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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. WINER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals. The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirteen years older, with whom he begins a secret affair. The second is a manic radio scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho, whose racy, vituperative soap operas are holding the city's listeners in thrall. Pedro chooses young Marito to be his confidant as he slowly goes insane. Interweaving the story of Marito's life with the ever-more-fevered tales of Pedro Camacho, Vargas Llosa's novel is hilarious, mischievous, and masterful, a classic named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. La autora de La pareja de al lado vuelve con un nuevo y electrizante thriller. Un secreto enterrado durante una década. Una visita inesperada y una terrible acusación. ¿Qué le sucedió a Lindsey Kilgour? Stephanie y Patrick se están adaptando todavía a su nueva vida tras el nacimiento de las gemelas. Los bebés no les dan respiro y aunque Stephanie sufre el agotamiento y la desorientación de la falta de sueño, hay una cosa de la que está completamente segura: tiene todo lo que siempre había soñado. Entonces aparece Erica, una mujer del pasado de Patrick que lanza una escalofriante acusación. Patrick siempre había afirmado que la muerte de su primera esposa fue un accidente. Ahora Erica asegura que se tratóde un asesinato. Él insiste en que es inocente, en que todo no es más que un intento de chantaje. Pero Erica sabe cosas sobre Patrick, cosas que empujan a Stephanie a hacerse preguntas sobre su marido. ¿Le ha contado la verdad? ¿Es Erica la convincente mentirosa que Patrick asegura que es? ¿O ha cometido Stephanie un terrible error? ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The new domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door and Someone We Know A long-ago accident--and a vistor from out of the blue. . . Stephanie and Patrick are adjusting to life with their colicky twin girls. The babies are a handful, but even as Stephanie struggles with the disorientation of sleep deprivation, there's one thing she's sure of: she has all she ever wanted. Then Erica, a woman from Patrick's past, appears and makes a disturbing accusation. Patrick had always said his first wife's death was an accident, but now Erica claims it was murder. Patrick insists he's innocent, that this is nothing but a blackmail attempt. Still, Erica knows things about Patrick--things that make Stephanie begin to question her husband. Stephanie isn't sure what, or who, to believe. As Stephanie's trust in Patrick begins to falter, Patrick stands to lose everything. Is Patrick telling the truth--is Erica the persuasive liar Patrick says she is? Or has Stephanie made a terrible mistake.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. La autora de La pareja de al lado vuelve con un nuevo y electrizante thriller. Un secreto enterrado durante una década. Una visita inesperada y una terrible acusación. ¿Qué le sucedió a Lindsey Kilgour? Stephanie y Patrick se están adaptando todavía a su nueva vida tras el nacimiento de las gemelas. Los bebés no les dan respiro y aunque Stephanie sufre el agotamiento y la desorientación de la falta de sueño, hay una cosa de la que está completamente segura: tiene todo lo que siempre había soñado. Entonces aparece Erica, una mujer del pasado de Patrick que lanza una escalofriante acusación. Patrick siempre había afirmado que la muerte de su primera esposa fue un accidente. Ahora Erica asegura que se tratóde un asesinato. Él insiste en que es inocente, en que todo no es más que un intento de chantaje. Pero Erica sabe cosas sobre Patrick, cosas que empujan a Stephanie a hacerse preguntas sobre su marido. ¿Le ha contado la verdad? ¿Es Erica la convincente mentirosa que Patrick asegura que es? ¿O ha cometido Stephanie un terrible error? ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The new domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door and Someone We Know A long-ago accident--and a vistor from out of the blue. . . Stephanie and Patrick are adjusting to life with their colicky twin girls. The babies are a handful, but even as Stephanie struggles with the disorientation of sleep deprivation, there's one thing she's sure of: she has all she ever wanted. Then Erica, a woman from Patrick's past, appears and makes a disturbing accusation. Patrick had always said his first wife's death was an accident, but now Erica claims it was murder. Patrick insists he's innocent, that this is nothing but a blackmail attempt. Still, Erica knows things about Patrick--things that make Stephanie begin to question her husband. Stephanie isn't sure what, or who, to believe. As Stephanie's trust in Patrick begins to falter, Patrick stands to lose everything. Is Patrick telling the truth--is Erica the persuasive liar Patrick says she is? Or has Stephanie made a terrible mistake.