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Una novela que es también un homenaje a las rebeldes que lucharon por mantener aquello en lo que creían y, sobre todo, a quienes amaban.Un secreto arrebatado. Una pasión prohibida. Una mujer dispuesta a luchar por lo que desea.Madrid, 1896. Carlota Visedo, joven marquesa de Peñaflorida, es arrancada de su vida y confinada en la temible Casa del Pecado Mortal, un lugar destinado a quebrar a las mujeres que no se someten a la norma social. Entre rezos, muros humedos y el eco de llantos arrebatados, Carlota descubre la magnitud del castigo reservado a quienes se atreven a amar fuera de las reglas.De regreso a la sociedad madrileña, la humillacion y el acoso de su marido no consiguen doblegarla. Frente a el se aferra a la pasion imposible que la une a Rodolfo Valderroca y al secreto que marcara para siempre su destino: un hijo perdido en la sombra del encierro.Con una trama absorbente y una ambientacion impecable, Las arrepentidas reconstruye un episodio silenciado de nuestra historia: las casas donde las mujeres eran ocultadas para ser doblegadas por rebelarse al orden establecido, y que permanecieron en activo en España hasta bien entrado el siglo XX. Una novela de amor y resistencia, de perdida y busqueda, que aplaude la fuerza de aquellas que se negaron a arrepentirse de ser quienes eran ni de lo que hicieron.

Un huérfano sin pasado. Una vieja leyenda. Una historia de familias, secretos y venganzas que nos descubre el origen de la mafia siciliana. «Un autor con un talento extraordinario».La Vanguardia«Una

Cuando ser una mujer sola y pobre era un estigma, ella forjó su propio destino y su nombre se convirtió en leyenda.LA HISTORIA JAMÁS CONTADA DE LA ALCAHUETA MÁS FAMOSA DE NUESTRAS LETRAS.Salamanca, siglo XV. Cuando la pequeña Celestina es abandonada por su madre en casa de una vieja curandera, ignora que su infancia se ha truncado para siempre. Sancha atiende partos y abortos, prepara filtros para atraer a los hombres y recoge hierbas a la luz de la luna con las que prepara infalibles remedios.A su lado, la niña empieza a descubrir los secretos del deseo y la necesidad que sienten las mujeres de apoyarse las unas a las otras en un mundo de hombres. Desde los margenes mas sordidos de la sociedad, Celestina aprendera a sobrevivir en una epoca donde todo, hasta lo mas sagrado, tiene un precio.La Celestina es, sin duda, uno de los personajes mas iconicos de nuestra literatura: una anciana astuta, despiadada y mentirosa, cuyo nombre de pila termino bautizando a las demas alcahuetas. Partiendo de esta idea, Desiree Baudel nos muestra que, antes de convertirse en la vieja sin escrupulos que paso a la historia, Celestina fue joven y fue niña, y lo hace ofreciendonos una fascinante novela que es a la vez un retrato honesto de muchas otras mujeres que se negaron a aceptar las reglas de una sociedad que las condenaba de antemano.

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?

On a painful, freezing Easter Monday in 1917, Private Robert Gooding Henson of the Somerset Light Infantry is launched into the Battle of Arras. Robert is twenty-three years old, a farmers boy from Somerset, who joins up against his fathers wishes. Robert forms fast friendships with Stanley, who lied about his age to go to war, and Ernest, whose own slippery account betrays a life on the streets. Their friendship is forged through gas attacks, trench warfare, freezing in trenches, hunting rats, and chasing down kidnapped regimental dogs. Their life is one of mud and mayhem but also love and laughs.This is the story of Roberts journey to Arras and back, his dreams and memories drawing him home. His story is that of the working-class Tommy, the story of thousands of young men who were caught in the collision between old rural values and the relentlessness of a new kind of war. It is a story that connects the past with the present through land, love and blood.

Daniel Wiles connects us viscerally to the past we have buried the history we choose to ignore Hilary MantelIf his wife hadnt changed, then maybe Bernardo wouldnt have left, with his son in tow, to try and tame the wilderness of his childhood.If the land hadnt changed, turning grey and collapsing in their hands each time they grasped for survival, then maybe Bernardo and the boy could have built a life here.If the Puma hadnt changed everything, then maybe Bernardo wouldnt have to stalk the beast, searching for some measure of revenge, wishing hed pulled the trigger when he had the chance.The Puma is a novel that asks what a father would do to ensure his familys survival and what he might become when that is no longer an option.

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.