xime's bookshelf: all en-US Thu, 03 Apr 2025 21:33:57 -0700 60 xime's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Circe 35959740
Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts, and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus.

But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from or with the mortals she has come to love.]]>
393 Madeline Miller 0316556343 xime 0 currently-reading 4.22 2018 Circe
author: Madeline Miller
name: xime
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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Las cartas que nunca envié 57969336 56 M. IBETH VÁS xime 2 2.99 2020 Las cartas que nunca envié
author: M. IBETH VÁS
name: xime
average rating: 2.99
book published: 2020
rating: 2
read at: 2025/04/03
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<![CDATA[Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food]]> 200196183 New York Times Bestseller
Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize
Shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body.

It’s not you, it’s the food.

We have entered a new age of eating. For the first time in human history, most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed Food. There’s a long, formal scientific definition, but it can be boiled down to this: if it’s wrapped in plastic and has at least one ingredient that you wouldn’t find in your kitchen, it’s UPF.

These products are specifically engineered to behave as addictive substances, driving excess consumption. They are now linked to the leading cause of early death globally and the number one cause of environmental destruction. Yet almost all our staple foods are ultra-processed. UPF is our food culture and for many people it is the only available and affordable food.

In this book, Chris van Tulleken, father, scientist, doctor, and award-winning BBC broadcaster, marshals the latest evidence to show how governments, scientists, and doctors have allowed transnational food companies to create a pandemic of diet-related disease. The solutions don’t lie in willpower, personal responsibility, or exercise. You’ll find no diet plan in this book―but join Chris as he undertakes a powerful self-experiment that made headlines around the world: under the supervision of colleagues at University College London he spent a month eating a diet of 80 percent UPF, typical for many children and adults in the United States. While his body became the subject of scientific scrutiny, he spoke to the world’s leading experts from academia, agriculture, and―most important―the food industry itself. But more than teaching him about the experience of the food, the diet switched off Chris’s own addiction to UPF.

In a fast-paced and eye-opening narrative he explores the origins, science, and economics of UPF to reveal its catastrophic impact on our bodies and the planet. And he proposes real solutions for doctors, for policy makers, and for all of us who have to eat. A book that won’t only upend the way you shop and eat, Ultra-Processed People will open your eyes to the need for action on a global scale.]]>
416 Chris van Tulleken 1324076267 xime 0 to-read 4.33 2023 Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food
author: Chris van Tulleken
name: xime
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[El fino arte de crear monstruos]]> 222050052
«Antes que nada (si hay mucho talento y un poco de suerte), una novela puede y debe contener un mundo entero y nuevo y propio y singular. Tal es el caso de este libro. Después de todo, el afortunado serå el lector que tenga el talento de sentarse y aprender a conducir este tan acelerado como diestro El fino arte de crear monstruos. Silvana Vogt va como una moto.» Rodrigo Fresån]]>
138 Silvana Vogt 8412884892 xime 4 2025 huh? 4.04 El fino arte de crear monstruos
author: Silvana Vogt
name: xime
average rating: 4.04
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/30
date added: 2025/03/31
shelves: 2025
review:
huh?
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Call It What You Want 144707422
Sloane Hart is a hopeless romantic who always believed her great love story was out there, until her parents� divorce shattered that dream. She swears off dating and is determined to graduate college, become a writer and move to New York City. Until she meets Ethan. Ethan Brady is guarded and mysterious, unwilling to talk about his past or let anyone get too close.

As they start dating without labels, they both know it can’t last forever. Sloane imagines a future with Ethan but he can’t give her the commitment she needs. Will she be able to convince Ethan to take a chance on it? Or will she have to learn the hard way that some things just aren’t meant to be?

Sloane and Ethan’s story is a bittersweet tale of love and self-discovery that explores the complexities of relationships and the challenges of moving on.]]>
257 Alissa DeRogatis xime 0 to-read 3.36 2023 Call It What You Want
author: Alissa DeRogatis
name: xime
average rating: 3.36
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)]]> 214331246 When you’ve been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for?

As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes.

Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves.

When Haymitch’s name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He’s torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who’s nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he’s been set up to fail. But there’s something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.]]>
382 Suzanne Collins 1546171460 xime 0 to-read 4.68 2025 Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
author: Suzanne Collins
name: xime
average rating: 4.68
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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Our Wives Under the Sea 58659343
Moving through something that only resembles normal life, Miri comes to realize that the life that they had before might be gone. Though Leah is still there, Miri can feel the woman she loves slipping from her grasp.

Our Wives Under The Sea is the debut novel from Julia Armfield, the critically acclaimed author of Salt Slow. It’s a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what life there is in the deep deep sea.]]>
240 Julia Armfield 152901722X xime 0 currently-reading 3.75 2022 Our Wives Under the Sea
author: Julia Armfield
name: xime
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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Deep End 212808709 A competitive diver and an ace swimmer jump into forbidden waters in this steamy college romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis.

Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A Junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrating on getting into med school and on recovering from the injury that almost ended her career. She has no time for relationships—at least, that’s what she tells herself.

Swim captain, world champion, all-around aquatics golden boy, Lukas Blomqvist thrives on discipline. It’s how he wins gold medals and breaks records: complete focus, with every stroke. On the surface, Lukas and Scarlett have nothing in common. Until a well-guarded secret slips out, and everything changes.

So they start an arrangement. And as the pressure leading to the Olympics heats up, so does their relationship. It was supposed to be just a temporary, mutually satisfying fling. But when staying away from Lukas becomes impossible, Scarlett realizes that her heart might be treading into dangerous water...]]>
464 Ali Hazelwood xime 1 2025, book-club-iq 3.96 2025 Deep End
author: Ali Hazelwood
name: xime
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2025
rating: 1
read at: 2025/03/22
date added: 2025/03/22
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review:
cada pĂĄgina hacia que muriera lentamente por dentro
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Normal People 41057294
A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.

Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.]]>
273 Sally Rooney 1984822179 xime 3 2025 3.81 2018 Normal People
author: Sally Rooney
name: xime
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/22
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Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3) 209439446
Now Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. The trip will test every bit of her wit, luck, and strength, but she will do anything to save what she loves—her dragons, her family, her home, and him.

Even if it means keeping a secret so big, it could destroy everything. They need an army. They need power. They need magic. And they need the one thing only Violet can find—the truth. But a storm is coming...and not everyone can survive its wrath.]]>
527 Rebecca Yarros 1649374186 xime 3 2025 wtf que acaba de pasar? 4.19 2025 Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)
author: Rebecca Yarros
name: xime
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2025
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/09
date added: 2025/03/20
shelves: 2025
review:
wtf que acaba de pasar?
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<![CDATA[The Spanish Love Deception (Love Deception, #1)]]> 54189398
She only has four weeks to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic and aid in her deception. New York to Spain is no short flight and her raucous family won’t be easy to fool.

Enter Aaron Blackford—her tall, handsome, condescending colleague—who surprisingly offers to step in. She’d rather refuse; never has there been a more aggravating, blood-boiling, and insufferable man.

But Catalina is desperate, and as the wedding draws nearer, Aaron looks like her best option. And she begins to realize he might not be as terrible in the real world as he is at the office.]]>
487 Elena Armas 1668002531 xime 0 currently-reading 3.80 2021 The Spanish Love Deception (Love Deception, #1)
author: Elena Armas
name: xime
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)]]> 13597723
What Cassie doesn’t realize is that there’s more at risk than a few unsolved homicides—especially when she’s sent to live with a group of teens whose gifts are as unusual as her own. Sarcastic, privileged Michael has a knack for reading emotions, which he uses to get inside Cassie’s head—and under her skin. Brooding Dean shares Cassie’s gift for profiling, but keeps her at arm’s length.

Soon, it becomes clear that no one in the Naturals program is what they seem. And when a new killer strikes, danger looms closer than Cassie could ever have imagined. Caught in a lethal game of cat and mouse with a killer, the Naturals are going to have to use all of their gifts just to survive.]]>
308 Jennifer Lynn Barnes 1423168232 xime 2 2025, book-club-iq 4.22 2013 The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)
author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
name: xime
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2013
rating: 2
read at: 2025/03/04
date added: 2025/03/04
shelves: 2025, book-club-iq
review:
i mean estaba muy predecible ese final, nadie tiene personality y me dio mucho cringe
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<![CDATA[When in Rome (When in Rome, #1)]]> 60092579 Opposites certainly attract for the stranded pop star and small-town baker in this charming slice of romance from the author of the TikTok sensation The Cheat Sheet.

Amelia Rose, known as Rae Rose to her adoring fans, is burned-out from years of maintaining her "princess of pop" image. Inspired by her favorite Audrey Hepburn film, Roman Holiday, she drives off in the middle of the night for a break in Rome . . . Rome, Kentucky, that is.

When Noah Walker finds Amelia on his front lawn in her broken-down car, he makes it clear he doesn't have the time or patience for celebrity problems. He's too busy running the pie shop his grandmother left him and reminding his nosy but lovable neighbors to mind their own damn business. Despite his better judgment, he lets her stay in his guest room—but only until her car is fixed—then she's on her own.

Then Noah starts to see a different side of Rae Rose—she's Amelia: kindhearted and goofy, yet lonely from years in the public eye. He can't help but get close to her. Soon she'll have to return to her glamorous life on tour, but until then, Noah will show Amelia all the charming small-town experiences she's been missing, and she'll help him open his heart to more.

Amelia can't resist falling for the cozy town and her grumpy tour guide, but even Audrey had to leave Rome eventually.]]>
320 Sarah Adams 0593500784 xime 4 2025 sorprendentemente wholesome 3.88 2022 When in Rome (When in Rome, #1)
author: Sarah Adams
name: xime
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/19
date added: 2025/02/19
shelves: 2025
review:
sorprendentemente wholesome
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<![CDATA[Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)]]> 61431922 Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders...

