Natalia's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 11 Apr 2025 04:47:24 -0700 60 Natalia's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Alchemised 222490389 In this riveting dark fantasy debut, a woman with missing memories fights to survive a war-torn world of necromancy and alchemy—and the man tasked with unearthing the deepest secrets of her past.

“What is it you think you’re protecting in that brain of yours? The war is over. Holdfast is dead. The Eternal Flame extinguished. There’s no one left for you to save.�

Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner—of war and of her own mind. Her Resistance friends and allies have been brutally murdered, her abilities suppressed, and the world she knew destroyed.

In the aftermath of a long war, Paladia’s new ruling class of corrupt guild families and depraved necromancers, whose vile, undead creatures helped bring about their victory, holds Helena captive.

According to Resistance records, she was a healer of little importance within their ranks. But Helena has inexplicable memory loss of the months leading up to her capture, making her enemies wonder: Is she truly as insignificant as she appears, or are her lost memories hiding some vital piece of the Resistance’s final gambit?

To uncover the memories buried deep within her mind, Helena is sent to the High Reeve, one of the most powerful and ruthless necromancers in this new world. Trapped on his crumbling estate, Helena’s fight—to protect her lost history and to preserve the last remaining shreds of her former self—is just beginning. For her prison and captor have secrets of their own . . . secrets Helena must unearth, whatever the cost.]]>
1040 SenLinYu 0593972708 Natalia 0 maybe 4.58 2025 Alchemised
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Hard Times 22364136 This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780141439679.

'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root everything else'

Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school owner and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from young minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of humility' Mr Bounderby, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling and robbery. And, as their fortunes cross with those of free-spirited circus girl Sissy Jupe and victimised weaver Stephen Blackpool, Gradgrind is eventually forced to recognise the value of the human heart in an age of materialism and machinery.

This edition of Hard Times is based on the text of the first volume publication of 1854. Kate Flint's introduction sheds light on the frequently overlooked character interplay in Dickens' great critique of Victorian industrial society.]]>
321 Charles Dickens Natalia 0 to-read 3.42 1854 Hard Times
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<![CDATA[Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath]]> 48721389 The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath.

*A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AND THE TIMES*

Determined not to read Plath's work as if her every act, from childhood on, was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark presents new materials about Plath's scientist father, her juvenile writings, and her psychiatric treatment, and evokes a culture in transition in the mid-twentieth century, in the shadow of the atom bomb and the Holocaust, as she explores Sylvia's world: her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife; her conflicted ties to her well-meaning, widowed mother; her troubles at the hands of an unenlightened mental-health industry; and her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes, a true marriage of minds that would change the course of poetry in English.

Clark's clear-eyed sympathy for Hughes, his lover Assia Wevill, and other demonized players in the arena of Plath's suicide promotes a deeper understanding of her final days, with their outpouring of first-rate poems. Along with illuminating readings of the poems themselves, Clark's meticulous, compassionate research brings us closer than ever to the spirited woman and visionary artist who blazed a trail that still lights the way for women poets the world over.]]>
1154 Heather Clark 1473579236 Natalia 0 to-read 4.56 2020 Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
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No huyas 147722296
La tía de Amala, la célebre abogada Francesca Cavalcante, empieza a sospechar que su sobrina ha sido secuestrada por un asesino que hace treinta años estranguló a varias adolescentes. Ella misma se encargó de la defensa del hombre al que se condenó por aquel crimen, y a quien siempre creyó inocente. En la búsqueda frenética por salvar a Amala se unirá a Francesca un extravagante turista israelí, Gerry, la pieza clave para sacar a la luz toda la verdad. Dazieri, un maestro de la intriga adictiva, nos lleva sin aliento hasta un final de altísimo impacto.]]>
472 Sandrone Dazieri 8420461520 Natalia 3 3.61 No huyas
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Flores sobre el infierno 42850762
Teresa y el joven inspector Massimo Marini, llegado desde hace poco de la ciudad a este enclave montañoso, deberán llevar a cabo la investigación más difícil a la que se han enfrentado jamás: un caso que hunde sus raíces en los episodios más oscuros y estremecedores de la historia de este rincón milenario del norte de Italia: un infierno que aún sigue latiendo.

Tras Dicker, D'Andrea y Lemaitre, Alfaguara Negra presenta el debut del año: Flores sobre el infierno de Ilaria Tuti, el thriller tiene nombre de mujer.]]>
352 Ilaria Tuti Natalia 0 to-read 3.75 2018 Flores sobre el infierno
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A Thousand Mornings: Poems 13588404 A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. In these pages, Oliver shares the wonder of dawn, the grace of animals, and the transformative power of attention. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her adored dog, Percy, she is ever patient in her observations and open to the teachings contained in the smallest of moments.

Our most precious chronicler of physical landscape, Oliver opens our eyes to the nature within, to its wild and its quiet. With startling clarity, humor, and kindness, AÌýThousand Mornings explores the mysteries of our daily experience.]]>
82 Mary Oliver 1594204772 Natalia 0 to-read 4.20 2012 A Thousand Mornings: Poems
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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 Natalia 0 to-read 4.66 2025 Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
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Somebody's Daughter 54860610 One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honor and overcome our origins.

For as long as she could remember, Ashley has put her father on a pedestal. Despite having only vague memories of seeing him face-to-face, she believes he's the only person in the entire world who understands her. She thinks she understands him too. He's sensitive like her, an artist, and maybe even just as afraid of the dark. She's certain that one day they'll be reunited again, and she'll finally feel complete. There are just a few problems: he's in prison, and she doesn't know what he did to end up there.

Through poverty, puberty, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley returns to her image of her father for hope and encouragement. She doesn't know how to deal with the incessant worries that keep her up at night, or how to handle the changes in her body that draw unwanted attention from men. In her search for unconditional love, Ashley begins dating a boy her mother hates; when the relationship turns sour, he assaults her. Still reeling from the rape, which she keeps secret from her family, Ashley finally finds out why her father is in prison. And that's where the story really begins.

Somebody’s Daughter steps into the world of growing up a poor Black girl, exploring how isolating and complex such a childhood can be. As Ashley battles her body and her environment, she provides a poignant coming-of-age recollection that speaks to finding the threads between who you are and what you were born into, and the complicated familial love that often binds them.]]>
224 Ashley C. Ford 1250305977 Natalia 0 to-read 4.02 2021 Somebody's Daughter
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<![CDATA[Last to Eat, Last to Learn: My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women]]> 62192921 “Pashtana’s story highlights the resourcefulness and bravery of young women in Afghanistan. I hope readers will be inspired by her mission to give every girl the education she deserves and the opportunity to pursue her dreams.â€â€”Malala Yousafzai

In the spirit of Our House is On Fire by Greta Thunberg, the astonishing and deeply inspiring memoir from a young Afghani activist, Amnesty International Global Youth Ambassador, founder of the NGO LEARN, and women’s education activist whose advocacy for the disappearing girls of rural Afghanistan has led to her being ruthlessly targeted by the Taliban.

A Ms. Magazine Pick for Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2023

“Sparkles with humor and grit. A lovingly narrated, sharply nuanced memoir from a talented activist.â€â€� Kirkus Reviews STARRED REVIEW

Inspired by generations of her family’s unwavering belief in the power of education, Pashtana Durrani recognized her calling early in life: to educate Afghanistan’s girls and young women, raised in a society where learning is forbidden. In a country devastated by war and violence, where girls are often married off before reaching their teenage years and prohibited from leaving their homes, heeding that call seemed both impossible and dangerous.

Pashtana was raised in an Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan where her father, a tribal leader, founded a community school for girls within their home. Fueled by his insistence that despite being a girl, she mattered and deserved an education, Pashtana was sixteen when, against impossible odds, she was granted a path out of the refugee camp: admittance to a preparatory program at Oxford. Unthinkably and to her parents� horror, she chose a different path. She chose Afghanistan.
Pashtana founded the nonprofit LEARN and developed a program for getting educational materials directly into the hands of girls in remote areas of the country, training teachers in digital literacy. Her commitment to education has made her a target of the Taliban. Still, she continues to fight for women’s education and autonomy in Afghanistan and beyond.

Courageous and inspiring, Last to Eat, Last to Learn is the story of how just one person can transform a family, a tribe, a country. It reminds us of the emancipatory power of learning and the transformational potential that lies within each of us.

“An inspiring portrait of a change-maker in action.â€â€� Publishers Weekly

A portion of proceeds from Last to Eat, Last to Learn will be donated to LEARN, the NGO dedicated to providing quality education and healthcare to communities in conflict zones.
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224 Pashtana Durrani 0806542446 Natalia 0 to-read-algun-dia 4.34 2023 Last to Eat, Last to Learn: My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women
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The Third Gilmore Girl 207298106 “Come for the Gilmore Girls anecdotes, stay for the revealing truths about what it takes to build a lifelong career in and out of Hollywood� (The A.V. Club) in this candid and captivating memoir from award-winning and beloved actress Kelly Bishop, spanning her six decades in show business from A Chorus Line, Dirty Dancing, Gilmore Girls, and much more.

Kelly Bishop’s long, storied career has been defined by landmark achievements, from winning a Tony Award for her turn in the original Broadway cast of A Chorus Line to her memorable performance as Jennifer Grey’s mother in Dirty Dancing. But it is probably her iconic role as matriarch Emily in the modern classic Gilmore Girls that cemented her legacy.

Now, Bishop reflects on her remarkable life and looks towards the future with The Third Gilmore Girl. She shares some of her greatest stories and the life lessons she’s learned on her journey. From her early transition from dance to drama, to marrying young to a compulsive gambler, to the losses and achievements she experienced—among them marching for women’s rights and losing her second husband to cancer—Bishop offers a rich, genuine celebration of her life.

Full of witty insights, The Third Gilmore Girl is a warm, unapologetic, and spirited memoir from a woman who has left indelible impressions on her audiences for decades and has no plans on slowing down.]]>
256 Kelly Bishop 1668023776 Natalia 0 to-read 4.35 2024 The Third Gilmore Girl
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<![CDATA[Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism]]> 139400705
This is my offering. My love letter to them, and to us.

Jenn M. Jackson, PhD, has been known to bring historical acuity to some of the most controversial topics in America today. Now, in their first book, Jackson applies their critical analysis to the questions that have long energized their Why has Black women’s freedom fighting been so overlooked throughout history, and what has our society lost because of our refusal to engage with our forestrugglers� lessons?

A love letter to those who have been minimized and forgotten, this collection repositions Black women’s intellectual and political work at the center of today’s liberation movements.

Across eleven original essays that explore the legacy of Black women writers and leaders—from Harriet Jacobs and Ida B. Wells to the Combahee River Collective and Audre Lorde—Jackson sets the record straight about Black women’s longtime movement organizing, theorizing, and coalition building in the name of racial, gender, and sexual justice in the United States and abroad. These essays show, in both critical and deeply personal terms, how Black women have been at the center of modern liberation movements despite the erasure and misrecognition of their efforts. Jackson illustrates how Black women have frequently done the work of liberation at great risk to their lives and livelihoods.

