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Signals Volume 1
Par Nika. 2023
Mel Song is an unlikely fit for a crack investigator—in her downtime she loves watching soap operas in her pajamas,…
eating instant ramen, and internet shopping.But she has one secret weapon: the ability to read minds.Still, Mel can't afford to get complacent. Not when there is a fresh threat brewing in the shadows of New York City...Nika&’s thrilling suspense story Signals arrives in its print debut from Dark Horse and Tapas, part of a new collaboration!Learned By Heart: A Novel
Par Emma Donoghue. 2023
A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply and dangerously in love…
at boarding school in nineteenth century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister’s five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for Young Ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen.Emotionally intense, psychologically compelling and deeply researched, Learned by Heart is an extraordinary work of fiction by one of the world’s greatest storytellers. Full of passion and heartbreak, the tangled lives of Anne Lister and Eliza Raine form a love story for the ages.Vengeance is Mine
Par Marie NDiaye. 2021
"A powerful story of mothers and daughters" GuardianWhen Gilles Principaux walks into Maître Susane's legal practice seeking representation for his…
wife, his presence triggers memories from her childhood she had long buried. Gilles' wife is charged with drowning their three children, a case that will be splashed across the news media in Bordeaux and beyond. So why has he entrusted his wife's fate to her small, unremarkable practice?Maître Susane can't shake the feeling that she has met him before, that something happened between them one afternoon when she was barely ten and he was fourteen, something sinister she has never known how to remember. But Gilles seems so at ease her in presence that Maître Susane begins to believe that her memory must be playing tricks on her.Haunted by a past that both escapes and consumes her, Maître Susane fights to hold on to her memory, her identity and the chance she's been given to avenge herself.Translated from the French by Jordan Stump.En nuestro tiempo
Par Ernest Hemingway. 1958
El rescate de un Hemingway inédito: la gran tarea de Ricardo Piglia antes de morir. «Los cimientos de la teoría…
del iceberg de Hemingway reunidos por primera vez con un prólogo magistral de Ricardo Piglia. [...] Un libro fundamental, de indisoluble unidad temática, de estilo e incluso interpretativa.»Matías Néspolo, El MundoHemingway publicó En nuestro tiempo, su primer libro de cuentos, en 1925. Tenía veintiséis años y ya escribía como un veterano. Esta primera edición en español, deuda incomprensible que debía ser saldada, respeta el orden original de un libro de cuentos que por su organicidad y consistencia interna puede también leerse como una novela fragmentada. La guerra y el alcohol, la pesca y los toros, la soledad atormentada de Nick Adams ya están aquí, orbitando alrededor de ese núcleo emocional que Hemingway nunca nombra pero hacia el que sus relatos siempre gravitan. Ricardo Piglia tenía dieciocho años cuando encontró un ejemplar usado de In Our Time en una librería de Mar del Plata. Lo leyó entero esa misma tarde. Su prólogo a esta edición (que escribió poco antes de su muerte) invita a los fieles lectores de Hemingway a participar de un diálogo iluminador y es, al mismo tiempo, una inmejorable presentación para aquellos afortunados a punto de cruzar esta puerta por primera vez. Reseñas:«Volver a leer estos cuentos me llena de placer. Uno con la relectura rescata esa felicidad que el tiempo no desmorona. Me siguen emocionando Campamento indio, Gato bajo la lluvia, El río de los dos corazones y Fuera de temporada. Todos con esa magia estilística que apuntaló a otros escritores.»José María Gatti, Evaristocultural.com «El prólogo de Ricardo Piglia es una clase magistral sobre literatura,sobre Hemingway, sobre el arte de escribir cuentos. Una invitación irresistible a leer el libro de una sentada.»Daniela Portas, Infobae «Piglia arroja una lectura iluminadora de los mecanismos esenciales de Hemingway, desde la teoría del iceberg como primera síntesis de la capacidadnarrativa de Hemingway hasta el modo deliberado de ocultación y desarrollo de sus personajes e historias.»Karina Sainz Borgo, Voz Pópuli «Quince relatos, entre ellos el magistral Gato bajo la lluvia, en los que aparentemente no sucede nada pero que ocultan bajo su superficie una corriente torrencial y desbocada que arrastra también al lector.»Santos Domínguez, Encuentros con las letras«La pasión [de Hemingway] por narrar lo lleva a la selección de la realidad, a las omisiones, al lenguaje minimalista, a esa voluntad de relatar lo real que se convierte en su poética personal y su lirismo.»Ricardo Lladosa, Zenda Libros «Su lenguaje es coloquial y fresco, duro y limpio; su prosa parece tener un ser orgánico propio. Cada sílaba cuenta para una experiencia de magia estimulante y fascinante. Mira el mundo sin prejuicios ni preconceptos y graba con precisión y economía, y con una inmediatez casi aterradora, exactamente lo que ve.»Javier García Recio, La OpiniónThe Great Transition: A Novel
