"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." In 1999, Stephen King began to write about his craft -- and his life. By midyear, a widely reported accident jeopardized the survival of both. And in his months of recovery, the link between writing and living became more crucial than ever. Rarely has a book on writing been so clear, so useful, and so revealing. On Writing begins with a mesmerizing account of King's childhood and his uncannily early focus on writing to tell a story. A series of vivid memories from adolescence, college, and the struggling years that led up to his first novel, Carrie, will afford readers a fresh and often very funny perspective on the formation of a writer. King next turns to the basic tools of his trade -- how to sharpen and multiply them through use, and how the writer must always have them close at hand. He takes the reader through crucial aspects of the writer's art and life, offering practical and inspiring advice on everything from plot and character development to work habits and rejection. Serialized in the New Yorker to vivid acclaim, On Writing culminates with a profoundly moving account of how King's overwhelming need to write spurred him toward recovery, and brought him back to his life. Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower -- and entertain -- everyone who reads it. --front flap
Jofre Homedes Beutnagel Book order (chronological)






The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
As the novel opens, Annie is marrying Paulo. But when her wedding night day ends in an unimaginable accident, Annie finds herself on her own heavenly journey, and an inevitable reunion with Eddie
LA IMAGINACIÓN humana es un arma poderosísima. Haciendo un uso inteligente y controlado de ella, puede ayudarnos a cambiar nuestra realidad. En esta obra reveladora, el doctor Wayne W. Dyer nos propone un viaje iniciático a esa región desconocida de nuestra mente que nos ayudará a afinar la percepción que tenemos de nosotro
The Confession
- 464 pages
- 17 hours of reading
When Travis Boyette, a convicted felon, enters a small-town Missouri church, he carries a dark secret about the disappearance of high school senior Nicole Yarber nearly a decade ago. Despite extensive searches, Nicole's body was never found, leaving her hometown in despair. Now, Donte Drumm, a young black athlete wrongfully convicted of her murder, awaits execution in less than a week. Robbie Flak, Donte's dedicated lawyer, has spent nine years and all his resources fighting for justice, but he is out of options. The only hope lies in Travis Boyette's confession, which could exonerate Donte if it can be acted upon in time. The urgency of the situation intensifies as the clock ticks down to the execution date. John Ray Grisham, Jr., born on February 8, 1955, is a renowned American author celebrated for his legal thrillers. He has won the Galaxy British Book Awards and is one of only two authors to sell two million copies in a first printing. Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University and later attended the University of Mississippi School of Law, practicing criminal law for about a decade. He began writing in 1984, with his first novel, A Time To Kill, published in 1989. By 2008, his works had sold over 250 million copies globally, and several have been adapted into films. His bestselling titles include The Firm, The Testament, and The Broker, translated into 29 languages.
La pianista de Varsovia
- 336 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Emocionante novela protagonizada por Mia, una excepcional pianista, que logra escapar de la persecución nazi, se incorpora a la resistencia judía, y más tarde al servicio de espionaje francés.
Perched like a black crow on a crag in the most hostile depths of the Himalayas stands a monastery. For a thousand years the monks have kept guard. Now their sanctum has been violated, the secret carried off. After a millennium of hiding from the world, the guardians of the treasure will have to turn to an outsider for help. Luckily Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast is no stranger. Having trained body and mind in Tibet, he knows the land well. But neither he nor his ward, Constance, are prepared for the truth about what the monks have been protecting. The pursuit of the stolen artefact takes Pendergast and Constance far from the snowy wastes, to where the largest-ever ocean liner is preparing for her maiden voyage. As Pendergast and Constance board, they know they are joined by a cargo of secrets and murderers. As the ship slips into the night, it becomes a deadly race to recover the secret of the monks, or blackness to threaten to fall not just over the ship, but the wider world... A stunning dance of death and mystery, THE WHEEL OF DARKNESS takes the most unusual investigator around on his most thrilling case yet...
The Book of the Dead
- 464 pages
- 17 hours of reading
Psychotic killer Diogenes faces down his incarcerated FBI agent brother, while the Museum of Natural History reopens a long-closed tomb exhibit, a decision that coincides with a series of murders and sparks rumors about an ancient curse.
In the wake of a series of bizarre murders in which claw prints are found near each of the victims, agent Pendergast teams up with officer Vincent d'Agosta in an investigation with apparent ties to the supernatural.
The Ice Limit
- 491 pages
- 18 hours of reading
The largest known meteorite has been discovered, entombed in the earth for millions of years on a frigid, desolate island off the southern tip of Chile. At four thousand tons, this treasure seems impossible to move. New York billionaire Palmer Lloyd is determined to have this incredible find for his new museum. Stocking a cargo ship with the finest scientists and engineers, he builds a flawless expedition. But from the first approach to the meteorite, people begin to die. A frightening truth is about to unfold: The men and women of the Rolvaag are not taking this ancient, enigmatic object anywhere. It is taking them.
La Plaga
- 750 pages
- 27 hours of reading
¿Qué ocurre cuando la peste bubónica, ausente durante tanto tiempo del mundo moderno, reaparece en la sociedad del siglo XXI? La plaga urde con brillantez dos relatos paralelos. En el siglo XIV, el médico Alejandro Canches se salva de ser ejecutado por realizar una autopsia y en su huida recorre la Europa de la Peste Negra. Finalmente es enviado, contra su voluntad, a la corte de Eduardo III de Inglaterra para combatir la epidemia. En dramático contrapunto, la arqueóloga y médica Janie Crowe llega a la Inglaterra del siglo XXI e involuntariamente, provoca la difusión de una mortífera bacteria en un mundo que no está preparado para combatirla. En un futuro en que los antibióticos han perdido toda eficacia y un pasado dominado por el terror, estos dos héroes, muy a su pesar, se ven unidos por la historia.



