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Historias de la cotidianidad. De costumbres que entrelazan hechos y moldean existencias y destinos. De cómo el desarrollo humano y personal se vincula al día a día; al quehacer pequeño a primera vista, pero enorme en su huella y sentido.De manera entretenida y ligera, estas paginas documentan realidades personales, culturales, ambientales y demograficas que involucran las tradiciones y la evolucion de la participacion politica y social como herramientas que pueden trascender, para mejor, la herencia cultural.La cultura se renueva constantemente por si misma, ya que esta en continuo movimiento. Cada uno de sus elementosarboles, animales, el mar y las personasdesempeña un rol esencial, tanto en el quehacer cotidiano como en las futuras generaciones.

Eric Chistiansennot his real namehas been looking for sanctuary for a long time. He finally thinks hes found a crime syndicate that might watch his back while he tries to disentangle himself from his highly lucrative, highly illegal job as a killer for hire, albeit a picky one. Hes ready to hang up his guns for some peace.Brady Carnegie came to this little slice of desert between Meth and Hell because he wanted to help bring crime down. Hes deeply disappointed to find that his new boss and others in the department are crooked. But Brady has stumbled onto the key to ending the corruption plaguing the stretch of desert hes coming to love, if he can stay alive long enough to use it.Brady finds unexpected allies in the same unlikely group thats sheltering Eric and starts to realize that the good guys may not wear badges, and the bad guys who do have enough to lose to put his new friends at risk too. Bradys always been a solid law and order man, but he finds himself shifting allegiances like the desert sands shift beneath his feet.As Eric grows more protective of the earnest deputy, it becomes clear that a true warrior never gets to hang up his guns, and redemption doesnt come without a price. Can a hidden nest of vigilantes bring justice to their barren land while the cop and the hitman find comfort in each others arms? Or is the cost of redemption only measured in blood?

A thrilling story of a sibling bond tested by religious and ideological conflict. The final novel in a trilogy from the iconic Assassins Creed universe.Dive into the Inquisition and witch hunts in Renaissance France with Assassins Creed!1609. The Inquisition is raging across Europe, massacring thousands of men and women on charges of witchcraft. Raised in the Landes region of France, Margaux and Ermeline, 16 and 17 years old, are initiated by their adoptive mother Catherine into the practices of healing. While her younger sister flourishes in this simple life, Ermeline dreams of something more, of settling in town, far from the forests of south-west France.This peaceful life comes to an end when Catherine, denounced for witchcraft by a patient, is taken to Bayonne with her eldest daughter by Pierre de Lancre, a master inquisitor and Templar in search of an ancient artefact. The two girls witness their mother being burned at the stake: Ermeline as a hostage of the Templars, Margaux watching from hiding. Distraught, Margaux is taken in by Nicodemus, an Assassin close to Catherine, who will train her in the Creed, while the anger of the French people ferments against the Inquisition.Separated, the two sisters must mourn their happy youth, but also decide which path to take and which destiny to join. Assassin or Templar? The path of blood, or the path of the heart?

Em um mundo devastado por pragas e tormentas, a chama verde de Eleazar brilha como última esperança de uma caravana de refugiados. Perseguidos pelos caçadores de Fanasrou, Isaia, um espadachim enfaixado, e Zirtacai, a jovem deslocadora de relampagos, lutam por sobrevivencia e identidade. Sob o olhar distante do divino Tifion, um legado perdido ressurge em batalhas brutais e sacrificios dolorosos. Quando o sangue mancha o campo carmesim, o destino de Astion pende entre a escurido e a luz. Uma saga epica começa aqui.

Una novela histórica de aliento épico que nos transporta a la cultura judía antigua.Durante mil años, un libro sagrado que recoge las historias populares de todo un pueblo ha pasado de mano en mano. Cuatro familias judias lo han custodiado en secreto, arriesgandolo todo para preservar sus palabras y los dibujos. Desde la Tarraco romana hasta la Barcelona de Jaume I, pasando por el asedio de Toledo por los sarracenos y la Cordoba andalusi. Nadie sabe como ha logrado sobrevivir y solo una mujer puede completar la ultima frase. Pero... ¿llegara a escribirla antes de que sea demasiado tarde?Una saga familiar judia extraordinaria: cuatro estirpes, mil años de historia.

