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1959 En un caluroso día de verano, mientras su familia se va de picnic al arroyo de su granja en Suffolk, la adolescente Laurel se esconde en la casa del árbol de su infancia, fantaseando con un muchacho llamado Billy, una huida a Londres y un futuro grandioso que aguarda con impaciencia. Sin embargo, antes de que esa tarde idílica toque a su fin, Laurel presenciará un crimen aterrador que lo cambiará todo. 2011 Siendo ya una actriz célebre, Laurel se ve abrumada por las sombras de su pasado. Acechada por los recuerdos y el misterio de lo que vio ese día, vuelve al hogar familiar y comienza a desenmarañar cada rincón de su memoria en busca de aquella historia. Una historia de tres desconocidos procedentes de mundos muy diferentes —Dorothy, Vivien y Jimmy— que coinciden en el Londres de los años de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y cuyas vidas quedarán unidas de forma funesta e inexorable. Alternando los años treinta, los cincuenta y el presente, El cumpleaños secreto es un relato fascinante de misterios y secretos, teatro y farsa, de un asesinato y de un amor imperecedero.

The Man Booker Prize finalist Far to Go by acclaimed author Alison Pick is historical fiction at its very best. When Czechoslovakia relinquishes the Sudetenland to Hitler, the powerful influence of Nazi propaganda sweeps through towns and villages like a sinister vanguard of the Reich's advancing army. A fiercely patriotic secular Jew, Pavel Bauer is helpless to prevent his world from unraveling as first his government, then his business partners, then his neighbors turn their back on his affluent, once-beloved family. Only the Bauers' adoring governess, Marta, sticks by Pavel, his wife, Anneliese, and their little son, Pepik, bound by her deep affection for her employers and friends. But when Marta learns of their impending betrayal at the hands of her lover, Ernst, Pavel's best friend, she is paralyzed by her own fear of discovery—even as the endangered family for whom she cares so deeply struggles with the most difficult decision of their lives. Interwoven with a present-day narrative that gradually reveals the fate of the Bauer family during and after the war, Far to Go is a riveting family epic, love story, and psychological drama.

Una carta perdida durante muchos años llega por correo y Edie Burchill se encuentra viajando a Milderhurst Castle, una mansión inglesa en la que viven las hermanas solteras Blythe y en la que se alojó su madre durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cuando era una niña de trece años. Las hermanas Blythe mayores son gemelas y se han pasado gran parte de su vida cuidando de su hermana pequeña, Juniper, que no volvió a ser la misma desde que su prometido la abandonó en 1941. En el interior del ruinoso castillo, Edie comienza a desenmarañar el pasado de su madre. Pero las piedras de Milderhurst esconden otros secretos, y Edie está a punto de descubrir más de lo que esperaba. La verdad de lo que ocurrió en las horas distantes del pasado lleva mucho tiempo a la espera de que alguien la descubra. Morton una vez más cautiva a los lectores con una historia muy atmosférica que cuenta con unos personajes inolvidables acuciados por el amor y las circunstancias y obsesionados por los recuerdo.

Early thirtysomething Emma decides it�s time to have the baby - but it just doesn�t happen to order. Emma goes through a funny, touching and ultimately moving journey as she struggles to accept the reality that maybe it�s never going to happen. The Baby Trail is a novel rich in texture, light and dark, and humour with a biting undercurrent.

"Fans of TV's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation should be in heaven" (People) stepping into the world of forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan, star of Kathy Reichs' electrifyingly authentic bestsellers. When innocent blood is spilled, she deciphers the shattering truth it holds. Nine-year-old Emily Anne Toussaint is fatally shot on a Montreal street. A North Carolina teenager disappears from her home, and parts of her skeleton are found hundreds of miles away. The shocking deaths propel Tempe Brennan from north to south, and deep into a shattering investigation inside the bizarre culture of outlaw motorcycle gangs -- where one misstep could bring disaster for herself or someone she loves.

When an Orthodox Jewish man is found shot dead in Montreal, Temperance Brennan is called to investigate the body and the unusual damage it bears. A stranger unexpectedly hands her a photograph of a skeleton, claiming it holds the key to the victim's death. Tempe soon finds herself embroiled in an international mystery that could alter two millennia of religious history. As she delves deeper, Tempe learns the photograph depicts bones uncovered during an archaeological dig. The victim, she discovers, ran an import business that may have been a front for trading black market antiquities. Teaming up with Detective Andrew Ryan and biblical archaeologist Jake Drum, Tempe travels to Israel to uncover the origins of the skeleton and the ancient crypt where it was found. Their investigation leads to shocking revelations that challenge established beliefs about Christ's death and thrust them into a heated controversy. Could one of the tombs be Christ's final resting place? Are the bones in the ossuary truly those of James, Jesus's brother, as claimed? Or is it all an elaborate hoax? Using her forensic expertise, Tempe confronts the most contentious case of her career, with escalating stakes and dangers. Despite Ryan's charm and appeal, the threats surrounding Tempe intensify in this perilous environment.

