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Cumbres borrascosas
Emily Brontë · 2015
Product Description<br/><br/>Lectura prescriptiva de la materia de Literatura Universal de modalidad en el bachillerato en Cataluña. Promoción 2020-2022 y 2021-2023.<br/><br/>El caso de la escritora inglesa Emily Brontë es verdaderamente excepcional dentro de la literatura. Falleció muy joven, dejando tan sólo una novela, Cumbres borrascosas, la épica historia de Catherine y Heathcliff, situada en los sombríos y desolados páramos de Yorkshire, constituye una asombrosa visión metafísica del destino, la obsesión, la pasión y la venganza. Publicada por primera vez en 1847, un año antes de morir su autora, esta obra rompía por completo con los cánones del «decoro» que la Inglaterra victoriana exigía a toda novela.<br/>Esta obra es una larga y extraordinaria descripción de los actos y problemas psicológicos de unos seres locos o perversos que arrastran una existencia mísera y maléfica. Con ellos, su autora nos ofrece una visión de estos personajes que actúan demoníacamente por aridez protestante que se diluye en todas y en cada una de sus páginas.<br/><br/>Book Description<br/><br/>«Con un par de pinceladas Emily Brontë podía conseguir retratar el espíritu de una cara de modo que no precisara cuerpo; al hablar del páramo conseguía hacer que el viento soplara y el trueno rugiera», Virginia Woolf<br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/>Emily Brontë (Thornton, Yorksire, 1818 – Haworth, Yorkshire, 1848) fue la segunda de las tres hermanas Brontë, hijas de un pastor protestante, que vivieron aisladas en la casa sacerdotal de Haworth. En 1846 publicó un libro de versos bajo el pseudónimo Ellis Bell y al año siguiente apareció su única novela, Cumbres borrascosas.

La muerte en sus manos
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2021
<p> <b>El «toque</b> <b>Moshfegh» se</b> <b>consagra con</b> <b>su</b> <b>tercera y</b> <b>arrasadora</b> <b>novela.</b> <br> <b>Una</b> <b>mezcla</b> <b>única de</b> <b>novela</b> <b>negra y humor</b> <b>macabro, tan inimitable</b> <b>como la</b> <b>propia</b> <b>autora.</b> </p> <p> <b>«Ottessa Moshfegh es ya la </b> <i> <b>next great thing </b> </i> <b>de la literatura norteamericana. ¿Contrapartes en español? Sara Mesa, Mariana Enríquez o Elvira Navarro. Todas descendientes de hembras extrañas como Silvina Ocampo, Joy Williams y Sylvia Plath.»</b> <br> <b>Rodrigo</b> <b>Fresán,</b> <i> <b> Vanity Fair</b> </i> </p> <p> <b>«Una escritora que, como Henry James o Vladimir Nabokov, está bendecida tanto con la genialidad como con la crueldad.»</b> <br> <i> <b>The New Yorker</b> </i> </p> <p>Mientras pasea a su perro por el bosque, Vesta Gul se topa con una nota manuscrita. «Se llamaba Magda. Nadie sabrá nunca quién la mató. No fui yo. Este es su cadáver.» Pero junto a la nota no hay ningún cadáver. Vesta Gul, que acaba de mudarse tras la muerte de su marido y no conoce a nadie en su nuevo hogar, no sabe muy bien qué hacer con esta información. Comienza a obsesionarse con la figura de Magda y a elucubrar con las diversas maneras en que pudieron asesinarla, si es que efectivamente ocurrió tal cosa. Su aislamiento la conduce a una serie de ideas que comienzan a encontrar un reflejo en la vida real. De un modo emocionante y terrorífico, las piezas parecen encajar: a encajar entre sí y con las zonas más oscuras de su propio pasado. Solo hay dos opciones para resolver este misterio: una explicación banal e inocente o una causa profundamente siniestra.</p> <p> <b>La</b> <b>crítica ha</b> <b>dicho...</b> <br> «Moshfegh se ha tomado la molestia de estirar los bordes del género y entrar y salir de él con comodidad. En esta ocasión juega con habilidad con algunos tópicos de la novela clásica de misterio en una historia que habla también de los efectos de la soledad y el aislamiento. [...] Es una novela original de la que es mejor no decir mucho más.» <br> Juan Carlos Galindo, <i>El País</i> </p> <p>«Moshfegh vuelve al noir para contar la historia de un crimen sin cadáver. Otra vuelta de tuerca al mundo de lo aparente.» <br> Laura Fernández, <i>Vanity Fair</i> </p> <p>«Una obra de duelo y soledad que nos habla de la importancia de estar vivo. [...] Un engranaje metaliterario que deconstruye el género de razonamiento deductivo, lo retuerce y lo hace explotar desde dentro.» <br> Marta Marne, <i>El Periódico</i> </p> <p>«Si buscas una novela negra que te atrape, esta es la tuya. La autora, siguiendo la estela magnética de las tramas de Agatha Christie, ha tejido una historia muy inquietante y, a ratos, casi cruel.» <br> Lídia Penelo, <i>El Quinze</i> </p> <p>«A caballo entre la novela negra y la metaficción, [...] es fácil recomendar esta novela diciendo que no es la novela que esperas leer. Lo que aquí se ofrece es mucho.» <br> Sergio Saborido, <i>Libros y Literatura</i> </p> <p>«Un viaje oscuro y divertido. [...]. A veces la imaginación tiene poderes curativos.» <br> <i>TIME</i> </p> <p>«Este libro sigue viviendo en tu cabeza y, con la distancia, puedes seguir saboreando las trampas que te tiende.» <br> Dwight Garner, <i>The New York Times</i> </p> <p>«Un personaje aislado, no es difícil percatarse de que mucho antes de esta cuarentena Moshfegh intuyó que había algo insostenible en cómo vivíamos.» <br> <i>Los Angeles Times</i> </p> <p>«La autora de referencia de los ermitaños y los excéntricos, de los misántropos y de los reclusos, regresa con otra novela narrada por una mujer alienada y alienante cuya voz extraña y singular nos obliga a no dejar de leer.» <br> <i>The Boston Globe</i> </p>
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Alone With You in the Ether
Olivie Blake · 2020
CHICAGO, SOMETIME—Two people meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. After their meeting, those things do not change. Everything else, however, is slightly different. Both obsessive, eccentric personalities, Aldo Damiani and Charlotte Regan struggle to be without each other from the moment they meet. The truth—that he is a clinically depressed, anti-social theoretician and she is a manipulative liar with a history of self-sabotage—means the deeper they fall in love, the more troubling their reliance on each other becomes. An intimate study of time and space, ALONE WITH YOU IN THE ETHER is a fantasy writer's magicless glimpse into the nature of love, what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken.

By Any Other Name
Jodi Picoult · 2024
From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mad Honey comes an “inspiring” (Elle) novel about two women, centuries apart—one of whom is the real author of Shakespeare’s plays—who are both forced to hide behind another name.<br/><br/>“You’ll fall in love with Emilia Bassano, the unforgettable heroine based on a real woman that Picoult brings vividly to life in her brilliantly researched new novel.”—Kristin Hannah, author of The Women<br/><br/>Young playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. But seeing it performed is unlikely, in a theater world where the playing field isn’t level for women. As Melina wonders if she dares risk failure again, her best friend takes the decision out of her hands and submits the play to a festival under a male pseudonym.<br/><br/>In 1581, young Emilia Bassano is a ward of English aristocrats. Her lessons on languages, history, and writing have endowed her with a sharp wit and a gift for storytelling, but like most women of her day, she is allowed no voice of her own. Forced to become a mistress to the Lord Chamberlain, who oversees all theatre productions in England, Emilia sees firsthand how the words of playwrights can move an audience. She begins to form a plan to secretly bring a play of her own to the stage—by paying an actor named William Shakespeare to front her work.<br/><br/>Told in intertwining timelines, By Any Other Name, a sweeping tale of ambition, courage, and desire centers two women who are determined to create something beautiful despite the prejudices they face. Should a writer do whatever it takes to see her story live on . . . no matter the cost? This remarkable novel, rooted in primary historical sources, ensures the name Emilia Bassano will no longer be forgotten.

Honey
Isabel Banta · 2025
<p><p><b>*Named a best book of the summer by PEOPLE, ELLE, PureWow and Our Culture, and a</b> <b>Goodreads Editor's Choice and IndieNext Pick*</b><br /> <br /> <b>A coming-of-age story that follows the meteoric rise of singer Amber Young as she navigates fame in the late-90s and early-2000s era of pop music superstardom</b><br /> <br /> It is 1997, and Amber Young has received a life-changing call. It's a chance thousands of girls would die for: the opportunity to join girl group Cloud9 in Los Angeles and escape her small town. She quickly finds herself in the orbits of fellow rising stars Gwen Morris, a driven singer-dancer, and Wes Kingston, a member of the biggest boy band in the world, ETA.<br /> <br /> As Amber embarks on her solo career and her fame intensifies, her rich interior life is frequently reduced. Surrounded by people who claim to love her but only wish to exploit her and driven by a desire for recognition and success, for love and sex, for agency and connection, Amber comes of age at a time when the kaleidoscope of public opinion can distort everything and one mistake can shatter a career.<br /> <br /> With the captivating style of Stephanie Danler's <i>Sweetbitter</i> and the raw honesty of Jennette McCurdy's <i>I'm Glad My Mom Died</i>, Isabel Banta's debut novel, <i>Honey</i>, redefines the narratives of some of the most famous pop icons of the '90s and 2000s. It reimagines the superstars we idolized and hated, oversexualized and underestimated, and gives them the fresh, multifaceted story they deserve.</p></p>

The Idiot
Elif Batuman · 2018
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction<br/><br/>“Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —GQ<br/><br/>“Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, The Idiot will make you crave more books by Batuman.” —Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair<br/><br/>A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself.<br/><br/>The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings.<br/><br/>At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer.<br/><br/>With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail.<br/><br/>Named one the best books of the year by Refinery29 • Mashable One • Elle Magazine • The New York Times • Bookpage • Vogue • NPR • Buzzfeed •The Millions

The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 1992
<b><b><b><b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • </b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "a<b>n accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (<i>Village Voice</i>)</b>, f<b>rom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Goldfinch.<br><br></i></b></b></b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.<br><br><b>“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b>

Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney · 2018
<b>NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • From the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Normal People</i> . . . “[A] cult-hit . . . [a] sharply realistic comedy of adultery and friendship.”—<i>Entertainment Weekly</i><br><br>SALLY ROONEY NAMED TO THE <i>TIME</i> 100 NEXT LIST • WINNER OF THE <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i> (UK) YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD • ONE OF <i>BUZZFEED</i>’S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE AND <i>THE TELEGRAPH</i>’S 20 BEST NOVELS OF ALL TIME • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: <i>Vogue, Slate</i> • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: <i>Elle</i></b><br><br>Frances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, they meet a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into her world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman’s sophisticated home and handsome husband, Nick. But however amusing Frances and Nick’s flirtation seems at first, it begins to give way to a strange—and then painful—intimacy.<br><br>Written with gemlike precision and marked by a sly sense of humor, <i>Conversations with Friends</i> is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth, and the messy edges of female friendship.<br><br><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD</b><br><br>“Sharp, funny, thought-provoking . . . a really great portrait of two young women as they’re figuring out how to be adults.”<b>—Celeste Ng, <i>Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast</i></b><br><br>“The dialogue is superb, as are the insights about communicating in the age of electronic devices. Rooney has a magical ability to write scenes of such verisimilitude that even when little happens they’re suspenseful.”<b>—Curtis Sittenfeld, <i>The Week</i></b><br><br>“Rooney has the gift of imbuing everyday life with a sense of high stakes . . . a novel of delicious frictions.”<b>—<i>New York</i></b><br><br>“A writer of rare confidence, with a lucid, exacting style . . . One wonderful aspect of Rooney’s consistently wonderful novel is the fierce clarity with which she examines the self-delusion that so often festers alongside presumed self-knowledge. . . . But Rooney’s natural power is as a psychological portraitist. She is acute and sophisticated about the workings of innocence; the protagonist of this novel about growing up has no idea just how much of it she has left to do.”<b>—Alexandra Schwartz, <i>The New Yorker</i></b><br><br>“This book. This book. I read it in one day. I hear I’m not alone.”<b>—Sarah Jessica Parker (Instagram)</b>

Orgullo y Prejucio
Jane Austen · 2016
«Es una verdad universalmente aceptada que todo soltero en posesión de una gran fortuna necesita una esposa ». Nueva traducción ilustrada de la novela de Jane Austen. Este comienzo, que, junto con el de Ana Karénina, es quizás uno de los más famosos de la historia de la literatura, nos introduce sabiamente en el mundo de Jane Austen y de su novela más emblemática. Orgullo y prejuicio, publicada en 1813 tras el éxito de Juicio y sentimiento, reúne de forma ejemplar sus temas recurrentes y su visión inimitable en la historia de las cinco hijas de la señora Bennett, que no tiene otro objetivo en su vida que conseguir una buena boda para todas ellas. Dos ricos jóvenes, el señor Bingley y el señor Darcy, aparecen en su punto de mira e inmediatamente se ven señalados como posibles presas . De hecho, la relación entre la hija mayor, Jane, y el señor Bingley parece muy prometedora pero, por influencia del arrogante señor Darcy, se frustran todas las esperanzas. La intervención de Elizabeth, la hija segunda, perspicaz, consciente de su valor, y algo rebelde, determinará el rumbo de la novela. En ella el opresivo ambiente de la familia, la presión del matrimonio, la diferencia de clases, el fantasma de la pobreza y la delicada sensibilidad de una heroína decidida, pero no libre de errores de juicio y dudas de comportamiento, se conjugan para crear una obra maestra leída a lo largo de más de dos siglos.

Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf · 2021
Mrs. Dalloway is a modernist novel by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1925. Set in London on a single day in June 1923, Mrs. Dalloway follows Clarissa Dalloway, a high-society woman, as she prepares to host a party. Throughout the day, Clarissa reflects on the decisions and events of her past, as well as the consequences of her choices and the choices of those around her. Woolf’s novel examines the nature of identity, the passage of time, and the role of memory. With its stream-of-consciousness style and its innovative structure, Mrs. Dalloway has become a classic of modernist literature.<br/><br/>Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist authors of the twentieth century. She was a major figure in the Bloomsbury Group of writers and intellectuals, and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf's novels, essays, and short stories are widely acclaimed for their originality and insight into the complexity of human experience. Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London to Julia and Leslie Stephen, an eminent literary figure and editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. She was raised in an intellectually stimulating home and educated by her father, who believed that women should be given the same educational opportunities as men. Woolf's early writing was heavily influenced by her father's work, and she published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915. Throughout her career, Woolf wrote prolifically and explored many topics in her works, including gender roles, class, and the influence of culture on the individual. Her most famous novels, Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), are both considered masterpieces of modernist literature. Woolf's writing also contains elements of feminism, including critiques of the patriarchal society of her time. Woolf was also an active advocate for the advancement of women's rights and a supporter of the women's suffrage movement. Throughout her life, she wrote extensively about the need for equality for women and their need for a voice in society. The legacy of Virginia Woolf endures in her writing, which is considered to be some of the greatest literature of the twentieth century. Her works remain popular to this day, and her influence is visible in contemporary literature, film, and art. Her lasting influence on modernist literature is undeniable, and her contribution to the world of literature will be remembered for generations to come.

Mujercitas
Louisa May Alcott · 2019
Product Description<br/><br/>«―Yo intentaré ser lo que él llama una “mujercita”, y procuraré no ser tan tosca e indomable y cumpliré con mis obligaciones en casa en lugar de querer estar siempre en otra parte ―explicó Jo, convencida de que dominar su temperamento era una misión mucho más ardua que la de mantener a raya a unos cuantos rebeldes sureños.»<br/><br/>Gracias a la edición de Austral el lector puede acercarse a las aventuras de las cuatro hermanas March a través de la traducción de Gloria Méndez, que recupera el texto de la primera edición de la obra, publicada entre 1868 y 1869, y mantiene intactos el vigor y la contundencia de la novela de Louisa May Alcott.<br/><br/>Book Description<br/><br/>La versión íntegra de Mujercitas. Uno de los libros más populares e influyentes de la tradición literaria norteamericana.

Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 2003
Charlotte Brontë characterized the eponymous heroine of her 1847 novel as being "as poor and plain as myself." Presenting a heroine with neither great beauty nor entrancing charm was an unprecendented maneuver, but Brontë's instincts proved correct, for readers of her era and ever after have taken Jane Eyre into their hearts. The author drew upon her own experience to depict Jane's struggles at Lowood, an oppressive boarding school, and her troubled career as a governess. Unlike Jane, Brontë had the advantage of a warm family circle that shared and encouraged her literary pursuits. She found immediate success with this saga of an orphan girl forced to make her way alone in the world, from Lowood School to Thornfield, the estate of the majestically moody Mr. Rochester, and beyond. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Mansfield Park
Jane Austen · 2003
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless taste for flirtation. Mansfield Park is considered Jane Austen's first mature work and, with its quiet heroine and subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, one of her most profound.<br/><br/>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

My Policeman
Bethan Roberts · 2022
Marion ist hingerissen von Tom, dem großen Bruder ihrer besten Freundin, einem unverschämt gutaussehenden jungen Mann mit blonden Locken und blauen Augen. Gleich bei der ersten Begegnung, da sind sie noch Teenager. Für sie ist er der Mann ihres Lebens, und so übersieht sie alle Zeichen, jeden Hinweis, dass Tom sich nicht für sie interessiert. Nicht für sie als Frau. Trotzdem hofft sie auf einen Heiratsantrag, und als er ihn endlich macht, ist sie glücklich. Ihre Liebe wird für sie beide reichen. Aber Tom hat ein anderes Leben, ist in andere Gefühle verstrickt. Sein ganzes Interesse gilt Patrick, dem Kurator des Museums in Brighton, der sich in Tom verliebt hat und ihm eine völlig neue Welt eröffnet. Für Tom ist die Ehe das sichere Versteck in einer Zeit, in der Homosexualität gesellschaftlich und gesetzlich geächtet ist. So teilen ihn die beiden Liebenden, bis einer es nicht mehr aushält und drei Leben ruiniert.

Black Swans
Eve Babitz · 2018
"Babitz’s talent for the brilliant line, honed to a point, never interferes with her feel for languid pleasures." ―The New York Times Book Review<br/><br/>A new reissue of Babitz’s collection of nine stories that look back on the 1980s and early 1990s―decades of dreams, drink, and glimpses of a changing world. Black Swans further celebrates the phenomenon of Eve Babitz, cementing her reputation as the voice of a generation.<br/><br/>With an introduction by Stephanie Danler, bestselling author of Sweetbitter.<br/><br/>"On the page, Babitz is pure pleasure―a perpetual-motion machine of no-stakes elation and champagne fizz." ―The New Yorker<br/><br/>"[A] true original." ―The Boston Globe<br/><br/>"She’s a natural. Or gives every appearance of being one, her writing elevated yet slangy, bright, bouncy, cheerfully hedonistic―L.A. in it purest, most idealized form." ―Vanity Fair<br/><br/>"Babitz's writing is also like the jacaranda tree in glorious bloom―bewitching an entire city, but all too brief." ―Los Angeles Review of Books

Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2021
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today • From the author of Carrie Soto Is Back, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo . . . “Irresistible . . . High drama at the beach, starring four sexy, surfing siblings and their deadbeat, famous-crooner dad.”—People ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Time, Marie Claire, PopSugar, Parade, Teen Vogue, Self, She Reads Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, the family drama that ensues will change their lives forever. Malibu: August 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over—especially as the offspring of the legendary singer Mick Riva. The only person not looking forward to the party of the year is Nina herself, who never wanted to be the center of attention, and who has also just been very publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. Oh, and maybe Hud—because it is long past time for him to confess something to the brother from whom he’s been inseparable since birth. Jay, on the other hand, is counting the minutes until nightfall, when the girl he can’t stop thinking about promised she’ll be there. And Kit has a couple secrets of her own—including a guest she invited without consulting anyone. By midnight the party will be completely out of control. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames. But before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family’s generations will all come rising to the surface. Malibu Rising is a story about one unforgettable night in the life of a family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them . . . and what they will leave behind.

