(Previously published as Before the Killing by Marjory Kaptanoglu)
A time-travel tale of love and murder…
In 1973, 19-year-old Cassie returns to her home town in coastal Massachusetts after her first year away at college. The next day, her boyfriend, Julian, is implicated in a brutal killing.
“Once I started I couldn’t put it down!” -Bookshelf Adventures
Seven years later, a freak occurrence gives Cassie a unique time-traveling ability. She can cast her consciousness back to a younger version of herself, allowing her to re-live that earlier time with the benefit of foreknowledge.
'A cleverly plotted fantasy thriller with a strong cast of characters.' -The Wishing Shelf Book Awards
Cassie, who has never gotten over her feelings for Julian, asks herself the question, what if he was innocent? Now she has a way to go back in time and witness what actually happened.
“Mystery fans will love this plot device, which takes a straightforward whodunit to an otherworldly level.' -The BookLife Prize
In witnessing the truth, she inadvertently reveals herself to the killer, who begins to pursue her in past and present both. With no evidence beyond what she’s seen during time travel, how can she hope to bring the killer to justice before she becomes the next victim?
Margie Benedict's 'prose is crisp and purposeful, charged with feeling, and always attuned to what will engage readers in each moment.' (The BookLife Prize)
(Previously published as Before She Was Taken by Marjory Kaptanoglu)
A time-travel tale of abduction and redemption...
What happened to Sadie? This question has plagued 25-year-old Rebecca Danser for 19 years.
Imagine if at the age of six, you had ditched your four-year-old sister to go play with your friend… and then you never saw her again.
'Amazing… I greatly recommend it. I can't wait to continue with the series.' -Bookshelf Adventures
In the intervening years, now living in Silicon Valley, Rebecca has made a mess of her life. She hates her job, has no career prospects, and has never had a successful relationship unless you count sex with a relative stranger during her time jumps into the past.
“Mystery fans will love this plot device, which takes a straightforward whodunit to an otherworldly level.' -The BookLife Prize
But soon she realizes this strange ability she recently gained, allowing her to cast her consciousness back into a younger version of herself, can be used to discover who took Sadie that fateful day.
Benedict's 'prose is crisp and purposeful, charged with feeling, and always attuned to what will engage readers in each moment.' -The BookLife Prize
She must travel back in time to witness the event with her 6-year-old eyes.
What she learns leads her into a remote forest in the Sierra Mountains… where the monster responsible for the destruction of her family lies in wait for her.
El cinco de diciembre de 1971, una tranquila campiña inglesa se iluminó como el mástil de un barco afectado por el fuego de San Telmo, y un pastor llamado Drew Brewer pudo ver «otro lugar» a través de lo que luego llamaría «un roto en el aire». Las ovejas de Brewer saltaban al azar de un lugar a otro y, cuando volvían a aparecer, lo hacían en llamas. El fenómeno se bautizó como Overture, y, no sin esfuerzo, pudo ser encubierto. Sin embargo, cuando el fenómeno empezó a extenderse y aparecieron más Overtures con otro tipo de repercusiones, más agresivas y hostiles, varios gobiernos y empresas privadas unieron esfuerzos para crear NOCTE, más conocida como «La agencia», una entidad secreta liderada por la doctora Lalasa Kapoor y dedicada a investigar esos fenómenos. El Año Cero de la agencia NOCTE, sin embargo, ocurrió mucho más tarde, en junio de 1986, cuando Mo Talloran y Beatriz Deschain, entre otros, ataviados con los sofisticados Trajes Aeris de Intervención, consiguieron saltar al otro lado desde una de aquellas anomalías. Lo que descubrieron, y lo que ocurrió después, cambiaría la percepción de la realidad para siempre y establecería una imperiosa y urgente necesidad de crear un frente de defensa.
Tom isn’t anything to anyone, or at least he wasn’t until the dying wish of his father sent him on a seemingly impossible trek to find a lost wartime lover, unwittingly throwing Tom into a maelstrom of violence, death and romance. An exciting and sometimes humorous escapade which started when a bereaved son had nothing better to do.
Hawk’s life is a secret. Wanted for murder, he hides from the law on a marijuana plantation in the Texas hill country. The violence of his past pales against the depravities he endures on the farm: dangerous and miraculous secrets he must protect if he wants to survive.
