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En plena Guerra Civil española, el joven médico Víctor Dalmau, junto a su amiga pianista Roser Bruguera, se ven obligados a abandonar Barcelona, exiliarse y cruzar los Pirineos rumbo a Francia. A bordo del Winnipeg, un navío fletado por el poeta Pablo Neruda que llevó a más de dos mil españoles rumbo a Valparaíso, embarcarán en busca de la paz y la libertad que no tuvieron en su país.

East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, OAPs are getting hoodwinked, children are missing. But word has spread: if you've got a case the police can't or won't touch, Isaiah Quintabe will help you out. They call him IQ. He's a loner and a high school dropout, his unassuming nature disguising a relentless determination and a fierce intelligence. He charges his clients whatever they can afford. But now he needs a client who can pay.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians (soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan) and China Rich Girlfriend, is back with an uproarious new novel of a family riven by fortune, an ex-wife driven...

Mrs Gereth, a wealthy widow, is dreading the day that her son, Owen, gets married. She hopes that he will marry a woman who will appreciate their home and all of its treasures as she does. So she enlists the help of Fleda Vetch to try to corrupt the impending marriage of her son and Mona Brigstock - a philistine who is determined to marry Owen in order to inherit Mrs Gereth’s valuable possessions and home by any means. Meanwhile, Fleda hides her real feelings towards Owen. Even when he ends up feeling the same way, Fleda cannot bring herself to marry him as this would force him to break his engagement to Mona, and thus betray all of her own ideals.

Tredje delen i serien om Flocken. På kort tid har mycket förändrats för gruppen med skepnadsskiftare som skapat sig ett hem i de småländska skogarna. Men alla upplever inte förändringarna som positiva … Stefan är uppgiven, nedstämd och vet inte hur han ska gå vidare med sitt liv...

Han är fången i dödens klor. Hon har livet i sina ådror. Växtmagikern Lilly har nyligen förlorat sin mormor och tagit över hennes gamla torp, och även den tillhörande blomsterbutiken dit kunder vallfärdar för arrangemangen som tycks magiska. Men trots den levande trädgården och...

Somliga straffar gud med detsamma, medan andra tycks komma undan med de mest förskräckliga brott. Men nu är tiden kommen för dem att stå sitt kast och få sitt slutliga straff...

Damiana tror att hon är precis som alla andra. En vanlig ung kvinna, dotter till ett bondepar i riket Gafámia. Men hon bär på hemligheter. Förmågor som skulle få henne bränd på bål om någon visste. Sandreon är Åskgudens son och har förberetts hela livet inför mötet med Solgudens...

Andra delen i serien om Flocken. Anja får betala hårt för sitt svek mot flocken. Ensam och utsatt förvandlas hennes liv snart till en mardröm. Längtan efter frihet och chansen att få visa mannen som hemsöker hennes drömmar vad hon egentligen går för, är vad som håller henne vid liv...

Prequel till "En studie i magi". Magikern Elvira har levt ensam i många år, utan att släppa någon in på livet. Hon försörjer sig på magiska brygder och storsäljaren är Livets elixir. Men elixiret har en viktig ingrediens som är svår att få tag i, om man inte råkar känna en vampyr...

Den som flyr vargen... ... möter björnen. När Flocken sträcker ut en hjälpande hand åt en kvinna på flykt ställs Igor inför ett svårt val. Att skydda henne från monstret hon flyr ifrån eller från monstret han bär inom sig. För Linda är friheten äntligen inom räckhåll. Men när...

A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener...

Set on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border and spanning more than a century, this powerful multi-generational debut charts the fate of a gifted, young Mexican-American woman and the corrupting consequences of misogyny, racism, and colonialism on her family, her community, and, ultimately, her...

An astonishingly insightful and deeply felt collection of poems that meditate on time and the many stages of a woman's life—from girlhood to adolescence, from being a young wife and mother, to seeing your children grow up and depart—by the celebrated poet and bestselling author of A Working...

This book is a compilation of three zines of poetry and prose, first self-published between 2001 and 2003 —Bebop Coffee Shop, The Fabulous Adventures of Yours Truly, & Spoken Jazz & the tingg * Machine. The idea is for it to stand alone as its own work while complementing the episodic audio musical of the same name, in which this book was written. The zines were created with an early fifties portable typewriter called the Remington tingg * Machine, original black & white photography, crude sketches, glue sticks, scissors, and innumerable hours at Kinko's.

From the critically acclaimed author of the cult-classic Monstrilio comes a fever dream novel of twins and trickery, broken bones and brokenness, and of monsters, mischief, and mayhem! “No one captures the intricacies of the human mind and all of its gorgeous pathologies like Gerardo Sámano...

A driven magazine editor's backyard wedding becomes a high-stakes balancing act between family expectations and professional dreams. Cordie McGuire is determined not to repeat her past mistakes. Years ago she eloped, leaving her mother hurt and alone in the wake of grief. Now her career is...

Selected as one of the New York Public Library’s Best New Poetry Books Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem...

1986: The teenage daughter of a wealthy Vietnamese family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed by the experience. 2011: Twenty-five years later, a young, unhappy Vietnamese American disappears from her new home in Saigon without a trace. The fates of both women are inescapably linked, bound together by past generations, by ghosts and ancestors, by the history of possessed bodies and possessed lands.

From her Academy Award—nominated screenplays to her bestselling fiction and essays, Nora Ephron is one of America’s most gifted, prolific, and versatile writers. In this classic collection of magazine articles, Ephron does what she does best: embrace American culture with love, cynicism, and...