Libros de Contemporary fiction 707 resultados

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AMY JO BURNS

A roofing familys bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart of their blue-collar townfrom Amy Jo Burns, author of the critically acclaimed novel ShinerIts 1990 and seventeen-year-old Marley West is blazing into the river valley town of Mercury, Pennsylvania. A perpetual loner, she seeks a place at someones table and a family of her own....

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RED STRING THEORY

LAUREN KUNG JESSEN

This charming fated-love rom-com about two star-crossed lovers will appeal to readers of Helen Hoang, Jasmine Guillory, and Sarah Adams. Just a date . . . or a twist of fate? When it comes to love and art, Rooney Gao believes in signs. Most of all, she believes in the Chinese legend that everyone is tied to their one true love by the red string of fate. And that belief has ...

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FUNNY STORY

EMILY HENRY

"A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry, Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love ...

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HOW WE NAMED THE STARS

ANDRÉS N ORDORICA

When Daniel de La Luna arrives as a scholarship student at an elite East Coast university, he bears the weight of his family's hopes and dreams, and the burden of sharing his late uncle's name. Daniel flounders at first--but then Sam, his roommate, changes everything. As their relationship evolves from brotherly banter to something more intimate, Daniel soon finds himself in lo...

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NONFICTION

JULIE MYERSON

"Glitteringly painful."--Rachel Cusk "Powerful, and utterly compelling."--Sarah Waters This is definitely not a ghost story. But for a while after you're gone, I see you everywhere. Every ragged young person sitting huddled on a pavement, every stretched-out body under cardboard in a shop doorway. Two parents stand by powerlessly as their only child seems intent on destroying ...

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A SPARTAN'S SORROW

HANNAH LYNN

She is a mother, a queen, a villain. However we remember her, her wrath will never be forgotten. Clytemnestra is no stranger to pain. As a wife and queen, she bears it with stoicism. But when her husband does the unthinkable, sacrificing one of their daughters to appease the ruthless gods and bring himself glory in battle, Clytemnestra is forever changed. No longer will she st...

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THE TOWER

FLORA CARR

A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots's darkest hour, when she was held hostage in a remote Scottish castle with a handful of loyal women while plotting a daring escape to reclaim her country and her freedom. "Such a vivid, visceral read, you feel you're locked in the tower alongside the characters, acting out a royal family drama. I am moved and impre...

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RAINBOW BLACK

MAGGIE THRASH

"I've loved Maggie Thrash's work for years, and Rainbow Black is going to set so many new hearts aflame--murder, intrigue, queer love, dark humor AND satanic panic? Welcome to the Maggie Thrash Fan Club, world!"--Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow For readers of Donna Tartt and Ottessa Moshfegh comes a brilliant, deliriously entertaining novel ...

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THE FUNERAL LADIES OF ELLERIE COUNTY

CLAIRE SWINARSKI

Armed with a Crock-Pot and a pile of recipes, a grandmother, her granddaughter, and a mysterious young man work to bring a community together in this uplifting novel for readers of The Chicken Sisters. Esther Larson has been cooking for funerals in the Northwoods of Wisconsin for seventy years. Known locally as the "funeral ladies," she and her cohort have worked hard to keep t...

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THE HUSBANDS

HOLLY GRAMAZIO

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - An exuberant debut, The Husbands delights in asking: how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world of never-ending options? ("A time-bending gem"--Gabrielle Zevin; "Kaleidoscopic and bright and very, very funny." -Claire Lombardo) When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. T...

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I CHEERFULLY REFUSE

LEIF ENGER

A career defining tour-de-force from New York Timesbestselling, award-winning and "formidably gifted" (Chicago Tribune) authorof Peace Like a River Leif Enger.A storyteller "of great humanity and huge heart" (MinneapolisStar Tribune), Leif Enger debuted in the literary world with Peace Likea River which sold over a million copies and captured readers' heartsaround the globe. No...

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BLESSINGS

CHUKWUEBUKA IBEH

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this coming of age novel about self-acceptance, sexual awakening, and first love set in a Nigeria on the verge of criminalizing same-sex relationships "Chukwuebuka Ibeh's writing has a certain delicacy to it, so wonderfully observant, and so beautiful." --Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Americanah Obiefuna has alw...

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THE WORLD AFTER ALICE

LAUREN ALIZA GREEN

"When Morgan and Benji invite their families to their wedding in Maine, they know the news will come as a shock after keeping their relationship secret. Twelve years have passed since the stunning loss of Benji's sixteen-year-old sister Alice, who was also Morgan's best friend, and no one is quite the same. But the young couple decide to leap headfirst into marriage and have as...

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THE CODGER AND THE SPARROW

SCOTT SEMEGRAN

Hank O'Sullivan, a sixty-five-year-old widower, lives a routine life, nursing his loneliness with cocktails at his favorite local bar in Austin, Texas. After a parking lot brawl lands him in jail, a judge sentences Hank to community service, picking up trash along the highway alongside a sixteen-year-old troublemaker, Luis Delgado. Luis has remarkable artistic abilities, but hi...

