Ficción moderna y contemporanea

Maggie McIntyre is a young woman who likes to wander and to wonder. As she ventures from city life into the quiet of rural Scotland, Maggie discovers a remote village packed full of charm - and intrigue. Set amongst soulful mountains, Maggie tells of her adventures and encounters, and the exploration of her ideas and thoughts in a very personal journey to understand life, her life, who she is. Along the way, Maggie falls in love with the village and its inhabitants. And each - in their own way - encourage her on the path of self-discovery. But all is not quite what it seems . . . The rambling Poet. A brush with death. The mysterious Shepherd. They all start to scratch away at Maggie until a bewildering truth reveals itself to her. In this thought-provoking debut novel, Vicky Junik shares with us her love of life, ideas, and most of all, the landscapes of her beloved Scotland. Inspired by the people and places that have enlightened her, she takes us along with Maggie through the wonder and the mysteries, to the light - and dark - within.

What would you do if you were thirty-seven, good-looking, and single with no family ties and a bad girl rep that you can't live down? That's exactly the situation Elle McLarin finds herself in as my new novel, A Girl Like That (112,000 words) opens. Mean girl Elle McLarin desperately needs to reinvent herself. Growing up with her grandparents in their small North Carolina mountain community after her teenage mother, who named her for a fashion magazine, ditched the idea of motherhood and disappeared, Elle found her upbringing to be tougher than most. Add to that a near-tragic mistake-drugging high school hunk Kyle Davis at a party, which landed her in prison for a year-and Elle has long since paid her debt to society. Nineteen years after being dubbed Badass Barbie in high school, and with her grandparents now passed away and her illegitimate son joining the Army, Elle is ready to pull up her bootstraps-and her roots-and go where no one will know her, or what she did. In coastal Wilmington, Elle opens a bakery called Bake My Day with the proceeds from selling her grandmother's cabin. Bent on turning her



Perduda la primera innocència, potser només des d'una nova innocència serà possible renéixer per a una vida plenament humana. Amb aquest estímul, Panikkar presenta un conjunt de meditacions filosòfiques, sovint fulgurants com llampecs. Llampecs blancs







The intriguing new story from prizewinning author Herbert Gold, his twentieth novel in more than six decades, takes us on a journey of lost souls seeking attachment, revenge and redemption at the edge of San Francisco Bay. When impoverished court translator Dan Kasdan lets lawyer and con artist Ferd Conway suck him into a shady property deal in Haiti, he's unprepared for the life-changing complications that follow. First, an unknown daughter has just turned up at Dan's door in the Tenderloin, nineteen years after a forgotten encounter in the Summer of Love. She, her half-employed husband and their disabled baby son need his care, attention and cash. All this just as Dan's swollen prostate is confronting him with his own mortality. It's bad enough when his cohort manipulates Dan into a love affair with Petal, a young woman his daughter's age. But when Ferd starts pursuing Dan's daughter as lover and would-be father figure, Ferd's sleazy disloyalty changes Dan forever. If a psychopath really can fall in love, it had better not be with the wrong person. That could lead to murder among old friends.









Una joven emprenderá un trayecto con el recorrido más importante de su existencia: su propia memoria. Este camino le llevará a encontrar el misterio de su vida.



Asalto al tren pagador reúne doce narraciones más una insólita receta de cocina por epílogo, escritas a lo largo de los últimos años por José Antonio Vidal Castaño. El autor vuelca en estas historias imaginación y conocimiento del oficio, nervio y sensib