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Isabel la Católica, la joven cautiva que convirtió cada obstáculo en un aprendizaje y desafió a un reino para forjar su propia leyendaCuando a Isabel la llevan por la fuerza al Alcázar de Segovia, con tan solo once años, lo que debia ser una custodia se convierte en un encierro politico. Castilla es un campo de batalla entre nobles sin escrupulos, un rey debil y un heredero, Alfonso, liderando a los rebeldes. Pero, en medio de ese caos, en silencio empieza a forjarse la inesperada figura de una joven que jamas aceptara ser peon de nadie.Mientras los poderosos deciden el destino del reino sin imaginar que una mujer pueda disputarselo, Isabel aprende a escuchar, a resistir y a anticiparse. Cada humillacion se convierte en una leccion. Cada intriga, en un desafio. Cada intento de controlarla, en un recordatorio de que solo sobrevivira si toma su vida entre sus propias manos.En Aragon, Fernando emerge como el principe audaz dispuesto a jugarse el todo por el todo. Su alianza con Isabel estrategica, arriesgada, explosiva unira a dos jovenes destinados a cambiar la historia.Con una documentacion rigurosa y un pulso narrativo arrollador, La prisionera del trono narra el ascenso imparable de Isabel: la niña apartada, la infanta vigilada, la heredera de Castilla que desafio los designios de un mundo gobernado por hombres para convertirse en la mujer mas poderosa de su tiempo.Aqui empieza la leyenda de Isabel la Catolica.

Fiel a su manera, el poeta alterna el fondo reflexivo, la intención moral, la familiaridad con la tradición y su proyección en el presente.Sexta entrega de la obra poética de Jacobo Cortines, De un adiospermanente enlaza con la anterior, Dias y trabajos, en cuanto que tras el Portico, representado por el poema "Eco", que marca el tono general del libro, este se inicia con la seccion "Ofrenda" como culminacion de los poemas dedicados a la amada fallecida. En la siguiente, "Presencias", el amor se renueva como la luz que rige el universo. La manifestacion de la Naturaleza, una de las constantes en la obra de Cortines, tiene su espacio en "Canciones de la tierra". Frente a ella, con su culturalismo de tono intimo, "Colores y notas" reune vivencias nacidas de las artes plasticas. El libro se cierra con un Epilogo, "De los adioses", en el que destaca una emotiva meditacion existencial, acompañada de poemas breves que le sirven de contexto.

Un thriller emocional, elegante y feroz sobre los silencios familiares, las heridas físicas y morales, y una desaparición de obras de arte que expone la verdad más incómoda: a veces el peor enemigo esta dentro de casa.Elvira lo tiene todo bajo control: una galeria de arte en plena expansion, una carrera impecable y una independencia que ha defendido a golpe de renuncias. Pero una sola llamada lo cambia todo. Su padre su pilar, su maestro, el unico hombre al que ha dejado acercarse de verdad tiene un cancer avanzado. Y la vida que habia construido empieza a tambalearse.Entre tratamientos, silencios y viejas heridas familiares, Elvira regresa a la masia de Viladrau, donde la verdad siempre ha sido un lujo o un peligro. Alli resuenan los secretos que marcaron su adolescencia: la frialdad de una madre atrapada en un matrimonio que la apago y un pasado que nadie se atreve a nombrar.Mientras su mundo se desmorona, un hombre del que no sabe nada esta a punto de cruzarse en su camino. Santi Contreras, brillante restaurador venido a menos, recibe una propuesta tan tentadora como ilegal: robar una coleccion de arte de incalculable valor. Dos vidas que el arte unio una vez sin que ellos lo supieran. Un legado familiar que late bajo la piel. Y un secreto capaz de destruirlo todo.Situada en el apasionante mundo del arte, El ruido bajo la piel es la historia de la decadencia de una familia asediada por secretos, envidias y deudas del corazon que dificilmente encuentran moneda de cambio.Un thriller intimo, elegante y brutal.

