Title search results
Showing 1 - 20 of 15964 items
DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
General fiction, Serious and literary fiction, Short stories
Synthetic audio
Situaciones cotidianas y personas normales son examinadas con la lupa de la inteligencia y el humor por una de las…
escritoras más destacadas y queridas de la literatura argentina. «Ya era una ex madre, pensé, una mujer con ex trabajos, ex entusiasmos y creencias, ex amigos y ex amores, tenía toda una ex vida por delante. La que uno lleva a rastras atada por el hilo cada día más frágil de la memoria.» Con cada libro, Inés Fernández Moreno nos sacude del letargo cotidiano y nos interpela, con inteligencia y sentido del humor, sobre nuestras vidas al mostrarnos situaciones y personajes que son, ni más ni menos, quienes nos rodean. Una viajera aterriza en el aeropuerto y de pronto ve una bota dando vueltas por la cinta transportadora, sola, perdida. Un paseador de perros no logra contenerse y le cuenta a su amigo la sesión de sexo salvaje e inesperado que acaba de tener con una clienta. Dos novios de la adolescencia se reencuentran después de décadas, cargados con la enorme expectativa de que esta vez pueda concretarse su deseo. Una pareja decide remodelar la cocina de su casa y él, arquitecto, no puede evitar criticar cada decisión que ella va tomando. Todos podemos contemplarnos en esa pareja, en esos novios jóvenes o ese paseador de perros. La crítica dijo: «La destreza para construir microclimas y epifanías sin que se le note un solo gesto es notable. Un modo de narrar que jamás muestra sus costuras, y sin embargo no cede un solo milímetro de fervor poético.»José María Brindisi, La Nación, sobre No te quiero más «Chejovianos de alma, los cuentos de Inés Fernández Moreno, parafraseando al maestro ruso, "son comedias, no dramas melancólicos". [...] la escritora narra la levedad de lo cotidiano desde una profundidad de perspectiva poco frecuente.»Silvina Friera, Página/12 «Inés Fernández Moreno demuestra tener el ojo del coleccionista. Captura el fragmento que es capaz de hablar por toda una serie, el trazo revelador.»María Sonia Cristoff, La Nación «Con insidia se fomenta a veces la idea de que tal vez los libros de cuentos no hablen de casi nada. Cuando son buenos, sin embargo, se descubre que se ocupan de casi todo.»Elvio Gandolfo, sobre La vida en la cornisa
DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Fantasy, Serious and literary fiction
Synthetic audio
¿De qué charlan el Luis XIV de Francia y el señor Gottfried Leibniz cuando se encuentran? Nombrado embajador del Imperio…
Romano Germánico, el filósofo Gottfried Leibniz llega a Francia con una misión: convencer a Luis XIV de invadir Egipto. Sin embargo, aturdido por el teatro de extravagancias de la corte, su determinación va debilitándose poco a poco. El Rey lo evade por los pasadizos secretos y los salones de Versalles, lo embota con manjares, lo escandaliza con insinuaciones libertinas y lo involucra en intrigas palaciegas que amenazan con guerras, crímenes reales y matrimonios fantásticos. Cuando finalmente Leibniz y Luis XIV se encuentren, compartirán la conversación íntima, la perplejidad existencial, la exploración científica y los universos metafísicos, mientras mueven sus piezas en el juego diplomático que determinará el destino de Oriente y Occidente. Con potencia literaria y descarada ironía, Daniel Guebel hace estallar la exuberante arquitectura barroca -caprichosa y genial- de la mente del hombre de poder. La crítica dijo: «Guebel es genial, nunca ingenioso. Es el mejor novelista de su -mi- generación. El más monolítico, monolingüe y leve de nuestros grandes autores».Luis Chitarroni «La prosa subversiva de Guebel viene de Gógol y de Nabokov, incluso parecería un improbable Pynchon argentino. Pero Guebel es grande por sus propias cualidades: su dominio de una frase enroscada, pero con apariencia leve, gozosa y humorística; la riqueza de su imaginación; la erudición musical y filosófica; la pertinencia del pensamiento y su desplazamiento sutil hacia el terreno de la parodia mediante un juego de anacronismos». Carlos Pardo, Babelia «Daniel Guebel es -quizá con Aira- el escritor con mayor amplitud de registro de la literatura argentina, alguien capaz de pasar sin solución de continuidad de la invención más desenfrenada a la crudeza total del documentalismo autobiográfico. Guebel es nuestro Philip Roth: un escritor que cuando escribe no le tiene miedo a nada».Alan Pauls «Borges, un Guebel populista. Guebel, un Borges culto». Juan José Becerra