For a new generation of movement organizers and co-strugglers, Black Women Taught Us serves as a reminder that Black women were the first ones to teach us how to fight racism, how to name that fight, and how to imagine a more just world for everyone.]]>
368 Jenn M. Jackson 0593243331 Natalia 0 to-read-algun-dia 4.44 Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism
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<![CDATA[Los árboles caídos también son el bosque]]> 28341458
Simples acciones como preparar un té, cocinar un desayuno perfecto o cavar un pozo se transforman en ceremonias privadas imbuidas de una profunda filosofía –una filosofía que se filtra desde las raíces familiares japonesas de la autora�; en otro plano, bajo la superficie de la acción, el límite entre lo normal, lo cotidiano y lo extraño puede tornarse difuso y el presente idílico de una historia sencilla puede abrir una ventana sorprendente y hasta trágica.

Si bien casi todos los cuentos de Los árboles caídos también son el bosque han sido premiados en Argentina, América Latina y España, varios forman parte de antologías y le han valido a la autora un sólido reconocimiento como cuentista, es probable que para la mayoría de los lectores este libro de Alejandra Kamiya sea una grata novedad: el descubrimiento de una magnífica escritora.]]>
120 Alejandra Kamiya 9874729309 Natalia 5 4.27 2015 Los árboles caídos también son el bosque
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average rating: 4.27
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Unos cuentos hermosos que no tienen miedo de usar el lenguaje como látigos, como abrazos, como ojos, como gritos. Unos cuentos brillantes. Unos cuentos como tienen que ser (en mi opinión) los cuentos: un mundo pequeñito pero infinito, con comienzos y finales bien elegidos, con un sentimiento vivo que nace y crece y cambia hasta el final.
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<![CDATA[The Vicomte de Bragelonne (Trilogie des Mousquetaires #3.1)]]> 369042 The Vicomte de Bragelonne opens an epic adventure which continues with Louise de La Valliere and reaches its climax in The Man in the Iron Mask. This new edition of the classic translation presents a key episode in the Musketeers saga, fully annotated and with an introduction by a leading Dumas scholar.]]> 768 Alexandre Dumas 0192834630 Natalia 0 to-read-algun-dia 3.97 The Vicomte de Bragelonne (Trilogie des Mousquetaires #3.1)
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El Eternauta 191145 352 Héctor Germán Oesterheld 9879961927 Natalia 0 to-read 4.42 1957 El Eternauta
author: Héctor Germán Oesterheld
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<![CDATA[Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us]]> 59808605 Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions about how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress. Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are. She follows an Indian woman, celebrated as a saint, who lives in healing temples in Kerala; an incarcerated mother vying for her children’s forgiveness after recovering from psychosis; a man who devotes his life to seeking revenge upon his psychoanalysts; and an affluent young woman who, after a decade of defining herself through her diagnosis, decides to go off her meds because she doesn’t know who she is without them. Animated by a profound sense of empathy, Aviv’s exploration is refracted through her own account of living in a hospital ward at the age of six and meeting a fellow patient with whom her life runs parallel―until it no longer does.

Aviv asks how the stories we tell about mental disorders shape their course in our lives. Challenging the way we understand and talk about illness, her account is a testament to the porousness and resilience of the mind.]]>
288 Rachel Aviv 0374600848 Natalia 0 to-read 4.10 2022 Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
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How to Hide in Plain Sight 203608444 The unbreakable bonds of family and love are explored in this brilliant and tender story from the author of Guy's Girl.

On the day she arrives in Canada for her older brother's wedding, Eliot Beck hasn't seen her family in three years. Eliot adores her big, wacky, dysfunctional collection of siblings and in-laws, but there's a reason she fled to Manhattan and buried herself in her work—and she’s not ready to share it with anyone. Not when speaking it aloud could send her back into the never-ending cycle of the obsessive-compulsive disorder that consumed her for years.

Eliot thinks she's prepared to survive the four-day-long wedding extravaganza—until she sees her best friend, Manuel, waiting for her at the marina and looking as handsome as ever. He was the person who, when they met as children, felt like finding the missing half of her soul. The person she tried so hard not to fall in love with� but did anyway.

Manuel's presence at the wedding threatens to undo the walls Eliot has built around herself. The fortress that keeps her okay. If she isn't careful, by the end of this wedding, the whole castle might come crumbling down.]]>
400 Emma Noyes 0593639022 Natalia 0 to-read 3.83 2024 How to Hide in Plain Sight
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<![CDATA[The Woman Who Fooled the World: Belle Gibson's Cancer Con]]> 39912518 Belle Gibson convinced the world she had healed herself of terminal brain cancer by eating a healthy diet. She built a global business based on her story. There was just one problem: she never had cancer in the first place.

In 2015, journalists uncovered the truth behind Gibson’s lies. This hero of the wellness world, with over 200,000 followers, international book deals, and a best-selling mobile app, was a fraud. She had lied about having cancer � to her family and friends, to her business partners and publishers, and to the hundreds of thousands of people who were inspired by her, including real cancer survivors.

Written by the two journalists who uncovered the details of Gibson’s deception, The Woman Who Fooled the World tracks the 23-year-old's rise to fame and fall from grace. Told through interviews with the people who know her best, it explores the lure of alternative cancer treatments, exposes the darkness at the heart of the wellness and ‘clean eating� movements, and reveals just how easy it is to manipulate people on social media.

With the idea of ‘clean eating� now routinely debunked by dietary experts, and growing scepticism about the authenticity of what we read online, The Woman Who Fooled the World is a timely and important book that answers not just how, but why, Gibson was able to fool so many.]]>
322 Beau Donelly 1925322467 Natalia 0 to-read 4.07 2017 The Woman Who Fooled the World: Belle Gibson's Cancer Con
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El viento que arrasa 13630363 168 Selva Almada 987269656X Natalia 0 to-read 3.72 2012 El viento que arrasa
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La riada (Blackwater, #1) 202795132
Una saga matriarcal. Mujeres poderosas que luchan por el dominio durante generaciones. Una atmósfera única para una lectura adictiva. Un retrato realista con toques sobrenaturales. Escritura magistral y visual en un ambicioso proyecto entre el pulp y HBO.

«Michael Mcdowell: mi amigo, mi maestro. Fascinante, aterrador, simplemente genial. El mejor de todos nosotros.» STEPHEN KING

«Una sabia combinación entre Dumas y Lovecraft. Un cruce entre Stephen King y Gabriel García Márquez. Despiadadamente adictivo.» ROBERT SHAPLEN, THE NEW YORK TIMES

Las gélidas y oscuras aguas del río Blackwater inundan Perdido, un pequeño pueblo al sur de Alabama. Allí, los Caskey, un gran clan de ricos terratenientes, intentan hacer frente a los daños causados por la riada. Liderados por Mary-Love, la incontestable matriarca, y Óscar, su obediente hijo, los Caskey trabajan por recomponerse y salvaguardar su fortuna. Pero no cuentan con la aparición de la misteriosa Elinor Dammert. Una joven hermosa pero parca en palabras con un único lente: acercarse a los Caskey cueste lo que cueste.]]>
260 Michael McDowell 8419654892 Natalia 0 to-read 3.69 1983 La riada (Blackwater, #1)
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El niño resentido 198812138
Investido por delincuentes venerados, blindado con ropa de marca, henchido de cadenas de oro el pecho y montado en una moto ajena, el protagonista doma el agravio de que algunos tengan todo y otros, nada. Primogénito de una joven adicta al cine y a la cocaína y de un ciruja, hermano de muchos y nieto de una evangelista devota y del dueño de un aguantadero, César González vindica su linaje. Urgido por un hechizo vital, grita su réquiem a los amigos. Inmune al feísmo, la condescendencia y los arquetipos, esta novela lujuriosa y austera es a la vez el primerísimo plano de los devastadores años 90. Un wéstern como los de la tele. Uno de balaceras y choques y persecuciones. Uno de policías y ladrones. De heridos y muertos.

La crítica

«El niño resentido señala con precisión las cosas que no se ven a través de los vidrios polarizados. Correr por pasillos que jamás voy a poder visitar de noche y entender de qué huyo. Una modesta alcantarilla por donde se escurren las ideas con las que enmascaramos nuestros privilegios. Este libro da miedo y tiene la llave para salir del miedo. Suplico que lo lean. A ver si logramos ir juntos para algún lado que no sea la guerra».
Lucrecia Martel
«Duque de pasillo, Beatle de la Carlos Gardel, César González no narra su autobiografí escribe un largo poema, una oda al asfalto ganado, demostrando que es capaz de encontrar un arco iris en un bache donde se juntan restos de lluvia con los rastros de aceite Bardahl que perdió un colectivo».
Leonardo Oyola
«Figura relevante e inquietante de la escena cultural argentina […] interroga las relaciones de clase y de poder y la vida en los barrios populares, reivindicando potencias, gestos, prácticas y encuentros soterrados».
Jacobin
«Las representaciones y las realidades, la falta de tiempo y acceso a herramientas para contar la propia historia, el retrato de los el escritor y cineasta analiza a fondo el juego de espejos deformados entre la villa y el arte».
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«En el futuro será indispensable profundizar en la amplia obra de César González para entender esta época».
La Izquierda Diario
«Un punto de vista infrecuente del que se desprende una voz inconfundible».
Marcelo Figueras, El Cohete a la Luna


«El niño resentido nos lleva por los estrechos pasillos de tierra en los que late la Argentina de la fragmentación social. Es una lectura que incomoda y que no pretende caer simpática. No hay fábula. Hay dolor.»
Horacio Convertini, Clarín
«Con el ritmo aceleradísimo de una vida que se cuenta de milagro, González narra en primera persona el despertar adulto que viven incontables niños criados en las periferias la de los ladrones que se hacen adultos entre dinero fugaz, drogas y violencia, la de los pibes chorros».
José Pablo Criales, El País, España
«Como Arlt, César González rechaza el tutelaje representativo que la clase letrada, mayoritariamente urbana y de raíces europeas, ha asumido sobre "los nadi]]>
172 César González 6316553013 Natalia 4 4.27 El niño resentido
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<![CDATA[Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit]]> 15055
This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts.

At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Innovative, punchy and tender,

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of religious excess and human obsession.]]>
176 Jeanette Winterson Natalia 0 to-read 3.76 1985 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
author: Jeanette Winterson
name: Natalia
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1985
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Siempre hemos vivido en el castillo]]> 33833122 208 Shirley Jackson Natalia 4 3.98 1962 Siempre hemos vivido en el castillo
author: Shirley Jackson
name: Natalia
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1962
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/16
date added: 2025/02/24
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<![CDATA[A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)]]> 13253102 Alternate cover for ISBN 055357342X/9780553573428

Here is the third volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings. Together, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.

Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage, alliances are made and broken. Joffrey sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, victim of the sorceress who holds him in her evil thrall. Young Robb still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons left in the world. And as opposing forces maneuver for the final showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost limits of civilization, accompanied by a horde of mystical Others - a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable. As the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a veritable storm of swords....]]>
1177 George R.R. Martin Natalia 0 unfinished 4.59 2000 A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
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average rating: 4.59
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Sangre en el ojo 13630372 Librarian note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here.

Pero entonces, y si todo amor que no sea absolutamente incondicional, ?Te amo sobre todas las cosas?, no es verdadero amor, este libro no es una novela de amor. -Pues no, ni lo es ni podría serlo, pues el amor, en cuanto movimiento inefable e ininteligible, no puede ser fundamento para una novela que se quiera inteligente. -¿Son incompatibles por tanto el amor y las buenas novelas? -En efecto, amor mío: en la vida lo inexplicable ocupa un lugar siempre sobresaliente aunque difícil de ponderar, pero en las novelas todo motivo, causa o motor de la acción e interrelación entre personajes debe ser inteligible, pues solo a partir de lo argumentable se puede construir y desarrollar un argumento narrativo. Que no tanto del amor sino de lo inesperado es de lo que trata esta novela. De la enfermedad y sus metáforas, que diría Susan Sontag. -Pero el amor provoca también sus propias injurias: el abandono, el daño, los celos, la avaricia, el odio, la indiferencia. -De ahí, quizá, este título tan cruento. Aviso de que no es ciego el amor de que aquí se narra.]]>
176 Lina Meruane 9871673515 Natalia 4 3.94 2012 Sangre en el ojo
author: Lina Meruane
name: Natalia
average rating: 3.94
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rating: 4
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The Stand 87591651
For hundreds of thousands of fans who read The Stand in its original version and wanted more, this new edition is Stephen King's gift. And those who are listening to The Stand for the first time will discover a triumphant and eerily plausible work of the imagination that takes on the issues that will determine our survival.]]>
Stephen King Natalia 0 to-read 4.42 1978 The Stand
author: Stephen King
name: Natalia
average rating: 4.42
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The Book Eaters 58724745
Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon—like all other book eater women—is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairy tales and cautionary stories.

But real life doesn't always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger—not for books, but for human minds.]]>
298 Sunyi Dean 1250810183 Natalia 0 to-read 3.60 2022 The Book Eaters
author: Sunyi Dean
name: Natalia
average rating: 3.60
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Mosca blanca mosca muerta 37457028 ¿Qué hace esta mujer en su discurso? ¿Presume, alardea, desvaría? Se diría que, más bien, todo a la vez. Una rara avis, pero con la lucidez para integrarse socialmente y pasar desapercibida, esta Mosca blanca, mosca muerta conserva intactos –o está absolutamente decidida a recuperar, ¡a su edad!� la capacidad de asombro, el deseo y la voluntad de contarlo todo sin pelos en la lengua.]]> 144 Ana Ojeda 9871803990 Natalia 4 3.62 2017 Mosca blanca mosca muerta
author: Ana Ojeda
name: Natalia
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2017
rating: 4
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The Distance Between Us 157669 Gripping, insightful and deft, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US by Maggie O'Farrell is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives, from the award-winning author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE. It was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller and won the Somerset Maugham Award.

On a cold February afternoon, Stella catches sight of a man she hasn't seen for many years, but instantly recognises. Or thinks she does. At the same moment on the other side of the globe, in the middle of a crowd of Chinese New Year revellers, Jake realises that things are becoming dangerous.

They know nothing of one another's existence, but both Stella and Jake flee their lives: Jake in search of a place so remote it doesn't appear on any map, and Stella for a destination in Scotland, the significance of which only her sister, Nina, will understand.]]>
384 Maggie O'Farrell 0755302664 Natalia 0 to-read 3.67 2004 The Distance Between Us
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<![CDATA[Cómo ser una mujer del Renacimiento]]> 211564263 Una historia alternativa del Renacimiento contada por las mujeres detrás de las pinturas.

Belleza, maquillaje, arte, Cómo ser una mujer en el Renacimiento presenta una historia alternativa de este fascinante período contada por las mujeres detrás de las pinturas.

El Renacimiento fue una época obsesionada por las el mundo visual se pobló de desnudos de la mano de artistas como Miguel Ãngel y Tiziano y emergió una vibrante escena literaria alrededor de consejos de belleza, cosméticos y adornos. Jill Burke nos lleva desde las bulliciosas plazas del mercado italiano hasta los niveles más altos de la sociedad renacentista para acercarnos a las vidas de cortesanas, artistas, actrices y escritoras que se labraron un espacio propio, así como aquellas que ganaron poder e influencia en el despiadado mundo de la corte o las que se rebelaron contra las restricciones de su época en un momento en el que las valoraciones sobre los cuerpos y el color de la piel estaban en el punto de mira debido al contexto colonial.

Esta vívida exploración de la vida íntima de las mujeres renacentistas nos invita a cuestionar las ideas de tenemos sobre nuestro propio cuerpo a la vez que desentraña los orígenes de los ideales de belleza que todavía nos acompañan en la actualidad.

Ìý

«Nunca verás los retratos del Renacimiento de la misma manera.»

Maggie O'Farrell, autora de Hamnet y El retrato de casada]]>
381 Jill Burke 8491996672 Natalia 0 to-read 4.05 Cómo ser una mujer del Renacimiento
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<![CDATA[As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow]]> 57390604
Now Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded who flood through the doors daily. Secretly, though, she is desperate to find a way out of her beloved country before her sister-in-law, Layla, gives birth. So desperate, that she has manifested a physical embodiment of her fear in the form of her imagined companion, Khawf, who haunts her every move in an effort to keep her safe.

But even with Khawf pressing her to leave, Salama is torn between her loyalty to her country and her conviction to survive. Salama must contend with bullets and bombs, military assaults, and her shifting sense of morality before she might finally breathe free. And when she crosses paths with the boy she was supposed to meet one fateful day, she starts to doubt her resolve in leaving home at all.

Soon, Salama must learn to see the events around her for what they truly are—not a war, but a revolution—and decide how she, too, will cry for Syria’s freedom.]]>
417 Zoulfa Katouh 0316351377 Natalia 0 to-read 4.48 2022 As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
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Five Little Indians 52214103
Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world that doesn’t want them. The paths of the five friends cross and crisscross over the decades as they struggle to overcome, or at least forget, the trauma they endured during their years at the Mission.

Fuelled by rage and furious with God, Clara finds her way into the dangerous, highly charged world of the American Indian Movement. Maisie internalizes her pain and continually places herself in dangerous situations. Famous for his daring escapes from the school, Kenny can’t stop running and moves restlessly from job to job—through fishing grounds, orchards and logging camps—trying to outrun his memories and his addiction. Lucy finds peace in motherhood and nurtures a secret compulsive disorder as she waits for Kenny to return to the life they once hoped to share together. After almost beating one of his tormentors to death, Howie serves time in prison, then tries once again to re-enter society and begin life anew.

With compassion and insight, Five Little Indians chronicles the desperate quest of these residential school survivors to come to terms with their past and, ultimately, find a way forward.]]>
304 Michelle Good 1443459194 Natalia 0 to-read 4.47 2020 Five Little Indians
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Indian Horse 11994903

With compassion and insight, author Richard Wagamese traces through his fictional characters the decline of a culture and a cultural way. For Saul, taken forcibly from the land and his family when he’s sent to residential school, salvation comes for a while through his incredible gifts as a hockey player. But in the harsh realities ofÌý1960s Canada, he battles obdurate racism and the spirit-destroying effects of cultural alienation and displacement.ÌýIndian HorseÌýunfolds against the bleak loveliness of northern Ontario, all rock, marsh, bog and cedar. Wagamese writes with a spare beauty, penetrating the heart of a remarkable OjibwayÌýman.]]>
221 Richard Wagamese 1553654021 Natalia 0 to-read 4.40 2012 Indian Horse
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<![CDATA[Consider Me (Playing for Keeps, #1)]]> 199913907
The first book in the globally popular Playing for Keeps series.

For a shot at love, he’ll do whatever it takes�

Carter Beckett is the NHL’s best player—both on and off the ice. His career is at its peak, his friends are performing better than ever, and there’s no shortage of women to spend the night with. What more could he want?

Olivia Parker isn’t new to professional hockey players, thanks to her best friend’s boyfriend, but she has no interest in dating one herself—no matter how hot he is. And anyway, she loves working as a teacher and hanging out with her best friend, drama-free. Why would she want to spend her time stroking the ego of an arrogant athlete?

But once Carter meets Olivia, he can’t think of anything else. Too bad for him, Olivia is hellbent on keeping him at arm’s length, with no intention of giving into his charms. Perhaps it’s time for Carter to up his game…after all, nobody said he had to play fair.

Sparks will fly as Carter does whatever it takes for Olivia to consider him.]]>
544 Becka Mack 1668059177 Natalia 0 maybe 3.74 2022 Consider Me (Playing for Keeps, #1)
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The Underground Railroad 30555488
In Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor--engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.

Like the protagonist of Gulliver's Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey--hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.]]>
320 Colson Whitehead 0385542364 Natalia 0 to-read 4.04 2016 The Underground Railroad
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Something from Tiffany's 60613238
On 5th Avenue in New York City, two very different men are shopping for gifts for the women they love.

Gary is buying his girlfriend Rachel a charm bracelet. Partly to thank her for paying for their holiday-of-a-lifetime to New York. But mainly because he’s left his shopping far too late.

Whereas Ethan’s looking for something a little more special � an engagement ring for the first woman to have made him happy since he lost the love of his life.

But when the two men’s shopping bags get confused, and Rachel somehow ends up with Ethan’s ring, the couples� lives become intertwined.

As Ethan tries to reunite the ring with the woman it was actually intended for, he discovers this isn’t that easy. Does fate have other ideas for the couples? Or is there simply a bit of Tiffany’s magic in the air…]]>
384 Melissa Hill 1728268915 Natalia 0 maybe 3.36 2011 Something from Tiffany's
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Listen to Your Sister 211004179 For fans of Jordan Peele’s films, Stranger Things, and The Other Black Girl, Listen To Your Sister is a laugh-out-loud, deeply terrifying, and big-hearted speculative horror novel from electrifying debut talent Neena Viel.

