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A VECES, ENCONTRAR EL AMOR ES COSA DE VIDA O MUERTE.Una novela romántica divertida, apasionante y francamente trepidante en la que una joven se ve envuelta en una serie de asesinatos durante un evento de citas rapidas y debe recurrir a su enciclopedico conocimiento del genero de terror para convertirse en la ultima superviviente de la vida real.Cuando la entusiasta del cine de terror Jamie Prescott acude a un evento de citas rapidas, sabe que esperar: mediocridad y echarse unas risas. Lo que jamas hubiera previsto es que a uno de sus acompañantes le cortaran el cuello durante un apagon. Ni que, cuando volvieran las luces, hubiera mas cadaveres en el suelo y las puertas estuvieran cerradas con llave.Pertrechados con armas improvisadas y el amplio conocimiento de Jamie sobre lo que NO se debe hacer en una pelicula de terror, el grupo de supervivientes intenta encontrar una salida mientras el asesino los acecha. Sin embargo, a medida que avanza la noche y Jamie se encuentra cara a mascara con el criminal, comienza a sospechar que este esta cometiendo los asesinatos para cortejar a una de las participantes y convertirla en una su chica final en la vida real.Nada acelera el amor tanto como el peligro y, a pesar de las consecuencias potencialmente mortales, Jamie se ve envuelta en un triangulo amoroso con dos de los otros supervivientes. ¿Conseguira sobrevivir al derramamiento de sangre para disfrutar de su felices para siempre? ¿O lograra encontrar antes este psicopata su media naranja a golpe de machete?Otras autoras han dicho sobre Como matar a un chico en diez citas:Fresca, divertida y tan adictiva que deberia estar prohibida. ¡No podia parar de leer!. Hannah Grace, autora de Romper el hielo Imparable y cinematografica, esta novela de Shailee Thompson me mantuvo en vilo hasta el final. Alicia Thompson, autora de Love in the Time of Serial Killers Es la mezcla de romcom y slasher que no sabia que necesitaba. L. M. Chilton, autora de Dont Swipe Right

Sé más rápido que el mismísimo diablo.Un romance oscuro ambientado en un club de moteros, con una historia de amor eléctrica y apasionada y un delicioso toque de suspense.Gabriel Wolfe es el presidente del club de moteros Los Perros del Infierno, y se le considera todo un angel caido. Su vida ha estado impregnada de oscuridad desde el dia en que nacio. Solo un puñado de personas le importan y para el las mujeres son solo un medio para un fin...Pero todo cambia cuando conoce a Brinley Rose Beaumont. Con su pelo negro y sus ojos llameantes, ella aviva en el un fuego que no sabia que existia. El mundo de Wolfe, meticulosamente controlado, comienza a desmoronarse.Ahora, Brinley es todo lo que ve.Y no se detendra ante nada para hacerla suya.Tropes: - Moteros - Proximidad forzosa - Tocala y te mato - Protagonista de moralidad gris - Chica buena x Chico malo - Romance inflamableLos lectores opinan:El spice de esta novela es de primera categoria.El hombre mas sexy que he leido nunca en una novela.Una tension magnifica, y una quimica entre ellos que se sale de lo normal.

Él aparece por arte de magia, ella decide jugar a hacerse la mala… ¿Qué puede salir mal?En la nueva comedia romántica de Raquel Antúnez van a saltar chispas.Estás en tu casa tranquilamente, dispuesta

Las abuelas nunca hablaron de la guerra, eso era cosa de hombres. Pero la vivieron igual. Estamos en un pueblo. La expresión " tocan a muerto " se usa para nombrar las campanadas que anuncian la muerte de una persona: dos si es un hombre, tres si se trata de una mujer. Laura Vivar toma la expresion para dar titulo a su novela, una obra que recrea la voz de las mujeres madres, primas, tias, vecinas: todas desde la ruina de la posguerra y que, magistralmente, va enhebrando instantaneas familiares que tienen en comun la carestia, la pobreza, la violencia, el luto riguroso, la dureza de la vida cotidiana, la injusticia, la emigracion de las jovenes a las grandes ciudades, el silencio.Con un castellano precioso, lleno de hallazgos verbales y pleno de historias, Tocan a muerto propone con imaginacion y crudeza algunas posibles respuestas a la pregunta sobre que es lo que sabriamos de nuestros pueblos si el dolor de la guerra civil española no hubiera cortado sus formas de vida y la transmision de su memoria.