Par Nick Fuller Googins. 2023
This richly imaginative, immersive, and &“electrifyingly relevant&” (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author) debut novel follows a shocking…
disappearance amid the climate crisis of our near future—perfect for fans of Station Eleven and The Last Thing He Told Me.Emi Vargas, whose parents helped save the world, is tired of being told how lucky she is to have been born after the climate crisis. But following the public assassination of a dozen climate criminals, Emi&’s mother, Kristina, disappears as a possible suspect, and Emi&’s illusions of utopia are shattered. A determined Emi and her father, Larch, journey from their home in Nuuk, Greenland to New York City, now a lightly populated storm-surge outpost built from the ruins of the former metropolis. But they aren&’t the only ones looking for Kristina. Thirty years earlier, Larch first came to New York with a team of volunteers to save the city from rising waters and torrential storms. Kristina was on the frontlines of a different battle, fighting massive wildfires that ravaged the western United States. They became part of a movement that changed the world—The Great Transition—forging a new society and finding each other in process. Alternating between Emi&’s desperate search for her mother and a meticulously rendered, heart-stopping account of her parents&’ experiences during The Great Transition, this novel beautifully shows how our actions today determine our fate tomorrow. A triumphant debut, The Great Transition is &“a book for the present and the future—read this and you will be changed&” (Michelle Min Sterling, New York Times bestselling author).Trouble in Bloom: A Nina Quinn Mystery (A nina Quinn Mystery Ser. #4)
Par Heather Webber. 2007
A local landscaper finds herself in the weeds of multiple murder investigations as this cozy mystery series continues. When a…
TV producer is accused of sexual harassment, Nina Quinn and her boyfriend Bobby are roped into a scheme to catch him in the act. But appearing on his reality show leads to more drama than they expect when the producer turns up dead. Meanwhile, the sudden death of Nina&’s kindly neighbor unearths the gambling den she&’s been running out of her home! With murder and vice around every corner, Nina barely has time to keep her mind on her current project—installing an indoor garden at a local nursing home. It will take some expert juggling, as well as some undercover snooping, for Nina to save the day and restore some order to her always–tumultuous life!The Family Tree
Par Sheri S. Tepper. 1997
THE ONCE FERTILE EARTH OF DORA HENRY'S CHILDHOOD HAS BEEN UNDERVALUED AND OVERDEVELOPED. NOW NATURE, APPARENTLY, HAS DECIDED TO FIGHT…
BACK. Police officer Dora Henry is investigating the bizarre murders of three geneticists. Meanwhile, strange things are happening everywhere she turns. Weeds are becoming trees; trees are becoming forests. Overnight, a city is being transformed into a wild and verdant place. And, strangest of all, Dora can somehow communicate with the rampaging flora. A potential civilization-ending catastrophe is in the making. The bearer Dora gets to a murderer--and to the truth--the more seemingly disparate events begin to entwine. And the answers she seeks today to the salvation of humankind may lie in afar distant future. . .one which is suddenly much closer than anyone imagines. An exhilarating and enchanting novel that deftly combines fantastic invention with insight and a social conscience, from one of the most lyrical and important voices in contemporary speculative fiction.THE ONCE FERTILE EARTH OF DORA HENRYS CHILDHOOD HAS BEEN UNDERVALUED AND OVERDEVELOPED. NOW NATURE, APPARENTLY, HAS DECIDED TO FIGHT BACK.Police officer Dora Henry is investigating the bizarre murders of three geneticists. Meanwhile, strange things are happening everywhere she turns. Weeds are becoming trees; trees are becoming forests. Overnight, a city is being transformed into a wild and verdant place.And, strangest of all, Dora can somehow communicate with the rampaging flora.A potential civilization-ending catastrophe is in the making. The bearer Dora gets to a murderer--and to the truth--the more seemingly disparate events begin to entwine. And the answers she seeks today to the salvation of humankind may lie in afar distant future. . .one which is suddenly much closer than anyone imagines.An exhilarating and enchanting novel that deftly combines fantastic invention with insight and a social conscience, from one of the most lyrical and important voices in contemporary speculative fiction.Kangaroo: Large Print (Twentieth Century Classics Ser.)
