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Public Secrets: A Novel
by Nora RobertsEmma. Beautiful, intelligent, radiantly talented, she lives in a star-studded world of wealth and privilege. But she is about to discover that fame is no protection at all when someone wants you dead....All she has to do is close her eyes and she remembers the day Brian McAvoy swept into her life. A frightened toddler, she didn't know then that she was his illegitimate daughter or that he was pop music's rising new star. All she knew was that with Brian, his bandmates, and his new wife, she felt safe. And when her baby brother arrived, Emma thought she was the luckiest girl in the world...until the night a botched kidnapping attempt shattered all their lives...and destroyed Emma's happiness.Yet now, even though Emma is still haunted by flashes of memory from that fateful night, she has survived. She's carved out a thrilling career and even dared to fall rapturously in love. But the man who will become her husband isn't all that he seems. And Emma is about to awaken to the chilling knowledge that the darkest secret of all is the one buried in her mind--a secret that someone may kill to keep.From the Paperback edition.
Public Trust
by Sarah GregoryTRIAL AND ERROR. Beautiful, brainy Texas attorney Sharon Hays thought she knew her way around the labyrinth of the law and the crooked corridors of power. She also thought she could trust her sense as well as her senses when she said yes to a man. Now she was finding out how wrong she might be. She had to take the word of a savage rapist-killer that the D.A. had put the wrong man on death row. She had to take on the top candidate for governor of the Lone Star State in a cutthroat courtroom contest and a campaign of primal terror. And she had to fight losing her head in the arms of a lawyer lover who might be too good to be true. Sharon Hays was in a game of high-power politics and high-voltage passion, where the guilty held all the cards--and to be innocent was to ante up your life. ...
Un publicista en apuros
by Natalia Moret«"Querida traidora: ¿dónde mierda estás? Cuando te encuentre, te mato".Todo lo que se puede esperar de una novela que arranca así no solo secumple, supera cualquier expectativa». Con teorías tan delirantes como realistas, «Un publicista en apuros»devela una trampa mucho más amplia que la de su propio argumento y lesirve a su autora para describir de forma cruda y brutal la vida de unsector de nuestra sociedad.«Una Buenos Aires dura, compulsiva e intensa. El primer libro de unaautora que anuncia un proyecto ambiciosamente auspicioso para laliteratura argentina. Una novela para pasarla bien». Jorge Asís«El rigor de una lengua alucinada. Increíblemente obscena, de granatrevimiento, sostenida con gracia y malignidad». Horacio González
Publish and be Murdered: A Jack Troutbeck/robert Amiss Mystery (large Print 16pt) (Robert Amiss/Baroness Jack Troutbeck Mysteries #8)
by Ruth Dudley EdwardsRobert Amiss, lapsed civil servant, is approached by Lord Papworth, owner of the Wrangler, to step in as business manager for the august journal and do something about its steady drain on his lordship's finances. The magazine's editor, Willie Lambie Crump, and his staff are firmly mired in the 1950s, technologically speaking; ideologically, the journal has always been strongly conservative. Prodded by Baroness "Jack" Troutbeck, his rather menacing guardian angel, Amiss takes on the job and soon has his hands full trying to further the journal's progress toward the latter half of the 20th century without unduly upsetting the staff. When the political editor, Henry Potbury, is found dead under odd circumstances and Crump is murdered, Amiss discovers once again that trying to keep a job can be a lethal occupation.
Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror
by James HynesA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the YearCombining the wit of David Lodge with Poe's delicious sense of the macabre, these are three witty, spooky novellas of satire set in academia—a world where Derrida rules, love is a "complicated ideological position," and poetic justice is served with an ideological twist.
Puccini's Ghosts: A Novel (Isis Cassettes Ser.)
by Morag JossFor one woman, no matter what has happened through the decades, the music will always linger Burnhead is an inconspicuous town on the Scottish coast, but for Lila Du Cann, it is the setting for an opera that will change her life forever. When Lila returns to Burnhead to bury her father, she thinks back to 1960, when she fell in love for the first time. Her parents are in a failing marriage. Lila's mother, Fleur, splits time between two hobbies: arguing with her husband about life and money and retreating to her music room to listen to Puccini's Turandot. Lila's family, however, is thrown a lifeline when her charismatic and flamboyant uncle arrives from London with a hare-brained idea: an amateur staging of Turandot. With Fleur in the title role and Lila as the slave girl Liu, the production's most intriguing casting is George's handsome young student Joe Foscari as the tenor lead, Prince Calaf. Lila quickly falls for him and hopes that he feels the same about her. As opening night looms, secrets are exposed, high hopes are torn apart, and Lila's painful coming-of-age brings with it devastating lifelong consequences.
