Tawni O'Dell

With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, nineteen-year-old Harley Altmyer is saddled with raising his three younger sisters, working two jobs to pay the bills, and an overactive libido that will not let him rest. A first novel. Reprint.

Back Roads

Haunted by the tragic death of his younger sister, successful forensic psychologist Sheridan Doyle returns to his hometown and discovers a body at an infamous gallows site before teaming up with a mentor detective who helps him unravel disturbing family secrets. By the best-selling author of the Oprah Book Club pick, Back Roads.

One of Us

Growing up with a drunken father and an absent mother, Kyle and Klint are shocked when their mother plans to take them west when their father dies. Their mother hasn't ever cared for them and she still doesn't. They are handed over to Candace Jack and when the boys discover her tragic past the three discarded souls heal each other.

Fragile Beasts

Comme tous les habitants de la petite cité minière de Jolly Mount, Shae-Lynn n'a pas eu la vie facile. Une mère partie trop tôt, un père violent, une,petite soeur disparue sans laisser de trace... Energique et grande gueule, à quarante ans, elle décide de ranger au placard son uniforme de flic pour devenir chauffeur de taxi. Mais sa tranquillité retrouvée s'achève le jour où un élégant avocat new-yorkais monte à bord de sa voiture. Après lui viendront une femme au foyer du Connecticut, un mafieux russe armé jusqu'aux dents et, surtout, beaucoup de problèmes... Après " Le Temps de la colère " et " Retour à Coal Run ", Tawni O'Dell poursuit à Jolly Mount sa chronique énergique et réaliste de la Pennsylvanie, région symbole d'une Amérique en crise.

Le ciel n'attend pas

Le temps de la colère

a novel

Sister mine

With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, nineteen-year-old Harley Altmyer is saddled with raising his three younger sisters, working two jobs to pay the bills, and an overactive libido that will not let him rest. Reprint.

From the bestselling author of the Oprah Book Club pick "Back Roads" comes this fast-paced literary thriller about a small town police chief who's forced to dig into her own shadowy past as she investigates the murder of a teenage girl. Print run 50,000.

Angels Burning

When their hard-drinking, but loving, father dies in a car accident, teenage brothers Kyle and Klint Hayes face a bleak prospect: leaving their Pennsylvania hometown for an uncertain life in Arizona with the mother who ran out on them years ago. But in a strange twist of fate, their town’s matriarch, an eccentric, wealthy old woman whose family once owned the county coal mines, hears the boys’ story. Candace Jack doesn’t have an ounce of maternal instinct, yet for reasons she does not even understand herself, she is compelled to offer them a home. Suddenly, the two boys go from living in a small, run-down house on a gravel road to a stately mansion filled with sumptuous furnishings and beautiful artwork—artwork that’s predominantly centered, oddly, on bullfighting. And then there’s Miss Jack’s real-life bull: Ventisco—a regal, hulking, jet-black beast who roams the land she owns with fiery impudence. Kyle adjusts more easily to the transition. A budding artist, he finds a kindred spirit in Miss Jack. But local baseball hero Klint refuses to warm up to his new benefactress and instead throws himself into his game with a fierceness that troubles his little brother. Klint is not just grieving his father’s death; he’s carrying a terrible secret that he has never revealed to anyone. Unbeknownst to the world, Candace Jack has a secret too—a tragic, passionate past in Spain that the boys’ presence threatens to reveal as she finds herself caring more for them than she ever believed possible. From the muted, bruised hills of Pennsylvania coal country to the colorful, flamboyant bull rings of southern Spain, Tawni O’Dell takes us on a riveting journey not only between two completely different lands, but also between seemingly incompatible souls, casting us under her narrative spell in which characters and places are rendered with fragile tenderness.

A Novel

With her eagerly awaited second novel, Tawni O'Dell takes readers back to the coal-mining country of western Pennsylvania. Set in a town ravaged and haunted by a mine explosion that took the lives of 96 men, Coal Run explores the life of local deputy and erstwhile football legend, "The Great Ivan Z.," as he prepares for a former teammate's imminent release from prison. As the week unfolds and Ivan struggles to confront his demons, he reveals himself to be a man whose conscience is burdened by a long-held and shocking secret.

Coal Run

From the New York Times bestselling author of Back Roads, “a no-holds-barred, page-turning, perfectly crafted thriller” (Heather Gudenkauf, author of The Weight of Silence) following a small town police chief who’s forced to dig into her own shadowy past as she investigates the murder of a teenage girl. On the surface, Chief Dove Carnahan is a true trailblazer who would do anything to protect the rural Pennsylvanian town where she has lived all fifty of her years. Traditional and proud of her blue-collar sensibilities, Dove is loved by her community—but she hides a dark and self-destructive streak, fed by a secret she has kept since she was sixteen. When a girl is beaten to death and her body tossed down a fiery sinkhole in an abandoned coal town, Dove is faced with solving the most shocking crime of her law enforcement career. She identifies the girl as a member of a local family of petty criminals. To further complicate things, the man convicted of killing Dove’s mother is released from prison and reveals a startling accusation. Dove now must face the chilling parallels between her own family’s trauma and that of the dead girl’s. “A darkly compelling look into how the past colors the present, this psychological thriller will linger” (RT Book Reviews) with you long after you turn the final page.

Bestseller en EE UU: nueve semanas consecutivas en la lista de los libros más vendidos de The New York Times y seleccionada por el Club de Lectura de Oprah Winfrey. Traducida a cinco idiomas y publicada en diez países. Pronto será llevada a la gran pantalla por Michael Ohoven, productor galardonado por la Academia. «Un maravilloso libro sobre las relaciones familiares que es casi imposible dejar de leer. Con una prosa hábil, unos personajes enormemente verosímiles y una inmensa ternura, O;Dell domina su oficio a la perfección.» The Denver Post «Una voz única, la obra excepcional de una autora muy prometedora.» Newsday La madre de Harley Altmyer está en la cárcel por haber matado a su marido, así que Harley debe criar a sus hermanas menores y trabajar en dos sitios a la vez para poder pagar las facturas, lo que no le deja mucho tiempo para distracciones. Sin embargo, últimamente está cada vez más descentrado; por culpa de Callie Mercer, una mujer mayor que él por la que siente un deseo tan intenso que tiene miedo de perder el control sobre su vida. Mientras Harley recurre al humor sarcástico para engañar al dolor y se esfuerza por mantener el control, todo a su alrededor empieza a desmoronarse. Pronto Harley descubre que, por terrible que sea su situación familiar, le esperan todavía más sorpresas; Una desgarradora novela, de prosa dolorosamente hermosa, sobre la familia y la fragilidad de sus relaciones ambientada en la América profunda. Back Roads, la película basada en el libro, se estrenará en Estados Unidos el próximo mes de octubre. Dirigida por Adrian Lyne (Flashdance, Nueve semanas y media, Atracción fatal), estará protagonizada por Andrew Garfield (La red social), Jennifer Garner (Juno), Marcia Gay Harden (ganadora de un Óscar a la mejor actriz de reparto por Pollock) y Chloë Moretz (La invención de Hugo, Déjame entrar).

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