Novedades

Vanity Fair centers on the young Becky Sharp and her dear friend Amelia Sedley during the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Rebecca Sharp is the daughter of an art teacher and a French dancer, being ambitious, intelligent, and strong willed in order to get what she wants out of society. She is often touted as amoral and an anti-heroine. Alternately, her friend Amelia is kind, good natured, and born into wealth. The interwoven fortunes of the two women play out among a backdrop of social skirmishes and human afflictions of pride and ego.

Part 3: Hope Ain’t Lost is a Vampire Marriage of Convenience Romance Tayla Brown has survived everything life threw at her—until her best friend went missing with barely a trace. In a small Mississippi town of Selwood, haunted by secrets and struggle, a mysterious stranger with eyes like shadows offers her answers… but it comes with a cost. Trapped in a gothic mansion and a marriage she never asked for, Tayla must decide how far she’s willing to go to uncover the truth. But in the dark, where monsters are beautiful, even love might have fangs. An entertaining & Cozy Paranormal ...

Her worn boots crunched on shards of broken glass and twisted metal, remnants of a world that had once teemed with life. Buildings, skeletal remains of their former glory, clawed at the sky, their empty windows like hollowed-out eyes staring blankly at the desolate landscape. She moved with the slow, deliberate grace of someone who had learned to conserve energy, every movement measured, every step calculated. Survival was a delicate dance, a precarious balance between hope and despair. Elara clutched the worn leather satchel close to her chest, its contents her lifeline: a handful of dried...

Enter in trepidation, only if you are sixteen or older, in a boys’ technical school in a small town in Australia. You will meet a teacher struggling to walk out of the dark shadows of her abused childhood, another seeking revenge for the cold-blooded murder of her parents in a Nazi concentration camp, and the principal known as Mr Ten Per Cent in some circles. Spend a week in this fictitious school and surrounding vineyards hiding a chronic child abuser with a muddled mind, a constant psychopath impersonating a teacher he had killed, and a reluctant mafia don, and join students who ...

Cuando Marcos era pequeño le dejaba cartas a su madre antes de ir a la escuela. Ahora se aparece en sus sueños, porque le quiere contar a qué lugar lo llevaron… cuando lo desaparecieron. Ada está en una carrera contra el tiempo, porque teme morir antes de encontrarlo, pero de una cosa está segura: tiene que buscarlo en un árbol.

In self-imposed exile after returning home from the war in Vietnam, David Larson meanders into the barren town of Slut's Hole, Wyoming, where a local widow takes him under her wing. After making a sort of home among the town's hardscrabble locals, David grudgingly adopts a young Vietnamese girl abandoned along the highway. This sets in motion a set of tragic turns as Western mythos and frontier justice clash against the tides of a changing world.

Three Hockey Players. One Girl. But Does She Really Have to Choose? You’d think I’d have learned by now not to get involved with hockey players. But here I am—after a scandal that nearly tanked my career—signing on as the new rehab therapist for the Kingston Reign. My rules? Stay professional. Keep my head down. Absolutely no falling for the talent. Then I meet them. Luca Petrenko: brooding team captain with a jawline sharp enough to cut my resolve—and a grudge against anyone who gets too close. Jax Carter: the golden boy winger who flirts like it’s a contact sport and makes me ...

Set against the backdrop of a generation awakening from its countercultural dreams to the realities of a materialistic society, WannaBeat is an incisive and provocative coming-of-age story that can speak to the youth of today in their yearning for authenticity in the face of an increasingly artificial reality. Living in San Francisco in the late 1970s, Philip Polarov is a writer scraping by on a series of odd jobs while attempting to turn his self-described "stream of drivel" into an Important Novel. As the last soldiers of the Beat Generation become ghosts in the North Beach neighborhood ...