María, profesora universitaria, mujer joven e independiente, emprende un viaje a Colombia tras la llamada de su amiga de la infancia, Carmen, que dedica su vida a acompañar a mujeres en contextos de prostitucion. A traves de ella conocera a Ava, una niña con una historia marcada por la violencia, el abandono y la vulnerabilidad. Movida por la ternura y la esperanza, decide adoptarla e inician una nueva vida en España. Sin embargo, las heridas de la infancia de Ava emergen con fuerza en la adolescencia, una etapa especialmente delicada en la que los depredadores sexuales acechan de manera mas intensa a jovenes vulnerables, lo que hara caer a Ava en las redes de un nuevo perfil de proxeneta: un explotador muy alejado del estereotipo clasico que se infiltra en la vida de las chicas cargado de falso cariño y promesas de futuro para utilizarlas sin compasion en un mercado insaciable.Con la fuerza de la novela negra y la precision del testimonio real, Mabel Lozano arrastra al lector a los burdeles, clubes, pisos clandestinos y carreteras secundarias donde se consumen vidas enteras a cambio de dinero.Ava es una historia de dignidad y resistencia. Una novela necesaria, humana e inolvidable que desnuda las entrañas de un sistema que convierte a las mujeres en objetos de usar y tirar, pero tambien nos habla del amor como balsamo para curar todas las heridas.Mabel Lozano, Premio Letras del Mediterraneo 2025, demuestra con esta primera novela la fuerza imparable de una prosa potente, combativa y llamada a perdurar.

En Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, un hallazgo macabro sacude la rutina de la ciudad: un brazo amputado aparece en un contenedor, con un tatuaje que solo puede pertenecer a un hombre desaparecido días antes.La jueza Mara Ramirez, recien llegada a la isla y aun marcada por sus propios fantasmas, se enfrenta a su primer caso. A su lado y en constante friccion trabaja el inspector Aitor Ibarra, cuya torpeza para gestionar los sentimientos contrasta con su instinto policial.Y, entre ambos, Beatriz Mantecas, pastelera brillante y mujer herida por un pasado de humillaciones, que hornea dulces capaces de enamorar a cualquiera.Con un pulso narrativo agil y una escritura fresca, directa y poderosa, Annika Brunke despliega una historia en la que ternura, humor y violencia se entrelazan, donde lo cotidiano convive con lo brutal, y en la que los limites entre victimas y verdugos se difuminan.Bacon, ganadora del II Premio Alexis Ravelo de novela negra, es la confirmacion de Brunke como una voz nueva y vibrante en la novela negra española.

Una historia de amor que te abrazará tan fuerte que te dolerá soltarla.Empezar de cero no es fácil, pero Acalia necesita huir. River Town parece el lugar perfecto: allí nadie la conoce y, por primera vez en mucho tiempo, puede respirar tranquila. Lo que no imaginaba era que en ese rincon perdido descubriria el verdadero significado de la amistad, la familia elegida y, quiza, el amor.Pero no siempre basta con llegar a un lugar nuevo para dejar atras el pasado. A veces, lo que creias superado vuelve con mas fuerza, y lo que parecia estable se tambalea cuando el miedo decide por ti.Un historia que te rompe y te reconstruye, con romance, segundas oportunidades y emociones que enseñan que amar tambien es volver a confiar.

En la celebración de su 80 cumpleaños, Pere Gimferrer condensa en Balada décadas de búsqueda poética en un único canto de deslumbrante intensidad. Con Balada, Pere Gimferrer nos presenta una obra plena de madurez: un poema erudito y torrencial de naturaleza sinfonica, en ocho movimientos que compendian la memoria lucida del mundo y del lenguaje, sus fastos verbales e imaginativos, entre claroscuros y fulgores. Balada es la celebracion de una vida y una escritura, incesante, indagatoria, visionaria, a traves de un repertorio de referencias culturales, literarias, cinematograficas y urbanas que constituyen la memoria encendida de Gimferrer. Asi, sus versos destellan entre los ecos de Calderon y Shakespeare, Cernuda, Alberti o Keats, las ciudades de Barcelona y Madrid a Paris y Delhi--, las peliculas y los pintores sobre los que pivota su memoria, a partir del Greco y su retablo manierista.A sus ochenta años, Pere Gimferrer condensa en su escritura decadas de busqueda poetica en un unico canto de deslumbrante intensidad. Esta Balada es una ceremonia celebratoria.Este libro no solo celebra los 80 años de un creador ineludible en nuestra literatura: confirma una voz que, desde hace decadas, nos recuerda que la poesia es el arte de volver tangible lo que abrigan las sombras.

