Selecciones del Personal

Category: Ficción

Encuentra tus nuevas lecturas favoritas con esta colección de los mejores títulos seleccionados por nuestros bibliotecarios expertos.

Gloria & Melissa

This Is How It Always Is

"Inspired by her own daughter's transition, Frankel tells Poppy's story with compassion and humor"

- Gloria & Melissa

Jill

"New York City cop Barry Sutton investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome, a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories"

Crisanne

A book with beautiful prose set in a post WWII Colorado mountain town, inspired by true histroical events and bringing depth and emotion to a young woman's coming of age story of resielience and love.

Carli

Such Sharp Teeth

Rachel Harrison

"A young woman in need of a transformation finds herself in touch with the animal inside in this gripping, incisive novel"

Jeannie

The Covenant of Water

Abraham Verghese

"set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret"

Andy

The Sportswriter

"At the beginning of his career, a young man gives up his chance to become a successful novelist in order to work as a sportswriter."

Amy

"Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend."

Matt

"It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again."

Melissa

Remarkably Bright Creatures

Shelby Van Pelt

"A luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium"

Andy

Every City Is Every Other City

John McFetridge

"For the first time in his life, Gord Stewart is going to have to leave the sidelines and get into the game. Even if it might get him killed."

Laura

The Midnight Library

"Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived."

Sarah

Hello Beauitful

"With the vibrant and close-knit Pilson neighborhood playing a supporting role, Napolitano's latest novel investigates the deep, maddeningly frustrating, and ever-present love of family"

Jeannie

The Engineer's Wife

Tracey Enerson Wood

"Spanning 1864--1884, Wood's impeccably researched debut narrates the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge from the viewpoint of a woman central to its creation."

Jeannie

The Quarry Girls

"Heather and Brenda have a secret. Something they saw in the dark. Something they can't forget. They've decided to never tell a soul. But their vow is tested when their friend disappears"

Alison

"This is one of King's early classics and his second novel, where he offers us his reinterpretation of Bram Stoker's Dracula."

Jill

Jeannette Walls

"Walls's breathtaking latest (after The Silver Star) traces the trajectory of two feuding Virginia families and a woman who rises to the top of a bootlegging empire."

Tracy

The Interestings

Six teenagers meet at a summer camp. The friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their talents become and the shape their lives take.

Andy

The Last Thing He Told Me

A fast-moving, heartfelt thriller about the sacrifices we make for the people we love most.

Alice

Part satire, part soap opera, Election is an uncommon look at an ordinary American high school, and the extraordinary people who inhabit it.

Theresa

A Famine of Horses: a Sir Robert Carey Mystery

The first in an engaging series, this briskly paced debut rich in spiky characters, eccentric accents, and, above all, a charismatic hero with a sense of honor and a sense of humor.

Jeannie

The Lost Apothecary

A subversive and intoxicating debut novel of secrets, vengeance and the remarkable ways women can save each other despite the barrier of time.

Jeannie and Alice

Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver

This speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.

- Jeannie and Alice

Alison

A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L'Engle

A strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons them on a most dangerous and extraordinary adventure—one that will threaten their lives and our universe.

Alison

Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan

A riveting novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behind.

Dennis

Demon Copperhead: a Novel

Barbara Kingslover

The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses

Laura

The Candy House

This is a testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for real connection, love, family, privacy, and redemption. It riffs on memory, authenticity and the allure of new technology.

Alison

A vivid, emotionally complex novel that raises profound questions about motherhood, loss, identity, and forgiveness. It speaks to women everywhere about the things that matter most.

Dawn

Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver

The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses

Jeannie

Homesickness: Stories

An emotionally resonant and wonderfully wry collection that follows the lives of outcasts, misfits, and malcontents from County Mayo to Canada.

Jeannie

Diary of a Void

Surreal wryly humorous cultural critique awoman fakes pregnancy to avoid the unpaid office tasks often foisted on women. The simple lie turns into an absurdist exploration of motherhood and loneliness