Al grito de guerra: El Guerrillero

El coraje de una mujer en un mundo devastado. Aquel desconocido pod& #237a sex la repuesta a todos sus males, pero acogerlo bajo su techo entra& #241aba no pocos riesgos. Abiertas a& #250n las heridas de la guerra de Secesi& #243n. Helen Courtney sabe que de nada sirve lamentarse. Ha perdido a su marido y toda su fortuna, pero a& #250n le quedan las tierras. Sin embargo ella sola no puede levantar su hacienda, y cuando un capit& #225n note& #241o llama a su puerta buscando trabajo, no se lo piensa dos veces. Juntos luchan contra la abierta hostilidad del resto del pueblo, y pese a su mutuo...

Este libro es la crónica inclasificable de un desarraigo y de la transformación de un paisaje. Con estilo austero y preciso, impregnado de fuerza lírica y brío, la narradora una mujer joven que se ve liberada de trabajar en el campo- retrata el mundo de Saidí, un pueblo de la Franja aragonesa. En sus regresos discontinuos pero constantes, reflejo de un apego difícil, cuajado de matices, la protagonista observa los efectos de los cambios en la vida agrícola, las paradojas del mercado, los indicios de una urbanización salvaje. Todo ello desconcierta y hiere a esta tierra, la cual, sin...

He was her mirror image. Now the mirror has cracked. Celeste and her twin brother, Noble, are as close as can be -- until a tragic accident takes Noble's life. It's a loss that pushes their mother, a woman obsessed with New Age superstitions, over the edge.... Desperate to keep her son "alive," Celeste's mother forces her to cut her hair, wear boys' clothes, and take on Noble's identity. Celeste has virtually disappeared -- until a handsome boy moves in next door, and Celeste will risk her mother's wrath to let herself come back to life.

In a house he is restoring, builder Don Lark meets a woman squatter who turns out to be a ghost. But Sylvie Delaney does not realize she is a ghost, thinking she is alive. Lark learns she was murdered and goes searching for the killer. As he sinks his teeth into his new project, Lark's new neighborhood starts to work its charms on him. He strikes up a romance with the real estate agent who sold him the house. His neighbors, two charming, chatty old ladies, ply him endlessly with delicious Southern cooking. Even Sylvie, the squatter Lark was once desperate to evict from the old house, is now...