Harriet
By: Elizabeth Jenkins
4.14
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
When a handsome, unscrupulous fortune hunter approaches Harriet, a young woman of means whom most p…
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1. Tea Rooms: Mujeres obreras
By: Luisa Carnés
4.13
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Corren los años treinta en Madrid y las trabajadoras de un distinguido salón de té cercano a la Pue… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Una" no tiene más que medio día cada semana, es decir, cinco horas de asueto por cada sesenta y cinco de trabajo. "Una" está aquí, "entre toda esta pringue". Fuera, el ocio, el lujo, las diversiones …"-Luisa Carnés, Tea Rooms: Mujeres obreras
2. Precious Bane
By: Mary Webb
4.23
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A compelling story of passion, with an enduring air of enchantment throughout, Precious Bane is a n… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"What did I do, I, that knew his smile was my summer?"-Mary Webb, Precious Bane
"Perché io credo che l'anima agisca sul corpo, che lo vivifichi col suo soffio e lo ricopra di un velo che lo fa sembrare più bello di quanto non sia."-Mary Webb, Precious Bane
"There are misfortunes that make you spring up and rush to save yourself, but, there are others that are too bad for this, for they leave nought to do. Then a stillness falls on the soul, like the sti…"-Mary Webb, Precious Bane
"Not only had he looked at me, but he had looked with favour and longing, and though I knew it was only because the truth was hidden from him, yet I was glad of what I had, as a winter bird is, that w…"-Mary Webb, Precious Bane
3. Someone at a Distance
By: Dorothy Whipple
4.21
Format: 413 pages, Paperback
'A very good novel indeed about the fragility and also the tenacity of love' commented the Spectato… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"With love, you don't even need butter on your bread; without it, an elaborate feast is necessary to make you come to the table."-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance
"But Mrs. Brockington, old, alone, almost crippled by rheumatism, had faith and courage. She had more. She had a warm serenity, and when Ellen was with her, she almost had it too. For goodness is catc…"-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance
"All those books, all those prayers and she had got nothing from them. When everything went well for her she had been able to pray, she couldn't now. There was such urgency in her present situation th…"-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance
"A loved husband is the companion of companions, the supreme sharer, and a happy wife often sounds trivial when she is really sampling and enjoying their mutual and unique confidence. But in doing it,…"-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance
4. Experimental Film
By: Gemma Files
3.56
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Experimental Film is a contemporary ghost story in which former Canadian film history teacher Lois … read more
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- mystery
- fiction
- horror
"Because stories lie hidden inside other stories, and we always know more about any given thing than we think we do, even if the only thing we think we know is nothing."-Gemma Files, Experimental Film
"You could argue—as I have more than enough times, as part of my Film History lecture—that, no matter its actual narrative content, every movie is a ghost story. A film's production forms a time capsu…"-Gemma Files, Experimental Film
"What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in s…"-Gemma Files, Experimental Film
"We're storytelling creatures. Give us a bunch of seemingly random images and we will try to organize them into a linear progression: tree, apple, head, bruise, gravity . . . a man sat under a tree, a…"-Gemma Files, Experimental Film
5. Rain (Blackwater, #6)
By: Michael McDowell
4.16
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
The mysterious saga of the Caskey family concludes in Blackwater VI: Rain. Time heals old wound… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- historical fiction
6. Vera
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
3.00
Format: 285 pages,
First published in 1921, Verais a darkly comic story about Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss. Both… read more
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7. The Distance Between Us
By: Maggie O'Farrell
3.48
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Gripping, insightful and deft, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US by Maggie O'Farrell is a haunting story of t… read more
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8. Linden Hills
By: Gloria Naylor
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A world away from Brewster Place, yet intimately connected to it, lies Linden Hills. With its showc… read more
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9. La guerra (Blackwater, #4)
By: Michael McDowell
4.05
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
1938. È l’alba di una nuova èra per il clan Caskey e nulla sarà mai più come prima. La determinazio… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- historical fiction
"Southerners are an easygoing race when it comes to aberrations of conduct. They will react with anger if something out of the ordinary is presented as a possible future occurrence; but if an unusual …"-Michael McDowell, La guerra (Blackwater, #4)
10. La casa (Blackwater, #3)
By: Michael McDowell
4.19
Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition
1928, Perdido. Il clan Caskey è dilaniato dalla spietata lotta tra Mary-Love ed Elinor. Ma all'oriz… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- historical fiction
11. La conformista
By: Alba Dedeu
3.53
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Eva y Pere venden pollos al ast y huelen a fritanga de pies a cabeza. Eva no se resigna: se lava el… read more
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"Al final lo dejamos estar, nos quedamos abrazados en la penumbra, cada uno con un zumbido de frustraciones secretas en la cabeza que quizá se parecían mucho"-Alba Dedeu, La conformista
"Pero no te fustigues ahora, que aún no has hecho nada malo, ¿Por qué me parece, entonces, que voy a comprar 150 gramos de ibérico para hacerme perdonar algo?"-Alba Dedeu, La conformista
12. La masacre de Kruguer
By: Luciano Lamberti
3.79
Format: 208 pages, ebook
En el pequeño pueblo de montaña de Kruguer cada 26 de junio se realiza la Fiesta de la Nieve: ante … read more
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- fiction
- horror
13. El asesino de los caramelos de violeta
By: Javier Holgado
4.27
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
La nostalgia y el suspense se darán la mano en las páginas de este adictivo misterio. En los año… read more
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14. Harriet
By: Elizabeth Jenkins
4.14
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
When a handsome, unscrupulous fortune hunter approaches Harriet, a young woman of means whom most p… read more
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- mystery thriller
- classics
- true crime
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- horror
- crime
15. Oh, qué espléndida música
By: Dorothy Evelyn Smith
4.54
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
¡Oh, qué espléndida la música de los días de la infancia, cuando todo era inmenso, el mundo entero … read more
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- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
16. Expiación
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Todo el mundo adora a Milly, la mujer de Ernest Bott. Y es que es la esposa encantadora, amable, d… read more
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- historical
- classics
- fiction
- british literature
17. El dique (Blackwater, #2)
By: Michael McDowell
3.82
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Mientras Perdido se recupera de la inundación, se propone la construcción de un dique que impida un… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- historical fiction
"Grace began to understand. "I have friends," she protested. "I have Zaddie." "Zaddie is just a little colored girl," Mary-Love pointed out. "It's all right to play with Zaddie, but she's not your rea…"-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)
"Mary-Love liked to see herself as the family cornucopia, dispensing all manner of good things, unstintingly, unceasingly. She considered herself amply rewarded by her children's gratitude, and if she…"-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)
"That her niece should find such profound pleasure in the company of a thirteen-year-old black girl--and, more to the point, always within the precincts of Elinor's house--was a slap in Mary-Love's fa…"-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)
"To the little girl the house seemed a gigantic head, and she only a morsel of meat conveniently positioned in its gaping mouth. The front porch was that grinning mouth, the white porch railing its lo…"-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)
18. La fortuna (Blackwater, #5)
By: Michael McDowell
4.04
Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition
1946. Come un organismo vivente, la famiglia Caskey si sviluppa e si trasforma. Alcuni affrontano l… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- historical fiction
19. A Sunny Place for Shady People
By: Mariana Enríquez
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more
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- fiction
- horror
20. La riada (Blackwater, #1)
By: Michael McDowell
3.74
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Descubre el primer volumen de la saga Blackwater. Una saga matriarcal. Mujeres poderosas que luc… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- historical fiction
