"The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own...

"Growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father Duke Wilder left Lily without much patience for the profession . . . or much money in the bank. But Lily is nothing if not resourceful, and now uses Duke's coveted hand-drawn maps to guide tourists on fake treasure hunts through the treacherous and storied red rock canyons of Utah. It pays the bills but doesn't leave enough to fulfill her dream of buying back the beloved ranch...

"At The Lucky Hand is an account of the different love stories that revolve around a very peculiar book: My Legacy, by Anastas Branica. Upon first glance, My Legacy is a text suspiciously unworthy of obsession: there are no plot or characters to be found. However, the book's author is uninterested in a typical reading. Instead, he has created a world outside of time and space that can only be inhabited by its readers, which Anastas has written in...

"As children, Sam and Elli were two halves of a perfect whole: Gorgeous identical twins whose parents sometimes couldn't even tell them apart. They fell asleep to the sound of each other's breath at night, holding hands in the dark. And once Hollywood discovered them, they became B-list child TV stars, often inhabiting the same role. But as adults their lives have splintered. After leaving acting, Elli reinvented herself as the perfect suburban wife:...

Alice is sent back to the night of her sister's murder and has until midnight to figure out who the killer is or risk losing her sister forever.

"In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. Picking up her mother's old packhorse library...

"Álvaro ha cumplido ya los treinta cuando un reves laboral lo devuelve a la casa familiar: al̕l sigue viviendo su madre y permanecen tambien, a modo de fantasmas, las promesas de prosperidad de su adolescencia. Sin mucho ̀ms que hacer, se propone desentrąar un viejo misterio que empez̤ cuando el te̕na catorce ąos: la desaparic̤in de una cinta de ̕vdeo sobre educac̤in sexual que les pusieron en clase y que dio pie a otros acontecimientos...

At the heart of John Gardner's Nickel Mountain is an uncommon love story set in a small Catskill community in the 1950s: when, at forty-two, the obese, gentle, and anxious Henry Soames marries seventeen-year-old Callie Wells -- who is pregnant with the child of a local boy -- it is much more than age that defines the gulf between them. The plot turns on tragic events -- they might be accidents or they might be acts of will -- involving a cast of rural...

Daphne spends a vacation with her estranged father, whom she has not seen in years, and the pair bond over their love of skateboarding.

"La aparic̤in en un campo de golf del càdver desangrado de una mujer pone en jaque al Grupo de Homicidios de Sevilla: a la ̕vctima le han cercenado los pies. La inspectora Camino Vargas tend̀r que cancelar las vacaciones previstas con Paco Arenas, su antiguo mentor y amor secreto con quien por fin convive, para ponerse a investigar en medio de una ciudad en alerta ̀mxima por las condiciones clìmticas y devastada por unas lluvias torrenciales...