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Serious and literary fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS"…
(JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of SantaTeresa—a fictional Juárez—on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Family stories, Serious and literary fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Meet the Tobin family ...Joy - the motherUnconscious in a hospital bed, Joy's latest act has thrown the family into…
turmoilFrances - the middle childSeemingly perfect wife and mother, Frances is having inappropriate dreams about an ex, and might be about to derail her whole lifeConor - the protectorSuccessful and famous, high-flyer Conor is walking a fine line between self-promotion and self-detonationSinead - the baby of the familyBohemian rebel, trying to write the story she needs to tell, but despising herself for failing to do itAs Joy hovers between life and death, the siblings must come together to face their past. It's the only chance they have of unlocking the future.A stunning novel about complex family dynamics, the intricacies of motherhood, marriage, and infidelity, and the lingering power of past trauma, which echoes down generations.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Multi-cultural fiction, Serious and literary fiction, Short stories
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
The acclaimed, award-winning author of The Resisters takes measure of the fifty years since the opening of China and its…
unexpected effects on the lives of ordinary people. It is a unique book that only Jen could write—a story collection accruing the power of a novel as it proceeds—a work that Cynthia Ozick has called &“an art beyond art. It is life itself.&”Beginning with a cheery letter penned by a Chinese girl in heaven to &“poor Mr. Nixon&” in hell, Gish Jen embarks on a fictional journey through U.S.-China relations, capturing the excitement of a world on the brink of tectonic change. Opal Chen reunites with her Chinese sisters after forty years; newly cosmopolitan Lulu Koo wonders why Americans &“like to walk around in the woods with the mosquitoes&”; Hong Kong parents go to extreme lengths to reestablish contact with their &“number-one daughter&” in New York; and Betty Koo, brought up on &“no politics, just make money,&” finds she must reassess her mother&’s philosophy. With their profound compassion and equally profound humor, these eleven linked stories trace the intimate ways in which humans make and are made by history, capturing an extraordinary era in an extraordinary way. Delightful, provocative, and powerful, Thank You, Mr. Nixon furnishes yet more proof of Gish Jen&’s eminent place among American storytellers.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
General fiction, Serious and literary fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
In this compelling debut novel, an art authenticator and an art historian are employed by a famous, reclusive painter to…
sell a never-before-seen portrait, leading them to discover devastating secrets two sisters have kept from each other, and from the artist who determined the course of their lives.How do you find someone who wants to be lost? Sisters Natalie and Alice Kessler were close, until adolescence wrenched them apart. Natalie is headstrong, manipulative--and beautiful; Alice is a dreamer who loves books and birds. During their family's summer holiday at the lake, Alice falls under the thrall of a struggling young painter, Thomas Bayber, in whom she finds a kindred spirit. Natalie, however, remains strangely unmoved, sitting for a family portrait with surprising indifference. But by the end of the summer, three lives are shattered. Decades later, Bayber, now a reclusive, world-renowned artist, unveils a never-before-seen work, Kessler Sisters--a provocative painting depicting the young Thomas, Natalie, and Alice. Bayber asks Dennis Finch, an art history professor, and Stephen Jameson, an eccentric young art authenticator, to sell the painting for him. That task becomes more complicated when the artist requires that they first locate Natalie and Alice, who seem to have vanished. And Finch finds himself wondering why Thomas is suddenly so intent on resurrecting the past. In The Gravity of Birds histories and memories refuse to stay buried; in the end only the excavation of the past will enable its survivors to love again.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