Una novela de Project Itoh, una de las voces más originales de la ciencia ficción japonesa.En un futuro distópico, la humanidad ha alcanzado una utopía gracias a la nanotecnología médica y a una ética de bienestar social y consideracion mutua. Sin embargo, esta aparente perfeccion esconde un control totalitario. La historia sigue a Tuan Kirie, una agente de la Organizacion Mundial de la Salud, que investiga una serie de suicidios en masa que desafian el sistema.La trama alterna entre el presente y el pasado de Tuan, revelando su adolescencia problematica y su amistad con Miach Mihie, una chica carismatica que se opone al regimen. Miach convence a Tuan y a otra amiga, Cian, para intentar suicidarse como acto de rebelion. Aunque Tuan sobrevive, Miach muere, dejando una profunda marca en su vida.A medida que Tuan investiga, descubre que Miach esta viva y que ha estado orquestando los suicidios en masa como parte de un plan para liberar a la humanidad del control opresivo del sistema. Miach cree que la verdadera libertad solo puede alcanzarse destruyendo la utopia impuesta. Finalmente, Tuan se enfrenta a un dilema moral: seguir las ordenes de sus superiores o unirse a Miach en su lucha contra el sistema. La historia culmina en un enfrentamiento que pone a prueba las creencias y lealtades de Tuan, cuestionando si la utopia vale el precio de la libertad individual.La novela explora temas como la libertad, el control y la naturaleza de la felicidad en una sociedad aparentemente perfecta.

La historia de vampiros más spicy, por la autora que ha vendido más de 2.000.000 ejemplares.Mina solo quería escapar del control de su padre. Mitad humana, mitad vampira, ha vivido eternamente dividida entre dos mundos, sin disfrutar plenamente de los placeres de ninguno, hasta que su padre decidio usarla como pieza clave en su ultima estratagema politica, entregandola al oscuro, peligroso y atractivo Malachi Zion.Malachi no es un vampiro con el que se pueda jugar. Gobierna con mano de hierro y tiene una reputacion que lo precede por sus oscuros pecados. Pero cuanto mas tiempo pasa Mina con el, mas se da cuenta de que no es el monstruo que imaginaba. A medida que el miedo se transforma en deseo, luego en confianza, y finalmente en algo mas, Malachi le muestra a Mina un mundo que nunca imagino que podria ser suyo, incluido el amor de los dos amigos y compañeros mas cercanos de Malachi.Ahora, rodeada de los tres hombres y siendo el centro de su mundo, Mina tendra la fuerza para enfrentarse a su padre y reclamar la vida (y la corona) que por derecho le pertenecen.Arrodillaos ante vuestra reina.Advertencia: incluye contenido sensible.

El presente volumen es el resultado de varios años de trabajo de la traductora, Cristina Gómez-Baggethun, y reúne cuatro dramas de Henrik Ibsen que complementan los ocho publicados en el primer volumen.En su epoca, sus obras fueron consideradas escandalosas por una sociedad dominada por los valores victorianos, al cuestionar el modelo preponderante de familia y de sociedad. No han perdido vigencia y es uno de los autores no contemporaneos mas representados en la actualidad. Ibsen influyo en otros autores de su tiempo como en los entonces jovenes Strindberg y Chejov.

Edna OBriens wonderful, wild and moving novel shocked the nation on its publication in 1960. Adapted for the stage by the author, The Country Girls, the play, is a highly theatrical and free-flowing telling of this classic coming of age story.This new edition of The Country Girls was published to coincide with its revival at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2019.

In the dark alleys of human desperation, one truth remains: every soul has a price. Where Devils Stand is a chilling horror anthology that explores the twisted and terrifying consequences of encountering devils, whether metaphorical or real.Where Devils Stand invites readers into an anthology of gripping tales that explore the multifaceted nature of evil, the choices that define us, and the moments when we stand at the crossroads where devils appear.

A queer, Black horror-thriller about a woman returning to the upstate New York town in which she grew up in order to uncover the terrifying truth about her mother and a set of terrifying paintings. From the author of the TikTok sensation Cinderella is Dead.Perfect for fans of Grady Hendrix and Riley Sagar.Jasmine Payton is glad that her mother is dead.Not that Antonia was much of a mother to begin with. Forced to endure alcohol-fueled rages her entire childhood, Jasmine escaped Antonias abuse as a teenager and never looked back. Now, shes an investigative journalist, is a mom herself, and has firmly put her past behind her when she gets the call to make arrangements for her deceased mother. Her hopes to quickly bury her and skip town are dashed when the police wont release her body, as Antonia is a suspect in a recent missing persons case.With nothing to do but wait for the detectives to work the case, Jasmine starts cleaning out Antonias belongings when she discovers several unsettling items: gruesome paintings that depict all manner of torture and a series of deranged letters in which Antonia admits to brutalizing inmates while she was the warden at the local prison.Trusting her journalistic instincts, Jasmine tracks down information about the now-abandoned prison, convinced that its still harboring deadly secrets tied to her mothers past. As she explores the bowels of the penitentiary, she uncovers the truth behind Antonias obsession with one inmate and how they connect to her disturbed paintings.

