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The Outsider: A Novel
Stephen King • 2018
Now an HBO limited series starring Ben Mendelsohn! Evil has many faces…maybe even yours in this #1 New York Times bestseller from master storyteller Stephen King. An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is discovered in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens—Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon have DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad. As the investigation expands and horrifying details begin to emerge, King’s story kicks into high gear, generating strong tension and almost unbearable suspense. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy, but is he wearing another face? When the answer comes, it will shock you as only Stephen King can.
Alguien es el siguiente / One of Us Is Next: The Sequel to One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus • 2021
Uno de nosotros miente
Karen McManus • 2017
Una nueva app está acorralando a la élite del instituto Bayview para estudiantes de perfil elevado. Las filtraciones de la vida privada de los estudiantes corren como la pólvora por la nueva red social creada por Simon Kelleher, alumno de la misma institución. Pero la cosa se pone muy seria cuando Simon es asesinado justo delante de sus víctimas. Los cuatro cabecillas de la "crème de la crème" estudiantil se convierten en sospechosos directos del asesinato. -- Amazon.com.
Asesinato para principiantes / A Good Girl´s Guide To Murder
Holly Jackson • 2022
¿Quién mató a Andie Bell? Todos creen saber la verdad, pero solo Pippa sabe que están equivocados.<br/>Hace cinco años, la estudiante Andie Bell fue asesinada por Sal Singh. La policía sabe que fue él. Sus compañeros también. Todo el mundo lo sabe.<br/>Pero Pippa creció en la misma ciudad que ha sido consumida por este crimen y para ella no es tan claro… Decidida a desenterrar la verdad, Pippa convierte la investigación de este asesinato en el tema de su proyecto de final de clase. Poco a poco, empezará a descubrir un montón de secretos que alguien se ha esforzado en ocultar muy bien. Si el asesino sigue suelto, ¿qué será capaz de hacer para mantener a Pippa alejada de la verdad?<br/>Un thriller con una joven investigadora que destapará los secretos más turbios de su pequeña y, supuestamente, tranquila comunidad.<br/>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION<br/>Everyone in Fairview knows the story.<br/><br/>Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town.<br/><br/>But she can't shake the feeling that there was more to what happened that day. She knew Sal when she was a child, and he was always so kind to her. How could he possibly have been a killer?<br/><br/>Now a senior herself, Pip decides to reexamine the closed case for her final project, at first just to cast doubt on the original investigation. But soon she discovers a trail of dark secrets that might actually prove Sal innocent . . . and the line between past and present begins to blur. Someone in Fairview doesn't want Pip digging around for answers, and now her own life might be in danger.
How to Sell a Haunted House
Grady Hendrix • 2023
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<br/><br/>"Wildly entertaining."-The New York Times<br/><br/>"Ingenious."-The Washington Post<br/><br/>New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—and your family—can haunt you like nothing else.<br/><br/>When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.<br/><br/>Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success. Unfortunately, she’ll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it’ll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market.<br/><br/>But some houses don’t want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them…<br/><br/>Like his novels The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires and The Final Girl Support Group, How to Sell a Haunted House is classic Hendrix: equal parts heartfelt and terrifying—a gripping new read from “the horror master” (USA Today).
