Annie Barrows

Traducida a más de 20 idiomas, con más de 5 millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo y llevada al cine por MikeNewell,La Sociedad Literaria del Pastel de Piel de Patata deGuernsey es una deliciosa y conmovedora novela epistolar que se ha convertido en un clasico indiscutible sobre el poder de la palabra y el valor de la literatura como refugio y consuelo en tiempos dificiles.En un Londres devastado por las bombas y que empieza a recuperarse de las terribles heridas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Juliet Ashton, una joven escritora en busca de inspiracion novelesca, recibe la carta de un desconocido llamado Dawsey Adams. El hombre, que vive en la isla de Guernsey, un pequeño enclave en el canal de la Mancha, esta leyendo un libro de Charles Lamb que habia pertenecido con anterioridad a Juliet. ¿Como ha llegado ese ejemplar hasta Guernsey? ¿Por que Dawsey decide ponerse en contacto con Juliet?Dawsey es miembro del club de lectura La Sociedad Literaria del Pastel de Piel de Patata de Guernsey, creado en circunstancias dificiles durante la contienda, una rareza en tiempos de ocupacion alemana. Cuando Juliet acepta la invitacion de estos excentricos lectores para visitar Guernsey, entiende que ellos y su increible sociedad literaria seran los personajes de su nueva novela, y su vida dara un vuelco para siempre.Una historia humana y divertida, que transmite una intensa pasion por los libros y reivindica la formidable capacidad de la lectura para unir a personas de distintos gustos, culturas e ideologias.La critica ha dicho... Una novela inteligente y deliciosa, un mundo tan vivido que siempre me olvido de que se trata de una obra de ficcion y de que sus personajes maravillosos no son mis amigos ni mis vecinos. Elizabeth GilbertEsta novela conmovedora y llena de observaciones de gran agudeza es una pequeña obra maestra acerca del amor, la guerra y el sustento inconmensurable que hallamos en los buenos libros y en los buenos amigos. Una joya.PeopleLa Sociedad Literaria del Pastel de Piel de Patata deGuernsey es no solo una novela epistolar adorable, tan encantadora y atemporal como las que sus personajes leen y aman, sino tambien un libro ideal para leer junto a la chimenea o en un largo viaje en tren.San FranciscoChronicle BookReviewLas cartas que componen esta novela iluminan, con humor y candor, el sufrimiento de los habitantes de las islas del Canal durante la ocupacion nazi. Cuando Juliet se traslada a Guernsey para trabajar en su libro, le resulta imposible abandonar dicha isla y a sus nuevos amigos, un sentimiento que tal vez experimenten los lectores cuando acaben esta novela deliciosa.The BostonGlobeUn libro maravilloso. [...] Con ecos de 84, Charing Cross Road de Helene Hanff, esta novela es una celebracion divertida, aguda y muy amena del poder de la palabra escrita.LibraryJournal

After refusing to marry the man her rich father has picked for her, Layla is banished to the remote town of Macedonia, West Virginia, a place where, she is convinced, nothing important has ever happe

The No. 1 New York Times bestselling author "Utterly enthralling." (Daily Express). Miss Layla Beck despises small-town life After refusing to marry the man her rich father has picked for her, Layla is banished to the remote town of Macedonia, West Virginia, a place where, she is convinced, nothing important has ever happened. Tasked to write down the history of the town, Layla meets the seductive Romeyn family. As she peels back the layers of family feuds, lies, even murder, Layla discovers to her cost, the smallest towns have the biggest secrets.

Durante unas horas, los padres de Beba la dejan al cuidado de Nancy, su hermana. De pronto, con semejante canguro, la tarde se convierte en un rollo. ¿Qué puede hacer Beba? ¿Obedecer a Nancy, que le ha prohibido hasta salir al jardin? ¿O intentar escapar? ¡Vaya pregunta mas tonta! ¿Conseguira Beba huir con la ayuda de Eva? Puede. ¿Se lo pasaran bien juntas? ¡Por supuesto!Durante unas horas, los padres de Beba la dejan al cuidado de Nancy, su hermana. De pronto, con semejante canguro, la tarde se convierte en un rollo. ¿Qué puede hacer Beba? ¿Obedecer a Nancy, que le ha prohibido hasta salir al jardin? ¿O intentar escapar? ¡Vaya pregunta mas tonta! ¿Conseguira Beba huir con la ayuda de Eva? Puede. ¿Se lo pasaran bien juntas? ¡Por supuesto!

