Henry Carter Hull

Una novela sobre el poder femenino.Una historia que las mujeres compartirán y pasarán a sus hijas por generaciones. Más de dos años y medio en las listas de libros más vendidos del NewYork Times.Más de 8 millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo.Traducida a más de 36 idiomas. Carolina del Sur, 1964. Lily Owens es una joven de catorce años cuya vida ha girado alrededor de un padre que no la cuida y que la responsabiliza de la misteriosa...

“A novel about the role of stories in our lives, those we tell ourselves about ourselves and those we agree to live by.”—Globe and MailWhen Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, he has mixed emotions. Raised by the old man he was entrusted to soon after his birth, Frank is haunted by the brief and troubling moments he has shared with his father, Eldon. When he finally travels by horseback to town, he finds Eldon on the edge of death,...

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WINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL
WINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARD
A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013

From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger, a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and murder in the summer of 1961.

“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember...

Originally produced as a one-act play starring Grace Experience and K.K. Glick, Wingspan is the story of a young flight attendant with a fear of flying who is about to work her first transatlantic trip. When a veteran coworker tries to help her through the turbulent crossing, she discovers that a fear of flying is the least of the young woman's secrets.The two actresses who starred in the play will also narrate this audio original.

"A roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a notorious artist"--

Of all her friends, Abia has been at the Shimelba Refugee Camp the longest-seven years, four months, and sixteen days. Papa says that's too long and they need a forever home. Until then, though, Abia has something important to do. Be a queen. Sometimes she's a noisy queen, banging on her drum as she and Mama wait in the long line for rice to cook for dinner. Sometimes she's a quiet queen, cuddling her baby cousin to sleep while Auntie is away collecting...

"Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty-with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight-breathes life into tales of family and a community as they struggle with a painful past and an uncertain future....

"The acclaimed author of Ordinary Grace crafts a powerful novel about an orphan's life-changing adventure traveling down America's great rivers during the Great Depression, seeking both a place to call home and a sense of purpose in a world sinking into despair"--

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the widely acclaimed, bestselling author of American War—a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving novel that looks at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child.

"Told from the point of view of two children, on the ground and at sea, the story so astutely unpacks the us-versus-them dynamics of our divided world that it...

La trágica historia del anciano rey, la ingratitud filial, la locura, el despojo, el engaño, el desilusionado amor paterno, se muestran con tal intensidad −reflejada incluso en el clima− que sobrecogen y conmueven profundamente. El universo de Lear está lleno de contradicciones: donde se debiera respetar la autoridad, se atropella; donde los hijos debiesen honrar a sus padres, los ignoran o traicionan; donde la legitimidad debiese prevalecer...