La chica del tren
Paula Hawkins • 2021
¿Estabas en el tren de las 8.04? ¿Viste algo sospechoso?<br/>Rachel, sí<br/><br/>Rachel toma siempre el tren de las 8.04 h. Cada mañana lo mismo: el mismo paisaje, las mismas casas… y la misma parada en la señal roja. Son solo unos segundos, pero le permiten observar a una pareja desayunando tranquilamente en su terraza. Siente que los conoce y se inventa unos nombres para ellos: Jess y Jason. Su vida es perfecta, no como la suya. Pero un día ve algo. Sucede muy deprisa, pero es suficiente. ¿Y si Jess y Jason no son tan felices como ella cree? ¿Y si nada es lo que parece?<br/>Tú no la conoces. Ella a ti, sí.<br/><br/>«Un impresionante debut en el mundo del thriller.» The Guardian<br/>«Agárrate fuerte... Nunca sabes los horrores que acechan en la siguiente curva» USA Today<br/>«Nada como un posible asesinato para romper la monotonía de tu viaje diario en metro» Cosmopolitan
Romance
Para siempre es mucho tiempo (Spanish Edition)
Patricia Morenz • 2019
Jocelyn Davis vuelve a Nueva York luego de un terrible suceso familiar, después de cinco años de haberse ido sin despedirse de su mejor amigo de la infancia, Jake Johnson. Ahora debe de comenzar la secundaria sin amigos, con el alma destrozada, su hogar roto y con sus inseguros sueños de convertirse en una escritora reconocida. Sin esperanzas, se aferra a Jake, quien le ofrece su amistad de nuevo. Pero ella no se imaginó algo: se ha enamorado de su mejor amigo y lo más sorprendente, él se ha enamorado de ella. Sin embargo, Jake también tiene sus propios sueños y el futuro amenaza con destruir lo hermoso del presente.¿Su amor podrá atravesar la incertidumbre del mañana?La ternura del primer amor, la importancia de la amistad, el perdón y los sueños, se entrelazan en esta conmovedora historia.
Happy All the Time
Laurie Colwin • 2014
A modern classic first published in 1978 that is as much a sophisticated romantic comedy about the love between two partners as it is a novel about the powerful bonds shared by family members, friends, colleagues and confidants. "A funny, loving, celebratory book in which everything is perfect." —The Boston Globe Guido and Vincent, best friends (and third cousins), aren’t expecting to fall head-over-heels in love, but that is exactly what happens. Guido is smitten with Holly, a dazzling young woman who chafes at the idea of complacency, while Vincent falls for Misty, a work colleague with an acerbic sense of humor who seems as uninterested in romance as she is in Vincent (at first). In the months that follow, both couples will experience the rituals of courtship, jealousy, estrangement, family entanglements, and other perils of the heart as they try to find love in spite of themselves. Colwin is a master of portraying the messiness of life: here, in hilarious and endearing prose, she follows these two improbable pairs, and their families, as they navigate and ultimately find happiness together—not all the time, but for most of it. With a foreword by Katherine Heiny, author of Early Morning Riser.
Epic fantasy
Circe
Madeline Miller • 2020
"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller is "both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The New York Times). In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts, and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love. With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world. #1 New York Times bestseller -- named one of the best books of the year by NPR, the Washington Post, People, Time, Amazon, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Newsweek, the A.V. Club, Christian Science Monitor, Refinery 29, BuzzFeed, Paste, Audible, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Thrillist, NYPL, Self, Real Simple, Goodreads, Boston Globe, Electric Literature, BookPage, the Guardian, Book Riot, Seattle Times, and Business Insider
CANCION DE AQUILES
Madeline Miller • 2013
El joven principe Patroclo mata por accidente a un muchacho. Repudiado por su padre es exiliado al reino de Ftia donde lo acoge el rey Peleo un hombre bendecido por los dioses inteligente apuesto valiente y reconocido por su piedad. Tanto que se le concedio el mas alto honor la posibilidad de engendrar un hijo con una diosa: Aquiles. Aquiles es fuerte noble luminoso. Patroclo no puede evitar admirar hasta el mas minimo de sus gestos llenos de belleza y perfeccion. Cuando Aquiles lo elige como hermano de armas ambos quedaran unidos de por vida por lazos de sangre y lealtad pero tambien de amor. Especializada en cultura clasica Madeline Miller acomete una relectura de la guerra de Troya con todos los mitos que nos resultan familiares: la belleza de Helena la fuerza de Ayax la astucia de Ulises la nobleza de Hector el sacrificio de Ifigenia la obstinacion de Agamenon... Con un estilo firme y fluido desarrolla una trama in-teligente y bien perfilada que la ha consagrado con el prestigioso
La corte del eclipse
Claudia Ramírez • 2023
«Cuenta la leyenda que el sol y la luna son enemigos. Así ha sido desde el inicio de los tiempos. Por eso, tal vez sea de tontos preguntarse…¿Se puede desafiar una leyenda?».<br/>Después de los sucesos de la noche de la Luna Roja y la trágica batalla en el Castillo de la Luna, lo que el rey Emil Solerian desea es la paz entre Ilardya<br/>y Alariel. Aunque los rencores y prejuicios de un milenio no son fáciles de sanar, Emil está decidido a hacer su mejor esfuerzo con un nuevo Tratado que logre una convivencia armónica.<br/>Sin embargo, antes debe lidiar con algo más urgente: los rebeldes de Lestra, quienes están dispuestos a cometer atrocidades inimaginables con tal de derrocar al que consideran un falso rey. Emil viajará en compañía de sus amigos a lugares peligrosos y lejanos para entender el origen de la rebelión.<br/>¿Lograrán prevenir la guerra que se avecina? ¿Qué estarán dispuestos a sacrificar para llegar a la verdad de lo que se oculta en la nación del sol y el reino de la luna?
