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Amarilla
Rebecca F. Kuang • 2023
EL LADO OSCURO DEL MUNDILLO LITERARIO. Athena Liu es una escritora famosa y June Hayward es una escritora a la que no conocen ni en su casa. Cuando Athena muere de forma tan inesperada como extraña, June le roba su último manuscrito. Y no solo eso: lo publica como si fuera obra suya. Sin embargo, hay evidencias que amenazan con poner en peligro el éxito que June ha conseguido de manera tan (por decirlo finamente) cuestionable. Y es entonces cuando descubre hasta dónde está dispuesta a llegar para conservar la vida que ella cree que merece. CON ESTA EMOCIONANTE Y AFILADÍSIMA NOVELA, REBECCA F. KUANG, LA AUTORA SUPERVENTAS NÚMERO 1 DEL NEW YORK TIMES, LOGRA QUE , NOS PREGUNTEMOS: ¿Y SI, ANTE EL ÉXITO, TODOS SOMOS BUITRES?
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte • 2009
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Charlotte Brontë's first published novel, Jane Eyre was immediately recognised as a work of genius when it appeared in 1847. Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. How she takes up the post of governess at Thornfield Hall, meets and loves Mr Rochester and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage are elements in a story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a wider and richer life than that traditionally accorded to her sex in Victorian society.
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Everything i know about love
Dolly Alderton
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Coco Mellors • 2022
The smash National bestseller and Goodreads Choice Award finalist--perfect for readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends. An addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple’s impulsive marriage.<br/><br/>Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank’s life is full of all the excesses Cleo’s lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to apply for a Green Card. But their impulsive marriage irreversibly changes both their lives, and the lives of those close to them, in ways they never could’ve predicted.<br/><br/>Each compulsively readable chapter explores the lives of Cleo, Frank, and an unforgettable cast of their closest friends and family as they grow up and grow older. Whether it’s Cleo’s best friend struggling to embrace his gender queerness in the wake of Cleo’s marriage, or Frank’s financially dependent sister arranging sugar daddy dates to support herself after being cut off, or Cleo and Frank themselves as they discover the trials of marriage and mental illness, each character is as absorbing, and painfully relatable, as the last.<br/><br/>As hilarious as it is heartbreaking, entertaining as it is deeply moving, Cleopatra and Frankenstein marks the entry of a brilliant and bold new talent.
Normal People: A Novel
Sally Rooney • 2020
<b>NOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • “A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships” (<i>People</i>) from the author of <i>Conversations with Friends,</i> “a master of the literary page-turner” (J. Courtney Sullivan).</b><br> <br><b>“[A] novel that demands to be read compulsively, in one sitting.”—<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br><br><b>ONE OF <i>ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY</i>’S TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE</b><br><br><b>TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: <i>People, Slate,</i> The New York Public Library, <i>Harvard Crimson</i></b><br><br>Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation—awkward but electrifying—something life changing begins.<br><br>A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.<br><br><i>Normal People</i> is the story of mutual fascination, friendship, and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find that they can’t.<br> <br><b>WINNER: The British Book Award, The Costa Book Award, The An Post Irish Novel of the Year, <i>Sunday Times </i>Young Writer of the Year Award</b><br><br><b>BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The New York Times Book Review, Oprah Daily, Time,</i> NPR, <i>The Washington Post, Vogue, Esquire, Glamour, Elle, Marie Claire, Vox, The Paris Review, Good Housekeeping, Town & Country</i></b>
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Funny Story
Emily Henry · 2024
<b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER ∙ A shimmering, joyful novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Emily Henry.<br><br>A <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024<br><br>Named a Must-Read Book of 2024 by <i>TIME</i> ∙ NPR ∙ <i>ELLE</i> ∙ Parade ∙ <i>Woman’s World</i> and more!</b><br><b> </b><br>Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.<br><br>Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.<br><br>Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?<br><br>But it’s all just for show, of <i>course,</i> because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex . . . right?
Book Lovers
Emily Henry • 2022
An insightful, delightful, instant #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Funny Story. “One of my favorite authors.”—Colleen Hoover One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming... Nora Stephens' life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute. If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.
