From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two Oprah Book Club Picks—She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True—Wally Lamb comes the propulsive story of a young father who, after an unbearable tragedy, reckons with the possibility of atonement for the unforgivable. Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin. And that’s before he causes the tragedy that tears the family...
Secretos, ambición desmedida, redención y poder. La novela de Nicola Lagioia ganadora del prestigioso Premio Strega (2015). «De vez en cuando nos preguntamos: ¿cuándo habrá una gran novela italiana? Pues bien, podríamos empezar por La ferocidad». Giancarlo De Cataldo En una cálida noche de primavera, una joven camina por la carretera. Está desnuda y cubierta de sangre. Horas más tarde, el hallazgo de su cuerpo sin vida revelará su identidad: Clara Salvemini, la primogénita de la familia...
In 1941, the United Kingdom was in desperate straits, standing alone with its troops against the colossal war machine of Nazi Germany. There was always Prime Minister Winston Churchill, however, who growled his defiance to Hitler and induced in his people a determination to endure.The Adams family shared that determination and their own kind of optimism. Emma went happily into her marriage with Jonathan, while Boots's son Tim, in between his hazardous exploits as a Commando, helped his fiancee F...
“This gentle, gorgeously written book may be one of my favorites ever.” —Jenna Bush Hager (A Today show “Read with Jenna” Book Club Selection!) This “moving portrait of love and friendship set against a backdrop of social change” (The New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice) traces two married couples whose lives become entangled when the husbands become copastors at a famed New York city congregation in the 1960s. Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 wh...
The Madness of Gods and Kings (The Northern Crusade, #5)
by Christian Warren Freed
Blud Hamr in hand, Bahr and his mixed band of warriors begin their long journey home in the hopes of ending the oppression of the dark gods. Unknown to them, events are in motion that will forever change the face of the world. Armies have been assembled and now march on the already beleaguered kingdom of Delranan. Dwarves under King Thord encounter the largest Goblin army ever recorded, an army not even the mighty Dwarven cannons can defeat alone. Elves and Minotaurs join the army of Drimmen Del...
Yeruldelgger, tiempos salvajes / Yeruldelgger, Wild Times (Yeruldelgger, #2)
by Ian Manook
Ian Manook regresa a Mongolia y a su carismático comisario, Yeruldelgger. País de fuertes contrastes, donde las tradiciones ancestrales y la espiritualidad conviven con la mafia y el crimen organizado, Mongolia vuelve a ser protagonista de esta vibrante novela que consolida a su autor como una de las voces más originales del noir en los últimos años. En medio de las gélidas estepas mongolas, la inspectora Oyun, ayudante del comisario Yeruldelgger, se topa con una escena difícil de inte...
A Place to Call Home (Shilling Grange Children's Home)
by Lizzie Page
"A family legend of hidden treasure mingles with the mist over the shores of Loch Baille...But it's not the cache of gold dating back to Culloden that Jack Kensington claims when he arrives in the Highlands; it's the house he won in a London card game from a luckless Scotsman. Stunned to learn that her wastrel brother wagered their family estate, Isobel Rose must find a way to save her home and the people she loves...even if it means accepting a loveless marriage. Or perhaps not so loveless? Iso...
As spring comes to Scotland and the hills burst into life, a dance is planned for September. The invitations summon home the group of people Violet Aird has cared for most in her long life. The oldest, strongest and wisest of them all, she sees Alexa, her vulnerable granddaughter, find love for the first time, while the decision to send her little grandson away to school is driving parents Edmund and Virginia even further apart. Far from them all is Pandora, the glamorous, exciting girl who ra...
A beautifully repackaged reissue of the magical novel from Louise Erdrich, winner of America’s prestigious National Book Award for Fiction in 2012. On a cold spring morning in 1932, two children, Karl and Mary Adare, leap from a boxcar. Orphaned in a most peculiar way, Karl and Mary have come to Argus, in the heart of rural North Dakota, to seek refuge with their aunt Fritzie. So begins an exhilarating tale, spanning some forty years and brimming with unforgettable characters...