La ladrona de la luna
Claudia Ramírez • 2019
EL PRINCIPE DEL SOL
RAMIREZ LOMELI • 2014
Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros • 2023
“The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is when the rest of us lose our humanity.” —Xaden Riorson Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College—Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet’s already wondering how she’ll get through. It’s not just that it’s grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it’s designed to stretch the riders’ capacity for pain beyond endurance. It’s the new vice commandant, who’s made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is–unless she betrays the man she loves. Although Violet’s body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else’s, she still has her wits—and a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules. But a determination to survive won’t be enough this year. Because Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College—and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.
Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros • 2023
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant. She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise. Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret. Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die.
The Burning God (The Poppy War, 3)
R. F Kuang • 2021
The exciting end to the Poppy War trilogy, R. F. Kuang’s acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating, enthralling effect.<br/>After saving her nation of Nikan from foreign invaders and battling the evil Empress Su Daji in a brutal civil war, Fang Runin was betrayed by allies and left for dead.<br/>Despite her losses, Rin hasn’t given up on those for whom she has sacrificed so much—the people of the southern provinces and especially Tikany, the village that is her home. Returning to her roots, Rin meets difficult challenges—and unexpected opportunities. While her new allies in the Southern Coalition leadership are sly and untrustworthy, Rin quickly realizes that the real power in Nikan lies with the millions of common people who thirst for vengeance and revere her as a goddess of salvation.<br/>Backed by the masses and her Southern Army, Rin will use every weapon to defeat the Dragon Republic, the colonizing Hesperians, and all who threaten the shamanic arts and their practitioners. As her power and influence grows, though, will she be strong enough to resist the Phoenix’s intoxicating voice urging her to burn the world and everything in it?
The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War, 2)
R. F Kuang • 2020
Rin’s story continues in this acclaimed sequel to The Poppy War—an epic fantasy combining the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters.<br/><br/>The war is over.<br/>The war has just begun.<br/>Three times throughout its history, Nikan has fought for its survival in the bloody Poppy Wars. Though the third battle has just ended, shaman and warrior Rin cannot forget the atrocity she committed to save her people. Now she is on the run from her guilt, the opium addiction that holds her like a vice, and the murderous commands of the fiery Phoenix—the vengeful god who has blessed Rin with her fearsome power.<br/>Though she does not want to live, she refuses to die until she avenges the traitorous Empress who betrayed Rin’s homeland to its enemies. Her only hope is to join forces with the powerful Dragon Warlord, who plots to conquer Nikan, unseat the Empress, and create a new republic.<br/>But neither the Empress nor the Dragon Warlord are what they seem. The more Rin witnesses, the more she fears her love for Nikan will force her to use the Phoenix’s deadly power once more.<br/>Because there is nothing Rin won’t sacrifice to save her country . . . and exact her vengeance.