No quería que la llamaran por un nombre masculino, ni siquiera mientras gobernó Roma como Antoninus. Ella era sacerdotisa de Elāhagabāl en un imperio que nunca tuvo palabras para nombrarla. Tiempo de

Un primer amor roto. Un reencuentro imposible. Una atracción tan intensa que puede salvarlos… o destruirlos para siempre.Diez años atrás, Camelia y Dugan lo fueron todo el uno para el otro: mejores a

Un grupo de psicoanalistas decide fundar una asociación y con ella, un protocolo de atención a los pacientes basado en el maltrato: el "verdugueo". Inspirado en profundas razones teóricas, lecturas y discusiones, el verdugueo asume diferentes modos. Cada analista desarrolla el suyo propio y en la asociacion compiten por ver quien verduguea mas o mejor a sus pacientes. Las formas del maltrato ascienden en numero, calidad e inventiva. A estos modos del maltrato esta dedicada la novela, y al agasajo en el que analistas y pacientes, perversos y verdugueados, se encuentran en una casa del country Los Cuatreros, propiedad del lider de la asociacion. Lo que sucede en ese agasajo es tambien materia novelistica. Contada con gran capacidad narrativa, aguda y con mucho ritmo, La Escuela Neolacanianade Buenos Aires muestra que Ricardo Strafacce, el gran biografo de Osvaldo Lamborghini (poeta, novelista y funambulesco practicante del psicoanalisis vernaculo), sigue siendo una maquina fabulosa de transfiguracion de la escritura y de la mas inagotable tradicion contemporanea de la literatura argentina.

The hairs are always buried much deeper than you think.. Where the natural collides with the supernatural, these vivid stories situate us at the permeable border between fantastical and mundane. A teenage swimmer tries to remove an ingrown hair that takes on a life of its own. A town grapples with an uncontrollable growth of moss. A horror soundtrack haunts its composer. Testing the boundary between fantasy and reality, Oliver stretches the imagination to its limits in a collection which places the physical body, human connection and the truth at its centre. These tales navigate guilt, grief and explore the nature of victimhood. Olivers honest voice penetrates human truths while ghosting narratives with the uncanny. Journey to the outer limits of bodily awareness as characters dive deep to confront their truth.

Stories traversing identity, sexuality, and human connection across the industrial towns and satellite villages of Northern England. Opening with the Commonwealth Prize-winning "Lech, Prince, and the Nice Things," the collection weaves through teenage sexual awakening, family secrets, and post-pandemic isolation. Characters grapple with class divisions, discrimination, and desires they barely understand themselves. Unflinching and deeply human, these stories capture pivotal moments when lives quietly but irrevocably change course.

In these two novellas and three short stories for adult readers, Hans Christian Andersen displays the imagination and descriptive brilliance familiar from his fairy tales, but turns his eye to subtler social themes: class mobility in a changing Europe; the unfairness with which talents and opportunities are meted out in this world; the struggle between natures claims on humanity and civilizations.The title novella, The Ice Virgin, unites all these ideas in a piece of beautifully structured storytelling considered by some to be Andersens masterpiece. Rudy is orphaned young, rescued as an infant from a glacial crevasse where his mother fell and died. He lives, but the stunning yet unforgiving mountain landscape of Switzerland may yet claim him. His love for the rich millers daughter Babette brings out all his bravery and ingenuity - but also his stubbornness and resistance to change. In a masterfully ambivalent climax Andersen makes us wonder what happiness and fulfilment truly mean.Elsewhere in the collection Andersen turns his gaze to the hostile shores and wooded heights of Denmarks Jutland, where in his time submissive poverty was giving way to feverish social transformation. We meet a shipwrecked youngster struggling to fit into his adopted community, a couple whose wise humility echoes down the wealthy generations that follow with comically unexpected effects, and a steadfast friend whose saintly patience is ill rewarded by the object of her loyalty. Full of irony, enchanting imagery and bravura prose, these stories showcase Andersens perceptiveness, empathy, and deep engagement with the world around him.

