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Una joya precolombina de gran valor, una historia de amor que traspasa fronteras. Toda la esencia de México en la nueva novela de Félix G. Modroño, con más de 30.000 lectores.Santander, 1937. Ana Cossio, una joven de trece años, huye para embarcarse en el Mexique con destino a Mexico junto con otros cientos de niños españoles con el fin de protegerse de la inminente llegada de las tropas franquistas, dejando en tierra a su familia y a Mateo Llamazares, su primer gran amor.Mexico, 1939. Arriba a Veracruz el Vita, un yate colmado de joyas y objetos preciosos, requisados por el Gobierno de la Republica para financiar a los exiliados a causa de la guerra civil. En el barco viaja Mateo Llamazares con la mision de salvaguardar su codiciada mercancia y dispuesto a encontrar a Ana. Madrid, verano de 2005. David Quijano, arqueologo del Museo Arqueologico Nacional, conoce a Maria, una galerista de arte mexicana, y enseguida queda cautivado por ella. Al dia siguiente, decide enseñarle unos valiosos pendientes precolombinos que custodia para restaurarlos. Pero las consecuencias de este acto iran mucho mas alla de lo esperado y David debera partir rumbo a Mexico en un viaje surrealista y cargado de historia que lo obligara a enfrentarse no solo a los secretos ancestrales de una tierra inabarcable, sino tambien a si mismo.

Penniless and newly orphaned Briar Monroe finds shelter at Thornby Manor, a brooding estate above a mist-shrouded lake. But whispers of a dead wife, an estranged son and locked-away secrets haunt its corridors Atmospheric, intoxicating and laced with peril a spellbinding historical mystery of love, betrayal, obsession and a house that will not release its pastWarwickshire, 1891. Recently orphaned and left destitute, Briar Monroe accepts the protection of Lord Danville and the shadowed sanctuary of Thornby Manor. The great house looms above a mist-shrouded lake, its corridors heavy with secrets not least the mysterious death of Lady Elizabeth Danville, and the unspoken tensions between her formidable widower and his magnetic son, Gabriel.As Briar navigates the undercurrents of a household ruled by watchful servants and locked doors, she is drawn ever deeper into a web of suspicion, desire and fear. Whispers in the night, figures at windows, and a constant sense of being watched leave her questioning not only the truth about Thornby, but her own safety within its walls.Atmospheric, intoxicating and laced with peril, Thornby Manor is a gothic tale of betrayal, obsession and a house that never forgets.A simmering, haunting debut for readers who loved Jane Eyre, Rebecca, The Woman in White and The Silent Companions

A Small Town. A Big Secret. One Chance to Heal. In the small Pacific Northwest town of Port Lawrence, five people search for a way forward in the wake of broken trust and lost hope. Molly McIntyre spends her days teaching fourth grade and her evenings and weekends caring for her grandmother Eleanor, a woman of deep faith who lives with chronic pain. The rest of Mollys time is spent volunteering at the community theater. Though she loves the magic of a good play, she doesnt trust actorstheyre too good at what they do.Tristan Stuart always wanted to be a movie star. But he put that dream aside when he decided to leave Hollywood to care for his sick mother, Diana, who continually mourns the time lost with her other son, who the family hasnt seen in years. But as far as his dad, Hal, is concerned, Tristans brother can stay away forever.After nine months away from the hustle of Hollywood, Tristans lifelong dream has turned to dust and ashes, and he has no idea what to dountil he meets Molly.As Tristan seeks a new path, Molly retreats in fear. But in slow fits and starts, their relationship begins to blossomuntil Tristans past collides with his present and shatters Mollys fragile faith in him, forcing them and their families to confront heartbreaking truths.A Journey of Love, Grace, and Following the Light With This Shore of Light, immerse yourself in a story where the tides of life reveal beauty in the midst of trialswhere love, family, and faith guide each step toward a brighter shore.

((Vorschau))Dorothy, ein Madchen aus Kansas, wird mit ihrem Hund Toto von einem Wirbelsturm ins geheimnisvolle ferne Land Oz geweht. Um den Weg nach Hause zu finden, brauchen sie die Hilfe des Zauberers von Oz, der uber das Land herrscht. Sie machen sich auf eine abenteuerliche Reise in die Smaragdstadt, wo der Zauberer wohnt. Begleitet werden sie von der Vogelscheuche, dem Blechmann und dem mutlosen Lowen.((Onix/Online))A tornado has blown young Dorothy and her dog Toto far from home to the magical Land of Oz. Only the powerful Wizard of Oz can help to find the way home to Kansas. The Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion join them on their adventurous journey to the Emerald City, where the Wizard lives.

