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Year of Wonders A Novel of the Plague
Geraldine Brooks · 2002
This gripping historical novel is based on the true story of Eyam, the "Plague Village," in the rugged mountain spine of England. In 1666, a tainted bolt of cloth from London carries bubonic infection to this isolated settlement of shepherds and lead miners. A visionary young preacher convinces the villagers to seal themselves off in a deadly quarantine to prevent the spread of disease. The story is told through the eyes of eighteen-year-old Anna Frith, the vicar's maid, as she confronts the loss of her family, the disintegration of her community, and the lure of a dangerous and illicit love. As the death toll rises and people turn from prayers and herbal cures to sorcery and murderous witch-hunting, Anna emerges as an unlikely and courageous heroine in the village's desperate fight to save itself.
El Club del Crimen
C.A. Larmer · 2023
<p> <b>Descubre la serie de</b> <i> <b>cosy</b> </i> <i> <b>crime</b> </i> <b> más divertida del momento, número uno en ventas y ganadora del Premio</b> <b>Mystery and</b> <b>Mayhem</b> <b>Chanticleer, por una «verdadera sucesora de Agatha Christie» (</b> <i> <b>Espace</b> </i> <i> <b>Culturel</b> </i> <b>)</b> </p> <p>Alicia Finlay decide abandonar su aburrido club de lectura y crear uno nuevo dedicado en exclusiva a su género favorito: las novelas de misterio. Tras un arduo proceso de selección, los siete elegidos del club del crimen —una despistada bibliotecaria, una dueña de tienda de ropa <i> vintage</i>, un paleontólogo, un apuesto doctor especializado en venenos, una rica ama de casa y la propia hermana de Alicia— no quieren perder ni un segundo para zambullirse en sus libros preferidos. Sin embargo, pronto tendrán que enfrentarse a un caso real: uno de ellos será víctima de un intento de asesinato y otro desaparecerá. Nadie mejor que el club del crimen para acometer esta investigación, y no hay ayuda más valiosa que la de sus detectives de cabecera. De la mano de inolvidables personajes como Hércules Poirot o Miss Marple, estos ávidos lectores se lanzarán a la calle, decididos a encontrar las claves que solo un verdadero amante del suspense podría descifrar.</p> <p> <b>La crítica ha dicho:</b> </p> <p>«Digna sucesora de Agatha Christie. Esta novela podría servir de guion a una película de Woody Allen: [...] puro entretenimiento aliñado de misterio o viceversa, una lectura ligera digna de una bonita tarde invernal con el sello del dolce far niente». <br> Ana Bretón, El Mundo</p> <p> <br> «Pura ficción detectivesca. Larmer es una verdadera sucesora de Agatha Christie. La historia es magnífica, todos los personajes son únicos y aportan muchísimo a la historia. Me lo he pasado muy bien leyéndolo y estoy deseando empezar la siguiente entrega». <br> <i>Espace</i> <i>Culturel</i> </p> <p>«Un verdadero flechazo. Una serie que seguiré muy de cerca». <br> <i>Cultura</i> </p> <p>«C. A. Larmer ha creado una atractiva historia con una investigación vinculada a un episodio de la vida de Agatha Christie, [con] una galería de personajes interesantes [y] dos hermanas cuya dinámica funciona a la perfección [...]. Con espacio para los placeres de la vida, la gastronomía y el amor, esta es una historia que se lee con placer [...]. Una primera entrega cautivadora». <br> <i>Le</i> <i>Littéraire</i> </p> <p>«¡La estoy disfrutando muchísimo! [Es] adictiva [...], la novela perfecta para relajarse, [una historia] que te empuja a volver a zambullirte en la divina Agatha Christie». <br> Librairie Zannini</p> <p>«Leerla es un auténtico placer, [...] recuerda a aquellas queridas novelas policiacas de la infancia». <br> <i>Ma(g)ville</i> </p> <p>«A los amantes del <i>cosy</i> <i>crime</i> y de Agatha Christie: esta novela está hecha para vosotros». <br> <i>Les</i> <i>lectures de</i> <i>Stefa</i> </p> <p>«Pura ficción detectivesca. Larmer es una verdadera sucesora de Agatha Christie. La historia es magnífica, todos los personajes son únicos y aportan muchísimo a la historia. Me lo he pasado muy bien leyéndolo y estoy deseando empezar la siguiente entrega». <br> <i>Espace</i> <i>Culturel</i> </p>
Vicious
V. E. Schwab · 2013
<p><b>V. E. Schwab's <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>Vicious</i> is a masterful tale of ambition, jealousy, desire, and superpowers.</b><br><br>Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong.<br><br>Ten years later, Victor breaks out of prison, determined to catch up to his old friend (now foe), aided by a young girl whose reserved nature obscures a stunning ability. Meanwhile, Eli is on a mission to eradicate every other super-powered person that he can find—aside from his sidekick, an enigmatic woman with an unbreakable will. Armed with terrible power on both sides, driven by the memory of betrayal and loss, the archnemeses have set a course for revenge—but who will be left alive at the end? <br><br>In <i>Vicious</i>, V. E. Schwab brings to life a gritty comic-book-style world in vivid prose: a world where gaining superpowers doesn't automatically lead to heroism, and a time when allegiances are called into question.<br><br>"A dynamic and original twist on what it means to be a hero and a villain. A killer from page one...highly recommended!" —Jonathan Maberry, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Marvel Universe vs The Avengers</i> and <i>Patient Zero</i><br><br><br>One of <i>Publishers Weekly</i>'s Best Fantasy Books of 2013<br><br>At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</p>
El jardinero (Spanish Edition)
Michael Vera Villanueva · 2024
El hogar de Miss Peregrine para niños peculiares
Ransom Riggs · 2016
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children who once lived here -- one of whom was his own grandfather -- were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a desolate island for good reason. And somehow -- impossible though it seems -- they may still be alive.
Las voces del bosque (Spanish Edition)
Daiana de Lucca · 2022
Farenheit 451
Ray Bradbury · 1977
The Bradbury classic about a future crisis in intellectual freedom and book burning.
