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'Ten ... ' Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast. 'Nine ... ' In the drawing-room after dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the end of the night one of the guests is dead. 'Eight ... ' Stranded on the island, they are haunted by an ancient nursery rhyme counting down one by one ... as one by one they begin to die. 'Seven ... ' Which amongst them is the killer and will any of them survive?
Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby returns with King of Ashes, a Godfather-inspired Southern crime epic and dazzling family drama. When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father's car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the family--and the family business--together. Neveah and their father, who run the Carruthers Crematorium in the run-down central Virginia town of Jefferson Run, see death up close every day. But mortality draws even closer when it becomes clear that the crash that landed their father in a coma was no accident and Dante's recklessness has placed them all in real danger. Roman, a financial whiz with a head for numbers and a talent for making his clients rich, has some money to help buy his brother out of trouble. But in his work with wannabe tough guys, he's forgotten that there are real gangsters out there. As his bargaining chips go up in smoke, Roman realizes that he has only one thing left to offer to save his brother: himself, and his own particular set of skills. Roman begins his work for the criminals while Neveah tries to uncover the long-ago mystery of what happened to their mother, who disappeared when they were teenagers. But Roman is far less of a pushover than the gangsters realize. He is willing to do anything to save his family. Anything. Because everything burns.
Eden Fox, an artist on the brink of her big break, sets off for a run before her first exhibition. When she returns to the home she recently moved into, Spyglass, an enchanting old house in Hope Falls, nothing is as it should be. Her key doesn't fit. A woman, eerily similar to her, answers the door. And her husband insists that the stranger is his wife. One house. One husband. Two women. Someone is lying. Six months earlier, a reclusive Londoner called Birdy, reeling from a life-changing diagnosis, inherits Spyglass. This unexpected gift from a long-lost grandmother brings her to the pretty seaside village of Hope Falls. But then Birdy stumbles upon a shadowy London clinic that claims to be able to predict a person's date of death, including her own. Secrets start to unravel, and as the line between truth and lies blurs, Birdy feels compelled to right some old wrongs. My Husband's Wife is a tangled web of deception, obsession, and mystery that will keep you guessing until the last page. Prepare yourself for the ultimate mind-bending marriage thriller and step inside Spyglass--if you dare--to experience a story where nothing is as it seems.
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife's head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media -- as well as Amy's fiercely doting parents -- the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he's definitely bitter -- but is he really a killer?
After a 12-year-old Irish lad and his two pals fail to return from a day in the woods, searchers find only the terrified sixth grader--with blood-filled shoes and no memory of what happened. Now 32, the tragedy's sole survivor Rob Ryan is a detective on Dublin's Murder Squad. A current investigation takes Rob to the exact site of his childhood trauma. With the present case chillingly similar to his 20-year-old nightmare, Rob hopes to unlock the shrouded secrets of his past.
Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable noises and self-closing doors, but Hill House is gathering its powers and will soon choose one of them to make its own.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author known for her "superb pacing, twisted characters, and captivating prose" (BuzzFeed), Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast. Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life. Josie's life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can't quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly she starts to realize that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into Alix's life--and into her home. But, as quickly as she arrived, Josie disappears. Only then does Alix discover that Josie has left a terrible and terrifying legacy in her wake, and that Alix has become the subject of her own true crime podcast, with her life and her family's lives under mortal threat. Who is Josie Fair? And what has she done?.
Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies, especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold. Yet, even as Jade drags us into her dark fever dream, a surprising and intimate portrait emerges, a portrait of the scared and traumatized little girl beneath the Jason Voorhees mask: angry, yes, but also a girl who easily cries, fiercely loves, and desperately wants a home. A girl whose feelings are too big for her body.
Caren Gray manages Belle Vie, a sprawling antebellum plantation deep in Louisiana where the past and the present coexist uneasily. Outside the gates, an ambitious corporation has laid siege to the generations-old sugarcane farms, buying up land and replacing locals with illegal laborers. Tensions mount when a migrant worker's body is found in a shallow grave on the edge of the property, and as the investigation gets under way, the list of suspects begins to grow. Certain the police are on the wrong path, Caren treads into dangerous territory, pursuing the truth about Belle Vie's history and her own, and unearths startling facts about a very old mystery -- one that an increasingly desperate killer will stop at nothing to keep buried.
