Blue by Danielle Steel

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Another new novel by Danielle Steel It comes to appease the anxieties of its millions of readers, mainly those who recognize in his pen that unmatched genius for the construction of rose novels. In this case the plot is about the repetition of love. Sometimes love can ...

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Help, I'm a grandmother

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Not so long ago I spoke of the interesting book by the economist Leopoldo Abadía: Grandparents on the Verge of a Grandchildren Attack. A book that keeps with this the analogy of his final motivation, which is none other than explaining what being a grandparent means today. Humor is a ...

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September can wait, by Susana Fortes

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London was a city deeply punished by the Nazis. German planes bombed the English capital up to 71 times between 1940 and 1941. Emily J. Parker was a survivor of those continuous air raids dubbed the Blitz. The fiction that Susana Fortes proposes in this book September ...

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Pets, by Teresa Viejo

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Sometimes there comes a time when the balance of love swings from affection and routine to desire and incontinence. Filters, taboos, morals…, call it X. The question is that it can arise, no one is free from it. Abigail doesn't try to justify why she did it. ...

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The coffee of small miracles, by Nicolas Barreau

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With his novel The Smile of Women, Nicolas Barreau achieved that take-off dreamed of by every writer. Of course, there is a lot of dedication behind it, as always; of strenuous effort, as almost always. But the point is to write the right novel at the right time. It must be that or ...

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Better the absence, by Edurne Portela

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Relatively recently I reviewed the novel The Sun of Contradictions, by Eva Losada. And this book Better the Absence, written by another author, abounds in a similar theme, perhaps clearly disparate due to the differentiating fact of the location, of the setting. In both cases it is about making a drawing ...

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Autumn 2017 readings

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We come to September and the end of summer is upon us. But reading good books is still a nice activity that we can extend as the days get shorter. With autumn we can finish pending readings or take a look at what's new in the publishing market. News in books ...

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Zone One, by Colson Whitehead

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The biological threat, whether as a predesigned attack or as an uncontrolled pandemic, continues to be a subject that, to be glimpsed with certain certainty and regret, sustains so many apocalyptic stories in literature or in the cinema. But put to fiction, so that a plot of ...

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Twenty, by Manel Loureiro

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In the morbid taste for fear and terror as entertainment, stories about catastrophes or apocalypse appear with a special omen point about an end that seems achievable at all times, either tomorrow at the hands of an insane leader, within a century with the ...

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They all lie, by Mindy Mejía

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Mystery or straight black novels that address the issue of people's identity have a unique niche of passionate readers in search of those enigmas that stem from double lives, from the concealment of truths or the discovery of secrets. Very recent antecedents show it. ...

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My Dear Serial Killer, by Alicia Giménez Bartlett

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Petra Delicado returns to the scene of the black genre of our homeland literature with a new case to unravel before the serial killer on duty continues to skew lives. His first victim was a mature woman, on whose lying body he left a letter to express his macabre love ...

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The Children's Band, by Roberto Saviano

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Obtaining cum laude registration in the field of knowledge of the mafias and their organized crime systems, surviving the process, remains in the hands of few. Among those who infiltrated the mafia, specifically the Italian Camorra, and lived to tell about it, highlights Roberto Saviano. In the case of ...

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