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EDITORIAL REVIEW:
In this brand new mystery series by Dana Stabenow, the Edgar Award-winning author returns to the Alaskan setting she's famous for, but with a wonderful new character--state trooper Liam Campbell. Liam's just been transferred from Anchorage to the small fishing village of Newenham, Alaska--where a local pilot seems to have lost his head."Evocative."--*Dallas Morning News* "Stunning."--*Booklist**"Liam Campbell is a delightful character, already fully formed in the skilled, inventive mind of Miss Stabenow, and meeting him is a pleasure." --*Washington Times*"Evocative writing, intelligent plotting...intensely believable." --*Dallas Morning News*"Lots of quirky people, adventures, and scenery." --*Kirkus Reviews*"This much mayhem has rarely been in surer literary hands."--*Publishers Weekly** First in a new series* Stabenow is a national bestseller and Edgar Award winner* "Alaska's finest mystery writer." --*Anchorage Daily News*
EDITORIAL REVIEW:
In this brand new mystery series by Dana Stabenow, the Edgar Award-winning author returns to the Alaskan setting she's famous for, but with a wonderful new character--state trooper Liam Campbell. Liam's just been transferred from Anchorage to the small fishing village of Newenham, Alaska--where a local pilot seems to have lost his head."Evocative."--*Dallas Morning News* "Stunning."--*Booklist**"Liam Campbell is a delightful character, already fully formed in the skilled, inventive mind of Miss Stabenow, and meeting him is a pleasure." --*Washington Times*"Evocative writing, intelligent plotting...intensely believable." --*Dallas Morning News*"Lots of quirky people, adventures, and scenery." --*Kirkus Reviews*"This much mayhem has rarely been in surer literary hands."--*Publishers Weekly** First in a new series* Stabenow is a national bestseller and Edgar Award winner* "Alaska's finest mystery writer." --*Anchorage Daily News*
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El libro está ambientado en 2049. La industria alimentaria mundial está gestionada por los chinos, que han acaparado los mercados y dirigen establecimientos dedicados en exclusiva a la hostelería y al ocio. Media humanidad se alimenta de productos que se extraen de la soja, el maná del siglo XXI. Euskadi es el último reducto donde se conserva intacta la tradición gastronómica, casi una religión, y da cobijo a quienes quieren luchar contra la gran invasión china y sus productos.<
Ni siquiera los grandes visionarios, como Nostradamus o Shakespeare, fueron capaces de vislumbrar la era en la que estamos viviendo.Una humanidad dividida en dos grandes grupos: «los que pueden» y «los que no pueden». ¿Se refería a esto el bueno de Hamlet cuando pronunciaba su famoso ser o no ser? Sí, sólo que hablaba en una clave que le desvelamos en este libro. Porque usted y yo sabemos que el fin del mundo es llevar siete días sin ir al váter y que sólo una diarrea mental justifica que Julio Verne nos hablara del submarino en el siglo XIX.Cagar o no cagar; ésa es la cuestión que condiciona nuestra vida y nuestro futuro. ¿Compartiría una casa sin trastero? ¿Se le ha pasado por la cabeza jugar al golf? ¿Sabría ubicar Trinidad y Tobago en un mapa? ¿Sabe cuántas parejas de bidés quedan en libertad? ¿Es capaz de establecer alguna relación entre estas preguntas? Está usted estreñido.<
SUMMARY:
Inside Alaska’s biggest national park, around the town of Niniltna, a gold mining company has started buying up land. The residents of the Park are uneasy. “But gold is up to nine hundred dollars an ounce” is the refrain of Talia Macleod, the popular Alaskan skiing champ hired by the company to improve relations with the locals, and pave the way for the mine’s expansion…Then, just as Talia is ready to present her case at town meetings and village breakfasts, there are two brutal murders, including that of a long-standing mine opponent. The investigation falls to Trooper Jim Chopin and, as usual, he could use some help from newly elected Niniltna Native Association chairman and part-time P.I. Kate Shugak. But Kate already has her hands full with a series of attacks on snowmobilers up the Kanuyaq River and the homicide of Park villain Louis Deem. With both cases on the verge of going cold, can Kate take the heat?<
