A finales de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, a Cyril Conroy lo visita la suerte: hace una única pero muy inteligente inversión que le permite poner en marcha lo que se convertirá en un gigantesco imperio inmobiliario. El negocio catapulta a su familia desde la pobreza a una ingente riqueza, y su primera decisión es comprar la Casa Holandesa, una rica mansión a las afueras de FIladelfia. La casa quiere ser un regalo para su esposa, pero terminará desencadenando la ruina de todos sus seres queridos. El narrador de la historia es Danny, el hijo de Cyril. Él y su hermana mayor, Maeve, tan brillante y áspera como segura de sí, se exilian de la casa en la que crecieron junto a su madrastra. Los ricos hermanos regresan de nuevo a la pobreza de la que habían escapado sus padres y caen en la cuenta de que lo único que tienen es el uno a la otra. Este vínculo indestructible entre ambos les salva la vida y, a un tiempo, truncará su futuro. " La casa holandesa " es la historia de un paraíso perdido, un " tour de force " que ahonda en cuestiones como la herencia, el amor y el perdón, y se pregunta cómo queremos vernos a nosotros mismos y quiénes somos realmente. Sembrada de suspense, quizá el lector quiera terminarla pronto para descubrir el desenlace; de cualquier modo, Danny y Maeve se quedarán con él durante largo tiempo.

One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny’s mother, Beverly—thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond that is based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows up between them. When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another. Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation, and the ownership of stories. It is a brilliant and tender tale of the far-reaching ties of love and responsibility that bind us together.

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.

El 16 de julio de 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, mi hermana, fue víctima de un feminicidio. Era una muchacha de 20 años, estudiante de arquitectura. Tenía años tratando de terminar su relación con un novio de la preparatoria que insistía en no dejarla ir. Unas cuantas semanas antes de la tragedia, Liliana por fin tomó la decisión definitiva: en lo más crudo del invierno había descubierto que en ella, como bien lo había dicho Albert Camus, había un invencible verano. Lo dejaría atrás. Empezaría una nueva vida. Haría una maestría y después un doctorado, viajaría a Londres. La decisión de él fue que ella no tendría una vida sin él. Hace apenas un año decidí abrir las cajas donde depositamos las pertenencias de mi hermana. Su voz atravesó el tiempo y, como la de tantas mujeres desaparecidas y ultrajadas en México, demandó justicia. El invencible verano de Liliana es una excavación en la vida de una mujer brillante y audaz que careció, como nosotros mismos, como todos los demás, del lenguaje necesario para identificar, denunciar y luchar contra la violencia sexista y el terrorismo de pareja que caracteriza a tantas relaciones patriarcales. Este libro es para celebrar su paso por la tierra y para decirle que, claro que sí, lo vamos a tirar. Al patriarcado lo vamos a tirar.

All Joseph wants is to be let into Tartuffe's world. All Ettie wants is to escape it.The year is 1920. The place is a remote farmhouse in Provence, home to the reclusive painter Edouard Tartuffe and his niece, Ettie. Into this strange, silent house walks a young journalist hoping to write an article about Tartuffe. But the more he entangles himself in the peculiar household, the more Joseph's curiosity grows . . .Ettie cooks and cleans for her uncle. She prepares his studio, scrubs his paintbrushes, and creates the perfect environment for him to work. She has never gone further than the local village. She is sharp-eyed and watchful. But beneath her cool exterior, Joseph senses something simmering. Ettie, Joseph and Tartuffe circle each other throughout the hot, crackling summer, until finally they collide.The Artist is about two people grabbing the other by the hand and pulling each other into life.

From the bestselling author of PS I Love You comes a story of finding yourself – and finding your way home.Pip’s world is small. But it’s about to become a whole lot bigger. For years she’s tucked away her dreams, shrinking herself into the space left behind – like the delicate origami she creates alone in her room. Then hope comes from an unlikely an astronomer from the local observatory. He teaches her to look up at the stars, and to see a world far bigger and more beautiful than she ever imagined. And perhaps in that big, beautiful universe there’s someone waiting for her. If she can find the courage to open her heart. Pip never stopped dreaming, but now it’s time for her to live – and maybe even to fall in love. 'A lovely, transportive, deeply felt story. My heart grows a bit bigger each time I read a Cecelia Ahern book' Karin Slaughter 'An immersive, sometimes heartbreaking, yet ultimately uplifting rollercoaster read. Her best yet' Patricia Scanlan ‘A tender, moving story about second chances and the quiet courage it takes to hope again’ Louise O’Neill Cecelia Ahern's book 'In a Thousand Different Ways' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2023-04-10

