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El tiburón mordió su muslo derecho y forcejeó para arrancárselo, pero Frank llegó en ayuda del escolta y le clavó al mako su bastón en el costado, momento en el que el depredador soltó a su presa y se retiró unos cuantos metros. El ataque hizo que el buzo herido soltase su rifle, pero Mary se lanzó hacia él velozmente, lo atrapó, y disparó a otro de los escualos justo antes de que se abalanzase sobre ellos. La sangre del buceador y la del tiburón se mezclaron durante unos instantes.

Ireland, 1911: After seven centuries of unyielding oppression, there is a tempest rising, a national yearning for Irish independence. It threatens to sweep away all that is precious to the very privileged O?Rourke and de la Roche families. Seismic changes are but a whisper away. What begins as a squabbling friendship between the wastrel Courtland O?Rourke and the defiant, mischief-making Lacey de la Roche matures into a deeply passionate, tempestuous love, fraught with secrets of lethal consequences and sins of omission. In this debut historical novel, The Irish Tempest beckons the reader into a world, where landowner and tenant farmer, the well-off and the working-class are chafing under the chokehold of British domination. ? Pulled apart by personal and social conflicts, Court and Lacey experience the world from perspectives both transformative and destructive. Court, compelled to accept a commission in the British army, initiates a disastrous affair with rippling aftershocks. Lacey, fueled by the arrogance of adolescence, is beguiled by a charismatic but sociopathic horse trainer. The Irish Tempest th

En esta última entrega de la trilogía «Manuel, el chico del Alba» se define la misión en la que nuestro protagonista se decide a participar. El lector encontrará, como en las anteriores entregas, ciertos rasgos mágicos y fantásticos que le van a permitir comprender mejor la sólida formación que llevará a Manuel a cumplir con su cometido. El espacio de tiempo que en que se comprende la historia no queda bien definido, pero no lo necesita, pues resulta tan real y universal que puede englobarse en cualquier época histórica, y en esta pueden verse reflejados desde Séneca, Tales de Mileto o Pitágoras a incluso el mismo Leonardo de Vinci. Todos ellos fueron llamados MAESTROS. Pero hay que señalar que el título no se lo otorga ningún organismo oficial, sino sus discípulos. Ellos son los que les identifican como tales. Y de este modo es como pasan a formar parte de la historia convirtiéndose en los «inmortales». A lo largo de nuestra vida, durante nuestra formación como personas, hemos tenido muy cerca a uno o varios maestros de los que guardamos un vívido recuerdo, quedando entre nosotros como nuestros maestros, los inmortales. Haz memoria, amigo lector, pues estoy seguro de que en tus recuerdos tendrás la imagen y el recuerdo de aquel que un día, además de enseñarte a leer o escribir, te enseñó a pensar, a buscar y a indagar con su ejemplo. Creo que los maestros no dan LECCIONES con DISCURSOS magistrales, sino que nos enseñan con su ejemplo. Disfruta con la lectura y con tus recuerdos. Serás más feliz.

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«La seva millor novel·la. Seductora, obsessiva, apassionant i amb un llenguatge sensual que captivarà el lector.» [«The Independent»] «Una obra magnífica. La narració és elegant, els personatges treballats amb perfecció i la història, fabulosa.» [«The Telegraph»] La distància que ens separa és la història d'amor entre dues persones que el destí s'esforça a mantenir allunyades. A Londres, una tarda de febrer, Stella veu un home que li recorda algú del passat. Al mateix moment, Jake celebra l'any nou xinès a Hong Kong. Stella i Jake no es coneixen, però acabaran coincidint en un indret remot d'Escòcia. Maggie O'Farrell, l'escriptora revelació per a la crítica britànica actual, ha creat una obra captivadora sobre vides paral·leles, identitats desplaçades, secrets de família i el pes inexorable del passat. Maggie O'Farrell Nascuda el 1972 a Irlanda del Nord, va créixer a Gal·les i Escòcia. Després d'estudiar Literatura anglesa a la Universitat de Cambridge, va viatjar a Hong Kong, Mongòlia i l'Orient Mitjà. Ha treballat de cambrera, missatgera, professora, secretària i responsable del suplement literari del diari «Independent on Sunday». Ha conreat la poesia abans de dedicar-se a la ficció. Les seves dues novel·les anteriors són «After you'd gone» (2000), «un tour de force» de llenguatge i imaginació, i un gran èxit internacional, i «My lover's lover» (2002), una història d'amor plena de lirisme i intriga. Actualment viu a Londres.

Vés on et porti el cor és una obra intimista i exquisida en què una àvia fa una llarga carta de comiat a la seva néta. L'Olga sap que s'està morint, i no vol marxar sense explicar-li els motius que l'han dut fins on és, perquè la comprengui, ni que sigui massa tard. Vol que conegui el perquè de les relacions que l'han marcat, amb el seu marit, a qui mai no va estimar; el seu gran amor, del tot clandestí; les baralles amb la seva filla, que va morir d'accident de cotxe quan la néta era tan sols un bebè, i la relació entre les dues, tan plena de frases no dites que necessita conjurar.Susanna Tamaro indaga en els plecs més íntims del silenci i amb gran sensibilitat en descobreix el significat i revela la riquesa dels sentiments que es mantenen ocults.



Joe has been cursed. He must meet with Yahweh, the Creator, once a week for coffee and listen to God complain. Yahweh is a crotchety old deity with a pantheon of family problems. His wife, Frigga, has basically stopped talking to Him, except to nag Him about retiring. His son, Jesus, suffers from crippling depression. Oh, and Jesus' estranged wife is planning a terrorist attack to start a holy war. God is fed up with all the drama. He's perfectly tired and infinitely irritable. Though God doesn't seem to care about human problems, Joe's little, mortal life isn't perfect, either. In fact, it's a comedy as black as God's coffee.

Hay secretos que al ser descubiertos pueden trastocar tu universo. La sonrisa de John Coltrane narra la historia de dos personajes singulares. Hugo, un muchacho superficial y sin demasiadas miras que trabaja en el Comodoro, la primera discoteca de corte europeo que inaugura el gobierno cubano en la isla caribeña tras más de treinta años de prohibición. Y Paola, una clienta ocasional a la que Hugo conoce en su primera noche y con quien inicia posteriormente una relación amorosa poco prometedora Paola es algunos años mayor que Hugo, amante del jazz y de la poesía, pero sobre todo guarda un secreto que al ser descubierto trastocará irremediablemente el universo de levedad y despreocupación del joven. Ambientada en La Habana de finales de los años noventa, la novela constituye una rigurosa inquisición, social y criminológica, acerca de la pérdida de valores de una sociedad que fue llamada a encarnar el ideal del Hombre Nuevo y terminó decepcionada de la utopía que defendió.

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