Just Kids
Patti Smith · 2010
<p> It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. </p> <p> Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous—the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years. </p> <p> <i>Just Kids</i> begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame. </p>

Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens · 2018
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING PHENOMENON—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!<br/>More than 18 million copies sold worldwide<br/>A Reese’s Book Club Pick<br/>A Business Insider Defining Book of the Decade<br/><br/>“I can't even express how much I love this book! I didn't want this story to end!”—Reese Witherspoon<br/><br/>“Painfully beautiful.”—The New York Times Book Review<br/><br/>For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life—until the unthinkable happens.<br/><br/>Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.

Circe
Miller Madeline · 2019
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe has neither the look nor the voice of divinity, and is scorned and rejected by her kin. Increasingly isolated, she turns to mortals for companionship, leading her to discover a power forbidden to the gods: witchcraft.<br/><br/>When love drives Circe to cast a dark spell, wrathful Zeus banishes her to the remote island of Aiaia. There she learns to harness her occult craft, drawing strength from nature. But she will not always be alone; many are destined to pass through Circe's place of exile, entwining their fates with hers. The messenger god, Hermes. The craftsman, Daedalus. A ship bearing a golden fleece. And wily Odysseus, on his epic voyage home.<br/><br/>There is danger for a solitary woman in this world, and Circe's independence draws the wrath of men and gods alike. To protect what she holds dear, Circe must decide whether she belongs with the deities she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love.

El primer café del día
Toshikazu Kawaguchi · 2024
Una nueva novela del autor de Antes de que se enfríe el café y La felicidad cabe en una taza de café. Un fenómeno internacional que ya ha reconfortado a más de tres millones de lectores. Cuatro clientes visitan una cafetería mágica en Japón para enfrentarse a su pasado y ganarse un nuevo comienzo lleno de esperanza. En el corazón de Hakodate hay un lugar extraordinario: una pequeña cafetería que sirve café con un aroma intenso y envolvente, capaz de hacerte evocar emociones lejanas y de revisitar un momento del pasado. Sin embargo, adentrarse en este establecimiento tan especial no es para todos, y solo los que reúnen el coraje necesario pueden arriesgarse. Es el caso de Yayoi, quien, privada del cariño de sus padres cuando aún era muy pequeña, no cree poder afrontar la vida con una sonrisa. O Todoroki, cuya exitosa carrera no le dio la oportunidad de apreciar la felicidad que siempre tuvo a su alcance. O Reiko, que nunca llegó a pedirle perdón a su hermana y ahora se siente aplastada por la culpa. O Reiji, para quien una simple frase como «Te quiero» todavía representa un obstáculo insuperable. A todos les gustaría poder cambiar lo que ya fue, volver atrás y empezar de nuevo, pero borrar el pasado no es siempre la mejor opción. Lo que importa, como transmite Kawaguchi en esta emotiva novela, es aprender de él para construir un futuro más brillante. La crítica opina: «Tan melancólica como inspiradora...». Publishers Weekly «La reconfortante y sugerente novela de Kawaguchi es la lectura perfecta para disfrutar durante las frías noches de invierno». Library Journal De la serie han dicho: «Encantadora». New York Times Book Review «Conmovedora, singular y nostálgica». Huffpost «Kawaguchi ha encontrado la fórmula para utilizar de forma diferente un cliché tan común como los viajes en el tiempo y, a modo de legado, ha conseguido capturar el poder de la felicidad». Library Journal «El impactante carisma de estos libros sirve como un duradero bálsamo para las emociones». Booklist

Hasta el próximo café
Toshikazu Kawaguchi · 2025
Una nueva entrega del fenómeno feel-good japonés que ha enamorado a más de 5.000.000 de lectores en todo el mundo. Una historia llena de esperanza y optimismo que nos enseña que siempre podemos reescribir nuestras vidas. En Japón se oculta un lugar legendario. Muchos van en su busca, pues creen que allí pueden encontrar las respuestas que necesitan. Tan solo hay que dejarse llevar por el intenso aroma del café, cruzar la puerta del local, sentarse y pedir una taza. Antes de que su bebida se enfríe, los clientes podrán revivir el pasado y revisitar aquel momento en el que tomaron una decisión que les atormenta, en el que callaron cuando querían decir la verdad, en el que se equivocaron. Entre ellos están el profesor Kadokura, que ha descuidado a su familia por el trabajo; Sunao y Mutsuo, afligidos por haber tenido que despedirse de su querido perro; Hikari, arrepentida por no haber aceptado la propuesta de matrimonio de su novio Yoji; y, por último, Michiko, que ha regresado al sitio donde vio a su padre por última vez. Si demuestran ser lo bastante valientes como para mirar al pasado, podrán verlo bajo una luz diferente y vivir el presente con serenidad. ¿Serán capaces de aprovechar la oportunidad? Reseñas: «Un estudio sobre el amor y el arrepentimiento en cuatro actos, escrito con una prosa fluida y onírica. Sencillo, sentimental y profundo». Publishers Weekly «Un libro que suaviza el corazón». Booklist De la serie han dicho: «Encantadora». New York Times Book Review «Conmovedora, singular y nostálgica». Huffpost «Kawaguchi ha encontrado la fórmula para utilizar de forma diferente un cliché tan común como los viajes en el tiempo y, a modo de legado, ha conseguido capturar el poder de la felicidad». Library Journal «El impactante carisma de estos libros sirve como un duradero bálsamo para las emociones». Booklist

The It Girl
Ruth Ware · 2022
<p>"The pages turn themselves" ( People ) in this white-knuckled mystery following a woman on the search for answers a decade after her friend's murder from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ruth Ware. April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford.Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends—Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily—during their first term. By the end of the year, April was dead.Now, a decade later, Hannah and Will are expecting their first child, and the man convicted of killing April, former Oxford porter John Neville, has died in prison. Relieved to have finally put the past behind her, Hannah's world is rocked when a young journalist comes knocking and presents new evidence that Neville may have been innocent. As Hannah reconnects with old friends and delves deeper into the mystery of April's death, she realizes that the friends she thought she knew all have something to hide…including a murder."The Agatha Christie of our generation" (David Baldacci, #1 New York Times bestselling author) presents a "deliciously dark and utterly addictive" (Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author) mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat.<br></p>

Happy Place
Emily Henry · 2023
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!<br/><br/>“The beach-read master hooks us again."—People<br/><br/>Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by BuzzFeed ∙ Paste Magazine ∙ Elle ∙ Southern Living ∙ SheReads ∙ Culturess ∙ Medium ∙ Her Campus ∙ Readers Digest ∙ Zibby Mag and more!<br/><br/>A couple who broke up months ago pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.<br/><br/>Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now—for reasons they’re still not discussing—they don’t.<br/><br/>They broke up five months ago. And still haven’t told their best friends.<br/><br/>Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blissful week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most.<br/><br/>Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they’ll all have together in this place. They can’t stand to break their friends’ hearts, and so they’ll play their parts. Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show. It’s a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses). After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one week…in front of those who know you best?

The God of the Woods
Liz Moore · 2024
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2024 A NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLER OF 2024 A NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF 2024 PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY TOP 10 PICK OF 2024 ONE OF NPR’S “BOOKS WE LOVE” 2024 ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S “100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024” NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: REAL SIMPLE ● OPRAH DAILY ● NEWSWEEK ● VULTURE “Extraordinary . . . Reminds me of Donna Tartt’s 1992 debut, The Secret History . . . I was so thoroughly submerged in a rich fictional world, that for hours I barely came up for air.” —Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air, NPR “This expertly paced thriller ...has the kineticism of a well-crafted miniseries.” —The New Yorker When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found. As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow, Moore’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore’s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet.

Cleopatra y Frankenstein
Coco Mellors · 2023

El otro Hollywood
Eve Babitz · 2018
«Me parecía a Brigitte Bardot y era la ahijada de Stravinsky.» Así se definía Eve Babitz, musa del Los Ángeles de los sesenta y setenta que con apenas treinta años publicó estas memorias dignas de una estrella de Hollywood.<br/><br/>Fotógrafa y escritora, Babitz encarnó en su juventud una mezcla única entre la California más liberada y la élite cultural del momento. Jim Morrison le dedicó una canción, se dejó fotografiar jugando al ajedrez desnuda con Marcel Duchamp, presentó a Dalí y Frank Zappa, y contó entre sus amantes a Harrison Ford, Ed Ruscha o Steve Martin.<br/><br/>Babitz define sus memorias como «novela confesional», pero lo que aquí nos regala es más parecido a pasear con ella mientras la ciudad se rinde a su pedigrí provocador. Con un humor afilado, nos cuenta su vida como una amiga que ha tomado unas copas de más. Vemos a los jóvenes de L.A. a través de los ojos de una Eve adolescente tumbada en Venice Beach, compartimos viajes de LSD regados con champán en el Chateau Marmont en compañía de futuras estrellas del rock y nos enamoramos de esta bonne vivante capaz de dedicar un capítulo a los mejores tacos de la ciudad.<br/><br/>El otro Hollywood es el universo de una chica que adoraba las fiestas tanto como los libros de Henry James, Colette o Virginia Woolf. Es el paraíso de una joven que se entregó a la provocación y el ensueño de una ciudad que fue su razón de ser. Es, por encima de todo, la historia de una mujer que, en esa sociedad hipnótica y volátil, entendió las ventajas que comportaba mantenerse fiel a sí misma.<br/><br/>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION<br/><br/>Journalist, party girl, bookworm, artist, muse: by the time she’d hit thirty, Eve Babitz had played all of these roles. Immortalized as the nude beauty facing down Duchamp and as one of Ed Ruscha’s Five 1965 Girlfriends, Babitz’s first book showed her to be a razor-sharp writer with tales of her own. Eve’s Hollywood is an album of vivid snapshots of Southern California’s haute bohemians, of outrageously beautiful high-school ingenues and enviably tattooed Chicanas, of rock stars sleeping it off at the Chateau Marmont. And though Babitz’s prose might appear careening, she’s in control as she takes us on a ride through an LA of perpetual delight, from a joint serving the perfect taquito, to the corner of La Brea and Sunset where we make eye contact with a roller-skating hooker, to the Watts Towers. This "daughter of the wasteland" is here to show us that her city is no wasteland at all but a glowing landscape of swaying fruit trees and blooming bougainvillea, buffeted by earthquakes and the Santa Ana winds—and every bit as seductive as she is.

