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You want to believe your husband. She wants to destroy him. Gripping psychological drama for fans of Apple Tree Yard, The Good Wife and Notes on a Scandal. Anatomy of a Scandal centres on a high-profile marriage that begins to unravel when the husband is accused of a terrible crime. Sophie is sure her husband, James, is innocent and desperately hopes to protect her precious family from the lies which might ruin them.

After fleeing to Melbourne in the wake of a breakup, all Ana has to show for herself is an unfulfilling job at an overly enthusiastic tech start-up and one particularly questionable dating app experience. Then she meets Evan. Charming, kind and financially responsible, Evan is a complete aberration from her usual type, and Ana feels like she has finally awoken from a long dating nightmare. As much as she tries to let their burgeoning relationship unfold IRL, Ana just can't resist the urge to find Evan online.

Tony had found me. Or, he’d found Maggie. I had no way of knowing whether he was nuts or not; whether he might go to the cops. Maybe that sounds paranoid, but I don’t think it’s so ridiculous. People have gone to prison for much lesser things than accusations of child-killing. A quiet, small-town existence. An unexpected Facebook message, jolting her back to the past. A history she’s reluctant to revisit: dark memories and unspoken trauma, warning knocks on bedroom walls, unfathomable loss.

Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books in a mint-colored house in Portland, Oregon. One morning on his daily walk he encounters a confused elderly woman lost in a market and returns her to the senior center that is her home. Hoping to fill the void he’s known since retiring, he begins volunteering at the center. Here, as a community of strange peers gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from his past, the events of his life and the details of his character are revealed.

Hans Castorp is, on the face of it, an ordinary man in his early 20s, on course to start a career in ship engineering in his home town of Hamburg, when he decides to travel to the Berghof Santatorium in Davos. The year is 1912 and an oblivious world is on the brink of war. Castorp’s friend Joachim Ziemssen is taking the cure and a three-week visit seems a perfect break before work begins. But when Castorp arrives he is surprised to find an established community of patients, and little by little, he gets drawn into the closeted life and the individual personalities of the residents.

When Freya Miller is struck by tragedy, losing her husband and her home within a short time, she is burdened with many worries. The main one being where she and her five-year old daughter, Skye, are going to live. A chance meeting with the charismatic Dr Marsden changes all that. He offers the young mother the most amazing opportunity: an apartment at one of London’s most exclusive addresses for a fraction of the market rental cost. It’s an offer Freya simply can’t refuse.

Portnoy's Complaint tells the tale of young Jewish lawyer Alexander Portnoy and his scandalous sexual confessions to his psychiatrist. As narrated by Portnoy, he takes the listener on a journey through his childhood to adolescence to present day while articulating his sexual desire, frustration and neurosis in shockingly candid ways.

Una adolescente fanática del horror y de las creepypastas (historias de terror que circulan por internet) despierta maniatada en una cabaña en medio del bosque. Su secuestradora no es una desconocida, sino su maestra de Lengua y Literatura, una mujer joven a quien ella y sus amigas han atormentado durante meses en un colegio de élite del Opus Dei. Pero pronto los motivos de ese secuestro se revelarán mucho más oscuros que el bullyng a una maestra.

Growing up in the mill slums of Pittsburgh, Daniel Robinson was a punching bag for his drunken father, ignored by his mentally ill mother, and trapped in the grip of poverty. He’s finally freed from the torture of that home only to crash land in another hell when he’s abused by the pastor who takes him in. Daniel escapes once again, spending the next decade wandering homeless throughout the country during the turbulent 1960s.

This book is about a young man by the name of Clarence who is drafted in the sixties at a young age of 21. He is a young black man who deals with racism and deals with all types of bad experiences while in Vietnam. He has a son who is two years old and a wife who is 21. On his return from Vietnam his wife ends up leaving Clarence with his son to raise. Until one particular day when Clarence goes to the bank and he is robbed and killed and the man who killed Clarence gets away with his murder until 20 years later.