¡Hay un fantasma en el baño de chicas del colegio!Eva y Beba han visto su forma de nube y sus ojos brillantes, y han oído sus lamentos. ¡Es lo mejor que ha pasado nunca en el cole! Hasta que lo descubren los profes, claro.¿Conseguiran Eva y Beba sacar al fantasma del baño? Puede.¿Se lo pasaran bien juntas? ¡Por supuesto!¡Hay un fantasma en el baño de chicas del colegio!Eva y Beba han visto su forma de nube y sus ojos brillantes, y han oído sus lamentos. ¡Es lo mejor que ha pasado nunca en el cole! Hasta que lo descubren los profes, claro.¿Conseguiran Eva y Beba sacar al fantasma del baño? Puede.¿Se lo pasaran bien juntas? ¡Por supuesto!

''I can''t stand this poky little town any more. How can I bear it for three more months? Today alone has lasted years...''Disinherited by her father, the debutante Miss Layla Beck is forced to spend the hot summer of 1938 in Macedonia, West Virginia, and is tasked with recording the small town''s history. She arrives with one goal: to get out as quickly as possible.Macedonia''s history seems simple enough - brief and uneventful. Then Layla meets the Romeyns: Jottie, Willa, Felix, Emmett, a family at once entertaining, eccentric, seductive, and inextricably bound up in Macedonia''s biggest secret.It''s a secret all the townsfolk have a stake in, and as Layla delves into town legend, hidden truths emerge that reveal an altogether different history, one that has left hearts and lives broken.Layla soon realises that some secrets should stay hidden forever.

Nada más verse, Eva y Beba se caen fatal. Pero cuando Beba le gasta a una broma a su hermana y tiene que acabar escondiéndose de ella (¡y rápido!), Eva corre a rescatarla con su varita mágica, con un poco de pintura de cara y con un cubo lleno de lombrices...¿Acabaran Eva y Beba metidas en un lio? Puede.¿Se lo pasaran bien juntas? ¡Por supuesto!Nada más verse, Eva y Beba se caen fatal. Pero cuando Beba le gasta a una broma a su hermana y tiene que acabar escondiéndose de ella (¡y rápido!), Eva corre a rescatarla con su varita mágica, con un poco de pintura de cara y con un cubo lleno de lombrices...¿Acabaran Eva y Beba metidas en un lio? Puede.¿Se lo pasaran bien juntas? ¡Por supuesto!

Una novel·la divertida i profundament humana. Un homenatge als bons llibres i a les bones persones, capaç d’aixecar els ànims fins i tot dels més cínics. Irresistible.1946, Londres. L’escriptora i co

Beba está aburridísima hasta que en clase les dan un libro sobre récords y entonces se desata la locura: ¿quién puede dar más volteretas?, ¿quién puede ponerse dieciséis cucharas en la cara?, ¿de verdad se puede romper un cristal chillando? Pero Eva y Beba tienen un plan para romper un record, e incluye fosiles, celo, un poco de polvo y mucha diversion.Beba está aburridísima hasta que en clase les dan un libro sobre récords y entonces se desata la locura: ¿quién puede dar más volteretas?, ¿quién puede ponerse dieciséis cucharas en la cara?, ¿de verdad se puede romper un cristal chillando? Pero Eva y Beba tienen un plan para romper un record, e incluye fosiles, celo, un poco de polvo y mucha diversion.