Radio is becoming the deadliest gig in town when the bodies pile up at CGNU Saskatoon. P.I. Ben Ames isnt looking for an out-of-province adventure, but his musician boyfriend has connections that put them both on the trail of a killer at the Gnu.Ben Ames is a western Canadian PI who investigates murder and major crimes with a little help from his friendswhether he wants it or not. Having a boyfriend whos a rock musician has made him an occasional detective to the stars, but his office door is always open to an interesting case or a client who needs him.

The first novel written about the enigmatic literary legendAustralia, 1901. Miles Franklin, the young daughter of poor bush farmers, manages to publish her first novel against all odds. A work of remarkable boldness and passion, it becomes an immense success in the English-speaking world. While she strives to maintain her anonymity under a male pseudonym, her identity is revealed and she is exposed to the misogynistic prejudices of her time. Alone and penniless, she sets sail for America where a life of service to the most vulnerable, and feminist causes awaits her. She forges countless friendships, experiences magnificent loves, and, through it all, nurtures her passion for writing and her ambition for literary success. Guided by her generosity and sense of humour, she embarks on numerous adventures across Europe before returning to her homeland. There, she will deliver a final blow to the critics who proclaimed that her wit and her genius had dried up.

The Tribe is the epic tale of a family and its history and a family in history.The Carraches are a powerful Sephardic dynasty in the cosmopolitan city of Salonica during the dying days of the Ottoman Empire. After the Greek annexation of the city, they settle in France until, in 1940, the Nazi Occupation sends some into hiding, some into flight and others into camps. In the early 1960s, the survivors and their children confront the familys past, with long hidden secrets uncovered and deep-seated conflicts exposed, even as the Eichmann trial forces the world at large to confront the full enormity of the Holocaust.The Tribe crosses cultures and continents in its exploration of family, race, nation and empire. As the central characters journey from adolescence through early adulthood to late middle age, they experience first loves, political and sexual awakenings, artistic triumphs, religious pressures, marital struggles, dynastic rivalries, brutal persecution, resilience and liberation, before, helped by their children, they finally achieve a degree of reconciliation both with one another and the city of their birth.

This collection of three uncanny tales highlights the best of a 19th-century German author who is seen by many as the father of modern sci-fi and fantasy. In The Sandman, young Nathanael grows up terrified of a legendary figure who will steal his eyes if hes caught out of bed at night - but its only when Nathanael has grown to adulthood, seemingly settled and happy, that the full, terrifying truth unfolds. A living doll, a series of doppelgangers, and the seeds of madness combine in this classic story of self-destruction.The Cremona Violin also deals with obsession and thwarted desire, this time between an overbearing father and a musically talented daughter who may die of heart failure if she unleashes the full power of her extraordinary voice. Suppressed passion and possessive control prove a fatal mix in this powerful and claustrophobic story. The Golden Pot, meanwhile, is a novella-length tale which Hoffmann believed was his masterpiece. Disturbing, exciting and dream-like, it introduces us to the bumbling Anselmus, whose romantic tribulations are complicated by a witchs curse and the fact that hes in love with a girl who also happens to be a snake.Influential in the worlds of both literature and music during his lifetime, Hoffmanns doppelgangers, unattainable love objects and sinister puppet masters have lived on, becoming key figures in the modern imagination.

"Taylors elegantly simple prose is compelling, and his attention to detail is the work of an expert storyteller. An unforgettable book that will resonate with readers of World War Il historical fiction." Library Journal starred review"A mans reverence for art leads to wartime defiance in the enchanting historical novel The Prodigal of Leningrad. Told with fabulistic claritya moving exploration of what it costs to uphold Christian virtues, including truth and beauty."Foreword ReviewsIn this World War II historical novel set during the harrowing siege of Leningrad, Daniil Aslanov, a docent at the Hermitage Museum, gives tours of empty frames. As the city starves, he battles a secret shame, while his grandfathera persecuted Orthodox priest exiled to the Gulagclings to faith.While bombs fall and starvation grips the city, Daniil Aslanov continues to lead tours of empty frames through the Hermitage Museum. Although the museums masterpieces have been hidden away for safekeeping, their presence lingers in memory and meaning.Daniils grandfather, an Orthodox priest exiled for decades to the brutal Gulag, embraces suffering as his sacred calling, thanking God for being allowed to minister to those around him. As Leningrads people perish, Daniil finds himself drawn to the story behind Rembrandts painting, "The Return of the Prodigal Son."Beautifully told and based on real historical events, including the extraordinary wartime tours of the Hermitages empty galleries, The Prodigal of Leningrad is a stirring and unforgettable story of human resilience, and a profound meditation on art, faith, forgiveness and healing. Readers of The Nightingale,A Gentleman in Moscow, and City of Thieves, and all those interested in World War II history will welcome this important contribution to the genre.