Mis días en la librería Morisaki
Satoshi Yagisawa · 2023
<b></b><b></b><b>Jinbocho, Tokio<br><br></b>El barrio de las librerías y de las editoriales, paraíso de los lectores. Un rincón tranquilo y ajeno al tiempo, a pocos pasos del metro y de grandes edificios modernos. Filas y filas de escaparates llenos de libros, nuevos o de segunda mano.<br><br>Tatako, con veinticinco años y una vida bastante descolorida, no suele frecuentar ese barrio. Sin embargo, es allí donde se encuentra con la librería Morisaki, que ha pertenecido a su familia durante tres generaciones. Una tienda de apenas ocho tatamis en un antiguo edificio de madera, con una habitación en la planta superior que se utiliza como almacén. Es el reino de Satoru, el excéntrico tío de Tatako, que, entusiasta y un poco trastornado, dedica su vida a los libros.<br><br>Pero Tatako es el polo opuesto de su tío; no ha salido de casa desde que el hombre del que estaba enamorada le dijo que quería casarse con otra. Es Satoru quien le lanza un salvavidas y le ofrece mudarse al primer piso de la librería. Ella, que no es una gran lectora, se encuentra viviendo en medio de torres de libros que se desmoronan y de clientes que no dejan de hacerle preguntas y de citar a escritores desconocidos.<br><br>Entre discusiones cada vez más apasionantes sobre la literatura japonesa moderna, un encuentro en un café con un tímido desconocido y unas revelaciones sobre la historia de amor de Satoru, Tatako irá descubriendo poco a poco una forma de comunicarse y de relacionarse que parte de los libros para llegar al corazón.<br><b><br></b>
El guardián entre el centeno
Jerome David Salinger · 2001
Por expreso deseo del autor, no esta ermitido que la editorial aporte en su material promocional ningu tipo de texto adicional, informacio biograica, cita o resen relacionados con esta obra. El lector interesado podra no obstante, encontrar abundante informacio al respecto en internet.
Strange Pictures
Uketsu · 2025
<p>"Uketsu's strange riddles are chilling and addictive - I couldn't put it down." --R. F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface</p> <p>"Delightfully macabre and fiendishly clever. Seemingly unconnected stories tie themselves into a complicated knot, which Uketsu masterfully unravels."--G. T. Karber, author of the national bestseller Murdle</p> <p>"Wonderfully complex and carefully crafted . . . Uketsu keeps readers guessing until the very end." --New York Times Book Review</p> <p>The spine-tingling "triumphant international debut" (Publishers Weekly starred review) that has taken Japan by storm--an eerie fresh take on mystery-horror in which a series of seemingly innocent pictures draws you into a disturbing web of unsolved mysteries and shattered psyches.</p> <p>An exploration of the macabre, where the seemingly mundane takes on a terrifying significance. . . .</p> <p>A pregnant woman's sketches on a seemingly innocuous blog conceal a chilling warning.</p> <p>A child's picture of his home contains a dark secret message.</p> <p>A sketch made by a murder victim in his final moments leads an amateur sleuth down a rabbithole that will reveal a horrifying reality.</p> <p>Structured around these nine childlike drawings, each holding a disturbing clue, Uketsu invites readers to piece together the mystery behind each and the over-arching backstory that connects them all. Strange Pictures is the internationally bestselling debut from mystery horror YouTube sensation Uketsu--an enigmatic masked figure who has become one of Japan's most talked about contemporary authors.</p> <p>Translated from the Japanese by Jim Rion.</p> <p>Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.</p>
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson · 2006
<b>The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton</b><br> <br> First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's <i>The Haunting of Hill House</i> has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers--and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.<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.
Guía del club de lectura para matar vampiros
Grady Hendrix · 2021
<p> <b>Una escalofriante novela que mezcla vampiros, thriller y metaliteratura.</b> </p> <p>A Patricia Campbell su existencia nunca le ha parecido tan insignificante. Su marido es un adicto al trabajo, sus hijos adolescentes tienen su propia vida, su suegra senil necesita cuidados constantes, y siente que siempre va un paso por detrás de su interminable lista de cosas por hacer. Lo único que la mantiene viva es su club de lectura, un pequeño grupo de mujeres de Charleston unidas por su amor a las novelas de crímenes reales. En esas reuniones se habla de todo: desde la familia Manson a asuntos de sus propias familias.</p> <p> <br> Una tarde después de la reunión del club, Patricia es salvajemente atacada por una anciana vecina, lo que le llevará a conocer al atractivo sobrino de esta, James Harris. James es un hombre de mundo y muy leído que despertará en Patricia sentimientos que no había tenido en años. Pero cuando al otro lado de la ciudad unos niños empiezan a desaparecer y sus muertes son ignoradas por la policía local, empezará a sospechar que James Harris es más un criminal que una réplica en carne y hueso de Brad Pitt.</p> <p>¿Cuál es el verdadero problema? James es un monstruo de una especie diferente, y Patricia le ha dejado entrar en su vida. <br> Poco a poco, James se irá introduciendo en la vida cotidiana de Patricia tratando de apoderarse de todo lo que considera suyo, incluido su club de lectura. Sin embargo ella no está dispuesta a rendirse sin luchar en esta historia plagada de sangre sobre una relación de buena vecindad transformada en algo siniestro.</p>
The Naturals
Jennifer Lynn Barnes · 2023
