Libros marcados

Once upon a time there was a boy whose home was a van and whose world was his father. Be warned: this is not a fairytale. Although it does contain love, betrayal, escape, and most important of all, a kiss. But you have to be ready for an unpredictable journey through a realm where nothing is black or white. That, of course, is why you should take the first step. A startling new voice shows us a painful truth: You can't help who you fall in love with.

From the bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette comes a dramatic novel and powerful love story about the last Russian imperial family. It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. What neighbors and even her children don't know, however, is that she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her parents, Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.

La gran autora gótica del siglo XX, que ha inspirado la obra de escritores de la talla de Stephen King, Neil Gaiman y Joyce Carol Oates. "El sol aún brilla para nosotros. La autora del milagro es Shirley Jackson, que Dios la bendiga. Insuperable siempre." -Dorothy Parker La maldición de Hill House (1959), considerada una de las principales novelas de horror del siglo XX, narra el inquietante experimento de John Montague, doctor en Filosofía y antropólogo, que lleva años entregado al estudio de las "perturbaciones psíquicas" que suelen manifestarse en las "casas encantadas"....

Inglaterra, 1539. Tras la muerte de Jane Seymour, el rey Enrique VIII vuelve a tomar esposa: su cuarta reina. Desde todos los confines del reino, las jóvenes de familia noble anhelan ser llamadas a la Corte y eludir así un destino poco prometedor. Pero el rey se fija en Ana de Cléveris, hija del duque de Cléveris, a la que únicamente ha visto retratada en pinturas. Juana Bolena y Catalina Howard, dos mujeres caídas en desgracia, sin fortuna que asegure sus dotes, se cuentan entre las elegidas para servir a la nueva reina.No obstante, lo que parece un cuento de hadas de pronto se revela...