General fiction, Serious and literary fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Historical fiction, Serious and literary fiction
Synthetic audio
Una novela de aventuras que retrata el delito internacional más insólito de la historia del arte, protagonizada por la enigmática…
figura del estafador argentino Marqués de Valfierno. «Una exquisita e inteligente mirada en torno a la identidad, la clase y el arte, todo en una historia intrigante basada en hechos reales».Kirkus Lo llamaron el robo del siglo, aunque el siglo recién empezaba. Por él acusaron y detuvieron a Picasso y Apollinaire, pero pronto tuvieron que soltarlos y asumir que no tenían ni idea de quién se había llevado la Gioconda de su sala del Louvre. La verdad se sigue discutiendo: lo más probable es que el cerebro de la operación fuera un argentino que se hacía llamar marqués de Valfierno. Con esa hipótesis, con esa historia oscura, Martín Caparrós construye una novela en la que recrea la vida del estafador que tuvo en vilo a Francia durante años y que confesó, poco antes de morir, que había planeado el robo por la razón más sorprendente.Valfierno recibió en 2004 el Premio Planeta Sudamérica y ha sido traducida a una docena de idiomas: con un estilo elegante y depurado, es sin duda una de las novelas más leídas y lograda de Caparrós. La crítica ha dicho:«Es evidente que a Martín Caparrós le preocupa la forma. Una estructura narrativa que genera desconcierto, pero potencia el relato».Javier Martínez, Revista Ñ «Es una obra rica y ambiciosa, una empresa arriesgada que debe ser conocida».Juan Goytisolo «Falsificarle la vida a un gran falsificador es el hilo conductor que utiliza el escritor Martín Caparrós en Valfierno».Kenny Cabrera, El País
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Multi-cultural fiction, Historical fiction, General fiction, Family stories, Serious and literary fiction, Historical romance
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
'Amazing' Reese Witherspoon'Heart-rending' Taylor Jenkins Reid 'Luminous and moving!' Kate Quinn'Unforgettable' Kristen HarmelThe heartbreaking and completely unputdownable instant New York…
Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick about the pain and sacrifice of forbidden love, the lengths a mother will go to protect her child, and survival against the odds.Philadelphia, 1948: Fifteen-year-old Ruby's dreams are almost within reach. She's going to be the first in her family to attend college, despite having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising her only daughter. But falling madly in love with the one boy she is forbidden from threatens to pull Ruby back into poverty and desperation. When she's imprisoned in a home for unwed mothers - locked in the House of Eve with other 'fallen girls' - everything she's worked so hard for starts slipping through her fingers.Washington, DC, 1948: Eleanor arrives in the city with ambition, hope and a past she's trying her hardest to run from. When she meets William at Howard University, with his inky black eyes and broad shoulders, it's love at first sight. But William hails from one of Washington, DC's elite Black families, who don't let just anyone into their inner circle - especially not a girl from 'the wrong side of the tracks'. Eleanor hopes that a baby will mean they finally accept her, and that her secrets won't see the light of day - but fate has other plans in store...In the dawn of the 1950s, Ruby and Eleanor are complete strangers - until their paths unexpectedly collide. Forced to make the most heartbreaking decisions of their lives, will their choices save them... or be their undoing?Fans of Kate Quinn, Lisa Wingate and Kristin Harmel will fall head over heels for this totally gripping and heart-wrenching historical-fiction page-turner.See what readers are saying about The House of Eve:'I read this book in one sitting and loved it!!... I was blown away... I couldn't read this fast enough' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'Everything. This book was everything' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'I LOVED THIS BOOK!' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'I was completely captivated' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'5 brilliant stars! I'm definitely not crying right now. That's a lie. I totally am' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'All the stars!!!... It absolutely blew me away. I finished it several days ago and am still thinking about it! It packed one powerful punch' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'The House of Eve will not only be a favourite of the year, but a favourite of all-time. I ADORED THIS BOOK. You can't tell me that Ruby and Eleanor aren't real people because they're real in my heart and I will never forget them' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'I really gobbled up this book. PAGE-TURNER! Pick this book; you won't regret it... I absolutely loved this story... Amazing... This book was so hard for me to put down' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars
DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Serious and literary fiction
Synthetic audio
UNO DE LOS MEJORES LIBROS DEL AÑO SEGÚN THE NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF BOOKS, THE NEW YORKER Y TIME,…
ENTRE OTROS. Vuelve la icónica Lucy Barton en esta deslumbrante novela sobre el amor, la pérdida y la esperanza. A medida que el miedo se apodera de su ciudad, Lucy Barton abandona Manhattan y se confina en un pueblo de Maine con su exmarido, William. Durante los siguientes meses quedarán ellos dos, compañeros después de tantos años, a solas con su complejo pasado en una pequeña casa junto a un mar impetuoso, una experiencia de la que saldrán transformados. Con una voz imbuida de una «humanidad íntima, frágil y desesperada» (The Washington Post) Elizabeth Strout explora los entresijos del corazón humano en un retrato revolucionario y luminoso de las relaciones personales durante un periodo de aislamiento. En el centro de esta historia se encuentran los profundos lazos que nos unen incluso cuando estamos separados: el dolor ante el sufrimiento de una hija, el vacío tras la muerte de un ser querido, la promesa de una amistad incipiente y el consuelo de un antiguo amor que aún perdura. La crítica ha dicho:«Una escritora elegante, eficiente y de alta sensibilidad: un seguro para cualquier lector exigente».Jose María Guelbenzu, Babelia «Esta mujer que tanto me ha dado llenando mis horas de insomnio».Elvira Lindo «No es casualidad que Strout haya sido comparada con Hemingway. En muchos sentidos, lo supera».Publishers Weekly«No solo he amado Lucy y el mar: la necesitaba. Espero que multitud de lectores hayan llegado a sentirse enriquecidos, reconfortados y verdaderamente animados con la historia de Lucy».The Boston Globe «Delicada y elíptica. [...] Una prosa elegante y engañosamente ligera».The New York Times Book Review «Conmovedora y sombría, [...] maravillosamente escrita, tierna sin ser empalagosa, la nueva novela de Strout logra abarcar el amor y la amistad, la alegría y la ansiedad, el dolor y los agravios, la soledad y la vergüenza, y una sensación de creciente inquietud. [...] Su comprensión de la condición humana no tiene límites».NPR «Lo más valioso de Elizabeth Strout es la sutileza con que explora los recovecos de la condición humana».Fernando Aramburu«Es fácil comparar el mundo literario de Elizabeth Strout con el de Alice Munro o Lucia Berlin».Pedro Antonio López Gayarre, El Español «Un libro fino, bellamente comedido y que estalla con emoción».Vogue «Con Lucy Barton, Strout continúa extrayendo agua de un pozo profundo».Publishers Weekly
DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
General fiction, Serious and literary fiction
Synthetic audio
Una ventana a la amistad masculina: la corporalidad y los afectos truncados, torpes, subterráneos, que se dan en una pandilla…
de chicos de barrio durante los 2000. CABALLO DE TROYA 2023Edición a cargo de Sabina Urraca En Los bloques naranjas las relaciones entre hombres están atravesadas por el espacio geográfico que se habita: la ciudad. Es este un proyecto de poesía en prosa que intenta traer al presente el pasado de una adolescencia y una juventud no muy lejanas. ¿Qué ocurrirá en el futuro con todo lo que no se dijo cuando se tuvo la oportunidad?, se pregunta este libro.Luis Díaz nos cuenta, precisamente, todo aquello que se sintió pero no se dijo. Este libro explora la amistad masculina, siempre atravesada por la imposibilidad de comunicación, los afectos truncados y subterráneos, la corporalidad torpe y dolorosa. Abre una rendija que nos permite vislumbrar lo que bulle bajo el hermetismo y la torpeza afectiva de las masculinidades adolescentes. Un libro rompedor, áspero y sensible a partes iguales.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Serious and literary fiction, Suspense and thrillers