Par D. H. Lawrence. 1950
This novel of 1920s Australia by the author of Lady Chatterley&’s Lover is &“one of the sharpest fictional visions of…
the country and its people&” (Gideon Haigh). A few years after the close of World War I, English author Richard Lovat Somers and his German wife, Harriet, have fled the grim remains of Europe and ventured to Australia. But they soon discover the new world is an escape from neither the demands of politics nor the nightmarish memories of Richard&’s service on the front lines. In Sydney, Richard meets Benjamin Cooley, a charismatic lawyer known to all as Kangaroo. But Kangaroo is also the leader of an underground fascist organization. While Richard finds himself drawn to the man&’s strength and certainty of purpose, he is simultaneously repelled by his embrace of dehumanizing violence. In this semi-autobiographical novel, author D. H. Lawrence plumbs the depths of his own experience in the Great War while exploring in vivid detail the breathtaking landscape and social volatility of Australia.Yankee Doodle Dead (The Death on Demand Mysteries Series #10)
Par Carolyn Hart. 1998
Master mystery spinner Carolyn Hart gives us the tenth high-spirited entry in her Agatha, Anthony and Macavity Award-winning Death on…
Demand series.The most delectable sleuthing couple since Nick met Nora, Annie and Max Darling manage to find quite a bit of murder in their allegedly safe and serene South Carolina island resort town. After all, murder is Annie's business -- well, sort of. She's the proprietor of the popular Death on Demand mystery bookstore and cafe, and her establishment seems to attract trouble like Annie's pesky felines, Dorothy L. and Agatha, attract hairballs. Now, Annie and Max watch their Fourth of July holiday explode not only with fun and fireworks, but with murder as well.The library board wants to declare its independence from new member, retired Brigadier General Charlton "Bud" Hatch, a man accustomed to being in charge. Hatch's takeover attitude has alienated everyone in town, especially the women. But Annie finds it difficult to ignore him at a crowded patriotic festival -- particularly when he's shot dead before her eyes...You Only Die Twice: A Novel (The Britt Montero Series #7)
Par Edna Buchanan. 2001
What was the nude, recently slain body of Kaithlin Jordan doing spoiling the pristine turquoise waters of Miami Beach --…
especially when the dead socialite's convicted killer husband is sitting on Death Row for having murdered her...ten years ago! Reporter Britt Montero lives for this kind of story. But she may die for this one as well. Because each question raises many others -- and every hard-won answer reveals secret passions and explosive truths that could doom an overly inquisitive journalist with a tendency to leap before she looks.The Forgery of Venus: A Novel
Par Michael Gruber. 2008
A brilliant but frustrated painter is drawn into an elaborate forgery scheme as he slips into the life of a…
seventeenth century master in this acclaimed novel.Chaz Wilmot makes his living cranking out old-master parodies for ads and magazine covers. When he’s offered a job restoring a Venetian palace fresco, he’s skeptical to say the least—the job seems to be more forgery than restoration. But seduced by the challenge, Chaz executes the job brilliantly.This feat attracts the attention of Werner Krebs, a shady art dealer who becomes Wilmot’s patron. Wilmot is suddenly working with a fervor he hasn’t felt in years, but without warning, he finds himself reliving moments from the past. At first, they are moments from his own childhood. But soon, he believes he can travel back to the 17th century where he embodies the renowned Spanish artist Velazquez. Unsure if these excursions into history are real, Wilmot slowly enters a secret world of gangsters, greed, and murder. At the center of it all is his mystery patron. But is Werner a criminal mastermind plotting a priceless forgery, or the man who will save Wilmot from obscurity and madness? Miraculously inventive, this book cements Gruber’s reputation as one of the most imaginative and gifted writers of our time.Prince of Darkness