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.

But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragileâ€� humans. They incinerate them.

With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.

She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.

Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.

Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die]]>
498 Rebecca Yarros 1649374046 xime 5 2025 que acaba de pasar ayuda 4.56 2023 Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
author: Rebecca Yarros
name: xime
average rating: 4.56
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/05
date added: 2025/02/15
shelves: 2025
review:
que acaba de pasar ayuda
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Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2) 90202302 “The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is when the rest of us lose our humanity.â€� —Xaden Riorson

Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College—Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky.

Now the real training begins, and Violet’s already wondering how she’ll get through. It’s not just that it’s grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it’s designed to stretch the ridersâ€� capacity for pain beyond endurance. It’s the new vice commandant, who’s made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is–unless she betrays the man she loves.

Although Violet’s body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else’s, she still has her wits—and a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules.

But a determination to survive won’t be enough this year.

Because Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College—and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.]]>
623 Rebecca Yarros 1649374178 xime 4 2025 wtf 4.34 2023 Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
author: Rebecca Yarros
name: xime
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/09
date added: 2025/02/15
shelves: 2025
review:
wtf
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<![CDATA[Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard]]> 61062194 From the magical moments on set as Draco Malfoy to the challenges of growing up in the spotlight, get a backstage pass into Tom Felton’s life on and off the big screen in this #1 New York Times bestseller.

Tom Felton’s adolescence was anything but ordinary. His early rise to fame in beloved films like The Borrowers catapulted him into the limelight, but nothing could prepare him for what was to come after he landed the iconic role of the Draco Malfoy, the bleached blonde villain of the Harry Potter movies. For the next ten years, he was at the center of a huge pop culture phenomenon and yet, in between filming, he would go back to being a normal teenager trying to fit into a normal school.

Speaking with great candor and his signature humor, Tom shares his experience growing up as part of the wizarding world while also trying to navigate the muggle world. He tells stories from his early days in the business like his first acting gig where he was mistaken for fellow blonde child actor Macaulay Culkin and his Harry Potter audition where, in a very Draco-like move, he fudged how well he knew the books the series was based on (not at all). He reflects on his experiences working with cinematic greats such as Alan Rickman, Sir Michael Gambon, Dame Maggie Smith, and Ralph Fiennes (including that awkward Voldemort hug). And, perhaps most poignantly, he discusses the lasting relationships he made over that decade of filming, including with Emma Watson, who started out as a pesky nine-year-old whom he mocked for not knowing what a boom mic was but who soon grew into one of his dearest friends. Then, of course, there are the highs and lows of fame and navigating life after such a momentous and life-changing experience.

Tom Felton’s Beyond the Wand is an entertaining, funny, and poignant must-read for any Harry Potter fan. Prepare to meet a real-life wizard.]]>
288 Tom Felton 1538741369 xime 5 2025 4.28 2022 Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
author: Tom Felton
name: xime
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/03
date added: 2025/02/03
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The Three Lives of Cate Kay 214152244 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781668076217.

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo meets First Lie Wins in this electric, voice-driven debut novel about an elusive bestselling author who decides to finally confess her true identity after years of hiding from her past.

Cate Kay knows how to craft a story. As the creator of a bestselling book trilogy that struck box office gold as a film series, she’s one of the most successful authors of her generation. The thing is, Cate Kay doesn’t really exist. She’s never attended author events or granted any interviews. Her real identity had been a closely guarded secret, until now.

As a young adult, she and her best friend Amanda dreamed of escaping their difficult homes and moving to California to become movie stars. But the day before their grand adventure, a tragedy shattered their dreams and Cate has been on the run ever since, taking on different names and charting a new future. But after a shocking revelation, Cate understands that returning home is the only way she’ll be a whole person again.]]>
304 Kate Fagan xime 5 2025 3.77 2025 The Three Lives of Cate Kay
author: Kate Fagan
name: xime
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2025
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/26
date added: 2025/01/26
shelves: 2025
review:
merecía cuatro estrellas? probablemente si, pero la verdad lo disfruté mucho y pasaré por alto sus åreas de mejora (new year, new me, new ratings?)
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<![CDATA[A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)]]> 62816044 Two villains, one girl, and a deadly battle for happily ever after.

Evangeline Fox ventured to the Magnificent North in search of her happy ending, and it seems as if she has it. She’s married to a handsome prince and lives in a legendary castle. But Evangeline has no idea of the devastating price she’s paid for this fairytale. She doesn’t know what she has lost, and her husband is determined to make sure she never finds out . . . but first he must kill Jacks, the Prince of Hearts.

Blood will be shed, hearts will be stolen, and true love will be put to the test in A Curse for True Love, the breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Once Upon A Broken Heart trilogy.]]>
386 Stephanie Garber 1250851203 xime 4 2025 4.14 2023 A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)
author: Stephanie Garber
name: xime
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/22
date added: 2025/01/22
shelves: 2025
review:
yo querĂ­a saber lo de las las manzanas :(
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<![CDATA[Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow]]> 58784475 In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.

On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.

Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.]]>
401 Gabrielle Zevin 0735243344 xime 4 2025, book-club-vday 4.12 2022 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
author: Gabrielle Zevin
name: xime
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/17
date added: 2025/01/22
shelves: 2025, book-club-vday
review:
pensé que serían 5 estrellas pero esq ese final, anq si debo decir que me gustó demasiadoo
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<![CDATA[The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)]]> 59808071 Not every love is meant to be.

After Jacks, the Prince of Hearts, betrays her, Evangeline Fox swears she'll never trust him again. Now that she’s discovered her own magic, Evangeline believes she can use it to restore the chance at happily ever after that Jacks stole away.

But when a new terrifying curse is revealed, Evangeline finds herself entering into a tenuous partnership with the Prince of Hearts again. Only this time, the rules have changed. Jacks isn’t the only force Evangeline needs to be wary of. In fact, he might be the only one she can trust, despite her desire to despise him.

Instead of a love spell wreaking havoc on Evangeline’s life, a murderous spell has been cast. To break it, Evangeline and Jacks will have to do battle with old friends, new foes, and a magic that plays with heads and hearts. Evangeline has always trusted her heart, but this time she’s not sure she can...]]>
416 Stephanie Garber 1250268427 xime 5 2025 4.49 2022 The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)
author: Stephanie Garber
name: xime
average rating: 4.49
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/21
date added: 2025/01/22
shelves: 2025
review:
pero que tipo de final es este? llevo 10 min viendo la pared en shock
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<![CDATA[Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)]]> 55987278 How far would you go for happily ever after?

For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in true love and happy endings... until she learns that the love of her life will marry another.

Desperate to stop the wedding and to heal her wounded heart, Evangeline strikes a deal with the charismatic but wicked Prince of Hearts. In exchange for his help, he asks for three kisses, to be given at the time and place of his choosing.

But after Evangeline’s first promised kiss, she learns that bargaining with an immortal is a dangerous game—and that the Prince of Hearts wants far more from her than she’d pledged. He has plans for Evangeline, plans that will either end in the greatest happily ever after or the most exquisite tragedy...]]>
408 Stephanie Garber 1250268397 xime 4 2025 4.06 2021 Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)
author: Stephanie Garber
name: xime
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/15
date added: 2025/01/15
shelves: 2025
review:
empezĂł lento, pero damn por ahĂ­ de la mitad estaba picada. en otras noticias, porque amo a jacks?
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Lessons in Chemistry 58065033 390 Bonnie Garmus xime 4 2023, book-club-vday 4.23 2022 Lessons in Chemistry
author: Bonnie Garmus
name: xime
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2023/12/07
date added: 2025/01/14
shelves: 2023, book-club-vday
review:

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Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1) 10429045 I have a curse
I have a gift

I am a monster
I'm more than human

My touch is lethal
My touch is power

I am their weapon
I will fight back

Juliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days.

The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don't fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.

The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war—and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she's exactly what they need right now.

Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.]]>
338 Tahereh Mafi 0062085484 xime 3 2023, book-club-vday 3.86 2011 Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
author: Tahereh Mafi
name: xime
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2011
rating: 3
read at: 2023/06/29
date added: 2025/01/14
shelves: 2023, book-club-vday
review:

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Misery 10614 #1, #2, #3, #4

Paul Sheldon. He's a bestselling novelist who has finally met his biggest fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes and she is more than a rabid reader - she is Paul's nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. But she is also his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house.]]>
370 Stephen King 0450417395 xime 4 2023 4.22 1987 Misery
author: Stephen King
name: xime
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1987
rating: 4
read at: 2023/04/16
date added: 2025/01/14
shelves: 2023
review:

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<![CDATA[El faro de los amores dormidos]]> 61270269
Por eso Alba no lo visita desde hace cinco años. Bueno, por eso y porque allĂ­ fue donde aprendiĂł lo que duele el amor y la herida aĂșn escuece.

Sin embargo, en Varela también estå Pelayo, su abuelo, que ha comenzado a olvidar y que ahora la necesita. Y también los recuerdos que dejó en sus calles cuando se marchó sin mirar atrås. Y Enol. El chico de las conversaciones raras, la obsesión por las mareas y que parece haber nacido en la época equivocada.

Un regreso inesperado, un faro lleno de secretos y dos historias inacabadas que, quizĂĄ, se merecen la oportunidad de un nuevo final.

«Alba, vive el presente. Porque un día serå pasado y te atormentarå no haberte dado cuenta antes de que todo acaba, incluso lo que creías que era para siempre.»]]>
480 Andrea Longarela 8408261991 xime 4 2023 4.30 2022 El faro de los amores dormidos
author: Andrea Longarela
name: xime
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2023/04/16
date added: 2025/01/14
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Anxious People 53799686
Viewing an apartment normally doesn’t turn into a life-or-death situation, but this particular open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes everyone in the apartment hostage. As the pressure mounts, the eight strangers begin slowly opening up to one another and reveal long-hidden truths.

