Novedades

The demons have started to make their move, and it’s up to the Ascendancy to find a way to stop them. A portal has opened, and the demons now have unfettered access to this world. It won’t be long until they put their vile plans in motion. Jackson will embark on a quest to hunt down the rumors of an ancient relic that can close an open portal to the demon realm. Will he find the Demon Stone in time to save humanity from the encroaching horde? Or will the world fall into darkness, as it almost did so long ago?

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.

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.

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 ...

Amy is about to graduate from high school and is a few months shy of her eighteenth birthday. She is planning to attend State in the fall, with her boyfriend Mitch, and has her life all planned out. The only problem is that life has an entirely different plan for her. Excerpt: Dragging my feet as I walk, I leave my room and head downstairs to face the firing squad. I step into the kitchen and my parents stop mid sentence and look at me. It’s a weird feeling, almost like I’m a toy that is being inspected for faults. They are trying to decide if I pass and get to move on with my existence...

When fifteen-year-old Sawyer Cray and his friends sneak into the wreckage to explore the damage, they uncover more than storm debris. Curiosity gives way to obsession when Sawyer opens the book—and unwittingly unleashes something dark, something hungry. An entity sealed away in 1873 by men who paid for their silence in blood.

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.

In a world where unseen forces weave destinies together, two lives intersect, bound by a connection neither can explain. Their paths cross, igniting a silent spark that defies logic and challenges reality. As the threads of fate tighten, they must navigate the mysterious bond that draws them ever closer.

After her sister Nena’s sudden death, Xiomara, an Afro-Latina singer and actress born and raised in Washington Heights, is numb. With her sister gone, Xiomara, painfully close to thirty, is living in a tiny apartment with her ultra-Catholic Puerto Rican mother, and having the same shitty sex with the same shitty men that she’s been entertaining for years. Behind on rent despite two minimum-wage jobs, one of which involves singing show tunes while serving pancakes to tourists at Ellen’s Stardust Diner, Xiomara is bitingly cynical, especially in her grief, and barely treading water.

A vibrant city. A missing girl. A whole bunch of secrets. "Be careful. This stuff is additive!" (Anonymus Reader) "Nothing is what it seems. Everyone has a secret and every secret can be destructive and leave you broken. At the end, as a reader, you are left wanting the next volume immediately, because it remains unchanged suspenseful and exciting." (Another Anonymus Reader who used more words to say the same as the one above) What is this book about? Journalist Delia Gupta had a good life. She had true friends, a job that fulfilled her, and enough money to live carefree - until one day she...

In the third and final volume of The War at Home series, author John Woodruff sees the Prescotts off as they maneuver into adulthood during an era in which the Vietnam conflict seems endless. And as some of the family continue to navigate the material world, so do two of their own in the afterlife. Patiently waiting to be accepted into the Elysian Fields, Emily and Bartholomew Prescott explore Metacosma, the space and time held in between mortal death and eternity.

Settembre 1919. L’eco della guerra ancora risuona in un’Europa ferita, mentre in una città assediata nasce un sogno rivoluzionario. Leo, diciassettenne inquieto e determinato, lascia la sua casa tra le montagne della Carnia per unirsi all’impresa di Fiume, guidata da Gabriele D’Annunzio. Spinto dall’irrequietezza e dal desiderio di far parte di qualcosa di grande, Leo si immerge in un mondo fatto di ideali rivoluzionari, discorsi infuocati e sogni di giustizia sociale.

Simon has ADHD, he lives on a New Town in Northumberland, it's the summer of 1976, and it's hot, big cracks are starting to appear in the ground. A gang called The Seaburn Batlads capture Simon and his best friend Squeaky when they are out stealing plums. They tell the boys that ghosts from under the slag heap are going to come up through the cracks. Terrified, the boys form their own gang called The Conker Boys in an attempt to defend their camp in the gorse bushes.

"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.

"In my family, as far back as I can tell, there was no such thing as communication, only secrets." A young girl in a small southern town in the 80's enlists the help of an unlikely group of friends and family to help her survive an unconventional, sometimes abusive childhood. Skinny Dipping in a Dirty Pond is highly recommended for fiction readers looking for coming-of-age and family narratives that are anything but ordinary and predictable. Its lively tone packs a punch.

Eliza has always had a plan…until her seamlessly plotted life implodes, and her engagement falls apart. At thirty-two, she suddenly finds herself second-guessing the picture-perfect future she had always envisioned—one that included raising 2.5 children nearby her tight-knit Italian family in San Francisco. Then Eliza is offered the chance to start over: in Juneberry Lake, a small Midwestern town eager to lure remote workers to their picturesque community. Shocking her family and friends (and herself), Eliza packs up her apartment and buys a lake house sight unseen.

From the bestselling and award-winning author of the Patrick Melrose novels, a hilarious and moving story about a group of wildly different characters whose fates are improbably yet inextricably linked—a novel about extinction and survival, inheritance and loss, written with St. Aubyn’s trademark wit and inimitable style

For the teenaged Luc, his days are preoccupied with the daily dramas of high school. President John F. Kennedy's assassination seems a world away. But the winds of history find its way to his small Montana town as marijuana clouds rise in the hallways and the notices of neighborhood young men of "Killed in Action" in Vietnam keep arriving at an increasing rate.

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.