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Unha das obras máis populares da narrativa galega é "A nosa cinza". Xavier Alcalá (Miguelturra, 1947) relembra o mundo da infancia a través do seu protagonista, un rapaz que medra durante os anos da posguerra. Os dias da escola, a adolescencia, coas suas inseguridades e medos, o espertar dos sentimentos amorosos e a descuberta do valor da amizade contanolos o autor coa frescura e autenticidade do vivido. A experiencia cotia feita literatura.

Sol Cortés decide darlle un xiro radical á súa vida. Deixa a cidade onde vive e o seu traballo como padronista en Inditex para regresar á súa vila natal, despois de moitos anos, e abrir unha libraría. Aos poucos dias aparece brutalmente asasinado Xan Sequeiro, un veterinario introvertido e cun don especial para curar animais. A trama centrase na investigacion paralela deste crime que realiza Sol e durante as suas pescudas xorden unha morea de personaxes peculiares e sorprendentes que amosan, unhas veces con humor e outras con gravidade, temas da sociedade actual que invitan a reflexion. Ao longo da historia visibilizanse colectivos minoritarios que reivindican o valor da diferenza e rachan cos prexuizos. Detective Ferruchi tamen lles da voz a todas esas mulleres que desde os anos oitenta axudaron a levantar un imperio textil internacional grazas ao seu traballo nas cooperativas. Un traballo duro pero que para moitas significou a sua independencia economica. Detective Ferruchi, de Marta Villar, e unha novela coral e divertida contada cun ton ironico e eficaz que consegue manter a intriga ata o final.

PREMI ROC BORONAT 2024 Un puzle narratiu en què totes les peces encaixen a la perfecció per aconseguir una novel·la potent i emotiva. L’Àlex té disset anys i li han diagnosticat un quist de tipus I

Passou-se um ano desde que Penny foi contratada para trabalhar no Grande Armazém dos Sonhos. Ela cumpriu a sua tarefa com determinação, atendendo os pedidos mais inusitados dos clientes e, finalment

Na sima de Lagarrea aparece o cadáver de Andrea Dancur, que levaba tres anos desaparecida e por cuxo asasinato cumpría condena Salomé Aduriz, a ex parella da nai da moza asasinada. A doutora Nash Elizondo, chamada polos medios a psicologa dos mortos, recibe a encarga de investigar que sucedeu de verdade con Andrea, que sucedeu de verdade no val do Baztan. Mais outro misterio esta a piques de cambialo todo ao tempo que unha pandemia planetaria obriga a corentena. Dolores Redondo volve a casa con esta novela na que tamen se reencontra coa inspectora Amaia Salazar, a tia Engrasi e moitos dos mitos e murmurios dos Vales Tranquilos navarros.

This stunning hardcover edition features a deluxe jacket with gold foil on the front and a full-color illustration on the reverse, gorgeous designed endpapers, a gold foil case stamp, and, from acclaimed artist Avendell, a black-and-white interior illustration. What is it you think youre protecting in that brain of yours? The war is over. Holdfast is dead. The Eternal Flame extinguished. Theres no one left for you to save. Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisonerof war and of her own mind. Her Resistance friends and allies have been brutally murdered, her abilities suppressed, and the world she knew destroyed. In the aftermath of a long war, Paladias new ruling class of corrupt guild families and depraved necromancers, whose vile, undead creatures helped bring about their victory, holds Helena captive. According to Resistance records, she was a healer of little importance within their ranks. But Helena has inexplicable memory loss of the months leading up to her capture, making her enemies wonder: Is she truly as insignificant as she appears, or are her lost memories hiding some vital piece of the Resistances final gambit? To uncover the memories buried deep within her mind, Helena is sent to the High Reeve, one of the most powerful and ruthless necromancers in this new world. Trapped on his crumbling estate, Helenas fightto protect her lost history and to preserve the last remaining shreds of her former selfis just beginning. For her prison and captor have secrets of their own . . . secrets Helena must unearth, whatever the cost.

