"France, October 1944. A Japanese American war hero has a secret. A secret so awful he'd rather die than tell anyone--one so entwined with the brave act that made him a hero that he's determined never to speak of the war. Ever. Decades later his son, Daniel Tokunaga, a world-famous cardiac surgeon, is perplexed when the U.S. government comes calling, wanting to know about his father's service with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during WWII. Something...

"Junio de 1933: en Loanneth, la mansión en el campo de la familia Edevane, todo está limpio y reluciente, listo para la tan esperada fiesta de solsticio de verano. Alice Edevane, de dieciséis años y escritora en ciernes, está especialmente ilusionada. No solo ha encontrado el giro argumental perfecto para su novela, también se ha enamorado perdidamente de quien no debería. Pero para cuando llegue la media noche y los fuegos artificiales iluminen...

For ten year-old Jeremiah Prins, the life of privilege as the son of a school headmaster in the Dutch East Indies comes crashing to a halt in 1942 after the Japanese Imperialist invasion of the Southeast Pacific. Jeremiah takes on the responsibility of caring for his younger siblings when his father and older stepbrothers are separated from the rest of the family, and he is surprised by what life in the camp reveals about a woman he barely knows;...

"The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe is a brilliant collection of some of his best-known stories: The Tell Tale Heart (a murder's haunting guilt), The Cask of Amontillado (a story of brilliant revenge), and The Fall of the House of Usher (an ancient house full of very dark secrets). Also included in this collection are The Mask of the Red Death (horrors of 'the Plague'), and the most famous of all his poems: The Raven (a lover's decline into madness)....

Estamos en peligro. Desde que nuestro padre hizo explotar el Museo Británico con un extraño conjuro, todo ha cambiado. Fue entonces cuando mi hermana Sadie y yo descubrimos que, además de un reconocido arqueólogo, era una especie de mago del Antiguo Egipto. Pero aquella noche algo salió mal. Set, el dios del caos, apareció envuelto en llamas ... y nuestro padre desapareció sin dejar rastro.

La nueva novela de suspenso nacional del autor más vendido del New York Times de The Couple Next Door y Someone We Know In Upstate New York, Stephanie y Patrick se están adaptando a la vida con sus bebés gemelos con cólicos. Las niñas son un puñado, pero a Stephanie no le importa ser una ama de casa, cuidándolas mientras Patrick hace de nueve a cinco para pagar las cuentas. Cuando una mujer del pasado de Patrick se les acerca inesperadamente,...

Amour (French): Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple who have retired from teaching music. One day Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested. Everybody knows (Spanish): Laura and her children travel from Buenos Aires to the small Spanish village where she was born to attend her sister's wedding. Unexpected events soon lead to a crisis that exposes the family's hidden past. Suspicions mount, loved ones begin to turn...

Mary Higgins Clark, la reina indiscutible del suspense, ha escrito un nuevo clásico para su biblioteca: una periodista va en busca de su madre biológica mientras ha de cubrir el juicio de una mujer acusada de matar a su rico marido. La reportera de televisión Delaney Wright está a punto de dar el salto a la fama al dar la noticia del juicio por asesinato en el informativo de las seis. Debería estar entusiasmada, pero en realidad solo piensa en...

Accattone: A graphic slice of Italian street life, this documentary-styled drama recounts a pimp's efforts to leave his past life behind him when he falls in love with a young woman. Mamma Roma: Having renounced her ignominious past, a former streetwalker reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme endangers her aspirations for a decent bourgeois life. Love meetings: Director Pasolini traverses Italy in 1963 with camera and microphone interviewing...