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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Shari Lapena's new thriller, AN UNWANTED GUEST, is available now! "The twists come as fast [as] you can turn the pages." --People "Provocative and shocking." --Lisa Gardner, New York Times bestselling author of Find Her "I read this novel at one sitting, absolutely riveted by the storyline. The suspense was beautifully rendered and unrelenting!" --Sue Grafton, New York Times bestselling author of X It all started at a dinner party. . . A domestic suspense debut about a young couple and their apparently friendly neighbors--a twisty, rollercoaster ride of lies, betrayal, and the secrets between husbands and wives. . . Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all--a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night, when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. Suspicion immediately lands on the parents. But the truth is a much more complicated story. Inside the curtained house, an unsettling account of what actually happened unfolds. Detective Rasbach knows that the panicked couple is hiding something. Both Anne and Marco soon discover that the other is keeping secrets, secrets they've kept for years. What follows is the nerve-racking unraveling of a family--a chilling tale of deception, duplicity, and unfaithfulness that will keep you breathless until the final shocking twist.

Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become “the isle of saints and scholars”—and thus preserve Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians. In this entertaining and compelling narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. Not only did Irish monks and scribes maintain the very record of Western civilization — copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost—they brought their uniquely Irish world-view to the task. As Cahill delightfully illustrates, so much of the liveliness we associate with medieval culture has its roots in Ireland. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated.

El corazón de las tinieblas recoge parte de sus experiencias a bordo de un barco de vapor en el río Congo. Las enigmáticas últimas palabras de Kurtz, «¡El horror! ¡El horror!», nos hablan de dos de las grandes preocupaciones del autor: los excesos de la colonización europea en África y la amoralidad intrínseca del ser humano.

Los ojos del hermano eterno, libro curiosísimo en la obra de Stefan Zweig, está escrito como una leyenda oriental situada mucho antes de los tiempos de Buda. Narra la historia de Virata, hombre justo y virtuoso, el juez más célebre del reino, que después de vivir voluntariamente en sus propias carnes la condena a las tinieblas destinada a los asesinos más sanguinarios, descubre el valor absoluto de la vida y reconoce en los ojos del hermano eterno la imposibilidad intrínseca de todo acto judicativo. Virata llega a ser, después de su renuncia, un hombre anónimo a quien le espera, una vez muerto, un olvido todavía más perenne, el de la historia que sigue su curso prescindiendo del hombre más justo de todos los tiempos.

Erika Ewald es una muchacha vienesa soñadora, con alma de artista, que enseña piano y que lleva una existencia rutinaria, sin secretos ni sorpresas, a no ser por los momentos que pasa con un joven violinista con quien comparte la pasión por la música.