Twenty-five year old Calla Williams is struggling since becoming guardian to her brother, Jamie. Calla is overwhelmed and tired of being the one who makes sacrifices to keep the family together. Jamie, full of good-natured sixteen-year-old recklessness, is usually off fighting for what matters to him or getting into mischief, often at the same time. Dre, their brother, promised he would help raise Jamie–but now the ink is dry on the paperwork and in classic middle-child fashion, he’s off doing his own thing. And through it all, The Nightmare never stops haunting Calla: recurring images of her brothers dying that she is powerless to stop.

When Jamie’s actions at a protest spiral out of control, the siblings must go on the run. Taking refuge in a remote cabin that looks like it belongs on a slasher movie poster rather than an AirBNB, the siblings now face a new threat where their lives–and reality–hang in the balance. Their sister always warned them about her nightmares. They really should have listened.]]>
352 Neena Viel 1250906326 Natalia 0 to-read 3.27 2025 Listen to Your Sister
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It 644173 Derry: a small city in Maine, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own home town. Only in Derry the haunting is real...

It began for the Losers on a day in June of 1958, the day school let out for the summer. That was the day Henry Bowers carved the first letter of his name on Ben Hanscom's belly and chased him into the Barrens, the day Henry and his Neanderthal friends beat up on Stuttering Bill Denbrough and Eddie Kaspbrak, the day Stuttering Bill had to save Eddie from his worst asthma attack ever by riding his bike to beat the devil. It ended in August, with seven desperate children in search of a creature of unspeakable evil in the drains beneath Derry. In search of It. And somehow it ended.

Or so they thought. Then.

On a spring night in 1985 Mike Hanlon, once one of those children, makes six calls. Stan Uris, accountant. Richie "Records" Tozier, L.A. disc jockey. Ben Hanscom, renowned architect. Beverly Rogan, dress designer. Eddie Kaspbrak, owner of a successful New York limousine company. And Bill Denbrough, bestselling writer of horror novels, Bill Denbrough who now only stutters in his dreams.

These six men and one woman have forgotten their childhoods,have forgotten the time when they were Losers...but an unremembered promise draws them back, the present begins to rhyme dreadfully with the past, and when the Losers reunite, the wheels of fate lock together and roll them towards the ultimate terror.

In the biggest and most ambitious book of his career, Stephen King gives us not only his most towering epic of horror but a surprising re-illumination of the corridor where we pass from the bright mysteries of childhood to those of maturity.
--front flap]]>
1142 Stephen King 0670813028 Natalia 0 currently-reading cosa, y las películas de terror, hasta las más estúpida, consigue asustarme aunque sea un poco. Pero algún día, algún día, voy a leer a King. Tengo en casa una copia de Cementerio de animales, es verdad, pero este me tienta también.]]> 4.26 1986 It
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No voy a decir que me dan miedo los payasos, porque no me pasa lo mismo que con las arañas, por ejemplo, a las cuales no puedo ni ver. Pero los payasos me dan, bueno, cosa, y las películas de terror, hasta las más estúpida, consigue asustarme aunque sea un poco. Pero algún día, algún día, voy a leer a King. Tengo en casa una copia de Cementerio de animales, es verdad, pero este me tienta también.
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The Other Bennet Sister 45186556 Pride and Prejudice’s five Bennet sisters, emerges from the shadows and transforms into a desired woman with choices of her own.

What if Mary Bennet’s life took a different path from that laid out for her in Pride and Prejudice? What if the frustrated intellectual of the Bennet family, the marginalized middle daughter, the plain girl who takes refuge in her books, eventually found the fulfillment enjoyed by her prettier, more confident sisters? This is the plot of The Other Bennet Sister, a debut novel with exactly the affection and authority to satisfy Austen fans.

Ultimately, Mary’s journey is like that taken by every Austen heroine. She learns that she can only expect joy when she has accepted who she really is. She must throw off the false expectations and wrong ideas that have combined to obscure her true nature and prevented her from what makes her happy. Only when she undergoes this evolution does she have a chance at finding fulfillment; only then does she have the clarity to recognize her partner when he presents himself—and only at that moment is she genuinely worthy of love.

Mary’s destiny diverges from that of her sisters. It does not involve broad acres or landed gentry. But it does include a man; and, as in all Austen novels, Mary must decide whether he is the truly the one for her. In The Other Bennet Sister, Mary is a fully rounded character—complex, conflicted, and often uncertain; but also vulnerable, supremely sympathetic, and ultimately the protagonist of an uncommonly satisfying debut novel.]]>
463 Janice Hadlow 1250129419 Natalia 0 to-read 4.11 2020 The Other Bennet Sister
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<![CDATA[La segunda venida de Hilda Bustamante]]> 152015728 168 Salomé Esper 9878281469 Natalia 0 to-read 3.90 2023 La segunda venida de Hilda Bustamante
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Esta herida llena de peces 57028232
Esta es una historia sobre el arraigo, el miedo y la maternidad en un contexto de violencia, sobre los peligros de la selva colombiana. A través del lirismo de su prosa, Lorena Salazar Masso crea una atmósfera adictiva y nos traslada a un mundo a veces onírico y otras descarnadamente realista en el que la ternura y la belleza de las imágenes salpica.]]>
168 Lorena Salazar Masso 8412198093 Natalia 0 to-read 4.37 2021 Esta herida llena de peces
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Como si fuesen fábulas 223695920 Las fábulas reunidas en este libro son una pintura de escenas fatídicas envueltas en capas de silencio y omisión; de nombres, pueblos y lenguas condenados al olvido y a un puñado de preguntas. Con un pulso narrativo que logra instalarnos al filo de los dolores humanos que los textos cuentan, María Teresa Andruetto desbarata la jugada y abre pequeños espacios de reflexión para intentar dar con las respuestas.


Relatos breves sobre historias de personas, de comunidades, de lenguas que han sido víctimas del olvido o la exclusión. Estas fábulas de nuestro tiempo, exentas de moraleja y en la desnudez de su verdad, descubren aquello que se sustrae a la mirada, a la memoria, al registro. Un poblado salteño casi fantasma, un cuento de Rodolfo Walsh desaparecido en la ESMA, un idioma que la ley ancestral prohíbe trasmitir por vía masculina, los que viven en cárceles, los duendes del agua, la madre de Albert Camus, el repudio de las prostitutas en la Patagonia Trágica, la visión de los vencidos en la conquista de América, el último registro de la lengua chaná, la pregunta sobre el odio. Sucesos infortunados, burlados por la indiferencia del mundo, que la literatura de María Teresa Andruetto revela y testimonia.



La crítica



«Aquí se cuentan los dolores humanos como si fuesen fábulas».
Rita Baldassarri



«La elegancia, la dedicación y el compromiso brillan en cada uno de sus textos. Nadie mejor para narrar estas su sensibilidad es irrepetible».
Mariana Enriquez]]>
198 María Teresa Andruetto 9877693984 Natalia 0 to-read 4.67 2025 Como si fuesen fábulas
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<![CDATA[Todo lo que brilla: Cómo los metales han formado nuestra historia (Spanish Edition)]]> 218144631 Estas páginas condensan miles de millones de años de preguntas, misterios, investigaciones y estudios en torno a los metales. Porque como dice Irene del Real, doctora en geología económica y reconocida con el premio For Women in Science por la Unesco y L’Oréal, solemos olvidar la importancia que tienen en nuestra historia y lo inimaginable que sería nuestra cotidianeidad sin ellos. Dirigido a todo público, Todo lo que brilla es un ensayo fascinante, estremecedor y sumamente una carta de amor a los procesos geológicos y, asimismo, un mapa para encaminar un nuevo paradigma de consumo amable con el medioambiente y la sociedad.]]> 213 Irene del Real Natalia 0 to-read 4.00 Todo lo que brilla: Cómo los metales han formado nuestra historia (Spanish Edition)
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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 Natalia 0 to-read 4.22 2013 The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)
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average rating: 4.22
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<![CDATA[The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)]]> 52439531
To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch -- and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a conwoman, and he's determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather's last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive.]]>
386 Jennifer Lynn Barnes 1368052401 Natalia 0 to-read 4.13 2020 The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)
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<![CDATA[Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption]]> 45697243 The most popular, provocative, and unforgettable essays from the past fifteen years of the New York Times "Modern Love" column--including stories from the upcoming anthology series starring Tina Fey, Andy Garcia, Anne Hathaway, Catherine Keener, Dev Patel, and John Slattery

A young woman goes through the five stages of ghosting grief. A man's promising fourth date ends in the emergency room. A female lawyer with bipolar disorder experiences the highs and lows of dating. A widower hesitates about introducing his children to his new girlfriend. A divorcée in her seventies looks back at the beauty and rubble of past relationships.

These are just a few of the people who tell their stories in Modern Love, Revised and Updated, featuring dozens of the most memorable essays to run in The New York Times "Modern Love" column since its debut in 2004.

Some of the stories are unconventional, while others hit close to home. Some reveal the way technology has changed dating forever; others explore the timeless struggles experienced by anyone who has ever searched for love. But all of the stories are, above everything else, honest. Together, they tell the larger story of how relationships begin, often fail, and--when we're lucky--endure.

Edited by longtime "Modern Love" editor Daniel Jones and featuring a diverse selection of contributors--including Mindy Hung, Trey Ellis, Ann Hood, Deborah Copaken, Terri Cheney, and more--this is the perfect book for anyone who's loved, lost, stalked an ex on social media, or pined for true romance: In other words, anyone interested in the endlessly complicated workings of the human heart.]]>
304 Daniel Jones 0593137043 Natalia 4 4.20 2007 Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption
author: Daniel Jones
name: Natalia
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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date added: 2025/01/21
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Without a Map 325484 248 Meredith Hall 0807072737 Natalia 0 to-read 3.74 2007 Without a Map
author: Meredith Hall
name: Natalia
average rating: 3.74
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Un puñado de flechas 211096784 Un libro en el que se entrecruzan el arte, la literatura y la vida: la confirmación del inmenso talento de María Gainza.

Una noche, durante su estancia bonaerense para el rodaje de su película Tetro, Francis Ford Coppola le dijo a María Gainza: «El artista viene al mundo con un carcaj que contiene un número limitado de flechas doradas. Puede lanzar todas sus flechas de joven, o lanzarlas de adulto, o incluso ya de viejo. También puede ir lanzándolas de a poco, espaciadas a lo largo de los años. Eso sería lo ideal, pero ya sabés que lo ideal es enemigo de lo bueno».