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Quizá no conozcas tan bien a tus vecinos como creías. El nuevo y electrizante thriller de Shari Lapena, autora de La pareja de al lado. En un tranquilo barrio residencial de Nueva York, algunos hogares han recibido una nota anónima: «Lo siento muchísimo. Mi hijo ha entrado en varias casas y curioseado en los ordenadores. La suya es una de ellas». ¿Quién es este chico y qué ha descubierto? Mientras los rumores empiezan a circular y las sospechas aumentan, una mujer desaparece. ¿Están relacionados estos hechos? ¿Quién sabe más de lo que deja entrever? ¿Y hasta dónde están dispuestos a llegar estos amables y apacibles vecinos para proteger sus secretos? ENGLISH DESCRIPTION AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! One of USA Today's top 100 books to read while stuck at home social distancing  "No one does suburban paranoia like Shari Lapena--this slowly unfurling nightmare will have you biting your nails until the end."  --Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10 The new domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door, A Stranger in the House, and An Unwanted Guest, Shari Lapena Maybe you don't know your neighbors as well as you thought you did.&nbsp.  "This is a very difficult letter to write. I hope you will not hate us too much .&nbsp.   My  son broke into your home recently while you were out." In a quiet, leafy suburb in upstate New York, a teenager has been sneaking into houses--and into the owners' computers as well--learning their secrets, and maybe sharing some of them, too. Who is he, and what might he have uncovered? After two anonymous letters are received, whispers start to circulate, and suspicion mounts. And when a woman down the street is found murdered, the tension reaches the breaking point. Who killed her? Who knows more than they're telling? And how far will all these very nice people go to protect their own secrets? In this neighborhood, it's not just the husbands and wives who play games. Here, everyone in the family has something to hide . . .…

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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. How much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for an abandoned kitten to transform a small library, save a classic American town, and eventually become famous around the world? You can't even begin to answer those questions until you hear the charming story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat of Spencer, Iowa. Dewey's story starts in the worst possible way. Only a few weeks old, on the coldest night of the year, he was stuffed into the returned book slot at the Spencer Public Library. He was found the next morning by library director, Vicki Myron, a single mother who had survived the loss of her family farm, a breast cancer scare, and an alcoholic husband. Dewey won her heart, and the hearts of the staff, by pulling himself up and hobbling on frostbitten feet to nudge each of them in a gesture of thanks and love. For the next nineteen years, he never stopped charming the people of Spencer with his enthusiasm, warmth, humility, (for a cat) and, above all, his sixth sense about who needed him most. As his fame grew from town to town, then state to state, and finally, amazingly, worldwide, Dewey became more than just a friend; he became a source of pride for an extraordinary Heartland farming town pulling its way slowly back from the greatest crisis in its long history.…

Zustand: Good. Cuatro testigos de un asesinato sin resolver aceptan participar en un reality dedicado a recrearlo. Un revelador ejemplo del poder de la televisión de la mano de la inimitable reina del suspense. A los tres años, Timmy fue el único testigo del asesinato de su padre. Solo él le vio la cara al culpable. Pasados cinco años todavía tiene pesadillas y recuerda con ansiedad los ojos azules y penetrantes del asesino; pero a su madre, Laurie, lo que más le atormenta es la amenaza que le hizo a su hijo: «Dile a tu madre que ella será la siguiente y después irás tú». Ahora otro crimen ocupa la vida de Laurie, esta vez como productora de un programa de televisión sobre casos sin resolver. El primer episodio gira en torno al asesinato de Betsy Powell. Hace veinte años, Betsy fue asfixiada en su cama después de una gran fiesta en su casa para celebrar la graduación de su hija. Los que estuvieron presentes esa noche han aceptado participar en el programa y en la reconstrucción del crimen, pero desde el inicio de la grabación resulta evidente que cada uno esconde más de un secreto. Además, aunque Laurie aún no lo sepa, una persona de afilados ojos azules está observándolo todo muy de cerca. La crítica ha dicho. «Mary Higgins Clark nos ha demostrado con