<b>Cold cases get hot in #1 <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author Jennifer Lynn Barnes's beloved, exhilarating novel--perfect for fans of Criminal Minds and </b><b><i>A Good Girl's Guide to Murder</i></b><b> </b><br> <br> <br> <br> Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. But, it's not a skill that she's ever taken seriously. That is, until the FBI come knocking: they've begun a classified program that uses exceptional teenagers to crack infamous cold cases, and they need Cassie.<br> <br> <br> <br> What Cassie doesn't realize is that there's more at stake than a few unsolved homicides--especially when she's sent to live with a group of teens whose gifts are as unusual as her own. Soon, it becomes clear that no one in the Naturals program is what they seem. And when a new killer strikes, danger looms close. Caught in a lethal game of cat and mouse with a killer, the Naturals are going to have to use all of their gifts just to survive.<br> <br> <br> <br> <i>The Naturals</i> is a razor-sharp psychological thriller with killer twists, to-die-for romance, and the addictive bones of your next favorite series.<br> <br> <br> <br> <b>Praise for <i>The Naturals</i></b><br> <br> "<i>The Naturals</i> is <i>Criminal Minds</i> for the YA world, and I loved every page." <b>--<i>New York Times</i> best-selling author Ally Carter</b><br> <br> * "[A] tightly paced suspense novel that will keep readers up until the wee hours to finish." <b>--<i>VOYA</i> (starred review)</b><br> <br> "This savvy thriller grabs readers right away." <b>--<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b><br> <br> "It's a stay-up-late-to-finish kind of book, and it doesn't disappoint." <b>--<i>Publishers Weekly</i></b><br> <br> "In this high-adrenaline series opener...even a psychic won't anticipate all the twists and turns." <b>--<i>Booklist<br> <br> <br> <br> **Catch every thrilling twist and turn of The Naturals series in </i>The Naturals, Killer Instinct, All In, Bad Blood, <i>and the enovella, </i>Twelve!</b><br> <br> <br> <br> <b><i>And don't miss Jennifer Lynn Barnes's beloved The Inheritance Games Saga!</i> <i>Best reading order:</i> The Inheritance Games, The Hawthorne Legacy, The Final Gambit, The Brothers Hawthorne, The Grandest Game, Games Untold, Glorious Rivals <i>and</i> The Same Backward as Forward. </b><br> <br> <br> <br> <b><i>Then dive into her The Debutantes duet</i> (Little White Lies, Deadly Little Scandals), <i>and </i>The Lovely and the Lost<i>.</i></b>
I Kissed Shara Wheeler
Casey McQuiston · 2022
We Ride Upon Sticks
Quan Barry · 2020
In the town of Danvers, Massachusetts, home of the original 1692 witch trials, the 1989 Danvers Falcons will do anything to make it to the state finals—even if it means tapping into some devilishly dark powers. Against a background of irresistible 1980s iconography, Quan Barry expertly weaves together the individual and collective progress of this enchanted team as they storm their way through an unforgettable season. Helmed by good-girl captain Abby Putnam (a descendant of the infamous Salem accuser Ann Putnam) and her co-captain Jen Fiorenza (whose bleached blond “Claw” sees and knows all), the Falcons prove to be wily, original, and bold, flaunting society’s stale notions of femininity. Through the crucible of team sport and, more importantly, friendship, this comic tour de female force chronicles Barry’s glorious cast of characters as they charge past every obstacle on the path to finding their glorious true selves.
A Veil of Gods and Kings Apollo Ascending Book 1
Nicole Bailey · 2022
<p><b>A god fighting his fate. A prince burdened with secrets. And a romance that could end in flames.</b></p><p>Apollo is a deity... almost. Half mortal and refusing to take his position as god of the sun, he spends his nights drowning out haunting memories and his days avoiding responsibilities.</p><p>Until his father forces him into an ultimatum: </p><p>Ascend immediately.</p><p>Or spend the year mentoring under the obnoxious Prince Hyacinth.</p><p>Forced together, Apollo and Hyacinth grapple with their mutual disdain for each other.</p><p>But what starts as a kindling of irritation begins to burn into something new. A spark that, if it turns to flame, could incinerate everything they've always protected.</p><p><b>A reimagining of the Greek myth of Apollo and Prince Hyacinth, this NA, enemies-to-lovers fantasy series is a whirlwind journey full of romance, intrigue, and enthralling characters.</b></p><p><b>NOTE: This book is the first in a NA Fantasy series that features mature situations, adult language, and romances that lead to moderate steam as the series progresses. </b>
El Legado Robado
Holly Black · 2023
Una reina a la fuga. Un príncipe reacio. Una misión que podría destruirlos a ambos. Han pasado ocho años desde la Batalla de la Serpiente, pero en el norte helado, lady Nore de la Corte de los Dientes ha recuperado la Ciudadela de la Aguja de Hielo. Allí emplea una antigua reliquia para crear monstruos hechos de palos y nieve que seguirán sus órdenes y ejecutarán su venganza. Suren, la reina niña de la Corte de los Dientes, y la única persona con poder sobre su madre, huyó al mundo humano, donde ahora vive como un animal en los bosques. Sola y aún afligida por los despiadados tormentos que soportó en la Corte, dedica su tiempo a liberar a mortales de tratos imprudentes. Cree que todos la han olvidado, hasta que Bogdana, la bruja de la tormenta, la persigue una noche por las calles. La persona que la salva es nada menos que el príncipe Oak, heredero de Elfhame, a quien una vez estuvo prometida en matrimonio y a quien ha guardado rencor durante años. A los diecisiete años, Oak es encantador, hermoso y manipulador. Ha emprendido una misión que lo conducirá al norte y quiere la ayuda de Suren. Sin embargo, si ella acepta, significará volver a exponer su corazón al chico al que una vez conoció, que se ha convertido en un príncipe en el que no confía, a la vez que enfrentarse a todos los horrores que creía haber dejado atrás. Regresa al exuberante mundo de Elfhame, repleto de intrigas, traiciones y deseos peligrosos, con este primer libro de una nueva y cautivadora bilogía de Holly Black, autora best seller #1 del New York Times.
No Exit
Taylor Adams · 2019
Battle Royale: Remastered
Koushun Takami · 2014
<b>In a dystopian future Japan, forty-two junior high school students are outfitted with weapons and bid to kill one another until there is only one left standing.</b><br><br>Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller envisions a nightmare scenario: a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided arms and forced to kill until only one survivor is left standing. Criticized as violent exploitation when first published in Japan—where it became a runaway best seller—<i>Battle Royale</i> is a <i>Lord of the Flies</i> for the 21st century, a potent allegory of what it means to be young and (barely) alive in a dog-eat-dog world.
