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2821) Vías cruzadas
Author
Series
Publisher
Duomo Ediciones
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Alex Cross dejó su ciudad natal y algunas terribles tragedias familiares para vivir una vida mejor con Nana Mama en Washington, DC. No ha mirado atrás. Ahora, su primo Stefan ha sido acusado de un asesinato horrible e impensable, y Cross conduce hacia el sur con Bree, Nana Mama, Jannie y Ali a Starksville, Carolina del Norte, por primera vez en treinta y cinco años. De regreso a casa, descubre una comunidad que alguna vez fue orgullosa y que ha...
2822) Slon dli͡a Di͡uĭmovochki
Author
Series
Publisher
Ėksmo
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Russian
Description
"Dasha Vasilyeva wants to relax peacefully during the holiday season, like all normal people, but it doesn't work out! A sweet girl, Anna, came to Colonel Degtyarev's office and said that her mother had gone crazy. After the death of her husband, Anya's father, the woman took a certain Yuri Rogachev inot her life, a suspicious type of immense proportions. Anya does not believe in Rogachev's love. It is very sweet, just sugar with honey and chocolate...
2823) Sleeping moon
Author
Publisher
SuBLime
Pub. Date
2013-
Language
English
Description
"In order to solve the mystery of a rumored curse that brings early death to the male descendants in his lineage, Akihiko Sakaki goes back to stay in his family's ancestral home. One night, he experiences a time slip that lands him 100 years in the past! There he meets Eitaro, a student from the Meiji Period who is also trying to solve the same mystery. Bridging the gap between the past and the present, the two men traverse time and space as they...
2824) Miss Mary's daughter
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After her mother's death, twenty-year-old Sophie Ross is left orphaned in London. With no money and little chance of an income, she tries to get work as a governess to avoid destitution. Now alone in the world, she only has the company of her erstwhile nursemaid and faithful friend, Hannah. But unbeknown to Sophie, her mother instructed Hannah to post a letter to Craigmore House in Cornwall upon her death. The letter will be the catalyst that changes...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Language
English
Formats
Description
The purge (80 mins.): "A wealthy family is held hostage for harboring the target of a murderous syndicate during the Purge, a 12-hour period in which any and all crime is legal." -- IMDB.com.
The boy next door (91 min.): "A woman, separated from her unfaithful husband, falls for a younger man who has moved in next door, but their torrid affair soon takes a dangerous turn." -- IMDB.com.
Unfriended (83 min.): "A group of online chat room friends find...
2826) Painting the rainbow
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
During Holly and Ivy's annual month-long visit to the family's New Hampshire lake house in 1965, the distance that seems to be growing between the thirteen-year-old cousins fades when they accidentally uncover hints of a family secret dating back to World War II.
2827) Soir de fête
Author
Series
Livre de poche) volume 36013
Publisher
Grasset
Pub. Date
février 2021.
Language
Français
Description
"Automne 2017. Mathieu Deslandes apprend que son grand-père serait né d'un viol. L'affaire Weinstein vient d'éclater et la compagne de Mathieu, Zineb Dryef, travaille sur la « zone grise » entre consentement et agression sexuelle. Leur dialogue le conduit à enquêter sur ce secret de famille, tu pendant presque un siècle. Que s'est-il vraiment passé cesoir de fête d'août 1922 à Sougy, au coeur de la Beauce ? Dans les mois qui suivent, le...
2828) O Amante Japonês
Author
Publisher
Porto Editora
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Portuguese
Description
"Em 1939, quando a Polónia capitula sob o jugo dos nazis, os pais da jovem Alma Belasco enviam-na para casa dos tios, uma opulenta mansão em São Francisco. Aí, Alma conhece Ichimei Fukuda, o filho do jardineiro japonês da casa. Entre os dois brota um romance ingénuo, mas os jovens amantes são forçados a separar-se quando, na sequência do ataque a Pearl Harbor, Ichimei e a família -- como milhares de outros nipo-americanos -- são declarados...
