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Cosy, hopeful and uplifting, this heartwarming post-apocalyptic romance is perfect for fans of Fable for the End of the World and Emily Henry.Thirty years after the end of the world, a young woman enters into a marriage of convenience with a man she hardly knows so she can secure vital medical care for her beloved younger sister.The world might not have ended all at once. But end it did.Kayla Hollins is a survivor. Living in the fragmented wasteland of the Canadian Pacific Northwest, shes outlived a colony, a cult, a paramilitary group, and most of her family. So when her younger sister April falls seriously ill, Kayla will do anything to save her. They trek to Salt Spring Island, a beacon of hope in their otherwise brutalized world, which is rumoured to still have a hospital. But Salt Springs utopia comes with a price. Not just anyone can enter paradise or access their medical care, and Kaylas past is chequered.Desperate, Kayla makes a deal with Sid Charles, an aspiring politician with whom she had a chance encounter before arriving on Salt Spring. If Kayla and Sid get married, it will boost Sids chances of election, and grant April automatic access to the medical treatment she desperately needs. And in two years, when Kayla is eligible for citizenship herself, they can get a divorce. Simple, right?Sid is distant and cranky, but Kayla comes to learn he is also shockingly kind. The more time she spends with him and his ragtag group of rescued boys, the more she comes to admire him. But with Aprils treatment and Sids election on the lineand the constant terror of her past being discoveredKayla isnt sure she can risk trying to change their arrangement.Trapped together in the closest thing left to paradise, Kayla and Sid both know what it means for the world to end. But as they try to rebuild with the people of Salt Spring Island, there may be time left to saveif not the worldthemselves.

Samantha y Jake esperan un hijo pero su felicidad dura poco. Esca ha sobrevivido, y está decidido a desafiar a Jake por el dominio de los Inmortales. Peor aún, reclama a Samantha como suya y reúne a sus seguidores para la ba-talla definitiva, una que amenaza con sacudir el mundo entero. La muerte y la destruccion arrasan el Bosque Eter-no, dejando atras unicamente recuerdos de paz y alegria. Mientras Samantha enfrenta el final de todo lo que ama, descubre que su mayor lucha no es contra Esca sino por el hombre al que ama. En esta sobrecogedora conclusion de la trilogia, Samantha debera arriesgarlo todo para salvar a Jake y averiguar si el amor puede realmente vencer al destino.

El apasionado amor entre Samantha y Jake se pone a prueba...Justo cuando creen que Dougal es su único enemigo, surge un peligro mucho mayor: el rival más poderoso de Jake. El Inmortal Esca se siente atraido por Samantha a pesar de saber que ella esta unida a su enemigo. Su aparicion amenaza a todo el clan McAlaster y desencadena acontecimientos que decidiran el destino de todos a quienes ella ama.Llena de peligro, deseo prohibido y giros que aceleran el corazon, esta segunda entrega de la trilogia sumerge a Samantha aun mas en el mundo de los Inmortales donde el amor es su mayor fortaleza y su debilidad mas peligrosa.

Decían que no podían ser solamente amigos…, pero ellos decidieron intentarloLa vida de Elena da un giro inesperado cuando, tras verse inmersa en un escándalo, pierde su cabello y con él su autoestima

After she encounters a poem about love and friendship etched on the Homomonument in Amsterdam, Hélène Giannecchini is moved to attempt to do justice to a form of relation often subordinated to romanc

Discover bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutantos debut dark fantasy following an assassin, a scholar, a con man, and a guard racing to save their world from a miracle gone wrong.Mara has no memory of life before her assassin training behind the fortress-like walls of Tchu-Morrokhai, which has been her world since she was five. Practicing discipline and strategy, sacrifice and solitude, she has dedicated herself to resisting the Divine Empresss plans of eradicating the all-but-forgotten magic. She longs for a world once again filled with magicand freedom and love. And shell do whatever it takes to find those things.In the faraway city of Velingard, Livya is the privileged daughter of the revered scientist whose invention of an indestructible new metal was the catalyst for a great revolution. Yet Livyas bored of suitors and balls, more interested in philosophical debates. But when an invite to a secret salon leads to a kidnapping attempt, Livya is suddenly on the runwith the unlikely aid of charming con man Kaian, a once dear childhood friend inexplicably turned frosty stranger.Captain Fonde has served Velingard faithfully in the twenty years since the revolution, and all has been peaceful... until now, when hes informed that their "indestructible" metal is inexplicably starting to crumble. Ships, bridges, buildings, statuestheir entire post-revolution world is literally about to come apart. Could it be that the metaland therefore the revolutionwas flawed all along? Or is there something darkerevil, ancient, inhumanat play?With stunning world-building, Jesse Q. Sutanto weaves an epic tale of characters whose lives irrevocably intertwineand unravelas paths collide across continents, racing toward an explosive twist that will forever change all of their fates...