The Poppy War
R. F. Kuang · 2018
One of Time Magazine’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time “I have no doubt this will end up being the best fantasy debut of the year...I have absolutely no doubt that [Kuang’s] name will be up there with the likes of Robin Hobb and N.K. Jemisin.” — Booknest From #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, the brilliantly imaginative debut of R.F. Kuang: an epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the bloody history of China’s twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic, in the tradition of Ken Liu’s Grace of Kings and N.K. Jemisin’s Inheritance Trilogy. When Rin aced the Keju—the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies—it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin’s guardians, who believed they’d finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up her daily existence. That she got into Sinegard—the most elite military school in Nikan—was even more surprising. But surprises aren’t always good. Because being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not an easy thing at Sinegard. Targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers in this grimdark fantasy that she possesses a lethal, unearthly power—an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive—and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school. For while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. The militarily advanced Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War, and only barely lost the continent in the Second. And while most of the people are complacent to go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away . . . Rin’s shamanic powers may be the only way to save her people. But as she finds out more about the god that has chosen her, the vengeful Phoenix, she fears that winning the war may cost her humanity . . . and that it may already be too late.
Orgullo y prejuicio (Edicion conmemorativa) / Pride and Prejudice (Commemorative Edition)
Jane Austen · 2017
<b><b>Nominada por los estadounidenses como una de las 100 mejores novelas en la serie de PBS <i>The Great American Read</i></b><br><br>Penguin Clásicos publica en una cuidada edición esta obra maestra de la literatura inglesa de todos los tiempos, para conmemorar el bicentenario de la publicación original de la novela en 1813.</b><br><br>A lo largo de una trama que discurre con la precisión de un mecanismo de relojería, Jane Austen perfila una galería de personajes que conforman un perfecto y sutil retrato de la época: las peripecias de una dama empeñada en casar a sus hijas con el mejor partido de la región, los vaivenes sentimentales de las hermanas, el oportunismo de un clérigo adulador... El trazado de los caracteres y el análisis de las relaciones humanas sometidas a un rígido código de costumbres, elementos esenciales de la narrativa de la autora, alcanzan en Orgullo y prejuicio cotas de maestría insuperable.«Pero mi locura no ha sido el amor sino la vanidad.»<br><br><b>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION<br><br>Penguin Classics has published this all-time masterpiece of British literature in a special edition to commemorate the bicentennial of the original novel’s publication in 1813<br>.</b> Throughout a plot that flows with the precision of clockwork, Jane Austen profiles a gallery of characters who make up a perfect yet subtle portrait of the time: the drama of a lady determined to marry off her daughters to the biggest catches in the area, the ups and downs of the sisters, the opportunism of a sweet-talking minister… the outline of the characters and analysis of the human relationships subjected to a rigid code of customs, essential elements of the author’s narrative, reach insurmountable heights of mastery in Pride and Prejudice. <b>"But vanity, not love, has been my folly."</b>
La paciente silenciosa
Alex Michaelides · 2019
<p> <b>LA NOVELA QUE HA CONMOCIONADO A 50 PAÍSES Y SEDUJO A BRAD PITT, QUIEN LA LLEVARÁ AL CINE</b> </p> <p> <p>PREMIO DE LOS LECTORES DE GOODREADS <br> MEJOR LIBRO DEL MES SEGÚN <i>THE TIMES</i> <br> EN LAS LISTAS DE MÁS VENDIDOS DE ESTADOS UNIDOS E INGLATERRA <br> UNO DE LOS MEJORES LIBROS DE MISTERIO SEGÚN <i>ESQUIRE</i> </p> <p> <p> <b>«El <i>thriller </i>perfecto.»</b> <br> A.J. Finn, autor de <i>La mujer en la ventana </i> </p> <p> <p>SOLO ELLA SABE LO QUE SUCEDIÓ. <br> SOLO YO PUEDO HACERLA HABLAR.</p> <p>Alicia Berenson, una pintora de éxito, dispara cinco tiros en la cabeza de su marido, y no vuelve a hablar nunca más. Su negativa a emitir palabra alguna convierte una tragedia doméstica en un misterio que atrapa la imaginación de toda Inglaterra.</p> <p>Theo Faber, un ambicioso psicoterapeuta forense obsesionado con el caso, está empeñado en desentrañar el misterio de lo que ocurrió aquella noche fatal y consigue una plaza en The Grove, la unidad de seguridad en el norte de Londres a la que Alicia fue enviada hace seis años y en la que sigue obstinada en su silencio. Pronto descubre que el mutismo de la paciente está mucho más enraizado de lo que pensaba. Pero, si al final hablara, ¿estaría dispuesto a escuchar la verdad?</p> <p> <b>La crítica ha dicho...