Resultados para "barrier" en Literatura de género

Hay lugares donde amor y dinero comparten el mismo perfume. Dicen que en Isan nacen las mujeres más bellas de Tailandia, pero también las más mentirosas. Tal vez la belleza lleve consigo una condena. Es el tipo de lugar donde las almas nacen viejas. La vida de la joven Nana da un vuelco el...

UNA NOVELA EVOCADORA, QUE DESTILA EMOCIÓN Y CONQUISTA EL CORAZÓN DEL LECTOR Madrid, 1935. Cati es una joven cuya vida transcurre entre fiestas y tertulias en los cafés, hasta que la tragedia la golpea. Mientras busca su lugar en el mundo, el encuentro con una amiga de la infancia y con Manuel...

Carol ha sufrido una gran pérdida, y lleva el día a día como puede con la ayuda de sus amigos: María, Lucas, Félix y Luis, quienes también tienen sus propios problemas. Sin embargo, todo toma un giro inesperado cuando aparece en escena Juan, un amigo de la infancia de Carol que dejó el...

Cinco amigas de un barrio pobre se reúnen todos los jueves para tomar café y, sobre todo, para intercambiar sus frustraciones y penas. Sus vidas están estancadas en la crisis, el maltrato y el aburrimiento hasta que la cita de una de ellas cambiará por completo sus vidas.

Blanca Oliveira pronto se arrepentirá de haber regresado al caserón familiar del monte Abantos donde hace trece años desapareció su hija Alba sin dejar rastro. A los pocos meses de instalarse allí con Ricardo, su nuevo marido, y las dos hijas que le quedan, desaparece otra de ellas. La...

Un grupo de jóvenes investigadores viaja a las islas de la Desolación, frente a la Antártida, para registrar los efectos del cambio climático en la fauna y la flora. Es un territorio hostil, completamente aislado de la civilización y azotado por vientos huracanados, donde innumerables...

Valentina conocerá a través de Bruna la convulsa historia de su familia y cómo la salvaje estirpe de las mujeres Mencía, criadas por la naturaleza en las profundidades del bosque gallego, se unió a la aristocrática dinastía de los Novoa, la más rica de la región. Las historias de amor y poder entre ambas familias, que han pervivido durante muchos años, marcarán el destino de Valentina, que tendrá que decidir si continúa o no con ese linaje, extraño para ella, plagado de intrigas y culpas secretas.

Tiempo transcurrido es un calendario azteca con música de rock. Las historias de este libro ocurren a lo largo de dieciocho años mexicanos, enmarcados en dos fechas decisivas: el Movimiento estudiantil de 1968 y el terremoto de 1985. Con destreza, Juan Villoro sitúa a personajes imaginarios...

Surrey, England, 1938. After 30 devoted years of marriage, Ellie Endicott is blindsided by her husband’s appeal for divorce. It’s Ellie’s opportunity for change too. The unfaithful cad can have the house. She’s taking the Bentley. Ellie, her housekeeper Mavis, and her elderly friend Dora—each needing escape—impulsively head for parts unknown in the South of France.

Three years ago, Miami defense attorney Grace Gaynor was the victim of a violent sexual assault in which she killed her attacker. She has been undergoing therapy to deal with the trauma. When her therapist Doctor Austin Winchester, whom she had begun to develop feelings for, is arrested and charged with the violent murder of her friend Kara Pedrosa, Grace reluctantly takes on his case for her law firm of Kendall, Francois, and Larosa.

When Ian Butler and Suzanna McAllister got married on the breathtaking Hawaiian island of Kauai, it seemed like a match made in heaven. Years later, while living in Providence, Rhode Island, Suzanna found herself haunted by the murder-suicide of her parents when she was a little girl, the result of infidelity. Then Suzanna is shot to death in their home, and Ian is arrested and charged with her murder, implicated by the victim herself in a 911 call. Though the evidence points toward guilt, a good defense lawyer wins him an acquittal. Five years later, Ian starts over on Kauai....

Interior design consultant Riley Reed's blog is full of helpful advice on home décor, custom furnishings, lighting, and renovation in the town of Cozy Pines, Oregon. At 44 and happily single, Riley once again finds herself immersed in a tantalizing murder mystery. Riley recently helped her widowed friend Suzanne Crier, the director of Cozy House, a local battered women's shelter, remodel the aging kitchen of her Victorian residence.

Twin goblin princes Shi’chen and A’bbni Er-Ha’sen did not ever plan to take the Emperor’s throne. Older twin Shi’chen is a military prodigy, and younger twin A’bbni is studying to be a physician. But when their father attempts and fails to overthrow their cousin, the murderous crown prince, the brothers are accused of taking part in a rebellion they know nothing about.

When a catastrophic mistake leaves his wife, Clara, in a coma, Dr. Elliott Harrison is consumed by guilt – and determined to find the truth. His investigation leads him to a remote Scottish island, where Clara had been consulting for an exclusive biotech clinic.

'El alfabeto de los pájaros' nos habla del significado de ser adoptado, sobre las heridas feroces que provoca el abandono, sobre el olvido y la memoria y sobre la fuerza conmovedora del amor. Pero sobre todo es una novela sobre el poder de la imaginación. Nix tiene seis años, ha nacido en...

For fans of Dirt Creek and William Kent Kreuger comes a profound southern mystery from acclaimed author Lo Patrick. When her granddaughter is accused of murder, a woman must confront the buried secrets of a summer long past—because she can try to forget, but the Georgia land remembers. Meg...

A couple's cat leaves offerings of dead birds freighted with mysterious import. A foreign worker helps construct a concert hall that reawakens his musical longings. A young diver hunts venomous cone snails for a lovelorn researcher. With disarming simplicity, Barrie Sherwood charts how the...

Something's not right in Hunters Ridge… Ebony Blakely has her life nearly exactly where she wants it. She's a country vet with a successful business in Hunters Ridge, a town that she loves, and has a close group of friends. The only thing missing is romance. Unfortunately, the man she wants...

She dazzled with Secrets of Whitewater Creek, now Sarah Barrie kicks off a brand–new trilogy about small towns, secrets, and the love that saves lives. Successful horse trainer Alissa Morgan–Jones has the world at her feet, until a tragic fire destroys everything. Widowed, in debt and under...

By the time this is all over, she'll know what it's like to kill, or what it's like to die – the stunning conclusion to the Hunters Ridge series. Mia Morgan doesn't let anything get to her. After freeing herself from an obsessive boss and saving loved ones from a serial killer, she feels like...