From #1 New York Times and global bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a twisted, subversive thriller about a columnist who finally decides to start following her own advice to make men pay for their sins ... Debbie Mullen is losing it. For years, she has compiled all of her best advice into her column, Dear Debbie, where the wives of New England come for sympathy and neighborly advice. Through her work, Debbie has heard from countless women who are ignored, belittled, or even abused by their husbands. And Debbie does her best to guide them in the right direction. Or at least, she did. These days, Debbie's life seems to be spiraling out of control. She just lost her job. She can't keep her teenage daughters in check. And her husband is keeping secrets, according to the tracking app she installed on his phone. Now, Debbie's done being the bigger person. She's done being reasonable and practical. It's time to take her own advice. And she'll use it to get revenge on the men who deserve it the most.
A cozy gaslamp murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by the author of the critically-acclaimed Centenal Cycle. On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colonys erudite university--and Mossas former girlfriend, a scholar of Earths pre-collapse ecosystems. Pleiti has dedicated her research and her career to aiding the larger effort towards a possible return to Earth. When Mossa unexpectedly arrives and requests Pleitis assistance in her latest investigation, the two of them embark on a twisting path in which the future of life on Earth is at stake--and, perhaps, their futures, together.
Solving murders. It's a family business. Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He still does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him at home. His days of adventure are over. Adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy's job now. Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. Working in private security, every day is dangerous. She's currently on a remote island protecting mega-bestselling author Rosie D'Antonio, until a dead body and a bag of money mean trouble in paradise. So she sends an SOS to the only person she trusts ... As a thrilling race around the world begins, can Amy and Steve outrun and outsmart a killer?
A Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier. At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume 17-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hopes End, the cliffside mansion where her family lived. Stabbed her father with a knife / Took her mother's happy life. It's now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hopes End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer--I want to tell you everything. "It wasn't me," Lenora said But she's the only one not dead. As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there's more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessors departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth--and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought.
When travel journalist Lo Blacklock is invited on a boutique luxury cruise around the Norwegian fjords, it seems like a dream career opportunity. But the trip takes a nightmarish turn when she wakes in the middle of the night to hear a body being thrown overboard, only to discover that no one has been reported missing from the boat.
"Emma Woodhouse has successfully played matchmaker for her friend, and discovers that she has a taste for setting up romances for her friends. She gets to work meddling in her friends affair, convincing them to call off imminent engagements and relationships in favor of ones she creates. The matchmaking quickly gets out of Emmas hands, and her actions and instructions begin harming the people she cares about. Though she means well, her interference spirals and her good intentions cause difficulties and confusion. And though Emma continues to matchmake and attempt to create relationships among her friends, each new connection just adds another wrench in the works and scrambles the suitors once again. The question becomes who will be the final couples left together by the end of the novel?" -- Back of container.
A glorious and tantalizing new escape from #1 New York Times bestselling author Carley Fortune. This summer they'll keep their promise. This summer they won't give into temptation. This summer will be different. Lucy is the tourist vacationing at a beach house on Prince Edward Island. Felix is the local who shows her a very good time. The only problem: Lucy doesn't know he's her best friend's younger brother. Lucy and Felix's chemistry is unreal, but the list of reasons why they need to stay away from each other is long, and they vow to never repeat that electric night again. It's easier said than done. Each year, Lucy escapes to PEI for a big breath of coastal air, fresh oysters and crisp vinho verde with her best friend, Bridget. Every visit begins with a long walk on the beach, beneath soaring red cliffs and a golden sun. And every visit, Lucy promises herself she won't wind up in Felix's bed. Again. If Lucy can't help being drawn to Felix, at least she's always kept her heart out of it. When Bridget suddenly flees Toronto a week before her wedding, Lucy drops everything to follow her to the island. Her mission is to help Bridget through her crisis and resist the one man she's never been able to. But Felix's sparkling eyes and flirty quips have been replaced with something new, and Lucy's beginning to wonder just how safe her heart truly is.
