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Twain, Mark

En una población a orillas del río Mississippi vive Tom Sawyer, un muchacho travieso, experto en saltarse las normas y escabullirse de la escuela para embarcarse en las aventuras más peligrosas y disparatadas. A pesar de vivir en 1850, en el sur de Estados Unidos, en una época marcada por la esclavitud y a las puertas de una guerra inminente, Tom Sawyer respira libertad e imagi...

Jonathan Franzen / Franzen, Jonathan

Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll ...

Lessing, Doris

De Doris Lessing, Premio Nobel de Literatura 2007.La buena terrorista sigue los pasos de Alice Mellings, una mujer que transforma su casa en el cuartel general de un grupo de radicales de izquierdas que desearían colaborar con el IRA. Con traducción de Mireia Bofill.Mientras Alice lucha por conciliar su ideología con su educación burguesa, sus compañeros encuentran retos inespe...

Whisman, Stacy L

Yanagihara, Hanya

Una novela que sigue el hilo de la gran literatura norteamericana y que ha llegado para dar un nuevo sentido al silencio y un nuevo valor a las emociones.La novela que hay que leer.Para descubrir...Qué dicen y qué callan los hombres.De dónde viene y dónde va la culpa.Cuánto importa el sexo.A quien podemos llamar amigo.Y finalmente...Qué precio tiene la vida y cuándo deja de te...

Yann Martel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "Fifteen years after The Life of Pi, Yann Martel is taking us on another long journey. Fans of his Man Booker Prize-winning novel will recognize familiar themes from that seafaring phenomenon, but the itinerary in this imaginative new book is entirely fresh. . . . Martel's writing has never been more charming."—Ron Charles, The Washington Post In Lis...

Foster, Alan Dean

Set years after Return of the Jedi, this stunning action-packed adventure rockets us back into the world of Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, C-3PO, R2-D2,and Luke Skywalker, while introducing a host of exciting new characters, including Rey, Finn, BB-8 and Kylo Ren.Darth Vader may have been redeemed and the Emperor vanquished, but peace can be fleeting, and evil does not eas...

Hawkins, Paula

Hawkins, Paula

EVERY DAY THE SAMERachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She s even started to feel like she knows them. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life as she sees it is perfect...

Kafka, Franz

"Cartas a Milena" reúne la correspondencia que entre 1920 y 1922 Franz Kafka (1883-1924) dirigió a Milena Jesenská, mujer de temperamento excepcional residente en Viena, con quien trabó conocimiento a raíz de su voluntad de traducir al checo dos de sus relatos. A través de ella asistimos al nacimiento de un amor tan violento como distante -fue esencialmente epistolar-, con u...

Conrad, Joseph

Novela de madurez, "La línea de sombra" (1915) es una breve historia en la que Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) narra de forma inolvidable el tránsito de la juventud a la edad adulta. Los avatares de un inexperto capitán que se hace cargo de un barco por vez primera, teniendo que afrontar las numerosas dificultades y contratiempos que surgen durante la travesía por los mares del Sur, ...

Steel, Danielle

Hurricane Ophelia is bearing down on New York City. And in a matter of hours, six people, along with their families, friends, and millions of other New Yorkers living around them, will be caught up in the horrific flooding it unleashes. Ellen Wharton has flown into New York from London, regardless of the weather and her husband's worry. The successful interior designer is inten...

Steel, Danielle

They come together by chance in the heart of New York City, four young women at turning points in their lives. Claire Kelly finds the walk-up apartment—a spacious loft in Hell's Kitchen. But the aspiring shoe designer needs at least one roommate to manage it. She meets Abby Williams, a writer trying to make it on her own, far away from her successful family in L.A. Four years l...

Steel, Danielle

Meyer, Stephenie

In this gripping page-turner, an ex-agent on the run from her former employers must take one more case to clear her name and save her life. She used to work for the U.S. government, but very few people ever knew that. An expert in her field, she was one of the darkest secrets of an agency so clandestine it doesn't even have a name. And when they decided she was a liability, the...

