Selecciones del Personal

Category: Ficción

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

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.

Jeanne

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.

Jeanne 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.

- Jeanne 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

Jeanne

Homesickness: Stories

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

Jeanne

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

Jeanne

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

Dazzling, intricately imagined novel that examines the many natures of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love.

Tracy

This dusts off the myth of the old West and reignites the glimmering promise of the frontier with an entirely new set of feminist stakes.

Laura

A tour-de-force novel about love, the yearning for connection, and the ways in which childhood trauma plays out in adult life. It is filled with humor and surprise.

Joanna

Calling for a Blanket Dance

A young Native American boy in a splintering family grasps for stability and love, making all the wrong choices until he finds a space of his own.

Alison

In this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher--for that world or ours"--

Andy

The Last White Man

This is a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change. It uplifts our capacity for empathy and the transcendence it allows, a migration of consciousness.

Alice

A modern saga that could only have come from South Africa. This is an epic drama that unfurls against the unrelenting march of national history, sure to please current fans and attract many new ones.

Crisanne

Emily St. John Mandel

An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse.

Crisanne

Sea of Tranquility

Emily St. John Mandel

A novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon three hundred years later,unfurling a story of humanity across centuries & space

Crisanne

Nicola Griffith

This is an Arthurian tale from the perspective of a young woman who travels as a man, hoping to join Arthur's companions in fighting for what is good.

Laura and Alice

, Hervé Le Tellier

This dizzying literary page- turner ingeniously blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris- New York flight.

- Laura and Alice

Jill

Wish You Were Here

This is a deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis.

Lisa

This was straight-up hilarious. The funniest creepy book ever written.

Andy

What To Do When Someone Dies

I found this totally absorbing and got carried away with Ellie's proactive stance after the death of her husband and her efforts to clear his name.

Alice

A modern family saga written in gorgeous prose. An epic drama that unfurls against the unrelenting march of national history, sure to please current fans and attract many new ones.

Jill

Wish You Were Here

Diana finds herself examining her relationships, her choices, and herself-and wondering if when she goes home, she too will have evolved into someone completely different