L’autora de l’èxit La societat literària i de pastís de pela de patata de Guernsey evoca de nou l’encant i l’excentricitat d’un poble petit on viuen caràcters extraordinaris. La nostra veritat aborda

It is 1938, Macedonia - a small-town in West Virginia: 12-year -old Willa is expecting an important visitor from the North, a Miss Layla Beck of Washington DC, senator's daughter and debutante. She has refused to marry the gentleman her father has chosen, and is coming to Macedonia, as punishment, to work on the Federal Writers' Project, for which she has to cover the long years of Macedonia's uneventful past...Young Willa is determined to muscle in on Leyla's project, to help uncover the secrets of their quiet town, and in particular, of Willa's own family. Who caused the fire at the American Everlasting sock factory in which Willa's aunt lost her true love? Why won't her aunt even mention it, and where does her father disappear to every night, leather suitcase in hand? On a backdrop of the depression, social unrest and food shortage, Will and Layla delve into town legend and truth. Hidden stories slowly emerge that reveal an altogether different history, one that has left hearts and lives devastated. And so begins the re-writing, not only of the Romeyn family's past, but also of their future. Quirky, loveable, and above all, human, this novel of small-town life in the 1930s is an immersive experience that will leave readers reeling and wanting more.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society comes a wise, witty, and exuberant novel, perfect for fans of Lee Smith, that illuminates the power of loyalty and forgiveness, memory and truth, and the courage it takes to do whats right. Annie Barrows once again evokes the charm and eccentricity of a small town filled with extraordinary characters. Her new novel, The Truth According to Us, brings to life an inquisitive young girl, her beloved aunt, and the alluring visitor who changes the course of their destiny forever.In the summer of 1938, Layla Becks father, a United States senator, cuts off her allowance and demands that she find employment on the Federal Writers Project, a New Deal jobs program. Within days, Layla finds herself far from her accustomed social whirl, assigned to cover the history of the remote mill town of Macedonia, West Virginia, and destined, in her opinion, to go completely mad with boredom. But once she secures a room in the home of the unconventional Romeyn family, she is drawn into their complex world and soon discovers that the truth of the town is entangled in the thorny past of the Romeyn dynasty.At the Romeyn house, twelve-year-old Willa is desperate to learn everything in her quest to acquire her favorite virtues of ferocity and devotiona search that leads her into a thicket of mysteries, including the questionable business that occupies her charismatic father and the reason her adored aunt Jottie remains unmarried. Laylas arrival strikes a match to the family veneer, bringing to light buried secrets that will tell a new tale about the Romeyns. As Willa peels back the layers of her familys past, and Layla delves deeper into town legend, everyone involved is transformedand their personal histories completely rewritten.Praise for The Truth According to UsAs delightfully eccentric as Guernsey yet refreshingly different . . . an epic but intimate family novel with richly imagined characters . . . Willas indomitable spirit, keen sense of adventure and innate intelligence reminded me of two other motherless girls in literature: Scout Finch in Harper Lees To Kill a Mockingbird and Flavia de Luce in Alan Bradleys big-hearted British mystery series.The Washington PostThe Truth According to Us has all the characteristics of a great summer read: A plot that makes you want to keep turning the pages; a setting that makes you feel like youre inhabiting another time and place; and characters who become people youre sad to leave behindand thus who always stay with you.Miami HeraldIt takes a brave author to make the heroine of a new novel an observant and feisty girl . . . like Scout Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. . . . But Barrows . . . has created a believable and touching character in Willa.USA Today[A] heartwarming coming-of-age novel [that] sparkles with folksy depictions of a tight-knit family and life in a small town . . . full of richly drawn, memorable characters.The Seattle TimesA big, juicy family saga with warm humor and tragic twists . . . The story gets more and more absorbing as it moves briskly along.St. Louis Post-DispatchAnnie Barrows leaves no doubt that she is a storyteller of rare caliber, with wisdom and insight to spare. Every page rings like a bell.Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife

The beloved, life-affirming international bestseller which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide - now a major film starring Lily James, Matthew Goode, Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Courtenay and Penelope Wilton To give them hope she must tell their story It's 1946. The war is over, and Juliet Ashton has writer's block. But when she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey - a total stranger living halfway across the Channel, who has come across her name written in a second hand book - she enters into a correspondence with him, and in time with all the members of the extraordinary Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Through their letters, the society tell Juliet about life on the island, their love of books - and the long shadow cast by their time living under German occupation. Drawn into their irresistible world, Juliet sets sail for the island, changing her life forever.