»Als ich meine Frau heiratete, konnte ihre süditalienische Familie leider nicht dabei sein. Zu weit, zu teuer, zu kalt. Schade, dachte ich und öffnete ihr Geschenk. Zum Vorschein kam ein monströser Schwan aus Porzellan mit einem großen Loch im Rücken, in das man Bonbons füllt. Menschen, die einem so etwas schenken, muss man einfach kennen lernen.«Die herrlich komische Geschichte einer unglaublichen Verwandtschaft aus dem unbekannten italienischen Bundesland Molise, das laut seiner Bewohner »am A… der Welt« liegt.

All Joseph wants is to be let into Tartuffe's world. All Ettie wants is to escape it.The year is 1920. The place is a remote farmhouse in Provence, home to the reclusive painter Edouard Tartuffe and his niece, Ettie. Into this strange, silent house walks a young journalist hoping to write an article about Tartuffe. But the more he entangles himself in the peculiar household, the more Joseph's curiosity grows . . .Ettie cooks and cleans for her uncle. She prepares his studio, scrubs his paintbrushes, and creates the perfect environment for him to work. She has never gone further than the local village. She is sharp-eyed and watchful. But beneath her cool exterior, Joseph senses something simmering. Ettie, Joseph and Tartuffe circle each other throughout the hot, crackling summer, until finally they collide.The Artist is about two people grabbing the other by the hand and pulling each other into life.

"Nunca había visto una madrugada tan negra y quieta, con la selva, las islas y el mar casi confundidos con la oscuridad. El mundo le pareció aterrador, como tomado por fuerzas ocultas". Rosa decide dejar su vida cómoda en la ciudad para irse con Gene, su pareja de origen irlandés, a construir con sus propias manos una casa en la selva a orillas del mar. Cuando él tiene que irse unos días, ella queda sola en aquel paraje que aún le resulta indescifrable. Durante ese tiempo, a medida que la luna mengua y las noches se oscurecen, Rosa se enfrenta a las amenazas de la ingobernable naturaleza que la rodea y también a los otros, los vecinos del lugar que la saben sola. Su pasado, además, no deja de acecharla, y su soledad se hace cada vez más profunda y definitiva. En esta novela portentosa que corta el aliento, la prosa rotunda de Pilar Quintana nos produce admiración e inquietud por partes iguales. "Un nuevo Corazón de las tinieblas, una obra que marcará un hito literario. Hipnótica, sobrecogedora, peligrosa, conmovedora. Esa tremenda selva la llevaré para siempre en mi memoria". Rosa Montero Please This audiobook is in Spanish.

A spellbinding story about two girls whose friendship is so intense it not only threatens to destroy them, it changes the trajectory of history. Marie Antoine is the charismatic, spoiled daughter of a sugar baron. At 12 years old, with her blond curls and her unparalleled sense of whimsey, she's the leader of all the children in the Golden Mile, an affluent strip of 19th century Montreal. Until one day in 1873, when Sadie Arnett, dark-haired, sly, and brilliant, moves to the neighborhood. Marie and Sadie are immediately united by their passion and intensity, and they attract and repel each other in ways that light each of them on fire. Marie with her bubbly charm sees the light and sweetness of the world, whereas Sadie's obsession with darkness is all consuming. Soon their childlike games take on a thrill of danger and then become deadly. Forced to separate, they spend their teenage years engaged in acts of alternating innocence and depravity--until a singular event unites them once more, with dizzying effects. And after Marie inherits her father's sugar empire and Sadie disappears into the city's gritty underworld, a revolution of the working class begins to foment. Each of them will have unexpected roles to play in events that upend their city--the only question is whether they will find each other once more. Traveling from a repressive finishing school to a vibrant brothel, taking readers firsthand into the brutality of factory life and the opulent lives of Montreal's wealthy, When We Lost Our Heads dazzlingly explores gender and power, sex and desire, class and status, and the terrifying power of the human heart when it can't let someone go.