NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Beautiful . . . A striking first novel of love and strength and growth, set against the forests and rivers of Colorado's high country."--Denver Post "With gorgeous descriptions of the great outdoors, an illicit love story, and an unforgettable protagonist, this novel offers something for everyone."--Real Simple Set in Colorado's wild beauty, this heartbreaking coming-of-age story follows a resilient young woman whose life is forever altered by a chance encounter. Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash manages her family's peach farm in the small town of Iola, Colorado, the only surviving female in a family of troubled men. When she meets Wilson Moon, a young drifter with a mysterious past, their connection ignites passion and danger. After tragedy strikes, Victoria flees into the mountains, struggling to survive in the wilderness without a clear future. As seasons change, she discovers strength and meaning in the harsh landscape, seeking to rebuild her life even as the Gunnison River threatens to submerge her homeland, including her cherished peach orchard. Inspired by true events surrounding the destruction of Iola in the 1960s, this stunning debut explores love amid hardship and the journey to find courage, resilience, friendship, and ultimately, home—where least expected. It reflects on living life like a river—gathering and flowing, finding a way forward even when faced with obstacles.
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La doctora Kay Scarpetta se ve envuelta en la investigación de un homicidio en Cambridge, donde un profesor de música es asesinado con una precisión aterradora. Al mismo tiempo, descubre monedas misteriosas en su casa. La búsqueda de un francotirador en serie revela una verdad sorprendente relacionada con su sobrina Lucy.
On a brisk autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman arrives in Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt. But her splendid new home is not welcoming. Johannes is kind yet distant, and leaves Nella alone with his sister, the fearsome Marin. Nella's life unexpectedly changes when Johannes presents her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their home. To furnish it, she engages the services of a miniaturist–an elusive and enigmatic artist whose tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in eerie ways. Johannes's gift helps Nella pierce the closed world of the Brandt household. But as she uncovers its unusual secrets, she begins to understand–and fear–the escalating dangers around them. Only one person seems to see the fate that awaits them. Is the miniaturist the key to their salvation...or the architect of their destruction?
Devin Jones es un estudiante de 21 años que consigue trabajo en el verano de 1973 en Joyland, un pequeño parque de atracciones de estilo antiguo, anterior a la llegada de los modernos parques temáticos. Una de las leyendas que corre entre los empleados es que en la Casa de los Horrores habita el fantasma de una chica asesinada allí años atrás. Mientras cumple sus obligaciones diarias, Devin va atando los cabos sueltos que lo llevarán a descubrir la identidad del asesino
Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out - she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings, including the slaughter of a Savannah family years earlier. She can see a pattern to these killings, but who is behind them and why? As she learns more, Scarpetta is compelled to conclude that this is only the beginning of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale. And she is the only one who can stop it...
Autobiografisch verslag van de zeiltocht die de Amerikaanse journalist met zijn geliefde maakte en die dramatisch zou eindigen.