Old lies, new threats. The chickens have come home to roost.December in London, and Maximilian Cortado, the world famous violinist, has disappeared, the only clue being the unexpected delivery to his townhouse of a basket containing a live hen.When it emerges that a number of other notable members of society have been receiving similarly unexplained fowl, the deliveries begin to appear more sinister.Sherlock Holmes, however, seems more intrigued by a trivial incident in Sussex, where someone has been damaging Christmas trees intended for a local stately home. So when he is asked by the wife of a famous artist to investigate a robbery carried out twenty-three years before, Mrs Hudson sees an opportunity to assist.At the centre of that mystery is the Christmas Canary, a solid gold decoration of mesmerising beauty, hand-crafted for the fifth Lord Empingham. For years it had graced the top of the Christmas tree at Frawling Hall - until its mystifying disappearance broke the seventh Lords heart. Fowl deeds are afoot, but can Mrs Hudson restore the canary to its perch before its too late?

A bloodstained room, a missing woman, a passionate affair gone wrong.September in London, and the city basks in a glorious Indian summer. Sherlock Holmes has more work than he can handle, and when the Home Office asks him to sniff out a plot by Russian assassins on radical politician George Dashing, Holmes and Watson find themselves distracted by more pressing cases.Meanwhile, there is scandal at the home of Dashings great political rival, Sir Henry Catanache. When Sir Henrys housemaid goes missing, leaving only a pool of blood behind, his son is the prime suspect. Can Sherlock discover the truth? Or will the Catanache family be rescued by Laurence Martin, a detective newly arrived in London who is dazzling society with some remarkable triumphs?

Seaside is a small coastal town, once known for its local amusement park, Wonderland - now more famous as the site of a string of murders twenty-five years ago by a serial killer dubbed The Carnival Killer.Now, Wonderland is about to reopen, revitalizing the dying town. But when the Carnival Killer recants his confession about killing a high school girl called Lorelei, and the dead body of a young woman washes ashore, the truth about what happened to Lorelei twenty-five years ago - and what is happening now - threatens the very fabric of Seaside itself.--Readers love Jennifer Hillier...CAPTIVATING! Right from the very beginning I was hookedShe literally blew my heart and mind away at the same time5 billion stars! I loved it so muchHad me reeling several hours after finishing itExactly the type of thriller that I LOVE...I cant tell you enough that you cant miss this one

When Nico receives a phone call late at night, he tries to ignore it. A phone call at that time could only mean trouble. Sure enough, its Perillo of the local carabinieri. A woman was found dead in her home, and the only person at the scene of the crime only speaks English. Nico reluctantly agrees to help Perillo with the case. Judging by the crime scene, Perillo and Nico determine foul play was likely, and they dont have to look long for suspects. Following the death of her husband, the late Signora Nora had taken on a number of lovers, her two daughters arent on the best terms with her, and theres a lot to be gained from the sale of her residence. Nico and Perillo have their hands full as they try to solve the murder and restore peace to the otherwise sleepy Gravigna.First published as The Road to Murder. Travel to the cyprus-lined roads of Tuscany in this new installment of acclaimed author Camilla Trinchieris warm, engaging, and deliciously unpredictable mystery series.

Ex-NYPD homicide detective Nico Doyle investigates the murder of a local bartender in the Tuscan countryside.On a late October Sunday morning in Gravigna, local maresciallo Perillo is having breakfast with ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle when he is called back to the station in Greve. Laura Benati, the young manager of Hotel Bella Vista, is worried-her bartender and good friend eighty-year-old Cesare Costanzi has been missing for three days.The next morning, Jimmy, co-owner of Bar AllAngolo, Gravignas local cafe, where Nico is a frequent patron, runs out of gas on his way back from Florence. When Nico meets him to help, Nicos dog, OneWag, reacts to the smell coming from Jimmys trunk. Inside Nico finds a body wrapped in plastic: Cesare Costanzi, stabbed several times in the chest.Why would anyone kill Cesare, and how did he end up in Jimmys car? Thats for Nico to find out, as Perillo once again turns to Nico for help with the investigation.First published as Murder on the Vine.