The Woman Destroyed
Simone De Beauvoir · 1987
One of the most influential thinkers of her generationdraws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises in these three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald Times).<br/><br/>Suffused with de Beauvoir’s remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best. Includes "The Age of Discretion," "The Monologue," and "The Woman Destroyed."<br/><br/>"Witty, immensely adroit...These three women are believable individuals presented with a wry mixture of sympathy and exasperation." —The Atlantic

Sex and Rage
Eve Babitz · 2017
NATIONAL BESTSELLER<br/>An NPR Best Book of 2017<br/>A Bellatrist Book Club Pick for July 2017<br/>The Paris Review Staff Pick<br/>1 of 12 Great New Books to Bring to the Beach This Summer (The Huffington Post)<br/>1 of 9 Books to Read This Summer (W and Elle)<br/>1 of 10 Titles to Pick Up Now (O Magazine)<br/>1 of 6 Smarter―But Not Quite Guilt-Free―Beach Reads (VICE)<br/><br/>"This novel is studded with sharp observations . . . Babitz’s talent for the brilliant line, honed to a point, never interferes with her feel for languid pleasures." ―The New York Times Book Review<br/><br/>The popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue of her novel, originally published in 1979, about a dreamy young girl moving between the planets of Los Angeles and New York City.<br/><br/>We first meet Jacaranda in Los Angeles. She’s a beach bum, a part-time painter of surfboards, sun-kissed and beautiful. Jacaranda has an on-again, off-again relationship with a married man and glitters among the city’s pretty creatures, blithely drinking White Ladies with any number of tycoons, unattached and unworried in the pleasurable mania of California. Yet she lacks a purpose―so at twenty-eight, jobless, she moves to New York to start a new life and career, eager to make it big in the world of New York City.<br/><br/>Sex and Rage delights in its sensuous, dreamlike narrative and its spontaneous embrace of fate, and work, and of certain meetings and chances. Jacaranda moves beyond the tango of sex and rage into the open challenge of a defined and more fulfilling expressive life. Sex and Rage further solidifies Eve Babitz's place as a singularly important voice in Los Angeles literature―haunting, alluring, and alive.

Really Good, Actually
Monica Heisey · 2023
‘Monica Heisey’s observations on men, women, friendship, love and sex are equal parts hilarious and profound’ Dolly Alderton, author of Everything I Know About Love<br/><br/>‘Wildly funny and almost alarmingly relatable’ Marian Keyes, author of Again, Rachel<br/><br/>'Hilarious, heart-warming, wise' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train<br/><br/>One of the most hotly anticipated, hilarious and addictive debut novels of 2023, from Schitt’s Creek screenwriter and electric new voice in fiction, Monica Heisey.<br/><br/>I feel like when you get a divorce everyone’s wondering how you ruined it all, what made you so unbearable to be with. If your husband dies, at least people feel bad for you.<br/><br/>Maggie’s marriage has ended just 608 days after it started, but she’s fine – she’s doing really good, actually. Sure, she’s alone for the first time in her life, can’t afford her rent and her obscure PhD is going nowhere . . . but at the age of twenty-nine, Maggie is determined to embrace her new status as a Surprisingly Young Divorcée.<br/><br/>Soon she’s taking up ‘sadness hobbies’ and getting back out there, sex-wise, oversharing in the group chat and drinking with her high-intensity new divorced friend Amy. As Maggie throws herself headlong into the chaos of her first year of divorce, she finds herself questioning everything, including: Why do we still get married? Did I fail before I even got started? How many Night Burgers until I’m happy?<br/><br/>Laugh-out-loud funny, razor sharp and painfully relatable, Really Good, Actually is an irresistible debut novel about the uncertainties of modern love, friendship and happiness from a stunning new voice in fiction, Monica Heisey.<br/><br/>‘A smart, funny and warm debut with such a strong voice’ Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of Everyone Is Still Alive<br/><br/>‘Monica Heisey makes me laugh hard and often’ Rob Delaney

The Rachel Incident
Caroline O'Donoghue · 2023
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A USA TODAY BESTSELLER • A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all three • “O'Donoghue deepens the familiar coming-of-age premise with riveting moral complications." —People<br/><br/>"If you’ve ever been unsure what to do with your degree in English; if you’ve ever wondered when the rug-buying part of your life will start...if you’ve ever loved the wrong person, or the right person at the wrong time…In short, if you’ve ever been young, you will love The Rachel Incident like I did.” —Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times best-selling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow<br/><br/>Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it’s love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot through the streets of Cork city, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while the threat of the financial crash looms before them.<br/><br/>When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr. Fred Byrne, James helps her devise a reading at their local bookstore, with the goal that she might seduce him afterwards. But Fred has other desires. So begins a series of secrets and compromises that intertwine the fates of James, Rachel, Fred, and Fred’s glamorous, well-connected, bourgeois wife. Aching with unrequited love, shot through with delicious, sparkling humor, The Rachel Incident is a triumph.

You Are Here
Nicholls David · 2024
From the internationally bestselling and Booker Prize-longlisted author of One Day, one of the most enduring love stories of its generation, comes an uplifting and unputdownable love story about second chances.<br/><br/>Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way...<br/><br/>Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his wife's departure, he has begun taking himself on long, solitary walks across the English countryside. Becoming ever more reclusive, he’ll do anything to avoid his empty house.<br/><br/>Marnie, on the other hand, is stuck. Hiding alone in her London flat, she avoids old friends and any reminders of her rotten, selfish ex-husband. Curled up with a good book, she’s battling the long afternoons of a life that feels like it’s passing her by.<br/><br/>When a persistent mutual friend and some very unpredictable weather conspire to toss Michael and Marnie together on the most epic of ten-day hikes, neither of them can think of anything worse. Until, of course, they discover exactly what they’ve been looking for.<br/><br/>Michael and Marnie are on the precipice of a bright future ... if they can survive the journey.<br/><br/>A hilarious, hopeful, and heartwarming love story—the novel beloved New York Times bestselling author David Nicholls calls “my funniest book yet”—You Are Here is a bittersweet and hopeful story of first encounters, second chances, and finding the way home.

The Comeback
Ella Berman · 2020
A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! • An empowering, behind-the-scenes novel of a young Hollywood actress and the dark secret she’s ready to confront. One of Summer 2020’s Most Anticipated Novels Marie Claire, Entertainment Weekly, Oprah magazine, Bustle, E! Online, Popsugar, Goodreads, Today Show online, New York Post, Betches, Better Homes & Gardens, HelloGiggles, Bad on Paper podcast, The Stripe, Shondaland, HuffPost, CNN.com, Mashable “Beautifully written and compulsively readable…At its core, this book is about redemption, grace, and pain.” —Jenna Bush Hager “A novel so full-blooded, so humane, that the pages feel almost warm to the touch. A clarifying, purifying chronicle of a promising young woman gone astray and the story of her comeback. Grace Turner can do it. You can do it, too.” —A.J. Finn Grace Turner was one movie away from Hollywood’s A-List. So no one understood why, at the height of her career and on the eve of her first Golden Globe nomination, she disappeared. Now, one year later, Grace is back in Los Angeles and ready to reclaim her life on her own terms. When Grace is asked to present a lifetime achievement award to director Able Yorke—the man who controlled her every move for eight years—she knows there’s only one way she’ll be free of the secret that’s already taken so much from her. The Comeback is a moving and provocative story of justice—a true page-turner about a young woman finding the strength and power of her voice.

About a Boy
Nick Hornby

Mesa para dos
Amor Towles · 2025
Uno de los mejores libros de Amazon de 2024 hasta ahora<br/><br/>Vuelve el celebrado autor de Un caballero en Moscú<br/><br/>«Un libro espectacular. [...] Un triunfo» -The New York Times<br/><br/>«Quizá su mejor libro hasta la fecha.» -Los Angeles Times<br/><br/>Tras cautivar a millones de lectores con Un caballero en Moscú, Amor Towles vuelve a seducirnos con su elegancia, humor e ingenio narrativo en Mesa para dos, seis relatos que transcurren en Nueva York al filo del cambio del milenio y una novela breve ambientada en la Edad de Oro de Hollywood.<br/><br/>Aparentemente inconexas, todas estas historias presentan un momento crítico en que dos personas deben sentarse a una mesa para abordar asuntos tan universales como la búsqueda de la felicidad, el poder del dinero o la subversión de las normas sociales. Así sucede en relatos tan conmovedores como «La cola», que sigue el periplo de dos campesinos rusos, Pushkin y su mujer Irina, desde su aldea hasta Nueva York pasando por Moscú, mientras intentan desarrollar su potencial sin traicionar sus ideales; o en «La balada de Timothy Touchett», donde un escritor frustrado acepta un trabajo poco edificante hasta que Paul Auster se cruza en su camino. O en «Eve en Hollywood», una vibrante novela con tintes de género negro que nos permite reencontrarnos con Evelyn Ross, la indomable protagonista de Normas de cortesía, aquí decidida a labrarse un futuro entre platós, bungalós y los antros más oscuros de Los Ángeles de los años cuarenta.<br/><br/>Creador de personajes que nos transportan en el tiempo y nos dejan una huella imborrable, Amor Towles muestra de nuevo su enorme talento en Mesa para dos. En este fascinante libro, lleno de dramatismo, agudeza, erudición y ternura, el autor vuelve a sus temas de siempre —las relaciones, la familia, la confianza, la ambición, la culpa o el valor de la amistad— con su acostumbrada hondura y belleza.<br/><br/>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION<br/><br/>Amazon Best Books of 2024 So Far<br/><br/>An Instant New York Times Bestseller<br/><br/>“A knockout collection. ... Sharp-edged satire deceptively wrapped like a box of Neuhaus chocolates, Table for Two is a winner.” —The New York Times<br/><br/>“Superb ... This may be Towles’ best book yet. Each tale is as satisfying as a master chef’s main course, filled with drama, wit, erudition and, most of all, heart.” —Los Angeles Times<br/><br/>Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood.<br/><br/>The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at the heart of modern marriages.<br/><br/>In Towles’s novel Rules of Civility, the indomitable Evelyn Ross leaves New York City in September 1938 with the intention of returning home to Indiana. But as her train pulls into Chicago, where her parents are waiting, she instead extends her ticket to Los Angeles. Told from seven points of view, “Eve in Hollywood” describes how Eve crafts a new future for herself—and others—in a noirish tale that takes us through the movie sets, bungalows, and dive bars of Los Angeles.<br/><br/>Written with his signature wit, humor, and sophistication, Table for Two is another glittering addition to Towles’s canon of stylish and transporting fiction.
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Querida Dolly: Sobre al amor, la vida y la amistad
Dolly Alderton · 2023

Te gusta el arte aunque no lo sepas
Sara Rubayo · 2022
¿Te gusta el arte? Sea cual sea la respuesta, este libro es para ti.<br/>Es más que probable que seas de los que piensa que el arte clásico es tan bonito como aburrido. Y del arte contemporáneo mejor ni hablamos… Todo parece secuestrado por una «élite selecta y académica» con la que no te identificas.<br/>Pero, en realidad, la historia del arte tiene más que ver con tu vida y tus problemas de lo que te imaginas, y responde a muchos de los porqués de la historia, pasada y presente. A veces al arte le da por ser refinado y exquisito, y se propone cumplir normas, igual que nosotros cuando empieza un nuevo año; pero otras veces explora caminos nuevos y se salta las reglas. Los grafitis, por ejemplo, ¡existen desde la época de los egipcios!<br/>Sara Rubayo, historiadora del arte y divulgadora cultural, nos propone en Te gusta el arte aunque no lo sepas una visión de la historia del arte que no conocías, en la que descubrirás que, efectivamente, aunque todavía no lo sepas, te gusta el arte, y que su historia es tu historia.