</b> <br> «Una historia inteligente y sofisticada cargada de suspense. Una excelente novela que satisface todas las expectativas.» <br> Lee Child</p> <p>«El <i>thriller</i> psicológico más aclamado del año.» <br> David Castillo, <i>El Punt Avui</i> </p> <p>«Una mezcla de suspense hitchcockiano, misterio de Agatha Christie y tragedia griega.» <br> <i>Zenda</i> </p> <p>«Un impresionante <i>thriller </i>literario con un final digno de un clásico.» <br> <i>The Wall Street Journal</i> </p> <p>«El <i> thriller</i> perfecto. Esta extraordinaria novela hizo que me hirviera la sangre, literalmente no pude dejar de leerla. Me sumergí en la lectura y, once horas después, a las 5:47 h de la madrugada, lo terminé absolutamente deslumbrado.» <br> A.J. Finn (autor de <i> La mujer en la ventana</i>)</p> <p>«Un <i> thriller</i> inolvidable. Una mezcla de suspense hitchcockiano, complot de Agatha Christie y tragedia griega.» <br> <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> </p> <p>«Absolutamente brillante.» <br> Stephen Fry</p> <p>«Magnífico. Este <i> thriller</i> psicológico intrigante y finamente hilado coloca a Michaelides entre los mejores escritores del género.» <br> <i>Publisher's</i> <i>Weekly</i> </p> <p>«Inteligente, imaginativo, excelente.» <br> <i>The Times</i> (Mejor Libro del Mes)</p> <p>«Un debut con el ritmo y la agudeza de un verdadero maestro.» <br> <i>BBC Culture</i> </p> <p>«Una novela tensa, meticulosamente trazada y convincente.» <br> <i>The</i> <i>Observer</i> </p> <p>«Una historia inteligente y sofisticada cargada de suspenso. Una excelente novela que satisface todas las expectativas.» <br> Lee Child</p> <p>«Oscuro, tensa y de lectura compulsiva.» <br> <i>Library</i> <i>Journal</i> </p> <p>«Imposible dejar de leerlo, escalofriante e intenso, con un toque que hará que incluso el lector de suspense más experimentado se ponga a sudar frío.» <br> <i>Booklist</i> </p> <p>«Una las mejores novelas de misterio, que devorarás». <br> Nerea Panicello, <i>Cosmopolitan</i> </p>
El imperio final / The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson · 2021
<b>Brandon Sanderson se ha consolidado como el gran renovador de la fantasía del siglo XXI. Ha logrado ganarse a ocho millones de lectores, ser publicado en treinta países y convertirse en el heredero de todo un género. Con <i>El imperio final </i>inicia la saga Nacidos de la Bruma (Mistborn), obra imprescindible del Cosmere, el universo destinado a dar forma a la serie más extensa y fascinante jamás escrita en el ámbito de la fantasía épica.<br></b><br>Durante mil años han caído las cenizas y nada florece. Durante mil años los skaa han sido esclavizados y viven sumidos en un miedo inevitable. Durante mil años el Lord Legislador reina con un poder absoluto gracias al terror, a sus poderes y a su inmortalidad. Le ayudan «obligadores» e «inquisidores», junto a la poderosa magia de la alomancia. Pero los nobles a menudo han tenido trato sexual con jóvenes skaa y, aunque la ley lo prohíbe, algunos de sus bastardos han sobrevivido y heredado los poderes alománticos: son los «nacidos de la bruma» (mistborns). Ahora, Kelsier, el «superviviente», el único que ha logrado huir de los Pozos de Hathsin, ha encontrado a Vin, una pobre chica skaa con mucha suerte... Tal vez los dos, unidos a la rebelión que los skaa intentan desde hace mil años, logren cambiar el mundo y la atroz dominación del Lord Legislador.<b> <br><br> «Si te gusta la literatura fantástica, lee a Brandon Sanderson.» Chicote «Hace tiempo que George R. R. Martin tiene heredero.» Javier Blánquez, El Mundo<br><br>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION<br><br><b>From #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action.</b><br><br></b>For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier "snapped" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.<br><br>Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Only then does he reveal his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.<br><br>But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets, and gotten it. She will have to learn to trust, if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.<br><br><b>This saga dares to ask a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails?</b>
Los reyes de la casa
Delphine de Vigan · 2022
<p><b><strong>Una novela sobrecogedora sobre los peligros de la sobreexposición en redes, la explotación infantil y la falsa felicidad.</strong></b></p> <p>Mélanie Claux y Clara Roussel. Dos mujeres conectadas a través de una niña. Mélanie ha participado en un reality show televisivo y es seguidora de sus sucesivas ediciones. Cuando se convierte en madre de un niño y una niña, Sammy y Kimmy, empieza a grabar su día a día y cuelga los vídeos en YouTube. Crecen en visitas y seguidores, llegan los patrocinadores, Mélanie crea su propio canal y el dinero fluye. Lo que al principio consistía sin más en grabar de tanto en tanto las andanzas cotidianas de sus hijos se profesionaliza, y tras la fachada de este canal familiar tierno y edulcorado hay rodajes interminables con los niños y retos absurdos para generar material. Todo es artificio, todo está en venta, todo es felicidad impostada, realidad ficticia.</p><p>Hasta que un día Kimmy, la hija de corta edad, desaparece. Alguien la ha secuestrado y empieza a enviar extrañas peticiones. Es entonces cuando el destino de Mélanie se cruza con el de Clara, policía solitaria sin apenas vida personal y que vive por y para el trabajo. Ella se hará cargo del caso.</p><p>La novela arranca en el presente y se extiende hasta el futuro cercano. Arranca con estas dos mujeres y se extiende a la existencia posterior de esos dos niños explotados. De Vigan ha escrito una narración perturbadora que es al mismo tiempo un thriller inquietante, un relato con pinceladas de ciencia ficción sobre algo muy real y un documento demoledor sobre la alienación contemporánea, la explotación de la intimidad, la falsa felicidad proyectada en las pantallas y la manipulación de las emociones.</p>
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett · 2020
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES • THE WASHINGTON POST • NPR • PEOPLE • TIME MAGAZINE • VANITY FAIR • GLAMOUR New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century 2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST “Bennett’s tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it’s especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s 1970 debut novel, The Bluest Eye.” —Kiley Reid, Wall Street Journal “A story of absolute, universal timelessness . . . For any era, it's an accomplished, affecting novel. For this moment, it’s piercing, subtly wending its way toward questions about who we are and who we want to be….” – Entertainment Weekly From The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect? Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins. As with her New York Times-bestselling debut The Mothers, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise.
