has awoken in Eudea, but the four girls responsible don’t want the world to know the full extent of what they can do—at least not yet.

Un pequeño movimiento en la comisura de la boca, el más mínimo cambio en la pupila, son suficientes para «leer» el verdadero yo de una persona. Hannah Herbst es experta en reconocer las señales secretas del cuerpo humano y, como asesora policial, ha atrapado a varios delincuentes peligrosos. Mientras se enfrenta a las consecuencias de la pérdida de memoria después de someterse a una operación, se encuentra ante el caso más terrible de su carrera: una mujer ha asesinado brutalmente a su familia y tras su confesión ha logrado escapar. Hannah dispone únicamente del breve vídeo en el que la asesina admite su culpabilidad para analizar el caso. El único problema es que... la asesina del vídeo es la propia Hannah.