Autobiography of Cotton
La autora recorre los pasos de sus ancestros como cultivadores nómadas en el norte de México, en la frontera sur de Estados Unidos.
La autora recorre los pasos de sus ancestros como cultivadores nómadas en el norte de México, en la frontera sur de Estados Unidos.
La inspectora de policía decide poner distancia con su día a día para recordar su pasado a fin de tomar las riendas del presente. Con su particular mirada, repasará su vida, desde la niña aplicada a la que expulsan de un colegio de monjas, pasando por la joven universitaria antifranquista que al casarse cambia de rumbo, hasta que decide romper con todo y ser una de las primeras mujeres en ingresar en el cuerpo de Policía.
When Antonia Scott gets this message, she knows very well who sent it to her. He also knows that game is almost impossible to win. But Antonia doesn't like to lose. After all this time running away, reality has ended up reaching it. Antonia is a black belt in lying to herself, but now it is clear that if she loses this battle, she will have lost them all.
Four retirees living in Cooper's Chase founded the Thursday Crime Club and decided to engage in the resolution of old crimes.
Urga has been frozen for 33,000 years in an iceberg next to a small mammut, but now, because of climate change, it is thawed and after taking a look at the present, she would almost rather freeze again. Even so, this Stone Age woman is mostly a fighter, and before she gives up she wants to find out if it's possible to be happy in such a strange world. Along with his unlikely companions - Felix, a disastrous businessman, his ingenious daughter Maya and the strange Captain Lovskar - will begin a journey marked by threats and adventures in which they will not only discover love and how to accept themselves, but also that often the most perfect form of happiness is the one you experience when you help others.
Too many people tell Flavia Albia, 'Don't go to the Grove'. Such warnings will only bring her to the place she is warned away from, Julius Caesar's Gardens, where she finds more than one intruding mystery. Some has burned tattered scrolls here, by unreadable old philosophers. Hardly has she taken an interest in what looks like book collecting fraud, when far worse happens. A present evil stirs in the undergrowth. A man holds a birthday party that goes terribly wrong, exposing a long series of neglected crimes.
Year 997, late Dark Age. England faces the attacks of the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Life is difficult and those who have some power exercise it with an iron fist and often in conflict with the king himself.
Nora Seed appears, not knowing how, in the Library of the Midnight, where she is offered a new opportunity to do things right. Until that moment, his life has been marked by unhappiness and repentance. Nora feels she has let everyone down, and she has. But this is about to change. The books of the Midnight Library will allow Nora to live like she did things differently. With the help of an old friend, you will have the option of dodging everything you regret having done (or not doing), in pursuit of perfect life.
Anno 2005: Camilleri ha appena pubblicato La luna di carta. Sta lavorando alla successiva avventura della serie, ma in estate consegna a Elvira Sellerio un altro romanzo con protagonario il commissario Montalbano. If Riccardino's intimate. L'accordo è che verrà pubblicato poi, un domani indefinito,
On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches meet with the family for a dinner with Armand's best man, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. Walking home together after lunch, they watch with horror how Stephen is shot down and seriously injured in what Gamache knows is not an accident, but a deliberate attack on the old man's life.
In the first scene, the protagonist wakes up in an abandoned factory next to the body of an unknown man and a stone with traces of blood. When he runs away, he decides to try to rebuild the facts himself. However, he has a problem: he doesn't remember anything that happened in the last forty-eight hours. And the little you do know is better not to tell anyone.
Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman who asks for help to find his mother, Margot Bamborough, who disappeared in mysterious circumstances in 1974.
The appearance of a man's body without identification at the foot of the Riisos de Bilibio becomes one of the most disconcerting cases of Salazar's career.
Léane and her husband Julien are embarking on an investigation to find out what happened to her abducted daughter.
Reflections on the evolution of the human being by the hand of a scientific divulger and a writer of recognized ingenuity.
Linus Baker is a meticulous official who works by supervising orphanages for children with magic skills and receives a secret mission to evaluate an isolated orphanage on a remote island, where six children are considered extremely dangerous. There he knows Arthur Parnassus, the enigmatic caregiver of the place, and finds that both children and the island hide truths that will change their way of understanding the world, the family and their own place in it.
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