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career, he whiles away the years in 622 affairs yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he does so again.
From Alix E. Harrow, the New York Times bestselling author of Starling House, comes a moving and genre-defying quest about the lady-knight whose legend built a nation, and the cowardly historian sent back through time to make sure she plays her part--even if it breaks his heart. Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion's greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children's books and recruiting posters--but her life as it truly happened has been forgotten. Centuries later, Owen Mallory--failed soldier, struggling scholar--falls in love with the tale of Una Everlasting. Her story takes him to war, to the archives--and then into the past itself. Una and Owen are tangled together in time, bound to retell the same story over and over again, no matter what it costs. But that story always ends the same way. If they want to rewrite Una's legend--if they want to tell a different story--they'll have to rewrite history itself.
Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast--again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeeping alliance between the Vampyres and their mortal enemies, the Weres, and she sees little choice but to surrender herself in the exchange--again ... Weres are ruthless and unpredictable, and their Alpha, Lowe Moreland, is no exception. He rules his pack with absolute authority, but not without justice. And, unlike the Vampyre Council, not without feeling. It's clear from the way he tracks Misery's every movement that he doesn't trust her. If only he knew how right he was ... Because Misery has her own reasons to agree to this marriage of convenience, reasons that have nothing to do with politics or alliances, and everything to do with the only thing she's ever cared about. And she is willing to do whatever it takes to get back what's hers, even if it means a life alone in Were territory ... alone with the wolf.
Daphne always loved the way her fiance Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it...right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children's librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra's ex, Miles Nowak. Scruffy and chaotic--with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads --Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she's either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them? But it's all just for show, of course, because there's no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiances new fiancees ex...right?
Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost, but not quite, dying, she's come up with seven directives to help her, and she's already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamorous family's mansion. The next items? Enjoy a drunken night out; Ride a motorcycle; Go camping; Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex; Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage, and do something bad. But it's not easy being bad, even when you've written step-by-step guidelines on how to do it correctly. What Chloe needs is a teacher, and she knows just the man for the job. Redford 'Red' Morgan is a handyman with tattoos, a motorcycle, and more sex appeal than ten-thousand Hollywood heartthrobs. He's also an artist who paints at night and hides his work in the light of day, which Chloe knows because she spies on him occasionally. Just the teeniest, tiniest bit.
A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make the heart tick.
Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She's come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up--she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily's life suddenly seems almost too good to be true. Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He's also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn't hurt. Lily can't get him out of her head. But Ryle's complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his 'no dating' rule, she can't help but wonder what made him that way in the first place. As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan--her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.
When a reaper comes to collect Wallace Price from his own funeral, Wallace suspects he really might be dead. Instead of leading him directly to the afterlife, the reaper takes him to a small village. On the outskirts, off the path through the woods, tucked between mountains, is a particular tea shop, run by a man named Hugo. Hugo is the tea shop's owner to locals and the ferryman to souls who need to cross over. But Wallace isn't ready to abandon the life he barely lived. With Hugo's help he finally starts to learn about all the things he missed in life. When the Manager, a curious and powerful being, arrives at the tea shop and gives Wallace one week to cross over, Wallace sets about living a lifetime in seven days.
For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don't exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. She can't imagine how waiting tables at a twenty-four-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that. And there's certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures. But then, there's this gorgeous girl on the train. Jane. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile, showing up in a leather jacket to save August's morning when she needs it most. August's subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon she discovers there's one big problem: Jane doesn't just look like an old-school punk rocker. She's literally displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help Jane. Maybe it's time to start believing in some things, after all.
Nothing interferes with pro hockey star Shane Hollander's game. Now that he's captain of the Montreal Voyageurs, he won't let anything jeopardize that--definitely not the sexy rival he loves to hate. Boston Bears captain Ilya Rozanov is everything Shane's not. The self-proclaimed king of the ice, he's as cocky as he is talented. No one can beat him--except Shane. Publicly, they're enemies. Privately, they can't stop touching each other.
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young, but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?
Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning novelist, who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their buried traumas, but the eyebrows of the Black literati. What no one knows is that fifteen years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. While they may be pretending not to know each other, they can't deny their chemistry--or the fact that they've been secretly writing to each other in their books through the years. Over the next seven days, amidst a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect--but Eva's wary of the man who broke her heart, and wants him out of the city so her life can return to normal. Before Shane disappears though, she needs a few questions answered ...
Maya Angelou reads her unforgettable memoir of growing up black in the 1930s and 1940s.
A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfilling and authentic lives, from Americas preeminent death doula. Alua's TED Talk went online in July 2023. If you want to understand the star we have on our hands and the emotional energy she stirs, please watch it. The talk is something to behold and is racking up thousands of views every week.
Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research on grit, MacArthur genius Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly a guarantor of success. Rather, other factors can be even more crucial such as identifying passions and following through on commitments. Drawing on her own powerful story as the daughter of a scientist who frequently bemoaned her lack of smarts, Duckworth describes her winding path through teaching, business consulting, and neuroscience, which led to the hypothesis that what really drives success is not genius but a special blend of passion and long-term perseverance. As a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Duckworth created her own character lab and set out to test her theory.
Nickel and Dimed is a modern classic that deftly portrays the plight of America's working-class poor. Author Barbara Ehrenreich decides to see if she can scratch out a comfortable living in blue-collar America. What she discovers is a culture of desperation, where workers often take multiple low-paying jobs just to keep a roof overhead.
Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all the oceans," it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly 3,000 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes. But then ... six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes -- they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death--for whomever the court found guilty could hang. The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann's recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O'Brian, his portrayal of the castaways' desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann's work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound.
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments. Each essay in their debut collection profiles one such creature: the mother octopus who starves herself while watching over her eggs, the Chinese sturgeon whose migration route has been decimated by pollution and dams, the bizarre Bobbitt worm (named after Lorena), and other uncanny creatures lurking in the deep ocean, far below where the light reaches. Imbler discovers that some of the most radical models of family, community, and care can be found in the sea, from gelatinous chains that are both individual organisms and colonies of clones to deep-sea crabs that have no need for the sun, nourished instead by the chemicals and heat throbbing from the core of the Earth. Exploring themes of adaptation, survival, sexuality, and care, and weaving the wonders of marine biology with stories of their own family, relationships, and coming of age, How Far the Light Reaches is a book that invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live.
In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, former mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to transform Palestine into a Jewish state, wrote a letter aimed at Theodor Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, "In the name of God, let Palestine be left alone." Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi's great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective. Accepted interpretations of the conflict tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same land. Drawing on archival materials and the reports of generations of family members -- judges, scholars, diplomats, and writers -- who were present at key events, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine instead shows this war has always been colonial in nature, waged against the native population first by the Zionist movement and then by Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age. Khalidi highlights crucial episodes in this long colonial campaign, from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, from the war of 1967 to Israel's recent assaults on Gaza.
An unflinching vision of life on the dole in Ireland told with humor and grace.
Over the course of more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. In 1986 he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area. Three decades later, Michelle McNamara, a true-crime journalist who created the popular website True Crime Diary, was determined to find the violent psychopath she called "the Golden State Killer." Michelle pored over police reports, interviewed victims, and embedded herself in the online communities that were as obsessed with the case as she was. At the time of the crimes, the Golden State Killer was between the ages of eighteen and thirty, Caucasian, and athletic -- capable of vaulting tall fences. He always wore a mask. After choosing his victims -- he favored suburban couples -- he often entered their homes when no one was there, studying family pictures, mastering the layouts. He attacked while they slept, using a flashlight to awaken and blind them. Though they could not recognize him, his victims recalled his voice: a guttural whisper through clenched teeth, abrupt and threatening.
For 2,000 years, cadavers---some willingly, some unwittingly---have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. In this account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries and, in so doing, tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them.
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State -- and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than "an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise." But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone. Strayed vividly captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her
The author's message is simple: living in the now is the truest path to happiness and enlightenment. And while this message may not seem stunningly original or fresh, the author's supportive voice and enthusiasm make this an excellent manual for anyone who's ever wondered what exactly "living in the now" means.