First is Zara, a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else until tragedy changed her life. Now, she’s obsessed with visiting open houses to see how ordinary people live—and, perhaps, to set an old wrong to right. Then there’s Roger and Anna-Lena, an Ikea-addicted retired couple who are on a never-ending hunt for fixer-uppers to hide the fact that they don’t know how to fix their own failing marriage. Julia and Ro are a young lesbian couple and soon-to-be parents who are nervous about their chances for a successful life together since they can’t agree on anything. And there’s Estelle, an eighty-year-old woman who has lived long enough to be unimpressed by a masked bank robber waving a gun in her face. And despite the story she tells them all, Estelle hasn’t really come to the apartment to view it for her daughter, and her husband really isn’t outside parking the car.

As police surround the premises and television channels broadcast the hostage situation live, the tension mounts and even deeper secrets are slowly revealed. Before long, the robber must decide which is the more terrifying prospect: going out to face the police, or staying in the apartment with this group of impossible people.

Rich with Fredrik Backman’s “pitch-perfect dialogue and an unparalleled understanding of human natureâ€� (Shelf Awareness), Anxious People’s whimsical plot serves up unforgettable insights into the human condition and a gentle reminder to be compassionate to all the anxious people we encounter every day.]]>
336 Fredrik Backman 1982121602 xime 3 2023 4.12 2019 Anxious People
author: Fredrik Backman
name: xime
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2023/01/22
date added: 2025/01/14
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<![CDATA[Better Than the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #1)]]> 55710822 In this rom-com about rom-coms, in the spirit of Kasie West and Jenn Bennett, a hopeless romantic teen attempts to secure a happily-ever-after moment with her forever crush, but finds herself reluctantly drawn to the boy next door.

Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he’s back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar - and maybe snag him as a prom date - even befriend Wes Bennet.

The annoyingly attractive next-door neighbor might seem like a prime candidate for romantic-comedy fantasies, but Wes has only been a pain in Liz’s butt since they were kids. Pranks involving frogs and decapitated lawn gnomes do not a potential boyfriend make. Yet, somehow, Wes and Michael are hitting it off, which means Wes is Liz’s in.

But as Liz and Wes scheme to get Liz noticed by Michael so she can have her magical prom moment, she’s shocked to discover that she likes being around Wes. And as they continue to grow closer, she must reexamine everything she thought she knew about love - and rethink her own ideas of what happily ever after should look like.]]>
356 Lynn Painter 1534467629 xime 3 2023, book-club-vday 4.28 2021 Better Than the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #1)
author: Lynn Painter
name: xime
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2023/01/14
date added: 2025/01/14
shelves: 2023, book-club-vday
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Carrie Soto Is Back 60435878 Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular.

By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles. And if you ask her, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father as her coach.

But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning, British player named Nicki Chan.

At thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to reclaim her record. Even if the sports media says that they never liked the 'Battle-Axe' anyway. Even if her body doesn't move as fast as it did. And even if it means swallowing her pride to train with a man she once almost opened her heart to: Bowe Huntley. Like her, he has something to prove before he gives up the game forever.

In spite of it all: Carrie Soto is back, for one epic final season. In this riveting and unforgettable novel, Taylor Jenkins Reid tells a story about the cost of greatness and a legendary athlete attempting a comeback.]]>
384 Taylor Jenkins Reid 0593158687 xime 5 2022, book-club-vday 4.19 2022 Carrie Soto Is Back
author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
name: xime
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2022/12/15
date added: 2025/01/14
shelves: 2022, book-club-vday
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<![CDATA[Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)]]> 10818853 Ìę
Shocked yet thrilled by Grey’s singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success—his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving family—Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey’s secrets and explores her own dark desires.

Erotic, amusing, and deeply moving, the Fifty Shades Trilogy is a tale that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever.

This book is intended for mature audiences.]]>
356 E.L. James 1612130291 xime 2 2025, book-club-og 3.68 2011 Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
author: E.L. James
name: xime
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2011
rating: 2
read at: 2025/01/04
date added: 2025/01/14
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The Haunting of Hill House 89717 182 Shirley Jackson 0143039989 xime 3 2023, book-club-og 3.85 1959 The Haunting of Hill House
author: Shirley Jackson
name: xime
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1959
rating: 3
read at: 2023/12/07
date added: 2025/01/14
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Rock Paper Scissors 56269064 Think you know the person you married? Think again�

Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole life. He can’t recognize friends or family, or even his own wife.

Every anniversary the couple exchange traditional gifts â€� paper, cotton, pottery, tin â€� and each year Adam’s wife writes him a letter that she never lets him read. Until now. They both know this weekend will make or break their marriage, but they didn’t randomly win this trip. One of them is lying, and someone doesn’t want them to live happily ever after.

Ten years of marriage. Ten years of secrets. And an anniversary they will never forget.

Rock Paper Scissors is the latest exciting domestic thriller from the queen of the killer twist, New York Times bestselling author Alice Feeney.]]>
294 Alice Feeney 1250266106 xime 2 2023, book-club-og 3.88 2021 Rock Paper Scissors
author: Alice Feeney
name: xime
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2021
rating: 2
read at: 2023/06/29
date added: 2025/01/14
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Daisy Jones & The Six 40597810 Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.

Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’nâ€� roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.

Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.

Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.

The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.]]>
368 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1524798622 xime 5 2023, book-club-og 4.20 2019 Daisy Jones & The Six
author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
name: xime
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2023/01/08
date added: 2025/01/14
shelves: 2023, book-club-og
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<![CDATA[It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us, #2)]]> 60393672 Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas’s side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the “glorious and touchingâ€� (USA TODAY) #1 New York Times bestseller It Ends with Us.

Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date.

But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life—and Atlas Corrigan is the one man he will hate being in his ex-wife and daughter’s life.

Switching between the perspectives of Lily and Atlas, It Starts with Us picks up right where the epilogue for the “gripping, pulse-poundingâ€� (Sarah Pekkanen, author of Perfect Neighbors) bestselling phenomenon It Ends with Us left off. Revealing more about Atlas’s past and following Lily as she embraces a second chance at true love while navigating a jealous ex-husband, it proves that “no one delivers an emotional read like Colleen Hooverâ€� (Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author).]]>
323 Colleen Hoover 1668001225 xime 3 2022, book-club-og 3.80 2022 It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us, #2)
author: Colleen Hoover
name: xime
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2022/12/15
date added: 2025/01/14
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Funny You Should Ask 58065414 Then. Twentysomething writer Chani Horowitz is stuck. While her former MFA classmates are nabbing book deals, she's in the trenches writing puff pieces. Then she's hired to write a profile of movie star Gabe Parker. The Gabe Parker--her forever celebrity crush, the object of her fantasies, the background photo on her phone--who's also just been cast as the new James Bond. It's terrifying and thrilling all at once... yet if she can keep her cool and nail the piece, it could be a huge win. Gabe will get good press, and her career will skyrocket. But what comes next proves to be life-changing in ways Chani never saw coming, as the interview turns into a whirlwind weekend that has the tabloids buzzing.

Now. Ten years later, after a brutal divorce and a heavy dose of therapy, Chani is back in Los Angeles, laser-focused on one thing: her work. But she's still spent the better part of the last decade getting asked about her deeply personal Gabe Parker profile at every turn. No matter what new essay collection or viral editorial she's promoting, it always comes back to Gabe. So when his PR team requests that they reunite for a second interview, she wants to say no. She wants to pretend that she's forgotten about the time they spent together, years ago. But the truth is that those seventy-two hours are still crystal clear, etched in her memory. And so... he says yes.

Chani knows that facing Gabe again also means facing feelings she's tried so hard to push away. Alternating between their first meeting and their reunion a decade later, this deliciously irresistible novel will have you hanging on until the last word.

A restless young journalist with big dreams interviews a Hollywood heartthrob--and, ten years later, it's clear that their time together meant more than meets the eye in this sexy, engrossing adult debut novel. ]]>
352 Elissa Sussman 0593357329 xime 2 2023, book-club-og 3.55 2022 Funny You Should Ask
author: Elissa Sussman
name: xime
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2022
rating: 2
read at: 2023/01/11
date added: 2025/01/14
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The Bell Jar 6514 294 Sylvia Plath 0571268862 xime 2 2022, book-club-og 4.05 1963 The Bell Jar
author: Sylvia Plath
name: xime
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1963
rating: 2
read at: 2022/07/07
date added: 2025/01/14
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The Midnight Library 52578297
When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change.

The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren't always what she imagined they'd be, and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger.

Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: what is the best way to live?]]>
288 Matt Haig 0525559477 xime 4 2022, book-club-og 3.96 2020 The Midnight Library
author: Matt Haig
name: xime
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2022/05/09
date added: 2025/01/14
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<![CDATA[All The Young Dudes - Volume One: Years 1 - 4 (All The Young Dudes, #1)]]> 56925511
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411 MsKingBean89 xime 5 2022, book-club-og 4.68 2017 All The Young Dudes - Volume One: Years 1 - 4 (All The Young Dudes, #1)
author: MsKingBean89
name: xime
average rating: 4.68
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2022/02/07
date added: 2025/01/14
shelves: 2022, book-club-og
review:

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La princesa de hielo 1612509 Se llamaba Alexandra, era joven, rica y guapa, y nadie en el pueblo se puede explicar su muerte. Por pura casualidad, Erica, amiga de la infancia y autora de biografĂ­as, se ve involucrada en el caso. HabĂ­a regresado a su pueblo natal para hacerse cargo de la casa que acababa de heredar de sus padres, recientemente fallecidos en un accidente, y para trabajar en su prĂłximo libro.
Cuando la familia de Alex le pide que escriba un recordatorio para el funeral, Erica, todavĂ­a conmocionada por la repentina muerte de su amiga, comienza a investigar la vida de la vĂ­ctima.
Con la ayuda del comisario Patrik, otro viejo conocido que pronto se convertirĂĄ en algo mĂĄs que un amigo, descubre un oscuro secreto, largamente guardado. Alguien conociĂł a Alex desde su infancia y le preparĂł un helado lecho mortuorio.
Camilla LÀckberg dibuja finamente el retrato de la sociedad cerrada de una pequeña ciudad, en la que todos lo saben todo de todo el mundo, pero en la cual las apariencias son fundamentales.]]>
376 Camilla LĂ€ckberg 8496748162 xime 4 2022, book-club-og 3.77 2003 La princesa de hielo
author: Camilla LĂ€ckberg
name: xime
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at: 2022/01/26
date added: 2025/01/14
shelves: 2022, book-club-og
review:
Muy buen libro, estuvo algo lento pero me entretuvo, lo Ășnico que sentĂ­ que el final estuvo muy apresurado a diferencia del principio. Creo que si leerĂ© los demĂĄs libros de la saga ;)
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The Song of Achilles 13623848 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062060624.

Achilles, "the best of all the Greeks," son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful, irresistible to all who meet him. Patroclus is an awkward young prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. Brought together by chance, they forge an inseparable bond, despite risking the gods' wrath.

They are trained by the centaur Chiron in the arts of war and medicine, but when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, all the heroes of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause, and torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows. Little do they know that the cruel Fates will test them both as never before and demand a terrible sacrifice.]]>
408 Madeline Miller xime 4 2022, book-club-og 4.30 2011 The Song of Achilles
author: Madeline Miller
name: xime
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2022/01/09
date added: 2025/01/14
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<![CDATA[It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)]]> 27362503
Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up â€� she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.

Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no datingâ€� rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place.

As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan � her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.]]>
386 Colleen Hoover 1668021048 xime 5 2022, book-club-og 4.11 2016 It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
author: Colleen Hoover
name: xime
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2022/01/04
date added: 2025/01/14
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<![CDATA[A Curse So Dark and Lonely (Cursebreakers, #1)]]> 43204703 here.

Fall in love, break the curse.

Cursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year, Prince Rhen, the heir of Emberfall, thought he could be saved easily if a girl fell for him. But that was before he turned into a vicious beast hell-bent on destruction. Before he destroyed his castle, his family, and every last shred of hope.

Nothing has ever been easy for Harper. With her father long gone, her mother dying, and her brother constantly underestimating her because of her cerebral palsy, Harper learned to be tough enough to survive. When she tries to save a stranger on the streets of Washington, DC, she's pulled into a magical world.

Break the curse, save the kingdom.

Harper doesn't know where she is or what to believe. A prince? A curse? A monster? As she spends time with Rhen in this enchanted land, she begins to understand what's at stake. And as Rhen realizes Harper is not just another girl to charm, his hope comes flooding back. But powerful forces are standing against Emberfall . . . and it will take more than a broken curse to save Harper, Rhen, and his people from utter ruin.]]>
484 Brigid Kemmerer 1681195089 xime 3 2020, book-club-og 3.94 2019 A Curse So Dark and Lonely (Cursebreakers, #1)
author: Brigid Kemmerer
name: xime
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2019
rating: 3
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La red de Alice 48747543
1915. Un año después del estallido de la Gran Guerra, Eve Gardiner estå deseando unirse a la lucha contra los alemanes así que no duda un instante cuando es reclutada para trabajar como espía y enviada a Francia como parte de la organización clandestina conocida como «la red de Alice».

Tres décadas mås tarde, obsesionada por la traición que destruyó la red, Eve pasa sus días entre botellas de alcohol encerrada en su ruinosa casa de Londres. Hasta que una joven americana aparece en su puerta pronunciando un nombre que Eve no ha escuchado desde hace décadas y embarcada en una misión: averiguar la verdad sin importar a dónde conduzca.]]>
576 Kate Quinn 8491292918 xime 0 2024 4.23 2017 La red de Alice
author: Kate Quinn
name: xime
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at: 2024/11/15
date added: 2025/01/14
shelves: 2024
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<![CDATA[Fifty Shades Freed (Fifty Shades, #3)]]> 13536860
Now, Ana and Christian have it all—love, passion, intimacy, wealth, and a world of possibilities for their future.ÌęBut Ana knows that loving her Fifty Shades will not be easy, and that being together will pose challenges that neither of them would anticipate.ÌęAna must somehow learn to share Christian’s opulent lifestyle without sacrificing her own identity. And Christian must overcome his compulsion to control as he wrestles with the demons of a tormented past.

Just when it seems that their strength together will eclipse any obstacle, misfortune, malice, and fate conspire to make Ana’s deepest fears turn to reality.

This book is intended for mature audiences.]]>
579 E.L. James 0345803507 xime 2 2025 3.83 2012 Fifty Shades Freed (Fifty Shades, #3)
author: E.L. James
name: xime
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2012
rating: 2
read at: 2025/01/12
date added: 2025/01/12
shelves: 2025
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<![CDATA[Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades, #2)]]> 11857408 Fifty Shades Darker is the irresistibly addictive second part of the Fifty Shades trilogy.]]> 532 E.L. James 1612130585 xime 2 2025 esta igual de malo que el primero? si ]]> 3.84 2011 Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades, #2)
author: E.L. James
name: xime
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2011
rating: 2
read at: 2025/01/08
date added: 2025/01/12
shelves: 2025
review:
porque decidĂ­ continuar con la serie? no lo se
esta igual de malo que el primero? si
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<![CDATA[Love in the Time of Serial Killers]]> 59722215
PhD candidate Phoebe Walsh has always been obsessed with true crime. She’s even analyzing the genre in her dissertation—if she can manage to finish writing it. It’s hard to find the time while she spends the summer in Florida, cleaning out her childhood home, dealing with her obnoxiously good-natured younger brother, and grappling with the complicated feelings of mourning a father she hadn’t had a relationship with for years.

It doesn’t help that she’s low-key convinced that her new neighbor, Sam Dennings, is a serial killer (he may dress business casual by day, but at night he’s clearly up to something). It’s not long before Phoebe realizes that Sam might be something much scarier—a genuinely nice guy who can pierce her armor to reach her vulnerable heart.]]>
336 Alicia Thompson 0593438663 xime 1 2024 3.27 2022 Love in the Time of Serial Killers
author: Alicia Thompson
name: xime
average rating: 3.27
book published: 2022
rating: 1
read at: 2024/12/30
date added: 2025/01/12
shelves: 2024
review:
lo Ășnico bueno de este libro es la portada
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Find Her 52297052
Johnny has forgotten why he loves music. Thankfully the rock gods have sent him a beautiful muse who breathes new life into his world with one word, one touch. He’s never met anyone like Hope and he’s not letting her go.

But when Johnny wakes up alone after the best night of his life, he has no idea how to find a missing Hope. Did he dream her? His heart refuses to believe it and he’ll tear the town apart to prove she—and their love—is real.]]>
Tessa Bailey xime 1 2024 2.51 2019 Find Her
author: Tessa Bailey
name: xime
average rating: 2.51
book published: 2019
rating: 1
read at: 2024/11/22
date added: 2025/01/12
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Bullet Train (Assassins, #2) 56969543 A dark, satirical thriller by the bestselling Japanese author, following the perilous train ride of five highly motivated assassins—soon to be a major film from Sony

Nanao, nicknamed Lady Bird—the self-proclaimed “unluckiest assassin in the world”—boards a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with one simple task: grab a suitcase and get off at the next stop. Unbeknownst to him, the deadly duo Tangerine and Lemon are also after the very same suitcase—and they are not the only dangerous passengers onboard. Satoshi, “the Prince,â€� with the looks of an innocent schoolboy and the mind of a viciously cunning psychopath, is also in the mix and has history with some of the others. Risk fuels him as does a good philosophical debate . . . like, is killing really wrong? Chasing the Prince is another assassin with a score to settle for the time the Prince casually pushed a young boy off of a roof, leaving him comatose.

When the five assassins discover they are all on the same train, they realize their missions are not as unrelated as they first appear.

A massive bestseller in Japan, Bullet Train is an original and propulsive thriller that fizzes with an incredible energy and surprising humor as its complex net of double-crosses and twists unwind. Award-winning author Kotaro Isaka takes readers on a tension packed journey as the bullet train hurtles toward its final destination. Who will make it off the train alive—and what awaits them at the last stop?]]>
432 Kƍtarƍ Isaka 1419756338 xime 3 2024 3.88 2010 Bullet Train (Assassins, #2)
author: Kƍtarƍ Isaka
name: xime
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2010
rating: 3
read at: 2024/11/20
date added: 2025/01/12
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<![CDATA[Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)]]> 7260188 My name is Katniss Everdeen.
Why am I not dead?
I should be dead.

Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss's family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 really does exist. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding.

It is by design that Katniss was rescued from the arena in the cruel and haunting Quarter Quell, and it is by design that she has long been part of the revolution without knowing it. District 13 has come out of the shadows and is plotting to overthrow the Capitol. Everyone, it seems, has had a hand in the carefully laid plans—except Katniss.

The success of the rebellion hinges on Katniss's willingness to be a pawn, to accept responsibility for countless lives, and to change the course of the future of Panem. To do this, she must put aside her feelings of anger and distrust. She must become the rebels' Mockingjay—no matter what the personal cost.]]>
390 Suzanne Collins 0439023513 xime 4 2024 4.10 2010 Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
author: Suzanne Collins
name: xime
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at: 2024/08/11
date added: 2025/01/12
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<![CDATA[Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)]]> 6148028 Sparks are igniting.
Flames are spreading.
And the Capitol wants revenge.

