Laura Grandi Libros

La singular Vianne Rocher vive en una casa flotante en el Sena con su familia. Cuando recibe la carta de su vieja amiga Armande donde le pide que ponga flores en su tumba y recoja los melocotones de su jardín, sabe que no puede negarse y debe regresar a Lansquenet, el lugar que marcó su destino. Pero allí todo ha cambiado: la chocolatería donde vendía sus «sueños, pequeños consuelos, dulces e inofensivas tentaciones», que tanto revolucionó la vida del pueblo y la suya propia, se ha convertido en una escuela. El malestar y la desconfianza, por otra parte, recorren ahora las estrechas y empedradas calles de entonces, el paisaje es tan distinto que, incluso el párroco, ya no teme a Vianne y requiere, en cambio, su indispensable ayuda.

Barcelona. 24x16 cm. 371 p. Encuadernación en cartoné de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Colección 'Bestseller oro'. Traducido del Inglés. Traducido por Berdagué Costa, Roser .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 978-84-253-3280-7; 84-253-3280-X

Beyond The Main Street Of Les Laveuses Runs The Loire, Smooth And Brown As A Sunning Snake - But Hiding A Deadly Undertow Beneath Its Moving Surface. This Is Where Framboise, A Secretive Widow Named After A Raspberry Liqueur, Plies Her Culinary Trade At The Crêperie - And Lets Memory Play Strange Games.Into This World Comes The Threat Of Revelation As Framboise S Nephew A Profiteering Parisian Attempts To Exploit The Growing Success Of The Country Recipes She Has Inherited From Her Mother, A Woman Remembered With Contempt By The Villagers Of Les Laveuses. As The Spilt Blood Of A Tragic Wartime Childhood Flows Again, Exposure Beckons For Framboise, The Widow With An Invented Past.Joanne Harris Has Looked Behind The Drawn Shutters Of Occupied France To Illuminate The Pain, Delight And Loss Of A Life Changed For Ever By The Uncertainties And Betrayals Of War.

The Place Is St Oswald S, An Old And Long-Established Boys Grammar School In The North Of England. A New Year Has Just Begun, And For The Staff And Boys Of The School, A Wind Of Unwelcome Change Is Blowing. Suits, Paperwork And Information Technology Rule The World And Roy Straitley, Latin Master, Eccentric, And Veteran Of St Oswald S, Is Finally Reluctantly Contemplating Retirement. But Beneath The Little Rivalries, Petty Disputes And Everyday Crises Of The School, A Darker Undercurrent Stirs. And A Bitter Grudge, Hidden And Carefully Nurtured For Thirteen Years, Is About To Erupt.Who Is Mole, The Mysterious Insider, Whose Cruel Practical Jokes Are Gradually Escalating Towards Violence And Perhaps, Murder? And How Can An Old And Half-Forgotten Scandal Become The Stone That Brings Down A Giant?

Cuatro años después de "Chocolat", Yanne se ha instalado con sus hijas en una pequeña bombonería escondida en medio de Montmartre. Allí pretende vivir lejos de cualquier problema... y así es hasta que llega Zozie, que irrumpe en sus vidas como un huracán, con sus zapatos rojos y vestidos llamativos. Ayuda en la tienda, la pinta de arriba abajo, se convierte en la mejor amiga de todos... o por lo menos eso es lo que parece. Zozie, tan despiadada como seductora, tiene sus propios planes: quiere apoderarse de la vida entera de Yanne que, para defender lo suyo, tendrá que renunciar a la discreción y luchar con todas sus armas contra una enemiga cuyos poderes son tan fuertes como los de ella misma.

Catorce años ha pasado desde que Jay publicara su exitosa primera novela, reminiscenscia de sus vacaciones infantiles en una pequeña localidad minera del norte de Inglaterra. Allí conoció a Joe, un singular personaje con inagotables conocimientos de botánica y agricultura, que contaba fascinantes historias sobre sus viajes por todo el mundo. Jay, hechizado por la magia y la fantasía del viejo, entabló con él una amistad muy especial, que quedó truncada cuando Joe desapareció sin despedirse. Una elegante y locuaz botella de vino «Fleurie de 1962», cuenta lo que ha sido de Jay desde entonces: que no ha sabido escribir nada que merezca la pena. Un día su vida cambia completamente, al hacer realidad un viejo sueño de Joe: comprar una casa en el Sur de Francia, con su viñedo y todo. Allí se verá inmerso en las historias y rencillas de la comunidad. En este ambiente, Jay recordará las enseñanzas de Joe…

The novel is a brilliant first-person narrative of the rise and fall of the Norse gods - retold from the point of view of the world's ultimate trickster, Loki. It tells the story of Loki's recruitment from the underworld of Chaos, his many exploits on behalf of his one-eyed master, Odin, through to his eventual betrayal of the gods and the fall of Asgard itself. Using her life-long passion for the Norse myths, Joanne Harris has created a vibrant and powerful fantasy novel.

Master storyteller Joanne Harris has created a magical and epic romp– a fresh, funny, and wonderfully irreverent new take on the old Norse tales, sure to be enjoyed by readers young and old.Seven o’clock on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the end of the world, and goblins had been at the cellar again. . . . Not that anyone would admit it was goblins. In Maddy Smith’s world, order rules. Chaos, old gods, fairies, goblins, magic, glamours – all of these were supposedly vanquished centuries ago. But Maddy knows that a small bit of magic has survived. The “ruinmark” she was born with on her palm proves it – and makes the other villagers fearful that she is a witch (though helpful in dealing with the goblins-in-the-cellar problem). But the mysterious traveler One-Eye sees Maddy’s mark not as a defect, but as a destiny. And Maddy will need every scrap of forbidden magic One-Eye can teach her if she is to survive that destiny.

In these 22 short stories by Joanne Harris, the miraculous goes hand-in-hand with the mundane, the sour with the sweet, and the beautiful, the grotesque, the seductive and the disturbing are never more than a step away

A dark and intricately plotted tale of a poisonously dysfunctional family, a blind child prodigy, and a serial murderer who is not who he seems. Told through posts on a webjournal called badguysrock, this is a thriller that makes creative use of all the multiple personalities, disguise and mind games that are offered by playing out a life on the internet.

In this romantic suspense novel the reaappearance of a diary ensures that past and present intertwine, paving the way for unknown consequences. Joanne Harris is also the author of 'Chocolat'. Originally published: London: Warner, 1992.