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W. W. Norton & Company
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After a bad fall, Tom, in constant pain and addicted to painkillers at the cost of his relationships with his wife and son, realizes he can never work again and ends up in subsidized housing, where he hatches a scheme to commit convenience-check fraud with neighbors he considers lowlifes.
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"As the head of a prestigious movie studio for nearly two decades, Andy Westfield has had every conceivable professional luxury: a stunning office on the forty-fourth floor, a loyal assistant who can all but read his mind, access to a private jet and company cars. The son of Hollywood royalty, Andy always put his career before his marriage, and now, besides his daughter and young grandchildren, it's the only thing he truly loves. But then Andy's world...
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Park Row Books
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After her husband asks for a divorce on their anniversary, acclaimed radio host Ginny Splinter impulsively invites four heartbroken listeners to join her on her holiday to Italy and, with her newfound friends, embarks on a vacation of healing and second chances.
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Cassandra Penelope Dankworth is a creature of habit. She likes what she likes (museums, jumpsuits, her boyfriend, Will) and strongly dislikes what she doesn't (mess, change, her boss drinking out of her mug). Her life runs in a pleasing, predictable order...until now. She's just been dumped. She's just been fired. Her local cafe has run out of banana muffins. Then, something truly unexpected happens: Cassie discovers she can go back and change the...
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Ediciones Kiwi
Pub. Date
2018.
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431 pages ; 23 cm
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"Mi padre abre el sobre lentamente y mama se inclina sobre su hombro. Ambos guardan silencion mientras leen la carta. Espero que my padre se levante de la silla y me abrace, que mi madre grite y empiece a llamar a mis tias para presumir de mi. Pero ninguno de los dos dice nada. En realidad me miran como si acabaran de recibir la peor noticia de su vida en lugar de la mejor. Vale, puede ser que esten tan sorprendidos que se han quedado sin palabras?"--Page...
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2023.
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When Kathleen Deane's husband, Tom, tells her he's no longer happy with his life and their marriage, Kathleen is confused. They live in Kansas. They've been married thirty years. Who said anything about being happy? But with Tom off finding himself, Kathleen starts to think about what she wants. And her thoughts lead her to a small beach community on the east coast, a town called Whitbey that has always looked lovely in the Christmas letters her childhood...
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[2023]
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In idyllic Alara Cove, a California beach town known for its sunny charm and chill surfer vibe, it’s graduation day at the elite Thornton Academy. At Thornton, the students are the worldly and overindulged children who live in gated enclaves with spectacular views. But the class valedictorian is Nikki Graziola, a surfer’s daughter who is there on scholarship. To the shock of everyone in the audience, Nikki veers off script while giving her commencement...
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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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Scout Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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436 pages ; 24 cm.
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Even when the climate crisis escalates beyond our worst nightmares and people become refugees, the world keeps turning and life carries on as usual: teenaged love stories, marital collapses, identity crises, and revolts against hopeless parents continue to play out. Didrik is a forty-year-old media consultant whose misguided efforts to become the family hero render him a pathetic vision of masculine incompetence. Melissa is an influencer with a suitcase...
11) Extranas
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Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2023.
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489 pages ; 24 cm.
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"Inglaterra, 1781. William Burton, un joven noble, afronta un encuentro cuya intensidad marcara y cambiara su vida. Resuelto, se embarca en una aventura donde conocera a los genios de la epoca, de quienes absorbera cuantos conocimientos y experiencias ponen a su alcance para encarar situaciones extremas. La amistad, el amor y la determinacion seran sus aliados para enfrentarse a un mundo bizarro y cruel, en el cual se pondra a prueba su caracter y...
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"Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law is a Hollywood icon. Radiant at sixty-two, she is the epitome of glamour and a highly respected artist. But her success has come at a price: She has a strained relationship with her daughter, Morgan, who at thirty-eight still blames Ardith for putting her career before being a mother. Morgan is a successful plastic surgeon in New York City--and the distance from Ardith's Bel Air mansion is not lost on either of them....
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Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long...
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Love walked in volume 5
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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298 pages ; 24 cm.
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Cornelia Brown is reeling from a terrifying act of violence when she gets word that her mother has been badly injured in an accident. Cornelia returns to Virginia, to the house she grew up in, and in the weeks that follow, she watches her mother Ellie struggle to recover, fluctuating between her usual crisp, can-do clarity and periods of delirium during which she seems haunted by a devastating loss from her past. In grief-stricken tones, Ellie begs...
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Puck
Pub. Date
2022.
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474 pages ; 22 cm
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"Orion Pagan lleva años esperando a que alguien le diga que va a morir. Ahora que se ha registrado en Muerte Súbita para saber si la grave enfermedad cardiovascular que padece acabará con él, está listo para empezar a vivir. Ese es el motivo por el que decide ir a un evento único e irrepetible: la víspera de Muerte Súbita en Times Square. Recibir su llamada de Último Día es algo que Valentino Prince jamás había imaginado, ya que ni siquiera...
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Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
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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...
17) Sangre azul
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Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2023.
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299 pages ; 23 cm
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"La Segunda Guerra Mundial obliga a una joven princesa a marcharse a un lugar donde el amor cambiara su vida para siempre. Londres, 1943. Las bombas caen sobre la ciudad y el rey y la reina deciden enviar a su hija menor a vivir en el campo con una familia de confianza. Tercera en la linea de sucesion al trono, la princesa Charlotte, de diecisiete anos, acepta a reganadientes usar un nombre falso a su llegada a Yorkshire. Pronto, Charlotte empieza...
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Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2020.
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435 pages ; 24 cm
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Bermondsey, 1920s. After her mother's death Kate is taken in by her father's sister, the quick-tempered Aunt Sylvie. Already struggling to feed children of her own, Aunt Sylvie treats Kate like an unwanted burden. Although Kate's father disappeared when she was a child, she still harbours hope that he will one day reappear and release her from this miserable existence. If only she knew why he left and what really happened to her mother... One day,...
19) Apia de Roma
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Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2023.
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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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A funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink--who finally pushes back. Grace Adams gave birth, blinked, and now suddenly she is forty-five, perimenopausal. and stalled-the unhappiest age you can be, according to the Guardian. And today she's really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she finally has had enough. To the astonishment of everyone, Grace gets out of her car and simply walks away. Grace sets off across...
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