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Un afamado pintor de mediana edad nos cuenta cómo se ha librado del peso de un secreto que no le permitía vivir. Un secreto lleva a otro y a otro hasta que la comunicación con los más cercanos resulta imposible. El protagonista cuenta su viaje juvenil a El Salvador atravesado por la muerte y la violencia, un affair amoroso en París y su fracturada vida familiar en los Estados Unidos. Una historia actual contada con una sencillez de lenguaje llamativa y que alcanza una gran profundidad.

James es un libro fascinante. Una reescritura de Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn de Mark Twain desde el punto de vista de Jim, el esclavo. Con el humor típico de Percival Everett y una inteligencia sobrecogedora, el lector vive una gran aventura, la de la libertad. James es el nombre de la dignidad. El esclavo ha visitado de forma clandestina la biblioteca de su amo y ha aprendido a leer y escribir. Cuando se entera de que lo han vendido y lo van a separar de su mujer y su hija decide escaparse.

You’ve never heard of Roman Ganzha. But if you lived or worked in America between 1997 and 2016, there’s a good chance he stole from you. The Spider King is the never-before-told true story of a Ukrainian child prodigy who became one of the most dangerous cybercriminals and real-world...

Potente colección de relatos de terror sobrenatural de la autora Henrietta Dorothy Everett, cuentos en los que prima el escalofrío, el golpe de efecto y la ansiedad, sin dejar por ello de lado la atmósfera malsana y la angustia por la anticipación del horror.

Percival Everett's The Trees is a must-listen that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till.

Tessa Rowan has built her life around one rule: never depend on anyone. When her aunt dies and leaves her a struggling peach orchard in Providence, Georgia, Tessa expects to sell the property and return to her successful career in Atlanta. But the inheritance comes with conditions. She must keep Rowan Orchard operating through harvest, live in the farmhouse for ninety days, and help host the annual Table in the Orchard community supper. She must also work beside Evan Hale. Evan has devoted years to protecting the orchard and everything it represents.

Time Out Chicago, Top 10 Book of 2005 Winner of the 2006 PEN USA Literary Award for Fiction Training horses is dangerous—a head-to-head confrontation with 1,000 pounds of muscle and little sense takes courage, but more important, patience and smarts. It is these same qualities that allow John...

In 1992—when Amy Fisher dominated every news channel—there lived two men. The first was a once-prominent cartoonist who had a very public fall from grace. The other was an alcoholic who worked in a landfill. Both lived in different parts of the country and led completely separate...

'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' – Roddy Doyle 'His [Dominic Hofman] performance is terrific: variously wry, poignant and thoughtful as he imbues Jim with the humanity and agency denied to him by Twain' – The Guardian, Audiobook of the Week James is a profound...

How to Reinvent Yourself and Make a Life You'll Love Waking Up To. Have you ever looked at your life and quietly asked yourself... Is this really it? Not because your life is terrible.But because something inside you knows you're capable of more. Perhaps you've outgrown your job, your...

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK Longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award “An effervescent debut chock full of Austenian nods. Swoonworthy!” —Sarah McCoy, New York Times bestselling author of Mustique Island “All That Life Can Afford is about love, ambition, and the cost of belonging...

A crime festival on a remote Scottish island. A crumbling Victorian hotel. Eight authors . . . and a ruthless killer. Welcome to Holly Island, where the annual Christmas crime-writing festival is about to begin. Eight writers are already in residence at the island’s solitary hotel. But before...

Hätten Sie gedacht, dass Warren Buffet und Friedrich Nietzsche ähnliche Ansichten haben? Dass sich Albert Camus’ Erkenntnisse zum Umgang mit der Absurdität des Lebens passgenau auf unsere Investmententscheidungen übertragen lassen? Dass Baruch Spinozas Verständnis irrationaler Emotionen...

Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977 - with his wife and three young children - intending to convert them. What he found was a language that defies all existing linguistic theories and reflects a way of life that evades contemporary understanding. The Pirahã have no counting system and no fixed terms for color. They have no concept of war or of personal property.

Moore has done it again in this compelling third volume, Thirteen Miles North of Nelson, where both the simplicity and complexity of life in the far reaches of Michigan's Upper Peninsula push the listener beyond the rugged geography where extremes are more than metaphorical. In these eleven short stories, the listener is often brought to tears of triumph and waves of hilarious laughter as his characters plunge through the wilderness of emotions rarely exposed in conventional literature.

For fans of The Wild Robot and Rebecca Stead, a middle grade novel that explores what makes us human—and what it means to be irreplaceable. Summer 2.0 is not here to replace Summer Dillon. As an android, she’s a little different: a control panel instead of a brain, a mechanical heart instead...

This tale from 1869 is the very first vision of an artificial satellite, which accidentally also becomes the first space station. Sailors could fix their latitude easily enough by the height of the North Star above the horizon, but longitude, without a comparable fixed point in the sky, had cost...

She came to the church looking for a second chance. The last person she expected to find there was the man whose life she helped destroy. After years of running from her past, a woman rebuilding her life joins a small-town church and slowly becomes close to the pastor’s respected family. For...

Damned If I Do is an exceptional new collection of short stories by Percival Everett, author of the highly praised and wickedly funny novel Erasure. People are just naturally hopeful, a term my grandfather used to tell me was more than occasionally interchangeable with stupid. A cop, a cowboy...

‘American literature’s philosopher king – and its sharpest satirist’ The New Yorker On a windswept landscape somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawks, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American treaty rights. What begins for Robert...