In the glittering city of Port Astor, where fae roads criss-cross human highways and ghosts whisper to the living, nothing is ever as it seems.From Sunburst Award-winning author A. C. Wise, this utterly original dark fantasy tale of faith and fanaticism, doomed love and desperate bargains is perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Ava Reid.Port Astor is a city of ghosts. Once home to the beautiful, brutal courts of the fae, forty years ago they vanished without explanation and Port Astor decided to forget.Brix and Bellefeather are paranormal investigators, working to keep Port Astors wraiths and spectres from consuming the city. Both have hauntings of their own: Belle shares her body with a demon, Belizial; Brix has trapped the soul of his dead fiancee in the world of the living, unwilling to let her go.While investigating the glamorous and notoriously haunted Peony Hotel, Brix and Belle come across a young couple tangled up in one of the citys most infamous tales. Jimmy Valentine, silver screen idol and one-time favorite of a fae queen, has returned to haunt the Peony. But Jimmy is no mere ghost, and Brix and Belle soon realize his return is more intimately tied to their own hauntings than they could ever have imagined.The fae have not forgotten that Port Astor once belonged to them. And their Hollow Queen wont give up her kingdom so easily.

1949. The Cold War is intensifying and rumours abound that the Russians are close to creating an atomic bomb.Beattie Cavendish, special operative for a covert section of GCHQ is sent to Scotland, to a listening station in the Highlands at Kilbray. Beatties arrival is greeted with suspicion by the stations staff. She faces an uphill battle to turn things around. When Beattie discovers that her uncle Howard, who lives nearby, has gone missing, she becomes convinced his disappearance is more sinister. She learns Howard has been visiting a remote Highland lodge used during the war to hide out of favour special operation executive officers. As she delves deeper, there is no one she feels she can trust except for private detective Patrick Corrigan. But Corrigan has troubles of his own as he needs to get out of London after crossing the Kutsnetsov brothers, a pair of notorious Russian gangsters.As the snow begins to fall hard and fast, Beattie realises the search is putting her life and that of Corrigans in danger, and that the answers she is looking for lie buried in her wartime past.

Exquisite and unputdownable. RACHEL JOYCETenacious and tender . . . a modern tale of love blossoming in unlikely circumstances. AUBE RAY LESCUREPowerful and meditative . . . this will stay with me for years to come. CRYSTAL HANA KIMThis is a love story of two people working side by side but living worlds apart.Miras days are filled with duty and light on freedom. In a new country, living with a husband she barely knows - and who she fears shell never love - Mira is desperate to discover all that her new life in England might offer.And then theres Tahliil. The quiet, beautiful man she sees at work each day. With a depth in his eyes and a face full of questions. The first person in this new world who listens to Miras hopes for who she yearns to become.But beyond their lunchtime encounters, the pair couldnt lead more different lives: the duties that bind them, the homes they are trying to build threaten to subsume them. As Mira and Tahliil navigate the deep and turbulent waters of their new worlds can they find a way to be together, and will finding each other set them free?

Hes back! In this second instalment of Steven Froelichs Latin American odyssey, the Man Without a Plan lands in Belize, a country he knows nothing about. But Froelich has a talent for making himself at home wherever he is, amassing an impressive array of new friends in a short time some of whom can even match his penchant for being in a near-constant buzz from industrial-quantity drugs and drink.As ever, the cock-a-hoop characters Steven ingratiates himself with become his surrogate dysfunctional family. But Tracey, Devonais, Ask Bobby!, Valentino and a pack of feral kids led by the gleefully destructive Molokai soon have Steven wondering whether or not his cheerfully transactional relationships are, in fact, binding him ever more tightly in a web of scams that threatens to leave him broke and stranded in this shabby paradise. Is his paranoia justifiable, or is that just the continuous cocaine use? His response is to agree to renting an SUV and embarking all together on a road trip along the coast, taking in shantytowns, fine hotels, beaches and, at a low ebb, jail. Why do mechanics keep appearing every time the truck mysteriously fails? Why are his credit cards failing just as frequently? Whos zoomin who?Coarse, irresponsible and wilfully ignorant, Froelich is nevertheless observant and caring at heart and Belize is about the ways in which chaotic, complex human beings find community, no matter where theyre from or where theyre headed.Features twelve full-colour illustrations by Froelichs collaborator Oscar Zarate.

