North House

Convencido de que quizá la Ciudad de México no sea el lugar más aconsejable para vivir, pero también de que es tan intrincada y apasionante que resulta imposible abandonarla, Villoro propone este libro escrito desde la devoción del urbanita recalcitrante y maravillado que se despliega como un rompecabezas infinito: los atajos viales, el cine de luchadores, los héroes nacionales, el comercio tepiteño, la tramitología gubernamental, el enigma de las vulcanizadoras, las incontables multitudes, la ingesta de chile, los templos ancestrales.

Far North Queensland, 1993: at 74, former cane farmer Grace Maud is feeling her age, and her isolation, and thinks the best of life may be behind her. Elsewhere in town, high school teacher Patricia has given up on her dreams of travel and adventure and has moved back home to look after her ageing parents, while cafe owner Dorothy is struggling to accept that she may never have the baby she and her husband so desperately want. Each woman has an unspoken need: reconnection. And that's how they find themselves at Orange Blossom House, surrounded by perfumed rainforest.

Manchmal ist der Weg in die Vergangenheit die einzige Chance, die Gegenwart zu retten. Es ist Winter in North Carolina. Mit den Temperaturen sinkt auch die Verbrechensrate, und die forensische Anthropologin Tempe Brennan kann sich um ihre Tochter Kathy kümmern, die nach ihrem Einsatz bei der Armee wieder im Zivilleben angekommen ist. Doch dann machen Mutter und Tochter auf der Veranda eine grausige Entdeckung: ein Paket mit einem menschlichen Augapfel.

For the first time, Euna Lee - the young wife, mother, and film editor detained in North Korea - tells a harrowing, but ultimately inspiring, story of survival and faith in one of the most isolated parts of the world. On March 17, 2009, Lee and her Current TV colleague Laura Ling were working on a documentary about the desperate lives of North Koreans fleeing their homeland for a chance at freedom when they were violently apprehended by North Korean soldiers.

A través de trece episodios, Colson Whitehead traza un recorrido visual por las calles de la ciudad, pero también por su propia memoria: qué se siente al contemplar Manhattan por primera vez, cómo Nueva York desplaza a sus habitantes de la soledad al calor del gentío... A ritmo de jazz, el autor utiliza distintas voces narrativas con la intención de transmitirnos con total fidelidad la banda sonora de este lugar, que es a la vez variada y fluida.

Maggie ist noch nicht einmal 16, als sie ungewollt schwanger wird. Die entsetzten Eltern schicken sie zu einer alleinstehenden Tante nach Ocracoke Island in North Carolina. Dort soll Maggie ihr Kind austragen und zur Adoption freigeben, erst dann darf sie wieder heimkehren. Die Insel scheint Maggie so trostlos wie ihr ganzes Leben - bis sie ihren Nachhilfelehrer Bryce kennenlernt. Er ist 17, gutaussehend, intelligent und einfühlsam.

Manchmal ist der Weg in die Vergangenheit die einzige Chance, die Gegenwart zu retten. Es ist Winter in North Carolina. Mit den Temperaturen sinkt auch die Verbrechensrate, und die forensische Anthropologin Tempe Brennan kann sich um ihre Tochter Kathy kümmern, die nach ihrem Einsatz bei der Armee wieder im Zivilleben angekommen ist. Doch dann machen Mutter und Tochter auf der Veranda eine grausige Entdeckung: ein Paket mit einem menschlichen Augapfel.

The year is 2032. The NRA has been outlawed; the U.S. military has been gutted; Conservative Christians, dubbed ANARKS, have been labeled a global conspiracy and have been largely driven underground. The Caliphate is now a superpower, residing in Israel. The White House is occupied by a repressive Progressive regime, obsessed with the upcoming presidential election.

The centerpiece of a major national campaign to indentify and preserve forgotten history, Here Is Where is acclaimed historian Andrew Carroll’s fascinating journey of discovery in which he travels to each of America’s 50 states and explores locations where remarkable individuals once lived or where the incredible or momentous occurred.

Der neue Forensik-Thriller von Kathy Reichs. Ein schwerer Hurrikan nimmt Kurs auf Charlotte, die Heimatstadt der forensischen Anthropologin Tempe Brennan. In einem gestrandeten Container werden zwei Skelette entdeckt, und Tempe, die die Untersuchungen leitet, wird an einen fünfzehn Jahre alten Cold Case erinnert. In Charlotte geht die Angst vor einem hochansteckenden Bakterium um, gegen das bestimmte Gene angeblich schützen sollen. Ihre Ermittlungen führen Tempe auf die Spur eines Mannes, der dubiose Geschäfte mit Gen-Analysen macht.

