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En los albores del siglo XIX, viajamos de la mano de Jane Austen a Sanditon, una localidad costera decidida a convertirse en el reclamo turístico del momento: un balneario excepcional para recibir a la más alta sociedad, un lugar de recreo y sanatorio gracias a las virtudes del mar. Allí, asistiremos a la pugna de sus personajes por lograr ubicar Sanditon en el mapa. En pleno cambio social, la autora, sagaz observadora, desenfunda el sable de su afilada ironía y retrata a una comunidad excéntrica, dividida entre personajes pretenciosos y arrogantes. Sanditon es su última e inconclusa novela y un regalo póstumo para sus lectores.

The automobile industry has abandoned Vacca Vale, Indiana, leaving its residents behind, too. In a run-down apartment building on the edge of town, commonly known as the Rabbit Hutch, lives one of these people, a young girl named Blandine Watkins, who The Rabbit Hutch centers around. Hauntingly beautiful and unnervingly bright, Blandine lives alongside three teenage boys, all recently aged out of the state foster-care system, all of them madly in love with Blandine. Plagued by the structures, people, and places that not only failed her but actively harmed her, Blandine pays no mind to their affection. All she wants is an escape, a true bodily escape like the mystics describe in the books she reads.

What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke and fled the country? The answer is in The Exchange, the riveting sequel to The Firm, the blockbuster thriller that launched the career of America’s favorite storyteller. It is now fifteen years later, and Mitch and Abby are living in Manhattan, where Mitch is a partner at the largest law firm in the world. When a mentor in Rome asks him for a favor that will take him far from home, Mitch finds himself at the center of a sinister plot that has worldwide implications—and once again endangers his colleagues, friends, and family. Mitch has become a master at staying one step ahead of his adversaries, but this time there’s nowhere to hide.