Novedades

In the gritty shadows of Ironwood Correctional Facility, nineteen-year-old Jasper Kane fights to survive a year-long sentence for a crime he didn’t commit, orchestrated by his powerful family to bury their shame. Framed for arson and betrayed by his senator father, Jasper navigates a brutal men’s prison, where every glance hides a threat and every alliance a risk.

In a city ruled by silence and emotional suppression, Alina Marr is a model citizen—composed, compliant, and invisible. Her every heartbeat is monitored by the AER implant behind her ear, designed to eradicate feeling in favor of order. Love, grief, and joy are crimes. Even a smile can be suspect. But everything changes when she finds a letter—handwritten, forbidden, and deeply personal. Don’t get on the 7: 40 train tomorrow. The message saves her life and ignites a revolution within.

Alexis Spencer will use any inspirational quote to rationalize her failures and shortcomings. Her closest friends are a distant memory, and her college debt is still as high as the day she left. But that’s all fine and dandy, because “whatever will be, will be.” However, when Alexis loses her job and her relationship on the same day, there’s no quote strong enough to get her through that. In typical fashion, she blames the world for her problems, including her younger self, who should have tried harder.

Closing the portal to hell was just the beginning. Now Jackson must choose if he will follow orders or find a way into hell to save his long lost father. Will he risk everything to get him back?

Songwriter turned lawyer and author, Andrew Banks Townsend, recounts the events of his youth that led him to important lessons about race, acceptance and overcoming adversity. Much of his journey involved learning from the experiences of his grandparents and others of his grandparents' generation. Andrew's life reminds how seemingly unrelated historical events continue to ripple through ensuing generations in unexpected and sometimes mysterious ways.

Mia and Cricket have always been close. The gifted daughters of a young single mother, the “Lowe girls” are well-known in the small Maine town they call home. Each sister has a role to fill: the responsible and academically-minded Mia assumes the position of caregiver far too young. While Cricket, a bouncing ball of energy and talent, seems born for soccer stardom. But the cost of achieving athletic greatness comes at a steep price.

The year is 2848. Wars aren’t won by nations—they’re brokered by corporations. A.R.M.S. pilots, warriors bound to towering mechs with the firepower of gods, fight for fame, fortune, and survival in the ruthless chaos of Free Space.

Told through the eyes of a Korean girl adopted into a wealthy white family, this darkly funny debut explores casual racism, privilege, and the complexities of friendship. Derrymore Academy circa 2007 is home to teenagers who have their eyebrows shaped and their sweet sixteens tented. Their first kisses arrive around the same time as their boating licenses and they celebrate getting their braces off with Mediterranean vacations. It is here that Emery Hooper, adopted at birth into the country club set, thrives.

It’s a New Jersey summer in 1967, and thirteen-year-old Ravi Ramanathan has the makings of a tennis prodigy. His surgeon father encourages his ambition, while his mother dreams of their only child following his father’s path. Surrounded by his parents’ love, Ravi chafes a bit at their daily routines and little traditions. Then one unexpected day, everything changes. Realizing how much he took for granted, Ravi must grow up overnight and find a new role in the life of his family.

The Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, they love one another deeply but the pressures of life in an unstable America are fraying their bonds. Both biting and deeply moving, Vera, or Faith is a boldly imagined story of family and country told through the clear and tender eyes of a child.

Cam's plan to usurp death and fight back against those plotting against him worked. Almost a little too well. Now he must learn his new cultivation aspects to grow stronger for what is to come. He must learn the ways of the spirit beasts and fit two hundred years of training into his life as quickly as possible, for war is on the horizon. The Empire of the Creator is on the move. Storming the Rezzen Empire and converting humans and the other races into soldiers for their machinations. The goddess herself has descended upon the world to lead her forces and Cam is a prime target.

An unexpected friendship. A late-night adventure. A revelation that changes everything. College junior Olin Sloane has never been the volunteering type, but when he’s nudged into joining an adopt-a-grandparent program, he figures it could be good for him. Then he meets Alph—a closed off, no-nonsense old man who was cold and uninterested in the program. But over time, their reluctant pairing turns into something real; full of humor, mischief, and life lessons. When Alph asks Olin for a favor, he agrees, unaware that this simple act will change his life forever.