Is it ever too late to leave the friend zone? Friends-to-lovers TikTok sensation, The Cheat Sheet, is the rom-com that has readers laughing and rooting for these lovable best friends from the first page! Falling for my best friend - tick! Fake dating - tick! So stinking cute I want to throw glitter over it - tick! This book is amazing! I m calling it as one of my top 5 books to the year, and yes, I know it s only February I just adored this story . . . I m ready to eat up anything that Sarah Adams writes A perfect mix of hilarious banter, comical situations, and sweet romance This romance is brilliant! It is fast paced, laugh out loud and so cute! A feel-good rom-com with everything you want in a romance! This book, just wow! . . . One of best books written by Sarah Adams ................................... Bree Camden is helplessly (and secretly) in love with her longtime best friend and NFL legend, Nathan Donelson. And that s the least of her problems. After a car accident ended her chance of becoming a ballerina, Bree now runs her own dance studio - if she can afford the rent to keep it open, that is. When Nathan comes to the rescue and buys the entire building, a stubborn Bree is not happy about it. Rebelling with a couple - okay, maybe more than a couple - of tequila shots, she spills her deepest, darkest secret to a TMZ reporter. One viral video later, the world thinks Nathan and Bree are the perfect couple and Nathan s publicist has an idea that could mean financial security for Bree. The catch? They have to pretend to be in love. For three. whole. weeks. Is now the moment for Bree to finally act on her hidden feelings? And is it possible that Nathan has been hiding some of his own? ................................... Discover the heartwarming friends-to-lovers romance that became a sensation on TikTok! FEATURES A NEW CHAPTER AND Q&A WITH SARAH! A laugh-out-loud romantic comedy SOPHIE SULLIVAN As slapstick funny as it is both sizzling and sweet, this best-friends-to-lovers sports romance brings its RomCom A-game CHLOE LIESE The perfect mix of laugh-out-loud entertaining and intensely tender DEVON DANIELS My heart is explodinggggg! Sarah Adams has done it yet again Please PLEASE read this one. It gives you hope back for love and humanity! I loved this book! Cutesy romance with a dash of humour and touched on very important mental health issues!

Absolutely, absolutely incredible.' Karl Ove Knausgård'A total explosion.' Nicole Krauss'Unforgettable.' Hernan Díaz'Breathtaking.' Chetna Maroo'Brilliant.' Jon McGregor'Absolutely marvellous.' Laure

The sensational Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, longlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for a Hugo Award The hit of the yearGuardianA civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government ministry gathering expats from across history to test whether time-travel is feasible. Her role is to work as a bridge: living with, supporting and monitoring expat 1847 Commander Graham Gore, a former Victorian polar explorer. Gore, an adventurer by trade, soon adjusts to this bizarre new world of washing machines, feminism and Spotify; and during a long, sultry summer the pair move from awkwardness to friendship to something more.But as the true shape of the project that brought them together begins to emerge, Gore and the bridge are forced to confront their past choices and imagined futures. Can love triumph over the histories that have shaped them? And how do you defy that history when it is living in your house?AddictiveIndependentCrack this book open and youll see how time can disappearFinancial TimesReaders, I envy you: theres a smart, witty novel in your futureWashington Post A Barack Obama reading pick Shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award Shortlisted for the Climate Fiction Prize Longlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize Longlisted for a British Book Award One of the 18 best novels of the year for the Sunday Times A book of the year for: New York Times, Guardian, Independent, Evening Standard, Spectator, Red, NPR, Vanity Fair, People, Slate, Advocate, Sydney Morning Herald, Globe and Mail, Den of Geek, Good Housekeeping, Goodreads, NetGalley and Smithsonian Magazine

Ana Cláudia Quintana Arantes - A morte é talvez o maior medo de boa parte das pessoas, além de ser ainda um tabu. No entanto, Ana Cláudia Quintana Arantes mostra-nos, neste livro, que a grande questã

A stunning debut novel following five women from three generations of a once eminent Iranian family as their lives are turned upside down The Valiat family are in crisis. Elizabeth, the regal matriarch, remained in Tehran despite the revolution and only has Niaz, her Islamic law-breaking granddaughter for company. In America, Elizabeth s daughters, the flamboyantly high-flying Shirin and frustrated housewife Seema, are wondering if their new lives there are all they had hoped for. Lastly, theres the second granddaughter, Bita, a disillusioned law student trying to find deeper meaning by giving away her worldly belongings. When an annual vacation in Aspen goes wildly awry and Shirin ends up being bailed out of jail, gossip about the family spreads like wildfire. Soon, Shirin sets out to restore the family name to its former glory. But what does that mean in a country where the Valiats never mattered to anyone? And, will reputation be enough to make them a family again? The Persians is an irresistible portrait of a unique family in turmoil that explores timeless questions of love, money, art and fulfilment. Here is their past, their present and a possible new future for them all. A most anticipated novel of 2025 in Stylist, BBC and iNews.

