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Isabelle Catherine Hutting likes to spend time in the library before going to the dance hall in search of a husband. When she finds out that a space opened up in the house in town for single women, she decides to set aside her marriage plans. She will first have to speak to Marcus, the Duke of Hart, owner of the property, in order to move in. He turns out to be the most attractive man she has ever seen . He is immediately attracted to her, but he is not interested in relationships. An old curse weighs heavy on his mind that no duke in his family will live long enough to see an heir born....

El clavo es una novela breve de tema policiaco escrita por Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y basada sobre una causa real que circulaba en periódicos y revistas de la España decimonónica. Publicada en 1853, se reeditó en 1856, y la versión definitiva, que contiene algunas variaciones importantes, en 1880. Se considera el primer antecedente del género policiaco en España. El clavo tiene además ingredientes románticos, policíacos y de intriga. Junto con la novela breve El sombrero de tres picos, universalizada años después por la música de Manuel de Falla, el tiempo ha decantado El clavo...

Biografía novelada narra la vida del Bartolomé Maximiliano, "El Benny", Benny Moré. Es también una historia de la música cubana y de su instrumento protagónico: la Clave.

'Wake up, genius.' So begins King's instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, a Salinger-like icon who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn't published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel. Morris hides the money and the notebooks, and then he is locked...