Riveting and highly inventive Chinese-inspired science-fantasy of a royal family torn apart, painful betrayal and deadly secrets. Set on a drowning continent full of corruption and deception and strange technology this is richly envisioned and powerfulOn Pio, the floating empire of lotuses, Xlian discovers the royal advisors ploy to overthrow her brother, Yun, the emperor, in the same way they had murdered their parents, by creating a deadly flood that will make Yuns death seem as though an accident. She flees to the drowning continent of Opera, a place of high tech and near environmental collapse where companies vie to sell a chance at immortality. There Xlian seeks out her exiled brother Lang to help in her efforts to disrupt the advisors plans and remove them from court.Also residing on Opera is the outcast, No Face. Abandoned by the empire of Pio, they plot to destroy those who tore their family apart. When Xlian is caught and imprisoned and No Face discovers the shocking truth about their past, the two must work together to stop the advisors and unify their two lands or lose everyone they love to flood and revolution.

In 1947 and again in 1971, entire communities in the South Asian subcontinent crossed newly drawn borders, seeking new homes as partitions divided and reshaped nations. Kalyani Thakurs evocative novel tells the story of her people, Dalits of the Matua sect, who settled around a local water body Andhar Bil in a newly formed country. This new bil, reminiscent of the one left behind, becomes a place for the refugees to slowly, painfully, rebuild their lives.Children play in and around the bil, the novels central character, while people catch fish and cook them in ways that recall the flavours of home. Festivals and boat races unfold, jute is harvested and sold, floods push people to higher ground, marriages are arranged, and property disputes arise. The still waters of the bil hold all these stories, while the boroi tree stands in the centre, a silent witness to everything.Woven through this episodic, plotless narrative is the story of Kamalini, a young girl who, one day, will leave her beloved Andhar Bil behind for the city just as her parents generation left their villages and their cherished bil for a new land.

A todos, de alguna manera, elpasado nos agobia y lo almacenamosen una bodega sellada al paso deltiempo. Pero de sus grietas se escurreuna sustancia viscosa de recuerdoscontagiados por el virus del fracaso.¿Que sigue cuando ya has hecho todo lo que tocaba hacer con tu vida? Para el protagonista de estahistoria, sus dias han perdido el brillo. Se debate entre sus achaques marcados por los excesos, el insomnio que le trae delirios y la apatia de un presente que solo le plantea el deseo de destruirse sin prisas. En plena reinvencion de si mismo, para celebrar su cumpleaños numero sesenta, emprende un viaje con su novia y unos amigos a Acapulco. En un hotel incrustado en un risco, desde donde se domina la bahia, los recuerdos de su infancia y juventud le llegan en oleadas. Aparecen, entonces, las asperas vacaciones familiares, la relatoria de los fracasos amorosos, y lugares como el mitico HotelFlamingos, la guarida de bacanales hollywoodenses, donde tiene lugar un insolito encuentro entre JohnnyWeissmuller, el Tarzan mas famoso del mundo, Charles Manson y un escritor beat. A medio camino entre las memorias y la ficcionnoir, esta novela es un alucinante y sorprendente recorrido por lugares olvidados.

