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Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the latest novel from a master of European crime fiction, past, present, and future intertwine on a breathtaking journey from Tangier in 1955 to Malmö in 2014. Miguel and Helena meet at a nursing home in Tarifa, at an age when they believe they have lived it all already. Miguel is afraid of flying. Helena is afraid of the ocean. Both have adult children and feel they are no longer needed. The dramatic suicide of one of the other residents opens...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
"In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. There's Red Ron, the infamous former socialist firebrand, still causing trouble; gentle Joyce, widowed, pining for another resident, but surely not as innocent as she seems; Ibrahim, a former therapist who understands the darker side of human nature; and Elizabeth? Well, no one...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
A sus sesenta y cuatro años, Emilia se enfrenta a la remodelación de su cocina. Su marido lo ha decidido por su cuenta y ella, que solo quiere estar tranquila con sus libros, se siente incapaz de oponer resistencia. Bonnett parte de este hecho cotidiano y aparentemente banal para construir una semblanza de la plácida y peligrosa insatisfacción, y de mujeres arrinconadas por muy distintos tipos de maltratos y silencios. El paso del tiempo, su acumulación...
64) Lifetime passes
Author
Publisher
Surely Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Lifetime Passes is a twisted tale about magical theme parks, surprising loopholes, and new friends Jackie Chavez loves her local theme park, Kingdom Adventure, more than anything else in the world. So, when her tía Gina says they can't afford passes for next season, Jackie is crushed. But her next trip to the park exposes a dark secret: if someone dies on the property the rest of their party gets lifetime passes. Jackie and her friends plot to bring...
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Series
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Harper F, Historias en FemeninoSegundas primeras impresiones es el esperado regreso de la autora de Cariño, cuánto te odio que nos vuelve a sorprender con una comedia romántica en la que no todo es lo que parece y demuestra lo importante de las nuevas oportunidades.Ruthie Midona lleva años trabajando en la administración del complejo Providence, a la entera disposición de los adinerados residentes y de las especies raras de tortugas que rondan...
66) Cuento de hadas
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Charlie Reade parece un chico normal de secundaria, excelente en béisbol y fútbol americano, un estudiante decente. Pero lleva una carga pesada. Su madre murió en un accidente de atropello y fuga cuando él tenía siete años, y el dolor llevó a su padre. a beber. Charlie aprendió a cuidar de sí mismo y de su padre. Cuando Charlie tiene diecisiete años, conoce a una perra llamada Radar y a su anciano amo, Howard Bowditch, un recluso en una...
Author
Publisher
Hurtubise
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
"Dans ce roman intimiste et sensible, nous suivons quatre personnages dont les trajectoires se croisent et s'entremêlent pour créer une passionnante courtepointe de relations riches en enseignements sur la nature humaine. Il y a Pierre, l'enseignant quinquagénaire qui, depuis la mort de sa femme, élève seul une fille adolescente avec qui les atomes crochus ne sont guère au rendez-vous. Il y a Rose, une veuve misanthrope habitant une résidence...
68) What Rose forgot
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In New York Times bestselling author Nevada Barr's gripping standalone, a grandmother in her sixties emerges from a mental fog to find she's trapped in her worst nightmare Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown, her brain in a fog, only to discover that she's been committed to an Alzheimer's Unit in a nursing home. With no memory of how she ended up in this position, Rose is sure that something is very wrong. When she overhears one of the administrators...
69) Treasure hunt
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In Treasure Hunt, Montalbano is hailed as a hero after news cameras film him scaling a building-- gun in hand-- to capture a pair of unlikely snipers. Shortly after, the inspector begins to receive cryptic messages in verse from someone challenging him to go on a 'treasure hunt.' Intrigued, he accepts, treating the messages as amusing riddles-- until they take a dangerous turn" -- from publisher's web site.
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Language
English
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Description
The Robinas have shared a wonderful life for more than sixty years. Now in their eighties, Ella suffers from cancer and John has Alzheimer's. Yearning for one last adventure, the self-proclaimed "down-on-their-luck geezers" kidnap themselves from the adult children and doctors who seem to run their lives and steal away from their home in suburban Detroit on a forbidden vacation of rediscovery.
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