Unas vacaciones de muerte

She's gone rogue. Seraphina Newsom isn't looking for vengeance...she wants justice. Three years ago, Sera's brother was ruthlessly gunned down by one of Brooklyn's most dangerous mob kingpins. The investigation has stalled out, deemed "too dangerous" by the police commissioner. So to track down the evidence she needs to take down her brother's killer, Sera turns in her hospital scrubs, joins the NYPD, and goes undercover. Unsanctioned. Alone. He'll live to keep her safe. With his father behind bars, Bowen Driscol has reluctantly taken over his family's sprawling South Brooklyn crime...

La malattia di un figlio rappresenta l’evento più devastante nella vita di un genitore. Le forti emozioni di questo libro raccontano che a volte i grandi traumi emotivi generano coraggio e forza, risorse insospettabili, capaci di illuminare un cammino scuro e insidioso e di trovare sensi diversi, per riappropriarsi lentamente di nuovi equilibri. Con questa storia ho voluto guardare da vicino una malattia tanto diffusa, subdola e silenziosa, mascherata da un’apparente normalità e ancora per tanti aspetti sconosciuta. Una realtà vicina, spesso insospettabile intorno alla quale ruotano...

Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective-novel-loving Rüya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband, Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Celâl's identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursues every conceivable clue, but the nature of the mystery keeps changing, and when he receives a death threat, he begins to fear the worst. With its cascade of beguiling stories about Istanbul, The Black Book is ...

"Los pechos le brillan bajo el sol mientras está tumbada boca arriba con los ojos cerrados. Recorro su precioso cuerpo con la mirada: ¡es tan guapa y sexy! Como movida por un impulso, comienzo a tensar las nalgas y, muy discretamente, comienzo a restregar el cuerpo contra la toalla y la arena debajo de mí. Muevo las manos despacio sobre su estómago de un modo que no tiene por qué ser sexual, dado que, después de todo, estamos en una playa pública." A veces no resulta fácil descubrir cómo será la mejor forma de pasar el día de San Valentín con alguien de quien uno está tan...

Garc a Ponce (1932-2003) proyecta, hasta las ltimas consecuencias, sus ideas sobre la sexualidad como alternativa vital en Pasado presente. En una ciudad decadente y promiscua, se genera toda una serie de dramas peque os y grandes en donde los personajes se autodestruyen mediante el desenfreno, la incomunicaci n y la distancia.