By the Bram Stoker Award Winning author of the Fisherman, this masterful and haunting blend of horror and fantasy sees a young Conan visit the cursed village where the ultimate crime took place. Where will this journey into the darkness take the young barbarian?On the day he was born, warriors attacked Conans village in Cimmeria, kidnapping children before fleeing. The villagers pursued the raiders and exterminated them to a man. But they were too late. The children were already dead.Fourteen years later, Conan and his cousin, Ruardih visit the site of the massacre, finding strange artefacts and feeling a dreadful unease as they near the cursed village. Upon their arrival, they are greeted by the corpses of the damned.Despite the portents, Conan and Ruaridh continue exploring the village. Met with bizarre and arcane creatures, they will stumble upon darknesses that should not have been revisited. What is this strange place? Who were the mysterious raiders who attacked the village? And why did they sacrifice innocent children? The answers lie deeper in the mountains, and Conan will chase them into the dark, whatever the cost.

A sweeping novel tracing the fate of a family divided by migration, memory, and the violent reshaping of their homelandZacharias is a fisherman in a coastal village in southern Cameroon. His communityshaped for generations by the rivers rhythms and the meeting of forest and oceanis upended by the arrival of logging companies, industrial trawlers, and predatory economic interests that exploit both land and people. Violence and irreversible change tear apart Zachariass family. Decades later, his grandson Zack has fled Douala for Pariss 18th arrondissement. Isolated and adrift, Zack is haunted by a grandfather he never knew and a country whose wounds he carries in his body. Sweeping and emotionally resonant, The Fishermans Dream braids together the destinies of grandfather and grandson, each carrying the weight of a world transformed by globalization, displacement, and the delicate inheritance of love. A work of rare lyricism and political force exploring the rupture of traditional worlds, and a moving multi-generational family story.

Kate London, the new rising star of crime fiction, is the real thing Tony Parsons, bestselling author of Man and BoyA family shattered. A community divided.Detective Constable Ian Wheedon has been running away from himself since he was a boy. He worked in Merseyside covering serious crime, but now lives in a remote police house working as a local cop. His brother, Stephen, is on the front lines of the miners strike in Stoke. The force is already stretched to breaking point when Ian is called in to investigate the brutal murder of their childhood friend. The case brings Ian face-to-face with his past, his family, and with the life he left behind. As tensions erupt and tempers fray, the community fractures. But when Stephens son Christopher goes missing, it becomes a race against time to solve the case. Ian and his family must fight for the answers they need and the future they want, before its too late.

With gorgeous sprayed edges in the first edition In this #1-Spiegel-bestselling seasonal romcom fake dating was the plancatching real feelings wasnt.Becca and Nils are best friends who end up in bed together every New Years Eve. On the 10th anniversary of their annual one-night stand, kindergarten teacher Becca scrapes together her savings, planning to finally confess her love to Nils at a romantic Alpine chalet. But things dont go as planned. When Nils shows up with his new fiancee, Becca asks Raphael, the obnoxiously snooty uncle of one of her students, to play the role of her fake boyfriend. The two had always clashed but, when sparks fly, the fire between them is anything but fakeEnglish Edition by ForeverGerman edition also available

A haunting, visionary novel that entwines the personal with the global in a tale of dreams, survival, and transformationEva, a neurologist specializing in sleep, retreats to the isolated marshlands of the Camargue with her eight-year-old daughter Lucie, to protect them both from a violent man and a world that appears to be unraveling. At first their retreat appears idyllic. Then, one night, Lucie wakes in tears after a disturbing dream. At the same time, children all over the world cry out in their sleepa phenomenon that quickly ripples into waking life, heralding inexplicable calamities, harbingers of ancient plagues. Between the whispering reeds and the ever-watchful horizon, Eva faces the narrow frontier between waking and dreaming. Martinez blends myth and psychological insight to explore how collective dreams might be messages from a beleaguered planet. Structurally bold and emotionally potent, the novel addresses themes of motherhood, violence, ecological collapse, and the universal search for meaning in chaos.

From the author of Homeland, an emotionally gripping novel that blends a real-life event with an intimate portrayal of its aftermathInternational bestselling author Aramburu turns from the broad canvas of history to the private shadows of a Basque family shaken by unspeakable tragedy in this compact, intimate novel about trauma and it wake. Based on a real-life school explosion near Bilbao that killed fifty children in 1980, The Child follows one familyparents, grandparents, and the lost boy of the novels titleacross the long, painful arc of grief. Aramburus gift lays in his ability to portray ordinary people with extraordinary humanity: small gestures, fleeting thoughts, contradictory impulses, the quiet heroism of resilience. The grandfather who refuses to believe the boy is gone; the parents determined to "be strong"; the town that both remembers and forgetseach is rendered with exacting truth and tenderness, in unadorned, piercing prose.