A dark love that is not allowed to be - D.C. Odesza tells the story of a forbidden passionNuria has been pursued by a stranger for months. To escape the stalker, she leaves her home in Spain and flees to Australia, where she works as an au pair. But more secrets await her there: The familys daughter has disappeared and Zain, the eldest son, seems to know more about it than he is letting on. His dark charisma annoys Nuria enormously, and yet she is drawn to him. A fatal desire, because suddenly her stalker is once again lurking in the shadows of her room at night to protect her from Zain of all people ...The first in the dark romance series by bestselling author D.C. OdeszaD.C. Odesza is the pseudonym of a young German bestselling author. Since completing her studies in German and History, she has been writing thrilling novels that are characterized by deep emotions and sensuality.

Dark games and forbidden desiresNuria wants to continue to live out her passion for the mysterious stalker who has followed her to Australia and appears in her room at night. His nocturnal visits become a beloved taboo full of temptation for Nuria. But then a dark figure from her past reappears and wants to win Nuria over. She is torn between the two men, one more dangerous than the other and both enemies to the core. Nuria must decide who she will give herself to and trust.The second volume in the dark romance series by bestselling author D.C. OdeszaD.C. Odesza is the pseudonym of a young German bestselling author. Since completing her studies in German and History, she has been writing thrilling novels that are characterized by deep emotions and sensuality.

Berlin, 1920s: a beacon of culture and hedonism, but a political mess. The streets are crowded with war veterans, beggars, prostitutes and madmen, desperately chasing any means to secure a few marks or a roof over their heads. Come nighttime, a rag-tag group descends on the Jolly Huntsman pub to dance and drown their cares in all the schnapps they can afford. But in this society on the brink, pleasure all too easily erupts into violence.A bleakly comic story of struggle and discontent on the fringes of the metropolis, Berlin Shuffle is a blistering portrait of a divided society that would give way to fascism. Written when he was just twenty-two years old, Boschwitzs first novel displays his extraordinary talent for capturing Germanys self-destruction, which would tragically engulf him only five years later.

Una antiheroína vulnerable enfrentada a las tensiones del deseo y del desarraigo"Vislumbraba quizá ciertos reveses, ciertas derivas clásicas del matrimonio. Aburrimientos, irritaciones. Me daba igual. Estaba cumpliendo con mi destino, conocer la que seria yo despues del hombre; ahora que tendria marido, podria por fin sacarme su peso de encima".Entre Paris y Buenos Aires, una joven argentina recien casada descubre como su vida amorosa se convierte poco a poco en un sacrificio. El matrimonio, aquel sueño que la acompañaba desde la infancia, resulta un fracaso, y no puede culpar a nadie mas que a si misma. Lucien aparece en su vida mientras hace un doctorado en Letras en Francia. La relacion avanza y deciden sellarla con un casamiento fastuoso, con todos los ritos y codigos de la clase a la que ella pertenece: ceremonia civil en un pueblito bordeles, ceremonia religiosa en la iglesia del Socorro y fiesta en el Jockey Club. Los preparativos son freneticos; nada puede quedar librado al azar. Pero el gran dia, una tormenta inesperada arruina lo que debia ser perfecto. Como si hubiese sido un mal augurio, ya de vuelta en Paris y en el departamento de cuarenta metros cuadrados que la pareja comparte sobre el canal Saint-Martin, la narradora comprende pronto que ha cometido un terrible error. Escrita con humor acido y una aparente liviandad, esta primera novela de Victoria Liendo explora las tensiones del deseo y del desarraigo. Entre escenarios cosmopolitas y personajes excentricos, Besos, no construye el retrato sin concesiones de una clase social y de una antiheroina tan vulnerable como unica.

Deep in the folklore of Tallinor lies a dark legend: the story of a powerful sentient who almost destroyed the entire land.Now, centuries later, any sentient who is discovered is executed. But in a village far from the royal city, a young scribe, Torkyn Gynt, blazes with undetected power and healing abilities. To fulfil his destiny, Tor must leave his home and his love, Alyssa to become apprentice to the royal physic.Guided by a falcon and a mysterious woman who appears to him in his dreams, Tor embarks on a journey that will test his courage and his heart.A journey that can only end in triumph or betrayal.

A queer horror novella about the occult, cult cinema, queer desires and other things left on the cutting room floor. Perfect for fans of Paul Tremblay and Cassandra Khaw. From the USA Today bestselling author of CuckooEllen, a deeply closeted lesbian spends all her time in solitude, restoring films at a failing archive in 1980s New York City.When a group of German academics present her with a print of an infamous exploitation film believed to have been destroyed during the Holocaust, Ellen finds herself forced to confront her own repressed sexuality. And the more she works on the restoration, the more obsessed she becomes with its depictions of occult practices and queer debauchery.Shes soon convinced that the depraved acts portrayed in the film are not fiction, but reality.And that theyre happening to her.