As the end of summer approaches and a long, hot Labor Day weekend looms, the life of lonely thirteen-year-old Henry Wheeler is irrevocably changed when he and his emotionally fragile mother show kindness to a stranger with a terrible secret. Now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin, Labor Day is a poignant story of love, sex, adolescence, and devastating treachery.
Simon Snow just wants to relax and savour his last year at the Watford School of Magicks, but no one will let him. His girlfriend broke up with him, his best friend is a pest and his mentor keeps trying to hide him away in the mountains where maybe he'll be safe. Simon can't even enjoy the fact that his room-mate and longtime nemesis is missing, because he can't stop worrying about the evil git. Plus there are ghosts. And vampires. And actual evil things trying to shut Simon down. When you're the most powerful magician the world has ever known, you never get to relax and savour anything. Carry On is a ghost story, a love story, a mystery and a melodrama. It has just as much kissing and talking as you'd expect from a Rainbow Rowell story - but far, far more monsters.
Ambientada en un año escolar de 1986, esta es la historia de dos inadaptados que, conscientes de que el primer amor rara vez perdura, se atreven a intentarlo. Cuando Eleanor conoce a Park, recordarás tu propio primer amor y lo intenso que puede ser.
“Funny, bewitching, observant.”— The Oregonian“Hits all the frets of a powerful sharp-witted dialogue, vivid characters, insight into medical challenges and prose that snaps like well-placed plucks of guitar strings. . . . I hold up my lighter and turn it full-flame for [Garth] Stein’s latest work. Encore!”— The Seattle Times“Compelling.”— Seattle Post-Intelligencer“Stein handles the many narrative elements deftly.”— Seattle Weekly“An engrossing family drama.”— Publishers WeeklyEvan had a hit single, but that was ten years ago. Thirty-one now, he’s drifting, playing in a local band and teaching middle-aged men to coax music from an electric guitar.Beset at a young age with a life-threatening form of epilepsy, he’s kept his condition a secret. But his deepest secret is that he got his high school sweetheart pregnant. Then her conservative parents whisked her out of Seattle and out of Evan’s life.Now, fourteen years later, he experiences unplanned parenthood when he undertakes to raise the resentful teenage son he’s never known.Off beat and disarming, How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets portrays a contemporary American family with unfailing honesty.
Beth Fremont y Jennifer Scribner-Snyder saben que alguien está controlando los correos electrónicos de los empleados (toda la Redacción lo sabe, es política de la empresa). Pero ellas dos no se lo toman muy en serio que digamos. A pesar de la vigilancia, se envían mensajes interminables, infinitamente divertidos, en los que comentan hasta el último aspecto de su vida privada. Mientras tanto, Lincoln O'Neill no puede creer que su nuevo trabajo consista en eso: leer el contenido de los e-mails de otras personas. Cuando solicitó el puesto de "encargado de seguridad informática", se imaginó a sí mismo construyendo firewalls y burlando a los hackers, no escribiendo un informe cada vez que un periodista deportivo reenvía un chiste picante a un colega. Cuando Lincoln se topa con los mensajes de Beth y Jennifer, comprende que debería delatarlas, pero no puede evitar sentirse cautivado por las historias de las dos chicas. Y no tarda mucho en darse cuenta de que se está enamorando de Beth, aunque para entonces ya es demasiado tarde, no podría presentarse, ¿qué le va a decir...?
Twenty-nine-year-old Lindsey Rose has, for as long as she can remember, lived in the shadow of her ravishingly beautiful fraternal twin sister, Alex. Determined to get noticed, Lindsey is finally on the cusp of being named VP creative director of an elite New York advertising agency, after years of eighty-plus-hour weeks, migraines, and profound loneliness. But during the course of one devastating night, Lindsey’s carefully constructed life implodes. Humiliated, she flees the glitter of Manhattan and retreats to the time warp of her parents’ Maryland home. As her sister plans her lavish wedding to her Prince Charming, Lindsey struggles to maintain her identity as the smart, responsible twin while she furtively tries to piece her career back together. But things get more complicated when a long-held family secret is unleashed that forces both sisters to reconsider who they are and who they are meant to be.
A beautifully crafted and captivating exploration of the wonders and absurdities of human life, as told by a dog, now a major motion picture featuring Milo Ventimiglia, Amanda Seyfried, and Kevin Costner. The story centers on Enzo, a wise dog reflecting on his life as he nears death. He recalls the challenges faced by his owner, Denny Swift, an aspiring race car driver, including the sacrifices made for his career, the tragic loss of his wife, Eve, and the intense custody battle for their daughter, Zoë, against her maternal grandparents. Throughout these trials, Enzo embodies loyalty and resilience, ultimately striving to keep the Swift family together. His insights into the human condition reveal that the skills required on the racetrack can also guide one through life's obstacles. Enzo's journey is one of love, tragedy, redemption, and the enduring bond between a dog and his family, highlighting the profound lessons he learns about what it means to be human.