Hida Viloria was raised as a girl but discovered early on that he/r body was different. Unlike most people who are born intersex in the first world--meaning they have genitals, reproductive organs, hormones, and/or chromosomal patterns that do not fit standard definitions of male or female--Hida had the freedom to explore the person s/he was born to be because he/r parents did not agree to have he/r sex characteristics surgically altered at birth. It wasn't until s/he was 26 and encountered the term "intersex" in a San Francisco newspaper that s/he finally had a name for he/r difference. That's when s/he began to explore what it means to live in the space between genders--to be both and neither. As s/he began to reach out to others like he/r, however, Hida discovered that most intersex people had been scarred, both physically and psychologically, by infant surgeries and hormone treatments meant to "correct" their bodies. Eager to help end this practice, Hida came out as intersex at a national and then international level. By answering the question "Are you a boy or a girl?" with "I'm both," Hida's helped blaze a trail for people--particularly intersex and genderqueer/non-binary people--to celebrate the middle space where male and female are not separate and opposite but entwined.
La epica y emocionante historia de una mujer cuya vida abarca los momentos historicos mas relevantes del siglo XX. Desde 1920 -con la llamada --gripe espanola hasta la pandemia de 2020, la vida de Violeta sera mucho mas que la historia de un siglo. Violeta viene al mundo un tormentoso dia de 1920, siendo la primera nina de una familia de cinco bulliciosos hermanos. Desde el principio su vida estara marcada por acontecimientos extraordinarios, pues todavia se sienten las ondas expansivas de la Gran Guerra cuando la gripe espanola llega a las orillas de su pais sudamericano natal, casi en el momento exacto de su nacimiento. Gracias a la clarividencia del padre, la familia saldra indemne de esta crisis para darse de bruces con una nueva, cuando la Gran Depresion altera la elegante vida urbana que Violeta ha conocido hasta ahora. Su familia lo perdera todo y se vera obligada a retirarse a una region salvaje y remota del pais. Alli Violeta alcanzara la mayoria de edad y tendra su primer pretendiente... En una carta dirigida a una persona a la que ama por encima de todas las demas, Violeta rememora devastadores desenganos amorosos y romances apasionados, momentos de pobreza y tambien de prosperidad, perdidas terribles e inmensas alegrias. Moldearan su vida algunos de los grandes sucesos de la historia: la lucha por los derechos de la mujer, el auge y caida de tiranos y, en ultima instancia, no una, sino dos pandemias. Vista con los ojos de una mujer poseedora de una pasion, una determinacion y un sentido del humor inolvidables que la sostienen a lo largo de una vida turbulenta, Isabel Allende nos regala, una vez mas, una historia epica furiosamente inspiradora y profundamente emotiva.
Alma Cruz ha decidido ponerle punto final a su carrera de escritora, pero teme acabar como su amiga, una exitosa novelista arrastrada a la locura por un libro que jamás terminó de escribir. Por eso, cuando hereda un modesto terreno en República Dominicana, se le ocurre sepultar allí sus decenas de manuscritos inconclusos. Quiere que descansen en paz en la misma tierra donde yacen sus raíces. Pero a diferencia de Alma, los protagonistas de sus relatos aún tienen mucho por decir, y encuentran en Filomena, la reservada cuidadora del cementerio, una interlocutora empática y atenta. Al compartir sus historias, Bienvenida, la exesposa olvidada del dictador Rafael Trujillo, Manuel Cruz, un médico exiliado durante el régimen, y la misma Filomena convertirán el cementerio en un lugar mágico. Un santuario donde quienes han sido silenciados hallarán el sentido que anhelan en la vitalidad imperecedera de los cuentos que aún quedan por contar. Y colorín colorado...
