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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"La familia Altaterra acoge en su seno a un enigmático joven sin nombre, pero tiempo después lo repudia misteriosamente. El expulsado se ve obligado a vagar durante treinta años. Cuando regresa, pasado y presente se confunden, y los amores secretos y las venganzas por saldar se entremezclan con una serie de crímenes cuyo desenlace estará íntimamente ligado al destino de la familia."--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Nick Hornby meets Chuck Palahniuk in this powerful, provocative, and heartfelt epistolary novel from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author J. Michael Straczynski. Life has other plans for a group of strangers who want to end it all on a cross-country road trip, but then bond in ways they never could have imagined"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The little town of Castle Rock, Maine has witnessed some strange events and unusual visitors over the years, but there is one story that has never been told... until now. There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974 twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong (if time-rusted) iron bolts and zig-zag up the cliffside....
6) The suitcase
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When a weary stranger arrives one day with only a suitcase, everyone is full of questions. Why is he here? Where has he come from? And just what is in the suitcase? To learn the answers, they can either trust the newcomer or discover what they risk by not believing them.
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
"Decir no y rechazar contactos desagradables no es fácil. A los niños seguros de sí mismos les cuesta menos decir lo que quieren y lo que no quieren. Por eso es importante que todos los niños tomen conciencia de sus emociones y de su cuerpo. Solo así podrán establecer límites."
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
After their father has been gone for eight months in search of work, a stranger arrives at Andre and Elise's home on Christmas night and sits at the place at the table always made in case a stranger visits, in the hopes that their father is getting the same treatment from another family while he is away.
12) The photo album
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"No one seems to recognize the young man caught in the background of some old photos that Annie found in the attic of Grey Gables. But Mary Beth, owner of A Stitch in Time, turns strangely pale when Annie shows the photos at the Hook and Needle Club meeting. Annie is determined to find out who this stranger is and what became of him. His young, sad face haunts her and she feels compelled to unearth his story. Then disturbing information gleaned from...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Christmas has never brought out the best in the MacDougal family. Still, year after year, they gather together in the Blue Ridge Mountains to try to make the season merry and bright. But this year is an especially strained one, between Shayne's impending divorce, Morwenna's slavish devotion to work, and Bobbie's reluctance to face what life has to offer. Then, in the midst of a snowy sibling shouting match, a mysterious stranger appears.
14) The watchers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its tree line. Mina's is no different. Left stranded, she is forced into the dark woodland only to find a woman shouting, urging Mina to run to a concrete bunker. As the door slams behind her, the building is besieged by screams. Mina finds herself in a room with a wall of glass, and an electric light that activates at nightfall, when the Watchers come above ground. These creatures emerge...
15) Backcountry
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A busy executive and her sporadically employed boyfriend take a break from city living for a few days of camping. When they have an unsettling encounter with a stranger wandering through the woods alone, they take an impromptu detour that leaves them at the mercy of the wilderness and its ferocious inhabitants.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and number-one best-selling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and What the Dog Saw, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers - and why they often go wrong. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Penny spends her afternoons sitting outside a sandwich shop, surrounded by ghosts. Fourteen years ago, this shop was her childhood dance studio--and she was a dancer on the rise. Now she's a suburban housewife, dreading the moment her son departs for MIT, leaving her with an impeccably decorated McMansion and a failing marriage. She had her chance at wild, stars-in-her-eyes happiness, but that was a lifetime ago. After The Kiss. Before The Decision....
19) I am a bird
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Every day, a little girl rides to school on the back of her father's bike. As they twist and turn through the streets, the little girl spreads her arms like wings and sings her birdsong for all to hear. But when they pass a strange woman in blue who carries a mysterious bag, the girl goes quiet until the woman is out of sight. One day, when they're running late, the little girl discovers what the woman does with her bag each...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
日本語
Description
Mitsuha and Taki are two total strangers living completely different lives. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her mountain town for the bustling city of Tokyo, they become connected in a bizarre way. She dreams she is a boy living in Tokyo while Taki dreams he is a girl from a rural town he's never been to. What does their newfound connection mean? And how will it bring them together?
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