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Audrey's dream as a mother had been for her daughters, Jess and Lily, to be as close as only sisters can be. But now, as adults, they no longer speak to each other, and Audrey's two teenage granddaughters have never met. Audrey has no idea how to fix her family as she wonders if they will ever be whole again.

No busquen historias Disney ni fábulas morales en estas páginas. Acaban de tropezar con la contundencia y la fuerza de la mejor literatura mexicana. Antonio Ortuño, en su libro más salvaje, navega entre la sátira y la ironía y nos obliga a asomarnos a la doble condición de víctimas y victimarios que llevamos marcada en la frente. Unas veces nos oprimen y otras oprimimos en el juego de las relaciones y la amoralidad del poder. Esbirros todos: del jefe, del hermano, del policía, del asesino, cuando no de uno mismo. Somos amos, somos esclavos y compartimos la supervivencia y la caída...

Leipzig, Alemania, años 30. Hetty Heinrich es la obediente hija de un periodista convertido en nazi de alto rango, deseosa de desempeñar su papel en el nuevo Reich. Pero cuando se encuentra con Walter se despiertan en ella sentimientos peligrosos: Walter, con su pelo rubio y sus ojos azules, el amigo de la infancia que salvó su vida. Walter, un judío... Porque ¿qué pasa cuando el amor hace que te cuestiones todo en lo que habías creído hasta ahora?

Nellie Campobello, a prominent Mexican writer and "novelist of the Revolution," played an important role in Mexico's cultural renaissance in the 1920s and early 1930s, along with such writers as Rafael Muñoz and Gregorio López y Fuentes and artists Diego Rivera, Orozco, and others. Her two novellas, Cartucho (first published in 1931) and My Mother's Hands (first published as Las manos de Mamá in 1938), are autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico. Campobello's memories of the Revolution in the north of Mexico, where Pancho ...

Julia Hughes has always played it safe until she learned a very painful lesson. Now Julia's starting over with a job in the Louisiana bayou, working for the infamous de Vincent family, the massively wealthy brothers who are haunted by a dark reputation and whispers of misdeeds. Hired to care for their troubled sister, Julia can't afford any distractions, but the menacing presence in the mansion and the ever-present temptation of the handsome Lucian de Vincent isn't something anyone can ignore. Julia knows better than to get wrapped up in Lucian. He's from a world she can't relate to. Plus,...