Puck detective (Puck #Volumen 3)
by Lisbeth WernerVuelve la estudiante, deportista, capitana y detective Puck en una nueva edición actualizada ilustrada por Montse Martín. Ya conoces a Puck... siempre dispuesta a resolver un buen misterio. El nuevo curso va a poner a prueba sus dotes detectivescas, porque el internado Egeborg anda más revuelto que nunca: ladrones, sustos a media noche y... algún que otro secreto.
Puck en apuros (Puck #Volumen 5)
by Lisbeth WernerVuelve la estudiante, deportista, capitana y detective Puck en una nueva edición actualizada ilustrada por Montse Martín. La primavera llega cargada de emociones al internado Egeborg: paseos a caballo, secretos, nuevos amigos... y algún que otro peligro. Puck se atreve con todo, pero ¿qué pasará cuando unos cazadores furtivos acampen cerca del colegio y una fiera se escape del circo?
Puck en el cine (Puck #Volumen 6)
by Lisbeth WernerVuelve la estudiante, deportista, capitana y detective Puck en una nueva edición actualizada ilustrada por Montse Martín. ¡Últimas noticias! ¡El internado Egeborg podría cerrar sus puertas para siempre! Convertida en una intrépida reportera del nuevo periódico escolar, Puck buscará el modo de salvar su querido colegio... sin imaginar que ella misma está a punto de saltar a la primera página.
Puck en la nieve (Puck #Volumen 4)
by Lisbeth WernerVuelve la estudiante, deportista, capitana y detective Puck en una nueva edición actualizada ilustrada por Montse Martín. Puck y sus amigas se disponen a disfrutar de los meses de invierno: nieve, esquí, patinaje... Sin embargo, a pesar del frío, la cosa está que arde en el internado de Egeborg. ¿Conseguirán Puck y sus compañeros detener al pirómano que acaba de colarse en el colegio?
Puck triunfa (Puck #Volumen 2)
by Lisbeth WernerVuelve la estudiante, deportista, capitana y detective Puck en una nueva edición actualizada ilustrada por Montse Martín. La vida en el internado mixto Egeborg va viento en popa para Puck. El barco que capitanea el padre de su amiga Navío pronto atracará en el puerto cercano y todos irán a visitarlo. ¡La diversión está servida! Y también el misterio...
Puddin' on the Blitz
by Tamar MyersAlthough the culinary fare at Magdalena Yoder's new restaurant, Asian Sensations - a unique combination of Asian and Amish cuisine - is not to everyone's taste, the good citizens of Hernia are unanimously agreed that the desserts concocted by the restaurant chef, Barbara Hostetler, are to die for. Not literally however. When a guest at the PennDutch Inn drops dead shortly after consuming a slice of Barbara's delicious Blitz torte, Magdalena finds herself arrested for murder. Did someone deliberately set her up? In order to clear her name and protect her nearest and dearest, Magdalena must identify a ruthless killer - before they strike again.
The Pudding Lane Plot: The Fifteenth Thomas Chaloner Adventure (Adventures of Thomas Chaloner #15)
by Susanna GregoryThe people and businesses of London are quickly recovering from the ravages of the plague, none faster than the Court of Charles II where excess, corruption and debauchery has rebounded at a frenetic pace. In Westminster, in the haphazard corridors of White Hall Palace, plans are afoot for a grandiose ball in honour of a long-dead but English-born Pope. Meanwhile, the markets and coffee houses in the city are awash with rumours of war and portents of a coming disaster, inflamed by uncensored newssheets and the wagging tongues of dissatisfied citizens.Mysterious killings at both ends of the capital have been caused by the use of an unusually long, slender blade, and Thomas Chaloner is ordered to investigate. The only common thread is the victims' connection to the Worshipful Company of Poulters, whose members are struggling to keep ahead of London's enormous demand for eggs. But this leads him into a tapestry of conspiracy, outlandish claims of the Second Coming, the reappearance of a number of regicides and ever more brazen killings.As the date of the great ball looms closer, Chaloner fears that there is a dangerously credible conspiracy against the throne, and he has very little time to prevent history from repeating itself . . .
