Bøger af Julia Keller

Destruye el mito de la meritocracia y aprende a renunciar a lo que te daña.«Julia Keller ofrece un cambio de perspectiva en un mundo que nos dice que hagamos --y aguantemos-- más. Este libro celebra a las personas que aprenden sus límites, se mantienen firmes en ellos, y forjan nuevos caminos cuando las viejas y agotadoras formas de ser les han fallado». Doctor Devon Price. Nos han inculcado tanto la cultura del esfuerzo que la renuncia se vive como un fracaso y una falta de carácter. Esa visión no solo nos lastima, sino que nos parece intocable. Ante eso, Julia Keller, premio Pulitzer 2005, nos muestra que rendirse es un acto de amor, de valentía y de autocuidado que nos permite establecer límites y vivir una vida más plena y feliz. Se necesitan más desertores que antepongan su bienestar a la obstinación. Aquí derribarás el mito de la meritocracia y aprenderás a reconocer cuándo es necesario retirarte de la partida para ponerte en primer lugar. Estas páginas incluyen entrevistas con expertos como Adam Grant, autor de Piénsalo otra vez y Originales; o ejemplos de personalidades como Simone Biles, quien renunció a los Juegos Olímpicos por anteponer su salud mental.Cambia tu chip y reconoce cuándo ser un orgulloso desertor.Este libro te ayudará a: - No superar los obstáculos que atentan contra tu bienestar.- No terminar todo lo que empiezas si tu salud está en riesgo.- No ser obsesivamente dedicado si tu desgaste mental te genera malestar

It's high summer in Acker's Gap, a small town nestled in the beautiful but poverty-stricken West Virginia mountains-but no one's enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not while a killer stalks the town and its hard-luck inhabitants. County prosecutor Bell Elkins and her closest friend, Sheriff Nick Fogelsong, are stymied by a murderer who seems to come and go like smoke on the mountain. At the same time, Bell must deal with the return from prison of her sister, Shirley-who, like Bell, carries the indelible scars of a savage past.In the third mystery chronicling the journey of Bell Elkins and her return to her Appalachian hometown, we also meet Lindy Crabtree-a coal miner's daughter with dark secrets of her own, secrets that threaten to explode into even more violence. Acker's Gap is a place of loveliness and brutality, of isolation and fierce attachments-a place where the dead rub shoulders with the living, and demand their due.|Julia Keller once again captivates readers with this story of a dying West Virginia mountain town and the strong, proud people who inhabit it.

In A Killing in the Hills, a powerful, intricate debut from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia Keller, a mother and a daughter try to do right by a town and each other before it's too late.What's happening in Acker's Gap, West Virginia? Three elderly men are gunned down over their coffee at a local diner, and seemingly half the town is there to witness the act. Still, it happened so fast, and no one seems to have gotten a good look at the shooter. Was it random? Was it connected to the spate of drug violence plaguing poor areas of the country just like Acker's Gap? Or were Dean Streeter, Shorty McClurg, and Lee Rader targeted somehow?One of the witnesses to the brutal incident was Carla Elkins, teenaged daughter of Bell Elkins, the prosecuting attorney for Raythune County, WV. Carla was shocked and horrified by what she saw, but after a few days, she begins to recover enough to believe that she might be uniquely placed to help her mother do her job.After all, what better way to repair their fragile, damaged relationship? But could Carla also end up doing more harm than good-in fact, putting her own life in danger?

Bone on Bone, the next powerful chapter in Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia Keller's beloved Bell Elkins series, sends readers headlong into the thick of a mystery as young as today's headlines -- but as old as the mountains that hold these lives in a tight grip. How far would you go for someone you love? Would you die? Would you kill? After a three-year prison sentence, Bell Elkins is back in Acker's Gap. And she finds herself in the white-hot center of a complicated and deadly case -- even as she comes to terms with one last, devastating secret of her own.A prominent local family has fallen victim to the same sickness that infects the whole region: drug addiction. With mother against father, child against parent, and tensions that lead inexorably to tragedy, they are trapped in a grim, hopeless struggle with nowhere to turn.Bell has lost her job as prosecutor -- but not her affection for her ragtag, hard-luck hometown. Teamed up with former Deputy Jake Oakes, who battles his own demons as he adjusts to life as a paraplegic, and aided by the new prosecutor, Rhonda Lovejoy, Bell tackles a case as poignant as it is perilous, as heartbreaking as it is challenging.

Karin Slaughter has called Julia Keller 'a rare talent' and Dennis Lehane has praised her 'remarkable writing'. Now Bell Elkins returns - a high-profile development has been green-lit in Acker's Gap but with one resident refusing to sell his land, tensions are running high and when a body is found it's up to Bell to find out the truth.

Julia Keller's Dark Star Calling is the third and final book in the Dark Intercept Trilogy, a high-concept YA science fiction saga.Out in the observatory, protruding from the vast gap in the roof, was the giant telescope. It stared unblinkingly into the night sky, its gaze peering deep into the wilderness of stars. Somewhere within that wilderness was the single star Rez was determined to find.New Earth, 2297. A year after the resurrection of a universal surveillance system called the Intercept, New Earth is collapsing. Humanity is depending on a group of five friends to find them all a new home.Humanity's fate rests in the hands of Violet Crowley, a headstrong rebel and former detective turned hopelessly mediocre politician; Shura Lu, scientific genius and magnificently gifted artist; Kendall Mayhew, New Earth's Chief of Police; Tin Man Tolliver, Kendall's top deputy; and Steven J. Reznik, aka "Rez," NESA Director and Chief Technologist.Together they discovered their utopian home is on an unstoppable collision course with Earth. Together they look to the stars to find a world suitable for human life and what they find there-or rather who-will change them all forever.

The Dark Intercept by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Julia Keller is the beginning of a "riveting"* science fiction adventure that challenges the voluntary surrender of liberties for the perception of safety. When the state controls your emotions, how hard will you fight to feel free?In a radiant world of endless summer, the Intercept keeps the peace. Violet Crowley, the sixteen-year-old daughter of New Earth's Founding Father, has spent her life in comfort and safety. Her days are easy thanks to the Intercept, a crime-prevention device that monitors emotion. But when her long-time crush, Danny Mayhew, gets into a dangerous altercation on Old Earth, Violet launches a secret investigation to find out what he's hiding. An investigation that will lead her to question everything she's ever known about Danny, her father, and the power of the Intercept.Much like the device itself, The Dark Intercept will get under your skin."A rare, literary feat." -Gennifer Albin, New York Times bestselling author of the Crewel World trilogy"The Dark Intercept grabbed me from the first page and shook me until the last." -*Emmy Laybourne, author of BerserkerThe Dark Intercept is a Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Excellence in Children's and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable List selection! The Dark Intercept#1 The Dark Intercept#2 Dark Mind Rising#3 Dark Star CallingThe Tablet of Scaptur (novella)