Par Barbara Michaels. 1969
A stranger has come to Middleburg, Maryland, a visitor from abroad with a mysterious purpose. But this quaint, affluent community…
has dark secrets of its own. And when the interloper, Peter Stewart, becomes involved with the bewitching, seductive ward of noted local author Kate More, the townfolk fear the chilling past they are hiding will no longer be safe. For Middleburg has a colonial history of malevolent sorceries and obscene sacrifice. And when the terrible pot is stirred, murder may be the least of the evils to emerge from the unholy brew.Poachers: Stories
Par Tom Franklin. 1999
In ten stunning and bleak tales set in the woodlands, swamps and chemical plants along the Alabama River, Tom Franklin…
stakes his claim as a fresh, original Southern voice. His lyric, deceptively simple prose conjures a world where the default setting is violence, a world of hunting and fishing, gambling and losing, drinking and poaching-a world most of us have never seen. In the chilling title novella (selected for the anthologies New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1999 and Best Mystery Stories of the Century), three wild boys confront a mythic game warden as mysterious and deadly as the river they haunt. And, as a weathered, hand-painted sign reads: "Jesus is not coming." This terrain isn't pretty, isn't for the weak of heart, but in these deperate, lost people, Franklin somehow finds the moments of grace that make them what they so abundantly are: human.Sympathy for the Devil: A Culinary Mystery
Par Jerrilyn Farmer. 1998
Madeline Bean, caterer to the stars, is in the middle of the biggest job of her career. She and her…
partner Wesley have pulled off Hollywood's most outrageous A-list Halloween party for notorious producer Bruno Huntley, complete with an eerie fortuneteller who is astonishingly accurate, and exotic food that's to die for. Before long, Bruno is thrashing and writhing out on the dance floor. Just one problem: he's not standing up, And soon, he's not even breathing.The newly late Mr. Huntley was poisoned, that's certain. But the number of suspects with a yen to send Bruno to the devil could fill an audition for extras in the next Quentin Tarantino flick. When Wesley is arrested for the murder because of a long-standing dispute with the maniacal mogul, Madeline knows he couldn't be guilty. But to prove it, she has to wade through the muck of a mudslinging family, outrun a pair of crazed canines, dodge a pair of well-aimed bullets, and expose a slew of secrets that could put a soap opera to shame. Somebody's cooked up a murder, and it's up to Madeline to find out who--before she faces a fadeout of her own.Willow Springs: A Destiny Novel (The Destiny Series #5)
Par Toni Blake. 2012
“A book by Toni Blake is truly special.”—Lori Foster“Her books are sexy and full of heart.”—Teresa MedeirosNo contemporary romance author…
combines steamy hot and heartwarming better than Toni Blake. Now she transports readers back to the small town of Destiny, Ohio, once again in Willow Springs, as a longtime friendship turns into something oh so much more when the town matchmaker provides some very special tlc for a young fireman haunted by a tragic on-the-job experience. Like Debbie Macomber’s New York Times bestselling small-town romances but with a deliciously sexy twist, Toni Blake’s Willow Springs is a love story to cherish.Weeding Out Trouble: A Nina Quinn Mystery (A nina Quinn Mystery Ser. #5)
Par Heather Webber. 2008
A landscaper with a knack for unearthing the truth is out to catch a killer and clear her friend&’s name…