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol—a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create.

Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest that she's afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she's not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can't prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying.

In Catching Fire, the second novel of the Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, testing her more than ever before . . . and surprising readers at every turn.]]>
391 Suzanne Collins 0439023491 xime 5 2024 4.34 2009 Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
author: Suzanne Collins
name: xime
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2009
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)]]> 2767052
Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun. . . .

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before-and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.]]>
374 Suzanne Collins 0439023483 xime 5 2024 4.34 2008 The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
author: Suzanne Collins
name: xime
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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Padre rico, padre pobre 9905729
Con ese mensaje clavado en su mente, Kiyosaki logró retirarse a los 47 años. Padre rico Padre pobre presenta la filosofía detrås de esta relación excepcional con el dinero. Este libro aboga de manera convincente por el tipo de #conocimiento financiero# que nunca se enseña en las escuelas. Basado en el principio que los bienes que generan ingreso siempre dan mejores resultados que los mejores trabajos tradicionales, explica cómo pueden adquirirse dichos bienes para, eventualmente, olvidarse de trabajar.]]>
278 Robert T. Kiyosaki 987578124X xime 4 2024 3.90 1997 Padre rico, padre pobre
author: Robert T. Kiyosaki
name: xime
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1997
rating: 4
read at: 2024/07/23
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El ocho (El ocho, #1) 1560293 864 Katherine Neville 8495501090 xime 3 2024 3.92 1988 El ocho (El ocho, #1)
author: Katherine Neville
name: xime
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1988
rating: 3
read at: 2024/07/22
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łŐČč±ô±đČÔłÙĂ­Čč 55553565 Kelbin Torres xime 2 2024 3.62 łŐČč±ô±đČÔłÙĂ­Čč
author: Kelbin Torres
name: xime
average rating: 3.62
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rating: 2
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El jardĂ­n de las mariposas 38595865 Cerca de una aislada mansiĂłn existe un jardĂ­n donde se cultivan delicadas flores y en Ă©l, abrigada por frondosos ĂĄrboles, habita una exquisita y peculiar colecciĂłn de mariposas que es resguardada por el Jardinero, un hombre que desconoce los lĂ­mites de su obsesiĂłn por preservar la belleza.
Maya es una sobreviviente del jardĂ­n y ahora tendrĂĄ que narrar a los agentes del FBI los horrores que viviĂł mientras permanecĂ­a en cautiverio junto con otras chicas que ni siquiera habĂ­an alcanzado la mayorĂ­a de edad. En su memoria viven las peores pesadillas. En su espalda, como en las de todas las jĂłvenes mariposas, un tatuaje le recordarĂĄ por siempre un crimen imperdonable.

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326 Dot Hutchison 6070746910 xime 5 2024 4.12 2016 El jardĂ­n de las mariposas
author: Dot Hutchison
name: xime
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2016
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[El color de las cosas invisibles]]> 136078054 Rain y Jack pertenecen a planetas distintos.
Rain y Jack no pueden tener menos cosas en comĂșn.
Y, sin embargo, no dejan de cruzarse.
Una y otra vez.
Primero en el instituto, luego en un concierto e, inesperadamente, también unos años después, cuando ya creían que no volverían a encontrarse. Incluso se ven empujados a compartir una noche en una casa perdida en mitad del bosque.
Rain piensa que las casualidades no existen.
Jack, que las causalidades no lo explican todo.
Los dos quieren tener razĂłn. Y los dos saben que se equivocan.
Y ambos intuyen que, sea cual sea la verdad, cuando se trata de amor no hay teorĂ­a cientĂ­fica que haga entender el mecanismo de un corazĂłn cuando otro lo sacude.]]>
512 Andrea Longarela 8408271946 xime 3 2024 4.23 2023 El color de las cosas invisibles
author: Andrea Longarela
name: xime
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2023
rating: 3
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<![CDATA[Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)]]> 60879779
I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that.

Have I killed someone? Yes. I have.

Who was it?

Let's get started.

EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE

My brother

My stepsister

My wife

My father

My mother

My sister-in-law

My uncle

My stepfather

My aunt

Me]]>
371 Benjamin Stevenson 0063279029 xime 2 2024 3.75 2022 Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)
author: Benjamin Stevenson
name: xime
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2022
rating: 2
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<![CDATA[Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)]]> 44421460 What would you change if you could go back in time?

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.

In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’s time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.

But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .

Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?]]>
213 Toshikazu Kawaguchi 1529029589 xime 3 2024 3.67 2015 Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
name: xime
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2015
rating: 3
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A Little Life 22822858
Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride.ÌęYet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he’ll not only be unable to overcome—but that will define his life forever.]]>
720 Hanya Yanagihara 0385539258 xime 5 favorites, 2024 4.28 2015 A Little Life
author: Hanya Yanagihara
name: xime
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2015
rating: 5
read at: 2024/07/01
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Everything I Know About Love 46041465
When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, journalist and former Sunday Times columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, finding a job, getting drunk, getting dumped, realizing that Ivan from the corner shop might just be the only reliable man in her life, and that absolutely no one can ever compare to her best girlfriends. Everything I Know About Love is about bad dates, good friends and—above all elseâ€� realizing that you are enough.

Glittering with wit and insight, heart and humor, Dolly Alderton’s unforgettable debut weaves together personal stories, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes, and other vignettes that will strike a chord of recognition with women of every age—making you want to pick up the phone and tell your best friends all about it. Like Bridget Jonesâ€� Diary but all true, Everything I Know About Love is about the struggles of early adulthood in all its terrifying and hopeful uncertainty.]]>
368 Dolly Alderton 0062968785 xime 2 2024 3.98 2018 Everything I Know About Love
author: Dolly Alderton
name: xime
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2018
rating: 2
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<![CDATA[A ​Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4)]]> 53138095
The one person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred warrior whose position in Rhysand and Feyre's Night Court keeps him constantly in Nesta's orbit. But her temper isn't the only thing Cassian ignites. The fire between them is undeniable, and only burns hotter as they are forced into close quarters with each other.

Meanwhile, the treacherous human queens who returned to the Continent during the last war have forged a dangerous new alliance, threatening the fragile peace that has settled over the realms. And the key to halting them might very well rely on Cassian and Nesta facing their haunting pasts.

Against the sweeping backdrop of a world seared by war and plagued with uncertainty, Nesta and Cassian battle monsters from within and without as they search for acceptance-and healing-in each other's arms.]]>
757 Sarah J. Maas 168119628X xime 4 2024 4.44 2021 A ​Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4)
author: Sarah J. Maas
name: xime
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2021
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3.5)]]> 50659471
Yet even the festive atmosphere can't keep the shadows of the past from looming. As Feyre navigates her first Winter Solstice as High Lady, her concern for those dearest to her deepens. They have more wounds than she anticipated-scars that will have a far-reaching impact on the future of their court.

Bridging the events of A Court of Wings and Ruin with the later books in the series, A Court of Frost and Starlight explores the far-reaching effects of a devastating war and the fierce love between friends.]]>
272 Sarah J. Maas 1635575621 xime 3 2024 3.69 2019 A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3.5)
author: Sarah J. Maas
name: xime
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2019
rating: 3
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<![CDATA[A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)]]> 50659472 The epic third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas.

Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's actions and learn what she can about the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit. One slip could bring doom not only for Feyre, but for everything-and everyone-she holds dear.

As war bears down upon them all, Feyre endeavors to take her place amongst the High Fae of the land, balancing her struggle to master her powers-both magical and political-and her love for her court and family. Amidst these struggles, Feyre and Rhysand must decide whom to trust amongst the cunning and lethal High Lords, and hunt for allies in unexpected places.

In this thrilling third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Sarah J. Maas, the fate of Feyre's world is at stake as armies grapple for power over the one thing that could destroy it.]]>
699 Sarah J. Maas 1635575605 xime 4 2024 4.47 2017 A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)
author: Sarah J. Maas
name: xime
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2017
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)]]> 50659468
Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though she's now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is haunted by her time Under the Mountain and the terrible deeds she performed to save the lives of Tamlin and his people.

As her marriage to Tamlin approaches, Feyre's hollowness and nightmares consume her. She finds herself split into two different one who upholds her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court, and one who lives out her life in the Spring Court with Tamlin. While Feyre navigates a dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms. She might just be the key to stopping it, but only if she can harness her harrowing gifts, heal her fractured soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her future-and the future of a world in turmoil.

Bestselling author Sarah J. Maas's masterful storytelling brings this second book in her dazzling, sexy, action-packed series to new heights.]]>
626 Sarah J. Maas 1635575583 xime 5 2024 4.65 2016 A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
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average rating: 4.65
book published: 2016
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)]]> 16096824
Dragged to a magical kingdom for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest. Feyre's presence at the court is closely guarded, and as she begins to learn why, her feelings for him turn from hostility to passion and the faerie lands become an even more dangerous place. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose him forever.]]>
419 Sarah J. Maas 1619634449 xime 3 2024 4.17 2015 A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
author: Sarah J. Maas
name: xime
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2015
rating: 3
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Lo Ășltimo que me dijo 60313137
LO ÚLTIMO QUE ME DIJO FUE: PROTÉGELA

Antes de que Owen Michaels desapareciera, consiguió pasar a escondidas una nota a su nueva esposa, Hannah: «Protégela». Hannah sabe exactamente a quién se refiere la nota: Bailey, la hija adolescente de Owen, quien perdió trågicamente a su madre cuando era niña. Y que no quiere tener absolutamente nada que ver con su nueva madrastra.