este libro que a sus más de 86 años sigue estando en plena forma. Asesinato en directo es una novela de suspense que nada tiene que envidiar a las primeras que escribió la autora. Una obra de obligada lectura para las fans y recomendable al máximo para aquellos enamorados del género negro.» Revista Kritica «Los seguidores de Clark van a encontrar el suspense y la acción que buscan en este thriller contemporáneo.» Publishers Weekly ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In this gripping #1 New York Times bestseller from Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark, a Manhattan ER doctor is brazenly murdered in front of his young son in a city playground. Five years later, his killer is still at large.When Laurie Moran's husband was brutally murdered, only three-year-old Timmy saw the face of his father's killer. Five years later his piercing blue eyes still haunt Timmy's dreams. Laurie is haunted by more--the killer's threat to her son as he fled the scene: "Tell your mother she's next, then it's your turn."Now Laurie is dealing with murder again, this time as the producer of a true-crime, cold-case television show. The series will launch with the twenty-year-old unsolved murder of Betsy Powell. Betsy, a socialite, was found suffocated in her bed after a gala celebrating the graduation of her daughter and three friends. The sensational murder was news nationwide. Reopening the case in its lavish setting and with the cooperation of the surviving guests that night, Laurie is sure to have a hit on her hands. But when the estranged friends begin filming, it becomes clear each is hiding secrets.small and large.And a pair of blue eyes is watching events unfold, too.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. El libro que ha arrasado por sorpresa en las listas de Estados Unidos, basado en el impactante caso de niños robados que conmocionó al país. Aunque la vida nos lleve por diferentes caminos, el corazón siempre recuerda a donde pertenece. Memphis, 1939 Rill Foss y sus cuatro hermanos pequeños disfrutan de una infancia mágica en su casa-barco en el Misisipi. Hasta que una noche de tormenta sus padres tienen que correr al hospital y unos desconocidos llegan para llevárselos a la fuerza al orfanato. Aunque les aseguran que su estancia allí será solo temporal, Rill pronto se dará cuenta de la terrible verdad. Y de que tendrá que luchar con todas sus fuerzas para mantener juntos a sus hermanos en un mundo de crueldad e incertidumbre. Aiken, Carolina del Sur, en la actualidad Avery Stafford ha vivido una vida de riqueza y privilegio, tiene una exitosa carrera política y pronto va a casarse con su encantador prometido. Pero un encuentro fortuito suscita dolorosas preguntas que la empujan a investigar en la historia oculta de su familia. y a destapar secretos que pueden llevarla a la destrucción o la redención. Una conmovedora novela inspirada en el escándalo real de la organización de adopciones que durante treinta años secuestró y vendió niños desfavorecidos a familias acomodadas por todo el país. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLER! For readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale comes a "thought-provoking [and] complex tale about two families, two generations apart . . . based on a notorious true-life scandal." Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children's Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents--but they quickly realize the dark truth. At the mercy of the facility's cruel director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and brother together in a world of danger and uncertainty. Aiken, South Carolina, present day. Born into wealth and privilege, Avery Stafford seems to have it all: a successful career as a federal prosecutor, a handsome fiancé, and a lavish wedding on the horizon. But when Avery returns home to help her father weather a health crisis, a chance encounter leaves her with uncomfortable questions and compels her to take a journey through her family's long-hidden history, on a path that will ultimately lead either to devastation or to redemption. Based on one of America's most notorious real-life scandals--in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country--Lisa Wingate's riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the heart never forgets where we belong.