The Pudding Lane Plot: The Fifteenth Thomas Chaloner Adventure (Adventures of Thomas Chaloner #15)
by Susanna GregoryThe people and businesses of London are quickly recovering from the ravages of the plague, none faster than the Court of Charles II where excess, corruption and debauchery has rebounded at a frenetic pace. In Westminster, in the haphazard corridors of White Hall Palace, plans are afoot for a grandiose ball in honour of a long-dead but English-born Pope. Meanwhile, the markets and coffee houses in the city are awash with rumours of war and portents of a coming disaster, inflamed by uncensored newssheets and the wagging tongues of dissatisfied citizens.Mysterious killings at both ends of the capital have been caused by the use of an unusually long, slender blade, and Thomas Chaloner is ordered to investigate. The only common thread is the victims' connection to the Worshipful Company of Poulters, whose members are struggling to keep ahead of London's enormous demand for eggs. But this leads him into a tapestry of conspiracy, outlandish claims of the Second Coming, the reappearance of a number of regicides and ever more brazen killings.As the date of the great ball looms closer, Chaloner fears that there is a dangerously credible conspiracy against the throne, and he has very little time to prevent history from repeating itself . . .
The Pudding Lane Plot: The Fifteenth Thomas Chaloner Adventure (Adventures of Thomas Chaloner #15)
by Susanna GregoryThe people and businesses of London are quickly recovering from the ravages of the plague, none faster than the Court of Charles II where excess, corruption and debauchery has rebounded at a frenetic pace. In Westminster, in the haphazard corridors of White Hall Palace, plans are afoot for a grandiose ball in honour of a long-dead but English-born Pope. Meanwhile, the markets and coffee houses in the city are awash with rumours of war and portents of a coming disaster, inflamed by uncensored newssheets and the wagging tongues of dissatisfied citizens.Mysterious killings at both ends of the capital have been caused by the use of an unusually long, slender blade, and Thomas Chaloner is ordered to investigate. The only common thread is the victims' connection to the Worshipful Company of Poulters, whose members are struggling to keep ahead of London's enormous demand for eggs. But this leads him into a tapestry of conspiracy, outlandish claims of the Second Coming, the reappearance of a number of regicides and ever more brazen killings.As the date of the great ball looms closer, Chaloner fears that there is a dangerously credible conspiracy against the throne, and he has very little time to prevent history from repeating itself . . .
Pudding Up With Murder
by Julia BuckleySecret chef Lilah Drake has a killer casserole to deal with in the latest Undercover Dish mystery from the author of Cheddar Off Dead....Customers trust Lilah Drake to keep her mouthwatering meals under wraps, but when a millionaire meets his untimely end, some sinister secrets become the main course. . . . Spring is right around the corner, and with the warmer temperatures come plenty of food requests from Lilah Drake's covered-dish clients. Lilah pulls out all the stops with a sweet new casserole for the birthday party of Marcus Cantwell, a wealthy curmudgeon who has some angry ex-wives and more than a few enemies. When he's found facedown in Lilah's casserole, it's anyone's guess as to who might have wanted the old man dead. A possible new heir to Marcus’s fortune adds some unexpected spice to the investigation, but Lilah fears that the old adage is true, and "the proof is in the pudding." INCLUDES RECIPES!
Puddlejumpers
by Mark Jean Christopher CarlsonErnie Banks, named for the legendary Chicago Cubs shortstop, is a troubled, thirteen-year-old juvenile delinquent. Abandoned on the doorstep of the Lakeside Home for Boys when he was three years old, he's now considered a "lifer," a permanent ward of the state. As a last reprieve before being sent to a juvenile detention facility, Ernie is allowed to spend three weeks on a working farm. When Ernie arrives at the home of Russ Frazier, he learns that the widower's baby was kidnapped years before, leaving behind a red quilt as the single piece of evidence.
