In 1954．in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire，an anxious twelve—year-old boy fatallv mistakes the local constable’S girlfriend for a bear．Both the twelve-year．old and his father become fugitives—to Boston，to southern Vermont，to Toronto—pursued over the years by the implacable constable．Their lone protector IS a fiercely libertarian logge...(展开全部)

1954, a twelve year old mistakenly believes the girlfriend of the village police for a bear - the beginning of a decades-long flight. With his father he fled from New Hampshire to Boston from Vermont to Toronto, the relentless cop them always on their heels. The only protection granted them a wood workers with whom they befriend. Over five decades, stretches this father-son sto...(展开全部)

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County–to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto–pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely li...(展开全部)

A ghost has no substance, but it has power - and presence - and it can appear in alternative forms. In the metaverse, we are all alternative forms. The Dead will join us. The genre-bending and dazzling new collection of ghost stories from the Sunday Times bestselling Jeanette Winterson 'Always passionate and provocative' NEW STATESMAN 'One of the wittiest writers around today' ...(展开全部)

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THIRTEEN 'This guy is the real deal. Trust me.' Lee Child ****************** BEFORE YOU READ THIS BOOK I WANT YOU TO KNOW THREE THINGS: 1. The police are looking to charge me with murder. 2. No one knows who I am. Or how I did it. 3. If you think you've found me. I'm coming for you next. After you've read this book, you'll know: the truth is far m...(展开全部)

A captivating collection of ghost stories from “one of the most gifted writers working today” (New York Times), The Night Side of the River is as ingeniously provocative as it is downright spooky. In this delightfully chilling collection, the iconic Jeanette Winterson turns her fearless gaze to the realm of ghosts, interspersing her own encounters with the supernatural alongsid...(展开全部)

In the "brilliant novel" ( The New York Times ) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between ...(展开全部)

New York Times Bestseller: The true story of twelve Jews who went underground in Nazi Berlinand survived: ';Consummately suspenseful' (Los Angeles Times). When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, appr

Ricardo Piglia (Adrogué, 1941-Buenos Aires, 2017) es unánimemente considerado un clásico de la literatura actual en lengua española. Publicó en Anagrama sus cinco novelas, Respiración artificial, La ciudad ausente, Plata quemada (llevada al cine por Marcelo Piñeyro; Premio Planeta Argentina), Blanco nocturno (Premio de la Crítica, Premio Rómulo Gallegos, Premio Internacional de...(展开全部)

In a deathbed confession a Jesuit priest pours out self-justifying dark memories of Opus Dei and Pinochet.