Brown, Dan

Dan Brown ha escrito su novela más apasionante y controvertida hasta la fecha. Inferno es una lectura absolutamente entretenida. El profesor de simbología Robert Langdon se despierta en un hospital en mitad de la noche, desorientado y con una herida en la cabeza. No recuerda nada de las últimas treinta y seis horas. Ni cómo ha llegado hasta allí, ni el origen del macabro objeto...

Mankell, Henning

Una noche de otoño, Fredrik Welin —el protagonista de la exitosa novela Zapatos italianos— se despierta cuando un incendio arrasa su casa. A sus sesenta y nueve años, este solitario médico jubilado sale penosamente de entre las llamas, calzado con unas botas de lluvia (pero ambas pertenecen al pie izquierdo). Sólo quedan, a la mañana siguiente, unas ruinas malolientes: ha perdi...

Mankell, Henning

Fredrik Welin, médico retirado, vive solo y alejado del mundo en una isla junto a la costa sueca; pero su reclusión voluntaria se ve perturbada un día por la llegada de un antiguo amor al que abandonó en el pasado. Se trata de Harriet, quien, gravemente enferma, ha venido a pedirle que cumpla una antigua promesa de juventud: llevarla a una laguna del norte del país. Con su pres...

Le Carre, John

Dos jóvenes enamorados se encuentran en el oscuro sótano de una casa anónima en Bloomsbury. En la misma habitación están sentados dos miembros del servicio de inteligencia británico que buscan información. Perry y Gail acaban de regresar de unas vacaciones en el Caribe, donde conocieron al misterioso Dima, un millonario ruso que teme por su propia vida y que cree que sólo podrá...

Brontë, Emily

Brontë, Emily

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece, an iconic fable of guilt and redemption set in Puritan Massachusetts, has long been considered one of the greatest American novels. The story of Hester Prynne—found out in adultery, pilloried by her Puritan community, and abandoned, in different ways, by both her partner in sin and her vengeance-seeking husband—possesses a reality heightened b...

Poe, Edgar Allan

A new selection for the NEA's Big Read programA compact selection of Poe's greatest stories and poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Read program.This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains such famously chilling masterpieces of the storyteller's art as "The Tell-tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask of Amontillado,...

Wilde, Oscar

Twain, Mark

Mark Twain's satiric novel about two boys who trade places in Tudor England--written "for young people of all ages"--was his first foray into historical fiction. Set in 1547, The Prince and the Pauper brings together Tom Canty, an impoverished urchin who lives with his abusive father in London's filthiest streets, and pampered Prince Edward, the son of King Henry VIII. Noticing...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

Douglas Adams / Adams, Douglas

In Life, the Universe and Everything, the third title in Douglas Adams' blockbusting sci-fi comedy series, Arthur Dent finds himself enlisted to prevent a galactic war."Wild satire . . . the feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes." Chicago Tribune"Adams is one of those rare treasures: an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has re...

Lee Child

Jack Reacher has no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, so a remote railroad stop on the prairie with the curious name of Mother's Rest seems perfect for an aimless one-day stopover. He expects to find a lonely pioneer tombstone in a sea of nearly-ripe wheat ... but instead there is a woman waiting for a missing colleague, a cryptic note about two hundred d...

Wendig, Chuck

"Star Wars: Aftermath [reveals] what happened after the events of 1983's Return of the Jedi. It turns out, there's more than just the Empire for the good guys to worry about."—The Hollywood Reporter As the Empire reels from its critical defeats at the Battle of Endor, the Rebel Alliance—now a fledgling New Republic—presses its advantage by hunting down the enemy's scattered for...

Lagercrantz, David

One of the Best Books of the Year NPR * USA Today * O, The Oprah Magazine * Esquire A genius hacker who has always been an outsider. A journalist with a penchant for danger. She is Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo. He is Mikael Blomkvist, crusading editor of Millennium. One night, Blomkvist receives a call from a source who claims to have been given information...