Victorine is a dutiful housewife, respectable schoolteacher and mother in the Vendee in the 1900s, cooking the gigot for the family lunch, obeying her husband, walking the long beaches of the Atlantic with her children. But then an old childhood acquaintance turns up and her life is turned upside down forever. She falls passionately in love for the first time in her life. But her lover's work takes him back to Indochina, and Victorine abandons her life and her family to go with him. Everything is strange - the extraordinary voyage to get there, the life they lead in the sultry tropical heat, the glamour of colonial life - but life there is also a lie. Less than two years later, Victorine returns home and resumes her life: what happened?

Alternate Cover Edition can be found here Das Böse hält keinen Winterschlaf. Kathy Reichs auch nicht. Was könnte frostiger sein als ein kanadischer Dezembersturm? Tempe Brennan, forensische Anthropologin in Montreal, wird an einem tristen Montagmorgen zu einem Fundort gerufen, der ihr das Blut in den Adern gefrieren lässt. Verscharrt in einem Kellergewölbe liegen die Leichen dreier junger Frauen. Nicht eine Gewebefaser, kein Fetzen Kleidung geben Aufschluss darüber, wann und warum diese Mädchen sterben mussten. Nur dank akribischer Ermittlungen und weiblicher Intuition kommt Tempe dem Mörder auf die Spur. Doch sie muss auf alles gefasst sein, denn ihr Gegner ist an Kaltblütigkeit nicht zu übertreffen … Tempe Brennans siebter Fall.

The third volume in Gary Jennings' historical epic that began with Aztec and Aztec Autumn. In this colorful and exciting era of swords and cloaks, upheaval and revolution, a young beggar boy, in whose blood runs that of both Spanish and Aztec royalty must claim his birthright. From the torrid streets of the City of the Dead along the Veracruz Coast to the ageless glory of Seville in Old Spain, Cristo the Bastardo connives fights, and loves as he seeks the truth—without knowing that he will be the founder of a proud new people.As we follow the loves and adventures of Cristo and experience the colorful splendor and barbarism of the era, a vanished culture is brought back to life in all its magnificence.“This exotic, sensuous novel works on many levels. It is at once history, mystery, and a coming-of-age novel all permeated by the teeming world of seventeenth century Mexico as seen through the eyes of a teenage boy.” -- Library Journal

Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan assists in the excavation of 20-year-old mass grave of massacre victims in a Guatemalan village. Now as she pieces together the past, Tempe becomes entangled in the cases of four privileged young women who suddenly vanish from Guatemala City.

When a plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina, Tempe Brennan is one of the first on the scene. As a forensic anthropologist for the state, she serves on the region's disaster response team. The task that confronts her is a sad and sickening one. Putting normal life on hold, she and her colleagues must painstakingly identify the victims. A chance discovery concerns her: a severed foot, well away from the main crash site. A deserted house close by is buried so deep in the woods that locals claim to know nothing of its existence. And her examination of the foot throws up more questions than it answers. Before she can make any progress, an anonymous accusation is levelled against her. Tempe must fight to save her professional standing. But she fears that, air tragedy aside, another corpse lies somewhere in the woods. Pitting herself against a conspiracy of silence, Tempe is determined to bring justice for her mystery victim.

Sebastian Senecal è un professore di lettere e filosofia di quarantacinque anni: ha una moglie e due bambini, è appassionato del suo lavoro e dei suoi studi e sa apprezzare i piccoli piaceri della vita. All'avvicinarsi dell'estate, con l'esplosione dei suoi colori, dei suoi odori, dei suoi sapori, il professore decide di fare qualcosa di insolito e per lui entusiasmante: costruire un fantastico portico nel suo giardino, in cui passeggiare e ragionare di filosofia, di stoici ed epicurei, di gioie e di dolori...Il nuovo romanzo dell'autore de "La prima sorsata di birra". Una storia breve e delicata, intrisa di dolcezza e malinconia insieme.

Dr. Temperance Brennan, the wry, impassioned director of forensic anthropology for the province of Quebec, is driven to unravel shocking acts of violence by reading the bones of the dead.