El 2013 Behrouz Boochani fue ilegalmente detenido en la isla de Manus, un centro de detencion de inmigrantes cerca de la costa de Australia. En la carcel, donde ha pasado seis anos, sin herramientas ni espacio para la creacion, Boochani escribio heroicamente a traves de WhatsApp este libro. Un libro sobre la violencia y las injusticias que se cometen en nuestro nombre con la excusa de la ley. La obra se publico en Australia y gano los premios mas importantes del pais convirtiendose en una denuncia y visibilizando una verguenza internacional. Uno de los libros mas vendidos en 2019 es el grito de resistencia y el extraordinario testimonio de un refugiado. Una voz que representa las vivencias de tantos refugiados y migrantes apatridas encarcelados en todo el mundo. Behrouz Boochani es periodista y un reconocido defensor de los derechos humanos, ganador de un Media Award de Amnistia Internacional de Australia, se le han otorgado tambien los premios del Diaspora Symposium Social Justice Award, del Liberty Victoria 2018 Empty Chair Award, del Anna Politkovskaya de periodismo y del Premio Veu Lliure PEN Catala 2020.
El desfile de Accion de Gracias mas famoso del planeta. Una nina de tres anos desaparecida. Donde esta Kiera Templeton? Nueva York, 1998, cabalgata de Accion de Gracias. Kiera Templeton, de tan solo tres anos, desaparece entre la multitud. Tras una busqueda frenetica por toda la ciudad, alguien encuentra unos mechones de pelo junto a la ropa que llevaba puesta la pequena. En 2003, el dia que hubiese sido el octavo cumpleanos de Kiera, sus padres, Aaron y Grace Templeton, reciben en casa un extrano paquete con algo inesperado: una cinta de video VHS con una grabacion de un minuto de Kiera, jugando en una habitacion desconocida. Miren Triggs, una estudiante de periodismo de la Universidad de Columbia, se siente atraida por el caso e inicia una investigacion paralela que la lleva a desentranar aspectos de su pasado que creia olvidados, y es que su historia personal, al igual que la de Kiera, esta llena de incognitas. Despues del exito de El dia que se perdio la cordura, El dia que se perdio el amor y Todo lo que sucedio con Miranda Huff, con mas de 650.000 ejemplares vendidos, Javier Castillo regresa con La chica de nieve, un juego de espejos y un oscuro viaje a las profundidades de la desesperacion. Una novela que muestra que lo peor siempre pasa inadvertido.
Desde la casa donde nacio, los juegos de calle durante su ninez, la musica que ha servido como banda sonora de su vida hasta los movimientos sociales y el ataque terrorista contra las Torres Gemelas --que le toco presenciar --, Laura Esquivel, la autora mexicana mas leida en el mundo, nos ensena a traves de un colorido mosaico de escritos lo que sus ojos vieron, las cosas de las que ha sido testigo en sus 72 anos de vida. Son trece entregas que resultan por partes iguales un vinculo a nuestra historia, celebracion de nuestras tradiciones, un comentario social y la narracion de emocionales recuentos de las memorias de Laura y toda una generacion. En un constante vaiven que oscila entre si todo pasado es mejor o si vivir el presente es aquello que nos sublima como seres humanos, la autora de Como agua para chocolate nos confirma lo que si ha comprobado: siempre es mas bello contemplar con el alma que con los ojos.
"Muchos anos despues, frente al peloton de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendia habia de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevo a conocer el hielo". Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias mas fascinantes del siglo xx. Millones de ejemplares de Cien anos de soledad leidos en todas las lenguas y el Premio Nobel de Literatura coronando una obra que se habia abierto paso a "boca a boca" --como gusta decir el escritor-- son la mas palpable demostracion de que la aventura fabulosa de la familia Buendia-Iguaran, con sus milagros, fantasias, obsesiones, tragedias, incestos, adulterios, rebeldias, descubrimientos y condenas, representaba al mismo tiempo el mito y la historia, la tragedia y el amor del mundo entero.