Todos hacemos cosas de las que nos arrepentimos. A veces decimos: "¡Ojalá no hubiese hecho eso!", pero lo que realmente querríamos es no habernos metido en problemas, y punto. Y solo una vez entre mil, lo que deseariamos es no haber hecho jamas determinada cosa, ¡nos gustaria viajar hacia atras en el tiempo para borrarla! Pero no podemos porque no somos magos y este no es un libro de magia. Este libro va de un chico llamado Iggy, de las trastadas de las que se arrepiente... y de las que no.

The fourth book in the Iggy series about the lovable troublemaker from New York Times bestselling author of Ivy + Bean.Grownups are always changing the rules! When grown-ups make money, its good. But when Iggy makes money, all of a sudden its bad. When grown-ups find something interesting on the sidewalk, its finders keepers. But when Iggy finds something (very) interesting, finders keepers turns into Youre In Trouble. Why is Iggy being blamed for something they never said he couldnt do? What did he do, you ask? Something legendary!

The third book in the Iggy series about the lovable troublemaker from New York Times bestselling author of Ivy + Bean.From Iggys point of view, his plan was genius, pure genius. From Iggys point of view, hes saved (a) his candy, (b) his family, and (c) the toaster. From Iggys point of view, he should get a trophy. And respect. And more candy. So what if Rudy Heckie disagrees? Rudy Heckie has been wrong before and hell be wrong again. Rudy has a scar now, and scars are cool! He should be happy. So should Mr. Heckie. So should Iggys mom and dad. Everyone should be happy. Specifically, everyone should be happy with Iggy. But are they? It all depends on your point of view.In the third installment of Annie Barrowss series about the secret joys of causing trouble, readers will learn about the power of interpretation (but we all know whos really right).

Quand Layla Beck accepte de devenir rédactrice pour le compte d’une agence gouvernementale, elle s’imagine déjà en route vers le prix Pulitzer. Hélas, on la charge de rédiger l’histoire de Macedonia,

Tandis que Londres se relève douloureusement des drames de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Juliet, jeune écrivain, cherche un sujet pour son prochain roman. La lettre dun inconnu, natif de Guernesey, va

The second book in the Iggy series about the lovable troublemaker by New York Times bestselling author Annie Barrows (Ivy + Bean).One thing led to another . . .Have you ever heard those words? Sometimes it means "Things got better." Thats not what it means in this book. In this book, Iggy gets an idea--a perfectly fine idea--and then, unfortunately, the principal shows up, and then, even more unfortunately, theres an incident with a basketball, and then, before you know it, Iggys flying through the air.How did it all happen? Its really hard to explain. Youd better read the book.In the second book in Annie Barrowss series about how causing a little bit of trouble can sometimes be a whole lot of fun, Iggy almost realizes that the consequences of his actions can affect others. Almost.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ivy + Bean comes a hilarious new series featuring a high-energy, lovable troublemaker.Meet 9-year-old Iggy Frangi. Hes not a bad kid, hes really not. Okay, so hes done a few (a few is anything up to 100) bad things. And okay, hes not very sorry about most of them. People make a big deal about nothing. Whats a little pancake here and there? Is that something to get mad about? Iggy doesnt think so. No one got hurt, so theres no problem. No one got hurt except for that one time, that one time when the Best Idea Ever turned into the Worst Idea of All Time.Iggy is sorry he did it. He is really, really, really sorry."For what?" you might ask. "What did he do?"Well, youll have to read the book to find out.Things Iggy will NOT do in this book:Be the most polite kid ever.Play the cello.Think before acting.Learn a lesson.Regret his actions. (Most of them, anyway.)