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Beautifully written. . . . Full of insight into the nature of tragedy, love, and redemption. --Garth Stein A gorgeously written, tender, and wise novel about love and forgiveness in 1960s Australia, in which a lonely farmer finds his life turned upside down by the arrival of a vibrant librarian. Can one unlikely bookshop heal two broken souls? It is 1968 in rural Australia and lonely Tom Hope can't make heads or tails of Hannah Babel. Newly arrived from Hungary, Hannah is unlike anyone he's ever met--she's passionate, brilliant, and fiercely determined to open sleepy Hometown's first bookshop. Despite the fact that Tom has only read only one book in his life, when Hannah hires him to install shelving for the shop, the two discover an astonishing spark. Recently abandoned by an unfaithful wife--and still missing her sweet son, Peter--Tom dares to believe that he might make Hannah happy. But Hannah is a haunted woman. Twenty-four years earlier, she had been marched to the gates of Auschwitz. Perfect for fans of The Little Paris Bookshop and The Light Between Oceans, The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted cherishes the power of love, literature, and forgiveness to transform our lives, and--if we dare allow them--to mend our broken hearts.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Selección del Club de Lectura Hello Sunshine de Reese Witherspoon. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Selección del Club de Lectura Hello Sunshine de Reese Witherspoon La autora de Yo antes de ti vuelve con una fabulosa historia sobre cinco extraordinarias mujeres que intentarán cambiar su mundo con el poder de los libros. En 1937 Alice Wright toma la impulsiva decisión de abandonar Inglaterra para casarse con un apuesto y rico americano en Baileyville, Kentucky. Pero su nueva vida en la pequeña ciudad no es lo que esperaba hasta que conoce a Margery O'Hare, quien se ha propuesto llevar el milagro de los libros hasta el último rincón de la región. A caballo, atravesando montañas y bosques salvajes y luchando contra el prejuicio y la ignorancia, Alice, Margery y sus compañeras se convierten en bibliotecarias itinerantes al tiempo que descubren la libertad, la amistad, el amor y una vida que por fin les pertenece. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK  BESTSELLER DEL NEW YORK TIMES SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE! Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium  Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England.  But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who's never asked a man's permission for anything. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Horseback Librarians of Kentucky.  What happens to them--and to the men they love--becomes a classic drama of loyalty, justice, humanity and passion. Though they face all kinds of dangers, they're committed to their job--bringing books to people who have never had any, sharing the gift of learning that will change their lives. Based on a true story rooted in America's past, The Giver of Stars is unparalleled in its scope.  At times funny, at others heartbreaking, this is a richly rewarding novel of women's friendship, of true love, and of what happens when we reach beyond our grasp for the great beyond.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. De la autora del thriller revelación de 2017 La pareja de al lado, llega una nueva y adictiva novela repleta de giros y secretos. ¿Por qué huirías de un hogar feliz? Te encuentras en casa preparando la cena mientras esperas a que tu marido vuelva del trabajo. Estás deseando verle. Eso es lo último que recuerdas. Despiertas en el hospital sin saber cómo has llegado hasta allí. Te cuentan que has sufrido un accidente. Perdiste el control de tu coche mientras conducías a toda velocidad por uno de los peores barrios de la ciudad. La policía sospecha que ocultas algún secreto oscuro, pero tu marido se niega a creerlo. Tu mejor amiga no está tan segura. Y ni siquiera tú sabes qué creer. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "Smart and suspenseful. . . you'll never see the ending coming." --PureWow In this neighborhood, danger lies close to home. A domestic thriller packed full of secrets, and a twisty story that never stops--from the bestselling author of The Couple Next Door He looks at her, concerned. "How do you feel?" She wants to say, Terrified. Instead, she says, with a faint smile, "Glad to be home." Karen and Tom Krupp are happy--they've got a lovely home in upstate New York, they're practically newlyweds, and they have no kids to interrupt their comfortable life together. But one day, Tom returns home to find Karen has vanished--her car's gone and it seems she left in a rush. She even left her purse--complete with phone and ID--behind. There's a knock on the door--the police are there to take Tom to the hospital where his wife has been admitted. She had a car accident, and lost control as she sped through the worst part of town. The accident has left Karen with a concussion and a few scrapes.  Still, she's mostly okay--except that she can't remember what she was doing or where she was when she crashed. The cops think her memory loss is highly convenient, and they suspect she was up to no good.  