10 Titles In Ebook To Celebrate Book Day

For all lovers of reading, this is a very special week. Although we will not be able to celebrate Book Day or Sant Jordi in the same way that we used to, we want to share some proposals to continue enjoying a long-awaited day like this. Surely this year we want, more than ever, to offer our loved ones a good book. Despite not being able to go to our reference bookstores, there are several options to give and receive a book without leaving home.

The ebook format is a very good option to get it right this April 23: it can be purchased with just one click and at a very affordable price. In this list of recommen

For lovers of crime novels

If what you are looking for is a good crime novel, we propose three works of different styles written by great authors of the genre:

• Don’t Talk to Strangers by Harlan Coben

You enjoy a quiet life. From your family, from your home, from a good job. Until one day someone you don’t know comes up to you and whispers something intimate that you don’t expect. Thus begins the story Adam Price, the protagonist of this novel that absorbs the reader from the first.

Netflix released the series (Don’t talk to strangers) two months ago based on this book and also created by Harlan Coben. As in the book, we are facing a thriller that masterfully combines tension and humor.

• Seven Graves, One Winter by Christoffer Petersen

With this suggestive title, the Danish-born author, Christoffer Petersen, presents us with an extraordinary novel set in Greenland. Petersen lived for seven years on this unknown island where he worked as a teacher. There, fascinated by the territory and its inhabitants, he began to write novels and stories set in Greenland.

The author was one of the international writers invited to the last edition of the BCNegra festival; During his stay in Barcelona, ​​he presented the novel and explained his experience. Do not miss this interesting interview he gave during his time in the city.

• Philip Kerr’s Prayers

Philip Kerr, master of the historical novel, decided to give the Bernie Gunther saga a break and in 2013 he published Plegarias , with which he demonstrates his great narrative versatility.

An intense contemporary thriller with a disturbing plot that dares to go beyond the limits of the crime genre.

The long-awaited writer, Philip Kerr, is one of the leaders of the black genre, admired by readers around the world. In this article, the director of the Black Series collection, Antonio Lozano, brings us closer to the figure of this magnificent author.

For those who love to get hooked on stories

If you need to get away with an addictive reading, you can’t miss one of the most successful trilogies of all time:

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

In a dark version of the near future, twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to participate in a reality show called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her sister’s place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence.

If you are not yet a fan of this saga, this is a good time because in the coming months the long-awaited prequel to The Hunger Games , A Ballad of Songbirds and Serpents, will hit the bookstores .

• The end and other beginnings of Veronica Roth

The author of the Divergent saga ( Divergent, Insurgent, Loyal and Four: a history of the Divergent saga ) returns with these surprising stories in the purest Black Mirror style .

Stories full of technological advances and unknown beings. Even so, its protagonists still have to face very human challenges; like friendship, anxiety or revenge.

• Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women

Little Women and its continuation, Those Little Women, two classics of literature, narrate with intensity, tenderness and humor the joys and problems of the four unforgettable sisters of the March family. Although they have very different personalities, the close bond that unites them makes them inseparable.

The latest film based on this classic has earned the applause of critics who have praised the work of the leading actresses, Emma Watson, Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen and Laura Dern.

• Katharine Mcgee’s American Royals

The author of the thousandth floor trilogy , Katharine McGee, surprises again with this original story that presents an alternate reality: what the United States would be like today if it were a monarchy.

Princess Beatrice has always accepted her duty, but begins to feel the pressure as the day of becoming America’s first sovereign approaches. Nobody cares about Samantha, the surrogate princess, except when she breaks the rules; so she is not interested in anything either …

To learn and have fun at the same time

If you want to learn and have fun at the same time, we introduce you to two of the best international popular authors:

• Bill Bryson’s Human Body

The author of the bestseller, A Brief History of Almost Everything , is one of the most widely read and respected popular writers in the world. His fans are legion also in Spain, where the author has loyal readers who admire his style of writing with rigor and a great sense of humor.

In his latest book, The Human Body, Bryson invites us to travel through our bodies.

Close, educational and fun, this book is a real guide for occupants.

• In praise of the experience of Carl Honoré

“ History is full of people who have achieved their greatest successes in the last phase of their existence,” said Carl Honoré.

The writer and speaker, Carl Honoré, assures that there is a taboo that we should leave behind to start talking openly about aging. The author of Canadian origin and living in London, denounces in his latest book, In Praise of Experience, the disdain of our society that praises the young and undervalues ​​the older.

Carl Honoré has been one of the most important figures of the so – called slow movement ( Praise of Slowness ), a trend that prevailed years ago and many still claimed today.

• Roberta Schira’s New Omnivores

If you are taking advantage of these days to follow the recipes offered by the great chefs through Instagram, this book will interest you.

In recent years, heated debates about what to eat and what not to eat have been accentuated . While there are people who stubbornly refuse to consider the origin of food, others are catastrophic and adopt very aggressive vegetarian positions. Faced with this dilemma, there is a third option: eat an ethical and tolerant diet that favors coexistence.

The psychologist and gastronomic critic Roberta Schira proposes to tear down some of the walls raised regarding our diets, refute preconceived ideas and put an end to certain falsehoods.