Además de Coppola, en Un puñado de flechas asoman una acuarela de Cézanne sustraída de un museo de Buenos Aires, la casa de un coleccionista, un paseo por el Walden Pond de Thoreau, las enigmáticas pinturas de Bodhi Wind en piscinas californianas que aparecían en la no menos enigmática Tres mujeres de Robert Altman, unas fotos rescatadas de un maletín, los óleos del pintor catalán Nicolás Rubió en los que evocaba el pueblo francés donde pasó la guerra civil española, la vida cosmopolita y la memoria de la escultora María Simón, las andanzas del pintor Francis Hopkinson y su asistente Moon en México y un cuadro maldito de Tiziano oculto en Tzintzuntzan�

A medio camino entre el ensayo y la narración, María Gainza sigue explorando nuevas formas de entender la escritura, rompiendo las barreras estancas entre los géneros. Un libro en el que se entrecruzan el arte, la literatura y la vida, y que confirma a su autora como una de las voces más estimulantes del actual panorama de las letras en lengua española.]]>
248 María Gainza 843392432X Natalia 0 to-read 3.57 Un puñado de flechas
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<![CDATA[The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories]]> 49011 126 Angela Carter 014017821X Natalia 0 to-read 3.96 1979 The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
author: Angela Carter
name: Natalia
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<![CDATA[Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection]]> 220341391 John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest disease.

Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.

In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 million people every year.

In Everything is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.]]>
208 John Green 0525426051 Natalia 0 to-read 4.61 2025 Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
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Gothic Tales 182385 'Such whispered tales, such old temptations and hauntings, and devilish terrors'

Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances', inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings, mixes gossip and fact; 'Lois the Witch', a novella based on an account of the Salem witch hunts, shows how sexual desire and jealousy lead to hysteria; while in 'The Old Nurse's Story' a mysterious child roams the freezing Northumberland moors. Whether darkly surreal, such as 'The Poor Clare', where an evil doppelganger is formed by a woman's bitter curse, or mischievous like 'Curious, if True', a playful reworking of fairy tales, all the pieces in this volume form a start contrast to the social realism of Gaskell's novels, revealing a darker and more unsettling style of writing.

Laura Kranzler's introduction discusses how Gaskell's tales, with their ghostly doublings and transgressive passions, show the Gothic underside of female identity, domestic relations and male authority. This edition also contains a chronology, further reading and explanatory notes.]]>
367 Elizabeth Gaskell 014043741X Natalia 0 to-read 3.82 Gothic Tales
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Our Infinite Fates 210395729 The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue meets This is How You Lose The Time War in this fantastical love story that defies death as two souls reincarnate through the centuries.

They've loved each other in a thousand lifetimes. They've killed each other in every one.

Evelyn remembers all her past lives. She also remembers that in every single one, she’s been murdered before her eighteenth birthday by Arden, a supernatural being whose soul―and survival―is tethered to hers.

The problem is that she’s quite fond of the life she’s in now, and her little sister needs her for bone marrow transplants in order to stay alive. If Evelyn wants to save her sister, she’ll have to:

1. Find the centuries-old devil who hunts her through each life―before they find her first.
2. Figure out why she’s being hunted and finally break their curse.
3. Try not to fall in love.]]>
352 Laura Steven 1250333881 Natalia 0 maybe 3.80 2025 Our Infinite Fates
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name: Natalia
average rating: 3.80
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rating: 0
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Betty 48564330 A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl discovers stark truths that will haunt her for the rest of her life.

"A girl comes of age against the knife."

So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white mother, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings. The world they inhabit is one of poverty and violence--both from outside the family, and also, devastatingly, from within. The lush landscape, rich with birdsong, wild fruit, and blazing stars, becomes a kind of refuge for Betty, but when her family's darkest secrets are brought to light, she has no choice but to reckon with the brutal history hiding in the hills, as well as the heart-wrenching cruelties and incredible characters she encounters in her rural town of Breathed, Ohio.

But despite the hardship she faces, Betty is resilient. Her curiosity about the natural world, her fierce love for her sisters, and her father's brilliant stories are kindling for the fire of her own imagination, and in the face of all she bears witness to, Betty discovers an escape: she begins to write. She recounts the horrors of her family's past and present with pen and paper and buries them deep in the dirt--moments that has stung her so deeply, she could not tell them, until now.

Inspired by the life of her own mother, Tiffany McDaniel sets out to free the past by telling this heartbreaking yet magical story--a remarkable novel that establishes her as one of the freshest and most important voices in American fiction.]]>
480 Tiffany McDaniel 052565707X Natalia 0 to-read 4.41 2020 Betty
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El grito 221017949 528 Yrsa Sigurdardottir 8423366677 Natalia 0 to-read 3.55 2014 El grito
author: Yrsa Sigurdardottir
name: Natalia
average rating: 3.55
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Good Material 198688460 Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he can't work out why she stopped.

Now he is. . .

Without a home

Waiting for his stand-up career to take off

Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn't looking

Set adrift on the sea of heartbreak, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of his ruined relationship. Because if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him. But Andy still has a lot to learn, not least his ex-girlfriend's side of the story�

In this sharply funny and exquisitely relatable story of romantic disaster and friendship, Dolly Alderton offers up a love story with two endings, demonstrating once again why she is one of the most exciting writers today, and the true voice of a generation.]]>
319 Dolly Alderton 059380130X Natalia 4 3.75 2023 Good Material
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name: Natalia
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/07
date added: 2025/01/14
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'Salem's Lot 5413 Also contains: One For the Road, Jerusalem's Lot. For standalone novel see ISBN 9780450031069.

Stephen King's second novel, the classic vampire bestseller 'Salem's Lot, tells the story of evil in small-town America. For the first time in a major trade edition, this terrifying novel is accompanied by previously unpublished material from King's archive, two short stories, and eerie photographs that bring King's fictional darkness and evil to vivid life.

When Stephen King’s classic thriller 'Salem's Lot hit the stands in 1975, it thrilled and terrified millions of readers with tales of demonic evil in small-town America. Now, thirty years later and still scaring readers witless, 'Salem's Lot reemerges in a brilliant new edition, complete with photographs, fifty pages of deleted and alternate scenes, and two short stories related to the events of the novel.

While the original edition of 'Salem's Lot will forever be a premier horror classic, 'Salem's Lot: Illustrated Edition, with the inclusion of material from King’s archive, is destined to become a classic in its own right and a must-have for all Stephen King fans. In this edition, the hair-raising story of Jerusalem’s Lot, a small town in Maine whose inhabitants succumb to the evil allure of a new resident, is told as the author envisioned it, complete with fifty pages of alternate and deleted scenes. With a new introduction by the author, two short stories related to the events and residents of Jerusalem’s Lot, the lavishly creepy photographs of Jerry Uelsmann, and a stunning new page design, this edition brings the story to life in words and pictures as never before.

No library will be complete without this ideal collector’s item for any King aficionado, the definitive illustrated edition of the great 'Salem's Lot.]]>
594 Stephen King 0385516487 Natalia 4 4.28 1975 'Salem's Lot
author: Stephen King
name: Natalia
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1975
rating: 4
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’Salem’s Lot 11590 Librarian's Note: Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0450031063

Thousands of miles away from the small township of 'Salem's Lot, two terrified people, a man and a boy, still share the secrets of those clapboard houses and tree-lined streets. They must return to 'Salem's Lot for a final confrontation with the unspeakable evil that lives on in the town.]]>
483 Stephen King 0450031063 Natalia 4 4.06 1975 ’Salem’s Lot
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name: Natalia
average rating: 4.06
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rating: 4
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El caso Hartung 43429709 Una novela negra adictiva escrita por el guionista y creador de la serie The Killing.

Una ventosa mañana de octubre en un tranquilo suburbio de Copenhague, la policía realiza un terrible descubrimiento. Una joven ha sido asesinada y abandonada en un parque infantil. Le han amputado una mano y sobre el cadáver cuelga una pequeña figura hecha con castañas.

La joven inspectora Naia Thulin es la encargada del caso. Su compañero, Mark Hess, es un inspector descontento que recientemente ha sido expulsado de la sede central de Europol, en la Haya. En la figura de castañas descubren una misteriosa huella que les llevará a una niña, la hija de la ministra de Asuntos Sociales Rosa Hartung, desaparecida un año antes y que presuntamente está muerta. Un hombre confesó el crimen en su momento y el caso consta como resuelto y cerrado desde hace varios meses.

Al cabo de poco aparece otra mujer asesinada y de nuevo encuentran una figura de castañas con la huella que les lleva a la niña. Thulin y Hess presienten que los casos de la hija de la ministra y de las dos mujeres asesinadas, que tienen en vilo a todo el país, están relacionados entre sí, pero ¿cuál es la conexión?

Thulin y Hess trabajan contra reloj porque temen que el asesino siga matando y creen que todavía no ha realizado su cometido final.

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474 Søren Sveistrup 8417541845 Natalia 4 4.23 2019 El caso Hartung
author: Søren Sveistrup
name: Natalia
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/31
date added: 2024/12/31
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<![CDATA[La casa de las voces (Pietro Gerber #1)]]> 58261514 LAS VOCES DE LA NOCHE ESTÃN AQUÃ. NO TE FÃES DE NADIE.

Pietro Gerber es un psicólogo diferente a los demás: su especialidad es la hipnosis y sus pacientes tienen una cosa en común: son niños. A veces, niños traumatizados o que esconden recuerdos que son incapaces de evocar. Es el mejor especialista de Florencia y colabora con la policía en casos criminales.

Un día recibe la llamada de una colega australiana que le pide ayuda con una paciente, Hanna. El caso es interesante, pero también muy especial: Hanna es ya una adulta y su recuerdo infantil es un asesinato que no sabe si cometió.

LA NUEVA Y MAGISTRAL NOVELA DE CARRISI, MÃS NEGRA QUE NUNCA.]]>
368 Donato Carrisi 8418538139 Natalia 3 4.06 2019 La casa de las voces (Pietro Gerber #1)
author: Donato Carrisi
name: Natalia
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/23
date added: 2024/12/31
shelves: 2024, autores, italia, kindle, siglo-xxi
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Para hechizar a un cazador 211783983 Una novela deslumbrante que, retomando el horror de la última dictadura militar, nos lleva por caminos inexplorados e inesperados.

«Hace rato que vengo mirándote [...]. Espiándote, para ser más precisa».

Julia escucha en un bar a una vieja que la abordó en la calle y dice ser su abuela. Siempre tuvo dudas sobre su propio origen y Griselda ahora le revela su verdadera historia. Muy pronto entenderá que detrás de esa apacible anciana hay más de lo que dice. Los lectores, con ella, empezarán una inmersión sin pausa en un territorio de horror multiforme que, en la repetición de la tortura y la muerte, replica los gestos sangrientos de la dictadura militar. Una trama labrada con excelencia que repasa los años 60 y 70 con los recursos del terror y del gore y que deslumbra con su maestría y agudeza.]]>
416 Luciano Lamberti 9870758142 Natalia 5 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA]]> 4.11 Para hechizar a un cazador
author: Luciano Lamberti
name: Natalia
average rating: 4.11
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rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/27
date added: 2024/12/27
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Sunburn 75715117 Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023'

It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and doting Martin, her closest childhood friend.

Lucy begins to make sense of herself during a long hot summer, when a spark with her school friend Susannah escalates to an all-consuming infatuation, and, very quickly, to a desperate and devastating love.