Karen returns home with Tom, determined to heal and move on with her life. Then she realizes something's been moved. Something's not quite right. Someone's been in her house. And the police won't stop asking questions. Because in this house, everyone's a stranger. Everyone has something they'd rather keep hidden. Something they might even kill to keep quiet.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. De la autora del thriller revelación de 2017 La pareja de al lado, llega una nueva y adictiva novela repleta de giros y secretos. ¿Por qué huirías de un hogar feliz? Te encuentras en casa preparando la cena mientras esperas a que tu marido vuelva del trabajo. Estás deseando verle. Eso es lo último que recuerdas. Despiertas en el hospital sin saber cómo has llegado hasta allí. Te cuentan que has sufrido un accidente. Perdiste el control de tu coche mientras conducías a toda velocidad por uno de los peores barrios de la ciudad. La policía sospecha que ocultas algún secreto oscuro, pero tu marido se niega a creerlo. Tu mejor amiga no está tan segura. Y ni siquiera tú sabes qué creer. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "Smart and suspenseful. . . you'll never see the ending coming." --PureWow In this neighborhood, danger lies close to home. A domestic thriller packed full of secrets, and a twisty story that never stops--from the bestselling author of The Couple Next Door He looks at her, concerned. "How do you feel?" She wants to say, Terrified. Instead, she says, with a faint smile, "Glad to be home." Karen and Tom Krupp are happy--they've got a lovely home in upstate New York, they're practically newlyweds, and they have no kids to interrupt their comfortable life together. But one day, Tom returns home to find Karen has vanished--her car's gone and it seems she left in a rush. She even left her purse--complete with phone and ID--behind. There's a knock on the door--the police are there to take Tom to the hospital where his wife has been admitted. She had a car accident, and lost control as she sped through the worst part of town. The accident has left Karen with a concussion and a few scrapes.  Still, she's mostly okay--except that she can't remember what she was doing or where she was when she crashed. The cops think her memory loss is highly convenient, and they suspect she was up to no good.  Karen returns home with Tom, determined to heal and move on with her life. Then she realizes something's been moved. Something's not quite right. Someone's been in her house. And the police won't stop asking questions. Because in this house, everyone's a stranger. Everyone has something they'd rather keep hidden. Something they might even kill to keep quiet.…

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Zustand: Good. A radiant and epic new novel that is among the finest achievements of Mexico's greatest man of letters. The Years with Laura Diaz is Carlos Fuentes' most important novel in several decades. Like his masterpiece The Death of Artemio Cruz, the action begins in the state of Veracruz and moves to Mexico City--tracing a migration during the Revolution and its aftermath that was a feature of Mexico's demographic history and that is a significant element in Fuentes' fictional world. Now the principle figure is not Artemio Cruz (who, however, makes a brief appearance) but Fuentes' first major female protagonist, the extraordinary Laura Diaz. Carlos Fuentes' richly woven narrative tapestry--filled with a multitude of dramatic scenes both witty, amusing, and heartbreaking--shows us this wonderful creature as she grows into a politically committed artist who is also a wife and mother, a lover of great men, a complicated and alluring heroine whose brave honesty prevails despite her losing a son and grandson to the darkest forces of Mexico's repressive, corrupt regimes. In the end, Laura Diaz herself dies, after a life filled with tragedy and loss, but she is a happy woman, for she has borne witness to, and helped to affect, the course of history and has vindicated the aims and intentions of the highest art.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Caballos salvajes nos descubre los origenes de la disfuncional familia Walls. Si en El castillo de cristal los ninos nos conmovieron con su fortaleza y sus ganas de vivir, en esta precuela sera Lily Casey Smith, su abuela, la que nos brinde su tenacidad y perseverancia ante las dificultades que atraveso en el camino de su vida. Heroina y pionera en el Lejano Oeste americano, Lily vivio durante sus casi primeros diez anos en una caseta del desierto de Texas. A pesar de la extrema pobreza en que subsistia con sus padres, no tardo en convertirse en una joven maestra de un pueblo situado a 28 dias a caballo, lo que supondria el principio de una sucesion de desafios en una tierra de promesas y a la vez de grandes adversidades. Tras casarse con un hombre bigamo, lo abandona para irse con otro hombre dueno de un rancho