in this cozy mystery. Landscaper Nina Quinn would do anything for her employees. After all, her garden makeover business wouldn&’t be blooming if it weren&’t for them. So when Kit Pipe, her right-hand handyman, goes missing, Nina immediately starts digging into his disappearance. But all she finds is Kit&’s recent ex, Daisy Bedinghaus—and she&’s dead as dirt. With a criminal past and a clear motive, Kit is the prime suspect in Daisy&’s murder. But Nina&’s determined to prove his innocence. After all, it&’ll get her out of the house, where her ex-husband the cop is recovering from a gunshot wound and her thorny new stepson is giving her the evil eye. But the cold shoulder Nina gets at home is about to feel downright cozy compared to the real killer&’s ice-cold stare.The Love Talker
Par Elizabeth Peters. 1986
Chilling surprises await a grad student when she visits her family’s secluded estate in this classic gothic mystery by a…
New York Times–bestselling author.Laurie has finally returned to Idlewood, the beloved family home deep in the Maryland woods where she found comfort and peace as a lonely young girl. But things are very different now. There is no peace in Idlewood. The haunting sound of a distant piping breaks the stillness of a snowy winter's evening. Seemingly random events have begun to take on a sinister shape. And dotty old Great Aunt Lizzie is convinced that there are fairies about—and she has photographs to prove it. For Laurie, one fact is becoming disturbingly clear: there is definitely something out there in the woods—something fiendishly, cunningly, malevolently human—and the lives of her aging loved ones, as well as Laurie’s own, are suddenly at serious risk.Praise for Elizabeth Peters“No one is better at juggling torches while dancing on a high wire than Elizabeth Peters.” —Chicago Tribune“[Peters] keeps the reader coming back for more.” —San Francisco Chronicle“Elizabeth Peters is nothing less than a certified American treasure.” —Jackson Clarion-LedgerThe Witch's Grave: An Ophelia And Abby Mystery (The Ophelia & Abby Mysteries #6)
Par Shirley Damsgaard. 2009
Cupid has cast his spell on good witch Ophelia Jensen. The practical, pragmatic, law-abiding librarian has just begun letting down…
her hair with Stephen Larsen, the author of some of the most scandalous crime exposés ever written. It's a match made in the stacks—until the would-be lovers take a quiet countryside stroll, and shots ring out.A murderer, not magick, made Stephen disappear—and Ophelia might be next. The sheriff warns her and her grandmother Abby not to meddle, but after another shooting leaves them shaken the women can't help but get involved. A sinister stalker is slowly drawing closer to Ophelia, and she'll have to summon all her powers to prevent herself from ending up six feet under.The Witch Is Dead: An Ophelia And Abby Mystery (The Ophelia & Abby Mysteries #7)
Par Shirley Damsgaard. 2007
Life is busier than ever for witch Ophelia Jensen. In addition to her day job at the library, she—with the…
help of her grandmother Abby—is preparing to officially adopt Tink, the young medium she's taken under her wing. So when Ophelia's elderly Aunt Dot, eager for adventure, wants to investigate the murder of a funeral director in the neighboring town, Ophelia tries to say no. But then Tink's dog pulls a skull out of the woods—a skull that may belong to a murder victim.Finding mysterious bones in the woods isn't the only strange thing that's happened to Tink lately. She's been having visions of ghastly ghosts imploring her for help. But before Ophelia can connect the apparitions with the murder, Tink is kidnapped! Ophelia and Abby will have to battle a creepy crematorium owner and an invasion from some modern-day body snatchers to find their protégé . . . or else they'll have to hold a séance just to speak to her again.The Friend: A Short Story (Piper Donovan/Wedding Cake Mysteries)
Par Mary Jane Clark. 2013
Like a billion people on earth, aspiring actress Piper Donovan is a fervent Facebook follower. But what she doesn't know…
is that a "friend" is following her. Possibly . . . stalking. A fan who starts by using the same beauty salon eventually comes closer—much closer—in this chilling short story.