Fearful of rejection from her small and conservative community, Lucy begins living a double life, hiding the most honest parts of herself in stolen moments with Susannah.

But with the end of school and the opportunity to leave Crossmore looming, Lucy must choose between two places, two people and two futures, each as terrifying as the other. But only one can offer her real happiness.

Sunburn is an astute and tender portrayal of first love, adolescent anxiety and the realities of growing up in a small town where tradition holds people tightly in its grasp.]]>
288 Chloe Michelle Howarth 0857308416 Natalia 0 to-read 4.33 2023 Sunburn
author: Chloe Michelle Howarth
name: Natalia
average rating: 4.33
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The Adult 62315926 "Soon, but not yet, Nora will look up and she will see me, sitting at a distance.Ìý In the wet grass, the imprints of Nora’s shoes will fill back slowly, and I won’t suspect that she is walking towards me.Ìý
After Nora meets me on the bench, it will be difficult to recall that in the beginning, when I first arrived at school, there were moments so plain and unconsumed that I felt I could watch them like a distant view. Like hills rolling away.

Once she holds out her hand and asks, do you mind if I sit, it will be impossible for any other memory to exist without touching backwards or forwards over the view of her eyes looking down at me. The soft and penetrable skull of the world will suddenly harden and everything will be seen through the damp and willful light of our first meeting."


Eighteen-year-old Natalie has just arrived at her first year of university in Toronto, leaving her remote, forested hometown for the big, impersonal city. Everyone she encounters seems to know exactly who they are. Chatty, confident Clara from down the hall, who wants to be her friend; intense, determined Rachel from her poetry class, who is going to be a writer. Natalie doesn't know what she wants. She reads advice listicles and watches videos online and thinks about how to fit in, how to reallyÌýbecomeÌýsomeone, who that someone even is.

Just as she is trying to find her footing, she meets Nora, an older woman who takes an unexpected interest in her. Natalie is drawn magnetically into Nora's orbit. She begins spending more and more of her time off-campus at Nora's perfect home living in her beautiful, quiet world. She lies to her floormates about her absence, inventing a secret boyfriend called Paul, and carefully protects this intimate, sacred adulthood she is building for herself. But when it becomes clear that Nora is lying, too, her secrets begin to take an insidious shape in Natalie's life, even as Natalie tries to look away. What, or who, is Nora hiding?]]>
320 Bronwyn Fischer 1643752723 Natalia 0 maybe 3.70 2023 The Adult
author: Bronwyn Fischer
name: Natalia
average rating: 3.70
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The Wedding People 198902277 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781250899576.

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.

It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan—which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other.

In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined—and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.]]>
384 Alison Espach Natalia 0 to-read 4.11 2024 The Wedding People
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name: Natalia
average rating: 4.11
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Homegoing 27071490 An alternate cover edition can be found here.

A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction.

Two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle's dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast's booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. One thread of Homegoing follows Effia's descendants through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with the slave trade and British colonization. The other thread follows Esi and her children into America. From the plantations of the South to the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the coal mines of Pratt City, Alabama, to the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, right up through the present day, Homegoing makes history visceral, and captures, with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation.

Generation after generation, Yaa Gyasi's magisterial first novel sets the fate of the individual against the obliterating movements of time, delivering unforgettable characters whose lives were shaped by historical forces beyond their control. Homegoing is a tremendous reading experience, not to be missed, by an astonishingly gifted young writer.]]>
305 Yaa Gyasi Natalia 5 4.48 2016 Homegoing
author: Yaa Gyasi
name: Natalia
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/16
date added: 2024/12/23
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Sirens & Muses 59336344
“Captures the ache-inducing quality of art and desire . . . a deeply relatable and profoundly enjoyable read, one drenched in prismatic color and light.â€â€”Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of With Teeth

It’s 2011: America is in a deep recession and Occupy Wall Street is escalating. But at the elite Wrynn College of Art, students paint and sculpt in a rarefied bubble. Louisa Arceneaux is a thoughtful, observant nineteen-year-old when she transfers to Wrynn as a scholarship student, but she soon finds herself adrift in an environment that prizes novelty over beauty. Complicating matters is Louisa’s unexpected attraction to her charismatic roommate, Karina Piontek, the preternaturally gifted but mercurial daughter of wealthy art collectors. Gradually, Louisa and Karina are drawn into an intense sensual and artistic relationship, one that forces them to confront their deepest desires and fears. But Karina also can’t shake her fascination with Preston Utley, a senior and anti-capitalist Internet provocateur, who is publicly feuding with visiting professor and political painter Robert Berger—a once-controversial figurehead seeking to regain relevance.

When Preston concocts an explosive hoax, the fates of all four artists are upended as each is unexpectedly thrust into the cutthroat New York art world. Now all must struggle to find new identities in art, in society, and among each other. In the process, they must find either their most authentic terms of life—of success, failure, and joy—or risk losing themselves altogether.

With a canny, critical eye, Sirens & Muses overturns notions of class, money, art, youth, and a generation’s fight to own their future.]]>
368 Antonia Angress Natalia 5 FASCINADA. 3.91 2022 Sirens & Muses
author: Antonia Angress
name: Natalia
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2024/11/21
date added: 2024/12/23
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Mongrel 122762546 Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, suppressing both her heritage and her growing love for her best friend Fran.

Yuki leaves the Japanese countryside to pursue her dream of becoming a concert violinist in London. Lonely and far from home, she finds herself caught up in the charms of her older teacher.

Haruka attempts to navigate Tokyo’s nightlife and all of its many vices, working as a hostess in seedy bars. She grieves a mother who hid so many secrets from her, until finally one of those secrets comes to light . . .

Shifting between three intertwining narratives, Mongrel reveals a tangled web of isolation, desire, love, and ultimately, hope.]]>
352 Hanako Footman 1804440434 Natalia 0 to-read 4.31 2024 Mongrel
author: Hanako Footman
name: Natalia
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[La desaparición de Stephanie Mailer]]> 39742376
Jesse Rosenberg y Derek Scott son los dos jóvenes policías de Nueva York que resuelven con éxito el caso, pero veinte años más tarde, en la ceremonia de despedida de la policía a Rosenberg, la periodista Stephanie Mailer lo afronta: pretende que Dereck y Jesse se equivocaron de asesino a pesar de que la prueba se hallara delante de sus ojos, y que ella posee información clave. Pero días después, desaparece.

Así se inicia este colosal thriller que avanza en el pasado y el presente a ritmo vertiginoso, sumando tramas, personajes, sorpresas y vueltas de tuerca, sacudiendo e impulsando al lector sin freno posible hacia el inesperado e inolvidable desenlace.]]>
656 Joël Dicker 1947783793 Natalia 0 to-read 3.93 2018 La desaparición de Stephanie Mailer
author: Joël Dicker
name: Natalia
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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Filosofía en 11 frases 40038636 Sólo sé que no sé nada. Pienso, luego existo. Todo lo sólido se desvanece en el aire. Dios ha muerto. Por medio de frases como esas, disparadores que estimulan el pensamiento, Darío Sztajnszrajber se propone sacar a la filosofía de los formatos que la hacen excluyente. Al hacerlo nos lleva a una conversación alucinada y alucinante con once ideas clásicas, tan pequeñas como para caber en un tuit y a la vez tan interminables como las búsquedas existenciales.
Incómodo y complejo como su materia misma, este libro inclasificable —es ensayo filosófico, y es también novela� consagra a su autor como un explorador impertinente. Sztajnszrajber puede explicar y a la vez contradecir a filósofos como Aristóteles, Descartes, Marx, Nietzsche o Foucault e invitarnos a perdernos en la riqueza de sus ideas. Su historia comienza con un hombre que escapa y, al descender a un subte porteño, se encuentra azarosamente con un crimen del poder. Entre las huellas reconocibles de una república precaria, la trama mezcla la sangre y el amor, la historia y la esperanza, la represión estatal y la resistencia ciudadana.
En Filosofía en 11 frases, su primer libro con Paidós, Sztajnszrajber lleva la filosofía a los lectores que quieren pensar sin ser subestimados. Y los desafía, socráticamente, con una convicción: todos podemos hacer filosofía aunque no lo sepamos.

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312 Darío Sztajnszrajber 9501296873 Natalia 0 to-read-algun-dia 3.60 Filosofía en 11 frases
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<![CDATA[El gaucho indómito: De Martín Fierro a Perón, el emblema imposible de una nación desgarrada]]> 46121373 Hace más de cien años que la figura del gaucho –encarnada en Martín Fierro� es el emblema central de la argentinidad. Hay algo desconcertante en eso: ¿cómo puede ser que nuestro héroe nacional sea un resentido con problemas de bebida que asesina sin razón a un compatriota? ¿Asegura la identificación con el Estado un matrero que descree de las leyes? ¿Alienta el progreso un personaje que se refugia en las tolderías? ¿Invita a la unidad nacional un gaucho que habla pestes de los inmigrantes? Como símbolo nacional, el Martín Fierro hace ruido, funciona mal.

Interrogando este hecho insólito, Ezequiel Adamovsky construye un relato histórico y un ensayo poderosísimo para pensar los conflictos irresueltos que marcaron nuestra constitución como nación y que ayudan a entender los antagonismos del presente. A partir de un recorrido exhaustivo por las obras del criollismo popular, que cuentan las hazañas o desventuras de personajes del mundo rural para hablar de sus valores y sus problemas –desde la gauchesca de tiempos de la Independencia, pasando por el Martín Fierro, los folletines de Eduardo Gutiérrez, el circo criollo, el canto de payadores y folkloristas, hasta la relectura de la historia durante el primer peronismo, cuando la figura del gaucho se asoció a la del cabecita negra�, Adamovsky revela la extraordinaria productividad cultural de las clases populares para expresar visiones disidentes y alternativas acerca de la nación. Frente a la narrativa que proponían las élites y el Estado –la imagen de una Argentina blanca, europea, porteña y letrada�, las obras del criollismo popular restituían el lugar de lo mestizo y lo moreno, y hablaban de las injusticias con los pobres, de la solidaridad entre los de abajo y de una comunidad víctima del abuso de los poderosos.

Aunque las historias de matreros perdieron el lugar central que tenían hasta los años cuarenta, los usos de la figura del gaucho –apropiado por la izquierda y la derecha, por posiciones tradicionalistas y conservadoras o heréticas y rebeldes� atraviesan la historia reciente y llegan hasta hoy. Y explican en parte la incapacidad de las clases altas para lograr una hegemonía cultural y política. Impecable y filoso, este libro muestra que el gaucho es el mito imposible, prenda de unidad y al mismo tiempo síntoma de nuestros enfrentamientos políticos, de clase, étnicos y raciales.