Antes de que se enfríe el café
Toshikazu Kawaguchi · 2023
Una mesa, un café y una decisión. Eso es todo lo que hace falta para ser feliz.<br/>Una novela sobre el amor, el tiempo perdido y las oportunidades que están por llegar.<br/><br/>Un best seller internacional que ya ha vendido 1.000.000 de copias.<br/>Un rumor circula por Tokio... Oculta en uno de sus callejones hay una pequeña cafetería que merece la pena visitar no solo por su excelente café, sino también porque, si eliges bien la silla donde sentarte, puedes regresar al pasado. Pero como incluso lo increíble está sujeto a limitaciones, no podrás salir de la cafetería mientras dure el viaje, volverás cuando el café se enfríe y, hagas lo que hagas, el presente no cambiará.<br/>A través de las emocionantes historias de cuatro clientes que se atreven a embarcarse en esta aventura por motivos diferentes, Antes de que se enfríe el café nosofrece un relato atemporal sobre el amor, las oportunidades perdidas y la esperanza de un futuro que siempre está por llegar.<br/>La crítica ha dicho:<br/><br/>«Antes de que se enfríe el café está destinada a convertirse en un éxito internacional».<br/>Publisher's Weekly<br/>«Más de un millón de ejemplares vendidos».<br/>The Bookseller<br/>«Una lectura memorable y cautivadora».<br/>Books and Bao<br/>«A través de sus cuatro personajes principales, Kawaguchi demuestra una profunda comprensión de las relaciones y del amor».<br/>The Straits Times<br/>«Una lectura inspiradora y llena de esperanza que se queda contigo mucho después de que hayas terminado de leer. Hará las delicias de los entusiastas de la cultura japonesa con su evocador y romántico retrato de Tokio».<br/>Pop Culture Bandit<br/>Citas de lectores:<br/><br/>«Un tema complejo, pero que se trata de una forma aparentemente simple, hace de esta una inolvidable novela. Las emociones que evoca son eternas y universales».<br/>«Antes de que se enfríe el café es una encantadora e inteligente historia acerca de cómo, no importa cuánto lo intentemos, no podemos cambiar el pasado y solo nos queda aprender de nuestros errores y crecer. Disfruté mucho de este emotivo relato».<br/>«Me gustaron los personajes tan idiosincráticos y su amable sentido del humor, que se deja entrever de vez en cuando. Si estás buscando una lectura breve y diferente, este es tu libro».<br/>«Una novela encantadora que te deja con mucho en lo que pensar».<br/>«Hay historias intimistas que te llegan. Y esta es una de ellas. Adoro de vez en cuando leer una buena idea, sencilla y bien desarrollada y eso es lo que nos encontramos aquí».

Las buenas chicas
Emily Layden · 2021
Product Description<br/><br/>AL PRINCIPIO AMAS EL LUGAR AL QUE PERTENECES. LUEGO MADURAS.<br/><br/>«Retrata de manera sublime la vida en un internado de Nueva Inglaterra.»<br/>The New York Times<br/><br/>«Una novela perfecta para los lectores de Sally Rooney y Curtis Sittenfeld.»<br/>Sant Martin´s Press<br/>Atwater es un exclusivo internado femenino de Nueva Inglaterra, cuna de intelectuales feministas y de pensamiento moderno. Sus alumnas son brillantes, decididas y sofisticadas, pero en el fondo no dejan de ser también adolescentes que buscan su propio camino, exploran sus ambiciones y se enfrentan a sus miedos.<br/>Nada más empezar el curso, sale a la luz una alarmante noticia: una de las alumnas ha puesto una denuncia contra un profesor por conducta sexual inapropiada y el centro pretende silenciar el escándalo. A medida que pasan las semanas, las nueve extraordinarias protagonistas -cuyas voces se van alternando en esta inteligente novela- se darán cuenta de que los adultos quizá no puedan protegerlas como ellas creían.<br/>Emily Layden captura con maestría la complejidad de la adolescencia en esta historia que, alabada por la crítica y los lectores, va detallando los acontecimientos que se suceden en el internado para abordar un tema universal: el difícil paso de las niñas a la edad adulta en nuestra sociedad.<br/>La crítica ha dicho:<br/>«Las páginas vuelan. Las protagonistas, descritas con infinita ternura, son complejas y cautivadoras. Layden retrata de manera sublime los detalles cotidianos de la vida en un internado.»<br/>The New York Times<br/>«Incisiva, aguda# Layden logra aliviar las consecuencias del silencio institucional.»<br/>Publishers Weekly<br/>«Una interpretación crucial de la sexualidad y el movimiento #MeToo desde la perspectiva de las más jóvenes.»<br/>Library Journal<br/>«Una historia que captura de manera sagaz la claustrofobia y la tóxica cultura de la conformidad entre las adolescentes.»<br/>The Observer<br/>«Los lectores se descubrirán pensando en estos personajes, vívidos y construidos con compasión, mucho después de haber terminado el libro# Regálaselo a los fans adultos de Gossip Girl y a los lectores de Emma Straub.»<br/>Booklist<br/>«Sumergiéndose en el infierno de la adolescencia, Layden crea un espacio para conversar sobre feminismo y la olvidada dificultad de sobrevivir en un mundo dominado por los hombres. Inteligente, evocadora y empática.»<br/>Kirkus<br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/>Emily Layden se graduó en la universidad de Stanford, y ha sido profesora en varias escuelas femeninas. Ha publicado en The New York Times, Marie Claire, The Huffington Post, Runner's World y The Billfold. Las buenas chicas es su primera novela.

Todo lo que sé sobre el amor
Dolly Alderton · 2021

Carrie Soto Is Back
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2022
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An epic adventure about a female athlete perhaps past her prime, brought back to the tennis court for one last grand slam” (Elle), from the author of Malibu Rising, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo<br/><br/>“A heart-filled novel about an iconic and persevering father and daughter.”—Time<br/><br/>“Gorgeous. The kind of sharp, smart, potent book you have to set aside every few pages just to catch your breath. I’ll take a piece of Carrie Soto forward with me in life and be a little better for it.”—Emily Henry, author of Book Lovers and Beach Read<br/><br/>ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, PopSugar, Glamour, Reader’s Digest<br/><br/>Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. But by the time she retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Grand Slam titles. And if you ask Carrie, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father, Javier, as her coach. A former champion himself, Javier has trained her since the age of two.<br/><br/>But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning player named Nicki Chan.<br/><br/>At thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to reclaim her record. Even if the sports media says that they never liked “the Battle-Axe” anyway. Even if her body doesn’t move as fast as it did. And even if it means swallowing her pride to train with a man she once almost opened her heart to: Bowe Huntley. Like her, he has something to prove before he gives up the game forever.<br/><br/>In spite of it all, Carrie Soto is back, for one epic final season. In this riveting and unforgettable novel, Taylor Jenkins Reid tells her most vulnerable, emotional story yet.

Amarilla
Rebecca F. Kuang · 2023
EL LADO OSCURO DEL MUNDILLO LITERARIO. Athena Liu es una escritora famosa y June Hayward es una escritora a la que no conocen ni en su casa. Cuando Athena muere de forma tan inesperada como extraña, June le roba su último manuscrito. Y no solo eso: lo publica como si fuera obra suya. Sin embargo, hay evidencias que amenazan con poner en peligro el éxito que June ha conseguido de manera tan (por decirlo finamente) cuestionable. Y es entonces cuando descubre hasta dónde está dispuesta a llegar para conservar la vida que ella cree que merece. CON ESTA EMOCIONANTE Y AFILADÍSIMA NOVELA, REBECCA F. KUANG, LA AUTORA SUPERVENTAS NÚMERO 1 DEL NEW YORK TIMES, LOGRA QUE , NOS PREGUNTEMOS: ¿Y SI, ANTE EL ÉXITO, TODOS SOMOS BUITRES?