The Poppy War: A Novel (The Poppy War, 1)
R. F Kuang • 2019
<p>“I have no doubt this will end up being the best fantasy debut of the year [...] I have absolutely no doubt that [Kuang’s] name will be up there with the likes of Robin Hobb and N.K. Jemisin.” -- Booknest</p><p>A Library Journal, Paste Magazine, Vulture, BookBub, and ENTROPY Best Books of 2018 pick!</p><p>Washington Post "5 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel of 2018" pick!</p><p>A Bustle "30 Best Fiction Books of 2018" pick!</p><p>A brilliantly imaginative talent makes her exciting debut with this epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the bloody history of China’s twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic, in the tradition of Ken Liu’s Grace of Kings and N.K. Jemisin’s Inheritance Trilogy.</p><p>When Rin aced the Keju—the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies—it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin’s guardians, who believed they’d finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up her daily existence. That she got into Sinegard—the most elite military school in Nikan—was even more surprising.</p><p>But surprises aren’t always good.</p><p>Because being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not an easy thing at Sinegard. Targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers she possesses a lethal, unearthly power—an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive—and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school.</p><p>For while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. The militarily advanced Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War, and only barely lost the continent in the Second. And while most of the people are complacent to go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away . . .</p><p>Rin’s shamanic powers may be the only way to save her people. But as she finds out more about the god that has chosen her, the vengeful Phoenix, she fears that winning the war may cost her humanity . . . and that it may already be too late.</p>
Suspenseful
If It Bleeds
Stephen King • 2020
<p>*#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* Featuring the novella "The Life of Chuck, " now a feature film adapted for the screen and directed by Mike Flanagan ( The Fall of the House of Usher, Doctor Sleep ) and starring Tom Hiddleston, Mark Hamill, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Karen Gillan—a Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award winner! From the legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary collection of four new "exceptionally compelling novellas that reaffirm [King's] mastery of the form" ( The Washington Post ). Readers adore Stephen King's novels, and his novellas are their own dark treat, briefer but just as impactful and enduring as his longer fiction. Many of his novellas have been made into iconic films, including "The Body" ( Stand by Me ) and "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" ( Shawshank Redemption ).The four brilliant tales in If It Bleeds prove as iconic as their predecessors. In the title story, reader favorite Holly Gibney (from the Mr. Mercedes trilogy and The Outsider ) must face her fears, and possibly another outsider—this time on her own. In "Mr. Harrigan's Phone" an intergenerational friendship has a disturbing afterlife. "The Life of Chuck" explores, beautifully, how each of us contains multitudes. And in "Rat, " a struggling writer must contend with the darker side of ambition.If these novellas show King's range, they also prove that certain themes endure. One of King's great concerns is evil, and in If It Bleeds, there's plenty of it. There is also evil's opposite, which in King's fiction often manifests as friendship. Holly is reminded that friendship is not only life-affirming but can be life-saving. Young Craig befriends Mr. Harrigan, and the sweetness of this late-in-life connection is its own reward."An adroit vehicle to showcase the…nature of evil" ( The Boston Globe ), If It Bleeds is "exactly what I wanted to read right now, " says Ruth Franklin in The New York Times Book Review.<br></p>
Holly
Stephen King • 2023
#1 New York Times Bestseller * New York Times Notable Book * NPR Best Book of the Year<br/><br/>Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and resourceful characters, returns in this chilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.<br/><br/>“Sometimes the universe throws you a rope.” —BILL HODGES<br/><br/>Stephen King’s Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly’s gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges’s partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In King’s new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries.<br/><br/>When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down.<br/><br/>Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harboring an unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie’s disappearance. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are savvy, they are patient, and they are ruthless.<br/><br/>Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outthink and outmaneuver the shockingly twisted professors in this chilling new masterwork from Stephen King.<br/><br/>“I could never let Holly Gibney go. She was supposed to be a walk-on character in Mr. Mercedes and she just kind of stole the book and stole my heart. Holly is all her.” —STEPHEN KING
Historical fiction
11/22/63
Stephen King • 1925
Young-adult
Aquel chico folk (Spanish Edition)
AMY JEAN • 2022
Aquella chica pelirroja
AMY JEAN • 2022
Dark academia
Los seis de Atlas
Olivie Blake • 2022
