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Alguien Esta Mintiendo
Karen M. McManus • 2014
Beach Read
Emily Henry • 2020
<b><b>FROM THE #1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF <i>FUNNY STORY</i>!<br><br>A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.<br><br>As featured in <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> ∙ <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> ∙ <i>Oprah Magazine</i> ∙ Betches ∙ Shondaland ∙ Good Morning America ∙ <i>The New York Post</i> ∙ <i>Good Housekeeping</i> ∙ CNN ∙ and more!</b></b><br><br>Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. <br><br>They’re polar opposites. <br><br>In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block.<br><br>Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.
La seducción
Sara Torres • 2024
Tras el éxito de Lo que hay , vuelve con una novela sobre la distancia, el deseo y la fantasía la autora «llamada a revolucionarlo todo» ( Elle ), revelación del año 2022 según los libreros independientes y uno de los mejores debuts del mismo año según El Cultural. «Todo lo que toca, lo que escribe, lo que observa, se convierte en belleza». Inés Martín Rodrigo, Abril Una joven fotógrafa se pone en contacto con una escritora veinte años mayor para tomarle unos retratos mientras trabaja en su próxima novela, titulada La seducción. Tras intercambiar varios correos, la escritora la invita a pasar unos días en su casa, una pequeña masía en la costa catalana. Al llegar, nada es como esperaba, la anfitriona se muestra distante y no se deja fotografiar. Ante el rechazo, la fotógrafa tomará esas instantáneas en su mente, alimentando a la vez su ansiedad y su deseo. Esa convivencia extraña en una casa en la que todo parece dispuesto para el placer se tensará con la aparición de Greta, una amiga de la escritora con quien parece compartir una intimidad de límites difusos. Después de convertirse en una de las grandes revelaciones de la literatura española con Lo que hay, Sara Torres vuelve con una novela sobre la distancia y la fantasía sexual, una historia sobre el poder de las imágenes en el deseo y la potencia sanadora de la dulzura. La crítica ha dicho: «Una novela íntima y de marcado tono confesional que remueve y resuena más allá de su lectura». Publishers Weekly «Sara Torres circula vitalmente [...] con una natural explicitud sexual que incluye la fantasía y la materialidad de un erotismo sedoso, concentrado y sin postureo pero con una intensa elaboración literaria». Jordi Gracia, Babelia «[Sara Torres]ha devenido en un fenómeno de masas gracias a ingredientes que nadie imaginaría: teoría de género, ternura y mucho lesbianismo. [...] Un modelo de referencia para las que vienen y para todas las que vendrán, aunque hacerlo suponga poner el cuerpo y exponerse». Alexandra Lores, Vogue «Espléndida. La novela más inteligente que he leído en mucho tiempo». Antonio Jorge Meroño Campillo, Culturamas «Sara Torres escribe con esa mezcla entre delicadeza, lucidez y ternura de quien sabe que la vida y quienes la habitamos estamos dibujados con trazos finísimos, infinitos matices de cuerpos que aman, desean, sufren y encarnan todo tipo de contradicciones. [...] Una historia preciosa». Carolina Freire Vales, ELLE « La seducción es una nueva revolución feminista». Angelica Francesca Rimini, El Cultural «El ALSA conecta todas las personas enamoradas y Sara torres es esto para mí, es el ALSA de las lesbianas. [La seducción] es un grito revolucionario». Eugenia Tenenbaum «Una delicia que irradia dulzura, cuando más necesitados estamos de ella». Daniel de la Fuente, La Hora Extra - CADENA SER «La nueva papisa del deseo femenino. [...] Una escritura refinada, contundente pero tranquila, repleta de aforismos emocionales que piden ser subrayados y funcionan como sentencias». Noelia Ramírez, Babelia «Una de las cosas más interesantes de leer o escuchar a Sara Torres es que hace que la mente del lector vuele y reflexione mucho más allá de la historia en sí que se cuenta en el libro». Irene Valiente, Hoy empieza todo – Radio 3
The Unhoneymooners
Christina Lauren • 2019
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!<br/><br/>Starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews * Publishers Weekly * Library Journal<br/><br/>Named a “Must-Read” by TODAY, Us Weekly, Bustle, BuzzFeed, Goodreads, Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly, Southern Living, Book Riot, Woman’s Day, The Toronto Star, and more!<br/><br/>For two sworn enemies, anything can happen during the Hawaiian trip of a lifetime—maybe even love—in this romantic comedy from the New York Times bestselling authors of Roomies.<br/><br/>Olive Torres is used to being the unlucky twin: from inexplicable mishaps to a recent layoff, her life seems to be almost comically jinxed. By contrast, her sister Ami is an eternal champion...she even managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a slew of contests. Unfortunately for Olive, the only thing worse than constant bad luck is having to spend the wedding day with the best man (and her nemesis), Ethan Thomas.<br/><br/>Olive braces herself for wedding hell, determined to put on a brave face, but when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning, the only people who aren’t affected are Olive and Ethan. Suddenly there’s a free honeymoon up for grabs, and Olive will be damned if Ethan gets to enjoy paradise solo.<br/><br/>Agreeing to a temporary truce, the pair head for Maui. After all, ten days of bliss is worth having to assume the role of loving newlyweds, right? But the weird thing is...Olive doesn’t mind playing pretend. In fact, the more she pretends to be the luckiest woman alive, the more it feels like she might be.<br/><br/>With Christina Lauren’s “uniquely hilarious and touching voice” (Entertainment Weekly), The Unhoneymooners is a romance for anyone who has ever felt unlucky in love.
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Not in Love
Ali Hazelwood • 2024
An Indie Next and a Hall of Fame LibraryReads Pick!<br/><br/>A forbidden, secret affair proves that all’s fair in love and science—from New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood.<br/><br/>Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down.<br/><br/>Eli Killgore and his business partners want Kline, period. Eli has his own reasons for pushing this deal through—and he’s a man who gets what he wants. With one burning exception: Rue. The woman he can’t stop thinking about. The woman who's off-limits to him.<br/><br/>Torn between loyalty and an undeniable attraction, Rue and Eli throw caution out the lab and the boardroom windows. Their affair is secret, no-strings-attached, and has a built-in deadline: the day one of their companies will prevail. But the heart is risky business—one that plays for keeps.
To Read
Blue Sisters: A Novel
Coco Mellors • 2024
We Were Liars
E. Lockhart • 2018
<b>NOW AVAILABLE AS THE ORIGINAL STREAMING SERIES <i>WE WERE LIARS—</i>AND LOOK FOR E. LOCKHART’S NEW NOVEL IN THE WE WERE LIARS UNIVERSE, <i>WE FELL APART</i>, COMING NOVEMBER 4, 2025<br><br>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • A <i>KIRKUS REVIEWS</i> BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE CENTURY • The modern, sophisticated suspense novel that became a runaway smash hit on TikTok and introduced the world to a family hiding a jaw-dropping secret.<br><br>"Thrilling, beautiful, and blisteringly smart, <i>We Were Liars</i> is utterly unforgettable." —John Green, #1<i> New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Fault in Our Stars</i><br><br></b>A beautiful and distinguished family.<br>A private island.<br>A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.<br>A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.<br>A revolution. An accident. A secret.<br>Lies upon lies.<br>True love.<br>The truth.<br><br>Read it.<br>And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.<b><br><br>Don’t miss any of the We Were Liars novels<br>WE WERE LIARS • FAMILY OF LIARS • WE FELL APART (Coming in November!)<br></b>
People We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry • 2021
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Funny Story comes a sparkling novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven't spoken since. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees. Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?
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.