A genre-defying feminist gothic novel blending Indonesian folklore, Islamic mysticism, horror, and political reckoningInternational literary sensation Intan Paramaditha returns with her most ambitious and haunting work to date. The novel opens with a devastating act: the youngest of three sisters becomes a suicide bomber. In the aftermath, her surviving siblings are forced to confront the violent, buried truths of their family history. Their search leads them to long-concealed secrets, and to the prophecies of their grandmother, whose shadowy wisdom has shaped their fates. Set across Indonesia, the United States, and Australia, the novel explores class divides, sisterhood, migration, shame, abandonment, and the politics of careall through a ghostly, atmospheric lens that draws on Asian folktales and occult traditions.With its blend of political urgency, mythic resonance, and psychological depth, Night of a Thousand Hells is a singular contribution to global feminist literature.

A novel about cinema, history, and what it means to create when freedom is contingentIn Eisen, Guzel Yakhina turns her formidable historical imagination to the life of Sergei Eisenstein, the revolutionary filmmaker who reshaped cinemaand was nearly crushed by the system he helped glorify. From the triumph of Battleship Potemkin to the torment of censorship, exile, and artistic compromise under Stalin, Yakhina traces Eisensteins life as a drama of creation under pressure. Rather than a conventional biography, Eisen is a literary portrait, rendered in vivid, episodic scenes that mirror Eisensteins own theory of montage. Moscow, Berlin, Paris, and Mexico flicker past as art, politics, sexuality, and power collide. Yakhina explores the cost of genius in an authoritarian world, the body as both instrument and battleground, and the impossible demand placed on artists to serve ideology without losing themselves.

A resonant coming-of-age novel, and a story of intergenerational struggle and societal changeIro left his village to continue his studies in Abidjan. With his friends, Thierry, Malick, and Yeo, they form a happy, resourceful group, doing odd jobs around the neighbourhood. Of all of them, Iro is the most determined and ambitious. But when his father dies everything is turned upside down, as he realises how little he knew about his life, his dreams, and his losses. Iros certainties collapse, and new, more complex truths emerge that will allow Iro and his friends to chart their path and find reconciliation and peace for themselves and their families. A novel that questions the heritage of fathers, the ambition of sons, the divide between the villages and their laws and the freedoms and loneliness of the cities, Falles debut is the story of a young man who rises, emancipates himself, and finds his truth.

15 brand-new short stories inspired by and in honour of legendary writer Ursula K. Le Guin. Featuring Ann Leckie, Karen Joy Fowler, Charlie Jane Anders, Kelly Link, Ai Jiang and many others.Revolution in the Heart is a collection of 15 brand new stories by a group of celebrated authors, all inspired by one of the iconic figures in all of science fiction and fantasy: the legendary and award-winning Ursula K. Le Guin.From the appearance of her first work of short fiction in 1962 to the publication of the last in 2016, Ursula K. Le Guin was a master storyteller, winning innumerable awards, and achieving both commercial and literary success. She created the beloved stories of Earthsea alongside the urgent and essential stories of the Hain, pushing forward the form and concepts of science fiction and fantasy - reshaping them into forward-thinking genres.This collection honours her legacy with stories from authors she inspired:Ann Leckie Molly Gloss Kelly Link Charlie Jane Anders Sarah Pinsker Chana Porter Ai Jiang Alaya Dawn Johnson S. Qiouyi Lu E. Lily Yu Vandana Singh Aliya Whiteley Premee Mohamed Darice Little Badger Karen Joy Fowler

A darkly funny revenge drama, examining the scars of the transatlantic slave tradeLisbon, 1954. In the Military History Archives, a mysterious figure steals the Last Will and Testament of Garoto Bárbaro de Castroa list of thirteen bequests, and a record of Garotos remarkable life story. It is also a window onto many other lives connected to his, including that of the archival thiefhis descendent, Nuno Barbaro de Castro.After stealing Garotos Last Will and Testament, Nunoartifact hunter, grave-robber, conman, fake veterinarian, and agent of Angolan Independencesets off to hunt the listed artefacts, and unintentionally begins to collect the distant relatives of those mentioned in the Will, even when they dont want to be collected...A Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Count of Monte Cristo, The Wreckers is a centuries-spanning tour de force that moves between Angola, Cuba, and Louisianas Angola prison to examine the scars of the transatlantic slave trade, and the consequences of prolonged civil war.