Ficción moderna y contemporanea

¿Cómo diablos se convirtió la luchadora Lou Casserly en el no va más de la ?esposa sumisa?? Hace mucho tiempo que ya no existe la chica que una vez pensó hacer realidad sus sueños junto a su mejor amiga Deb. Ahora Lou es una mujer solitaria a la que han anulado por completo, que ni siquiera se da cuenta de cuándo se están aprovechando de ella, ya sea su madre, a la que nunca parece complacer, o su infiel marido, Phil. Un día cae en sus manos una revista en la que lee un artículo sobre la limpieza de trastos en casa, sin ser consciente de cómo ese artículo cambiará su vida. Lo que empieza como una ferviente limpieza general acaba escapando a su control. Cuantas más cosas tira Lou, más libera todos esos rincones ocultos de su corazón que le causan tanto dolor. ¿Quién sabe dónde le llevará su recién descubierto entusiasmo por aquello que es esencial para vivir?

"A truly enjoyable read" about "the power of quilts to connect, heal, and restore the soul.” --Marianne Fons. From Frances O'Roark Dowell — bestselling author of Dovey Coe, The Secret Language of Girls, Trouble the Water and other "beloved books for tweens and teenagers" (New York Times Sunday Book Review) — comes Birds in the Air, Dowell's first novel for adults. When Emma Byrd moves into the house of her dreams in the small mountain community of Sweet Anne's Gap, she knows that making friends may prove to be her biggest challenge. Her husband loves his new job and her kids are finding their way at school. But Emma — no natural when it comes to talking to strangers — will have to try a little harder, especially after the sweet, white-haired neighbor she first visits slams the door in her face. Luckily, a few of the quilters of Sweet Anne's Gap adopt Emma and she soon finds herself organizing the quilt show for the town's centennial celebration. But not everyone is happy to see the job go to an outsider, especially one who has befriended an outcast pursuing her own last best chance at redemption. With Birds in the Air, Frances O'Roark Dowell (winner of the Edgar Award, the William Allen White Award and the Christopher Medal) has created a warm, funny novel about fitting in, falling out and mending frayed relationships one stitch at a time.

FINALIST, BEST ADULT FICTION AWARD by COLORADO AUTHORS' LEAGUE (Colorado's oldest organization for professional, published writers). The story of Ursula Frank, an 87-year-old woman, who has lived and seen it all from Nazi-scorched Europe to pre-Castro Cuba, was looking for a clever exit from her mortal coil by going into East L.A. at night looking for trouble. Unintentionally she interrupts the gang initiation of Reuben Montanez, a 17-year-old good guy who was simply hoping for a better life than his honest hard-working (deceased) brother. Little does Reuben know that Ursula just might have the answer to his hopes of a better life, if only she can share it with him before it is too late—for either of them.

Vienna Girl, a story of young hope during a time of despair is a unique family novel, an experience on many different levels, and rich in contrasting flavors as a Viennese feast. It is a dramatic novel depicting the beginning of the Hitler heritage - a time of invasion and occupation - which has not ended. Fifteen-year-old Reyna and her grandmother are hiding in dark cellar rooms of a dilapidated little baroque castle during the Russian invasion of Vienna. Often she feels like crying, what have we ever done? We're innocent. But how guilty was innocence after Hitler? How innocent guilt? The Second World War ended in conflict and world peace was lost. Reyna, powerfully self-amused, faces the mess men on the rampage have made of her city. Family and friends slowly find each other as Vienna is divided. For the first time in history bewildered and bewildering young soldiers of four nations come to share the occupation of one great city. Loves, old and new, imagined and real, characters, dead or disguised, or dangerous revolve around Reyna defining and redefining each other as in a mirrored kaleidoscope that reveals patterns of events and history. And all the hide and seek in the story - lost crowns, treasures, villains, loves - is in the end, the endless search for lost values. If Vienna - as someone said - is a state of mind, Vienna Girl depicts this state of mind as a city of dreams which cannot be conquered.

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Las figuras de este curioso álbum de familia que, al principio, parecen destinadas a permanecer fijas y eternamente intactas, van poco a poco, bajo la pluma sutil de Anita Brookner, ampliándose y acercándose a nosotros hasta revelarnos por qué han ido alterándose inevitablemente. Adivinamos lentamente, por ejemplo, que Sofka, la madre, siente preferencia por dos de sus cuatro hijos : Frederick por ser un hombre de éxito fácil y Betty porque se las sabe todas para atraer a los hombres. La madre no admira a Alfred, sometido en cambio a ella ciegamente, ni a Mimi, pasiva y perdedora. Hasta aquí, nada extraño. No obstante, a medida que vamos siendo presa de esta filigrana de afectos desencontrados, percibimos la minuciosa y algo perversa trama de alianzas que ha ido envolviendo a familia y amigos atrapados en los hilos narrativos de esta espléndida novela. ¡Y es que estas cosas ocurren hasta en las mejores familias !

Ambientada a La Haia a les acaballes de la Segona Guerra Mundial, El llibre negre narra la història de Rachel, una jove jueva perseguida pel règim nazi que es veu obligada a col·laborar amb ells fent d'espia per tal de salvar la vida. Un cop introduïda a l'organització, s'enamorarà del seu supervisor alemany i descobrirà que l'assassinat dels seus pares no va ser un accident casual, com ella creia, entre moltes altres veritats difícils de pair: Aviat descobrirà també que no només els nazis van treure profit de l'extermini jueu. Però, ¿en qui pot confiar? ¿Com aconseguirà Rachel arribar a distingir la veritat de la mentida? La clau del misteri es troba en el llibre negre, vigilat de prop pel guarda de registres i llibres jueus de La Haya. A les pàgines d'aquest quadern hi ha registrats els diners que es van donar als jueus (i que després se'ls va robar) però també qui de l'excèrcit de la resistència rebia comissions per aquestes fugues de diners que els conduïa irremeiablement a la mort. Sota un cel ple de bombes i amb l'ajut del seu amant, l'oficial alemany, Rachel està disposada a tot per arribar a desvelar la veritat.

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Un assassinat reuneix dos antics companys d'escola: un és el presumpte assassí, l'altre un noi més aviat tímid i poc brillant. Al voltant dels dos nois, units per la passió pels cotxes, giren els altres personatges i els esdeveniments aclaparadors de la història. Temes: Intriga, amistat, relacions familiars, vida urbana, bandes urbanes