Un thriller de suspense y misterio de Katerina Carter, detective privada edición Espa?ol Diamantes, peligro y desaparición La investigadora de fraudes Katerina Carter no sabe retirarse a tiempo, y eso la coloca en situaciones peligrosas y precarias. Ahora que está sin trabajo y casi sin dinero, necesita conseguir clientes o se verá obligada a volver arrastrándose al cubículo de la empresa en la que trabajaba antes. Y para Kat, ese es un destino peor que las deudas. Por eso, cuando Susan Sullivan, directora ejecutiva de Liberty Diamond Mines, la contrata para buscar al director financiero, que ha desaparecido junto con una gran suma de dinero, Kat se apresura a aceptar el trabajo. La pobreza abyecta motiva mucho a la hora de aceptar casos difíciles, pero la alegría de Kat no tarda en dar paso al terror cuando dos empleados de la empresa son brutalmente asesinados. Eso hace que se dé cuenta de que la investigación puede ser más peligrosa de lo que anticipaba. Como si el caso no fuera ya bastante complicado, descubre una conexión siniestra entre diamantes de guerra y el crimen organizado. Lo único que tiene que hacer ya es conseguir pruebas… e impedir que la maten antes de que desenmascare a los criminales. Kat cuenta con la ayuda de sus amigos y de su excéntrico tío, pero tendrá que ir con cuidado si no quiere que su primer caso sea también el último. Maniobra de evasión es un suspense legal, económico y criminal al estilo de Michael Connelly, Karin Slaughter y John Grisham. “Una historia internacional de diamantes, peligro y desaparición, Maniobra de evasión me enganchó desde la primera página…” “Maniobra de evasión, la primera novela llena de acción de la serie de suspenses de Katerina Carter, es un thriller psicológico lleno de intriga que no le permitirá dejar de leer”.. “… Tensión e intriga de vértigo”. Elogios a Maniobra de evasión “Un estupendo primer libro en una serie de suspense que supone el debut de la autora Colleen Cross… La contable forense Katerina Carter aprende del modo más duro que cuando algo huele mal, probablemente esté podrido hasta el núcleo. Hablamos de diamantes de guerra, de tráfico de armas y más… con la cantidad exacta de enredos para hacernos seguir pasando las páginas”. “Una historia internacional de diamantes, peligro y desaparición, Maniobra de evasion me agarró desde la primera página y me hizo seguir pasando páginas hasta mucho después de la hora en la que quería dormir”. La investigación de un fraude por parte de Katerina Carter saca a la luz una conspiración de blanqueo masivo de diamantes en Liberty Diamond Mines, justo cuando dos miembros claves de Liberty son asesinados. Kat podría ser la siguiente – a menos que deje ir sin castigo a los criminales. Maniobra de evasión es un suspense legal y lleno de acción en la línea de Michael Connelly y John Grisham. espa?ol,?suspense legal, policiaca negra suspense, misterio y thriller judicial, investigadora privado, acción y aventura, la chica del tren, ?ficción contemporánea,?espa?ol, hispanica, mujeres detectives, novela policiacas, novela negra

The aged Belus, king of Babylon, thought himself the first man upon earth; for all his courtiers told him so, and his historians proved it. We know that his palace and his park, situated at a few parafangs from Babylon, extended between the Euphrates and the Tigris, which washed those enchanted banks. His vast house, three thousand feet in front, almost reached the clouds. The platform was surrounded with a balustrade of white marble, fifty feet high, which supported colossal statues of all the kings and great men of the empire.

