A Natural Talent, by Ross Raisin

It is never good to attend to the desires of others for yourself. When you risk succumbing to the dangerous temptation of pretending to be what others expect you to be, over and above who you really are or need, you face danger. The example of ...

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The king receives, by Eduardo Mendoza

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Yesterday is history. In the same way that any decade of the XNUMXth century, however close it may be, is already part of a history that those of us who go through part of this century still feel as part of our lives. And in that dual space between memory and facts ...

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A Hidden Truth, by Ann Cleeves

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Certain places have a beauty and charm whose scenery can become extremely sinister in the hands of a good editor. That's the case for Northtumberland and Ann Cleeves. Because this northern English area, bordering Scotland and watered by the North Sea offers landscapes of authentic ...

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Dragon's Teeth by Michael Chrichton

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There are authors capable of becoming a genre in themselves. The late Michael Chrichton was his own-label scientific fantasy. In a beautiful communion between science and adventure or thriller, this author always dazzled millions of readers eager for his full proposals ...

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Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

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Fantastic genre authors usually develop their craft around sagas on which to develop new imaginaries, new worlds, approaches where to extend the magical presentation of overflowing fantasy realities. Jay Kristoff is one of the current mainstays of the genre internationally, along with other greats such as ...

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Dementia, by Eloy Urroz

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Certain stories about madness are a direct invitation to dark worlds where the mind can become lost. The adventure of this dementia is directed towards that recognition of the delirium of a plot that does not stop awakening the magnetism of a strange case ...

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The Ashes of the Caliphate, by Mikel Ayestarán

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After the shocking story of Antonio Pampliega told in his book In the dark, with his 300 days of captivity in Syria, I now come to this book by another journalist Mikel Ayestarán, specialized in Middle East and in charge of transferring us in many occasions the sociopolitical ins and outs from countries like ...

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Closed circles, by Viveca Sten

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And when it seemed that the current black genre narrative could have found the relief of the Nordic preponderance towards new authors and emerging authors in France, Italy or Spain, the Swedish Viveca Sten appears to claim the creative patent of the European black thriller. Although the case of Viveca ...

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Singular Types and Other Stories, by Tom Hanks

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Looking for a Tom Hanks book has a lot of movie interest. I don't know, it's like you buy this storybook waiting for its first page to open with the scent of chocolate from Forrest Gump's box of chocolates; or with the concern of facing a reading ...

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Megalodon by Steve Alten

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Since Herman Melville introduced us to his whale Moby Dick, many other novels with marine blog aspirations have been lavished on these overseas adventures. Although it is true that Melville's novel, published in the middle of the XNUMXth century, had a major point of transcendental travel, from the ...

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The Summer Before the War, by Helen Simonson

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The chicha calm before the Great War. Civil society is the last to understand that this state of imposed normality is part of the latency of a war about to manifest itself. Even more so when the war of wars awaited them, that first conflict that they faced ...

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A magical night, of Danielle Steel

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Talk about the return of the queen of the romantic genre Danielle Steel it is always an inaccuracy. Because Danielle Steel it never goes away, it always has a new book, it always offers a new story to link to the previous one with a magical cadence of a few months. So understood the tenacity of this ...

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