“Ser rotulado é começar a morrer artisticamente” — essa afirmação do poeta Sebastião Nunes, em entrevista a Fabrício Marques em 2008, é uma ótima divisa para a obra de uma vida inteira que se mostra

Experience the myth and magic of antiquitys most alluringand provocativegoddess as never witnessed before, in this gorgeously rendered, unflinching, and deeply vulnerable retelling from the author of Mother of Rome and Medusas Sisters.Two hundred years before the common era, Aphrodite surprises an itinerant sculptor with a shocking request: Hear my story, see me for who I truly am, and carve it into stone. Never before has the goddess posed for her likeness, and as the artist works, she shares pieces of herself.Her greatest triumphs and most grievous mistakes. The truth behind the tales of her beneficence and vengeance. And the one epic romance that slips through her perfect fingers, time and time again.Part memoir, part fantasy, and all heart, Aphrodite in Pieces begs the eternal, essential questions: what do love and beauty truly mean? And can they last?

In this hilarious gay fantasy romance, a reclusive sorcerer is forced to protect a cowardly knight after a prophecy ties their fates together. Funny, touching and inventive, this brilliant debut is perfect for fans of How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying and Dreadful.In Which Many Dangerous and Homosexual Things Happen.All his life, Sir Cameron has stayed as far away from danger as possible. He is quite frankly too handsome to die a pointless death in battle. But then the Church hands down a prophecy to his fellow knights: the only way to defeat their nemesis, the mad sorcerer Merulo, is to kill Sir Cameron. Short of ideas, Cameron throws himself on the mercy of the one person who now actually wants him to survive: the mad sorcerer.Merulo isnt thrilled to be babysitting a spoilt, attention-seeking knight, but transmogrifying him into a vulture is at least entertaining. Cameron, meanwhile, is on a voyage of self-discovery. It turns out hes really, really into surly sorcerers who lock him up and tell him what to do. Who knew?As a legion of knights surround their stronghold, the sorcerers poisonous ambitions draw ever closer to fruition. Cameron is quite invested in not dying, but he finds hes also invested in Merulo. And sometimes, supporting the sorcerer you care about means taking an interest in their hobbies. Even if that hobby is trying to kill God.Even if it might get you killed, too.Fall in love with this laugh-out loud, genre-bending romp full of concussed elves and queer romance like youve never seen before.

LA OBRA MÁS AMBICIOSA DE RICARDO MENÉNDEZ SALMÓN Una reinvención de la novela de fantasmas que reflexiona sobre el destino de EuropaEn su adolescencia, el protagonista de Arca desarrolló un don extraordinario que le permite ver lo que ha sucedido en el pasado con apenas tocar un objeto. Una habilidad que lo ha convertido en alguien muy valioso para la ley, que ha recurrido a sus servicios para resolver los crimenes mas complejos, pero tambien para empresas privadas que solicitan su ayuda a la hora de obtener un tipo de informacion que nadie mas puede proporcionar. Gracias a su talento, el fondo de inversion Hagen-Schulz le contrata para investigar la desaparicion de uno de sus empleados en Ca Barbarigo, un palacio de Venecia construido en 1550 y en cuyo interior han tenido lugar todo tipo de sucesos: amores, traiciones, asesinatos, venganzas, abandonos. Mientras el narrador intenta descifrar la relacion entre los secretos que guarda el palazzo con la extraña desaparicion, Venecia se enfrenta a un cataclismo inedito que parece anunciar el fin de los tiempos. Ricardo Menendez Salmon redefine la novela de fantasmas con elementos del genero negro y el fantastico, hasta convertirla en una meditacion a proposito del destino de Europa. Arca es la obra mas ambiciosa en la carrera de un autor que, en la tradicion de escritores como Kafka, Beckett y Orwell, reivindica el gozo y la plasticidad inagotable del lenguaje para indagar en quienes somos y en que podemos convertirnos; es un requiem, pero tambien anuncia un nuevo comienzo, y pone de manifiesto el poder de la ficcion como lugar desde el que pensar una epoca.

In this warm-hearted, witchy rom-com a young woman works to create the bookstore of her dreams, only to discover a powerful magic thats been lying dormantand a forbidden love she cant resist. Perfect for readers of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches and The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic.Rhea Wolfe lives a simple, if mundane, life in small-town Alabama with her pet cockatoo, Doris. But when her estranged grandmother dies, leaving everything to herincluding a magical heritage Rhea never knew she carriedshe finds herself in Arcadia Falls, the quaint mountain town her mother made her swear never to set foot in. When she plans to turn the defunct video store shes also inherited into a bookstore, Rheas lucky that resident handyman Hunter Blakely is more than happy to helpand more than easy on the eyes. Its just too bad hes the grandson of her grandmothers sworn rival in witchcraft.Yet as Rhea makes plans for the bookstore of her dreams, she learns that her grandmother made a terrible choice, one that could ruin her own chance at happiness. As she gets ever closer to solving the mystery of what exactly is happening, each clue points to Arcadia Falls magic hanging in the balance. To keep her new home safe, Rhea must step into her enchanted birthright and harness her newfound powers... before its too late.

