ANITA SHREVE

Le lycée Avery, prestigieuse pension de Nouvelle-Angleterre, est sous le choc depuis la découverte d''un film. Sur cette vidéo, les ébats sexuels de quatre élèves : trois garçons, ivres, et une fille

''In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune''s Rock, where she has left her boots and discreetly pulled off her stockings, to the waterline along which the sea continually licks the pink and silver sand, she learns about desire.'' It is the summer of 1899, and Olympia Biddeford and her parents have retired from the heat of Boston to the coastal resort of Fortune''s Rock. When the celebrated essayist John Haskell is invited to stay, no one foresees the affair that is to follow. What begins as the briefest of silences becomes a relationship that is both passionate and destructible - six hot weeks that will shape the rest of their lives.

Siete antiguos compañeros de instituto se reúnen un fin de semana en el hotelito de montaña que regenta una de ellos, Nora, para celebrar una boda. Separados durante años por un trágico incidente que tuvo lugar justo antes de su graduación, el reencuentro despierta en todos ellos sentimientos escondidos y provoca la confesión de secretos que han permanecido ocultos desde entonces. El paso del tiempo se convierte en un elemento fundamental con el que se nos descubren los miedos y fantasías de cada uno de ellos. La excepcional ternura que nos ofrece la autora demuestra una vez más que posee una sensibilidad muy poco habitual.

The bestselling author of A WEDDING IN DECEMBER returns with a scintillating new novel about a young widow torn between two brothers during one long New England summerLa autora del bestseller "A Wedding in December" regresa con una brillante nueva novela sobre una joven viuda desgarrada entre dos hermanos durante un largo verano en Nueva Inglaterra.

Lo que prometía ser un verano tranquilo se convierte en una encrucijada llena de desengaños, traiciones, amor y cómo no, mucho bodysurf. Sydney se ha divorciado una vez y es además viuda a la temprana edad de 29 años. Para rehacer su vida decide dar clases particulares durante un verano a la hija adolescente pero con mucho retraso de aprendizaje de la familia Edwards en la casa veraniega de estos frente a las costas de New Hampshire. Pero su tranquila, aunque a veces compleja, estancia con la familia, se ve interrumpida por la visita de Ben y Jeff, los dos hijos mayores de los Edwards. Lo que prometia ser un verano tranquilo se convierte en una encrucijada llena de desengaños, traiciones, amor y como no, mucho bodysurf.

At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voice -- those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal -- that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment. A gripping emotional drama with the pace of a thriller, Anita Shreve's Testimony explores the dark impulses that sway the lives of seeming innocents, and the ways in which our best intentions can lead to our worst transgressions.

Mientras caminan por un bosque nevado, Robert Dillon y su hija Nicky tropiezan con un bebé abandonado. El suceso conmueve a la niña, que en días posteriores conocerá aspectos del mundo de los adultos que jamas habia imaginado... Reflejos sobre la nieve es una novela que nos sumerge en el poderoso mundo de los secretos: en las razones que nos llevan a preservar unos y a desenterrar otros.

A spellbinding novel about a young widow torn between two brothers she meets one New England summer, "Body Surfing" is from the bestselling author of "A Wedding in December" and "The Pilot''s Wife,"

Newlyweds Margaret and Patrick set off on a great adventure - a year living in Kenya in a dizzying and sometimes dangerous city. Shuttling between expat suburbs and squalid shantytowns, Margaret realizes there is a great deal she doesn''t know about the complex culture of her new home, and about her husband. The newlyweds eagerly take part in a climbing expedition to the summit of Mount Kenya. But during their arduous ascent a horrific accident occurs. In its aftermath, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the mountain and how it has transformed her and her marriage, perhaps for ever. When small actions have unintended, catastrophic consequences, where does responsibility lie, and can blame ever truly be laid to rest? With stunning language and striking emotional intensity, A change in altitude illuminates the inner landscape of a couple, the irrevocable impact of tragedy and the elusive nature of forgiveness.

Hauled in a cart to a field hospital in northern France in March 1916, an American woman wakes from unconsciousness to the smell of gas gangrene, the sounds of men in pain, and an almost complete loss of memory: she knows only that she can drive an ambulance, she can draw, and her name is Stella Bain. A stateless woman in a lawless country, Stella embarks on a journey to reconstruct her life. Suffering an agonising and inexplicable array of symptoms, she finds her way to London. There, Dr August Bridge, a cranial surgeon turned psychologist, is drawn to tracking her amnesia to its source. What brutality was she fleeing when she left the tranquil seclusion of a New England college campus to serve on the Front; for what crime did she need to atone - and whom did she leave behind? Vivid, intense and gripping, packed with secrets and revelations, The Lives of Stella Bain is at once a ravishing love story and an intense psychological mystery.

La noticia del dramático accidente que ha sufrido el avión que pilotaba el marido de Kathryn desencadena toda una trama de espionaje y terrorismo internacional que ella jamás hubiese sospechado.

La lucha de una mujer por conquistar su libertad. Sinopsis: Año 1899. Olympia Biddeford y sus padres se trasladan desde Boston hasta la lujosa costa de New Hampshire, donde se disponen a pasar los meses de verano. Cuando su padre invita a su casa al af

Una gran novela de sentimientos que ha vendido más de dos millones de ejemplares en Estados Unidos. Sinopsis: ¿Cómo se puede seguir adelante cuando toda tu vida se rompe en pedazos? Las esposas de los pilotos aprenden a estar preparadas para que en cua

When an English biographer, Mr Moxom, sets out to write a story on the Rose Street Massacre of 1933, he interviews elderly Honora Beecher, one of the few remaining survivors 50 years later. He wants to know everything and sets out to get Honora''s and her late husband''s life story to tell the tale.

In 1929 New England, Sexton and Honora Beecher arrange to buy the house they are renting, but when the Depression strikes their small town their hopes are dashed. Sexton goes to work at the mill and becomes involved with the plan to form a union--and events conspire to undermine the Beechers' marriage as well as their financial picture. This is the third volume in Anita Shreve's informal trilogy of novels that take place in a house on the coast of New Hampshire.

In a summer community on the coast of New Hampshire at the turn of the last century, a girl is drawn into a passionate affair with a man nearly three times her age. "Fortune's Rocks" is the story of Olympia Biddeford, privileged, well-educated, and mature beyond her years, and her affair with John Haskell, who not only is a physician, essayist, and champion of mill workers but also a married man with children. Drawn inexorably together on the night of the summer solstice, the pair set in motion a series of events with far-reaching consequences for all involved.