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Novelist J.B. Blackwood is on a cruise with her husband, Patrick, to celebrate their wedding anniversary.Her former professor, Patrick is…
much older than J.B. But when they met, he seemed somehow ageless, as all new gods appear in the eyes of those who worship them. He is a film director. A cult figure. But now his success is starting to wane and J.B. is on the cusp of winning a major literary prize. Her art has been forever overseen by him, now it may overshadow his.For days they sail in the sun. They lie about drinking, reading, sleeping, having sex. There is nothing but dark water all around them.Then a storm hits and Patrick falls off the ship. J.B. is left alone, as the search for what happened to Patrick - and the truth about their marriage - begins.
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Serious and literary fiction, Family stories, Suspense and thrillers
Human-narrated audio
In one minute, delivering a not guilty verdict at the end of the trial for a disturbing murder of a…
child, Matthew Rice’s life begins to unravel. The very structures his life is built upon start to collapse. Matthew retreats to Quarry Island in Georgian Bay, where he loses his wallet in a boating mishap. Among the pieces of identification he needs to replace is his birth certificate, but he’s informed it’s not on file. His birth certificate was a forgery. Not only have the foundations of his life given way, his very identity is shattered. Matthew learns that the woman who raised him was his father’s second wife, and that his real mother died when he was a baby. What began as a search for a replacement for his birth certificate becomes a search for a woman who was a trailblazing journalist. His search takes him on a journey to Sydney, Australia, Boston, and Dublin; it results in the possession of the journals his mother kept up to her dying days in 1952. These entries are a window into a fascinating woman and a distant time not so different from our own. Still unsure of his place in a world that has changed in ways he has difficulty completely understanding, he returns to Quarry Island in Georgian Bay, where he stocks up on books and a case of good Scotch to sit out the end of his world as he knew it. But fate has more in store for Matthew than he can understand.
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Serious and literary fiction
Human-narrated audio
The 19th-century Russian novelist affirms the strength of love and the tyranny of passion in a tale about the non-political…
Litvinov and his overwhelming love for the beautiful but treacherous Irina
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Serious and literary fiction
Human-narrated audio
A satire first published in 1886. An impressionable young suffragette, Verena Tarrant, struggles to reconcile her love for a charming…
Southern lawyer with the demand of her patroness, a domineering Boston feminist who hates men. This was one of the first American novels to deal even subtly with lesbianism
DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Historical fiction, Serious and literary fiction
Synthetic audio
El nuevo libro del premio Alfaguara de novela: un relato «sin ficción» sobre las relaciones entre padres e hijos marcadas…
por las ideas políticas y el fanatismo. «Pensó que los recuerdos eran invisibles como la luz, y así como el humo hacía que la luz se viera, debía haber una forma de que fueran visibles los recuerdos.» En octubre de 2016, el director de cine colombiano Sergio Cabrera asiste en Barcelona a una retrospectiva de sus películas. Es un momento difícil: su padre, Fausto Cabrera, acaba de morir; su matrimonio está en crisis, y su país ha rechazado unos acuerdos de paz que le habrían permitido terminar con más de cincuenta años de guerra. A lo largo de unos días reveladores, Sergio irá recordando los hechos que marcaron su vida y la de su padre. De la guerra civil española al exilio en América de su familia republicana, de la China de la Revolución Cultural a los movimientos armados de los años sesenta, el lector asistirá a una vida que es mucho más que una gran aventura: es una imagen de medio siglo de historia que trastornó al mundo entero. Volver la vista atrás cuenta hechos reales, pero sólo en manos de un novelista magistral como Vásquez podía convertirse en este