La Sobreviviente
Riley Sager · 2025
<p> <b>Callar no borra el pasado... ni una masacre</b> </p> <p> <i>Lenora Hope diecisiete cumplió </i> <i>y a su hermana de una soga colgó.</i> </p> <p>Con el paso de los años, el sangriento asesinato de la familia Hope se convirtió en una popular ronda infantil. Aunque todos asumen que la responsable de lo ocurrido aquella fatídica noche de 1929 fue Lenora, la hija de adolescente, la policía nunca logró probarlo. Desde entonces, Lenora jamás ha hablado de lo sucedido ni ha salido de la mansión en el acantilado donde ocurrieron los crímenes.</p> <p> <i>A su papá acuchilló,</i> </p> <p> <i>también a su madre mató.</i> </p> <p>Es 1983 y Kit McDeere, una enfermera privada, llega a la decadente Mansión Hope para atender a Lenora, quien ahora es una anciana decrépita que no puede moverse y cuya única forma de comunicación es una vieja máquina de escribir. Para Kit es un trabajo rutinario, hasta que una noche Lenora le hace una escalofriante propuesta: «Quiero contarte todo» <b>.</b> </p> <p> <i>«No fui yo</i> <i>», Lenora juró, <br> pero es la única que sobrevivió </i> </p> <p>Mientras Kit la ayuda a escribir los hechos de la masacre, descubre que la historia guarda muchos más secretos de los que se sospechaba. Y cuando descubre la verdad sobre la repentina desaparición de la enfermera a quien remplaza, empieza a preguntarse si Lenora le está diciendo toda la verdad... y si la frágil mujer bajo su cuidado es realmente mucho más peligrosa de lo que parece.</p>
The Mean Ones
Tatiana Schlote-Bonne · 2025
<p><i>Midsommar</i> meets <i>The Final Girl Support Group</i> in this horror novel about a woman who survived cult killings as a child and is striving to be "normal," but a spontaneous trip into the woods and the voices in her head keep pulling her to the dark side.</p><br><p>So what if Sadie hears talking dead animals and a strange, comforting male voice in her head? The therapist insists these are just symptoms of PTSD. It makes sense considering that she hid under the bed and watched as her best friends were slaughtered.</p><br><p>But the murders were seventeen years ago, back when her name was Sabrina. Now, she's Sadie: a perfectly normal 29-year-old. She works as a physical therapist assistant and lifts weights with her boyfriend, Lucas, who's the sweetest, most considerate man-as long as he's not angry. But when Lucas spontaneously agrees to join a couples trip to a cabin in the woods, the visions get worse, a strange figure stalks her during the night, and that male voice in Sadie's head keeps calling, asking her to do things she's never fathomed.</p><br><p>Sadie's not sure if it's her paranoia or something else entirely . . . But she is sure of one thing--this time, she's not going to sit idly by as everything starts to unravel.</p>
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott · 2014
<b>Louisa May Alcott's classic tale of four sisters in a deluxe hardcover edition, with beautiful cover illustrations by Anna Bond, the artist behind world-renowned stationery brand Rifle Paper Co.<br></b><br>Grown-up Meg, tomboyish Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. The four March sisters couldn't be more different. But with their father away at war, and their mother working to support the family, they have to rely on one another. Whether they're putting on a play, forming a secret society, or celebrating Christmas, there's one thing they can't help wondering: Will Father return home safely?
Rock Paper Scissors
Alice Feeney · 2021
<p><b>INSTANT<i> NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b> <b>from</b> <b>the author of <i>His & Hers</i>, now a #1 Netflix show, and the hit bestseller <i>My Husband's Wife</i>!</b><br><b>“</b><b>Feeney lives up to her reputation as the “queen of the twist”. . . This page-turner will keep you guessing.” </b><i>—Real Simple</i><br><b>Think you know the person you married? Think again. . . </b><br><br>Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole life. He can’t recognize friends or family, or even his own wife. <br><br>Every anniversary the couple exchange traditional gifts--paper, cotton, pottery, tin--and each year Adam’s wife writes him a letter that she never lets him read. Until now. They both know this weekend will make or break their marriage, but they didn’t randomly win this trip. One of them is lying, and someone doesn’t want them to live happily ever after.<br><br>Ten years of marriage. Ten years of secrets. And an anniversary they will never forget.<br><br><i>Rock Paper Scissors</i> is an exciting domestic thriller from the queen of the killer twist, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Alice Feeney.</p>
Selvática
Sofía Olguín · 2023
<p>Como todo ciudadano de Eshva, Nathan tiene su futuro escrito. El autoritario sistema lo presiona para que tome una decisión que podría convertirlo en un hombre cruel y despiadado: cuando cumpla dieciocho años, deberá unirse a las Fuerzas de Seguridad del país. Introvertido y lleno de incertidumbre, su disconformidad lo hace sentirse cada vez más lejos de sus amigos y hasta de su propia familia. <br> Una noche conoce a Etienne, un atractivo cantante que vive en Selvática, un territorio marginado donde se respira la libertad que Nathan tanto anhela. Sin embargo, los secretos y las diferencias sociales amenazan con destruir su relación: Etienne arrastra el dolor del asesinato de su novio a manos de la policía y no está dispuesto a exponerse otra vez a un sufrimiento semejante. <br> Pero cuando Elisabeta Moon, la excéntrica y misteriosa magnate de Glavëss, contrata a Etienne para cantar en su lujoso hotel, la vida de ambos da un vuelco inesperado. Ninguno sospecha que están ante el comienzo de una aventura que podría desafiar el sistema de Eshva desde sus propios cimientos. <br> </p>
Los Señores de la Muerte
Olivie Blake · 2024
Existe un juego al que juegan los inmortales. Solo hay una regla: no puedes perder. Viola Marek es una agente inmobiliaria en apuros, además de vampira. Pero, en estos momentos, su mayor problema es que la casa que tiene que vender está encantada. El fantasma que la habita murió asesinado y se niega a abandonarla hasta que resuelva el misterio de cómo falleció. Fox D'Mora es médium y, aunque es un auténtico fraude, no es del todo inútil teniendo en cuenta que es el ahijado de la Muerte. Cuando Viola recurre a Fox para pedirle ayuda con el fantasma de la mansión, este se ve inevitablemente envuelto en una misión que ni Viola ni él esperan (ni desean). Pero con la ayuda de un poltergeist rebelde, una entrenadora personal demoníaca, un ángel mordaz, un segador enamorado y varias criaturas adeptas al mindfulness, Vi y Fox descubren que la diferencia entre un misterioso amor perdido y un cadáver molesto no es tan evidente como pensaban.