COMPTE AMB ALL? QUE DESITGES Un misteri paranormal de les bruixes de Westwick La mort d’un multimilionari no és gaire bona per a un negoci! ?s el que diu la tieta Pearl a la Cen quan troben un cadàver a l’hostal familiar a Westwick Corners. Tanmateix, la Cen pensa que no és cosa d’ella. Viu una vida normal apartada de la màgia per alguna cosa. Està promesa amb un noi normal i té una feina normal com a periodista, sense màgia de per mig, i un inconvenient com un assassinat al poble no pertorbarà la seva còmoda existència. Encara que tot el poble acusi la tieta Pearl d’haver assassinat el seu hoste. Encara que el seu promès actu? d’una manera sospitosa i vegi fantasmes on no n’hi ha. Encara que el nou i atractiu xèrif, en Tyler Gates, la tracti com la més sexy de les bruixes. Si t’agraden els misteris lleugers amb una dosi d’humor i un toc sobrenatural, t’encantarà aquesta història de bruixes! Cada llibre de la saga conta una història diferent, i es poden llegir en qualsevol ordre. Sobre la saga Els misteris de les bruixes de Westwick: Registra’t per rebre notificacions a http://www.colleencross.com ?Una captivadora aventura màgica. Si t’agraden els misteris lleugers t’encantaran la Cendrine West i la seva peculiar família de bruixes. Westwick Corners no és el típic poblet. Ni tan sols un poble fantasma normal i corrent. ?s on la gent es perd i on les bruixes entrenen la seva màgia sense cridar massa l’atenció. Aquesta combinació el converteix en un lloc interessant on mesclar els misteris i l’humor, i les bruixes sempre són el centre d’acció. La cuina de la Ruby, les investigacions de la Cendrine i l’escola de màgia de la tieta Pearl sempre cerquen l’ingredient secret que impulsi les bruixes a la fama i la fortuna i torni a fer brillar el poble de Westwick Corners. Les bruixes sempre treballen en noves oportunitats de negoci per l’hostal Westwick Corners, el bar Embruix i, per descomptat, l’Escola d’Encanteri Pearl, on les bruixes van a desentranyar enigmes, conjurar encanteris i crear nous misteris màgics. Llàstima que sempre es distreguin perquè ocorren successos estranys a Westwick Corners, des de petits delictes fins a assassinats. La família West sempre ha estat a Westwick Corners i sempre hi estarà. Descendeixen d’una llarga estirp de bruixes que ha viscut a Westwick Corners des de la seva fundació. Bruixes que desvelen misteris, resolen crims i ajuden qui ho necessita. Són un conjunt de bruixes de tots els estils, perquè embruixar és una de les coses típiques que es fan a un poblet. Tothom ajuda. Fins i tot el fantasma de l’àvia Vi s’entremet i investiga. Però quan totes estiren, no ho fan sempre en la mateixa direcció. Si t’agraden les endevinalles, les rialles i les sagues de misteri, t’encantarà aquesta col·lecció. Disponible en format electrònic i en paper. La següent aventura de la saga ocorre la Nit de Nadal. Mentre hi hagi lectors que gaudeixin amb les meves històries, continuaré escrivint-les. Gràcies per la lectura!

The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. It was the second novel in the Growth trilogy, which included The Turmoil (1915) and The Midlander (1923, retitled National Avenue in 1927). In 1942 Orson Welles directed a film version, also titled The Magnificent Ambersons. The novel and trilogy traces the growth of the United States through the declining fortunes of three generations of the aristocratic Amberson family in a fictional Mid-Western town, between the end of the Civil War and the early part of the 20th century, a period of rapid industrialization and socio-economic change in America. The decline of the Ambersons is contrasted with the rising fortunes of industrial tycoons and other new-money families, which did not derive power from family names but by "doing things". As George Amberson's friend (name unspecified) says, "don't you think being things is 'rahthuh bettuh' than doing things?" "The Magnificent Ambersons is perhaps Tarkington's best novel," said Van Wyck Brooks. "[It is] a typical story of an American family and town—the great family that locally ruled the roost and vanished virtually in a day as the town spread and darkened into a city. This novel no doubt was a permanent page in the social history of the United States, so admirably conceived and written was the tale of the Ambersons, their house, their fate and the growth of the community in which they were submerged in the end." Even though the story is set in a fictitious city, it was inspired by Tarkington's hometown of Indianapolis and the neighborhood he once lived in, Woodruff Place.

There is a fertile stretch of flat lands in Indiana where unagrarian Eastern travellers, glancing from car-windows, shudder and return their eyes to interior upholstery, preferring even the swaying caparisons of a Pullman to the monotony without. The landscape lies interminably level: bleak in winter, a desolate plain of mud and snow; hot and dusty in summer, in its flat lonesomeness, miles on miles with not one cool hill slope away from the sun.

Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike.

"The Beautiful Lady", is another of the short novels from Booth Tarkington's early career. It was originally published in two parts, December of 1904 and January of 1905, in "Harper's Magazine", and then as Tarkington's fifth book in May of 1905. As with many of Tarkington's other works, it is a bit too predictable, though in this case that doesn't detract too much from the story. The story appears to sets up a love triangle (or in this case it may be a love square), but it does deviate from that a bit. The story is told from the point of the Italian, Ansolini from Naples, living in Paris who due to being down on his luck is forced into a most embarrassing position of acting as a billboard by shaving his head and having an advertisement for a show placed on the back of his bald head. It is while performing this job, that he nearly meets the "beautiful lady", though he keeps his head down and sees only her feet and the hem of her skirt and hears her lovely voice as it has sympathy for his plight. In fact, Ansolini's feelings are appreciative of her beautiful soul, and not that of romance.

A young newspaperman who has just moved to a new town overhears the wealthy politician in the house next door talking aloud to nonexistent figures. Has David Beasley gone mad, or is his imagination simply greater than his friends and ex-fiancée believe?

Youth and the Bright Medusa is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1920. Several were published in an earlier collection, The Troll Garden. This collection contains the following stories: "Coming, Aphrodite!" a.k.a. "Coming, Eden Bower!" "The Diamond Mine" "A Gold Slipper" "Scandal" "Paul's Case" "A Wagner Matinee" "The Sculptor's Funeral" "A Death in the Desert"

The first of her renowned prairie novels--a story that expresses Cather's conviction that "the history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman." When Alexandra Bergson takes over the family farm after her father's death, she falls under the spell of the rich, forbidding Nebraska prairie.

"The White Ship" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft. It was first published in The United Amateur (Volume 19) #2, November 1919. A lighthouse keeper named Basil Elton engages upon a peculiar fantasy in which a bearded man piloting a mystical white ship is found sailing upon a bridge of moonlight. Elton joins the bearded man on this ship, and together they explore a mystical chain of islands unlike anything that can be found on Earth.

The story describes of a strange hybrid race, half-human and half an unknown creature that resembles a cross between a fish and frog, that dwells in the seaside village of Innsmouth (formerly a large town, but lately fallen into disrepair). The townspeople worship Cthulhu and Dagon, a Philistine deity incorporated into the Cthulhu Mythos.

"Medusa's Coil" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop. It was first published in Weird Tales magazine in January 1939, two years after Lovecraft's death. The story concerns the son of an American plantation owner who brings back from Paris a new wife. It mixes elements of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos with the ancient Greek myth of Medusa, but it has also been noted for its racist aspects.

"The Festival" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft written in October 1923 and published in the January 1925 issue of Weird Tales. The story is set at Christmas time: "It was the Yuletide, that men call Christmas though they know in their hearts it is older than Bethlehem and Babylon, older than Memphis and mankind." An unnamed narrator is making his first visit to Kingsport, Massachusetts, an "ancient sea town where my people had dwelt and kept festival in the elder time when festival was forbidden; where also they had commanded their sons to keep festival once every century, that the memory of primal secrets might not be forgotten."

n viitor, nu mai exist boal. Nu mai exist rzboi. Nu mai exist nemulumire. Toi cetenii sunt membri supui ai Guvernrii Globale. ns o singur var este pe cale s schimbe totul. Keeva Tee tocmai a mplinit cincisprezece ani. Este pe punctul de a pleca n multateptata excursie la Tabra Monarch, pentru a primi imprimarea celui care i-a fost desemnat partener de via. Dar n clipele fericite i lipsite de griji petrecute n Comunitatea Oceanic a auzit i zvonurile de temut despre “anomalii” – ceteni care nu pot fi imprimai. Iar cnd Keeva ajunge la Tabra Monarch, cel mai ntunecat comar al ei devine realitate – este i ea o anomalie. Din acel moment, ncepe s se ndoiasc de toate convingerile din trecut. Dac libertatea i individualitatea au fost sacrificate de dragul siguranei Gsind un avertisment scrijelit sub patul din tabr, Keeva ncepe s neleag: revolta va fi pedepsit, dezacordul nu este o opiune, iar rzvrtiii vor fi anihilai. O carte vibrant” (Russel Brand) O aventur ameitoare” (Max Beesley) O poveste cu un ritm alert i captivant care confirm c trebuie s luptm pentru ceea ce ne face pe fiecare dintre noi speciali i unici.” (Randy Jackson)

