Summer has officially started and we need to be prepared for the hot, sunny and holiday months ahead. That means: provisions of sun cream to stop a train, a cool destination and a good shipment of books. If you haven’t gone through your trusted bookstore yet, this little guide with the best-selling books of June collects the basics that are currently in demand and with which You will not miss reading or a topic of conversation in the pool.
Miranda works as deputy director in a fashion magazine and is happy with her partner, Tristán. That’s why she doesn’t understand that she’s leaving her. She wishes she could turn back the clock and go back to the moment they met… But what if she really had the chance to change her story? Showing exceptional skill, Elísabet Benavent, the queen of erotic and romantic literature in Spanish, strikes the hearts of readers with a time-jump story that hilariously and randomly reconstructs the highlights of a couple’s relationship.
All those things that I will tell you tomorrow (SUMA)
the path of fireMaria Oruna
María Oruña is the new crime novel phenomenon, with more than 500,000 readers. In this installment, inspector Valentina Redondo and her partner Oliver decide to take a vacation and travel to Scotland to visit his family. His father has acquired Huntly Castle in the Highlands, which had been in his family until the seventeenth century. During the rehabilitation of the building, he finds a hidden office two hundred years old and documents that reveal that Lord Byron’s memories (supposedly burned) may still be intact. Word of the extraordinary find will spread soon, but the appearance of a dead man in the castle will plunge Oliver and Valentina into an unexpected investigation that will take them to enter the Scotland of past times.
The path of fire: 1576 (Ancora & Dolphin)
Rome is meSantiago Posteguillo
There are characters that change the history of the world, but there are also moments that change the lives of those characters. Rome is me it is the story of the extraordinary events that marked the destiny of Caesar. Masterfully combining an exhaustive historical rigor and an extraordinary narrative capacity, Santiago Posteguillo manages to immerse the reader in the heat of the battles, make him walk through the most dangerous streets while the senators’ henchmen lurk around any corner, live the great love story of Julius Caesar with Cornelia, his first wife, and ultimately understand how the origins of man were behind the myth.
I am Rome: The true story of Julius Caesar (Historical)
the bone thiefManel Loureiro
After being the victim of a savage attack, Laura completely loses her memory. Only the affection of Carlos, the man with whom she has fallen in love with her, helps her to perceive glimpses of her mysterious past. But who is Laura? What happened to her? During a romantic dinner, Carlos disappears inexplicably and without a trace. A call to the young woman’s cell phone announces that, if he wants to see her partner alive again, he will have to accept a dangerous challenge with unforeseen consequences: steal the relics of the Apostle in the cathedral of Santiago. Without hesitating for a second, Laura embarks on a mission impossible for anyone. But she’s not just anyone…
The Bone Thief (Spanish and Ibero-American Authors)
break the circleColleen Hoover
The figures of break the circle are spectacular: 630 million views on TikTok for the novel, one billion of the same for its author and over 100 weeks on the bestseller lists. When, with the pandemic, the world stopped, Colleen Hoover’s books went viral among young people between 15 and 30 years old who stay at home, thanks to the Chinese social network. Two years later, her most outstanding title reaches Spanish bookstores.
Lily hasn’t always had it easy. That’s why her idyllic relationship with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid seems too good to be true. When her first love Atlas suddenly reappears and Ryle begins to show her true colors, everything Lily has built with him is threatened. A story Inspired by the author’s personal experience with toxic relationships and that mixes the past with the present and with which it is impossible not to burst into tears.
Break the Circle (It Ends With Us) (Planet International)
the fair wordsMilena Busquets
Milena Busquets practices in these diaries a writing of impressionist brushstrokes and achieves that from the everyday, from the seemingly anodyne, the epiphany emerges. In these pages, masks appear from time to time, but above all life appears: children, love, yoga classes, visits to the psychiatrist, chance encounters, reunions, walks around the neighborhood, writing as a daily gymnastics… And seduction and the passage of time also appear, the disquisitions on true elegance, Proust, the literary and vital lessons of Chekhov, the emotion to tears before the celebration of the life of the West Side Story by Spielberg or a hilarious list of typologies of readers observed during the long signing sessions at fairs. And love, always love.
The right words: 697 (Hispanic Narratives)
The Black Book of Hours, Eva Garcia Saenz de Urturi
Vitoria, 2022. Former inspector Unai López de Ayala, alias Kraken, receives an anonymous call that will change what he thinks he knows about his family past: he has one week to find the legendary Black Book of Hours, an exclusive bibliographic jewel, if not, his mother, who has rested in the cemetery for decades, will die. But, someone who’s been dead forty years can’t be kidnapped and certainly can’t bleed. How is this possible? A novel that is a race against the clock between Vitoria and the Madrid of bibliophiles to trace the most important criminal profile of his life, one capable of changing the past, forever.
The Black Book of Hours (Spanish and Ibero-American Authors)
The danger of being saneRosa Montero
Starting from her personal experience and reading numerous books on psychology, neuroscience, literature and memoirs by great authors from different disciplines, Rosa Montero offers a gripping study on the links between creativity and mental instability. And it does so by sharing with the reader numerous amazing curiosities about how our brain works when creating, breaking down all the aspects that influence creativity, and assembling them before the reader’s eyes as he writes, like a detective willing to solve the scattered pieces of an investigation. .
The danger of being sane (Brief Library)
Among the deadMikel Santiago
After the success of The liar Y in the middle of the nightcomes the long-awaited closing of the Trilogy of Illumbe: a masterful thriller, full of mysteries and surprising twists whose key could be in the question: Is it possible to bury a secret forever? There are dead who never rest, and perhaps they should not until justice is served. Nobody knows this better than Nerea Arruti, an agent of the Ertzaintza in Illumbe, a lonely woman who also drags her own corpses and ghosts from the past.
A forbidden love story, a supposedly accidental death, a mansion overlooking the Bay of Biscay where everyone has something to hide, and a mysterious character known as the Raven whose name appears as a shadow throughout the novel. These are the ingredients of an investigation that will be complicated page after page and in which Arruti, as readers will soon discover, will be much more than the agent in charge of the case.
Among the Dead (Illumbe Trilogy 3): Illumbe Trilogy 3
VioletIsabel Allende
The epic and exciting story of a woman whose life encompasses the most relevant historical moments of the 20th century. From 1920 (with the so-called “Spanish flu”) to the 2020 pandemic, Violeta’s life is much more than the story of a century. Seen through the eyes of a woman possessing an unforgettable passion, determination and sense of humor that sustain her through a turbulent lifeIsabel Allende treats her readers, once again, to a furiously inspiring and deeply moving epic story.
Give and it will be given to youDonna Leon
What role can or should loyalty play in the life of a police inspector? It’s a question Commissioner Brunetti must face and ultimately answer when the distinguished Elisabetta Foscarini, a childhood acquaintance, asks him for a favor. Elisabetta’s mother was always generous with her family, so he feels obliged to help her and starts a private investigation to try to find out who could be threatening her daughter’s family. However, so far there is little concrete evidence: why would they want to hurt a veterinarian and an accountant who works for a charity?
The commissioner he is about to drop the matter when an attack occurs and the case takes a very dark turn. Brunetti will be forced to call in his own favors to move forward with an investigation that will inevitably become official when he discovers the two faces of what seemed like a venerable institution. In case number 31 of his, Guido Brunetti career faces, in a Venice almost unrecognizable due to the pandemic, the chiaroscuro of the NGOs while the shadow of organized crime looms over the country again, ready to take a slice of the health emergency.
Give and it will be given to you (Formentor Library)
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