I've got seven days to come clean to my new dad. Seven days to tell the truth ... For sixteen-year-old Tiffany Sly, life hasn't been safe or normal for a while. Losing her mom to cancer has her a little bit traumatized and now she has to leave her hometown of Chicago to live with the biological dad she's never known. Anthony Stone is a rich man with four other daughters--and rules for every second of the day. Tiffany tries to make the best of things,...

"Stairway to an empty room : Monica Marshall's sister Biddy has been murdered by her husband. Biddy has a daughter, Winifred, and with the husband on death row, Monica agrees to take charge of her. Winifred is anxious to leave the house where she has been living with Biddy. The house and the woman who runs it seem so unpleasant to Monica. But nothing prepares her for Stevens. He is managing a mountain retreat where Monica takes her new charge for...

"Mais de uma década após o sucesso de A menina que roubava livros, Markus Zusak traça a saga de uma família em busca de redenção. Se em A menina que roubava livros é a morte quem conta a história, em O construtor de pontes, novo romance de Markus Zusak, presente e passado se fundem na voz de outro narrador igualmente potente: Matthew, o filho mais velho da família Dunbar. Sentado na cozinha de casa diante de uma máquina de escrever antiga,...

The Capotosti desire to evade reality, abandon conventions, and strive for something better keeps resurfacing, leading Iris and Lily down perilous paths from which there can be no return. After discovering her aptitude for the hospitality business, where she becomes acquainted with the finer pleasures of life she had only read about in novels, Iris carves out a career for herself in the luxury hotels of the Italian Riviera. But the more successful...

Ben shu jiang shu : 1989 nian, shi wu sui de ke luo sui fu mu he ge ge hui jia xiang ke xi jia dao du jia, que zai na li yong yuan di shi qu le zhi qin. ta yan zheng zheng di kan zhe che liang zhui xia xuan ai, fu mu he ge ge dang chang yun ming, zhi you ta, qi ji ban di huo le xia lai. er shi qi nian jian, ke luo zai ye mei you hui guo ke xi jia dao, man chang de shi guang mei you zhi yu ta de shang tong. ta yi ke ye bu zeng wang ji chang liu yu...

"An intergenerational tale of life and love seen through the eyes of three women from Raqqa The western popular imagination about the now devastated city of Raqqa, Syria is filled with static and clichéd images of the Arab world. On the news, Raqqa looks like a dusty and abandoned desert village overrun by ISIS and other brands of Islamic fundamentalists, making its desperate, impoverished people yearn to flee at all costs. In the Arab popular imagination,...

When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new life. That is how it is. There is no before. There is no history. The boat docks at the harbour and we climb down the gangplank and we are plunged into the here and now. Time begins." David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simon and Ines take care of him in their new town, Estrella. He is learning the language; he has begun...

Estados Unidos, 2029. Un siglo después, ha vuelto a suceder. El dólar se desploma, la inflación se dispara, el país se dirige hacia la bancarrota. Y la familia Mandible, protagonista de esta sagaz y feroz novela distópica que, llevándonos al futuro, nos habla de realidades muy reconocibles, va a padecer la consecuencias. Prósperos y sofisticados, aunque también disfuncionales, los Mandible esperan la herencia del nonagenario patriarca. Pero...