Todos mis poemas hablan de ti
Manu Erena · 2025
LA ESPERADA PRIMERA NOVELA DE MANU ERENA, EL FENÓMENO DE LA POESÍA Y AUTOR DE CONSECUENCIAS DE DECIR TE QUIERO.<br/><br/>PRIMERA EDICIÓN LIMITADA CON CANTOS TINTADOS<br/><br/>¿Cuándo se está realmente preparado para empezar a vivir?<br/><br/>¿Cuál es el momento adecuado para volverse a enamorar?<br/><br/>Ander y Olivia son dos extraños que coinciden por azar una noche en Barcelona. Ambos, cada uno a su manera, luchan por encontrar su lugar y arrastran fantasmas del pasado que les impiden superar sus errores y miedos. Cuando se despiden, creen que lo que han compartido ha sido una bonita pero fugaz casualidad y que nunca volverán a encontrarse. Sin embargo, el destino a menudo es caprichoso y pronto sus vidas se verán irremediablemente entrelazadas.<br/><br/>Entre poemas, fiestas universitarias, confesiones susurradas, nuevas amistades, despedidas y atardeceres con conversaciones frente al mar, los dos descubrirán lo difícil que es volver a querer para un corazón hecho trizas, lo que les obligará a enfrentarse a sus propias heridas. Solo así tendrán la oportunidad de descubrir el mundo nuevo, emocionante y a veces aterrador que se abre ante ellos para escribir una historia que hasta ahora no creían merecer.<br/><br/>A VECES, LO ÚNICO QUE NECESITAMOS ES LA OPORTUNIDAD DE VOLVER A EMPEZAR.<br/><br/>Una novela tierna y emotiva de la mano de Manu Erena, el joven fenómeno de la poesía y autor superventas de Consecuencias de decir te quiero. Una historia sobre segundas oportunidades escrita para quienes buscan su camino sin dejarse frenar por el miedo.<br/><br/>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION<br/><br/>THE EAGERLY AWAITED FIRST NOVEL BY MANU ERENA, THE POETRY SENSATION AND AUTHOR OF CONSEQUENCES OF SAYING I LOVE YOU.<br/>FIRST LIMITED EDITION WITH SPRAYED EDGES.<br/><br/>How do you know when you’re ready to start living?<br/><br/>What’s the right time to fall in love again?<br/><br/>Ander and Olivia are two strangers who meet by chance one evening in Barcelona. Each in their own way is trying to find a path forward in life, haunted by ghosts from the past that keep them from facing their mistakes and fears. They part believing that the night they shared was a beautiful but fleeting encounter, sure that they will never meet again. Fate has other plans, however, and their lives soon become irrevocably intertwined.<br/><br/>Amid poems, college parties, whispered confessions, new friendships, goodbyes, and afternoons spent talking by the sea, Ander and Olivia discover how hard it is to for a broken heart to love again. Only by coming to terms with their pain can they discover the fresh, exciting and sometimes terrifying world opening before them, allowing them to write a new story they didn’t think they deserved.<br/><br/>SOMETIMES, ALL WE NEED IS A CHANCE TO START OVER.<br/><br/>A tender and moving novel by Manu Erena, the young poetry sensation and bestselling author of Consequences of Saying I Love You. A story about second chances written for everyone looking for the courage to move forward.

48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister
Oates, Joyce Carol · 2023

High Fidelity
Nick Hornby · 1996
Now a Hulu TV series starring Zoë Kravitz!<br/><br/>"I've always loved Nick Hornby, and the way he writes characters and the way he thinks. It's funny and heartbreaking all at the same time."—Zoë Kravitz<br/><br/>From the bestselling author of About a Boy, A Long Way Down and Dickens and Prince, a wise and hilarious novel about love, heartbreak, and rock and roll.<br/><br/>Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserable and relieved. After all, could he have spent his life with someone who has a bad record collection? Rob seeks refuge in the company of the offbeat clerks at his store, who endlessly review their top five films; top five Elvis Costello songs; top five episodes of Cheers.<br/><br/>Rob tries dating a singer, but maybe it’s just that he’s always wanted to sleep with someone who has a record contract. Then he sees Laura again. And Rob begins to think that life with kids, marriage, barbecues, and soft rock CDs might not be so bad.

We Were Liars
E. Lockhart · 2018
<b>NOW AVAILABLE AS THE ORIGINAL STREAMING SERIES <i>WE WERE LIARS—</i>AND LOOK FOR E. LOCKHART’S NEW NOVEL IN THE WE WERE LIARS UNIVERSE, <i>WE FELL APART</i>, COMING NOVEMBER 4, 2025<br><br>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • A <i>KIRKUS REVIEWS</i> BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE CENTURY • The modern, sophisticated suspense novel that became a runaway smash hit on TikTok and introduced the world to a family hiding a jaw-dropping secret.<br><br>"Thrilling, beautiful, and blisteringly smart, <i>We Were Liars</i> is utterly unforgettable." —John Green, #1<i> New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Fault in Our Stars</i><br><br></b>A beautiful and distinguished family.<br>A private island.<br>A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.<br>A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.<br>A revolution. An accident. A secret.<br>Lies upon lies.<br>True love.<br>The truth.<br><br>Read it.<br>And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.<b><br><br>Don’t miss any of the We Were Liars novels<br>WE WERE LIARS • FAMILY OF LIARS • WE FELL APART (Coming in November!)<br></b>

Beach Read
Emily Henry · 2020
<b><b>FROM THE #1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF <i>FUNNY STORY</i>!<br><br>A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.<br><br>As featured in <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> ∙ <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> ∙ <i>Oprah Magazine</i> ∙ Betches ∙ Shondaland ∙ Good Morning America ∙ <i>The New York Post</i> ∙ <i>Good Housekeeping</i> ∙ CNN ∙ and more!</b></b><br><br>Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. <br><br>They’re polar opposites. <br><br>In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block.<br><br>Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.

Los griegos y nosotros
Ricardo Moreno Castillo · 2019
Product Description<br/><br/>Autor del polémico Breve tratado sobre la estupidez humana, Ricardo Moreno nos presenta en Los griegos y nosotros un entusiasta alegato en favor de una educación de horizonte y empeño humanistas, últimamente «tan amenazada por una pedagogía de retórica populista y mediática», en palabras de Carlos García Gual. Moreno aboga por un tenaz elogio del valor educativo de la cultura y la lengua de Grecia y Roma, alertándonos sobre el suicidio que supone el olvido de los clásicos. Supone, pues, una apología razonada y apasionada de los estudios del griego y el latín y las Humanidades de raigambre clásica, que desde hace años están siendo ahogados y marginados por mezquinos y menguados programas oficiales tanto en la Enseñanza Secundaria como en la Universidad.<br/><br/>From the Inside Flap<br/><br/>Autor del polémico Breve tratado sobre la estupidez humana, Ricardo Moreno nos presenta en Los griegos y nosotros un entusiasta alegato en favor de una educación de horizonte y empeño humanistas, últimamente «tan amenazada por una pedagogía de retórica populista y mediática», en palabras de Carlos García Gual. Moreno aboga por un tenaz elogio del valor educativo de la cultura y la lengua de Grecia y Roma, alertándonos sobre el suicidio que supone el olvido de los clásicos. Supone, pues, una apología razonada y apasionada de los estudios del griego y el latín y las Humanidades de raigambre clásica, que desde hace años están siendo ahogados y marginados por mezquinos y menguados programas oficiales tanto en la Enseñanza Secundaria como en la Universidad. Como advierte Moreno, la obsesiva admiración de algunos teóricos de la pedagogía por las nuevas tecnologías, junto a un enfoque de la educación hacia lo más actual y más rentable en el mercado de trabajo, han propiciado un menosprecio notorio del legado cultural del pasado. Avezado maestro en el arte de espigar y comentar textos de escritores y pensadores de todos los tiempos, Moreno entabla con ellos un amistoso y discreto coloquio en defensa del humanismo clásico. No se trata tanto de erudición o arqueología como de reinterpretación y relectura. Por eso es importante volver a estudiar a los griegos y romanos, porque perviven sugerentes y seductores y, como sucede con los clásicos, siempre tienen algo más que decirnos.<br/><br/>From the Back Cover<br/><br/>Autor del polémico Breve tratado sobre la estupidez humana, Ricardo Moreno nos presenta en Los griegos y nosotros un entusiasta alegato en favor de una educación de horizonte y empeño humanistas, últimamente «tan amenazada por una pedagogía de retórica populista y mediática», en palabras de Carlos García Gual. Moreno aboga por un tenaz elogio del valor educativo de la cultura y la lengua de Grecia y Roma, alertándonos sobre el suicidio que supone el olvido de los clásicos. Supone, pues, una apología razonada y apasionada de los estudios del griego y el latín y las Humanidades de raigambre clásica, que desde hace años están siendo ahogados y marginados por mezquinos y menguados programas oficiales tanto en la Enseñanza Secundaria como en la Universidad. Como advierte Moreno, la obsesiva admiración de algunos teóricos de la pedagogía por las nuevas tecnologías, junto a un enfoque de la educación hacia lo más actual y más rentable en el mercado de trabajo, han propiciado un menosprecio notorio del legado cultural del pasado. Avezado maestro en el arte de espigar y comentar textos de escritores y pensadores de todos los tiempos, Moreno entabla con ellos un amistoso y discreto coloquio en defensa del humanismo clásico. No se trata tanto de erudición o arqueología como de reinterpretación y relectura. Por eso es importante volver a estudiar a los griegos y romanos, porque perviven sugerentes y seductores y, como sucede con los clásicos, siempre tienen algo más que decirnos.<br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/>Ricardo Moreno Castillo (Madrid, 1950), licenciado en matemáticas y doctor en filosofía especializado en historia de la ciencia, ha sido catedrático de instituto hast

Mythos: Guía ilustrada de mitología griega
Carlota Santos · 2025
ADÉNTRATE EN EL FASCINANTE MUNDO DE LA MITOLOGÍA GRIEGA<br/><br/>LAS MUSAS, LOS DIOSES Y LOS HÉROES GRIEGOS NOS ILUMINAN EL PRESENTE CON LAS LEYENDAS DE AMOR, TRAICIÓN Y VENGANZA QUE HAN PERDURADO A LO LARGO DE LOS SIGLOS.<br/><br/>Sumérgete en un viaje épico a través de los mitos de la antigua Grecia con esta guía ilustrada imprescindible.<br/><br/>Cada página está repleta de ilustraciones vibrantes y detalladas, acompañadas por textos que exploran las historias y los simbolismos detrás de cada mito.<br/><br/>Mythos devuelve a lavida a dioses, héroes y criaturas míticas –Zeus y sus amantes, Aracne, Medusa, Eros y Psique…– y ofrece una visión completa y fresca de la mitología griega.<br/><br/>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION<br/><br/>EXPLORE THE FASCINATING WORLD OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY<br/><br/>MUSES, GODS AND HEROES HAVE LESSONS FOR THE PRESENT IN THESE ENDURING STORIES OF LOVE, BETRAYAL AND REVENGE.<br/><br/>Immerse yourself in an epic voyage through ancient Greek myth with this authoritative illustrated guide.<br/><br/>Every page features vibrant and detailed illustrations, accompanied by texts that explore the stories and symbolism behind each myth.<br/><br/>Mythos breathes new life into gods, heroes and mythic creatures – Zeus and his lovers, Arachne, Medusa, Eros, Psyche and others – in this comprehensive and fresh take on Greek mythology.