César Sodero tiene una voz narrativa consciente del maravilloso ejercicio de la escritura. Con su mirada cinematográfica inventa un universo de historias mínimas con personajes conflictuados, sensibles y vulnerables. Un mosaico de escenas literarias donde la soledad, la violencia y el drama lo gobiernan todo. Primero con Sierra Grande y ahora con El mar de los lobos, César confirma que es uno de los autores más interesantes de la narrativa actual.

Novela que trascurre en Antioquia (región colombiana) y que narra la interacción compleja entre dos seres de dos mundos completamente distintos.Llena de sutileza y poesía.

Kalk, Mitte fünfzig und beflissener Mitarbeiter in einem Elektrofachgeschäft, muss raus. Der Lethargie des Alltags entfliehen, durchatmen und die Seele baumeln lassen. In Kijkduin, jenem Ort in den Niederlanden, an dem er schon als Kind mit seinen Eltern die Urlaube verbrachte, scheint Kalk Erholung zu finden. Als er ein Kind vor dem Ertrinken rettet, erwacht in ihm sein längst vergessenes Selbstbewusstsein und aus dem Antihelden wird ein Held. Er wächst über sich hinaus, geht an seine Grenzen und erfindet sich neu.

Într-o noapte oarecare, pe un drum pustiu, viața lui John s-a schimbat pentru totdeauna, atunci când a trecut pragul unui mic local, numit Cafeneaua de la capătul lumii. După o noapte întreagă petrecută acolo, a căpătat o cu totul altă perspectivă asupra vieții, în general, și a vieții sale, în particular.

Nada puede alterar nuestro pasado. Todo cuanto hemos hecho o dicho permanece en ese rincón oscuro y secreto de nuestra memoria habitado por fantasmas, reales o imaginarios. Enfrentado con un pasado excesivamente sombrío, el joven protagonista de "París" intenta abrirse camino a través de los secretos y medias verdades de sus padres. Su único consuelo será que finalmente acabará por entender que las viejas heridas, como las maldiciones, raras veces cicatrizan con el paso del tiempo.

"¿Aún crees en monstruos bajo la cama? ¿Te aterroriza la oscuridad? ¿Hasta dónde estarías dispuesto a llegar para no caer en el olvido? ¿Qué harías si te hubiese tocado crecer en la Ruanda de 1994? ¿Y si la desidia se hubiese apoderado de tu vida? ¿Tienes miedo a estar solo? ¿O a sentirte solo?

Agualusa es un traductor de sueños. La sociedad de los soñadores involuntarios es una novela tejida con los más delicados materiales de la poesía" Mia Couto. Aunque lleva muchos años separado, a Daniel Benchimol, periodista y gran lector, le llega el momento de firmar el divorcio. El trámite lo abruma: lo cumple y se larga a la ruta; recién se detiene cuando llega a un hotel frente al mar. En ese lugar perdido, y por una sorprendente serie de azares, cuando pensaba que nada le quedaba por descubrir, su vida recomienza.

Mercedes Bisordi escribe porque sabe escuchar. Su voz narrativa está hecha de recuerdos vitales. Un relato sin centro definido, que se abre en un sistema narrativo áspero, oscuro y hermoso. Mercedes Bisordi fermenta literatura en estado puro, la pulpa misma que forma la hoja donde se imprime lo escrito. El tiempo que lleve olvidar es Una novela sobre los anhelos vitales que nunca se abandonan, pase lo que pase.

Emilia está en el limbo. Para armar el relato de sus dieciocho años acude a las instantáneas que conforman su memoria: su abuela postrada para rezar. Ella misma sentada en las piernas de un sacerdote. El día que conocía a Matías. La noche en que logró escuchar a Júpiter. Emilia quiere salir del coma pero su única vía de contacto con el exterior es también su mayor fobia: una mariposa. Ella ha visto ya tres simulacros del fin del mundo pero los jinetes del apocalipsis tienen que completar el número cuatro.

Los viajes acá relatados están ligados a un único itinerario, como si una tinta indeleble trazara a tientas la senda que el personaje recorre a ciegas. Cada vez que la protagonista se lanza a la aventura -entre países, ciudades o unas pocas calles- lo hace pensando que evita algo, que establece una pausa indispensable.