What if the life you built wasn’t the life you chose—and the truth was locked inside your own forgotten memories? 💔 It Wasn’t Supposed to Be Like This A novel about betrayal, memory, motherhood—and the love we fight for even when we no longer recognize it. Amelia Rai had everything she was supposed to want. A husband. A son. A home filled with laughter. But when a car accident steals her memory, she wakes up to a life she doesn’t recognize—and a man she no longer trusts. Jason was once her everything. Now he’s just a stranger who flinches when she asks about the past. As ...

Una historia en homenaje a la amistad, de una calidad humana extraordinaria. Magda Szabó relata en La puerta su relación con Emerenc Szeredás, la fascinante heroína de esta novela. Si bien la fuerte personalidad de Emerenc cohíbe en un primer momento a la escritora, poco a poco se irá desvelando como un ser extraordinario: bondadosa, ejemplar y a la vez severa, representa el esfuerzo del ser humano por vivir una existencia digna y que sirva de ayuda a otros. No obstante, nunca acepta nada a cambio y prohíbe terminantemente que nadie cruce la antecámara y penetre en su casa y su intimidad.

A spaceship called Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room are three giants: Alba, Stanley, and Drew. If they talk, the spaceship keeps moving; if they are silent, they resume growing. Talk they must, and as they do, Alba, Stanley, and Drew recover their shared memory of what has been done to their former selves—experiences of imprisonment, violence, and disempowerment.

A searing examination of male friendship and masculinity in an age of toxic loneliness, The Passenger Seat introduces Vijay Khurana as an extraordinary new voice.

A debut collection of stories set across the American South, featuring characters who struggle to find love and belonging in the wake of painful histories. How can you love where you come from, even when home doesn’t love you back?

In the mowed-down industrial north of Prince George, Canada, “white trash” housewife Jenny Hayes shares a fence with the only First Nations woman in the neighborhood, Rachelle, and her two little girls. Jenny desperately wants a child and can’t understand why Rachelle, with her trash-pocked and overgrown yard, should have what Jenny wants most in the world.

In a house lined with silence and cedar, generations of women buried what they could not say. Spanning the cane fields and bayous of South Louisiana—from the Civil War to the present day—The Weight of Ash and Prayer traces a family’s legacy of memory, silence, and quiet resistance. When Sylvie Rose Broussard agrees to help her young niece with a school genealogy project, she expects a simple task. But what begins in church ledgers and courthouse archives slowly draws her back to the long-quiet house her family once inhabited—and into a story nearly lost to time. Among faded records ...

Twisted Tales takes us through scenes of familiar human conditions. From complete inebriation through a marriage without love via a gambling addiction ruining lives past the sometimes mean streets of Hamburg then onto to the sunshine of Thailand.

I can’t see very well, but I can hear that we are much closer to the railroad tracks and are close to a train as well. I see someone come close to my horse and cut the rope holding me across the saddle. I fall off and they all think it’s pretty funny. I struggle to my feet and looking around I calculate how many I can kick before they get me and decide it’s worth the try. I kind of pretend to stagger toward Hank and throw as hard a kick into his groin as I can muster then do the same to the guy next to him. Hank goes down like he was hit in the head. I see a muzzle flash from near him...

Jhilli has come to New York for a few months from Kolkata for training at the School of Social Sciences, staying with her childhood friend Shipra in Queens. Through Jhilli’s eyes, we see the wonders of New York, meet their Bengali friends, and experience their friendships and romances with native New Yorkers Gloria, Joshua, and Benjamin.

Set against the vast landscapes of the American West, Crossing the Divide is a powerful story of transformation and triumph over adversity. Scott's journey serves as a reminder that sometimes, the greatest divide we face is the one within ourselves.

In 1976 Erica Bradley lives on the Greek island of Naxos where she has spent the last twenty-five years painting landscapes. It is a solitary life that is now interrupted by the arrival of a young French documentary filmmaker who wants to capture her life story. But it isn’t the marriage to Charles Lambert, the famous novelist, he wants to film. Paul Monet wants to reveal the real Erica Bradley both to herself and the world. And his film will uncover secrets from her past that she thought she had successfully buried long ago.