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Carlos Miguel ha disfrutado durante años de una vida acomodada gracias a sus padres, destacados miembros de la sociedad guatemalteca. Sin embargo, el encuentro con un joven profesor le hará replantearse muchas de sus prioridades y dar un giro a su vida. ¿Qué realidades conocerá? Una novela que ahonda en las diferencias de clase y en la necesidad de realización personal.

Après plusieurs années d'absence, un homme resurgit dans la vie de sa compagne et de leur jeune fils. Il les entraîne aux Roches, une vieille maison isolée dans la montagne où lui-même a grandi auprès d'un patriarche impitoyable. Entourés par une nature sauvage, la mère et le fils voient le père étendre son emprise sur eux et édicter les lois mystérieuses de leur nouvelle existence. Hanté par son passé, rongé par la jalousie, l'homme sombre lentement dans la folie. Bientôt, tout retour semble impossible.

En los planes de Liam no entra que su novia, Sarah, lo abandone tras enamorarse de otro durante sus vacaciones en Australia. Tampoco que peligre su posible ascenso en el bufete de su suegro, que su hermana se ponga a salir con un guaperas que a todas luces le partirá el corazón y, mucho menos, que su atractiva, aunque plebeya, vecina Summer le destroce por accidente el coche. Harto de todo, este abogado estirado decide convencer a Summer de que se haga pasar por su novia en los eventos del bufete. Solo necesita refinarla un poco, pero eso no será tan sencillo.

Tres historias protagonizadas por ángeles. En la primera veremos a Rastro de Dios, un ángel torpón pero con una misión muy importante que cumplir. La segunda nos sitúa en la Edad Media, con un ángel protector de los caminantes. Por último, un ángel moderno que aterriza en la Tierra en Navidad y recuerda el verdadero sentido de esas fechas. Historias de amor, aventura y amistad escritas con una exquisita forma literaria. Montserrat del Amo nació en Madrid el 15 de junio de 1927.

Deep within Montana Territory, in 1885, miner Chance Mullan checks the rail spur for his expected shipment but picks up two famished siblings, instead - the adult offspring of his recently deceased work partner. Relegated to sleeping on the rear porch, Serafina Redmann never imagined such a bleak existence at the edge of civilization, but the fervor of the villagers to grow the settlement into a permanent town makes her want to stay and contribute. 

Bree Borden is so busy orchestrating Sourwood’s farm-to-table movement, she scarcely has time to pull off the town’s harvest festival until she runs into Kyler Jennings. A successful book author temporarily running the local bed and breakfast for his uncle, Kyler determines to help the workaholic farmer slow down and smell the roses. After showing up at the farmer’s market, he lends some masculine attention to prove to Bree she’s really a dirt-encrusted diamond in the rough.

 Farry and Kammy are two little sisters who love cooking and baking delicious treats with their mom. One Christmas Eve they decide to surprise their parents and bake a magical rainbow cake for them. Once they have all the ingredients they need, Farry and Kammy set to work. But when they put a little too much magic into their cake something amazing happens. 

Liebe ist schmerzhaft, Liebe ist blind, Liebe ist nicht für jeden bestimmt... Jeder kennt Nate Malum-Riverside. Er ist charmant, beliebt, attraktiv - und abgrundtief böse. Tillie weiß, dass sie sich von ihm und dem Elite Kings Club fernhalten sollte, wenn sie nicht in deren Strudel aus Geheimnissen und Macht gezogen werden will. Doch vielleicht ist es dafür schon zu spät. Denn Tillies und Nates Geschichte hat längst begonnen... Teil 4 der ELITE-KINGS-CLUB-Reihe von Bestseller-Autorin Amo Jones.

Con poche pennellate precise Amos Oz ricrea il microcosmo di un kibbutz israeliano negli anni Cinquanta. Dal giardiniere timido e solitario che ha la passione di dare brutte notizie, alla donna lasciata dal marito per un'altra che le vive praticamente accanto, dal vecchio elettricista che, con sbigottita discrezione, non riesce a capacitarsi dell'amore della figlia diciottenne per il suo insegnante di storia, al falegname pettegolo che in preda all'ira schiaffeggia il compagno delle elementari del figlio, dalle tentazioni sensuali del segretario del kibbutz durante la sua ronda notturna.

