Ficción moderna y contemporanea

An alternate history novel. In July of 1947 an unidentified flying object came to grief on the earth's surface in New Mexico USA. It was secretly salavaged by the government and kept secret. It remains secret to this day. That's REAL history. What if history had been different and that secret had never been kept? How much would be different? How much would be the same? Roswell Rising- a Novel of Disclosure attempts to answer those questions.

"Conec la fam, l'he patit. De nen, a la fi de la guerra, vaig amb els que corren per la carretera al costat dels camions dels americans, allargo les mans per enxampar les barretes de xiclet, la xocolata, els paquets de pa que els soldats llancen a l'aire... És d'una altra fam que es tractarà en la història que segueix.""El Bolero no és una peça musical com les altres. És una profecia. Narra la història d'una còlera, d'una fam. Quan s'acaba amb violència, el silenci que en resulta és terrible per als supervivents atordits. He escrit aquesta història en memòria d'una jove que fou a pesar seu una heroïna als vint anys."París, anys trenta. L'Ethel, neboda petita d'un home vell amb una gran fortuna i originari de l'illa Maurici, coneix la Xénia a l'escola. A través dels camins vitals d'aquestes noies, que s'encreuaran al llarg del temps fins a la segona guerra mundial, La música de la fam evoca una amistat esquitxada pels avatars de la Història.Al fil de les peripècies de l'Ethel, la jove protagonista inspirada en la figura de la seva mare, J.M.G. Le Clézio confronta el seu propi passat i els records familiars amb els moments d'ira i de fam a la França dels anys de guerra. Una novel·la admirable, emotiva i continguda."J.M.G. Le Clézio és el novel·lista de la ruptura, de l'aventura poètica i de la sensualitat extasiada, investigador d'una humanitat per sota i per sobre de la civilització actual". Acadèmia Sueca"Escric novel·les perquè no sóc capaç d'escriure les meves memòries... Cal continuar llegint novel·les perquè són un gran sistema per entendre el món, un model que no és esquemàtic i que per això mateix permet fer-se preguntes". J.M.G. Le Clézio

«Una joven sin rumbo. Una anciana a la que ya no le queda mucho tiempo. Un encuentro que abre puertas insospechadas.» Una historia emocionante, que nos habla de las posibilidades que brinda el encuentro entre generaciones. Katia Werner está a punto de cumplir treinta años cuando, de un día para otro, pierde su trabajo y su alojamiento, y no sabe cómo seguir con su vida. Ante la necesidad de dejar todo atrás, se pone en camino hacia la casa de una vieja tía, a quien nunca ha visto. La tía Ruth regenta un pintoresco hotel a orillas del mar Báltico. Sus ancianos huéspedes y, sobre todo, su tía una mujer cascarrabias y de costumbres poco edificantes se ocuparán de que la espontánea visita de fin de semana se alargue varios meses. Pese a que las relaciones con la excéntrica Ruth son algo caóticas, Katia acepta los riesgos que implica prolongar su estancia allí, sin sospechar que de ese modo acepta el mayor desafío de su vida. Una conmovedora historia, que nos habla de las posibilidades que brinda el encuentro entre generaciones y del camino que a veces se necesita recorrer para comprender lo que es realmente importante en la vida. Reseñas:«Una obra de rara gracia y belleza, que conmueve hasta las lágrimas. La autora escribe con profundidad y desde el corazón, aunque no faltan los toques de humor.»Literaturmarkt «Para leer de una sentada.»ARD Buffet «Un libro hermoso y conmovedor, ideal para acurrucarnos en nuestro sillón favorito y soñar por unas horas con el Báltico.»Papiergefluester

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The first romance written by an Englishwoman, Mary Wroth?s?Countess of Montgomery?s Urania?is a literary tour de force in its own right. As the niece of Sir Philip Sidney, Mary Wroth was ideally situated as an observer and reporter of the social, literary, and political milieu of her time. This abridged modern-spelling edition, with a useful introduction and index of characters, makes this work newly accessible to general readers, students, and scholars.?

Published in November 2016, this book completes the trilogy about Rose Hibbard. She and her family are on their own from now on, but this book finds her blissfully married and still coping with the grand and the not so grand on a New England farm in the late 19th century. If you think it's silly that they continue to live and grow and love and die, that just means you've never had a bunch of characters roam around in your brain awhile. They are quite real ... this trilogy is about love, loss, hardscrabble farm living, friendship and a motherless teenager trying to overnight become an adult. It is about how times and things change and how times and thiings don't change.

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Secure and successful as a teacher in a posh private school, Anna wonders how she grew up an outsider, lost her childhood storyteller, chose a profession she didn?t want, and married charming but abusive Max. Life changes when Anna seeks out a job teaching emotionally disturbed preschoolers. A potent nightmare and a virulent bout of pneumonia force her to confront reality. Two nurses breach her protective wall and a profound transformation finds Anna in a world filled with new possibilities. Reviews Nancy King puts this tale together like a jigsaw puzzle?flashes of multiple points of view, immersing readers in the minds and hearts of people who influence the heroine Anna for good or bad. Anna's story reverses the old movie "It's a Wonderful Life." Instead of the main character realizing the influence she's had on others, she discovers how to thank others for their influences on her. Nancy King strikes a blanace between the darkness of abuse and major illness, and lightness of discovering life's unexpected joys. Morning Light is for readers who know the tough road to growth when coming

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Un refrescante y novedoso non-stop de aventuras, acción, mucho, muchísimo humor, romance sorprendente y aprendizaje sobre la ancestral y apasionante mitología sobre los genios. En una realidad que creemos nuestra, trasciende otra muy distinta. Unos seres aparentemente mitológicos llamados Djinn son muy reales y están llegando para quedarse. Un equipo de «personas» de lo más peculiares tratarán de impedirlo. Acompaña a nuestro héroe de calle, Rick, en su particular bajada a los infiernos, en la que sus queridos amigos no tendrán más remedio que seguirle hacia un final apoteósico y sorprendente.

«Aunque hoy no esté preparado para estar con ese alguien, espero que cuando lo esté, no sea tarde. No prometo nada, quizás nunca ocurra». Esa era la frase que Damon siempre le repetía a Elena. Después de su encuentro fortuito diez años antes, los dos vuelven a verse en el despacho de él. Una entrevista de trabajo que comienza como el favor de un amigo desencadena una serie de encuentros y sucesos que los llevan por caminos inimaginables, capaces de sobrepasarlos. ¿Cuánto tiempo puede esperar alguien que lo tiene tan claro? ¿Cuánto está dispuesta a soportar Elena?Al final, será ella quien elija…