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2024.
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Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the...
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Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm.
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"No hay delirio mas voraz que el deseo. Se alimenta de lo que sabe y no sabe, crece mejor en las sombras, en los santuarios prohibidos, en las distancias insalvables.(S1(B S es una escritora que vive en Londres. Ha perdido a un hijo y con el todo lo que la ataba a la vida, incluido su matrimonio. F es abogado y lleva junto a su mujer un pasar tranquilo en Santiago de Chile. S y F se conocen en Londres y a partir de entonces comienzan a reunirse clandestinamente...
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Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 20 cm
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"Morag MacIntyre is a Scottish lass from the remote islands that make up the northernmost reaches of the UK. She's also a third-generation pilot, the heir apparent to an island plane service she runs with her grandfather. The islands--over 500 dots of windswept land that reach almost to Norway--rely on their one hardworking prop plane to deliver mail, packages, tourists, medicine, and the occasional sheep. As the keeper of this vital lifeline, Morag...
4) Apia de Roma
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Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
639 pages : black and white illustrations on page 8 ; 23 cm
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Apia P̤pulus est̀ a punto de perder a su madre. A pesar de su corta edad, conforme a las costumbres imperantes, contrae matrimonio con Salvio Sextus, un pr̤spero comerciante de perlas de edad avanzada. En el Palatino, el barrio m̀s encumbrado de la ciudad, la joven debe revestirse con una coraza para enfrentar la vida con alguien a quien no ama, cumplir con sus obligaciones de ama y defender su casa de las confabulaciones pol̕ticas. Roma es un...
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Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
335 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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"A través de la conversación entre Oprah Winfrey y el Dr. Perry, en este libro descubrirás cómo lo que nos sucede en la primera infancia tiene una gran influencia sobre la persona adulta en que nos convertimos. También comprenderás que las adversidades que experimentamos impactan en nuestra salud física y emocional y qué dice la ciencia sobre los patrones de comportamiento que nos cuesta tanto entender. Este libro te ofrece una nueva perspectiva...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm
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"From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in late 19th century Scotland. Growing up in the care of her grandparents on Belhaven farm, Lizzie Craig discovers at a young age that she can see into the future. Her gift of sight is selective-she doesn't, for instance, see that she has an older sister who will come to join the family on...
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Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 150 pages ; 20 cm
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Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton calls forth his life's work to show us how to cope with the lasting effects and legacy of the Covid-19 pandemic. Drawing on responses of survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nazi death camps, Lifton shows readers how we can carry on and live meaningful lives even in the face of the tragic and the absurd.
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Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
183 pages ; 23 cm
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El viaje de los colibries ocupa ya un lugar en los corazones de los lectores mexicanos, desde que Sue Zurita publico una edicion independiente hace ocho anos con la que logro llegar a mas de 70 mil personas. Esta nueva edicion, revisada y actualizada, incluye un capitulo inedito: un nuevo final para Romina. Que fue de ella? A donde fue? Que experiencias vivio? Todo ello se cuenta en el nuevo desenlace de la novela.
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xiii, 283 pages ; 24 cm
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"On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie’s pocket. Her target is Daniel, who seduced Kyoko’s mother then callously dropped her, leading to her death. But tonight, there will be repercussions. Following the unsuspecting Daniel home, Kyoko manages to get a rash kidnapping plot off the ground . . . and then nothing goes as planned. The Fetishist is the story of three people—Kyoko,...
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