retrato devastador de una familia arrastrada por las fuerzas de la historia. Una fascinante investigación social y a la vez íntima, política y a la vez privada, que el lector no olvidará. La crítica ha dicho:«Una novela maravillosa, muy contundente. Sentí que estaba leyendo un clásico. Juan Gabriel Vásquez es uno de los mejores escritores de habla hispana.»Leila Guerriero «Una de las voces más originales de la nueva literatura latinoamericana.»Mario Vargas Llosa «Volver la vista atrás está escrito con una envidiable plenitud de estilo y un portentoso control de la dosificación de impulsos novelísticos.»Sergi Pàmies, La Vanguardia «Una lúcida y sutil metáfora de cómo las ideologías marcaron las vidas privadas del siglo XX.»Andrés Seoane, El Cultural «Vásquez ha sucedido a García Márquez como el gran maestro literario de Colombia.»Ariel Dorfman, The New York Review of Books «Un magnífico y aterrador estudio sobre cómo el pasado puede invadir el presente, y una fascinante revelación de un rincón poco conocido del teatro de la guerra nazi.»John Banville (sobre Los informantes) «Un libro vívido, contundente, magistral.»Alberto Manguel, The Guardian (sobre Historia secreta de Costaguana) «Una novela cautivadora, que atrapa hasta el final. Si bien estamos ante un “vuelapáginas”, se trata también de una profunda meditación sobre el destino y la muerte.»Edmund White, The New York Times Book Review (sobre El ruido de las cosas al caer) «Uno sale de esta novela simplemente aturdido por la gran lección de literatura impartida por el autor.»Étienne de Montety, Le Figaro (sobre Las reputaciones) «Un gran libro [...] A ratos se lee como un thriller político. Es su obra más ambiciosa y la mejor hasta el momento.»Daniel Hahn, Prospect Magazine (sobre La forma de las ruinas) «Magnífico libro [...] Coherente, vertebrado, casi perfecto.»Nadal Suau, El Cultural (sobre Canciones para el incendio)
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
General fiction, Serious and literary fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
When a house party goes terribly wrong, a suburban town fractures, exposing disturbing truths about the community—perfect for fans of Little…
Fires Everywhere and Ask Again, Yes.It’s the party of the year. Afterward, nothing will ever be the same.Maja Jensen is smart, stylish, and careful, the type of woman who considers every detail when building her dream home in the suburbs of Philadelphia. The perfect house that would compensate for her failure to have a child, the house that was going to save her marriage. But when a group of reckless teenagers trash the newly built home just weeks before she moves in, her plans are shattered.Those teenagers, two months away from graduating high school, are the “good kids”—the ones on track to go to college and move on to the next stage of their privileged lives. They have grown up in a protected bubble and are accustomed to getting by with just a slap on the wrist. Did they think they could just destroy property without facing punishment? Or was there something deeper, darker, at play that night? As the police close in on a list of suspects, the tight-knit community begins to fray as families attempt to protect themselves.What should have been the party of the year will have repercussions that will put Maja’s marriage to the ultimate test, jeopardize the futures of those “good kids,” and divide the town over questions of privilege and responsibility.An absorbing novel told through shifting perspectives, The House Party explores how easily friendships, careers, communities, and marriages can upend when differences in wealth and power are forced to the surface.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Serious and literary fiction, Suspense and thrillers
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
A young woman finds herself in the crosshairs of powerful and very dangerous enemies when she travels to Cairo to…