¿Y si el amor no se muere… solo duerme durante un par de décadas?Arcadio es un vampiro distinto. Educado, discreto, con una elegancia anticuada que parece sacada de otra época. Y, de hecho, lo es. Du

Descubierto en el IMEC (Institut Mémoires de lÉdition Contemporaine) por los biógrafos de Némirovsky, el manuscrito de esta novela había permanecido olvidado entre los papeles de su editor de la época. Novela intimista y conmovedora, su hallazgo ha servido para confirmar a Irene Nemirovsky como una de las figuras mas destacadas de la literatura del siglo XX en Europa.El ardor de la sangre es otro de los hermosos legados de Irene Nemirovsky: la ultima novela inedita, el ultimo milagro de una obra magistral. DIARIO LE FIGARO

O regresso ao universo das Dark Forces, num novo dark romance militar de K.M. Moronova carregado de tenso e muita adrenalina!Primeiro livro do Dueto Dark ForcesEmbora considerado clinicamente louco, Cameron Mortem e um dos melhores e mais letais soldados das Dark Forces, as implacaveis forças militares secretas sustentadas sobre obediencia, sobrevivencia e silencio. Mas tem um enorme problema: no consegue parar de matar os seus parceiros diretos, apesar de todos os esforços dos seus superiores para o prevenir.Emery Maves tem um passado sombrio, carregado de crimes brutais. Para ser poupada a pena de morte, e enviada para as Dark Forces, entrando assim neste mundo violento com Cameron. Nesta sua nova realidade, tera de sobreviver no so as mortiferas Provas do Subterraneo como tambem a natureza instavel do seu parceiro, que tem como misso mante-la viva.Com as Provas a testarem os seus limites enquanto dupla, Emery tera de adaptar-se as exigencias das forças especiais, ao mesmo tempo que tenta resistir a atraço por aquele homem que ela sabe que to facilmente podera protege-la como mata-la.O que os une e intoxicante, caotico e violento. Se no os destruir, podera acabar por salva-los.

Lorena tiene una vida complicada. Su familia es una de las víctimas de los efectos de la crisis y no le queda más remedio que trabajar para ayudarla a llegar fin de mes, compaginando sus dos trabajos con sus estudios universitarios. Joel es un chico solitario que guarda un gran secreto de su pasado. Un pasado que le persigue alla donde va, pero intenta vivir su vida lejos de las miradas acusadoras y las habladurias de la gente. Un dia magico, como es el dia de Reyes, sus caminos chocaran y sus vidas dejaran de ser tan oscuras, pero el secreto de Joel le hara dudar a Lorena si es un chico de fiar. ¿Podra el contarle el pasado que le atormenta? Y si lo hace, ¿querra Lorena seguir a su lado?

Em um mundo onde o silêncio corta mais fundo que a lâmina, a honra é posta à prova. Após a morte de seu mestre, uma libélula samurai é traída por aqueles em quem confiava e lançada ao exílio. Ferido,

Diane sempre sonhou com pouco: um marido, dois filhos, um trabalho que lhe fizesse sentido mais do que jamais se permitiu desejar. Mas, no dia em que Seb a deixa, seu mundo desaba. Entorpecida pela dor, ela no percebe o outro silencio que cresce ao seu redor: no quarto em frente, o riso de Lou se apaga.Aos dezesseis anos, Lou sofre o tumulto da adolescencia e o impacto do primeiro amor perdido, uma perda que lhe arranca mais do que lagrimas. Quando Diane finalmente se da conta, esta disposta a tudo para resgatar a filha, mesmo que isso signifique revisitar um passado do qual tentou escapar.Me e filha caminham sobre um fio tenue, entre o que foi e o que pode ser. Sob seus passos, o turbilho da vida ruge, e ameaça arrastar consigo as suas horas mais frageis.