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6342) Los corruptores
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
"La aparición del cuerpo salvajemente mutilado de la actriz Pamela Dosantos desencadena una crisis de insondables consecuencias para el regreso del PRI a la presidencia. Tomás, u periodista dominado por el desánimo, escribe en su columna acerca del asesinato de la famosa actriz, incorporando un dato que parecía banal, pero que lo coloca en el punto de mira de Salazar, el hombre más temible del nuevo régimen. A las pocas horas de la publicación,...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After leaving her cheating husband in New York City and returning to her family's historic Florida plantation, Lane Fielding's oldest daughter disappears, reigniting her memories and fears of a serial killer who traumatized the area in the 1970s.
When Lane Fielding fled her isolated Florida hometown after high school for the anonymity of New York City, she swore she'd never return. But twenty years later, newly divorced and with two daughters in...
6344) El cuco de cristal
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Nueva York, 2017. Cora Merlo, m�edico residente de primer a�no, sufre un infarto fulminante que la obliga a un trasplante de coraz�on. A�un convaleciente la joven recibe la visita de una extra�na mujer con una enigm�atica oferta: pasar unos d�ias en Steelville, un peque�no pueblo de interior, para conocer la vida de su hijo Charles, el donante de su coraz�on. Cora se adentra as�i en un hogar lleno de secretos, en un misterio que...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning author of Night Night, Sleep Tight comes a novel about a little girl's disappearance and the porcelain doll that may hold the key to her fate." -- Book jacket.
Lissie Woodham and her sister Janey were playing with their porcelain dolls in the front yard when a puppy scampered by. Lissie chased after the pup and returned to find Janey-- and her precious doll gone. Forty years later Lis-- now a mother with a college-age daughter...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Lark has good things coming: a career as a board-game designer and a whirlwind romance with a handsome investor. Trip is so compassionate and supportive, he's almost too good to be true. Jessica has always been cautious, but she can't resist Jonathan. The brilliant TED-talking visionary has big plans for his inspiring medical start-up. Now Jessica is invited to be part of the team--and to partner with the founder outside the office. Holly has settled...
6347) Drown her sorrows
Author
Series
Bree Taggert volume 3
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Sheriff Bree Taggert discovers the body of a young woman floating near the bank of the Scarlet River. A note in her abandoned car suggests suicide, but the autopsy reveals that Holly Thorpe was dead before she dropped off the bridge and hit the water.
6348) The three Beths
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling writer Jeff Abbott, a psychologically intense and emotionally gripping new suspense novel about a daughter's desperate search for her missing mother--one that may lead her closer to home than she ever anticipated. My mom would never leave me. This has been Mariah Dunning's motto. Her compass. Her belief. So when she glimpses her mother--who's been missing for the past year--on the other side of a crowded food court,...
Author
Publisher
PolisBook
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A collection of extraordinary riveting and thought provoking stories from Edgar and Anthony award nominee Patricia Abbott that explore the dark side of human behavior. A daughter finds a way to save a mother who no longer knows her name. A father eases his grief through an act of kindness that few will judge kindly. A savvy realtor closes her deal in an unexpected way. A society of women fares little better than their forebearers. An uxorious husband...
6350) La invención del amor
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
Desde su terraza, Samuel observa el trajín cotidiano como quien está de vuelta sin haber llegado a nada. Él es una persona que no se compromete con nada ni con nadie. Una madrugada, alguien anuncia por teléfono que Clara ha muerto en un accidente. Aunque Samuel no conoce ninguna Clara, decide asistir el funeral, empujado por una mezcla de curiosidad y aburrimiento. Fascinado por la posibilidad de suplantar a la persona con la que lo confunden,...
6351) Best intentions
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Marti Trailor--social worker on hold, mother of three, wife of a successful obstetrician, daughter of a Congressman--is ready to go back to work. She's thrilled when the perfect opportunity falls in her lap. The catch? The job is at her husband's hospital and he seems not to share her enthusiasm. Undeterred, she takes the position counseling vulnerable young women as they prepare to give birth. Marti quickly begins to feel like she is making a difference...
6352) Game of the gods
Author
Publisher
Tor, A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Max Cone is a renowned military commander and judge, but all he really wants is a life outside politics. When one leader gives Cone a powerful device that predicts the future, he doesn't want to believe the prophecy: that the world will soon end, and he is to blame. Soon after, his wife and children are taken, his allies are killed, and his friends are imprisoned. With the world descending into a cataclysmic global war, every nation wants Cone on...
6353) Skeleton Coast
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon have barely escaped a mission on the Congo River when they intercept a mayday from a defenseless boat under fire off the African coast. Still smarting from a weapons-trade gone bad and a double-cross, Cabrillo takes action. He manages to save the beautiful Sloane Macintyre, who's on a mission of her own, looking for a long-submerged ship that may hold a fortune in diamonds. But what surprises...
6354) Follow me down
Author
Publisher
Forge/Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Mia Haas has built a life for herself far from the North Dakota town where she grew up, but when she receives word that her twin brother is missing, she's forced to return home. Once hailed as the golden boy of their small town, Lucas Haas disappeared the same day the body of one of his high school students is pulled from the river. Trying to wrap her head around the rumors of Lucas's affair with the teen, and unable to reconcile the media's portrayal...
6355) Hotel on shadow lake
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Suspenseful and compelling, Daniela Tully's Hotel on Shadow Lake is at once an intricate mystery, an epic romance, and a Gothic family saga. When Maya was a girl in Germany, her grandmother was everything to her: teller of magical fairy tales, surrogate mother, best friend. Then, shortly after Maya's sixteenth birthday, her grandmother disappeared without a trace, leaving Maya with only questions to fill the void. Twenty-seven years later, her grandmother's...
6356) Under the knife
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Morgan Finney, a biotechnology tycoon, is a shy, highly intelligent but socially awkward and emotionally fragile man. It was his wife, Jenny, with whom he connected and who enabled him to connect with others. When Jenny dies of complications during a surgery led by Dr. Rita Wu, Finney's grief turns to rage. He vows to kill Rita just as he believes she killed his wife. But first he will systematically destroy her life. Aided by a mysterious man named...
6357) The first to lie
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"We all have our reasons for being who we are-but what if being someone else could get you what you want? After a devastating betrayal, a young woman sets off on an obsessive path to justice, no matter what dark family secrets are revealed. What she doesn't know-she isn't the only one plotting her revenge. An affluent daughter of privilege. A glamorous manipulative wannabe. A determined reporter, in too deep. A grieving widow who must choose her new...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In the 1920s, Zoya Andropova, a young refugee from the Soviet Union, finds herself in the alien landscape of an elite all-girls New Jersey boarding school. Having lost her family, her home, and her sense of purpose, Zoya struggles to belong, a task made more difficult by the malice her peers heap on scholarship students and her new country's paranoia about Russian spies. When she meets the visiting writer and fellow Russian émigré Leo Orlov--whose...
6359) The wildlands: a novel
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When a Category 5 tornado ravaged Mercy, Oklahoma, no family in the small town lost more than the McClouds. Their home and farm were instantly demolished, and orphaned siblings Darlene, Jane, and Cora made media headlines. This relentless national attention and the tornado's aftermath caused great tension with their brother, Tucker, who soon abandoned his sisters and disappeared. On the three-year anniversary of the tornado, a cosmetics factory outside...
6360) Finding Jake
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"A heart-wrenching but redemptive story of psychological suspense told from the point of view of the father of a boy who is unaccounted for during a school shooting, in the vein of Reconstructing Amelia and Defending Jacob"--
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