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El autor superventas de True Crime, Adrian Langenscheid, le invita a un viaje estremecedor al lado más oscuro de España. A través de 14 impactantes casos reales, saca a la luz la cruel realidad que se esconde tras las soleadas playas, las vibrantes metrópolis y la apasionada cultura del país. España, conocida por su ambiente alegre, oculta al mismo tiempo secretos oscuros: asesinos en serie sin escrúpulos, brutales tragedias familiares, secuestros misteriosos y crímenes a sangre fría que estremecieron al país.

When St. John D. Seymour sat down to write Irish Witchcraft and Demonology in 1913, it was widely believed that Ireland had somehow escaped the witchcraft panic that swept across Europe for centuries. Apart from the famous Kyteler trial in medieval Kilkenny, the common view was that witchcraft simply never took much of a hold in Ireland. Seymour wasn't convinced. Digging through archives, court records, forgotten manuscripts, folklore, and eyewitness accounts, he uncovered a very different story.

Descúbrelo al escuchar este audiolibro. Conoce también detalles sobre la insólita muerte de Nono Pugliese, un amante de ficción que fue asesinado de verdad, detalles y testimonios escalofriantes del golpe militar argentino, dónde quedó una niña que jamás volvió a su hogar, y mucho más. Contiene también una colección de hechos curiosos, como así también el prontuario de lo absurdo: un catálogo de los hechos policiales más insólitos de todo el mundo.

El libro arranca justo donde termina la anterior entrega: Sam Porter, hasta ahora el detective al cargo del caso, ha sido apartado de él y es cada vez más sospechoso, el mayor hospital de la ciudad está cerrado por cuarentena por riesgo de contagio del virus SARS y entre los enfermos se...

After being brought to this new world against her will, Amara escapes a grim fate along with her beautiful new companion, Tayvin. Their adventure takes them to a truly unexpected place: a strange castle disconnected from the real world. And what's more, it's Amara's by right. With the help of the castle's only remaining denizen, she and Tayvin forge it into a base of power for their new allies.

Mattie Ross, a 14-year-old girl from Dardanelle, Arkansas, sets out to avenge her Daddy who was shot to death by a no-good outlaw. Mattie convinces one-eyed "Rooster" Cogburn, the meanest U.S. marshal in the land, to ride along with her. In True Grit, we have a true American classic, as young Mattie, as vital as she is innocent, outdickers and outmaneuvers the hard-bitten men of the trail in a legend that will last through the ages.

La vida de Fabiola da un giro inesperado al aceptar escribir la biografía de un desconocido. Desde ese momento se ve arrastrada por acontecimientos que no puede controlar. El miedo, el desconcierto y la búsqueda de una salida del lugar donde se encuentra, un pueblo desconocido e incomunicado, marcarán su destino y su vida para siempre. Esta obra, cargada de realidad mágica, nos llevará a un mundo en el que nada es lo que parece.

An epic tale that pits a son against the legacy of his family's desecration of the earth, as well as his father's more personal violations, Jim Harrison's True North is a beautiful and moving novel that speaks to the territory in our hearts that calls us back to our roots. The scion of a family...

In this sequel to Harrison's True North, Donald Burkett, a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man, is dying of Lou Gehrig's disease. While his wife, Cynthia, transcribes, Donald begins dictating his family history for the benefit of their children, stories that he never before has shared. As old...

She seems too good to be true… When Meg meets Tina, it’s like the most perfect meeting of minds. Their friendship feels naturally joyful – like they’ve had a space waiting in their lives for each other. And, with both being survivors of the same illness, there is an instant bond. But...

Suburbia. Shady, tree-lined streets; well-tended lawns; and cozy homes. A nice, quiet place to grow up. Unless you are teenage Meg or her crippled sister, Susan. On a dead-end street, in the dark, damp basement of the Chandler house, Meg and Susan are left captive to the savage whims and rages of a distant aunt who is rapidly descending into madness. It is a madness that infects all three of her sons and finally the entire neighborhood. Only one troubled boy stands hesitantly between Meg and Susan and their cruel, torturous deaths.

A BRAND NEW chilling, pulse-pounding psychological thriller from BESTSELLER Amanda Brittany 🏘️🩸😯 'Twisty and heart-stopping' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Valerie Keogh Eleven years ago, Maple Close was scarred by a horrific crime. Three teenage girls who lived on the secluded...

What makes love stick? Is it the irresistible spark when you lock eyes across a piazza in Rome? Is it feeling the earth move under your feet? (Wait—that was an actual earthquake.) In these six serendipitous short stories, bestselling authors turn improbable first encounters into hopelessly...

When wolf-shifter Kelsey Yates discovers that Danny, a 14-year-old shape-shifter, is living with an adoptive human mother, she is sent to protect the pup and get him away from the woman. Successful CEO Rue Harding has no idea of her son's true nature or that Kelsey, the beautiful, mysterious private tutor she hires for him, isn't really there to teach him algebra. But when the deaf teen runs away, Kelsey and Rue frantically work together to find him before his first transformation sets in and reveals the shape-shifters' secret existence to the world.

Why did she do it? After a day of simmering tension on a trip to an uninhabited island, Júlia finally reaches her breaking point. In a fit of fury she makes a reckless decision—leaving her husband Gíó marooned in the middle of a freezing fjord in the depths of the Icelandic winter. As the...

Jon Hamm leads an all-star cast that includes Kate Mara, Ana de la Reguera, John Slattery, and Bradley Whitford in the riveting true story behind the making of the one American movie the FBI never wanted you to see.

A mother faces an impossible dilemma as her daughter’s future hangs in the balance. On her fifty-eighth birthday, Veronica Harmon feels blessed—with a fulfilling veterinary career, a wonderful marriage and three grown children, her youngest newly engaged and celebrating her first solo art...

When newlyweds Iris and Harrison are separated by the draft less than a month into their marriage, both are forced into battles they never expected. A dentist by trade, Harrison is thrust into the unforgiving realities of combat medicine, carrying his limited skills from the beaches of Normandy through the brutal winter of the Ardennes and into the haunting aftermath of Dachau liberation. Each step farther south into Europe pulls him away from the man Iris once knew.

In the winter of 1942, an army vanishes into the icefields of the Eastern Front. In the summer of 1945, a massacre in small-town Italy makes international headlines. Today, an ordinary man is about to stumble onto a horrifying secret. Alex Lago is a jaded journalist whose family, marriage, and career are fading fast. So, when the accidental discovery of an aged photo from World War II offers him a last gasp at bonding with his dying father, Alex can't help but scratch at the scabs of a mystery seventy years in the making.

When a legendary assassin uncovers the sort of truth that can trigger a war, he knows he has only one option. Run. Adrian Hell is at the top of his game, an elite assassin very much in demand. When he accepts a contract to eliminate a corrupt businessman, it should have been routine. Instead, he...