En la vida diaria ¿hay lugar más seguro para los deseos secretos que el mundo de Internet? Leo Leike recibe emails por error de una desconocida llamada Emmi. Como es educado, le contesta y como él la atrae, ella escribe de nuevo. Así, poco a poco, se entabla un diálogo en el que no hay marcha atrás. Parece solo una cuestión de tiempo que se conozcan en persona, pero la idea los altera tan profundamente que prefieren posponer el encuentro. ¿Sobrevivirían las emociones enviadas, recibidas y guardadas un encuentro «real»?

A newly elected president faces the unexpected chance to nominate a new chief justice of the Supreme Court. His first choice is a nationally respected Court of Appeals judge, a woman whose nomination faces two serious obstacles: a long-held personal secret; and the prospect that a volatile abortion case- a trial pitting a 15-year-old girl against her pro-life parents- will come before the court. And the Senate majority leader is determined to thwart the president's nomination for reasons that cross the boundary between the political and the personal.

Two prominent men are found dead. One is the victim of a ritual murder, the other a heroin overdose. But in each case the character of the dead man seems contradicted by the particulars of his death. Coincidence or connection?

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Fifty-nine days. That's how long Rennell Price has to live after spending 15 years on death row for the horrifying sexual assault and murder of a girl whose body was found floating in San Francisco Bay. But attorney Terri Paget has dedicated her life to fighting for people like Rennell Price. This time, Terri has a client she believes may actually be innocent, which means that an unpunished killer may still be free.

Der neue Forensik-Thriller von Kathy Reichs. Ein schwerer Hurrikan nimmt Kurs auf Charlotte, die Heimatstadt der forensischen Anthropologin Tempe Brennan. In einem gestrandeten Container werden zwei Skelette entdeckt, und Tempe, die die Untersuchungen leitet, wird an einen fünfzehn Jahre alten Cold Case erinnert. In Charlotte geht die Angst vor einem hochansteckenden Bakterium um, gegen das bestimmte Gene angeblich schützen sollen. Ihre Ermittlungen führen Tempe auf die Spur eines Mannes, der dubiose Geschäfte mit Gen-Analysen macht.

Self-made millionaire William Lasko has an eye for wealth and the ear of the President and a talent for using both to get whatever he wants. But the Economic Crimes Commission wants to bring the corrupt, untouchable Lasko down, and they enlist the services of straightlaced U.S. Attorney Christopher Paget to do it. Paget has to walk a tightrope, gathering enough evidence to nail Lasko without alienating the White House, knowing full well that men like Lasko make their own rules - including the elimination of enemies like him.

President Kerry Kilcannon and his fiancée, television journalist Lara Costello, have at last decided to marry. But their wedding is followed by a massacre of innocents in a lethal burst of gunfire, challenging their marriage and his presidency in ways so shattering and indelibly personal that Kilcannon vows to eradicate gun violence and crush the most powerful lobby in Washington - the Sons of the Second Amendment (SSA).

"Tercer strike, ponchado”. “Quieto”. “Jonrón”. Cada octubre, millones de aficionados al béisbol de todo el país esperan ansiosamente ver qué equipo gana la mayor competencia del béisbol. Pero los partidos originales de la década de 1900 difícilmente se parecían a los de hoy. Echa un vistazo a más de cien años atrás y descubre la historia de las mejores series del béisbol. Con triunfos, desengaños y maldiciones supersticiosas, este libro lleno de acción, da vida al pasatiempo de Estados Unidos.

When it comes to presidential campaigns, fiction can be more thrilling than truth. Such is the case in the extraordinary story of high-stakes presidential politics told in Richard North Patterson's No Safe Place.

Damian Stone was a distinguished member of the NYPD, on the fast-track to an FBI career until a crime syndicate ambush cost him his partner and his ambitions. Recruited by an elite security agency that leverages his hyper-protective instincts to shield notorious trial witnesses, Damian never met a charge he couldn't safeguard. Until her. Alexa Volkov lived a privileged life, far from the messy underbelly of her father's Russian mafia. Her plan to testify against the mob patriarch puts a bounty on her head.