An emotionally-charged contemporary fantasy of love, sacrifice and ancient enchantments as Polish folklore thrives in todays Chicago, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divergent, Chosen Ones and Arch-Conspirator, with sprayed edges or the entire first printing. We bear the sword, and we bear the pain of the sword. Pain is Dymitrs calling.His family is one in a long line of hunters who sacrifice their souls to slay monsters. Now hes tasked with a deadly mission: find the legendary witch Baba Jaga. To reach her, Dymitr must ally with the ones hes sworn to kill.Pain is Alas inheritance. A fear-eating zmora with little left to lose, Ala awaits death from the curse she carries. When Dymitr offers her a cure in exchange for her help, she has no choice but to agree.Together they must fight against time and the wrath of the Chicago underworld. But Dymitrs secretsand his true motivesmay be the thing that actually destroys them.

Quan encara era una nena, la Cora va anar de vacances a un poble del sud de França amb el seu pare, un ginecoleg retirat, i la Sara, la seva parella daleshores. Una tarda que havia sortit a voltar en bicicleta, es va veure obligada a buscar refugi en una cova propera, on descobriria unes estranyes pintures que la perseguirien durant la resta de la seva vida. Aquest es el detonant duna historia laberintica, un thriller que no fa escarafalls a la poetica ni a la reflexio, i que representa el gran salt endavant duna de les narradores mes celebrades dels ultims anys. Elisenda Solsona sens emporta pagines endins en un misteri que te com a telo de fons els problemes de fertilitat convertits en plaga social, i les relacions maternals convertides en malediccio. Mammalia es una novel·la sobre les consequencies devastadores del passat, i sobre com els secrets de familia sacaben convertint en fantasmes.

És una obra que combina reflexions filosòfiques sobre el mal amb relats que il·lustren aquestes idees. Els protagonistes d’aquests relats encarnen els instints més foscos i els dimonis interiors de l

From Sunday Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a dark and twisting psychological thriller about a mother who suspects her son of committing a terrible crime... But how far will she go to protect her family?***All families have secrets. But some secrets are deadly.Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until, one quiet evening, two detectives show up at her front door."Mrs. Cass, we were hoping your son could answer a few questions about the girl who disappeared last night..."A high school girl has vanished from their quiet neighbourhood, and the police suspect the worst. Erika''s teenage son, Liam, was the last person to see the girl alive.Erika has always sensed something different in her seemingly perfect oldest child. Hes charming, smart and popular, but mothers have the best instincts. Erika knows theres more to her son than meets the eye. She wants to believe he''s innocent, but as the evidence mounts, she can''t deny the truth?Liam may have done the unthinkable.With The Perfect Son, bestselling author Freida McFadden delivers a twisted, thought-provoking crime thriller about a familys loyalty pushed to the limits.

n the riveting conclusion of the 4MK trilogy, Barker takes the thriller to an entirely new level. Don't miss a single word of the series James Patterson called "ingenious."Hear No EvilFor Detective Sam Porter, the words Father, forgive me conjure memories long forgotten; a past intentionally buried. For Anson Bishop, these three words connect a childhood to the present as he unleashes a truth concealed for decades.See No EvilFound written on cardboard near each body, these words link multiple victims to a single killerdiscovered within minutes of each other in both Chicago and South Carolinaclearly connected yet separated by impossible miles.Speak No EvilChicago Metro and the FBI find themselves caught in chaosa hospital on lockdown, a rogue officer, and corruption at the highest levels. When Anson Bishop, the prime suspect in the notorious 4MK serial murders turns himself in, he reveals a story completely unexpected, one that not only upends the current investigation, but one that will change the lives of all involved.

Trois destins parallèles s'entrecroisent, trois vies dont le seul point commun est le manque d'amour : Maria, une jeune orpheline californienne d'une beauté rare, Caroline, une Parisienne trentenaire, enfin Marcus Marcus, célébrité de la télévision, mégalo et parano. Autour d'eux, vont graviter toutes sortes de gens : la femme de l'ambassadeur américain en France, une intraitable executive woman, un détective privé, une coach sans scrupule, des loups et des agneaux... Philippe Labro nous offre, de San Francisco jusqu'aux cercles de pouvoir parisien, une ronde étourdissante. Pour dresser de manière drôle, critique et profondément attachante, un portrait captivant de nos contemporains.

Oratjol de la Serra (1919) és un conjunt de «proses silvestres» que, a tall de presentació, ens inicia en la descoberta d’una població (o gairebé) de l’agresta Catalunya interior de principis del seg