Then a cunning stranger arrives bearing a grudge from Hawk’s past. The outsider unleashes his sinister preternatural ability in a frantic lunge for the farm’s most innocent soul. As the bloody standoff erupts between the dark interloper and Hawk’s motley family, the deepest shadows of the farm reveal themselves—death refusing the dead while the living struggle to survive.
Betraying the farm’s secrets will cost Hawk his freedom. Keeping them will cost the lives of those he loves. The choice that abandoned Hawk on the farm presses him once more: save himself, or save his family.
She conquered the world… but she can’t get her enemy out of her head.
As the unquestioned leader of the Happiness-Program, Laura is effectively the ruler of the entire world. The Unchipped rebels have been defeated, and all that’s left for her to do is to perfect the Chipping process so they can all be integrated into the new society. The only problem is a single hacker, but that hacker is supremely dangerous, able to access Laura’s mind at will.
As it becomes clear that she can’t keep the hacker out, Laura’s grip on power will start to unravel. And that will force her to make a choice… create the perfect world she’s always dreamed of, or save the little girl who doesn’t know she’s Laura’s daughter?
***If you're looking for books like The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Brave New World you're going to love the Unchipped series!
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'On the Marston Estate, there is a small door. Little more than a normal shed attached to a normal council house on a normal estate. But the door isn't normal. Because it isn't just a door. This door, with its peeled green paint and peephole half way up, leads to The Bogey Hole and the thing that local children say, still lives and feeds, behind it.'
When private Detectives Heaven and Garrick are approached by a polygamy escapee to find her long-lost missing child, they must keep romantic entanglements aside and infiltrate an underground prostitution ring run by ruthless extremists.
After solving the case involving the murder of the mayor of Los Angele's daughter, actress Lauren Jenkins, Heaven and Garrick started a private investigation business together and mutually agreed to keep their previous romantic relationship strictly professional.
One morning, Brook Ambers, a well-known rich widower, enters their office. After some hesitation and skepticism, Brook begins to open up and goes on to tell Heaven and Garrick about her heart-breaking childhood. She goes on to explain how she gave birth to a baby at the age of 13 that was taken straight from her womb at birth and how she did not know the gender of the child. Heaven and Garrick agree to the task of finding this child, who would now be an adult.
While surveilling the polygamy compound, Garrick is shocked to see a former colleague, LAPD Detective Gwen Pratt, entering the premises. Unsure of why Detective Pratt was there, Heaven and Garrick both agree to go talk with her.
When speaking with Detective Pratt, Heaven and Garrick are surprised to find out that Pratt was a runaway from the same extremist group when she was young.
Heaven, Garrick, Pratt, and an FBI agent team up to infiltrate the compound by going undercover to bring down this extremist underground prostitution operation while reuniting Brook with her son.
Cautivadora intriga histórica de parte de uno de los descendientes del linaje de los Medici en Florencia. Unas joyas desaparecidas en 1623, un misterio cifrado que las envuelve y un secreto que se alargará hasta 2010, cuando una profesora de historia se vea atrapada en la historia de amor prohibido entre Maria de Medicis y el pintor Rubens, una historia que podría tener consecuencias letales en el presente.
Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.
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Lorenzo de Medici es un autor italiano nacido en Milán y residente en Portugal. Descendiente directo de la famosa familia renacentista, desarrolla una carrera de éxito como ensayista y novelista especializado en intriga histórica. Sus obras han sido traducidas a varios idiomas y han sido un éxito de ventas por toda Europa.
In New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez's latest space-tech thriller, a group of pioneering astropreneurs must overcome never-before-attempted engineering challenges to rescue colleagues stranded at a distant asteroid-kicking off a new space race in which Earth's climate crisis could well hang in the balance.
When unforeseen circumstances during an innovative-and unsanctioned-commercial asteroid-mining mission leave two crew members stranded, those who make it back must engineer a rescue, all while navigating a shifting web of global political alliances and renewed Cold War tensions. With Earth governments consumed by the ravages of climate change and unable to take the risks necessary to make rapid progress in space, the crew must build their own nextgen spacecraft capable of mounting a rescue in time for the asteroid's next swing by Earth.
In the process they'll need to establish the first spin-gravity station in deep space, the first orbiting solar power satellite and refinery, and historic infrastructure on the moon's surface-all of which could alleviate a deepening ecological, political, and economic crisis back on Earth, and prove that space-based industry is not only profitable, but possibly humanity's best hope for a livable, peaceful future.