con el que tiene dos hijos -uno de ellos es Rose Mary Walls, la madre de El castillo de cristal-, y durante todo este tiempo se convertira en jinete de rodeo, en domadora de caballos, en una despiadada jugadora de poquer y hara lo imposible porque ella y su familia sobrevivan, con su afan de superacion y su encendida defensa de la libertad de la mujer a principios del siglo XX. Jeannette Walls queria escribir sobre la infancia de su madre, pero la vida de su abuela termino imponiendose. Al final, todo tiene una explicacion. Resena: Walls recibio el mejor regalo que se le puede hacer a una escritora: una familia disfuncional empaquetada con excentricidades. .] Caballos salvajes es el cuento de otra sardonica pariente de espiritu libre: su abuela materna Lily Casey Smith. USA Today ENGLISH DESCRIPTION For the first 10 years of her life, Lily Casey Smith, the narrator of this true-life novel by her granddaughter, Walls, lived in a dirt dugout in west Texas. Walls, whose mega selling memoir, The Glass Castle, recalled her own upbringing, writes in what she recalls as Lily's plainspoken voice, whose recital provides plenty of drama and suspense as she ricochets from one challenge to another. Having been educated in fits and starts because of her parents' penury, Lily becomes a teacher at age 15 in a remote frontier town she reaches after a solo 28-day ride. Marriage to a bigamist almost saps her spirit, but later she weds a rancher with whom she shares two children and a strain of plucky resilience. (They sell bootleg liquor during Prohibition, hiding the bottles under a baby's crib.) Lily is a spirited heroine, fiercely outspoken against hypocrisy and prejudice, a rodeo rider and fearless breaker of horses, and a ruthless poker player. Assailed by flash floods, tornados and droughts, Lily never gets far from hardscrabble drudgery in several states--New Mexico, Arizona, Illinois--but hers is one of those heartwarming stories about indomitable women that will always find an audience.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Caballos salvajes nos descubre los origenes de la disfuncional familia Walls. Si en El castillo de cristal los ninos nos conmovieron con su fortaleza y sus ganas de vivir, en esta precuela sera Lily Casey Smith, su abuela, la que nos brinde su tenacidad y perseverancia ante las dificultades que atraveso en el camino de su vida. Heroina y pionera en el Lejano Oeste americano, Lily vivio durante sus casi primeros diez anos en una caseta del desierto de Texas. A pesar de la extrema pobreza en que subsistia con sus padres, no tardo en convertirse en una joven maestra de un pueblo situado a 28 dias a caballo, lo que supondria el principio de una sucesion de desafios en una tierra de promesas y a la vez de grandes adversidades. Tras casarse con un hombre bigamo, lo abandona para irse con otro hombre dueno de un rancho con el que tiene dos hijos -uno de ellos es Rose Mary Walls, la madre de El castillo de cristal-, y durante todo este tiempo se convertira en jinete de rodeo, en domadora de caballos, en una despiadada jugadora de poquer y hara lo imposible porque ella y su familia sobrevivan, con su afan de superacion y su encendida defensa de la libertad de la mujer a principios del siglo XX. Jeannette Walls queria escribir sobre la infancia de su madre, pero la vida de su abuela termino imponiendose. Al final, todo tiene una explicacion. Resena: Walls recibio el mejor regalo que se le puede hacer a una escritora: una familia disfuncional empaquetada con excentricidades. .] Caballos salvajes es el cuento de otra sardonica pariente de espiritu libre: su abuela materna Lily Casey Smith. USA Today ENGLISH DESCRIPTION For the first 10 years of her life, Lily Casey Smith, the narrator of this true-life novel by her granddaughter, Walls, lived in a dirt dugout in west Texas. Walls, whose mega selling memoir, The Glass Castle, recalled her own upbringing, writes in what she recalls as Lily's plainspoken voice, whose recital provides plenty of drama and suspense as she ricochets from one challenge to another. Having been educated in fits and starts because of her parents' penury, Lily becomes a teacher at age 15 in a remote frontier town she reaches after a solo 28-day ride. Marriage to a bigamist almost saps her spirit, but later she weds a rancher with whom she shares two children and a strain of plucky resilience. (They sell bootleg liquor during Prohibition, hiding the bottles under a baby's crib.) Lily is a spirited heroine, fiercely outspoken against hypocrisy and prejudice, a rodeo rider and fearless breaker of horses, and a ruthless poker player. Assailed by flash floods, tornados and droughts, Lily never gets far from hardscrabble drudgery in several states--New Mexico, Arizona, Illinois--but hers is one of those heartwarming stories about indomitable women that will always find an audience.…