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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"La familia Altaterra acoge en su seno a un enigmático joven sin nombre, pero tiempo después lo repudia misteriosamente. El expulsado se ve obligado a vagar durante treinta años. Cuando regresa, pasado y presente se confunden, y los amores secretos y las venganzas por saldar se entremezclan con una serie de crímenes cuyo desenlace estará íntimamente ligado al destino de la familia."--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Nick Hornby meets Chuck Palahniuk in this powerful, provocative, and heartfelt epistolary novel from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author J. Michael Straczynski. Life has other plans for a group of strangers who want to end it all on a cross-country road trip, but then bond in ways they never could have imagined"--
6) The suitcase
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When a weary stranger arrives one day with only a suitcase, everyone is full of questions. Why is he here? Where has he come from? And just what is in the suitcase? To learn the answers, they can either trust the newcomer or discover what they risk by not believing them.
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
"Decir no y rechazar contactos desagradables no es fácil. A los niños seguros de sí mismos les cuesta menos decir lo que quieren y lo que no quieren. Por eso es importante que todos los niños tomen conciencia de sus emociones y de su cuerpo. Solo así podrán establecer límites."
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
After their father has been gone for eight months in search of work, a stranger arrives at Andre and Elise's home on Christmas night and sits at the place at the table always made in case a stranger visits, in the hopes that their father is getting the same treatment from another family while he is away.
13) Backcountry
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A busy executive and her sporadically employed boyfriend take a break from city living for a few days of camping. When they have an unsettling encounter with a stranger wandering through the woods alone, they take an impromptu detour that leaves them at the mercy of the wilderness and its ferocious inhabitants.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Penny spends her afternoons sitting outside a sandwich shop, surrounded by ghosts. Fourteen years ago, this shop was her childhood dance studio--and she was a dancer on the rise. Now she's a suburban housewife, dreading the moment her son departs for MIT, leaving her with an impeccably decorated McMansion and a failing marriage. She had her chance at wild, stars-in-her-eyes happiness, but that was a lifetime ago. After The Kiss. Before The Decision....
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and number-one best-selling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and What the Dog Saw, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers - and why they often go wrong. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach...
17) I am a bird
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Every day, a little girl rides to school on the back of her father's bike. As they twist and turn through the streets, the little girl spreads her arms like wings and sings her birdsong for all to hear. But when they pass a strange woman in blue who carries a mysterious bag, the girl goes quiet until the woman is out of sight. One day, when they're running late, the little girl discovers what the woman does with her bag each...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
One hot, humid night in London, Cara is caught up in a wave of terror and chaos. Until a hand reaches out - and a stranger pulls her to safety. Taking refuge with her unlikely rescuer, Cara shares more of herself with Amy than she ever has with anyone, including her husband. But after the hours of darkness are over, she can't remember exactly what secrets she revealed. Cara attempts to put it all behind her. But cracks begin to show in her life and...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
日本語
Description
Mitsuha and Taki are two total strangers living completely different lives. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her mountain town for the bustling city of Tokyo, they become connected in a bizarre way. She dreams she is a boy living in Tokyo while Taki dreams he is a girl from a rural town he's never been to. What does their newfound connection mean? And how will it bring them together?
Author
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple having breakfast on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees...
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