¿Quiere usted vivir como Dios?Suponiendo que la respuesta sea «sí», permítanos recomendarle este libro mágico, donde encontrará las claves para mejorar su existencia. El título ya le da una primera pista: hay que poner un vasco en su vida; claro, pero no crea que ya tiene la solución. Y leyendo este texto de la contraportada tampoco va a conseguir enterarse de mucho más; no se engañe. Esto es el cebo para que usted elija este libro y no los otros que le están tentando. Lo que si le podemos asegurar es que las páginas del interior contienen toda la información necesaria para que recupere la sonrisa que tenía el dia de la primera comunión, ¿se acuerda? Si usted es una mujer en busca de un hombre fiel, buen amante, simple, con buenos cimientos, familiar y amigo de sus amigos, no lo dude: léalo. Si, por el contrario, usted es un hombre en busca de una mujer eterna, buena administradora, ordenada y detallista, no lo dude: cómprelo. Además, contiene un diccionario, un capítulo de regalo y las recetas de la Biblia. ¡Ah! Y aprenderá a clasificar a sus familiares y amigos por su tipo de barriga. ¿Qué más quiere?<
Libre de eufemismos y de circunloquios cobardes, aquí tiene la clave secreta de «lo vasco», que no es otra que sus mujeres. ¿Sabe usted cuántas veces hay que decir «te quiero» a una mujer vasca para llevársela a la cama? ¿Qué insinúa exactamente una vasca cuando lo mira con determinación a los ojos? ¿Cuáles son sus armas de seducción? ¿Se ha preguntado alguna vez por el origen y la evolución del peinado de las vascas o por qué les da por envasar todo tipo de alimentos? La información que contiene el presente libro es privilegiada. Cuenta la verdad, toda la verdad y nada más que la verdad absoluta sobre las mujeres del País Vasco, su entorno y su selección, monta y doma de maridos.Óscar Terol, autor de Todos nacemos vascos y Ponga un vasco en su vida, en Técnicas de la mujer vasca para la doma y monta de maridos cuenta con pelos (cortos) y señales el secreto mejor guardado de la humanidad: el influjo de la madre que nos parió relatado con el rigor y la técnica de un caricaturista callejero. Un libro apto para todos los públicos —mujeres vascas, mujeres no vascas, hombres vascos y hombres no vascos— y para todos los bolsillos. Descubra que todas las mujeres son vascas y que todos los hombres sueñan con conocer a alguna y, sobre todo, ríase mucho.<
Todos nacemos vascos no es un libro de chistes sobre bilbaínos. Todos nacemos vascos tampoco es una colección de sketches del programa de televisión Vaya Semanita que el espectador tantas veces ha visto en los záppines. Dentro de Todos nacemos vascos ni tan siquiera se esconde un libro de recetas de cocina vasca, ni mucho menos una tesina sobre el nacionalismo. Es mucho menos que todo eso. Es simplemente la demostración fehaciente de que todos, también usted, somos vascos o lo fuimos en algún tiempo: ¿Folla usted menos de lo que quisiera? ¿Le gusta comer bien? ¿Nunca limpia la escobilla del baño? ¿Tiene una tía monja y lo lleva en secreto? ¿Prefiere una cena con la cuadrilla a una comida familiar? Pues eso, que todos nacemos vascos y algunos siguen siendo vascos toda la vida. Ahora que sus orígenes no tienen nada que envidiar a los de Javier Clemente o Xavier Arzalluz, Todos nacemos vascos le puede ayudar a conocer a sus paisanos, a comprenderlos, y a sacarle todo el provecho al sirimiri y las chuletas de kilo trescientos.<
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When a beautiful young Frenchwoman and a brilliant American actor meet in wartime Paris, their love begins like a fairy tale but ends in tragedy. Suddenly orphaned, their three children are cruelly separated. Megan, the baby, adopted by a family of comfortable means, becomes a doctor in the rural Appalachia. Alexandra, raised in lavish wealth, marries a powerful man whose pride is in his pedigree and who assumes that Alexandra is her parents' natural offspring. Neither of them has the remotest suspicion that she is adopted, or what turbulent tragedy lurks in her past. And Hilary, oldest of the Walker children, remembers them all, and the grief that tore them apart and cast them into separate lives. Feeling the loss throughout her life, and unable to find her sisters, she builds an extraordinary career and has no personal life. When John Chapman, lawyer and prestigious private investigator, is asked to find these three women, he wonders why. Their parents' only friend, he did nothing to keep them together as children and has been haunted by remorse all his life. The investigator follows a trail that leads from chic New York to Boston slums, from elegant Parisian salons to the Appalachian hills, to the place where the three sisters face each other and one more final, devastating truth before they can move on.<
