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Set against dramatic Mediterranean Sea views and lush olive groves, "The Rocks" opens with a confrontation and a secret: What was the mysterious, catastrophic event that drove two honeymooners apart so suddenly and absolutely in 1948 that they never spoke again despite living on the same island for sixty more years? And how did their history shape the Romeo and Juliet like romance of their (unrelated) children decades later? Centered around a popular...
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"Un viaje de dos semanas a Mallorca con su familia y amigos es una celebración: Franny y Jim celebran su trigésimo quinto aniversario de boda, y su hija, Sylvia, se ha graduado de la escuela secundaria. La isla iluminada por el sol, sus montañas y playas, también prometen un escape de las tensiones latentes en su casa en Manhattan. Pero no todo va de acuerdo al plan: en el transcurso de las vacaciones, secretos salen a luz, rivalidades resurgen...
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"Juliet Lyman is a senior executive at Yesterday Records. Music is her passion and she's very good at her job. That's why her famously philanthropic boss Gideon sends her to Majorca, Spain to work with a very tortured, but talented client. Lionel Harding is one of the best song writers of the 20th century, the multi-Grammy award-winning lyricist of the third most recorded song in history. But now he's 42 and six months overdue on the his latest paid...
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Dora Coates, who had once worked at an English country house, is found drowned on the island of Majorca. Inspector Alvarez traces her back to the family at the country house. He is led to believe that the circumstances of her death might be suspicious but as usual, he refuses to accept the obvious.
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"Wealthy and rakish Keith Vickers has lived at Ca'an Mortice, a luxurious estate on the Spanish island of Mallorca, ever since he experienced a series of failed business attempts back in England. Living off his inheritance and the profits of his latest corrupt property venture, Keith has dated and abandoned woman after woman."--Jacket.
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On the Spanish island of Mallorca, a lady landowner is killed in a room locked from the inside. At first, the murder is attributed to some sharecropper--they are still obliged to surrender half their earnings--but as Inspector Alvarez digs deeper he learns of the presence of two Englishmen on the island. One is the lady's nephew, the other a known con man.
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"Magda znowu zbliża się do życiowej krawędzi - nadchodzą kolejne urodziny, do których tak panicznie bała się dobić. Jednak nie daje się zwariować, wszelkie wątpliwości właściwe dla kryzysu wieku rozwiewa po swojemu, w różny sposób udowadniając sobie i światu, że wigor i radość życia jeszcze jej całkiem nie opuściły ... Tym razem nie zamierza lecieć na ukochaną Majorkę, bo z najbliższymi - mężem, pieszczotliwie zwanym...
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The latest puzzle to rouse Enrique Alvarez's sleepy Spanish island begins with an Englishman hospitalized for a suspicious pattern of cigarette burns on his body. The fact that the burns form a circle on Franklin Gore's chest would indicate that he has been tortured, but if so, why would he insist that the burns are accidental? Faced with a stubborn Englishman who adamantly refuses all offers of police protection, Alvarez is almost convinced to let...
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