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278 Ezequiel Adamovsky Natalia 0 to-read-algun-dia 3.76 El gaucho indómito: De Martín Fierro a Perón, el emblema imposible de una nación desgarrada
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North and South 156538
In North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell skillfully fuses individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale creates one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature.]]>
521 Elizabeth Gaskell 0140620192 Natalia 0 to-read-algun-dia 4.14 1855 North and South
author: Elizabeth Gaskell
name: Natalia
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1855
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Los ojos del perro siberiano 139009 135 Antonio Santa Ana 9580443912 Natalia 0 to-read-algun-dia 4.17 1998 Los ojos del perro siberiano
author: Antonio Santa Ana
name: Natalia
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1998
rating: 0
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Far From the Madding Crowd 31463 This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780141439655

Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in the fictional county of Wessex, Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.]]>
433 Thomas Hardy Natalia 0 to-read-algun-dia 3.96 1874 Far From the Madding Crowd
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name: Natalia
average rating: 3.96
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Peter Pan 34268 155 J.M. Barrie 0805072454 Natalia 0 to-read-algun-dia 4.06 1911 Peter Pan
author: J.M. Barrie
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average rating: 4.06
book published: 1911
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Lo impenetrable 7531898 Spanish 0 Griselda Gambaro 9879334655 Natalia 0 to-read-algun-dia 3.00 1984 Lo impenetrable
author: Griselda Gambaro
name: Natalia
average rating: 3.00
book published: 1984
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Mother Teresa. The Untold Story]]> 29914432 ‘Brilliant, heroic, devastating� � Dr. William Radice, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
‘Necessary, well-documented� � The Times Higher Education Supplement, London
‘Painstakingly recorded, (exposes) the other side of Teresa� � Irish Independent, Dublin
‘Very serious and deserves wide dissemination . . . Truly shocking� � The Irish Times, Dublin
‘Explosive� � The Asian Age
‘Written with painstaking care� � The Telegraph, Kolkata
‘Dr. Chatterjee tackles the inaccuracies, misconceptions, and the elaborate propaganda machine enacted to portrait the albanian nun as relevant humanitarian . . .� � Hemley Gonzalez, founder of Responsible Charity Corp
‘Mother teresa at some point in her career lost connection with reality and ballooned out of all proportion, serving the cause of the ecclesiastical politics of the vatican rather than the cause of suffering humanity. Dr. Aroup Chatterjee does an excellent job in separating the reality from the layers of myth-making� � Dr. Ketaki Kushari Dyson, writer, translator, and researcher]]>
400 Aroup Chatterjee 8175993316 Natalia 0 to-read-algun-dia 4.03 2016 Mother Teresa. The Untold Story
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Then She Was Gone 35297426 She was fifteen, her mother's golden girl. She had her whole life ahead of her. And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone.

NOW
It’s been ten years since Ellie disappeared, but Laurel has never given up hope of finding her daughter.

And then one day a charming and charismatic stranger called Floyd walks into a café and sweeps Laurel off her feet.

Before too long she’s staying the night at this house and being introduced to his nine year old daughter.

Poppy is precocious and pretty - and meeting her completely takes Laurel's breath away.

Because Poppy is the spitting image of Ellie when she was that age. And now all those unanswered questions that have haunted Laurel come flooding back.

What happened to Ellie? Where did she go?

Who still has secrets to hide?]]>
359 Lisa Jewell 1501154648 Natalia 3 4.02 2017 Then She Was Gone
author: Lisa Jewell
name: Natalia
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2017
rating: 3
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<![CDATA[Alguien voló sobre el nido del cuco]]> 6581522 288 Ken Kesey 843397260X Natalia 0 to-read 4.08 1962 Alguien voló sobre el nido del cuco
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name: Natalia
average rating: 4.08
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Valley of the Dolls 581811 448 Jacqueline Susann 0802135196 Natalia 0 to-read 3.96 1966 Valley of the Dolls
author: Jacqueline Susann
name: Natalia
average rating: 3.96
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<![CDATA[How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)]]> 181350367 For fans of Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club, an enormously fun mystery about a woman who spends her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country estate.... Now it's up to her great-niece to catch the killer.

It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances’s night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn’t happened yet, compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise. For decades, no one takes Frances seriously, until nearly sixty years later, when Frances is found murdered, like she always said she would be.

In the present day, Annie Adams has been summoned to a meeting at the sprawling country estate of her wealthy and reclusive great-aunt Frances. But by the time Annie arrives in the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, Frances is already dead. Annie is determined to catch the killer, but thanks to Frances’s lifelong habit of digging up secrets and lies, it seems every endearing and eccentric villager might just have a motive for her murder. Can Annie safely unravel the dark mystery at the heart of Castle Knoll, or will dredging up the past throw her into the path of a killer?

As Annie gets closer to the truth, and closer to the danger, she starts to fear she might inherit her aunt’s fate instead of her fortune.]]>
358 Kristen Perrin 0593474015 Natalia 0 to-read 3.76 2024 How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)
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Blue Sisters 195430687 Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death in this unforgettable story of grief, identity, and the complexities of family.

The three Blue sisters are exceptional—and exceptionally different. Avery, the eldest and a recovering heroin addict turned strait-laced lawyer, lives with her wife in London; Bonnie, a former boxer, works as a bouncer in Los Angeles following a devastating defeat; and Lucky, the youngest, models in Paris while trying to outrun her hard-partying ways. They also had a fourth sister, Nicky, whose unexpected death left Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky reeling. A year later, as they each navigate grief, addiction, and ambition, they find they must return to New York to stop the sale of the apartment they were raised in.

But coming home is never as easy as it seems. As the sisters reckon with the disappointments of their childhood and the loss of the only person who held them together, they realize the greatest secrets they've been keeping might not have been from each other, but from themselves.]]>
342 Coco Mellors 0593723767 Natalia 0 to-read 3.94 2024 Blue Sisters
author: Coco Mellors
name: Natalia
average rating: 3.94
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<![CDATA[A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)]]> 33574273 It was a dark and stormy night.

Out of this wild night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe on a most dangerous and extraordinary adventure—one that will threaten their lives and our universe.

Winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal, A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in Madeleine L'Engle's classic Time Quintet.]]>
218 Madeleine L'Engle 1250153271 Natalia 0 to-read 3.91 1962 A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
author: Madeleine L'Engle
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average rating: 3.91
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<![CDATA[The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood]]> 1356593 344 Howard Pyle 1402714564 Natalia 0 to-read 3.95 1883 The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
author: Howard Pyle
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book published: 1883
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Say Uncle 425381 80 Kay Ryan 0802137172 Natalia 0 to-read-algun-dia 4.03 1991 Say Uncle
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average rating: 4.03
book published: 1991
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Americanah 15796700 477 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Natalia 5 4.32 2013 Americanah
author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
name: Natalia
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2013
rating: 5
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Mansfield Park 45032 488 Jane Austen Natalia 4 3.86 1814 Mansfield Park
author: Jane Austen
name: Natalia
average rating: 3.86
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rating: 4
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Disclaimer 23346719
Finding a mysterious novel at her bedside plunges documentary filmmaker Catherine Ravenscroft into a living nightmare. Though ostensibly fiction, The Perfect Stranger recreates in vivid, unmistakable detail the terrible day she became hostage to a dark secret, a secret that only one other person knew—and that person is dead.

Now that the past is catching up with her, Catherine’s world is falling apart. Her only hope is to confront what really happened on that awful day . . . even if the shocking truth might destroy her.]]>
304 Renée Knight 0857522817 Natalia 0 to-read 3.61 2015 Disclaimer
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Si te gusta la oscuridad 209056030
PRIMERA EDICIÓN ESPECIAL CON SOBRECUBIERTA REVERSIBLE.

«¿Te gusta la oscuridad? Perfecto. A mí también» es cómo inicia Stephen King el epílogo de este nuevo y magnífico volumen de doce relatos que se adentran en la parte más sombría de la vida. King lleva más de medio siglo siendo un maestro literario, y estas historias sobre el destino, la mortalidad, la suerte y los múltiples pliegos de la realidad son tan ricas y absorbentes como sus novelas. El autor escribe «para sentir la emoción de dejar atrás la rutina», y en Si te gusta la oscuridad los lectores sentirán, una y otra vez, esa misma emoción.

«Dos cabrones con talento» nos revelará el secreto de cómo estos dos caballeros adquirieron sus habilidades. En «El mal sueño de Danny Coughlin», una explosión psíquica inesperada pone patas arriba la vida de docenas de personas, incluido Danny, con catastróficos resultados. «Serpientes de cascabel», secuela de la novela Cujo, nos presenta a un viudo que viaja a Florida buscando descanso y, en su lugar, se topa con una inesperada herencia... con más de una atadura. En «Los soñadores», un taciturno veterano de la guerra de Vietnam acepta un encargo y descubre que hay algunos rincones del universo que deberían quedar inexplorados. «Hombre Respuesta» nos plantea si el don de la clarividencia es una bendición o una maldición, y nos recuerda que incluso una vida marcada por la tragedia tiene significado.

La habilidad del Rey del Terror para sorprender, inspirar y provocarnos tanto miedo como consuelo al mismo tiempo no tiene parangón. Cada uno de estos relatos contiene sus propios escalofríos, alegrías y misterios, y todos son icónicos. ¿Os gusta la oscuridad? Pues aquí la tenéis.]]>
704 Stephen King Natalia 0 to-read 4.06 2024 Si te gusta la oscuridad
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La llamada: Un retrato 203982344 Esta es una historia real, llena de aristas y sombras, sobre la condición humana.

A fines de los sesenta, con trece años, la argentina Silvia Labayru era una adolescente tímida, lectora, amante de los animales, entusiasta de John F. Kennedy, hija de una familia de militares que incluía a su padre, miembro de la Fuerza Aérea y piloto civil. A esa edad ingresó en el Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires, una institución pública de gran prestigio, donde entró en contacto con agrupaciones estudiantiles de izquierda y se transformó en una militante aguerrida. En marzo de 1976 se produjo en la Argentina un golpe de Estado que dio comienzo a una dictadura militar. Para entonces, embarazada de cinco meses y con veinte años, Labayru integraba el sector de Inteligencia de la organización Montoneros, un grupo armado de extracción peronista. El 29 de diciembre de 1976 fue secuestrada por militares y trasladada a la ESMA, la Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada, donde funcionaba un centro de detención clandestino en el cual se torturó y asesinó a miles de personas. Allí tuvo a su hija que, una semana más tarde, fue entregada a los abuelos paternos. En la ESMA, Labayru fue torturada, obligada a realizar trabajo esclavo, violada reiteradamente por un oficial y forzada a representar el papel de hermana de Alfredo Astiz, un miembro de la Armada que se había infiltrado en la organización Madres de Plaza de Mayo, un operativo que terminó con tres Madres y dos monjas francesas desaparecidas. La liberaron en junio de 1978 y en el avión rumbo a Madrid, junto a su hija de un año y medio, pensó: «Se acabó el infierno». Pero el infierno no había terminado. Los argentinos en el exilio la repudiaron, acusándola de traidora a raíz de la desaparición de las Madres. Abominada por quienes habían sido sus compañeros de militancia, arropada por unos pocos amigos fieles exiliados en Europa, hizo una vida. Hasta que en 2018 la contactó desde Buenos Aires un hombre que había sido su pareja en los años setenta y, en una secuencia en la que se funden manipulaciones familiares que torcieron el destino, comenzó a urdirse una historia que continúa hasta hoy.