Mientras las llamadas desesperadas de Hannah a su esposo quedan sin respuesta, el jefe de Owen es arrestado por fraude y la policía comienza a interrogarla; entonces se da cuenta de que su esposo no es quien decía ser. Y que Bailey podría tener la clave para descubrir la verdadera identidad de Owen y el porqué de su misteriosa desaparición. Juntas se han propuesto descubrir la verdad. Pero a medida que comienzan a reunir las piezas del pasado de Owen, enseguida se dan cuenta de que sus vidas nunca volverån a ser las mismas.

Una novela de misterio apasionante y repleta de suspense, ideal para los lectores de Lianne Moriarty y Celeste Ng.

MÁS DE UN MILLÓN DE EJEMPLARES VENDIDOS

BEST SELLER DEL NEW YORK TIMES

SELECCIÓN DEL CLUB DE LECTURA DE REESE WITHERSPOON

PRÓXIMAMENTE UNA SERIE DE TV DE LA MANO DE JENNIFER GARNER
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340 Laura Dave 8418870591 xime 4 2024 3.49 2021 Lo Ășltimo que me dijo
author: Laura Dave
name: xime
average rating: 3.49
book published: 2021
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1)]]> 7090447
On Christmas Eve, Sadie and Carter are reunited when their father brings them to the British Museum, with a promise that he's going to "make things right." But all does not go according to plan: Carter and Sadie watch as Julius summons a mysterious figure, who quickly banishes their father and causes a fiery explosion.

Soon Carter and Sadie discover that the gods of Ancient Egypt are waking, and the worst of them—Set—has a frightening scheme. To save their father, they must embark on a dangerous journey—a quest that brings them ever closer to the truth about their family and its links to the House of Life, a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.]]>
528 Rick Riordan 1423113381 xime 4 2024 4.10 2010 The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1)
author: Rick Riordan
name: xime
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at: 2024/03/31
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Un cuento perfecto 48907056 ¿Qué sucede cuando descubres que el final de tu cuento no es como soñabas?

Érase una vez una mujer que lo tenía todo y un chico que no tenía nada.
Érase una vez una historia de amor entre el Ă©xito y la duda.
Érase una vez un cuento perfecto.]]>
640 ElĂ­sabet Benavent 8491291911 xime 5 2024 4.13 2020 Un cuento perfecto
author: ElĂ­sabet Benavent
name: xime
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2020
rating: 5
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Dispara, yo ya estoy muerto 18050082
A finales del siglo XIX, durante la Ășltima etapa zarista, los Zucker, perseguidos por ser judĂ­os, tienen que abandonar Rusia huyendo del horror y la sinrazĂłn. A su llegada a la Tierra Prometida, Samuel Zucker adquiere las tierras de los Ziad, una familia ĂĄrabe encabezada por Ahmed. Entre Ă©l y Samuel nace un fuerte vĂ­nculo, una sĂłlida amistad que, por encima de las diferencias religiosas y polĂ­ticas, se mantiene generaciĂłn tras generaciĂłn.

Con las amenazas, la sed de venganza y muchas pasiones desatadas como telĂłn de fondo, las vidas entrecruzadas de los Zucker y los Ziad conforman un mosaico de traiciones y sufrimientos, de amores posibles e imposibles, al tiempo que plasman la gran aventura de vivir y convivir en un territorio marcado por la intolerancia.

Intensa y conmovedora crónica de dos sagas familiares, la nueva y esperadísima novela de Julia Navarro nos adentra en las vidas de personas con nombres y apellidos, que luchan por alcanzar sus sueños, y que son responsables de su propio destino.]]>
912 Julia Navarro 0345805267 xime 5 2024 4.36 2013 Dispara, yo ya estoy muerto
author: Julia Navarro
name: xime
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2013
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[Gleanings (Arc of a Scythe, #3.5)]]> 60320602
There are still countless tales of the Scythedom to tell. Centuries passed between the Thunderhead cradling humanity and Scythe Goddard trying to turn it upside down. For years, humans lived in a world without hunger, disease, or death with Scythes as the living instruments of population control.

Neal Shusterman—along with collaborators David Yoon, Jarrod Shusterman, Sofía Lapuente, Michael H. Payne, Michelle Knowlden, and Joelle Shusterman—returns to the world throughout the timeline of the Arc of a Scythe series. Discover secrets and histories of characters you’ve followed for three volumes and meet new heroes, new foes, and some figures in between.

Gleanings shows just how expansive, terrifying, and thrilling the world that began with the Printz Honor–winning Scythe truly is.]]>
423 Neal Shusterman 1534499970 xime 3 2024 4.01 2022 Gleanings (Arc of a Scythe, #3.5)
author: Neal Shusterman
name: xime
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2024/01/29
date added: 2025/01/12
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Manacled 52122096
Fanfiction for Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling.
Words: 370,256]]>
925 SenLinYu xime 5 2024 4.64 2019 Manacled
author: SenLinYu
name: xime
average rating: 4.64
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2024/01/24
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Murder in the Family 63241097 A shocking thriller about a cold case, a fictional true crime series, and the family caught in the middle.

SIX EPISODES. ONE KILLER.

It was a case that gripped the nation. In December 2003, Luke Ryder, the stepfather of acclaimed filmmaker Guy Howard (then aged 10), was found dead in the garden of their suburban family home.

Luke Ryder's murder has never been solved. Everyone present around the time of the murder swears they saw nothing. Despite a high-profile police investigation and endless media attention, no suspect was ever charged.

But some murder cases are simply too big to forget...

Now comes the sensational new Netflix series Infamous, dedicated to investigating--and perhaps cracking--this famous cold case. The production team will re-examine testimony, re-interview witnesses, and once again scour the evidence. The family will speak. The key players will be reunited--on camera. The truth will come out.

Are you ready to see it?]]>
466 Cara Hunter 0063272075 xime 4 2024 3.70 2023 Murder in the Family
author: Cara Hunter
name: xime
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2023
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[CrĂłnica de una muerte anunciada]]> 762 118 Gabriel GarcĂ­a MĂĄrquez 1400034957 xime 0 3.95 1981 CrĂłnica de una muerte anunciada
author: Gabriel GarcĂ­a MĂĄrquez
name: xime
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1981
rating: 0
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La vuelta al mundo en 80 dĂ­as 38617139 187 Jules Verne xime 0 3.95 1872 La vuelta al mundo en 80 dĂ­as
author: Jules Verne
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average rating: 3.95
book published: 1872
rating: 0
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La empleada 148660864
Todos los dĂ­as limpio la hermosa casa de los Winchester de arriba abajo, recojo a su hija de la escuela y preparo una deliciosa cena para toda la familia antes de irme a comer sola a mi pequeña habitaciĂłn en el Ășltimo piso.

Intento ignorar cómo Nina ensucia solo para verme limpiar, cómo cuenta mentiras de su propia hija a los extraños y cómo su esposo, Andrew, parece mås roto cada día. Pero al mirar en los hermosos ojos cafés de Andrew, tan llenos de dolor, es duro no imaginar cómo sería tener la vida de Nina. El vestidor, el auto lujoso, el marido perfecto.

Solo una vez me pruebo uno de los vestidos blancos inmaculados de Nina. Solo para ver qué se siente. Pero pronto se da cuenta... y para cuando yo comprendo que mi cuarto en el åtico se cierra por fuera, ya es demasiado tarde.

Pero me tranquilizo a mí misma: los Winchester no saben quién soy en realidad.
No saben de lo que soy capaz...]]>
344 Freida McFadden 1644739070 xime 0 to-read 4.28 2022 La empleada
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average rating: 4.28
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I'm Glad My Mom Died 59364173
Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,â€� eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?â€� She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income.

In I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail—just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly , she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi (“Hi Gale!â€�), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants.

Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I’m Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.]]>
320 Jennette McCurdy xime 0 to-read 4.45 2022 I'm Glad My Mom Died
author: Jennette McCurdy
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El día que el cielo se caiga 29933338 Nacho se marcha a Londres. Allí encontrarå al amor de su vida, a quien luego perderå a causa de una desconocida enfermedad. Alba, que no sabe lo mal que lo estå pasando su amigo, acude a él tras su fracaso matrimonial. Su reencuentro crea una unión irrompible, pero al cabo de poco tiempo ella descubre que Nacho también estå enfermo.
En su afĂĄn por ayudarlo a luchar contra lo que parece inevitable, Alba conocerĂĄ a VĂ­ctor. Y lo que en un principio no son mĂĄs que encuentros fortuitos, se acaba convirtiendo en un amor incondicional que le permitirĂĄ superar sus miedos e inseguridades.
Esta novela harå que te cuestiones varias cosas: ¿por qué el destino es capaz de hacernos encontrar a nuestra media naranja en el peor momento de nuestra vida? ¿Por qué siempre decimos que se mueren los buenos y los malos se quedan aquí para fastidiarnos? Si quieres conocer el desenlace de esta tierna, emotiva y dura historia de amor y amistad, no te pierdas El día que el cielo se caiga.]]>
464 Megan Maxwell 8408155873 xime 0 to-read 4.27 2016 El dĂ­a que el cielo se caiga
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La luz que no puedes ver 25043529
En una ciudad minera de Alemania, el joven huérfano Werner crece junto a su hermana pequeña, cautivado por una rudimentaria radio que ambos encuentran. Werner se convierte en un experto en construir y reparar estos aparatos cruciales para los nuevos tiempos, un talento que no pasa desapercibido a las Juventudes Hitlerianas.

Siguiendo al ejĂ©rcito alemĂĄn, Werner deberĂĄ atravesar el corazĂłn en guerra de Europa. Hasta que en la Ășltima noche antes de la liberaciĂłn de Saint-Malo los caminos de Werner y Marie-Laure por fin se crucen. Y sus vidas cambien para siempre.]]>
658 Anthony Doerr 8483657619 xime 3 2024 4.04 2014 La luz que no puedes ver
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<![CDATA[Heartstopper: Volume Five (Heartstopper, #5)]]> 53344030
Nick and Charlie are very much in love. They've finally said those three little words, and Charlie has almost persuaded his mum to let him sleep over at Nick's house ... But with Nick going off to university next year, is everything about to change?