WHITE FANG is a novel by American author Jack London - and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. "So he became the enemy of his kind, domesticated wolves that they were, softened by the fires of man, weakened in the sheltering shadow of man's strength." —White Fang Jack London's The Call of the Wild, White Fang is the story of a wild dog's journey toward becoming civilized in the Canadian territory of Yukon at the end of the nineteenth century. White Fang is characteristic of London's precise prose style and innovation use of voice and perspective. Much of the novel is written from the viewpoint of the animals, allowing London to explore how animals view their world and how they view humans. White Fang relies on his instincts as well as his strength and courage to survive in the Yukon wilderness—despite both animal and human predators—and eventually comes to make his peace with man. White Fang has been adapted for the screen numerous times, including a 1991 film starring Ethan Hawke.

Atunci c?nd Rosemary Harper se al?tur? echipajului de pe Wayfarer, a?tept?rile nu ?i sunt foarte mari. Dincolo de peticele pe care ar trebui s? le capete c?t mai cur?nd, Wayfarer este o nav? m?runt?, aparent lini?tit?, r?t?cit? ?n birocra?ia megacorpora?iilor ?i, cel mai important, potrivit? pentru ca Rosemary s? se distan?eze de problemele din trecut. Iar personalit??ile at?t de distincte ?i rasele at?t de diverse ale noilor s?i colegi (de la excesiv de amabila Sissix, la Kizzy ?i Jenks, perechea nedesp?r?it? de tehnicieni ce c?rpesc m?runtaiele navei) pot fi ?n acela?i timp ?i motiv pentru certuri haotice, ?i baza unor noi prietenii care ar fi p?rut imposibil de legat. Una peste alta – locul perfect pentru ea. Totul p?n? ce Ashby, nobilul c?pitan, accept? comisionarea unei lucr?ri extrem de profitabile: construirea unui tunel hiperspa?ial c?tre o planet? ?ndep?rtat?. Oportunitatea le-ar asigura tuturor independen?a financiar?, asta dac? ar putea supravie?ui lungului ?i primejdiosului drum prin galaxia marcat? de o pace fragil?. ?ns? Rosemary nu este singura care are secrete de ascuns, iar ?ntreg echipajul va descoperi c? spa?iul este vast, iar propria nav? cu adev?rat mic?… ?Un tur de for?? profund ?i uman.“ — The Guardian ?Un roman care poate readuce ?ncrederea ?n science-fiction.“ — Tor.com ?Mai mult dec?t orice, este scris cu pl?cere ?i pl?cut de citit.“ — Claire North Nominalizare la premiile Kitschies 2015 pentru ?Cel mai bun debut“ Nominalizare la Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2016 Nominalizare la Tiptree Award 2015 Nominalizare la British Fantasy Awards 2016, categoria ?Best Newcomer“ Nominalizare la premiile Arthur C. Clarke 2016 Nominalizare la Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire 2016 pentru ?Cel mai bun roman ?ntr-o limb? str?in?“

Viata de student la psihologie a lui Leinad se imparte intre sesiuni si baute ocazionale cu prietenii. Nimic iesit din comun. Pana intr-o zi cand, accidental, intra in posesia unui stick USB. Din curiozitate si, din nefericire pentru el, verifica fisierele stocate pe micul obiect. Afla informatii incredibile despre o societate secreta care facea experiente medicale pe oameni, fara ca acestia sa-si fi dat acceptul. Faptul ca ajunge sa cunoasca o tanara, studenta si ea, genul de fata peste care nu dai in fiecare zi, sufletista si inimoasa, complica si mai mult situatia tanarului, mai ales dupa ce afla ca noua lui cunostinta sufera de o boala ce ii poate fi fatala. Santaje, urmariri, situatii tragi-comice, din loc in loc, si un umor proaspat va vor determina sa deveniti fanii acestei serii.