Cumbres Borrascosas
Emily Brontë • 2018
Product Description<br/><br/><br/>Considerada como una de las mejores novelas de la literatura inglesa.<br/>Edición íntegra con notas explicativas y de vocabulario<br/>El señor Earnshaw, dueño de Cumbres Borrascosas y padre de Catherine y de Hindley, adopta a Heathcliff, un niño huérfano. Entre Catherine y Heathcliff surgirán inmediatamente poderosos lazos que irán más allá de la amistad y del amor. Pero Hindley no soporta al intruso y hará de la vida de su hermanastro un infierno. Cuando Catherine, cediendo a las convenciones sociales, traba amistad con su vecino Edgar, Heathcliff desaparece. Volverá a Cumbres Borrascosas convertido en un ser sin escrúpulos, dispuesto a vengarse de ellos y de sus descendientes. <br/>Desde los salvajes páramos de Yorkshire, Emily Brontë escribió esta arrebatadora historia de pasión y amores cruzados considerada como una de las grandes novelas de la literatura inglesa.<br/><br/><br/>Book Description<br/><br/><br/>Considerada como una de las mejores novelas de la literatura inglesa.<br/>Edición íntegra con notas explicativas y de vocabulario<br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/>Emily Brontë (Thornton, Yorkshire, Reino Unido, 1818 - Haworth, Reino Unido, 1848). Escribió bajo el seudónimo de Ellis Bell. Publicó un libro de poemas junto con sus hermanas Anne y Charlotte, y escribió una única y gran novela,<br/>Cumbres Borrascosas (1847), considerada un clásico de la narrativa inglesa. Su vida transcurrió en la casa rectoral de Haworth, un lugar salvaje y solitario, donde había sido destinado el padre en 1820. Al año siguiente falleció su madre y fue enviada con sus hermanas a un internado donde debido a las pésimas condiciones del lugar contrajeron tuberculosis. Las hermanas Brontë compartían su pasión por la escritura, y, a pesar de los inconvenientes de la época, lograron escribir y publicar. Emily falleció de tuberculosis a los veintinueve años de edad, un año después de ver la luz su novela.<br/><br/>Nació en Badajoz en 1967. Estudió Bellas Artes en la Universidad Complutense y Diseño Gráfico en St. Martins, Londres. Después de unos años en publicidad, pasó a la ilustración como actividad profesional. Entre sus libros podemos destacar,<br/>El conde de Montecristo,<br/>Libro de Pares y<br/>BeBop. Colabora habitualmente en prensa y para las principales editoriales españolas y extranjeras.
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Happy Place
Emily Henry · 2023
<b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER ∙ A couple who broke up months ago pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise novel from #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Emily Henry.<br><br>“The beach-read master hooks us again."—<i>People</i></b><br><br>Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now—for reasons they’re still not discussing—they don’t.<br><br>They broke up five months ago. And still haven’t told their best friends.<br><br>Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blissful week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most.<br><br>Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they’ll all have together in this place. They can’t stand to break their friends’ hearts, and so they’ll play their parts. Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show. It’s a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses). After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one week…in front of those who know you best?
Todos quieren a Daisy Jones
Taylor Jenkins Reid • 2020
«No soy la musa de alguien. No soy una musa. Soy ese alguien.» Ella es la estrella del rock más importante del planeta. Todos tienen una opinión sobre ella. Todos sueñan con ella. Todos buscan ser como ella. Todos quieren algo de ella. Todos quieren a Daisy Jones.
Fleabag: The Scriptures
Phoebe Waller-Bridge • 2019
Go deeper into the groundbreaking, Golden Globe and Emmy-winning series with this must-have collection—“a completist’s dream of a book, including the show’s full scripts and Waller-Bridge’s commentary” (Vogue).<br/><br/>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY EVENING STANDARD<br/><br/>“Her coat falls open. She only has her bra on underneath. She pulls out the little sculpture of the woman with no arms. It sits on her lap. Two women. One real. One not. Both with their innate femininity out.”<br/><br/>Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s critically acclaimed, utterly unique series Fleabag took the world by storm with its piercing dialogue, ruthlessly dry wit, and deeply human drama. In Fleabag: The Scriptures, Waller-Bridge brings together for the first time the filming scripts of the first and second seasons, complete with the original stage directions as well as exclusive commentary on her creative process and the making of the series. Now recognized as one of today’s most essential voices, she delivers powerful insights into her now-iconic protagonist: the hilarious, emotionally damaged, sexually unapologetic woman who can make viewers laugh, cry, and cringe in a single scene.<br/><br/>Essential for any fan, Fleabag: The Scriptures is the ultimate companion to a landmark series.