By Alice Oseman, winner of the YA Book Prize, Heartstopper encompasses all the small moments of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us.

Contains discussions around mental health and eating disorders, and sexual references.]]>
336 Alice Oseman 1444957651 xime 5 2024 4.47 2023 Heartstopper: Volume Five (Heartstopper, #5)
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<![CDATA[The Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Senior Year Adventures, #1)]]> 63035432
Unfortunately, the gods aren’t quite done with him yet. Poseidon breaks the bad news that if Percy expects to get into New Rome University, he will have to fulfill three quests in order to earn the necessary three letters of recommendation from Mount Olympus.

The first task is to help Ganymede, Zeus’s cupbearer, retrieve his golden goblet before it falls into the wrong hands. You see, one sip from it can turn a mortal into a god, and Zeus would not be pleased with that result. Can Percy and his friends Grover and Annabeth find the precious cup in time? And if they do, will they be able to resist its special power?

Readers new to Percy Jackson universe and fans who have been awaiting this reunion for more than a decade will delight equally in this latest hilarious take on Greek mythology by the "storyteller of the gods."]]>
288 Rick Riordan 1368098177 xime 5 2023 4.27 2023 The Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Senior Year Adventures, #1)
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<![CDATA[The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus, #5)]]> 18705209 Nico had warned them. Going through the House of Hades would stir the demigods' worst memories. Their ghosts would become restless. Nico may actually become a ghost if he has to shadow-travel with Reyna and Coach Hedge one more time. But that might be better than the alternative: allowing someone else to die, as Hades foretold.

Jason's ghost is his mother, who abandoned him when he was little. He may not know how he is going to prove himself as a leader, but he does know that he will not break promises like she did. He will complete his line of the prophecy: To storm or fire the world must fall.

Reyna fears the ghosts of her ancestors, who radiate anger. But she can't allow them to distract her from getting the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half-Blood before war breaks out between the Romans and Greeks. Will she have enough strength to succeed, especially with a deadly hunter on her trail?

Leo fears that his plan won't work, that his friends might interfere. But there is no other way. All of them know that one of the Seven has to die in order to defeat Gaea, the Earth Mother.

Piper must learn to give herself over to fear. Only then will she be able to do her part at the end: utter a single word.

Heroes, gods, and monsters all have a role to play in the climactic fulfillment of the prophecy in The Blood of Olympus, the electrifying finale of the best-selling Heroes of Olympus series.]]>
516 Rick Riordan xime 5 2023 4.42 2014 The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus, #5)
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<![CDATA[The House of Hades (The Heroes of Olympus, #4)]]> 12127810 Hazel stands at a crossroads. She and the remaining crew of the Argo II could return home with the Athena Parthenos statue and try to stop Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter from going to war. Or they could continue their quest to find the House of Hades, where they might be able to open the Doors of Death, rescue their friends Percy and Annabeth from Tartarus, and prevent monsters from being reincarnated in the mortal world. Whichever road they decide to take, they have to hurry, because time is running out. Gaea, the bloodthirsty Earth Mother, has set the date of August 1 for her rise to power.

Annabeth and Percy are overwhelmed. How will the two of them make it through Tartarus? Starving, thirsty, and in pain, they are barely able to stumble on in the dark and poisonous landscape that holds new horrors at every turn. They have no way of locating the Doors of Death. Even if they did, a legion of Gaea's strongest monsters guards the Doors on the Tartarus side. Annabeth and Percy can't exactly launch a frontal assault.

Despite the terrible odds, Hazel, Annabeth, Percy, and the other demigods of the prophecy know that there is only one choice: to attempt the impossible. Not just for themselves, but for everyone they love. Even though love can be the riskiest choice of all.

Join the demigods as they face their biggest challenges yet in The House of Hades, the hair-raising penultimate book in the best-selling Heroes of Olympus series.]]>
597 Rick Riordan 1423146727 xime 5 2023, favorites 4.56 2013 The House of Hades (The Heroes of Olympus, #4)
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<![CDATA[The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus, #3)]]> 12127750 Annabeth is terrified. Just when she's about to be reunited with Percy—after six months of being apart, thanks to Hera—it looks like Camp Jupiter is preparing for war. As Annabeth and her friends Jason, Piper, and Leo fly in on the Argo II, she can't blame the Roman demigods for thinking the ship is a Greek weapon. With its steaming bronze dragon figurehead, Leo's fantastical creation doesn't appear friendly. Annabeth hopes that the sight of their praetor Jason on deck will reassure the Romans that the visitors from Camp Half-Blood are coming in peace.

And that's only one of her worries. In her pocket, Annabeth carries a gift from her mother that came with an unnerving command: Follow the Mark of Athena. Avenge me. Annabeth already feels weighed down by the prophecy that will send seven demigods on a quest to find—and close—the Doors of Death. What more does Athena want from her?

Annabeth's biggest fear, though, is that Percy might have changed. What if he's now attached to Roman ways? Does he still need his old friends? As the daughter of the goddess of war and wisdom, Annabeth knows she was born to be a leader—but never again does she want to be without Seaweed Brain by her side

Narrated by four different demigods, The Mark of Athena is an unforgettable journey across land and sea to Rome, where important discoveries, surprising sacrifices, and unspeakable horrors await. Climb aboard the Argo II, if you dare. . . .]]>
586 Rick Riordan 1423140605 xime 5 2023 4.47 2012 The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus, #3)
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<![CDATA[The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus, #2)]]> 9520360 PERCY IS CONFUSED. When he awoke from his long sleep, he didn't know much more than his name. His brain fuzz is lingering, even after the wolf Lupa told him he is a demigod and trained him to fight with the pen/sword in his pocket. Somehow Percy manages to make it to a camp for half-bloods, despite the fact that he has to keep killing monsters along the way. But the camp doesn't ring any bells with him. The only thing he can recall from his past is another name: Annabeth.

HAZEL IS SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD. When she lived before, she didn't do a very good job of it. Sure, she was an obedient daughter, even when her mother was possessed by greed. But that was the problem—when the Voice took over her mother and commanded Hazel to use her "gift" for an evil purpose, Hazel couldn't say no. Now because of her mistake, the future of the world is at risk. Hazel wishes she could ride away from it all on the stallion that appears in her dreams.

FRANK IS A KLUTZ. His grandmother says he is descended from heroes and can be anything he wants to be, but he doesn't see it. He doesn't even know who his father is. He keeps hoping Apollo will claim him, because the only thing he is good at is archery—although not good enough to win camp war games. His bulky physique makes him feel like an ox, especially in front of Hazel, his closest friend at camp. He trusts her completely—enough to share the secret he holds close to his heart.

Beginning at the "other" camp for half-bloods and extending as far as the land beyond the gods, this breathtaking second installment of the Heroes of Olympus series introduces new demigods, revives fearsome monsters, and features other remarkable creatures, all destined to play a part in the Prophesy of Seven.]]>
521 Rick Riordan 1423140591 xime 5 2023 4.41 2011 The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus, #2)
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<![CDATA[The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1)]]> 7736182 JASON HAS A PROBLEM. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper, and his best friend is a guy named Leo. They’re all students at the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids," as Leo puts it. What did Jason do to end up here? And where is here, exactly? Jason doesn't know anything—except that everything seems very wrong.

PIPER HAS A SECRET. Her father has been missing for three days, ever since she had that terrifying nightmare about his being in trouble. Piper doesn’t understand her dream, or why her boyfriend suddenly doesn’t recognize her. When a freak storm hits during the school trip, unleashing strange creatures and whisking her, Jason, and Leo away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood, she has a feeling she’s going to find out, whether she wants to or not.

LEO HAS A WAY WITH TOOLS. When he sees his cabin at Camp Half-Blood, filled with power tools and machine parts, he feels right at home. But there’s weird stuff, too—like the curse everyone keeps talking about, and some camper who's gone missing. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist that each of them—including Leo—is related to a god. Does this have anything to do with Jason's amnesia, or the fact that Leo keeps seeing ghosts?

Join new and old friends from Camp Half-Blood in this thrilling first book in The Heroes of Olympus series. Best-selling author Rick Riordan has pumped up the action, humor, suspense, and mystery in an epic adventure that will leave readers panting for the next installment.]]>
576 Rick Riordan 142311339X xime 5 2023 4.28 2010 The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1)
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<![CDATA[The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life]]> 28257707 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062457738

In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.

For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.

Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited�"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek.

There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.]]>
212 Mark Manson xime 1 2023 3.88 2016 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
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La bailarina de Auschwitz 40520204 Una emocionante historia de superaciĂłn sobre la capacidad del ser humano para sanar y vencer la adversidad

Eger tenía dieciséis años cuando los nazis invadieron su pueblo de Hungría y se la llevaron con el resto de su familia a Auschwitz.