uncover the truth about her brother’s mysterious death in this smart, atmospheric, and propulsive literary thriller from the acclaimed author of A Beautiful Crime and Orient“Bollen writes expansive, psychologically probing novels in the manner of Updike, Eugenides and Franzen, but he is also an avowed disciple of Agatha Christie."—Daily Telegraph (UK)When the lifeless body of Eric Castle, a weapons technician for a major American defense contractor, is found under his hotel balcony, both his employer and the Egyptian authorities quickly declare his death a suicide. But the dead man’s sister, Cate, doesn’t believe Eric took his own life and is determined to get to the truth. Traveling to Egypt she begins to piece together her brother’s life in Cairo with the help of a handsome, young, gay Egyptian man named Omar, who yearns to escape the brutality of his nation’s harsh, restrictive government.Unfortunately, Cate’s quest raises more questions—and problems—than she ever imagined, as she takes on not only the arms company’s top brass but the Egyptian military, secret police, and a slew of American expats with their own reasons to keep the dead buried once and for all. Soon she’s in over her head, and it’s not clear if either she or Omar will get out alive. This riveting thriller of set in loud, boisterous Cairo of Americans lost and found showcases Bollen’s depth of characterization and haunting descriptive powers.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Folklore, fables and fairy tales, Fantasy, Historical fiction, Serious and literary fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
From the multi-award-winning author Claire North comes a daring reimagining that breathes life into ancient myth and gives voice to…
the women who stand defiant in a world ruled by ruthless men. It&’s time for the women of Ithaca to tell their tale . . . . Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting age from the island of Ithaca. None of them has returned, and the women of Ithaca have been left behind to run the kingdom. Penelope was barely into womanhood when she wed Odysseus. While he lived, her position was secure. But now, years on, speculation is mounting that her husband is dead, and suitors are beginning to knock at her door. No one man is strong enough to claim Odysseus' empty throne—not yet. But everyone waits for the balance of power to tip, and Penelope knows that any choice she makes could plunge Ithaca into bloody civil war. Only through cunning, wit, and her trusted circle of maids, can she maintain the tenuous peace needed for the kingdom to survive.This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before. Beyond Ithaca&’s shores, the whims of gods dictate the wars of men. But on the isle, it is the choices of the abandoned women—and their goddesses— that will change the course of the world. "Claire North brings a powerful, fresh, and unflinching voice to ancient myth—darkly fascinating, raw and breathtaking." —Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne "Like Penelope at her loom, North weaves and unweaves, teasing out the threads of Homeric myth to recombine them into something unique, wonderful, and urgently contemporary." —M. R. Carey, author of The Girl With All the Gifts
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Multi-cultural fiction, General fiction, Family stories, Serious and literary fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
An irresistible story of a woman remaking her life after her husband&’s betrayal leads to a year of travel, art,…
and passion in Paris, from the award-winning author of This Close to Okay. Vincent, having grown up as the privileged daughter of artists, has a lovely life in many ways. At forty-four, she enjoys strolling the streets of Paris and teaching at the modern art museum; she has a vibrant group of friends; and she&’s even caught the eye of a young, charismatic man named Loup. But Vincent is also in Paris to escape a painful betrayal: her husband, Cillian, has published a bestselling book divulging secrets about their marriage and his own past, hinting that when he was a teenager, he may have had a child with a young woman back in Dublin—before he moved to California and never returned. Now estranged from her husband, Vincent has agreed to see Cillian again at their son&’s wedding the following summer, but Loup introduces new complications. Soon they begin an intense affair, and somewhere between dinners made together, cigarettes smoked in the moonlight, hazy evenings in nightclubs, and long, starry walks along the Seine, Vincent feels herself loosening and blossoming. In a journey that is both transportive and intimate, Half-Blown Rose traverses Paris, art, travel, liminal spaces, and the messy complexities of relationships and romance, with excerpts from Cillian&’s novel, playlists, and journal entries woven throughout. As Cillian does all he can to win her back, Vincent must decide what she wants . . . and who she will be.