Showing results for "Santana" in Genre Fiction

Santana Morelli Jr., also known as Tana, was ruthless, a maniac, arrogant and, most of all, he was feared by everyone. When a tragedy strikes within the family, Tana will stop at nothing to catch the person responsible. In the midst of hunting his prey, Tana starts to destroy everything in his...

Als die impulsive Rose auf einem Biohof anheuert, ist sie sogleich fasziniert von dem liebevoll angelegten Blumenfeld der verstorbenen Gärtnerin Martje. In deren Notizbuch findet Rose köstliche Blütenrezepte, die sie zu einem kulinarischen Blog inspirieren - und das mit großem Erfolg. Die Französin Marguerite, die in Paris gegen die Schließung ihres kleinen Restaurants ankämpft, ist bezaubert von Roses duftigen Rezepten. Ebenso wie die Foodjournalistin Viola, die in Italien vor einer schweren Entscheidung steht.

Nia Da Silva is dead… Dead serious about moving on from her past, from roller derby, and the traumatic injury that was a crushing blow to not just her body but her mind. Running away from her problems wasn't the fix she had hoped for. Five years later, she returns to the town that left her with permanent scars. Healing her physical wounds was the bare minimum. She'll finally have to face herself and rediscover who she's always been beneath the lies she's worn like shredded fishnets over bruised knees.

Bloomsbury presents Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle, read by Ari Fliakos, Tessa Albertson, André Santana, and Kristen Sieh. ‘Practically exploding with love, life and flavour’ LOUISE KENNEDY ‘Bitingly inventive, written with humour and heart’ ELIZABETH DAY ‘A hauntingly evocative journey...

El gran regreso de Mario Mendoza a la ficción después de cinco años. Adán Santana, un novelista con el cuerpo desbaratado y maltrecho por varios accidentes sucesivos, con un precario estado mental, que menguó sus fuerzas y su espíritu, sobrevivió como pudo al encierro de la pandemia y...

Brought to you by Penguin. Over a hot summer in New York a painter falls for a priest, in this captivating modern love story from the Booker-Prize shortlisted Brandon Taylor Wyeth is a newcomer to New York, a young Black painter who is trying to find his place in the contemporary Manhattan art...

Jessica Speight es una joven talentosa que estudia Antropología en el Londres de los años sesenta, pero cualquier previsión sobre su futuro se ve seriamente comprometida cuando, fruto de una relación con un profesor casado, se queda embarazada y debe afrontar, en soledad, las repercusiones...

Primero, como todas, fueron niñas. Luego siguieron llevando con orgullo el nombre, que ya las distinguía: niñas bien, niñas educadas, niñas de familia. Pronto vivieron los años con arrojo y con amor, y se volvieron niñas con familia. Y hoy… esas niñas son abuelas. En este libro de...

Una mujer descubre accidentalmente el cadáver castrado de un joven. El cuerpo yace al fondo de un callejón, junto a unos enigmáticos versos de la poeta argentina Alejandra Pizarnik. Cuando la mujer –que se hace llamar Cristina Rivera Garza y ha leído la obra poética de Pizarnik–...

The true hero of The Wizard of Oz takes center stage in this brilliant, delightfully snarky reimagining from the author of The Library of the Unwritten. “Heartfelt and often hilarious. . . . Toto takes his place among the pantheon of Very Good literary canines.”—The Washington Post I was...

Growing up , TJ was Cam's boy next door. When Cam needed a home, TJ's parents—Mae and Jin—took him in. Their family bakery became Cam's safe place. Until he left, and it wasn't anymore. Years later, Cam's world is falling apart. The love of his life, Kai, is gone: but his ghost keeps haunting Cam, and won't let go. And Cam's not sure he wants to let go, not sure he's ready. When he has a chance to return to his home town, to work in a gay bar clinging on in a changing city landscape, he takes it.

In Joma West's Face, Margaret Atwood meets Kazuo Ishiguro in this sci-fi domestic drama that reimagines race and class in a genetically engineered society fed by performative fame. How much is your Face worth? Schuyler and Madeleine Burroughs have the perfect Face—rich and powerful enough to...

"Debut author Garza skillfully links brilliantly crafted episodes to create an unforgettable community in Galveston, TX...Indeed, staying well-tuned to Garza’s work earns enduring rewards." — Booklist (starred review) "These rich performances, a chorus of different tones and accents, create...

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction Percival Everett by Virgil Russell is a story inside a story inside a story. A man visits his ageing father in a nursing home, where his father writes the novel he imagines his son would write. Or is...

Panic consumes the countryside as the body count rises. Whispers of an unnatural beast spread through the kingdom. When the Queen calls for her heroes, those who answer will have to make do. The best tracker in the known world. A son who follows in his father's footsteps. An investigator with nothing to lose. A Captain with everything to prove. But even once the mystery of the beast is unraveled a far more sinister plot is revealed.

'One of the most marvellous books I've read in years' Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances 'A bacchanal of familial entanglements, as beautiful as it is brutal' Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of The Many Daughters of Afong Moy Daniel Cunha has a lot on his mind. He...

“Delicious, decadent, and utterly diabolical. No one serves up a scandal like Asha Elias.”—Kirsten Miller, author of The Change A seductive social satire about the wealthy PTA moms of an elite elementary school in Miami Beach, Pink Glass Houses is very Big Little Lies and Pineapple Street...

"Paulette es una señora de alta alcurnia o “GCU” (gente como uno) que pisa los sesenta años. Divorciada de un marido “de toda la vida” que la abandonó para casarse con una mujer más joven, dolorida y sola por primera vez, decide un día bajarse de la calesita de alcohol y pastillas que la mantiene en vacilante funcionamiento.

Con un hijo internado por sobredosis, otro acusado de violencia de género y una hija que casi no le habla, intenta salir adelante con la ayuda de Alcóholicos Anónimos y una buena cuota de sexo que, para su sorpresa, se le ofrece a cada paso sin gran esfuerzo de su parte...

Damned If I Do is a set of brilliantly postmodern short stories from the twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees, James and Erasure. An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen and even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man...

Lo más asombroso de Las Segundas Criaturas es cómo la vasta imaginación de Diego Cornejo-Menacho libera casi cualquier dispositivo narrativo para obtener versiones arriesgadas de lo que puede hacer una novela. La inspirada idea de Cornejo-Menacho es escribir una biografía parcial, apócrifa y desvergonzada del ya ficcional “Marcelo Chiriboga”, aquel ignorado escritor ecuatoriano perteneciente al Boom, que aparecía, a la manera del Zelig de Woody Allen, en las novelas y la no ficción de los escritores reales de entonces, José Donoso y Carlos Fuentes.