María Dueñas, autora del best seller internacional El tiempo entre costuras (The Time In Between), vuelve con una nueva historia apasionante ambientada en las calles del Nueva York de los años treinta. 
En la calle 14, el corazón del barrio español, la pequeña casa de comidas El Capitán, abre sus puertas. Sin embargo, al poco tiempo, la inesperada muerte de su dueño, Emilio Arenas, obliga a sus tres hijas, recién llegadas de Málaga, a tomar las riendas del negocio. Solas ante un destino incierto en un país absolutamente desconocido, Victoria, Mona y Luz se abrirán paso entre rascacielos, compatriotas, adversidades y amores, decididas a convertir un sueño en realidad. Una vez más, María Dueñas logra cautivar a sus lectores con una historia tan ágil como envolvente. Además de una apasionante combinación de detalle histórico e imaginación, Las hijas del Capitán es un tributo a las mujeres que resisten cuando los vientos soplan en contra y un homenaje a todos aquellos valientes que vivieron –y viven— la aventura, a menudo épica y casi siempre incierta, de la inmigración.

The Captain's Daughters Las hijas del Capitan (Spanish edition)

Literature & Fiction

Dueñas, María

United States

HarperCollins Espanol

About the Author\nMaría Dueñas (Puertollano, Ciudad Real, 1964) es doctora en Filología Inglesa. Tras dos décadas dedicada a la vida académica, irrumpe en el mundo de la literatura en 2009 con El tiempo entre costuras, la novela que se convirtió en un fenómeno editorial y cuya adaptación televisiva de la mano de Antena 3 logró numerosos galardones y un espectacular éxito de audiencia. Sus obras posteriores, Misión Olvido (2012), La Templanza (2015), y Las hijas del Capitan (2018) continuaron cautivando por igual a lectores y crítica. Traducida a más de treinta y cinco lenguas y con millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo, María Dueñas se ha convertido en una de las autoras más estimadas tanto en nuestro país como en América Latina. Sira es su quinta novela.\nCuatro ciudades, dos misiones, una mujer. Vuelve a sumergirte en un tiempo inolvidable. Después de El tiempo entre costuras, SIRA, la nueva novela de María Dueñas. 
La Segunda Gran Guerra llega a su fin y el mundo emprende una tortuosa reconstrucción. Concluidas sus funciones como colaboradora de los Servicios Secretos británicos, Sira Quiroga afronta el futuro con ansias de serenidad. No lo logrará, sin embargo. El destino le tendrá preparada una trágica desventura que la obligará a reinventarse, tomar sola las riendas de su vida y luchar con garra para encauzar el porvenir. 
Entre hechos históricos que marcarán una época, Jerusalén, Londres, Madrid y Tánger serán los escenarios por los que transite. En ellos afrontará desgarros y reencuentros, cometidos arriesgados y la experiencia de la maternidad. 
Sira Bonnard —antes Arish Agoriuq, antes Sira Quiroga — ya no es la inocente costurera que nos deslumbró entre patrones y mensajes clandestinos, pero su inolvidable carisma permanece intacto. 
Vuelve la protagonista de El tiempo entre costuras.

Sira (Spanish edition): A Novel

A New York Times Bestselling Author An Indie Next PickTalented Madrid college professor Blanca Perea seems to have it all. Then her husband of twenty years leaves her for another woman. Questioning the life she once had and whether she truly knows herself, Blanca accepts what looks like a boring research grant in California involving an exiled Spanish writer who died decades ago. Evocative, lyrical, and humorous, The Heart Has Its Reasons is a story about the thrill of creating one's life anew.

The Heart Has Its Reasons (Thorndike Press large print core)

Literary

Thorndike Press

New York Times bestselling author Maria Duenas returns with The Vineyard, a magnificent story of ambition, heartbreak, and desire set in the 1860s Mexico, Cuba, and Spain--perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Kristin Hannah. Mauro Larrea's fortune, the result of years of hardship and toil, comes crashing down on the heels of a calamitous event. Swamped by debt and uncertainty, he gambles the last of his money in a daring play that wins him an abandoned house and a vineyard an ocean away. Mauro travels to Andalusia de Jerez in Spain with every intention of selling the property and returning to Mexico. That is, until he meets the unsettling Soledad Montalvo, the wife of a London wine merchant, who bursts into his life unannounced, determined to protect her family's legacy. Before long, Larrea finds himself immersed in the rich culture of the sherry trade. As his feelings for Soledad ripen into a consuming passion, he seeks to restore the vineyard to its former glory. From the turbulent young Mexican republic to flourishing Havana, and onward to the fertile vineyards of Jerez in the second half of the nineteenth century, Maria Duenas's new novel takes place on both sides of the Atlantic, the New World and the Old. This story of family intrigue vividly conjures the noise and grit of silver mines, and the earthier lure of ancient vineyards and magnificent cities whose splendor has faded. Here is a story of courage in the face of adversity and of a destiny forever altered by the force of passion.

