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A historical African-Wild West horror story of supernatural vengeance and terrifying occultic magic from the winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. Two fearsome deities battle each other for the souls of white twins destined to either bring vengeful devastation or salvation to their community in Texas, USA, for a great injustice done to their mother.When Sally-Mae Jenkins is violated and impregnated by the twin scions of a wealthy rancher, shes sent to join the African missionary ship as a widow. Pregnant and terrified, Sally-Mae vows vengeance on all those who abused her and her family.Amara is a young woman with the body and face of an old hag. The village outcast, Amara can eat the diseases ravaging the villagers and cure the most deadly ailments. But her powers drain her youth and her strength and the only help she has is the fearsome entity that claimed her soul, the spirit known as Aja-Mm, the death-giver and physician of the dead.When Sally-Mae arrives in Amaras village, her unborn twins become the focus of both the Python-Goddess, Asata, who wants the twins dead, and Aja-Mm, who wants the twins alive in her service, just like Amara. And suddenly, Sally-Mae finds the boys, with their unearthly and fearsome powers, have become the weapons of her vengeance against the unsuspecting citizens of her home town back in Texas.A gripping tale of supernatural horror, bitter revenge and battling deities, suffused with Onohs trademark thrilling storytelling, wit and dark humor.

She runs her own race. An expansive, inspiring feminist novel about one womans rise as a racing driver in mid-century Britain._________________Its 1945 and Winifred Freddy Vaux fears shes the only person in the country who isnt thrilled the war is over. All she wants is to drive. Ambulances, recovery vehicles, anything. While shes still allowed behind the wheel, it will not be her occupation and certainly not fast.But speeding through the streets in a Victory night race, she makes a resolution: she must pursue race car driving. No matter the cost. From the provincial country lanes of her youth to the most glamorous, exhilarating tracks of Europe, Freddys thunderous ambition takes her to places no woman has ever gone before. However, in the conservative world of motorsports, she encounters many who dont relish her rise, but anticipate her fall - and travelling at such speeds, friends and lovers can be lost in an instant. Freddy has a lot to learn. Driving was the easy part.____________________Praise for Kelly Frost:CompellingThe TimesA storyteller who is here to stay Joseph OConnorA startling new talent Peter James

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.

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.

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

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.

LA GRAN NOVELA DE LA INQUISICIÓN CONTRA GOYA.Luis Zueco nos embarca en uno de los episodios más desconocidos y fascinantes de la vida del pintor universal para descubrirnos que el arte puede ser el arma mas peligrosa.¿PUEDE UN PINTOR JUZGAR AL MUNDO? ¿PUEDE EL MUNDO JUZGAR A UN GENIO?1799, Madrid. Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, pintor de camara del rey, anuncia la puesta en venta de un lujoso libro de estampas titulado los Caprichos. Aunque las ventas son un exito, dos semanas despues de publicarlo, Goya lo retira del mercado. Durante los meses siguientes su escandaloso contenido comienza a correr como la polvora. ¿Por que Goya esconde su obra mas personal? ¿De que tiene miedo?Es entonces cuando la joven Angelica Diez llega junto a su padre a Madrid para empezar una nueva vida. La capital se ha convertido en un lugar de contrastes, donde convergen las ideas ilustradas que se propagan por Europa e instituciones como la Santa Inquisicion, que se resiste a morir.Para darse a conocer en la sociedad madrileña, Angelica acude a Goya y le pide un retrato. Sin embargo, la joven ignora que este los unira en una peligrosa trama relacionada con la Inquisicion, los Caprichos y un rumor que podria acabar con el maestro: se dice que Goya ha pintado a una mujer al desnudo.Mientras la Inquisicion intenta juzgar al pintor como un ultimo golpe de efecto para mostrar su poder, Angelica descubrira algo que Goya siempre supo No hay arma mas afilada que el arte para cambiar la Historia.

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.