A last-chance winter road trip for a Scottish band spirals into wild chaos seagull massacres, bomb tests, and darkly funny rocknroll madness on the edge. A raw, darkly funny novel by one of Scotlands finest authors newly reissued!ANNIVERSARY EDITIONINTRODUCTION BY VAL MCDERMID____Connor is twenty-four, brilliant, broken, and out of control. Hes the swaggering frontman of The Ossians, a Scottish indie band on the brink of signing a major record deal.Desperate to make their mark, they head off on a two-week winter tour across the cities and hinterlands of Scotland a last-ditch attempt to find fame, purpose, and themselves.But the tour soon spirals into a surreal, chaotic odyssey. From seedy bars and snowbound towns to a final, defining Glasgow gig, the band hurtles through a whirlwind of seagull massacres, botched drug deals, a mysterious stalker, radioactive beaches, bomb-testing ranges, epileptic fits, riotous Russian submariners, deadly storms, epiphanies, regular beatings and random shootings.Raw, darkly funny and wild with energy, The Ossians is a gloriously anarchic story of rocknroll obsession, national identity and self-destruction, and what it means to belong in a band, in a country, in a life unravelling at speed.___

A touching, mysterious novel, imbued with the beauty and strangeness of a fairy tale. Ayegul SavaIn the wake of her fathers death, Agathe leaves New York and returns to her childhood home in the French countryside, after fifteen years away. Agathe and her sister Vera have not seen each other in all that time apart. Now, they must empty their home before it is knocked down. Vera stopped speaking when she was six, and as the pair clean and sift through a lifetimes worth of belongings, old memories and resentments surface.Tender, melancholic and evocative, The Old Fire is Elisa Shua Dusapins most personal and moving novel yet. An exploration of time and memory, of family and belonging, of the unsaid and the unanswered, it is also a graceful and profound exploration of how loss and grief can live alongside life and abundance.

Sometimes murder runs in the family. Or does it?When a well-known artist is found in Snorris Pool with an axe buried deep in his chest, Stella Blómkvist is immediately thrown in at the deep end, brought in to defend the apparently harmless young man the police have in their sights as the killer.The mans mother had spent time prison, convicted of the killing of a personal trainer, despite her protestations of innocence. Stella cant help being drawn into both the cold case and this fresh murder, with a trail of guilt that stretches half-way around the world.As if she doesnt have enough to keep her busy, Stellas pursuing a political high-flyer suspected of being a serial rapist, and defending a senior police officer on corruption charges that have all the hallmarks of a vendetta. But the toughest challenges Stella faces are among her own loved onesWith a razor-sharp tongue and a moral compass all of her own, Stella Blomkvist has a talent for attracting trouble. Her trademark explosive mix of murder, intrigue and surprise has made this of Icelands best-loved crime series.Stella is a force of nature Mark Sanderson, The TimesI had never heard of Stella Blomkvist, but I guarantee Ill never forget her! Christoffer Petersen

An archaeologist travels to a distant planet to spend time among a mysterious community: a people who live in temperature-controlled domes, worship a deity called Dog, and repeat an elliptical phrase from which they draw their name: mulai, the tree comes. The descendants of a long-forgotten space mission, they have abandoned the social norms that once bound them to Earth. Over centuries of isolation, their language has become more about change than stability, and the ways they eat, write, reproduce, bury their dead and understand gender have all transformed into something almost unrecognizable. As the archaeologist records his attempts to understand their world a strange negative of our own questions of translation, meaning-making and the ultimate precarity of civilization come to the fore. Drawing on Borges, Le Guin and Calvino, The Mulai is a mind-bending work of metafiction whose interlocking puzzles resound with Munir Hachemis singularly playful and eclectic style.

One of Americas great writers. RODDY DOYLEVlautins characters are a vast chorus of broken hearts, reaching for grace. COLIN WALSHNo one writes with such empathy and insight as Willy Vlautin. BEN MYERSVlautin writes about people overlooked by society and overlooked by literature. ANN PATCHETTThe moving, large-hearted story of a young boy in danger of slipping through societys cracks and the unlikely father figure who takes him under his wing.And try to breathe, man. You gotta remember to breathe. You wont get so panicky if you can remember that.Eddie Wilkens runs his own house-painting business. Forty-something and living alone, he just wants to take life one day at a time. When his eight-year-old neighbour, Russell, starts hanging around, Eddie sees that this small kid - with his single mother working nights and his violent older brother - is struggling to keep his head above water, and so tries to help.Equal parts heart wrenching and uplifting, The Left and the Lucky is a portrait of this unusual friendship - the ways hurt shatters people and the compassionate acts that can, maybe, hold some of those pieces together.