Another day dawns over the Houses of Parliament and Maxwell Murray, Chief of Staff, researcher and what sometimes feels like nanny to the hapless MP Eliot Oakcroft, has much to do. Invitations for Oakcroft to consider, party correspondence, and, here and there, some legitimate constituency business. All while keeping the honourable member for Middlebury-Mid out of trouble and the inevitable media spotlight.But today, theres something a little different. Miranda Cley is seeking Eliots help to free her mother from prison. After all, she cant have murdered Mirandas father, Charlie, if Miranda has just seen him alive and well. Max and his assistant Diana are on the case, wafting the scent of a possible career-making miscarriage of justice Eliots way. But as the mystery of Charlie Cleys disappearance unravels, it quickly becomes clear that investigating could jeopardise not just their careers but their very lives. Drawing on his own parliamentary history (with all due discretion, of course), David Weir brings us a witty new crime series set among the colourful power brokers of contemporary politics.

Malti Patel is absolutely fine. Concussed and bruised, maybe, but fine. Certainly fine enough to not need her daughters soon-to-be-ex-husband, Nathan Whitlock, playing nurse in her home while she recuperates. And yet her doctor insists on in-home supervision for seven days, and with her daughter, Kavya, studying in India, Nathan proves too much of a do-gooder to let Malti rehabilitate alone. They want nothing to do with one another. But over the course of the week, as Malti grapples with the shadows of her past and Nathan ponders the wreckage of his marriage, they learn that they are the two people who know Kavya best - and the ones who have hurt her so deeply that shes left them both entirely.Rich with emotional depth, Some People paints a nuanced portrait of love, forgiveness and our timeless quest for understanding and acceptance.

When Nazi forces invade Oslo, quiet librarian Liv Dahl becomes an unlikely resistance leader, risking everything to safeguard secrets and lives. As danger tightens around her, Liv must outwit Gestapo agents, protect hidden allies, and navigate a forbidden romance with a mysterious spy. But when betrayal strikes and Liv is deported to Ravensbruck concentration camp, survival becomes her only mission. An unforgettable heart-wrenching story of a woman who dares to resist, and the quiet heroism that changes the course of lives including her own.

Its summer in London, and things are quiet. But while Holmes and Watson chafe at their inactivity, a train, carrying a vital encoded communication, is entering a tunnel in an obscure region of the Balkans - never to be seen again.The case of the disappearing train is only the beginning of the nations difficulties. The missing message must be found and decoded, and a diplomats wife must be rescued from the clutches of a pernicious blackmailer.The nation is in danger, and if a diplomatic scandal of disastrous proportions is to be avoided, Sherlock Holmes brilliance may not be enough.

A dark mystery for Sherlock Holmes. and of course Mrs Hudson!A man is accidentally knocked down outside 221B Baker Street by a carriage. His dying words are he has seen a man rise from the grave. At the same time a visitor arrives with a mystery of unparalleled international importance. The Viscount Wrexham is missing, presumed dead, in strange circumstances. In the North, rumours stir of a dead man haunting the moors. Broomheath Hall is, apparently, beset by ghostly lights and spectres. What does it all mean? Can arcane knowledge bring people back from the dead? And what is the connection with the Cumberland town of Alston? The redoubtable Mrs Hudson - Sherlock Holmes housekeeper and the Great Detectives best kept secret - and her assistant Flotsam are once again thrown into dark adventure full of gripping twists and murderous intrigue. Together with Holmes and Dr. Watson they must race against the forces of darkness to uncover the truth behind the mysterious document known as the Lazarus Testament. As mystery after mystery is slowly uncovered, everyones future hangs in the balance. The puzzle must be solved. But not before a slice of Dundee cake...