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
C.S. Lewis • 1995
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian [Paperback] [Jan 01, 1995] Lewis, C.S. …
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel
Taylor Jenkins Reid • 2018
<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i></b><b> BESTSELLER</b><br> <br><b>“If you</b>’<b>re looking for a book to take on holiday this summer, <i>The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo</i> has got all the glitz and glamour to make it a perfect beach read.” —<i>Bustle</i></b><br> <br><b>From the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Daisy Jones & the Six</i>—an entrancing and “wildly addictive journey of a reclusive Hollywood starlet” (<i>PopSugar</i>) as she reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine.</b><br><br>Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?<br> <br>Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.<br> <br>Summoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ‘80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn’s story near its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways.<br> <br>“Heartbreaking, yet beautiful” (Jamie Blynn, <i>Us Weekly</i>), <i>The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo </i>is “Tinseltown drama at its finest” (<i>Redbook</i>): a mesmerizing journey through the splendor of old Hollywood into the harsh realities of the present day as two women struggle with what it means—and what it costs—to face the truth.
Todas esas cosas que te diré mañana
Elísabet Benavent • 2023
¿Y si tuvieras la oportunidad de cambiar lo que ya has vivido?<br/><br/>Elísabet Benavent, la autora de Un cuento perfecto y de la «Saga Valeria», regresa con su novela más diferente y original: un romance fragmentado con el tiempo como aliado y el amor como hoja de ruta.<br/>Miranda trabaja como subdirectora en una revista de moda.<br/>Miranda es feliz junto a Tristán. Por eso no entiende que la esté dejando.<br/>Ojalá pudiera dar marcha atrás y volver al momento en que se conocieron...<br/>Pero ¿y si realmente tuviera la oportunidad de cambiar su historia?<br/>La crítica ha dicho:<br/>«Elísabet Benavent es la voz masiva de una generación».<br/>Jesús Ruiz Mantilla, El País
Un cuento perfecto / A Perfect Short Story (Spanish Edition)
Elisabet Benavent • 2020
El libro que ha inspirado una adaptación en Netflix<br/><br/>Más de 100 mil ejemplares vendidos.<br/><br/>De la autora de la saga Valeria, en la que se basa la serie de Netflix.<br/><br/>¿Qué sucede cuando descubres que el final de tu cuento no es como soñabas?<br/><br/>- Érase una vez una mujer que lo tenía todo y un chico que no tenía nada.<br/><br/>- Érase una vez una historia de amor entre el éxito y la duda.<br/><br/>- Érase una vez un cuento perfecto.<br/><br/>Elísabet Benavent, @BetaCoqueta, regresa al panorama de la literatura con una novela que explora el significado del éxito en la vida y reflexiona con ironía y humor acerca de las imposiciones sociales, la presión del grupo y la autoexigencia que, aunque cueste creerlo, no es sinónimo de felicidad.<br/><br/>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION<br/><br/>A book-adapted series on Netflix<br/><br/>What happens when you find that an ending to a story is not as you had imagined it would be?<br/><br/>Once upon a time, there was a girl who had everything, and a boy who had nothing.<br/><br/>Once upon a time, there was a love story between success and doubt.<br/><br/>Once upon a time, there was a perfect short story.
El corazón de una Bridgerton (Bridgerton 6)
Julia Quinn • 2021
To Sir Phillip, With Love: Bridgerton (Bridgertons Book 5)
Julia Quinn • 2017
ELOISE’S STORY Sir Phillip knew that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster, and so he’d proposed, figuring that she’d be homely and unassuming, and more than a little desperate for an offer of marriage. Except . . . she wasn’t. The beautiful woman on his doorstep was anything but quiet, and when she stopped talking long enough to close her mouth, all he wanted to do was kiss her . . . and more. Did he think she was mad? Eloise Bridgerton couldn’t marry a man she had never met! But then she started thinking . . . and wondering . . . and before she knew it, she was in a hired carriage in the middle of the night, on her way to meet the man she hoped might be her perfect match. Except . . . he wasn’t. Her perfect husband wouldn’t be so moody and ill-mannered, and while Phillip was certainly handsome, he was a large brute of a man, rough and rugged, and totally unlike the London gentlemen vying for her hand. But when he smiled . . . and when he kissed her . . . the rest of the world simply fell away, and she couldn’t help but wonder . . . could this imperfect man be perfect for her?
An Offer From a Gentleman: Bridgerton (Bridgertons Book 3)
Julia Quinn • 2015
The inspiration for season four of BRIDGERTON, a series created by Shondaland for Netflix, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn: the story of Benedict Bridgerton in the third of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family. BENEDICT'S STORY Sophie Beckett never dreamed she'd be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball—or that she would be spinning in the arms of her "Prince Charming"—the debonair and devastatingly handsome Benedict Bridgerton. But when the clock strikes midnight, Sophie’s enchanting evening ends. Since that night Benedict has been able to think of nothing but the bewitching young woman, and he’s sworn to find and wed his mystery miss. Yet will another unexpectedly steal his heart—and his chance for a fairy tale love?
People we meet on vacation
Emily Henry
Ghosts
Dolly Alderton