Paladín: El Destino del Dragón
Eneas Calderoni y Sebastián Lange · 2021
<p>El último Caballero del Dragón ha nacido y la desgracia se cierne sobre las tierras de Darlan, como una sombra augurando un trágico final. Su poder puede abrir un portal al Averno y desatar una guerra apocalíptica, dejando el mundo a merced de los demonios.</p><p>Esto ha llegado a oídos de los acólitos de la Hermandad de la Llama Negra, quienes desean cumplir con la profecía y buscarán capturarlo ahora que es solo un niño.</p><p>Las fichas de un juego macabro han empezado a moverse en las penumbras y la guerra es inminente. La esperanza recae en el caballero Ghelian 'Duil, quien acompañado de un hosco guerrero y una elfa asesina, y guiados a través de tierras salvajes por un ex mercenario de dudosa reputación, deberán proteger al recién nacido a toda costa, en un mundo lleno de traiciones, sanguinario y sumamente despiadado, con la civilización pendiendo de un hilo...</p>
Lightlark
Alex Aster · 2022
<b>THREE MILLION SERIES COPIES SOLD! <p> An instant #1 national bestselle</b><b>r--so</b><b>on to be a major motion picture. #BookTok phenomenon and award-winning author Alex Aster delivers readers a masterfully written, utterly gripping YA fantasy novel</b> <p> Welcome to the Centennial. <p> Every 100 years, the island of Lightlark appears to host the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play. The invitation is a summons--a call to embrace victory and ruin, baubles and blood. The Centennial offers the six rulers one final chance to break the curses that have plagued their realms for centuries. Each ruler has something to hide. Each realm's curse is uniquely wicked. To destroy the curses, one ruler must die. <p> Isla Crown is the young ruler of Wildling--a realm of temptresses cursed to kill anyone they fall in love with. They are feared and despised, and are counting on Isla to end their suffering by succeeding at the Centennial. <p> To survive, Isla must lie, cheat, and betray...even as love complicates everything. <p><b>Filled with secrets, deception, romance, and twists worthy of the darkest thrillers, <i>Lightlark </i>is a must-read for fans of legendary fantasy writers Marie Lu, Marissa Meyer, and Leigh Bardugo. </b>
La quietud
Melisa Corbetto · 2024
<p> <b>Relatos de una melancolía espeluznante.</b> </p> <p> La quietud puede ser tan deseable como inquietante. Puede ser un destino, un paréntesis en la vida o un pozo ciego. En este libro que aloja relatos de una melancolía espeluznante, la quietud aterroriza, ya sea cuando la Diabla aguarda para castigar de manera inesperada a quien le ha faltado el respeto, cuando una comunidad pueblerina se reúne para perpetuar sus rituales o cuando no hay dolor ni químicos que puedan ocultar el moho que se ancla en un alma en pena. </p> <p> Con carácter incisivo, Melisa Corbetto nos ahoga en una marea de pétalos mientras la vida se desgarra en el corazón de una escritora que se debate entre el talento innato y los abismos de la locura. </p>
En resumen, una vida maravillosa
Nell Stevens · 2023
Cuando estaba viva, viví en una época de hombres apuestos. Después de morir, me encontré en una época de mujeres bellas. Blanca se enamora de George Sand nada más verla por primera vez, mientras esta besa a Frédéric Chopin en el jardín de un monasterio abandonado de Mallorca. Es el invierno de 1838, y Blanca ha estado vagando por el pueblo de Valldemossa desde su prematura muerte hace cientos de años; y, durante todo ese tiempo, no ha conocido a nadie como George, esa impresionante mujer que va vestida como un hombre. Sin embargo, la gente del pueblo está más asustada que encantada, y no tardan en empezar a sospechar: del atuendo de George, de lo extraña que es la pareja, de la tos persistente y alarmante de Chopin, y de qué es exactamente lo que han ido a hacer allí De la pluma de la aclamada autora Nell Stevens, esta es una novela debut exquisita y atrevida sobre la creatividad, la añoranza y el romper con las convenciones. Historia de amor, cuento de fantasmas y novela histórica a partes iguales, En resumen, una vida maravillosa es una historia sobre el eterno misterio del amor, incluso cuando este no es correspondido, y de la madurez, incluso cuando esta se alcanza después de la muerte. «Una historia evocadora y deslumbrante sobre todo lo bueno de la vida: el amor, el sexo, la música, la literatura, la muerte y lo que ocurre después de ella. Nell Stevens es una excelente autora». Melissa Broder, autora de Milk Fed
The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 2004
<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>
House of Hollow
Krystal Sutherland · 2022
<b>A <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller!<br>An Instant Indie Bestseller!<br><br>A dark, twisty modern fairytale where three sisters discover they are not exactly all that they seem and evil things really do go bump in the night.</b><br><br>Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange. Ever since they disappeared on a suburban street in Scotland as children only to return a month a later with no memory of what happened to them, odd, eerie occurrences seem to follow in their wake. And they're changing. First, their dark hair turned white. Then, their blue eyes slowly turned black. They have insatiable appetites yet never gain weight. People find them disturbingly intoxicating, unbearably beautiful, and inexplicably dangerous.<br><br>But now, ten years later, seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow is doing all she can to fit in and graduate high school on time--something her two famously glamourous globe-trotting older sisters, Grey and Vivi, never managed to do. But when Grey goes missing without a trace, leaving behind bizarre clues as to what might have happened, Iris and Vivi are left to trace her last few days. They aren't the only ones looking for her though. As they brush against the supernatural they realize that the story they've been told about their past is unraveling and the world that returned them seemingly unharmed ten years ago, might just be calling them home.
