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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Eduardo Quintana is a broken man. The tragedy that cost him the lives of his family is a wound he daily tears open afresh. The once-renowned painter wallows in grief, subsisting on alcohol and drugs, eking out a living with whatever painting commissions he can get. But when he is approached by a mysterious woman who wants him to paint a portrait of the man who killed her son, he soon becomes entangled in a web of deceit in which no one, and nothing,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Maria Duenas returns with The Vineyard, a magnificent story of ambition, heartbreak, and desire set in the 1860s Mexico, Cuba, and Spain--perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Kristin Hannah. Mauro Larrea's fortune, the result of years of hardship and toil, comes crashing down on the heels of a calamitous event. Swamped by debt and uncertainty, he gambles the last of his money in a daring play that wins him an abandoned...
7) My fault
Author
Series
Culpable volume 1
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
“Seventeen-year-old Noah Morgan loves her quiet, normal life in Toronto. But when her mother returns from a cruise unexpectedly married to a billionaire and announces they are moving to L.A., Noah is suddenly shoved out of her comfort zone and into a glittering world of illegal street races, lavish pool parties, and spoiled rich kids. And her new stepbrother Nicholas is the most spoiled of them all. Arrogant, aloof, and viciously attractive, Nick...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"Tyrell Brown quería largarse de Houston y volver a su casa. En su lugar, se vio atrapado en un avión destino a Francia para asistir a la boda de su mejor amiga. Para rematarlo, descubrió que compartía asiento con Victoria Westin, la abogada de ojos azules y zapatos de tacón de aguja que llevaba meses fastidiándole...El desastre de la boda había quedado atrás, pero la chispa entre [Tyrell y Victoria] dos seguía encendida. Habían intentado...