2829) Repentance
Author
Publisher
Tiny Fox Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"France, October 1944. A Japanese American war hero has a secret. A secret so awful he'd rather die than tell anyone--one so entwined with the brave act that made him a hero that he's determined never to speak of the war. Ever. Decades later his son, Daniel Tokunaga, a world-famous cardiac surgeon, is perplexed when the U.S. government comes calling, wanting to know about his father's service with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during WWII. Something...
Author
Series
To volume 132
Publisher
Da kuai wen hua chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
中文
2831) El ultimo adios
Author
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"Junio de 1933: en Loanneth, la mansión en el campo de la familia Edevane, todo está limpio y reluciente, listo para la tan esperada fiesta de solsticio de verano. Alice Edevane, de dieciséis años y escritora en ciernes, está especialmente ilusionada. No solo ha encontrado el giro argumental perfecto para su novela, también se ha enamorado perdidamente de quien no debería. Pero para cuando llegue la media noche y los fuegos artificiales iluminen...
2832) Black Cotton
Author
Publisher
Scout Comics and Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A cop, a shooting, and a world turned upside down. Set in an alternate reality where the social order of 'white' and 'Black' is reversed, an elitist family, the Cottons, are rocked by a tragic shooting that begins to unravel long standing family secrets that could not only destroy the family but also divide the fragile social climate of the world." -- Back cover.
2833) Thief of glory
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
For ten year-old Jeremiah Prins, the life of privilege as the son of a school headmaster in the Dutch East Indies comes crashing to a halt in 1942 after the Japanese Imperialist invasion of the Southeast Pacific. Jeremiah takes on the responsibility of caring for his younger siblings when his father and older stepbrothers are separated from the rest of the family, and he is surprised by what life in the camp reveals about a woman he barely knows;...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Marian Lindberg grew up being told that Walter Lindberg, the man who raised her father, was a brave explorer who had been murdered in the Amazon. She took her father's claims at face value, basking in her exotic roots, until she started to notice things. The unverified legend became a riddle she couldn't solve. As Lindberg moved from journalism to law, fell in love, and sought a family of her own, her father repeatedly interfered. He had a closed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Montena
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Estamos en peligro. Desde que nuestro padre hizo explotar el Museo Británico con un extraño conjuro, todo ha cambiado. Fue entonces cuando mi hermana Sadie y yo descubrimos que, además de un reconocido arqueólogo, era una especie de mago del Antiguo Egipto. Pero aquella noche algo salió mal. Set, el dios del caos, apareció envuelto en llamas ... y nuestro padre desapareció sin dejar rastro.
2837) Dzhein Ėĭr
Publisher
Goluboĭ Ėkran
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Language
Russian
Description
Friendless, orphaned Jane Eyre takes a job as governess to a lively French girl. In time, she finds herself in love with the child's guardian. When she saves him from a fire, she finds that there are many secrets to learn ... secrets that could destroy her happiness.
2838) Su último día
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
La nueva novela de suspenso nacional del autor más vendido del New York Times de The Couple Next Door y Someone We Know In Upstate New York, Stephanie y Patrick se están adaptando a la vida con sus bebés gemelos con cólicos. Las niñas son un puñado, pero a Stephanie no le importa ser una ama de casa, cuidándolas mientras Patrick hace de nueve a cinco para pagar las cuentas. Cuando una mujer del pasado de Patrick se les acerca inesperadamente,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ignatius Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.
"One of the finest novels ever written, 'Jane Eyre' is also one of the most misunderstood masterpieces of world literature. Whereas most modern teaching of the text misreads or misinterprets Charlotte Brontë's devout and profoundly ingrained Christian faith and intentions,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe is a brilliant collection of some of his best-known stories: The Tell Tale Heart (a murder's haunting guilt), The Cask of Amontillado (a story of brilliant revenge), and The Fall of the House of Usher (an ancient house full of very dark secrets). Also included in this collection are The Mask of the Red Death (horrors of 'the Plague'), and the most famous of all his poems: The Raven (a lover's decline into madness)....
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