Puddlejumpers
by Mark Jean Christopher C. CarlsonErnie Banks, named for the legendary Chicago Cub shortstop, is a troubled, thirteen-year-old juvenile delinquent. Abandoned on the doorstep of the Lakeside Home for Boys when he was three years old, he's now considered a "lifer", a permanent ward of the state. His only proof that he once belonged to somebody is a vintage Ernie Banks baseball card, a crystal acorn he wears on a string around his neck, and a strange spiral birthmark on the bottom of his right foot. As a last reprieve before being sent to a juvenile detention facility, Ernie is allowed to spend three weeks on a working farm. When Ernie arrives at the home of Russ Frazier, he learns that the widower's baby was kidnapped years before. The single piece of evidence was a red quilt found in a puddle in the nearby woods. Fascinated by the town's famous "Quilt Baby" kidnapping, Ernie is determined to solve the case. He teams up with Joey, a local tomboy, to investigate clues that lead them on a dangerous journey into a forbidden world of dark secrets, magic puddles, and the cavernous underground kingdom of the "Puddlejumpers" -- eleven-inch tall water creatures with whom Ernie has a mysterious connection. When destiny summons, Ernie must find the courage to save the "Puddlejumpers" from the Most Dark and lead them in battle against their mortal enemies. Only then can he find his way home.
Pudd'nhead Wilson: And Those Extraordinary Twins
by Mark TwainA Southern town scandalized by the murder of its most prominent citizen uncovers a mystery even more shocking in this ironic suspense story from a great American master Afraid for her infant son&’s life, a slave switches the boy with her master&’s child. A young New York lawyer fascinated by palmistry and fingerprint analysis moves below the Mason–Dixon line, makes a bad joke, and is immediately and forever branded a &“pudd&’nhead.&” Two Italian noblemen pay a visit to Dawson&’s Landing, Missouri, and become prime suspects in the murder of a local judge. From these disparate plot strands, Mark Twain fashions a humorous and entertaining tale with all the elements of the traditional murder mystery: a case of mistaken identity, a gruesome crime, a sinister villain, an eccentric detective, a climactic courtroom showdown, and an ingenious solution. But beneath this potboiler&’s pomp and circumstance lurks a clear-eyed and savagely compelling indictment of slavery and its poisonous effects on American society. Twain&’s last novel set in the antebellum South, Pudd&’nhead Wilson offers his clearest and most provocative condemnation of racial prejudice. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
El pueblo bajo el árbol de Navidad
by Jr WirthLa Navidad es una época familiar, especialmente para los niños, que son los que mantienen viva la magia. ¿Qué sucedería entonces si los niños se convierten en seres despreciables que se pelean por los regalos que están debajo del árbol? Seis primos obtienen la respuesta en el pueblo instalado bajo el árbol de Navidad. Siguiendo el espíritu de Charles Dickens, los niños aparecen en un mundo desconocido, patas arribas, donde se verán forzados a lidiar otras personas y a confiar los unos en los otros. El viaje comienza cuando la heroína de nueve años, Hailey Jade, aterriza en una tierra invernal maravillosa. El miedo se apoderará de ella al darse cuenta de que se encuentra sola. Muy pronto se unirá su primo mayor, Isaiah. Los dos juntos descubrirán que sus otros primos más pequeños también han sido propulsados a través del tiempo y del espacio, pero están desaparecidos y se encuentran en peligro. La carrera para encontrar a los pequeños los sitúa en el pueblo que ha montado su abuelo bajo el árbol de Navidad. Allí es donde descubrirán el verdadero significado de la Navidad y el amor que sienten los unos por los otros.
El pueblo de los ahorcados
by David Labaca CasalEn un pueblo perdido en los valles del norte, sus habitantes se ahorcan bajo una sempiterna niebla y con los aullidos de un enorme animal como macabra melodía de fondo. Bastián, un joven periodista, llega perdido a un pueblo de los valles del norte bajo una intensa niebla. En un recodo del camino se encuentra con un hombre que sale despavorido tras reconocerle. Confundido, decide entonces caminar por sus despobladas calles, hasta llegar a una vieja fortaleza donde distingue la silueta de un ser humano ahorcado en sus muros. Al aproximarse, reconoce al hombre que se había encontrado anteriormente mientras un enorme aullido le hace salir corriendo, presa del pánico, hasta la primera vivienda en donde una mujer lo recibe y acoge.
El pueblo más tranquilo del mundo
by Rush SmithEl pueblo más tranquilo del mundo es la nueva novela juvenil de suspense de Rush Smith. Un misterio sin resolver... Blai, un joven curioso acostumbrado a la vida de ciudad, descubrirá que la aparente tranquilidad de un pueblo como La Vila esconde más de lo que aparenta. Celos, traiciones y secretos... Pero, por encima de todo, sobrevuela una pregunta: ¿Quién mató a la señora Busquets?
