Novedades

Since birth, my life has been a living hell. My parents were taken from me by foolish aristocrats they had offended, executed without any valid reason. Left to fend for ourselves, my relatives abandoned me and cast me aside. Fearing for their own lives, they left my sister and me to starve and wander the streets alone. No, this is a fate worse than hell itself! I witnessed the agonizing death of my sister due to starvation. Her lips were parched, her feet bloody, her nails broken, and her fingers filled with cuts. She struggled in my grasp, but after a few moments, her struggle ceased. In ...

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.

Since birth, my life has been a living hell. My parents were taken from me by foolish aristocrats they had offended, executed without any valid reason. Left to fend for ourselves, my relatives abandoned me and cast me aside. Fearing for their own lives, they left my sister and me to starve and wander the streets alone. No, this is a fate worse than hell itself! I witnessed the agonizing death of my sister due to starvation. Her lips were parched, her feet bloody, her nails broken, and her fingers filled with cuts. She struggled in my grasp, but after a few moments, her struggle ceased. In ...

When my evil stepfather sold me into slavery, I thought my life was over. Sent to work in the kitchens at Darkstone Academy for the Magical Arts, an isolated reform school filled with dangerous young mages, I quickly learned that survival meant embracing the darkness. Danger shadowed my every step—until I found myself unexpectedly soul-bonded to four powerful men.

Here is another wonderful story by writer Helena Puumala, one of her warm, emotional “at the Lake” stories. It is a sequel to “Love at the Lake”, which involved the consequences of marital infidelity, real and imagined, within the relationships of two young couples.What happens next? Can love be recovered after thoughtless betrayal? Perhaps, but only with a little help from a mysterious dark haired woman, in this modern-day spin of a fairy tale for adults.This is a short story, of about 9000 words, suitable to be read in about 45 minutes to an hour, by a typical reader.

Saffron finally has the one thing he's always wanted: a chance to attend school. To be able to do so alongside Prince Cylvan, even while glamoured as a high fey and pretending not to know one another, Saffron is eager to finally experience the education he's always dreamed of. But the expectations of being a perfect fey lord are suffocating enough, and are only made more difficult as the unfettered rowan magic in his body runs wild.

You ever wonder how things really work in life. I never did, but the events of my life have led me without intending to, find out. As a child, I had dyslexia and all I ever wanted to do was write. After trying every possible method of overcoming it known to teachers and other professionals, I unintentionally stumbled upon the unconventional. My journey led me to Taoism and into a world that perhaps many know about but very few really understand or have had the opportunity to experience firsthand. In the beginning, the process was as uncertain as it was unexpected. Life has a way of taking ...

La vida de Agatha está teñida de magia; no por eso, todo en su vida es mágico. Dueña de un don especial y perseguida por pesadillas que la atormentan desde pequeña, ella ve y siente cosas que la mayoría de los mortales desearía no tener que experimentar. Con un pasado que no le fue sencillo sobrellevar, se ha instalado en Miami para intentar rehacer su futuro y lo ha logrado. Allí formó una familia a la que no la une la sangre pero sí la magia, y abrió su tienda “Mystical”, en la cual ha encontrado su lugar seguro dentro de un universo demasiado inmenso y extraño que no ...

Gabby, Talia, and Ozzie Gunn, heirs to a media empire, are in trouble. After several bad investments and one major scandal, their father is now trying to restore their family’s good name with a senatorial run. Even worse? He’s demanding they move to California to join the campaign or risk being cut off.

În zorii lumii, spun legendele mayașe din care se inspiră Asturias, zeii au eșuat de mai multe ori în eforturile de a crea omul, până când au descoperit substanța potrivită pentru a forma creatura definitivă: porumbul. Romanul aduce laolaltă plămădirea omului de porumb cu denunțarea incisivă a efectelor devastatoare pe care le-a avut capitalismul asupra obiceiurilor și credințelor ancestrale ale populațiilor rurale. Printre sunete, simboluri și metafore, pendulând necontenit între real și oniric, povestea duce, în cele din urmă, la deznădejde, depersonalizare și dezumanizare.

Sam, a lonely, 16-year-old boy, dies in a mysterious lab explosion and is reincarnated into the magical realm of Veilnara as Sammy the Hero. Gifted with limitless magical aptitude and marked by a sigil called the Fracture, Sammy learns he’s not the first of his kind—he’s the sixth reincarnation in a loop orchestrated by Auria, a self-made goddess. Veilnara, a crumbling world of twisted magic and fractured time, is held together by glyphs and divine lies. As Sammy unravels the mystery behind his past lives and the other Sigil-bearers, he discovers he was crafted—not chosen.

On the eve of Genie’s thirtieth birthday, her grandmother gives her an unexpected gift. For women in their bloodline, they can grant another family member’s wish at midnight. Genie laughs it off, and, after an evening fending off invasive questions about her nonexistent love life, returns home to her empty house and her golden retriever, Rory. As she hugs him and gets ready for bed, she wishes to herself that he were human—that would solve all her problems!

The normally secure peace of the village of Tregovenek is dramatically disturbed when Father Solomon Ogilvey, the elderly priest, disappears one April evening when doing his regular duty of locking up the church. The blood on the floor and other marks of violence in the building suggest that the priest has been involved in an altercation. But where is he? For almost twenty years he has made his home with his niece, Lisa, her husband Matt and their daughter Ella. In different ways, the disappearance of this highly introvert member of the family causes on opening up of hitherto hidden areas ...

Destiny Whip is a former child prodigy, world-renowned enigmatologist and very, very alone. A life filled with loss has made her a recluse, an existence she’s content to endure until a letter arrives inviting her to interview for the position of Scruffmore family historian. Not only does an internet search for the name yield almost nothing, it’s a role she never applied to in the first place!