Ficción moderna y contemporanea

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No one in Shoreland knows that Liz Plant had been one of the two hundred and fifty thousand young children stolen in occupied countries, part of the Himmler plan for nazification of a select breed of "racially valuable blondes." In 1986 Liz is finally writing about her Hitler School and her escape as the mascot of a troop of elite children. But facts are not enough. In her heart she would always remain a child on the side of a dusty road waving to strangers. A stolen child. She is probing for the truth. In Hitler School she had to forget her first language and her name and became Liese. In Vienna, after the war, nuns in the children's shelter called her little Angel. She turned into Liz, when American Gramp acquired her for his lonely orphan grandson, Chris. She was told to forget German and speak only English. Chris sometimes called her Sis after his dead twin. They became inseparable as they grew up in Shoreland, but Gramp did not live to see them marry. He left Liz the old house by the sea; Chris inherited almost all the money; and Mike, their son, inherited the Plant good looks and a gift as a pran

Planeta y Pepe Carvalho celebran cuarenta años de estrecha amistad. Para conmemorarlo, la editorial reúne en ocho magníficos volúmenes las aventuras del detective barcelonés creado por Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, el autor que revolucionó el género negro y sentó las bases de la novela policíaca moderna. Pepe Carvalho es una figura que evoluciona con los años: un escéptico sentimental en sus inicios y un amargo y melancólico personaje en sus últimas aventuras. El detective gourmet es un personaje complejo y contradictorio, cuya visión existencial le sirvió al autor como álter ego para retratar sin complejos la sociedad que le rodeaba. En este primer volumen, el lector dibuja una elipsis en el tiempo donde descubrirá, con Yo maté a Kennedy, el albor de un personaje que se convertiría con los años en un tótem de varias generaciones. Y, con los dos volúmenes de ??Milenio??, presenciará el crepúsculo de Pepe Carvalho, convertido en un viajero errante dispuesto a dar la vuelta al mundo junto a su fiel escudero Biscuter. Sin duda alguna, un círculo virtuoso perfecto.

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Where Pride and Prejudice ends, a new relationship begins. Good-humoured but detached and taciturn, Mr Bennet is not given to intimacy. Largely content with his life at Longbourn, he spends his evenings in the solitude of his library, accompanied only by a glass of port and a good book. But when his cousin, the pompous clergyman Mr Collins, announces his intention to visit, Mr Bennet is curious to meet and appraise the heir to his estate. Despite Mr Bennet?s initial discouragement, Mr Collins quickly becomes a frequent presence in his life. They correspond regularly, with Mr Collins recounting tales of his follies and scrapes and Mr Bennet taking great pleasure from teasing his unsuspecting friend. When a rift develops between the men, Mr Bennet is faced with a choice: he must withdraw into isolation once again or acknowledge that Mr Collins has brought something new and rich to his life. Tender, heart-warming and peppered with disarming humour, The Longbourn Letters reimagines the characters of Pride and Prejudice and perfectly captures the subtleties of human relationships and the power of friendship.



Desorden en el Reino Celestial. Tras anunciar Dios a sus ángeles su futura creación del ser humano, uno de sus más cercanos hijos alados, Lucifer, se revela ante su padre creador, Dios, negándose a reverenciar al hombre. Tras intentar en vano que Lucifer entre en razones, Dios decide enviarlo a los infiernos, bautizándolo Satán como parte de su castigo, decisión que provoca una agitada contienda entre los ángeles, dividiéndose en tres bandos, los fieles a Dios, los que toman partido por Satán, y los neutrales que se apoderan del Santo Grial -copa que contiene la realización de las más altas potencialidades del espíritu humano-, descendiendo desde el Cielo a la Tierra persiguiéndose unos a otros. De este modo, se gesta el sorprendente fenómeno por el cual, al descender hacia la Tierra, todos los ángeles cobran un aspecto humano, y se transforman en ángeles con piel de hombre y de mujer, de entre los cuales se forma una pareja que conoce el amor. Cientos de años después, creados el hombre y la mujer, y antes de tener noticias acerca del Santo Grial, Dios se entera de que Satán, aún en los infiernos por su omnipotente voluntad, se revela preparando desde su ardiente destino varios ejércitos de demonios. Dios envía entonces desde el Cielo a la Tierra a un seleccionado y reducido grupo de ángeles, motivados por su solo y sagrado amor al hombre y a la mujer, para oponerse a aquel diabólico conjunto de milicias, cuyo objetivo es acabar con la vida humana y sembrar así el definitivo dominio del mal en el Reino de la Tierra.

For too many years, Prudence Aldrich has been numbing the pain in her life with random sexual encounters. Her marriage to cold, self-centered Nick is, not surprisingly, on the rocks. But after several dangerous experiences with strangers, Prudence finally realizes she needs therapy to stop her self-destructive behavior, and so she checks into the Serenity Hills rehab center.Prudence blames herself for her irresponsible behavior and is filled with self-loathing. She?s convinced she is completely at fault for Nick?s manipulative attitude and believes with therapy, she can return their relationship to its idyllic beginnings. However, her therapist and the other members of her rehab group see the person behind the pain. As Prudence learns more about herself and the reasons for her behavior, including startling revelations about her childhood, she begins to understand the basis for her lack of sexual self-respect. She also learns she is not entirely to blame for the failure of her marriage. With the positive reinforcement of everyone at Serenity Hills, Prudence learns not to define herself by her past. But moving

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La muntanya en general i el Pirineu en concret ha estat i és font inesgotable d'inspiració literària. Tots els qui s'hi han aproximat amb respecte i devoció n'han obtingut claus per a la comprensió del fet humà. Aquest llibre convida el lector a resseguir

A principis dels anys noranta, Manel Guitart va compartir una jornada a Londres, on treballava de periodista, amb l'escriptor Terenci Moix. Amb la desaparició d'en Terenci, aquell dia llunyà ple d'anècdotes i confidències va ressonar amb nous sentits en la seva memòria i el va portar a escriure L'última carícia, Terenci, una reflexió sobre la decadència i la necessitat de les ficcions. El llibre recull també una galeria de personatges en conflicte amb una realitat que els és estranya i hostil, com la dolça Teresineta, una mare sense fills, o en Pau, el poeta rebel i esquizofrènic, fill de l'alta burgesia catalana.Novel·la d'aprenentatge i psicològica, llibre de memòries i d'autoficció, L'última carícia, Terenci parla de les lliçons mai no apreses, dels límits prims entre el seny, de les cadenes humanes, de les fugides i de les fronteres que no es poden traspassar."Una veu nova i molt valuosa al nostre panorama literari. Fa molt de temps que un text en català no em produïa aquesta sensació de qualitat inapel.lable"Lluís Maria Todó«Una visió en profunditat de la psicologia humana i del fet de la creació literària. Un llibre amb una gran capacitat d'atracció. »Vicenç Llorca

Como el propio Melendi, su primera obra de ficción, Karak, es un proyecto inclasificable y tremendamente personal que, sin duda, conectará con su público: a medio camino entre la fábula y la distopía, es una auténtica «pulp fiction» que toma muchos elementos dela ciencia ficción, especialmente de las películas de serie B.Todos estos ingredientes dan como resultado, por un lado, una novela de aventuras en la que, en un futuro indeterminado, una nave espacial tripulada hace un aterrizaje forzoso en Karak, unplaneta habitado por seres muy parecidos a nosotros. Las peripecias de los astronautas por sobrevivir en ese medio hostil se van engranando con la historia de un personaje solitario y obsesivo.