El puente de los sueños olvidados
by Vanessa ArrabalMisterio, amor, amistad y suspense se dan la mano en esta historia que no podrás dejar de leer hasta que descubras quién mató a Sandra Rueda. Una joven aparece muerta en un pintoresco pueblo de montaña. Diana Aranda no parará hasta averiguar la verdad. Diana Aranda llega a la tranquila localidad de Zumaque para trabajar como profesora interna en una aislada mansión conocida como La Casa Roja. No tardará en descubrir las complicadas relaciones que se entretejen entre los habitantes del pueblo. En un lugar donde todos parecen ocultar secretos, Diana tendrá que hacer frente a un obstáculo inesperado: la detención por el asesinato de su propia amiga. «Alguien en Zumaque, en ese pueblo donde nunca pasaba nada, había estrangulado a una chica de veinticuatro años y había abandonado su cadáver junto al Puente de los Sueños Olvidados. Y yo estaba dispuesta a averiguar quién lo había hecho. Debía hacerlo, tenía dos poderosos motivos para dar con el culpable: por un lado librarme de una condena injusta por asesinato y por otro lado, vengar la muerte de Sandra Rueda.»
La puerta de las siete llaves
by Edgar WallaceDick Martin se apresta a marcharse de Scotland Yard para disfrutar de una pequeña herencia.La investigación del robo de un libro le lleva, después de una conversación con la bibliotecaria Sybil Lansdown, hasta Gallows Cottage. Un casa en ruinas habitada por el doctor Scalletti, un biólogo con antecedentes policiales. En casa Scalletti, Martin encuentra a un viejo conocido: Tommy Crawler, un ladrón de coches a quien ha enviado tres veces a prisión y que ahora trabaja como chofer de Bertram Cody, un rico vecino de la zona.El último día de Dick Martin en la fuerza es un día de reencuentros. Al volver a su casa con el libro rescatado, lo espera en la puerta Lew Pheeney, el ladrón de bancos más conocido de Londres.El hombre está aterrado: alguien le sigue los pasos y el asunto es serio. Martin lo invita a subir a su apartamento. No sabe que Pheeney viene acompañado por la muerte.
La puerta de las Tinieblas (Trilogía Condenados #Volumen 2)
by Glenn CooperImagina un mundo similar al nuestro, pero completamente distinto. Un mundo poblado por los personajes más abyectos de la Historia.Ese mundo es el Infierno y tu única opción es volver. Historia, intriga, acción, aventura y ciencia se aúnan en La puerta de las tinieblas, la nueva entrega de Glenn Cooper, el autor de referencia del thriller histórico. Apenas ha durado la esperanza. La esperanza de olvidarse del cielo plomizo y la atmósfera opresiva de Abajo. La esperanza de haber dejado atrás, para siempre, el mundo donde han sido confinados todos los personajes más abyectos que una vez pisaron la Tierra. En cuanto John Camp y la doctora en física Emily Loughty se encuentran de vuelta en el laboratorio secreto de Dartford, tienen que aceptar una realidad escalofriante: la pesadilla no ha terminado. Como ellos preveían, la puesta en marcha del colisionador de partículas volvió a abrir el corredor que había conectado ambos mundos y les permitió regresar. Pero también abrió otras brechas, abduciendo a inocentes y trayendo a este mundo a hombres y mujeres que jamás imaginaron que podrían escapar de su condena eterna. En Londres, hay quien está dispuesto a desenmascarar las mentiras del gobierno sobre lo que está sucediendo en el laboratorio, y un agente del MI5 empieza una carrera contrarreloj para localizar a los criminales que han retornado a la Tierra. Mientras, John y Emily se preparan para afrontar un viaje más peligroso que el anterior. Un viaje en el que combatirán contra temibles enemigos y establecerán nuevas alianzas. Pero ¿es sensato confiar en quienes sucumbieron al hechizo del mal? La puerta de las tinieblas es la segunda entrega de la trilogía «Condenados». Una novela absorbente y una historia asombrosa, oscura y brutal a la vez que absolutamente fascinante. Glenn Cooper demuestra una vez más su maestría para sumergirnos en un thriller trepidante que mantiene al lector pegado a sus páginas.