Es un hecho que en los ultimos diez anos, gracias a que los estudiosos del comportamiento animal han cambiado su foco de interes, de los primates, aves y cetaceos, al estudio de la inteligencia canina, hemos aprendido mas sobre el comportamiento canino que en todo el siglo veinte. El tema de este libro es muy novedoso , la cognicion canina. Es la primera vez que unos cientificos condensan en un texto divulgativo todo lo descubierto en el tema del intelecto canino. Como la ciencia cognitiva ha llegado a entender la genialidad de los perros gracias a experimentos ludicos, utilizando juguetes, tazas, pelotas y cubos. Pruebas que cualquier dueno podria hacer en su casa con su propio perro. Algunos de los descubrimientos que se exponen en las paginas que siguen sorprenderan incluso al mas experimentado de los duenos: la gran cantidad de palabras que pueden entender los perros, su extraordinaria capacidad para ?leer? nuestras emociones y su maximo logro: haber llegado a interpretar nuestros gestos tan bien! Si alguna vez se ha preguntado por que su perro siempre se hace un lio con la correa para rodear una farola o un arbol o, si cuando esta triste, su perro puede sentir empatia, si tienen los perros sentido de culpabilidad o de la justicia, en este libro encontrara las respuestas.
En el desertico planeta Arrakis, el agua es el bien mas preciado y llorar a los muertos, el simbolo de maxima prodigalidad. Pero algo hace de Arrakis una pieza estrategica para los intereses del Emperador, las Grandes Casas y la Cofradia, los tres grandes poderes de la galaxia. Arrakis es el unico origen conocido de la melange, preciosa especia y uno de los bienes mas codiciados del universo. Al duque Leto Atreides se le asigna el gobierno de este mundo inhospito, habitado por los indomitos Fremen y monstruosos gusanos de arena de centenares de metros de longitud. Sin embargo, cuando la familia es traicionada, su hijo y heredero, Paul, emprendera un viaje hacia un destino mas grande del que jamas hubiese podido sonar. Mezcla fascinante de aventura, misticismo, intrigas politicas y ecologismo, Dune se convirtio,desde el momento de su publicacion, en un fenomeno de culto y en la mayor epopeya de ciencia-ficcion de todos los tiempos.
Mexico es un pais racista que niega serlo. Con argumentos como "No es racismo, sino clasismo", "Aca somos todos mestizos" o "Nunca hubo un sistema segregacionista como en Estados Unidos" negamos que hemos perpetuado la discriminacion durante generaciones. Tenoch Huerta, actor de reconocido prestigio y portavoz del debate y la lucha antirracista en Mexico desde hace anos, se encarga de rebatir estos y otros mitos acerca del racismo en las paginas de Orgullo prieto. En este libro encontraras una serie de reflexiones sobre las diferentes discriminaciones que sufre un mexicano por su color de piel en distintos ambitos --el social, el laboral, el familiar--, asi como numerosas vivencias personales del autor sobre situaciones en las que ha sido victima de racismo, pero tambien en las que ha ejercido las practicas racistas propias de un problema que Mexico no quiere ver.
Tras veinticuatro anos como sheriff del condado de Absaroka, Wyoming, las esperanzas de Walt Longmire de terminar en paz sus dias como agente de la ley se ven frustradas cuando Cody Pritchard aparece muerto cerca de la reserva cheyene junto a una pista muy simbolica: una pluma de aguila. Dos anos antes, Cody habia sido uno de los cuatro chicos de instituto que fueron puestos en libertad provisional tras violar a una chica cheyene. Se diria que alguien va buscando venganza y que Longmire es lo unico que separa a los tres chicos restantes de un rifle Sharps del calibre 45-70. Junto a Henry Oso en Pie --su viejo amigo cheyene--, su ayudante --la joven y guapa Victoria Moretti-- y un catalogo de personajes que pueblan el paisaje desierto de las altas llanuras, Walt Longmire intentara que la venganza, un plato que se sirve frio, no se lleve a cabo.
En mitad de la noche en un barrio tranquilo de Minneapolis raptan a Luke Ellis, de doce anos, tras haber asesinado a sus padres. Una operacion que dura menos de dos minutos. Luke se despierta en E Instituto, en un cuarto exactamente igual que el suyo pero sin ventanas. En habitaciones parecidas hay mas ninos: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris y Avery Dixon, entre otros, que comparten capacidades especiales como la telequinesia o la telepatia. Todos ellos se alojan en la Mitad Delantera de la institucion. Los mayores, en cambio, se encuentran en la Mitad Trasera. Como dice Kalisha: "El que entra no sale". En este instituto tan siniestro, la directora --la Senora Sigsby--y sus empleados, se dedican a extraer la fuerza supernatural de cada uno de los ninos, siempre de una manera despiadada y sin escrupulos. Si los ninos cooperan, ganan monedas para las maquinas de dulces. Pero si no, el castigo es brutal. Cada vez que una victima desaparece, Luke se encuentra mas desesperado por escapar y buscar ayuda. Pero nunca nadie ha logrado escapar del Instituto ...
