BOOKS by Liliana Zamora

Gerardo Patiño

lilianazamora — 2015-02-28 16:28:21 UTC

This is a story about an old-fashioned private investigator, called Nathan Marley, whose life changed after seeing a woman at McFadden's Bar one night. This woman, Angela Lake, and her husband, Robert Lake, President of Lake Software, use Marley as a fall guy to make money from a jewellery insurance in order to solve their business troubles. Marley helped by Stella Delgado, his personal assistant, Joe Blaney, a colleague, and others have to find out the truth and help Captain Odenberg, detective with the NYPD, to solve this case.

Miguel Ángel Fernández

lilianazamora — 2015-02-28 16:39:21 UTC

While Tintin and his dog, Snowy, are walking calmly, they suddenly see a plane in trouble. In a few minutes the plane falls down nearby. Immeditely, the curious journalist runs to the place of the crash trying to seek for survivors. However, he finds nobody. Meanwhile, Snowy gets a clue when he finds a jacket with a map inside its pocket. After a lot of adventures, including kidnappings, accidents, chases, and journeys through land and air, Tintin arrives in rural Scotland where people tell stories about the Black Island, from where nobody returns alive.

Esther Monedero

lilianazamora — 2015-02-28 16:51:05 UTC

Matilda is five and a half years old. She's a precaucious girl, whose parents ignore her intelligence. In fact, they don't care much for their daguhter. She likes reading books and often goes to the library. She is sent to a school where the headmistress is greatly feared. However, Matilda and Miss Honey, her teacher, make good friends and both of them help each other to face their problems.

Carmen Andres

lilianazamora — 2015-03-03 10:52:44 UTC

This is the story of the Waterhouse and the Coleman, two neighbouring families, who also have graves in the same cemetery in London. Their daughters become friends while playing in the tombstones of the cemetery, where they also make friends with the gravedigger’s son. The historical background covers the period that goes from Queen Victoria’s death to nine years after King Edward’s death.The Waterhouse want to continue with Victorian traditions, whereas the Coleman are longing for a more modern society fostered by Edwardian customs. At this moment, Mrs. Coleman starts to fight for her personal freedom and, as a consequence, the lives of the two families and the English citizens will change forever.

Lara González

lilianazamora — 2015-03-03 10:53:08 UTC

Christopher can’t understand how the rest of the people see the world and how to interact to them. He is very intelligent and at some issues, like Maths or Physics, he is just skilled. However, when dealing with simple or easy challenges, he is unable to react and behaves like a helpless, unlucky and weak baby. Despite this burden on his shoulders, he is trying to find out the murderer of a dog called Wellington, his neighbour’s pet. In his attempt to figure out who committed the crime, he discovers facts that will change some aspects of his life.

Leles Algaba

lilianazamora — 2015-03-05 11:39:24 UTC

This is a story about a journalist called Clare Newton, who travels to Zermat to bring to London her grandfather's body found frozen at the bottom of a glacier 74 years after a climbing accident. Clare knows that this could make an interesting story for her newspaper, but as she investigates her gradnfather's last climbing, she learns that the accident wasn't as simple as she had first thought. Clare finds out more about her family past than she expected and this leads her to make important decisions about her personal and professional life.

Leticia Martínez

lilianazamora — 2015-03-06 16:39:31 UTC

The prime minister was sleeping quietly when suddenly the phone rang, an international plane had been hijacked. The three hijakers wanted the prime minister to set their brothers free from a prison near the airport and refuelled the plane. The prime minister refused to accept the requests, so the hijackers decided to kill one of the passengers of the plane, while they allowed 30 minutes to bring their brothers to the plane, otherwise they threatened to kill more people.

María de la Fuente

lilianazamora — 2015-03-06 17:08:47 UTC

Anna and Stephen have been married for ten years. Both are eager to leave the stress of London and they decide to go on holidays to Polreath for three weeks. There they rent a cottage from a local fisherman, Tristan Goddard. Just one day after, Stephen is called back to his work in London so Anna is left alone in Polreath.

María Isabel Guijarro

lilianazamora — 2015-03-06 17:59:42 UTC

The story revolves around Oliver Twist' s miserable childhood. He is a good child who wants to study but he has to live unfortunate situations. From the moment when he is born until he's 12, he knows kind people who help him a lot, but unfortunately, the mean people he knows injure him bitterly too. Towards the end of the novel, we discover why he is so unlucky.

Gaude Sánchez

lilianazamora — 2015-03-06 18:41:49 UTC

Wuthering Heights is the name of an old house in the Yorkshire moors in the north of England. The story is set in the18th century and is about the relationship between Heathcliff, a gypsy adopted by a rich man and Catherine, the man's daguhter. It is a strong story of love and revenge that holds your interest until the end.

Joaquín Arroyo

lilianazamora — 2015-03-15 21:14:31 UTC

Two days after the fall of Lehman Brothers, Samantha Kofer, a brilliant lawyer who works in Manhattan for Scully & Pershing, the biggest law firm in the world, is fired. This company gets into big financial troubles and she is furloughed. She is supposed to be readmitted again after one year, and during this period she is offered and unpaid job in an NGO . She is hired by a firm which helps folks with legal troubles. Meanwhile she gets involved in a dark conspiration and she will have to decide if she goes back to her old life in New York or stay in a small city helping poor people.