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THE LIFE IMPOSSIBLE

HAIG, MATT

"The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library, with more than nine million copies sold worldwide "What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don't understand yet..." When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her...

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ENTITLEMENT

ALAM, RUMAAN

"Brooke Orr is on a mission to change her life and the world. Assisting an octogenarian billionaire in the quest to give away his vast fortune turns out to be deeply satisfying work, a noble life path. All you need to make the world a better place, it turns out, is the right ideals with the right amount of money. She and her billionaire make an uncommon pair: Brooke, 33, is a B...

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INVISIBLE KITTIES

YOYO

"Utterly charming, particularly so for cat-lovers, who might argue that every bit of magic here is absolutely true." --Booklist (starred review)In this whimsical and inventive debut--perfect for fans of The Guest Cat and Calvino's Invisible Cities--a young couple's daily life is disrupted by their newly adopted cat, who soon initiates them into the wondrous world of felines.Equ...

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FAMILIA (ENGLISH)

LAUREN E. RICO

"A masterfully woven tale of mystery, reconciliation, and familial love." Abby Jimenez, New York Times Bestselling AuthorReaders of Olga Dies Dreaming and fans of Julia Alvarez will be captivated by this spellbinding story told from multiple perspectives and spanning a generation, as a baffling genealogy test connects two young women across cultures and class and sets in motio...

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THE WILDEST SUN

ASHA LEMMIE

Following her New York Times bestselling debut Fifty Words for Rain, Asha Lemmie's next sweeping and evocative novel introduces a determined young womans search for the larger-than-life literary figure she believes to be her father. When tragedy forces Delphine Auber, an aspiring writer on the cusp of adulthood, from her home in postwar Paris, she seizes the opportunity to e...

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MOONRISE OVER NEW JESSUP

JAMILA MINNICKS

Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and enchanting debut about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves at the beginning of the civil rights movement in Alabama. It's 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama...

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THE BALL AT VERSAILLES

STEEL, DANIELLE

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Four American debutantes attend a renowned Paris cotillion in Danielle Steels captivating new novel.Its the summer of 1959 and the Palace of Versailles is hosting an event that will make history. It is an exclusive dusk-to-dawn ball in which a select group of American and French debutantes will be presented to international society and royalty. Fou...

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BEFORE WE SAY GOODBYE

TOSHIKAZU KAWAGUCHI

The fourth novel in the internationally bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series, following a new group of customers in a magical time-traveling Tokyo caféThe regulars at Café Funiculi Funicula are well acquainted with the whimsical ability it grants them to take a trip into the past--as well as the strict rules involved, including that each traveler must return to the pr...

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DAY

MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM

A "quietly stunning" (Ocean Vuong) exploration of love and loss, the struggles and limitations of family life--and how we all must learn to live together and apart--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours "Along with George Eliot, Michael Cunningham belongs in that rare group of novelists who hold the world close, with apparently infinite respect, compassion, and te...

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THE DIVER

SAMSUN KNIGHT

Marta doesnt mean to kill her husband. In fact, she hardly believes that hes dead. After a dramatic accident leaves him drowned at the bottom of Lake Michigan, she embarks on a grief-fueled descent into the occult, and soon pulls in everyone around her, from her mother-in-law to the private detectives parked outside her home, as she tries to undo her one deadly mistake. Pete...

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THE MANOR HOUSE GOVERNESS

C. A. CASTLE

With a genderfluid protagonist and 21st-century twist, this spirited debut pays homage to the British classics while joyfully centering an LGBTQ+ point of view, perfect for fans of Emily M. Danforth.This charming, immersive read reminds all queer people, now more than ever, we deserve to take up space and matter (Kosoko Jackson).Orphaned young and raised with chilly indiffere...

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WE ARE THE LIGHT

MATTHEW QUICK

*A treasure of a novelread it and be healed. Justin Cronin * Beautifully written and emotion-packed. Harlan Coben * From the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbookmade into the Academy Awardwinning movie starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Coopera poignant and hopeful novel about a widower who takes in a grieving teenager and inspires a ma...

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BAUMGARTNER

PAUL AUSTER

"Paul Auster's brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner-phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor-has just forgotten on the stove. Baumgartner's life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to ...

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WE ALL WANT IMPOSSIBLE THINGS

CATHERINE NEWMAN

For lovers of Meg Wolitzer, Maria Semple, and Jenny Offill comes this raucous, poignant celebration of life, love, and friendship at its imperfect and radiant best.Edith and Ashley have been best friends for over forty-two years. They've shared the mundane and the momentous together: trick or treating and binge drinking; Gilligan's Island reruns and REM concerts; hickeys and he...

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THE REFORMATORY

TANANARIVE DUE

A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.Gracetown, FloridaJune 1950Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory,...

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ABSOLUTION

MCDERMOTT, ALICE

A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award.You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives.American women--American wives--have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a ...

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Libros de Contemporary fiction 707 resultados

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