La periodista Leila Guerriero comenzó a entrevistarla en 2021, mientras se esperaba la sentencia del primer juicio por crímenes de violencia sexual cometidos contra mujeres secuestradas durante la dictadura, en el que Labayru era denunciante. A lo largo de casi dos años, habló con sus amigos, sus exparejas, su pareja actual, sus hijos y sus compañeros de cautiverio y de militancia. El resultado es el retrato de una mujer con una historia compleja en la que se amalgaman el amor, el sexo, la violencia, el humor, los hijos, los padres, la infidelidad, la política, los amigos, las mudanzas, y en la que sobrevuela una llamada telefónica que, realizada desde la ESMA el 14 de marzo de 1977, le salvó la vida.]]>
432 Leila Guerriero 8433922068 Natalia 0 to-read 4.47 2024 La llamada: Un retrato
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They're Going to Love You 59721793 A magnetic tale of betrayal, art, and ambition, set in the world of professional ballet, New York City during the AIDS crisis, and present-day Los Angeles

Carlisle Martin dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer just like her mother, Isabel, a former Balanchine ballerina. Since they live in Ohio, she only gets to see her father Robert for a few precious weeks a year when she visits Greenwich Village, where he lives in an enchanting apartment on Bank Street with his partner, James.

Brilliant but troubled, James gives Carlisle an education in all that he holds dear in life--literature, music, and most of all, dance. Seduced by the heady pull of mentorship and the sophistication of their lives, Carlisle's aspiration to become a dancer herself blooms, born of her desire to be asked to stay at Bank Street, to be included in Robert and James' world even as AIDS brings devastation to their community. Instead, a passionate love affair creates a rift between them, with devastating consequences that reverberate for decades to come.

Nineteen years later, Carlisle receives a phone call which unravels the fateful events of her life, causing her to see with new eyes how her younger self has informed the woman she's become. They're Going to Love You is a gripping and gorgeously written novel of heartbreaking intensity. With psychological precision and a masterfully revealed secret at its heart, it asks what it takes to be an artist in America, and the price of forgiveness, of ambition, and of love.]]>
288 Meg Howrey 038554877X Natalia 0 to-read 4.07 2022 They're Going to Love You
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Monday's Not Coming 35068534
As Claudia digs deeper into her friend’s disappearance, she discovers that no one seems to remember the last time they saw Monday. How can a teenage girl just vanish without anyone noticing that she’s gone?]]>
448 Tiffany D. Jackson 0062422693 Natalia 0 to-read 4.24 2018 Monday's Not Coming
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Sisters of the Lost Nation 61686006 A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's reservation lead her to delve into the myths and stories of her people, all while being haunted herself, in this atmospheric and stunningly poignant debut.

Anna Horn is always looking over her shoulder. For the bullies who torment her, for the entitled visitors at the reservation's casino...and for the nameless, disembodied entity that stalks her every step--an ancient tribal myth come-to-life, one that's intent on devouring her whole.

With strange and sinister happenings occurring around the casino, Anna starts to suspect that not all the horrors on the reservation are old. As girls begin to go missing and the tribe scrambles to find answers, Anna struggles with her place on the rez, desperately searching for the key she's sure lies in the legends of her tribe's past.

When Anna's own little sister also disappears, she'll do anything to bring Grace home. But the demons plaguing the reservation--both ancient and new--are strong, and sometimes, it's the stories that never get told that are the most important.

Part gripping thriller and part mythological horror, author Nick Medina spins an incisive and timely novel of life as an outcast, the cost of forgetting tradition, and the courage it takes to become who you were always meant to be.]]>
338 Nick Medina 0593546857 Natalia 0 to-read 3.85 2023 Sisters of the Lost Nation
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Antígona González 22018925
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Este es un ensayo y una obra y una novela y un poemario y una investigación, es escritura y reescritura, es un brutalmente honesto activismo literario que invita a reflexionar más sobre nuestro papel en sociedad, la de Uribe es la lírica de la desesperanza. La autora recurre a las más interesantes –e inquietantes� fuentes de información sobre los desaparecidos en México."

Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny.


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112 Sara Uribe Natalia 0 to-read 4.50 2012 Antígona González
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My Darling Dreadful Thing 193544852
Spirits are drawn to salt, be it blood or tears.

Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth—strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries—is the light of Roos' life. That is, until the wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop visits one of Roos' backroom seances, and the two strike up a connection.

Soon, Roos is whisked away to the crumbling estate Agnes inherited upon the death of her husband, where an ill woman haunts the halls, strange smells drift through the air, and mysterious stone statues reside in the family chapel. Something dreadful festers in the manor, but still, the attraction between Roos and Agnes is undeniable.

Then, someone is murdered.

Poor, alone, and with a history of 'hysterics', Roos is the obvious culprit. With her sanity and innocence in question, she'll have to prove who—or what—is at fault or lose everything she holds dear.

"A Sapphic seance of preternatural proportions, My Darling Dreadful Thing summons a stunning new literary voice to be reckoned with. Johanna van Veen reaches beyond the veil to conjure up a gothic shocker like no other."—Clay McLeod Chapman, author of What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters

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375 Johanna van Veen 1728281547 Natalia 0 maybe 3.85 2024 My Darling Dreadful Thing
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If We Were Villains 30319086
As one of seven young actors studying Shakespeare at an elite arts college, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingenue, extra. But when the casting changes, and the secondary characters usurp the stars, the plays spill dangerously over into life, and one of them is found dead. The rest face their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, and themselves, that they are blameless.]]>
354 M.L. Rio 125009528X Natalia 0 to-read 4.11 2017 If We Were Villains
author: M.L. Rio
name: Natalia
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/11/14
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Lady Susan 35594730
Esta breve novela epistolar fue escrita tempranamente y publicada recién en 1871 de forma póstuma. Las cuarenta y una cartas que la componen van armando, a modo de un rompecabezas, una historia de intrigas y enredos, al tiempo que nos ofrecen un retrato de la moral de la época y, en consecuencia, del carácter amoral de su protagonista, Lady Susan.]]>
144 Jane Austen 9877252341 Natalia 4 3.82 1871 Lady Susan
author: Jane Austen
name: Natalia
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1871
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/14
date added: 2024/11/14
shelves: 2024, autoras, inglaterra, siglo-xix
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<![CDATA[This Is How You Lose the Time War]]> 43352954 Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.

Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war.]]>
209 Amal El-Mohtar Natalia 0 to-read 3.87 2019 This Is How You Lose the Time War
author: Amal El-Mohtar
name: Natalia
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/11/13
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Annie Bot 156023123
She’s learning, too.

Doug says he loves that Annie’s artificial intelligence makes her seem more like a real woman, but the more human Annie becomes, the less perfectly she behaves. As Annie's relationship with Doug grows more intricate and difficult, she starts to wonder whether Doug truly desires what he says he does. In such an impossible paradox, what does Annie owe herself?]]>
231 Sierra Greer 0063312697 Natalia 5 3.81 2024 Annie Bot
author: Sierra Greer
name: Natalia
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2024/11/13
date added: 2024/11/13
shelves: 2024, 5-estrellas, autoras, estados-unidos, kindle, read-in-english, sci-fi, siglo-xxi
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Diavola 126918202 Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothic. Beautifully unhinged and deeply satisfying, Diavola is a sharp twist on the classic haunted house story, exploring loneliness, belonging, and the seemingly inescapable bonds of family mythology.

Anna has two rules for the annual Pace family destination vacations: Tread lightly and survive.

It isn’t easy when she’s the only one in the family who doesn’t quite fit in. Her twin brother, Benny, goes with the flow so much he’s practically dissolved, and her older sister, Nicole, is so used to everyone—including her blandly docile husband and two kids—falling in line that Anna often ends up in trouble for simply asking a question. Mom seizes every opportunity to question her life choices, and Dad, when not reminding everyone who paid for this vacation, just wants some peace and quiet.

The gorgeous, remote villa in tiny Monteperso seems like a perfect place to endure so much family togetherness, until things start going off the rails—the strange noises at night, the unsettling warnings from the local villagers, and the dark, violent past of the villa itself.

(Warning: May invoke feelings of irritation, dread, and despair that come with large family gatherings.)]]>
296 Jennifer Marie Thorne Natalia 0 to-read 3.85 2024 Diavola
author: Jennifer Marie Thorne
name: Natalia
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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Behind Closed Doors 29437949
But it’s difficult, because you realize Jack and Grace are inseparable.

Some might call this true love. Others might wonder why Grace never answers the phone. Or why she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn’t work. How she can cook such elaborate meals but remain so slim. Or why she never seems to take anything with her when she leaves the house, not even a pen. Or why there are such high-security metal shutters on all the downstairs windows.

Some might wonder what’s really going on once the dinner party is over, and the front door has closed.]]>
293 B.A. Paris 1250121000 Natalia 0 2024, thriller 3.96 2016 Behind Closed Doors
author: B.A. Paris
name: Natalia
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at: 2024/10/14
date added: 2024/11/10
shelves: 2024, thriller
review:
Me salté algunos párrafos porque me daba mucha ansiedad saber el final y sentí que había muchas partes de relleno. “¿Es un libro bueno o es un libro malo?� “Es un libro y ya.�
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<![CDATA[La Casa de Bernarda Alba (Spanish Edition)]]> 7346921
Murió ejecutado tras la sublevación militar de la Guerra Civil Española, por su afinidad con el Frente Popular y por ser abiertamente homosexual]]>
Federico García Lorca 9507530142 Natalia 4 3.74 1930 La Casa de Bernarda Alba (Spanish Edition)
author: Federico García Lorca
name: Natalia
average rating: 3.74
book published: 1930
rating: 4
read at: 2024/10/18
date added: 2024/11/10
shelves: españa, clasicos, obra-teatral, siglo-xx, 2024
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Bunny (Bunny, #1) 53285047 We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other Bunny, and seem to move and speak as one.

But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled Smut Salon, and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus Workshop where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.

The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.

Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature, and The New York Public Library]]>
305 Mona Awad 0525559752 Natalia 0 to-read 3.43 2019 Bunny (Bunny, #1)
author: Mona Awad
name: Natalia
average rating: 3.43
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/11/10
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