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In her fifty-second bestselling novel, Danielle Steel weaves a compelling story of the power of lies, the misuse of trust--and of one woman's triumph over a devastating betrayal.Marie-Ange Hawkins has the kind of childhood that most people dream of. Freedom, love, security in a beautiful old French château. But when Marie-Ange is just eleven, a tragic accident marks the end of her idyllic life. Orphaned and alone, she is sent to America, to live with her great-aunt on a farm in Iowa. Bitterly resented by the old woman, cut off from everything she has known and loved, Marie-Ange is forced to work tirelessly on the farm, dreaming only of the day she can return to her beloved Château de Marmouton.In Marie-Ange's isolated existence, only the friendship of a local boy, Billy Parker, offers comfort and hope. But her only wish is to gain an education--and escape. Then, just after her twenty-first birthday, an unexpected visitor brings startling news and an extraordinary gift: the freedom to return to France, to Château de Marmouton. When she arrives in France, Marie-Ange learns that the château's new owner is Comte Bernard de Beauchamp, a dashing young widower who invites her into his home, then into his heart. But their magical life together, which soon includes marriage, children, and lavish homes, slowly takes an ominous turn. A mysterious woman tells Marie-Ange a shocking story, a story so chilling she doesn't want to believe it.Not even her dear friend Billy can help her now. He is thousands of miles away. And as the darkness gathers around her, Marie-Ange must find the faith and courage to take one, last desperate step to save her loved ones and herself.Danielle Steel's powerful novel is about being pulled into a place where nothing is what it seems. It is about being seduced and lied to and turned around, and wanting to believe the lies--until the moment comes, in one blinding instant, when survival and salvation depend on a final Leap of Faith: the only path to freedom, and life.<
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Danielle Steel's fifty-first bestselling novel tells the story of an extraordinary man, the woman who loved him, and a bond so powerful it could never be broken. It is about finding the courage to let someone you love fly free....The phone call came on a snowy December afternoon. Kate was certain it was Joe, the brilliant, visionary man who had been her soulmate, her driving force since the night they met, almost thirty-four years before. What she got was the one call she had never wanted, and didn't expect. As the snow continued to fall, Kate's mind drifted back, to the moment when she and Joe first met. She had been just seventeen and he was young, powerful, dazzling, and different from any man she'd ever known.It was just days before Christmas, 1940. The war is raging in Europe when Kate Jamison makes her debut in New York City. In a room filled with the scions of East Coast society and the leading political figures of the day, it is Joe Allbright who catches Kate's eye. At twenty-nine, Joe is the brilliant protege of Charles Lindbergh, and already a legend in flying circles for his record-breaking speed and state-of-the-art airplane designs. All Kate sees is a tall, strikingly handsome man who seems at once awkward and larger-than-life, like a shining star -- just out of reach. Joe, too, is caught off balance by his response to Kate, seeing in this beautiful young woman vitality and youth, the lifelong soulmate he never expected to find. As the months pass, they will meet again, forging a bond that will set the course of both their lives. Kate will go off to study at Radcliffe. Joe will skyrocket to fame in modern aviation. Joe's planes are his life, his passion. But irresistibly drawn to her, like moth to flame, he always comes back to Kate. Even after the long, dark years of World War II, when Kate was sure she had finally lost him completely, Joe returns. Never willing to stay, always needing to fly away. As planes are for him, Joe is the passion in her life.When the war is over, at twenty-four Kate wants marriage and a family. Joe wants the world, his limitless horizons, and the unique aviation empire he is building. Unwilling to wait any longer, Kate moves on with her life. But when a chance encounter brings them together again, the time has finally come to make a choice, one that will have profound consequences for them both for the rest of their lives.Against a vivid backdrop of war and thrilling innovation, Danielle Steel breathes life into history, weaving an intensely human story that spans three decades, of two intensely different people who, in spite of themselves, are irrevocably woven into the fabric of each other's lives. With rare insight and emotional power, she brings to life a tale of unconditional love, sacrifice, and compromise--the joining of two remarkable halves into a single, far more powerful whole. It is a novel of extraordinary grace and compassion from a master storyteller, perhaps the best story she has told.<
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