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Alison Bergeron, on her way to meet her boyfriend's parents for the first time, stops in a coffee shop where an argument between Carter Wilmott, a local blogger, and George Miller, head of the town's public works, spirals out of control, ending with Carter's death, and Alison becomes more involved than she expected when complications arise and George's wife asks her to help clear his name.

Isabel Allende parte de la célebre cita de Albert Camus -"en medio deL inVierno aprendí por fin que había en mí un Verano invencibLe"- para urdir una trama que presenta la geografía humana de unos personajes propios de la América de hoy que se hallan "en el más profundo invierno de sus vidas": una chilena, una joven guatemalteca indocumentada y un maduro norteamericano. Los tres sobreviven a un terrible temporal de nieve que cae en pleno invierno...

When history professor Alison Carter became a consultant to the film version of the Wild West legend she'd dedicated her career to researching, she couldn't possibly have known that she would not only get a front-row seat to a full-blown Hollywood circus but would innocently witness something that would put her life in peril. Nor did she expect that a tall stranger in a cowboy hat would turn the movie--and her world--completely upside down. A. J....

$a"Twitter seems like a perfect start-up success story. In barely six years, a small group of young, ambitious programmers in Silicon Valley built an $11.5 billion business out of the ashes of a failed podcasting company. Today Twitter boasts more than 200 million active users and has affected business, politics, media, and other fields in innumerable ways. Now Nick Bilton of the New York Times takes readers behind the scenes with a narrative that...

"She's an antique print dealer, a college professor, and now...a parent? Maggie Summer is considering adopting a child from the New Jersey agency Our World, Our Children, and she has happily agreed to stage a benefit antiques show on their behalf. With her dealer friends, her college, and her lover, Will Brewer, all donating their time and support, everything is falling into place. But someone is harboring a vicious grudge against Our World, Our Children....

English professor Alison Bergeron is off the hook for murder but finds herself in another sticky situation when her ex turns up dead and she is pulled into the murder investigation, which puts her onto a dangerous mob boss's hit list.

To escape an abusive relationship, the author joined Instagram celebrity Joy “Mothertrucker” Wiebe, the nation’s only female ice road trucker, on an adventurous ride through the Alaskan wilderness that was profoundly life-changing as she found meaning, strength and friendship.

Reluctantly hosting her in-laws during a birthday party for her twin stepdaughters, Alison Bergeron investigates when the girls' estranged uncle gives them a lavish gift and is subsequently found dead.

As an African American professor of Russian literature becomes troubled by her son's romantic interest in an exotic dancer from Russia, she embarks on a journey into her own complex past.