The Mad Women's Ball
Victoria Mas · 2021
A New York Times best historical novel of the year, Victoria Mas’s The Mad Women’s Ball is a feminist literary thriller, adapted as a major film for Amazon Prime. “In this darkly delightful Gothic treasure, Mas explores grief, trauma, and sisterhood behind the walls of Paris’s infamous Salpêtrière hospital.” —Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train The Salpêtrière Asylum: Paris, 1885. Dr. Charcot holds all of Paris in thrall with his displays of hypnotism on women who have been deemed mad and cast out from society. But the truth is much more complicated—these women are often simply inconvenient, unwanted wives, those who have lost something precious, wayward daughters, or girls born from adulterous relationships. For Parisian society, the highlight of the year is the Lenten ball—the Mad Women’s Ball—when the great and good come to gawk at the patients of the Salpêtrière dressed up in their finery for one night only. For the women themselves, it is a rare moment of hope. Genevieve is a senior nurse. After the childhood death of her sister Blandine, she shunned religion and placed her faith in both the celebrated psychiatrist Dr. Charcot and science. But everything begins to change when she meets Eugenie, the 19-year-old daughter of a bourgeois family that has locked her away in the asylum. Because Eugenie has a secret: she sees spirits. Inspired by the scandalous, banned work that all of Paris is talking about, The Book of Spirits, Eugenie is determined to escape from the asylum—and the bonds of her gender—and seek out those who will believe in her. And for that she will need Genevieve’ help . . .

La noche de los insomnes
M.L. RIO · 2024
La autora de Todos somos villanos, éxito de ventas a nivel internacional, regresa con una historia sobre un grupo variopinto de trabajadores que se reúne una noche en el cementerio local para desenterrar los secretos escondidos en una tumba abierta. Cada noche, en el antiguo cementerio de la universidad, cinco personas se reúnen mientras trabajan en el turno de noche: un camarero, una taxista, la recepcionista de un hotel, el guardián de la iglesia en ruinas que se cierne sobre ellos y la redactora jefe del periódico de la universidad, siempre en busca de alguna historia. Pero, una noche oscura de octubre, encuentran en el cementerio olvidado un agujero que no estaba allí antes: una tumba recién abierta donde no debería haber ninguna. Pero ¿quién la ha excavado y para qué? Antes de separarse, el culpable regresa. Al seguirlo, descubren que quizás sea la clave para esclarecer una serie de extraños sucesos que ocurren en la ciudad y que han sido noticia en las últimas semanas..., y puede que estén más cerca del misterio de lo que pensaban.

Todo final es un comienzo
Dolly Alderton · 2024
TODA RELACIÓN TIENE UN COMIENZO. ESTA TIENE DOS FINALES.<br/>De la autora del bestseller internacional Todo lo que sé sobre el amor. Más de 1 millón de ejemplares vendidos.<br/>LA VOZ DE LA GENERACIÓN MILLENNIAL.<br/>«Cercana, divertida y original.» Elle<br/>Andy, un monologuista de treinta y cinco años, intenta procesar su ruptura con Jen tras cuatro años de relación. La vida a los treinta está muy lejos de ser como esperaba: su carrera no termina de despegar, se ve obligado a compartir piso con un anciano paranoico, se da cuenta de que los rollos de una noche no están hechos para él y, por si fuera poco, cada vez resulta más difícil convocar a su grupo de amigos porque todos están felizmente casados.<br/>En un momento en el que todo lo que creía saber sobre el amor y la amistad se ha vuelto irreconocible, Andy se aferra a la idea de resolver el rompecabezas de su relación rota. Porque si puede encontrar las respuestas, tal vez Jen pueda regresar a él. Pero Andy todavía tiene mucho que aprender, sobre todo, la versión de los hechos de su exnovia, quien parece tenerlo todo bastante más claro.<br/><br/>«En Todo final es un comienzo, como en todo lo que escribe, Alderton destaca por retratar las relaciones íntimas no románticas con ternura y autenticidad.» The New York Times<br/>«Perversamente divertida, cínica y honesta a partes iguales, la voz de Dolly Alderton es como la de tu mejor amiga.» Taylor Jenkins Reid, autora de Los siete maridos de Evelyn Hugo<br/>«Dolly Alderton pone patas arriba todo lo que creemos saber el desamor a través de un personaje inolvidable con el que te puedes identificar profundamente.» The Guardian<br/>«Una novela inteligente, cercana y para morirse de risa. Lloré en la página cinco. Dolly Alderton es, sin duda, la poeta del amor contemporáneo.» Lena Dunham<br/>«Merece ser comparada con las leyendas de la comedia romántica.» The Times<br/>«Los finales perfectos son casi imposibles de encontrar, pero este se le acerca bastante.» USA Today

La felicidad cabe en una taza de café
Toshikazu Kawaguchi · 2025
Llega una nueva delicia con sabor japonés del autor de Antes de que se enfríe el café, la novela que ya ha conquistado a más de tres millones de lectores en todo el mundo.<br/><br/>Un fenómeno esperanzador sobre los arrepentimientos del pasado, la promesa del futuro y el increíble regalo que es el presente.<br/>Dicen que en la cafetería Funikuri Funikura hay una mesa en la que puedes sentarte, pedir un café y viajar al pasado durante el tiempo que tarda este en enfriarse.<br/>Bajo la atenta mirada de la encantadora camarera Kazu, los clientes del café se enfrentarán a los momentos más importantes de sus vidas y descubrirán que la felicidad consiste en saber perdonarse a uno mismo.<br/><br/>Con un tono delicado y una cuidada atmósfera, Kawaguchi nos relata cuatro historias de redención y esperanza llenas de personajes inolvidables, tiernos, contradictorios y sorprendentes que ya habitan en el corazón de multitud de lectores.<br/>La crítica ha dicho...<br/>«Toshikazu Kawaguchi comparte con nosotros la receta de la serenidad: llega la secuela de Antes de que se enfríe el café».<br/>La Repubblica<br/>«Un bálsamo para las almas heridas».<br/>Panorama<br/>«Volvemos a la cafetería en la que reviviremos en pasado con nuevas historias, aún más conmovedoras y poéticas, sobre el dolor y la valentía».<br/>La Lettura<br/>«Una lectura emocionante y emotiva para alejar las preocupaciones cotidianas».<br/>Publishers Weekly<br/>«Una nueva historia sobre la cafetería de Tokio en la que basta una taza de café para viajar en el tiempo y hacer las paces con el pasado».<br/>La Stampa<br/>«El escritor japonés que se ha catapultado a las listas de más vendidos».<br/>La Repubblica<br/>«Un rápido viaje de ida y vuelta al pasado o al futuro para reencontrarse con un ser querido en el que los protagonistas no tienen la posibilidad de cambiar el rumbo de las cosas, pero disponen de unos diez minutos para transmitir un mensaje y poner fin a los remordimientos. El talento del autor para mostrar la vulnerabilidad de sus personajes y su escritura sencilla y empática explican el éxito de esta serie de novelas que se han convertido en un éxito de ventas en Japón».<br/>Le Monde

Lo que los libros de Historia del Arte no quieren que sepas
Blanca Guilera · 2024
LA HISTORIA DEL ARTE NO ES ABURRIDA<br/>¿Sabrías decir qué tienen en común Frida Kahlo y Taylor Swift? ¿O qué elementos unen al artista prerrafaelita Millais con el triángulo amoroso de Crepúsculo? ¿Y si te digo que un inocente bodegón esconde algunos de los autorretratos más alucinantes de la historia del arte? ¿Te puedes creer que existen cuadros de Caravaggio que son la confesión de un crimen? ¿Y que hay un dibujo que confirma el shippeo de Lorca y de Dalí? ¿O que en la mitología griega hubo un Heartstopper trágico? ¿Y sabías que existe un perfil de Tinder medieval?<br/>¡Descubre las mejores curiosidades, anécdotas y simbolismos ocultos de las obras más icónicas, y vibra como nunca con la historia del arte!

La Casa De Bernarda Alba
Federico Garcia Lorca
Text: Spanish

La Biblioteca de la Medianoche
Matt Haig · 2024
PREMIO GOODREADS 2020 A LA MEJOR OBRA DE FICCIÓN. «Entre la vida y la muerte hay una biblioteca. Y los estantes de esa biblioteca son infinitos. Cada libro da la oportunidad de probar otra vida que podrías haber vivido y de comprobar cómo habrían cambiado las cosas si hubieras tomado otras decisiones... ¿Habrías hecho algo de manera diferente si hubieras tenido la oportunidad?». Nora Seed aparece, sin saber cómo, en la Biblioteca de la Medianoche, donde se le ofrece una nueva oportunidad para hacer las cosas bien. Hasta ese momento, su vida ha estado marcada por la infelicidad y el arrepentimiento. Nora siente que ha defraudado a todos, y también a ella misma. Pero esto está a punto de cambiar. Los libros de la Biblioteca de la Medianoche permitirán a Nora vivir como si hubiera hecho las cosas de otra manera. Con la ayuda de una vieja amiga, tendrá la opción de esquivar todo aquello que se arrepiente de haber hecho (o no haber hecho), en pos de la vida perfecta. Pero las cosas no siempre serán como imaginó que serían, y pronto sus decisiones enfrentarán a la Biblioteca y a ella misma en un peligro extremo. Nora deberá responder una última pregunta antes de que el tiempo se agote: ¿cuál es la mejor manera de vivir?

Book Lovers
Emily Henry · 2022
An insightful, delightful, instant #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Funny Story. “One of my favorite authors.”—Colleen Hoover One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming... Nora Stephens' life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute. If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.

Una habitación propia
Virginia Woolf · 2016
En 1928 a Virginia Woolf le propusieron dar una serie de charlas sobre el tema de la mujer y la novela. Lejos de cualquier dogmatismo o presunción, planteó la cuestión desde un punto de vista realista, valiente y muy particular. Una pregunta: ¿qué necesitan las mujeres para escribir buenas novelas? Una sola respuesta: independencia económica y personal, es decir, Una habitación propia. Sólo hacía nueve años que se le había concedido el voto a la mujer y aún quedaba mucho camino por recorrer.<br/><br/>Son muchos los repliegues psicológicos y sociales implicados en este ensayo de tan inteligente exposición; fascinantes los matices históricos que hacen que el tema de la condición femenina y la enajenación de la mujer en la sociedad no haya perdido ni un ápice de actualidad.<br/><br/>Partiendo de un tratamiento directo y empleando un lenguaje afilado, irónico e incisivo, Virginia Woolf narra una parábola cautivadora para ilustrar sus opiniones. Un relato de lectura apasionante, la contribución de una exquisita narradora al siempre polémico asunto del feminismo desde una perspectiva inevitablemente literaria.