Nurse Cami Walsh meets an interesting man the hard way when she sideswipes cyclist Holt Ellis on his way down Lookout Mountain. Holt survives the collision with shredded hopes of improving his dire state of unemployment, but Cami’s tender touch revives the man he longs to be. Cami’s son Mitch insists on substituting for Bicycle Man, a local hero who’s mysteriously gone missing, but she questions how Holt happens to know the delivery route for food distribution to the area’s homeless.

Despite having what others would call a happy life, Bree Sparrow dreamed of more. She would travel to Colorado, continue her education and spend much of her adult years as a social worker. After the death of her mother, many heartbreaks and short-term love affairs, she knew this was the time to break away. While hiking through the Ozark mountains, Bree Finds a friend in the most unlikely place, inspiring her to make this place the setting of her new beginning. However, a new beginning never comes without a price. Eventually, the past will catch up with us all. And we must atone.

Nothing is going to make sense once you listen to this first chapter. You’re going to wonder why the f**k I made the decisions I did...why he did what he did. I’m not going to make this easy for you. I’m going to guide you through loops that you’re going to wish I had just skipped, but I’m not going to do that either. You’re going to feel my pain, my loss, and my heart breaking in my chest. You’re going to watch me trip and fall, and get back up again. 

Lacey Woodhouse arrives at River Ranch to deliver the bank’s notice of default for unmade mortgage payments, but plunges into a horse trough and meets the struggling owner, rancher Wray Benson, up close and personal. When a bouquet of field daisies finds its way to her car windshield weeks later, she decides to throw caution — and conflict of interest — to the wind. Time in the country charms Lacey and when she learns of Wray’s support of an ailing family member, it softens her heart, leading to sweet romance. 

Once upon a time, there was a young girl who lived in a battered trailer, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks. One day, she fell down The Elite Kings’ rabbit hole. Sucked into a dark vortex of lies, hate, and deceit, and spat out by money, glitz, and power. There were things this little girl didn’t know, things she was about to find out and secrets that have been kept from her. Those secrets were guarded by the boys that were about to smash her world open and tear it all apart....

Jedediah Wenger lost his family to an Englishe drunk driver. He has yet to put his life back together including the long-forgotten courting of the Bishop's daughter, Felicity Troyer. When he's suddenly faced with the task of helping the fading mid-western town of Prosperity survive, he realizes the task is greater than the town or the District can overcome.

Detective Jill Brennan ignored her ex's phone call, and the next day he was dead. Searching for clues in an unsettling asylum, she's appalled when her boss insists it's a suicide. Plagued by guilt and far too close to the case, Brennan knows that the hunt for the truth could risk her career.

To the English, she’s "that Amish girl". To the Amish, she’s that girl who went chasing her "dream man". Now, unable to leave the city, what chance does she have to find her perfect match?

Kirsten Bergman, writer for Harrisburg Magazine, is busy checking off the boxes on her Christmas lists. Her boss and secret crush, Richard Collins, unexpectedly assigns her to a story in Amish country, which seems like he’s setting her up for failure. But is he actually giving her the greatest gift of all?

Growing up in a large Nigerian family in South London, Stephen K. Amos learnt early on to find the humour in every situation. Raised by his parents and extended family of 'aunts' and 'uncles', I Used to Say My Mother was Shirley Bassey tells the story of Stephen's chaotic upbringing in the carnival atmosphere of the late '70s and early '80s. Stephen describes his awkward beginnings as the only black kid in his class, where he told everyone his mum was Shirley Bassey to break the ice. 

A captivating memoir about an Amish boy and his relentless search for peace with God. His early childhood recollections are heartwarming and charming but suddenly it all changed, his life unraveled before his eyes leaving him reeling in confusion and despair. Abuse, cancer, and an accident that left his brother in a wheelchair seemed to steal away even the faintest hope for what he searched for most, peace with God. One last blow that threatened to take him out was precisely what the Almighty vused to redeem him.