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...

November, 1967, Iceland. Fourteen-year-old Marsi has a secret penpal – a boy who lives on the other side of the country – but she has been writing to him in her older sister's name. Now she is excited to meet him for the first time. But when the date arrives, Marsi is prevented from going, and during the night her sister Stína goes missing – her bloodstained anorak later found at the place where Marsibil and her penpal had agreed to meet. November, 1977. Stína's disappearance remains unsolved.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

Death is often the price to pay when dealing with drugs and war, but what about marriage? What would you do if the only thing standing between you and a casket was a complete stranger and a wedding ringThis is the predicament twenty two year old Autumn finds herself in after a tragic event shatters her world, leaving her bruised, broken, and inexplicably married. Struggling to escape a situation she never asked for, all Autumn wants is to run back into the arms of the man she truly loves. But her new husband, Khaotic stands in her way. Autumn is at a crossroad torn between the man she loves...

In alcune province si trovano case la cui vista ispira una malinconia simile a quella dei chiostri più tetri, delle lande più desolate, delle rovine più tristi: in queste case vi sono forse qualche volta e il silenzio del chiostro, e l'aridità delle lande, e le rovine. Vita e movimento vi sono così tranquilli che un forestiero le riterrebbe inabitate, se d'un tratto non incontrasse lo sguardo smorto e freddo di una persona immobile, la cui figura, mezzo monastica, sporge da parapetto della finestra al rumore di un passo insolito.

Best friends Duncan and Ray run a successful bookie business in Phoenix. Outgrowing the life they began in college, the late twenty-something pair set out on the road with a plan to never return. Their trip takes them cross-country with eventful stops in Las Vegas, Omaha, and Niagara Falls. Along their journey they meet several colorful characters and even agree to bring a pretty young girl named Ruby along with them for the ride. Landing in Boston to run an errand for an old friend, the travelers begin to lay roots in an attempt to forge for themselves the life they’d always hoped for. ...

Beginning in 1955 in Lewes on the Delaware Bay, Disconnected and Drifting is a novel duo prelude to The Willow Chronicle. In Part 1, Carl Meyers, a former Marine and the Lewes Police Chief, is living a life disconnected from significant others and must deal with the horrific murders of two boys, but Part 1 is less about “who done it” than it is about exploring life in a town affected by fallout from World War II and from the Civil War, a town where the racist beliefs of the Confederacy endure in the practice of segregation. In Part 2, Meyers, disillusioned with police work and driven by...

Sylvester's got a bit of a thing for pain. In the silliest of ways, he enjoys it. He likes splinters and stubbed toes, pizza burns and ice cream headaches. He’s dating the perfect girl in Felicia, a sadistic siren who likes to sharpen doorknobs and electrify jukeboxes. But when Felicia goes to jail, Sylvester can’t help but run into Natalie, a colossal klutz who topples into everything. The kinda girl who twists her ankle on the toilet and gets injured by plastic reindeer. It's the start of something fun, until Felicia gets out of prison. If you enjoy a quirky and funny bit of literary ...

PRETTY FORGETFUL THAT'S YOU, PRETENDING NOT TO REMEMBER IS WHAT YOU DO