A nasty twist of fate turns a beautiful beginning into a tangle of deceit and regret. From the foothills of North Carolina to the mountains of West Virginia, Birdie weaves her story with homespun simplicity, creating a tapestry that vibrates with the colors and textures of her life and times, spinning a tale from the years before the Great Depression on up through the end of World War II.Enthralled by her first taste of womanhood, she follows her heart with the man of her dreams, only to find that life is not fair. Or perfect. Or easy. Will she find the courage to risk everything in order ...

Money, glamour, luxury, power—Ruby Bell couldn’t be less interested in these things if she tried. After being awarded a scholarship to one of England’s most prestigious and expensive private schools, Maxton Hall, all she wants is to keep her head down, work hard, and get accepted to Oxford. She keeps her distance from everyone, especially the arrogant, rich, and extremely handsome James Beaufort, ringleader of the school’s party boys. When Ruby discovers a scandalous secret about the Beauforts, she is suddenly on James’s radar.

"Em qualquer cidadezinha, enterro é evento pra ir todo mundo, cachorro, pessoas e também crianças, sem distinção nenhuma, conhecidos ou não." Nessa cidadezinha em particular, o morto é seu Jeremias, e as crianças são Dora e Esmê, duas primas inseparáveis, cuja alegria não é abalada nem pelo defunto ali diante delas. Pelo contrário, as duas se ocupam de um santinho pendendo do bolso de Jeremias, num jogo de cumplicidade e graça. O pequeno episódio, que de alguma forma irá marcar a vida de ambas, é um retrato bem-acabado dessa relação incomum.

"Influences like Jack Kerouac" BISMARCK TRIBUNE "In the tradition of dustbowl balladeers like Woody Guthrie and writers like John Steinbeck" SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE A coming of age classic and an action adventure thriller... A young man pawns his possessions, purchases a used motorcycle, changes his name, and attempts to create a new life for himself in an indefinite, forty-eight state adventure. In the custom of traveler novels like ON THE ROAD, and teen & young adult books like A SEPARATE PIECE, Landfair delivers a novel on par with the best action and adventure fiction books.

An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived an idyllic life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful presence, who is the very center of the little girl's existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother's benign shadow. Looking back on her childhood, she reflects, "It was in such a paradise that I lived." When she turns twelve, however, Annie's life changes, in ways that are often mysterious to her.

Will Lauren Bucievski escape the consequences of an ill-fated seduction or be condemned to live in isolation in war-time Anglesey? When Lauren Bucievski and her father take flight from Poland during the 1905 revolution, the ten year old girl has little understanding of who her father`s enemies are. Seven years later - now living in Church Bay on the remote west coast of Anglesey - when she befriends the happy-go-lucky Jimmy Jilkes, and when the charismatic Stefan turns up from Poland, her life is thrown into conflict, vulnerable as she is, in her isolation, to her own dawning sexuality. The...

"I know, you’re the Shaman, therefore everything is possibly mystical and probably dangerous. But if anything, I dunno, I just thought...” The Chief trailed off pensively, cautious of his next words. “I thought it might be fun.” When a pair of boys find a mysterious stranger washed ashore of their beach, this humble island community is not sure what to do next. But the visitor's arrival will change everyone's lives forever - from the young friends, to the new outsider, and on through the entire village. Worlds collide in this tropical paradise, through a comedic adventure of self-...

An Atomic Fairy Tale of Youth and Love "Randolph didn’t know if her hand was warm or not. Because up until that moment, he had never touched another human being. But the skin of her hand was very smooth and soft, like it was made to be held." When the powerplant opened, lives were changed and destroyed forever. And the only boy to have survived its nuclear wrath is now cursed to a life of lonely exile. But when Randolph befriends a strange girl one day, he learns there may be hope for happiness after all, and he'll risk everything for them both to have it.