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A New York Times Bestseller -- As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there. And twin brothers Ramón and Inocente -- both in love with Ana -- will get her there. She marries Ramón, and in 1844, at eighteen, travels to a remote sugar plantation the brothers have inherited. Ana relishes the challenge of running Hacienda los Gemelos. Until Civil War breaks out in the United States ...

Somewhere between love and forgiveness lies redemption. 1920, Swandyke, Colorado. A large split of snow separates from Jubilee Mountain and hurtles down the rocky slope, enveloping everything in its path, including nine children. Only four children survive. Whiter Than Snow takes readers into the lives of these families -- and shows what survival, faith, hope, love, and redemption really mean.

Balthazar Jones lives in the Tower of London with his wife, Hebe, his one-hundred-eighty-one-year-old pet tortoise, and a few eccentric neighbors. Balthazar is a Beefeater. The white-hot flame of his and Hebe's love has dwindled in the few years since their son died. Their marriage is teetering on the brink of extinction, when Balthazar is unexpectedly tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie within the Tower to house the many exotic animals given to the Queen. Life at the Tower is about to get all the more interesting.--From back cover.

In "The Passage "and" The Twelve, "Justin Cronin brilliantly imagined the fall of civilization and humanity s desperate fight to survive. Now all is quiet on the horizon but does silence promise the nightmare s end or the second coming of unspeakable darkness? At last, this bestselling epic races to its breathtaking finale. "The world we knew is gone. What world will rise in its place?" The Twelve have been destroyed and the hundred-year reign of darkness that descended upon the world has ended. The survivors are stepping outside their walls, determined to build society anew and daring to dream of a hopeful future. But far from them, in a dead metropolis, he waits: Zero. The First. Father of the Twelve. The anguish that shattered his human life haunts him, and the hatred spawned by his transformation burns bright. His fury will be quenched only when he destroys Amy humanity s only hope, the Girl from Nowhere who grew up to rise against him. One last time light and dark will clash, and at last Amy and her friends will know their fate. Praise for Justin Cronin One of those rare authors who work on two different levels, blending elegantly crafted literary fiction with cliff-hanging thrills. " Fort Worth Star-Telegram" "" "The Passage" Magnificent . . . Cronin has taken his literary gifts, and he has weaponized them. . . . "The Passage" can stand proudly next to Stephen King s apocalyptic masterpiece "The Stand, " but a closer match would be Cormac McCarthy s "The Road." "Time" Read this book and the ordinary world disappears. Stephen King [A] big, engrossing read that will have you leaving the lights on late into the night. "The Dallas Morning News" "" "The Twelve" [A] literary superthriller, driven at once by character and plot. " The New York Times Book Review" "" Gripping . . . Cronin [introduces] eerie new elements to his masterful mythology. " The San Diego Union-Tribune" "" An undeniable and compelling epic . . . a complex narrative of flight and forgiveness, of great suffering and staggering loss, of terrible betrayals and incredible hope. Milwaukee" Journal Sentinel""