La carretera, novela galardonada con el premio Pulitzer 2007 y best seller literario del ano en Estados Unidos, transcurre en la inmensidad del territorio norteamericano, un paisaje literalmente quemado por lo que parece haber sido un reciente holocausto nuclear. En un mundo apocaliptico donde llueve ceniza, un hombre y un chico cruzan a pie el territorio norteamericano en direccion al sur. El hambre es mucho mas que una preocupacion diaria: es la medida de todas las cosas, y las bandas de canibales asolan el pais convertido en un yermo donde solo la barbarie ha echado raices. El amor de un padre por su hijo es, sin embargo, la unica luz de una tierra que ha perdido a sus dioses. Quiza el fuego de la civilizacion no se haya apagado para siempre.
Asesinatos y narcotrafico, policias y carteles. Nadie es inocente. El inspector Dolores Morales y el subinspector Bert Dixon, del Departamento de Narcoticos de la policia nicaraguense, y antiguos guerrilleros, investigan la desaparicion de una mujer; las unicas pistas son un yate abandonado en la costa de Laguna de Perlas, sospechoso de transportar drogas, un libro quemado y una camiseta ensangrentada (mas tarde apareceran una valija con cien mil d?olares y un vestido de novia). Los detectives crean una insolita red de espionaje en la que participan por igual la DEA y dona Sofia, afanadora de la Policia. Las cosas se ponen candentes cuando ocurre una serie de asesinatos, entre ellos el del principal testigo. En esta novela policiaca, narrada con tension e ironia, y donde la sorpresa salta en cada pagina, las fuerzas del bien son a veces las fuerzas delmal. Sergio Ramirez explora los resquicios de esas fuerzas, por donde correimpetuosa la vida.
Ellen Marie Wiseman, aclamada autora de Lo que dejo atras y La vida que le dieron, teje la historias de dos mujeres muy diferentes en una novela que pasa la pagina tan llena de suspenso como conmovedora, ambientada en medio de una las pandemias mas mortiferas de la historia. En el otono de 1918, la inmigrante alemana de trece anos Pia Lange anhela estar lejos del hacinamiento de Filadelfia. calles y barrios marginales, y del sentimiento anti-aleman que obligo a su padre a alistarse en el ejercito de los Estados Unidos, esperando para demostrar su lealtad. Pero ha llegado una amenaza aun mas urgente. La influenza espanola se esta extendiendo por la ciudad. Pronto, muertos y moribundos estan por todas partes. Sin comida en casa, Pia debe aventurarse en busca de suministros, dejando a su bebe hermanos gemelos solos ... Desde que murio su bebe hace dias, Bernice Groves se ha perdido en el dolor y la amargura. Si los doctores no hubieran estado tan ocupados atendiendo a hordas de inmigrantes, tal vez podrian haber salvado a su hijo. Cuando Bernice ve a Pia salir de su casa al otro lado del camino, se ve impulsada por una decision impactante que le cambia la vida y que la lleva a una mision siniestra: transformar el huerfanos y ninos inmigrantes de la ciudad en lo que ella siente que son "verdaderos estadounidenses". Mientras Pia navega por los sombrios vecindarios de la ciudad, no puede saber que sus hermanos no estaran en casa cuando ella devoluciones. Y sera un viaje largo y arduo para saber que sucedio, incluso cuando Bernice planea mantener la verdad oculto a toda costa. Solo con perseverancia y el coraje para enfrentar su propia verguenza y miedo, Pia pondra las piezas juntos y encontrar la fuerza para arriesgarlo todo para que por fin se haga justicia.