Al pisar el campo, sus padres fueron enviados a la cåmara de gas y ella permaneció junto a su hermana, pendiente de una muerte segura. Pero bailar El Danubio azul para Mengele salvó su vida, y a partir de entonces empezó una nueva lucha por la supervivencia. Primero en los campos de exterminio, luego en la Checoslovaquia tomada por los comunistas y, finalmente, en Estados Unidos, donde acabaría convirtiéndose en discípula de Viktor Frankl. Fue en ese momento, tras décadas ocultando su pasado, cuando se dio cuenta de la necesidad de curar sus heridas, de hablar del horror que había vivido y de perdonar como camino a la sanación. Su mensaje es claro: tenemos la capacidad de escapar de las prisiones que construimos en nuestras mentes y podemos elegir ser libres, sean cuales sean las circunstancias de nuestra vida.]]>
416 Edith Eger 9584264834 xime 5 2023 4.50 2017 La bailarina de Auschwitz
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I Was Never Broken 41546925 149 Sara Sheehan 1719105081 xime 2 2023 4.07 2018 I Was Never Broken
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Esas cosas que nos pesan 59079949
Un libro necesario que pone en valor la importancia de la salud mental. Una reivindicaciĂłn de que el acceso a ayuda profesional deberĂ­a ser un derecho y no un privilegio. Una voz que es la de los jĂłvenes de toda una generaciĂłn.

En esta novela grĂĄfica, Occi siempre pospone su salud mental. No se deja ayudar y cree que absolutamente todo depende de Ă©l. IntentarĂĄ camuflar todo su malestar y buscarĂĄ miles de fĂłrmulas para quitĂĄrselo. Para ello, se dirĂĄ cosas bonitas delante del espejo cada mañana, leerĂĄ numerosos libros que le dirĂĄn cĂłmo debe vivir su vida para ser feliz, harĂĄ maratones de vĂ­deos motivacionales que le repetirĂĄn una y otra vez que Ă©l es el Ășnico culpable de su sufrimiento y, por supuesto, pensarĂĄ mucho en positivo.

Poco a poco, durante las profundas conversaciones que tendrå con Morons, se construirå un espacio seguro donde serå escuchado y validado emocionalmente. Serå entonces cuando se planteé la posibilidad de pedir ayuda profesional. Porque, ¿cómo sabe una persona cuando necesita ir al psicólogo o a la psicóloga? ¿Acaso pedir ayuda significa que hemos fracasado en la vida? ¿Es nuestro motivo suficientemente vålido como para pedir ayuda?

En estas viñetas, Pablo R. Coca, psicólogo y creador del universo Occimorons, nos descubre una entrañable historia que emociona, da esperanza y visibiliza los problemas reales de quienes han puesto sobre la mesa la importancia de la salud mental y normalizan ir al psicólogo o a la psicóloga. Pablo da voz a una generación que reivindica que no se puede con todo. Que tenemos derecho a estar mal, a quejarnos y a que se nos escuche. Porque hay cosas que nos pasan que nos acaban pesando y que nos acaban doliendo. Y aquello que duele, necesita ser hablado.

Una emotiva historia sobre la importancia de escuchar y ser escuchado, de construir vĂ­nculos con responsabilidad afectiva, de que pedir ayuda es totalmente legĂ­timo, de que somos parte de un contexto que debemos tener presente y que a veces, es la causa de nuestro malestar.]]>
128 Occimorons 8402426182 xime 3 2023 4.02 Esas cosas que nos pesan
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<![CDATA[The Toll (Arc of a Scythe, #3)]]> 43822024
In this pulse-pounding conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe trilogy, constitutions are tested and old friends are brought back from the dead.]]>
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<![CDATA[Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)]]> 33555224
Citra, now a junior scythe under Scythe Curie, sees the corruption and wants to help change it from the inside out, but is thwarted at every turn, and threatened by the “new orderâ€� scythes. Realizing she cannot do this alone—or even with the help of Scythe Curie and Faraday, she does the unthinkable, and risks being “deadishâ€� so she can communicate with the Thunderhead—the only being on earth wise enough to solve the dire problems of a perfect world. But will it help solve those problems, or simply watch as perfection goes into decline?]]>
504 Neal Shusterman 1442472456 xime 5 2023 4.38 2018 Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)
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Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1) 28954189 Thou shalt kill.

A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control.

Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe—a role that neither wants. These teens must master the “artâ€� of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own.

An alternate cover edition of ISBN: 9781442472426]]>
435 Neal Shusterman xime 5 favorites, 2023 4.32 2016 Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
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Imagine Me (Shatter Me, #6) 44054122
Juliette Ferrars.

Ella Sommers.

Which is the truth and which is the lie?

Now that Ella knows who Juliette is and what she was created for, things have only become more complicated. As she struggles to understand the past that haunts her and looks to a future more uncertain than ever, the lines between right and wrong—between Ella and Juliette—blur. And with old enemies looming, her destiny may not be her own to control.

The day of reckoning for the Reestablishment is coming. But she may not get to choose what side she fights on.]]>
450 Tahereh Mafi 006267644X xime 2 2023 4.01 2020 Imagine Me (Shatter Me, #6)
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Ignite Me (Shatter Me, #3) 13188676
With Omega Point destroyed, Juliette doesn't know if the rebels, her friends, or even Adam are alive. But that won't keep her from trying to take down The Reestablishment once and for all. Now she must rely on Warner, the handsome commander of Sector 45. The one person she never thought she could trust. The same person who saved her life. He promises to help Juliette master her powers and save their dying world . . . but that's not all he wants with her.

The Shatter Me series is perfect for fans who crave action-packed young adult novels with tantalizing romance like Divergent by Veronica Roth, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, and Legend by Marie Lu. Tahereh Mafi has created a captivating and original story that combines the best of dystopian and paranormal and was praised by Publishers Weekly as "a gripping read from an author who's not afraid to take risks."

Don’t miss Restore Me, the electrifying fourth installment of this New York Times bestselling series, available now!]]>
408 Tahereh Mafi 006208559X xime 4 2023 4.46 2014 Ignite Me (Shatter Me, #3)
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Restore Me (Shatter Me, #4) 34992929 448 Tahereh Mafi 0062676369 xime 3 2023 4.14 2018 Restore Me (Shatter Me, #4)
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Defy Me (Shatter Me, #5) 34992959
Juliette’s short tenure as the supreme commander of North America has been an utter disaster. When the children of the other world leaders show up on her doorstep, she wants nothing more than to turn to Warner for support and guidance. But he shatters her heart when he reveals that he’s been keeping secrets about her family and her identity from her—secrets that change everything.

Juliette is devastated, and the darkness that’s always dwelled within her threatens to consume her. An explosive encounter with unexpected visitors might be enough to push her over the edge.]]>
357 Tahereh Mafi 0062676393 xime 2 2023 4.27 2019 Defy Me (Shatter Me, #5)
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Pedro PĂĄramo 38787
As one enters Juan Rulfo's legendary novel, one follows a dusty road to a town of death. Time shifts from one consciousness to another in a hypnotic flow of dreams, desires, and memories, a world of ghosts dominated by the figure of Pedro PĂĄramo - lover, overlord, murderer.

Rulfo's extraordinary mix of sensory images, violent passions, and unfathomable mysteries has been a profound influence on a whole generation of Latin American writers, including Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Gabriel GarcĂ­a MĂĄrquez. To read Pedro PĂĄramo today is as overwhelming an experience as when it was first published in Mexico back in 1955.]]>
124 Juan Rulfo 0802133908 xime 0 4.06 1955 Pedro PĂĄramo
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The Outsiders 231804 The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for "social") has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a limousine. A greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the outside and needs to watch his back. Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's always been proud of it, even willing to rumble against a gang of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers--until one terrible night when his friend Johnny kills a soc. The murder gets under Ponyboy's skin, causing his bifurcated world to crumble and teaching him that pain feels the same whether a soc or a greaser.

Librarian note: This record is for one of the three editions published with different covers and with ISBN 0-140-38572-X / 978-0-14-038572-4. The records are for the 1988 cover (this record), the 1995 cover, and the 2008 cover which is also the current in-print cover.]]>
208 S.E. Hinton 0670532576 xime 0 4.13 1967 The Outsiders
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Unravel Me (Shatter Me, #2) 13104080
It should have taken Juliette a single touch to kill Warner. But his mysterious immunity to her deadly power has left her shaken, wondering why her ultimate defense mechanism failed against the person she most needs protection from.

She and Adam were able to escape Warner’s clutches and join up with a group of rebels, many of whom have powers of their own. Juliette will finally be able to actively fight against The Reestablishment and try to fix her broken world. And perhaps these new allies can help her shed light on the secret behind Adam’s—and Warner’s—immunity to her killer skin.

Juliette’s world is packed with high-stakes action and tantalizing romance, perfect for fans of the Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard and the Darkest Minds trilogy by Alexandra Bracken.

Ransom Riggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, raved: "A thrilling, high-stakes saga of self-discovery and forbidden love, the Shatter Me series is a must-read for fans of dystopian young-adult literature—or any literature!"]]>
480 Tahereh Mafi 0062085530 xime 4 2023 4.11 2013 Unravel Me (Shatter Me, #2)
author: Tahereh Mafi
name: xime
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2013
rating: 4
read at: 2023/07/08
date added: 2023/07/08
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El baile de las marionetas 48739632
Bilbao, 1937. Del puerto de Santurce estå a punto de zarpar el Habana, que llevarå a mås de cuatro mil niños hasta la Unión Soviética, huyendo de la guerra civil que ahogaba el país. Allí, su historia, la historia de unos exiliados utilizados como marionetas por el gobierno de Stalin, se hilvanarå con la de la perla de åmbar en un viaje de setenta años que desempolvarå recuerdos que nadie quería que viesen la luz.]]>
576 Mercedes Guerrero 8466350217 xime 5 2023 4.25 El baile de las marionetas
author: Mercedes Guerrero
name: xime
average rating: 4.25
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2023/07/02
date added: 2023/07/02
shelves: 2023
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<![CDATA[Consecuencias de decir te quiero]]> 57194311
Quiere, quiere mucho. Pero nunca te olvides de quererte a ti.]]>
108 Manu Erena 8418290781 xime 3 2023 3.69 2020 Consecuencias de decir te quiero
author: Manu Erena
name: xime
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2023/06/29
date added: 2023/07/02
shelves: 2023
review:

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