Mi año de descanso y relajación
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2019
El libro del que todo el mundo habla en Estados Unidos.<br/><br/>Una novela sobre la falta de ganas de levantarse de la cama. «Puede que esta sea la mejor novela existencial escrita por un autor no francés.».- Kirkus<br/>En Mi año de descanso y relajación, Ottessa Moshfegh hace de Manhattan el epicentro de una civilización, la del año 2000, dominada por la apatía. Como una oscura bella durmiente, la narradora de esta novela decide encerrarse durante un año en su piso de una de las zonas más exclusivas de Nueva York, asistida por una herencia ingente y por una gran cantidad de fármacos, para dedicarse a dormir y ver películas de Whoopi Goldberg y Harrison Ford. El inicio de un siglo supuestamente trepidante encuentra a nuestra protagonista durmiendo en el sofá con la tele encendida. Con mucho cinismo, series, películas comerciales y narcóticos, y a costa de cortar todo vínculo humano, cualquiera puede sobrellevar esta vida. Ahora bien, ¿lo que queremos es sobrellevarla?<br/><br/>«Como esta es una novela escrita por Moshfegh, que va sobrada de talento, sabemos de antemano que va a ser una novela original y extraña. [...] Sus frases son penetrantes y viperinas.[...]Escribe con tal serenidad misantrópica que leerla siempre resulta un placer.».-The New York Times<br/><br/>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION<br/>Entertainment Weekly’s #1 Book of 2018<br/><br/>A New York Times Notable Book and Times Critics' Top Books of 2018<br/><br/>The New York Times bestseller.<br/><br/>From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes.<br/><br/>Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?<br/><br/>My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.<br/><br/>Named a Best Book of the Year by:<br/><br/>The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly.

Todos somos villanos
M.L. RIO · 2020
El día que Oliver Marks cumple su condena, el hombre que lo puso en la cárcel está esperándolo a la salida. El detective Colborne quiere saber la verdad y, después de diez años, Oliver finalmente está listo para contársela. Una década atrás: Oliver es uno de los siete actores shakespearianos en el Conservatorio Clásico Dellecher, un lugar donde rige la cruda ambición y la competencia feroz. En este mundo apartado, de chimeneas encendidas y libros con encuadernación de cuero, Oliver y sus amigos interpretan los mismos papeles arriba y abajo del escenario: el héroe, el villano, el tirano, la seductora, la ingenua, los extras. Pero en su cuarto y último año de conservatorio, las rivalidades amistosas se vuelven desagradables, y en la noche de estreno, la violencia real invade el mundo de fantasía de los estudiantes. Por la mañana, los chicos de cuarto año deben enfrentar su propia tragedia y su desafío actoral más difícil: convencerse unos a otros y a la policía de que son inocentes. / Oliver Marks is released from jail after ten years and Detective Colborne who put him there is waiting at the door. He wants to know the truth. Oliver was one of seven young actors who played the same roles onstage and off: hero and villain. One day they faced their own tragedy and their greatest acting challenge: convince the police and themselves they were innocent.

Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney · 2021
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Beautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends. Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?

Daisy Jones and The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2019
For a while, Daisy Jones & The Six were everywhere. Their albums were on every turntable, they sold out arenas from coast to coast, their sound defined an era. And then, on 12 July 1979, they split.<br/>Nobody ever knew why. Until now.<br/>They were lovers and friends and brothers and rivals. They couldn't believe their luck, until it ran out. This is their story of the early days and the wild nights, but everyone remembers the truth differently.<br/>The only thing they all know for sure is that from the moment Daisy Jones walked barefoot onstage at the Whisky, their lives were irrevocably changed.<br/>Making music is never just about the music. And sometimes it can be hard to tell where the sound stops and the feelings begin.

Los siete maridos de Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2020
NO TE QUEDES FUERA DEL FENÓMENO LITERARIO MÁS IMPORTANTE DE LOS ÚLTIMOS AÑOS.<br/>Evelyn Hugo, el icono de Hollywood que se ha recluido a su edad madura, por fin decide contar la verdad sobre su vida llena de glamour y de escándalos. Pero cuando para ello elige a Monique Grant, una periodista desconocida, nadie se sorprende más que la propia Monique. ¿Por qué ella? ¿Por qué ahora?<br/>Monique no está precisamente en su mejor momento. Su marido la abandonó y su vida profesional no avanza. Aun ignorando por qué Evelyn la ha elegido para escribir su biografía, Monique está decidida a aprovechar esa oportunidad para dar impulso a su carrera.<br/>Convocada en el lujoso apartamento de Evelyn, Monique escucha fascinada mientras la actriz le cuenta su historia. Desde su llegada a Los Ángeles en los años 50 hasta su decisión de abandonar su carrera en el mundo del espectáculo en los 80 -y, desde luego, los siete maridos que tuvo en ese tiempo-, Evelyn narra una historia de ambición implacable, amistad inesperada y un gran amor prohibido.<br/>Monique empieza a sentir una conexión muy real con la legendaria actriz, pero cuando el relato de Evelyn se acerca a su fin, resulta evidente que su vida se cruza con la de Monique de un modo trágico e irreversible.

Normal People
Sally Rooney · 2019
NOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • “A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships” (People) from the author of Conversations with Friends, “a master of the literary page-turner” (J. Courtney Sullivan). “[A] novel that demands to be read compulsively, in one sitting.”—The Washington Post ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: People, Slate, The New York Public Library, Harvard Crimson Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation—awkward but electrifying—something life changing begins. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. Normal People is the story of mutual fascination, friendship, and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find that they can’t. WINNER: The British Book Award, The Costa Book Award, The An Post Irish Novel of the Year, Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Vogue, Esquire, Glamour, Elle, Marie Claire, Vox, The Paris Review, Good Housekeeping, Town & Country

It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover · 2016
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING BLAKE LIVELY AND JUSTIN BALDONI! From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and All Your Perfects, a “brave and heartbreaking novel that digs its claws into you and doesn’t let go, long after you’ve finished it” (Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author) about a young woman in a new relationship who can’t stop thinking about her first love. Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life seems too good to be true. Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place. As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan—her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened. An honest, evocative, and tender novel, It Ends with Us is “a glorious and touching read, a forever keeper. The kind of book that gets handed down” (USA TODAY).

Venganza para víctimas
Holly Jackson · 2022
Uno de los thrillers más absorbentes que leerás jamás. Pip está acostumbrada a recibir amenazas. Tiene un podcast de true crime que se ha vuelto viral y, además, su trabajo como investigadora le ha supuesto crearse algún que otro enemigo de más. Pero de entre todos esos mensajes que le llegan, hay unos que le preocupan. Se repiten constantemente. Tan solo le hacen una pregunta, siempre la misma: «¿Quién te buscará cuando seas tú la que desaparezca?» Sus sospechas se confirman cuando se da cuenta de que, quien le envía esos anónimos, ha pasado de amenazarla a perseguirla. Y todo irá a peor cuando encuentre similitudes entre la forma de actuar de su acosador y un asesino que, en teoría, está en la cárcel desde hace años... O ¿puede ser que un inocente esté entre rejas y el asesino ande suelto? Sea como sea, Pip debe encontrar las respuestas necesarias o, esta vez sí, será ella la que desaparecerá...

Desaparición para expertos
Holly Jackson · 2021
Pippa no quiere dedicarse a la investigación: el precio a pagar es demasiado alto. Después de resolver el asesinato de Andie Bell, Pippa decidió cerrar esa etapa para siempre. Y, aunque el pódcast que grabó con Ravi sobre el caso se ha hecho viral, insiste en que sus días de detective quedaron atrás... O eso es lo que ella cree. Porque cuando Jamie Reynolds desaparece y la policía no logra encontrarlo, a Pippa no le queda más remedio que volver a las andadas... Pero esta vez, todo el mundo la vigila.

Asesinato para principiantes
Holly Jackson · 2022
¿Quién mató a Andie Bell? Todos creen saber la verdad, pero solo Pippa sabe que están equivocados.<br/>Hace cinco años, la estudiante Andie Bell fue asesinada por Sal Singh. La policía sabe que fue él. Sus compañeros también. Todo el mundo lo sabe.<br/>Pero Pippa creció en la misma ciudad que ha sido consumida por este crimen y para ella no es tan claro… Decidida a desenterrar la verdad, Pippa convierte la investigación de este asesinato en el tema de su proyecto de final de clase. Poco a poco, empezará a descubrir un montón de secretos que alguien se ha esforzado en ocultar muy bien. Si el asesino sigue suelto, ¿qué será capaz de hacer para mantener a Pippa alejada de la verdad?<br/>Un thriller con una joven investigadora que destapará los secretos más turbios de su pequeña y, supuestamente, tranquila comunidad.<br/>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION<br/>Everyone in Fairview knows the story.<br/><br/>Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town.<br/><br/>But she can't shake the feeling that there was more to what happened that day. She knew Sal when she was a child, and he was always so kind to her. How could he possibly have been a killer?<br/><br/>Now a senior herself, Pip decides to reexamine the closed case for her final project, at first just to cast doubt on the original investigation. But soon she discovers a trail of dark secrets that might actually prove Sal innocent . . . and the line between past and present begins to blur. Someone in Fairview doesn't want Pip digging around for answers, and now her own life might be in danger.

Bunny
Mona Awad · 2020
NATIONAL BESTSELLER<br/><br/>Soon to be a major motion picture<br/><br/>"Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius!" —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter<br/><br/>"A wild, audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel." —Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times<br/><br/>"Awad is a stone-cold genius." —Ann Bauer, The Washington Post<br/><br/>The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl and Rouge<br/><br/>"We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?"<br/><br/>Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one.<br/><br/>But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.<br/><br/>The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.<br/><br/>Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature, and The New York Public Library

The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller · 2012
WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles's mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, Achilles must go to war in distant Troy and fulfill his destiny. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus goes with him, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.






