Fans of Jerry Apps will delight in his latest novel, ""Blue Shadows Farm"", which follows the intriguing family story of three generations on a Wisconsin farm. Silas Starkweather, a Civil War veteran, is drawn to Wisconsin and homesteads 160 acres in Ames County, where he is known as the mysterious farmer forever digging holes. After years of hardship and toil, however, Silas develops a commitment to farming his land and respect for his new community. When Silas' son Abe inherits Blue Shadows Fa...
What is the moment, that exact moment when everything changes and the friends you have been, become the lovers you might be? Soul mates from birth, Karim and Raheen finish one another's sentences, speak in anagrams and lie spine to spine as children. They are irrevocably bound to one another and to Karachi, Pakistan. It beats in their hearts - violent, polluted, corrupt, vibrant, brave and ultimately, home. However, Raheen is fiercely loyal and naively blinkered and she resents Karim's need to m...
The adventure continues... Ordained by an ancient goddess of mercy and light, former knight Allystaire Coldbourne has become a paladin, a hero out of legend. But evil stalks him, angry gods align against him, and greedy warlords want him dead. With the help of his friends, each blessed with extraordinary powers by the Goddess, Allystaire must escape the clutches of sorcerers and wicked rulers who will stop at nothing to destroy him as he continues his dangerous quest to bring peace and unity to...
La casa del propósito especial / The House of Special Purpose
by John Boyne
Boyne mantiene vivo el interés hasta las últimas páginas, en las que un inesperado desenlace dejará, una vez más, una profunda huella en los lectores. Mientras acompaña a su esposa Zoya, que agoniza en un hospital de Londres, Georgi Danilovich Yáchmenev rememora la vida que han compartido durante sesenta y cinco años, una vida marcada por un gran secreto que nunca ha salido a la luz. Los recuerdos se agolpan en una sucesión de imágenes imborrables, a partir de aquel lejano día en que Georgi aba...
Llegué con las moscas, a finales de junio de 1986, cinco meses después de que el Challenger reventase el cielo de Florida. El año en que fuimos europeos y la ría se convirtió en una charca de aguas estancadas. El verano en que planeamos matar a un hombre. Verano de 1986. Ulises, de trece años, abandona la ciudad con sus abuelos después de la recaída de su padre en la heroína. Con las calles revueltas por la reconversión del sector naval en Galicia, una isla frente a la costa parece el mejor d...
In the darkness of war, light shines from the pages of a book… For as long as Alice Carmichael can remember, the only thing she’s been able to count on is the written word. The war may have taken everything from her, but the stories she cherishes provide solace and escape into a world that is more hopeful than 1942 England. So when Alice finds herself at the mercy and kindness of strangers, miles from everything she’s ever known, it’s little surprise that books bec...
The next heartwarming instalment of the Timber Girls Series. Perfect for fans of Elaine Everest and Pam Howes.Trixie and her fellow lumberjills are back in Scotland, newly stationed at the MacKay estate. When they arrive, they are shocked to find the place dilapidated and neglected and the taciturn and secretive Noah MacKay not at all happy to be meeting them.It quickly becomes apparent that MacKay was expecting men from the forestry commission to take charge, rather than four young...
Una emocionante saga familiar, para fans de Downton Abbey, Kate Morton o Lucinda Riley, que ha cautivado ya a más de un millón de lectoras en Alemania.Una mansion.Una poderosa familia Un oscuro secreto. El destino de una familia en tiempos convulsos y un amor que todo lo vence. Augsburgo, 1913. La joven Marie entra a trabajar en la cocina de la impresionante villa de los Melzer, una rica familia dedicada a la industria textil. Mientras Marie, una pobre chica proveniente de un...
Amistad, risas, amor y sueños por cumplir en esta novela de la reina de la narrativa femenina: Danielle Steel. La joven diseñadora de zapatos Claire Kelly ha encontrado el apartamento perfecto en Manhattan: un loft permanentemente bañado por una encantadora luz natural. El único problema es su precio. Para poder permitírselo va a tener que compartirlo... Y lo hará con Abby Williams, una escritora que trata de abrirse camino lejos de su familia; Morgan Shelby, una consultora de finanzas de...
La novela más ambiciosa de Chufo Lloréns. Una saga trepidante y emotiva que nos hace viajar por la Europa convulsa de la Gran Guerra. Una saga familiar inolvidable que recorre las turbulentas primeras décadas del siglo XX a través de unos personajes magistrales que se enfrentan a la guerra, el amor, los celos y la traición. Los albores del siglo XX en Europa traen consigo aires de esperanza e innovación. En medio de ese ambiente vibrante y alentador, el París bohemio y el Madrid castizo ven n...
Book Two of the Girls of Spindrift. From the New York Times bestselling author of the Flowers in the Attic and My Sweet Audrina series, now Lifetime movies, continues a haunting new series featuring highly intelligent teenage girls who struggle to survive a specialized high school and find their place in a world that doesn’t understand them. Such is the burden of being brilliant. Being gifted is not something Donna ever wanted. It’s difficult enough to have a Latino father and Irish mother,...
The Poughkeepsie Brotherhood Box Set (Poughkeepsie Brotherhood, #6)
by Debra Anastasia
Now get all four of the Poughkeepsie books in one place. From Poughkeepsie Begins to Saving Poughkeepsie you'll fall in love with the story of three brothers and their love for the women in their lives, and each other. Poughkeepsie Begins Poughkeepsie Return to Poughkeepsie Saving Poughkeepsie