De milenii, Veghetorii ii apara pe oameni de strigoi si de creaturile lumii de dincolo. Ana ignora regulile ce le obliga pe Veghetoare sa-si aleaga tineri la fel ca ele si intra intr-o relatie cu un barbat fermecator, dar cu un trecut intunecat. Iubitul ei ascunde insa un secret care o va pune fata in fata cu cele mai negre cosmaruri ale ei. Acesta este in realitate fiul conducatorului, un Veghetor care a fost izgonit din familie dupa ce s-a aflat ca s-a dedat unor practici interzise. Dar asta nu e cea mai mare problema a Anei...

Sorina este o adolescent atipica. Uneori uita. Uneori isi pierde cunostinta. Uneori se sufoca. Desi se implica in problemele infantile ale prietenilor ei si are o viata normala, Sorina traieste din intrebari si dorinta de a capata raspunsuri. Nu isi descifreaza identitatea, iar acest lucru o macina, iar halucinatiile care ii produc un rau atat phisic, cat si fizic, nu ii dau pace. Adrian este caracterizat de o veselie incredibila. Inconjurat de secrete si incertitudini, acesta face tot posibilul sa ii redea bucuria. Dar afectiunea lui ii da de banuit Sorinei si aceasta se trezeste intreband de ce un baiat pe care abia l-a cunoscut se comporta de parca ar cunoaste-o de o viata? Ii spune ca o sa ramana mereu langa ea. I-a mai promis cineva acest lucru. Dar cine?

Romanul 2666 este scris ?n ultimii trei ani ai lui Bola?o, ?ntr?o curs? contra cronometru cu moartea. Alc?tuit din cinci p?r?i pe care autorul, ?ntr?o ?ncercare de a asigura viitorul financiar al copiilor s?i, le inten?iona publicate drept cinci romane separate, 2666 a ap?rut totu?i drept o singur? carte, valoarea literar? a ansamblului fiind mult prea mare pentru a fi divizat din ra?iuni comerciale. Toate cele cinci p?r?i contribuie la configurarea unui spa?iu ?n care crima ?i literatura sunt dou? fe?e ale aceluia?i mister. Ora?ul Santa Teresa din de?ertul Sonora, la grani?a Mexicului cu SUA, este scena unor crime ?n serie ?mpotriva femeilor, dar ?i destina?ia final? a celui mai important scriitor german al secolului trecut, Benno von Archimboldi (personaj fictiv). ?n Chile a c??tigat Premiul Altazor ?n 2005. ?n SUA a c??tigat National Book Critics Circle Award ?n 2009 (premiu acordat postum). ?Trebuie s? ascul?i ce spun femeile. [...] Nimeni nu d? aten?ie acestor asasinate, dar ?n ele se ascunde secretul lumii.“ ?La 40 de ani dup? ce García Márquez a zguduit literatura din temelii cu Un veac de singur?tate, Bola?o o face din nou. 2666 este, pur ?i simplu, epocal. F?r? ?ndoial?, prima carte mare a secolului XXI.“ The Complete Review ?Nu un roman, ci un breviar al timpurilor prezente, un imens manual de doliu ?i de melancolie. Un De profundis baroc ?i enigmatic, crima pasional? a unui om care a murit de ?i pentru literatur? ?i care las? supravie?uitorilor aceast? carte, a?a cum o armat? ?nvins? p?rjole?te p?m?ntul ?n urma ei.“ Olivier Mony, Le Figaro ?Data viitoare c?nd mai auzi?i pe cineva vorbind de “moartea romanului“, da?i?i ?n cap cu 2666. ?i apoi pune?i?l s??l citeasc?. Cinci c?r?i ?ntr?una singur?, des?v?r?it ?ntre?esute nu doar prin idei recurente ?i personaje, ci ?i printr?un umor toren?ial, o profund? umanitate ?i o verv? dezl?n?uit?, capodopera postum? a acestui magician [...] trebuie s? se afle ?n orice bibliotec? demn? de acest nume.“ Boyd Tonkin, The Independent