The Vineyard (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)

Thorndike Press Large Print

The inspiring international bestseller of a seemingly ordinary woman who uses her talent and courage to transform herself first into a prestigious couturier and then into an undercover agent for the Allies during World War II. Between Youth and Adulthood… At age twelve, Sira Quiroga sweeps the atelier floors where her single mother works as a seamstress. At fourteen, she quietly begins her own apprenticeship. By her early twenties she has learned the ropes of the business and is engaged to a modest government clerk. But everything changes when two charismatic men burst unexpectedly into her neatly mapped-out life: an attractive salesman and the father she never knew. Between War and Peace… With the Spanish Civil War brewing in Madrid, Sira leaves her mother and her fiancé, impetuously following her handsome lover to Morocco. However, she soon finds herself abandoned, penniless, and heartbroken in an exotic land. Among the odd collection of European expatriates trapped there by the worsening political situation back on the Continent, Sira reinvents herself by turning to the one skill that can save her: her gift for creating beautiful clothes. Between Love and Duty… As England, Germany, and the other great powers launch into the dire conflict of World War II, Sira is persuaded to return to Madrid, where she takes on a new identity to embark upon the most dangerous undertaking of her career. As the preeminent couturier for an eager clientele of Nazi officers’ wives, Sira becomes embroiled in the half-lit world of espionage and political conspiracy rife with love, intrigue, and betrayal. An outstanding success around the world, The Time in Between has sold more than two million copies and inspired the Spanish television series based on the book, dubbed by the media as the “Spanish Downton Abbey.” In the US it was a critical and commercial hit, and a New York Times bestseller in paperback. It is one of those rare, richly textured novels that enthrall down to the last page. María Dueñas reminds us how it feels to be swept away by a masterful storyteller.

The Time In Between: A Novel

Atria Books

Declared “a writer to watch” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), New York Times bestselling author María Dueñas pours heart and soul into this story of a woman who discovers the power of second chances. A talented college professor in Madrid, Blanca Perea seems to have it all. But her world is suddenly shattered when her husband of twenty years leaves her for another woman. Questioning the life she once had and whether she truly knows herself, Blanca resolves to change her surroundings. She accepts what looks like a boring research grant in California involving an exiled Spanish writer who died decades ago. Anxious to leave her own troubled life behind, she is gradually drawn into his haunted world, with its poignant loves and unfulfilled ambitions. But in delving into the past, Blanca finds herself simultaneously awakened to the present by Daniel Carter, a charismatic professor with crucial knowledge about the dead writer that he has never before revealed. Amid this web of passion, conflict, and hidden feelings, including her own, Blanca advances like an avid detective, refusing to quit, and ultimately discovers startling answers that resonate deeply in her own life. Evocative, lyrical, and humorous, The Heart Has Its Reasons is a journey of the soul from the pangs of the past to the vibrant present. It is a story about the thrill of creating one’s life anew.

The Heart Has Its Reasons: A Novel

The Heart Has It's Reasons

Contemporary

Simon & Schuster Export Editions

La mejor historia está siempre por vivir. Un giro al destino. Un viaje. Una segunda oportunidad. Incapaz de recomponer sus propios pedazos, la profesora Blanca Perea acepta a la desesperada lo que anticipa como un tedioso proyecto académico. Su estabilidad personal acaba de desplomarse, su matrimonio ha saltado por los aires. Confusa y devastada, la huida a la insignificante universidad californiana de Santa Cecilia es su única opción. El campus que la acoge resulta, sin embargo, mucho más seductor de lo previsto, y la labor de catalogar el legado de su viejo compatriota y profesor Andrés Fontana, fallecido décadas atrás, dista enormemente de ser tan insustancial como prometía. A medida que se afana en vertebrar la memoria de aquel hispanista olvidado, junto a ella va ganando cercanía Daniel Carter, un colega americano veterano y atractivo que no ocupa el sitio que debería ocupar. Entre ambos hombres, uno a través de sus testimonios póstumos y otro con su complicidad creciente, Blanca se verá arrastrada hacia un entramado de sentimientos encontrados, intrigas soterradas y puertas sin cerrar. Antes de encontrar respuestas, Blanca aún tiene mucho que entender. Con la misma narrativa lírica y personajes inolvidables característicos de El Tiempo entre Costuras, María Dueñas nos regala una segunda novela luminosa, un tributo a las segundas oportunidades, la reconciliación y la reconstrucción.

Mision olvido (The Heart Has Its Reasons Spanish Edition): Una novela

Atria/Primero Sueno Press

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The Captain's Daughters Las hijas del Capitan (Spanish edition)

Sira (Spanish edition): A Novel

The Heart Has Its Reasons (Thorndike Press large print core)

The Vineyard (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)

The Time In Between: A Novel

The Time In Between: A Novel

The Heart Has Its Reasons: A Novel

The Heart Has Its Reasons: A Novel

The Heart Has It's Reasons

Mision olvido (The Heart Has Its Reasons Spanish Edition): Una novela