The Last People Youd Expect is the second book from author Spencer Wise, following the publication of his 2018 debut, The Emperor of Shoes.

Gabriel Reece should be starting university, but new super powers and dark family mysteries stand in the way of higher education. Hes taking a gap year to keep his spooky boyfriend from killing his super-powerful brother, watch out for his unpowered best friend, and hunt down the puppet masters who wont leave any of them alone.

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.

In a ravaged future ruled by the descendants of those who caused the climate collapse, a teenager with a remarkable gift must flee for her life and fight to save the last hope for humanity. The searing, unforgettable conclusion to the internationally acclaimed The Forcing trilogy.`A superbly handled tale of struggle and survival in a maimed world The Times`Utterly compelling a masterful and all-too-recognisable portrait of climate collapse and the politics of greed. We need this book now more than ever Eve Smith`Paul Hardisty is a visionary Luke McCallin`A riveting eco-thriller Crime Fiction Lover_____The year is 2082. Climate collapse, famine and war have left the world in ruins. In the shadow of the Alpha-Omega regime descendants of the super-rich architects of disaster sixteen-year-old Boo Ashworth and her uncle risk everything to save whats left of human knowledge, hiding the last surviving books in a secret library beneath the streets of Hobart.But Boo has a secret of her own: an astonishing ability to memorise entire texts with perfect recall. When the library is discovered and destroyed, shes forced to flee armed with nothing but the stories she carries in her mind, and a growing understanding of her familys true past.Hunted and alone, and with the help of some unlikely allies, she must fight to save her loved ones and bring hope to a broken world.Spanning three generations before, during and after the fall, The Hope is the shattering conclusion to Paul E. Hardistys critically acclaimed climate-emergency trilogy a devastating, visionary thriller that dares to imagine the possibility of redemption in the face of near-total collapse. In a dying world, it asks the most urgent question of all: what if theres still time?____`Smart, gripping, and all too plausible announces Paul E. Hardisty as the true heir to John Christopher Tim Glister`Hardisty is a fine writer Lee Child`A compelling, moving story of survival in a dying world a novel that might have actually predicted our future Ewan Morrison`The book Ive been waiting and hoping for Paul Waters`Hardisty holds a mirror up to the titans of todays very real world problems very plausible and terrifyingly so SciFi Now

A riotously sharp novel about self-righteousness, control, and the unexpected afterlife of a dogRose Cutler prides herself on her principlesveganism, feminism, eco-consciousness, and general moral superiority. She runs a yogurt business she quietly despises and lives alone, comfortably distanced from the mess of human relationships. But, when her brother and sister-in-law let her watch her six-year-old nephew Nathan, things go spectacularly wrong. After Roses dog kills a corgi at the park, Nathan begins to bark, overeat, and claim that the dead dog has possessed his body. Rose assumes this is trauma. Nathan insists its metaphysical fact. As Rose embarks on a misguided quest to free Nathan from his canine passenger, what begins as an attempt at childcare devolves into a surreal, anarchic spiral of suburban chaos. Brimming with unhinged charm and moral ambiguity, The Hitch is a biting satire of the stories we tell ourselves to stay saneand the havoc we wreak when those stories fall apart.

A captivating and terrifying literary body horror set on the east coast of England about desire, the male gaze, and the gory lengths we will go to satisfy our hunger. Perfect for readers of Lucy Rose and Monika Kim.Sussex, 1994. 19-year-old Tim helps run his family winery in the remote Oldscoombe valley. Since his mother left two years ago, Tim has nobody but his short-tempered father and delinquent older brother. He staves off loneliness by holding funerals for roadkill and lusting after his neighbours beautiful, unattainable wife until the summer he stumbles across a secret.Theres a woman hiding at the bottom of the well near Tims house. Shes beautiful. Shes soaked in blood. She says shes killed a man. Tim must only feed her, clothe her, and keep her safe. Infatuated, Tim steals gifts for her while his older brother takes the blame; straining relations with the only family he has left.Over time, her requests escalate from wine to live animals, which alter her appearance in horrifying ways. When she eats a chicken, feathers sprout from her neck. When she eats a centipede, her spine splits; she grows more legs. Tim realises that, with the right diet, he could sculpt her to the image of his wildest fantasies...As the power balance shifts, the line between pet and prisoner starts to blur. The woman demands a human sacrifice whose identity she can consume. And Tim must choose: the unsuspecting woman he covets, or the mother who abandoned him and broke his heart.