The Blighted Stars
Megan E. O'Keefe · 2023
<p><b>Stranded on a dead planet with her mortal enemy, a spy must survive and uncover a conspiracy in the first book of an epic space opera trilogy by an award‑winning author.</b><br> <br> <br> <br> <b>She's a revolutionary</b>. Humanity is running out of options. Habitable planets are being destroyed as quickly as they're found and Naira Sharp thinks she knows the reason why. The all-powerful Mercator family has been controlling the exploration of the universe for decades, and exploiting any materials they find along the way under the guise of helping humanity's expansion. But Naira knows the truth, and she plans to bring the whole family down from the inside.<br> <br> <br> <br> <b>He's the heir to the dynasty.</b> Tarquin Mercator never wanted to run a galaxy-spanning business empire. He just wanted to study rocks and read books. But Tarquin's father has tasked him with monitoring the settlement of a new planet, and he doesn't really have a choice in the matter. <br> <br> <br> <br> Disguised as Tarquin's new bodyguard, Naira plans to destroy the settlement ship before they make land. But neither of them expects to end up stranded on a dead planet. To survive and keep her secret, Naira will have to join forces with the man she's sworn to hate. And together they will uncover a plot that's bigger than both of them.<br> <br> <br> <br> For more from Megan E. O'Keefe, check out:<br> <br> <br> <br> <b>The Protectorate </b><br> <br> <i>Velocity Weapon</i><br> <br> <i>Chaos Vector<br> <br> Catalyst Gate </i></p>
Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn · 2006
NOW AN HBO® LIMITED SERIES STARRING AMY ADAMS, NOMINATED FOR EIGHT EMMY AWARDS, INCLUDING OUTSTANDING LIMITED SERIES FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming. Praise for Sharp Objects “Nasty, addictive reading.”—Chicago Tribune “Skillful and disturbing.”—Washington Post “Darkly original . . . [a] riveting tale.”—People
Rebelión en la granja / Animal Farm
George Orwell · 2013
<b>Un rotundo alegato a favor de la libertad y en contra el totalitarismo. </b><br><br>Esta sátira de la Revolución Rusa y el triunfo del estalinismo, escrita en 1945, se ha convertido por derecho propio en un hito de la cultura contemporánea y en uno de los libros más mordaces de todos los tiempos. Ante el auge de los animales de la Granja Solariega, pronto detectamos las semillas del totalitarismo en una organización aparentemente ideal; y en nuestros líderes más carismáticos, la sombra de los opresores más crueles. «Una obra literaria perfecta.» T. S. Eliot <br><br><b>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION</b> <br><i><br>Animal Farm</i> is the most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories. Its account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, can fairly be said to have become a universal drama. Orwell is one of the very few modern satirists comparable to Jonathan Swift in power, artistry, and moral authority; in animal farm his spare prose and the logic of his dark comedy brilliantly highlight his stark message. Taking as his starting point the betrayed promise of the Russian Revolution, Orwell lays out a vision that, in its bitter wisdom, gives us the clearest understanding we possess of the possible consequences of our social and political acts.
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Mary Shelley · 2018
<b>Mary Shelley’s classic novel, presented in its original 1818 text, with an introduction from National Book Critics Circle award-winner Charlotte Gordon</b><br> <br> <b>Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read</i></b><br> <br>The original 1818 text of <i>Frankenstein</i> preserves the hard-hitting and politically-charged aspects of Shelley’s original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition also emphasizes Shelley’s relationship with her mother—trailblazing feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who penned <i>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman</i>—and demonstrates her commitment to carrying forward her mother’s ideals, placing her in the context of a feminist legacy rather than the sole female in the company of male poets, including Percy Shelley and Lord Byron.<br> <br> This edition includes a new introduction and suggestions for further reading by National Book Critics Circle award-winner and Shelley expert Charlotte Gordon, literary excerpts and reviews selected by Gordon, and a chronology and essay by preeminent Shelley scholar Charles E. Robinson. <br> <br>Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing 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.
Crimen y castigo / Crime and Punishment
Fiodor M. Dostoievski · 2016
<b>Nominada por los estadounidenses como una de las 100 mejores novelas en la serie de PBS <i>The Great American Read</i></b><br><br><i>Crimen y Castigo</i> fue publicada por Fiódor Dostoyevski en 1866 a través del diario El mensajero ruso, en doce partes que luego conformarían la novela, universalmente reconocida como una de las más influyentes de la literatura rusa. La novela tiene un corte sicológico que llevá al lector a explorar de forma constante los pensamientos del protagonista, el estudiante Raskolnikov, quién a través de sus diálogos con los demás personajes, analiza cada uno de los actos que lo llevarán luego a cumplir una condena en Siberia; crímenes que no son buenos ni malos hasta que se los mira desde la óptica de la sociedad y de los diferentes individuos involucrados. Motivado por el deseo de hacer el bien a su hermana Dunia sus acciones terminan siendo, sin embargo, sangrientas, y solo una muchacha humilde que se convierte en su confidente podrá comprender del todo sus razones.<br><br><b>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION</b><br><br><b><b>Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read</i></b></b><br><br>Through the story of the brilliant but conflicted young Raskolnikov and the murder he commits, Fyodor Dostoevsky explores the theme of redemption through suffering. Crime and Punishment put Dostoevsky at the forefront of Russian writers when it appeared in 1866 and is now one of the most famous and influential novels in world literature.<br><br>The poverty-stricken Raskolnikov, a talented student, devises a theory about extraordinary men being above the law, since in their brilliance they think "new thoughts" and so contribute to society. He then sets out to prove his theory by murdering a vile, cynical old pawnbroker and her sister. The act brings Raskolnikov into contact with his own buried conscience and with two characters — the deeply religious Sonia, who has endured great suffering, and Porfiry, the intelligent and discerning official who is charged with investigating the murder — both of whom compel Raskolnikov to feel the split in his nature. Dostoevsky provides readers with a suspenseful, penetrating psychological analysis that goes beyond the crime — which in the course of the novel demands drastic punishment — to reveal something about the human condition: The more we intellectualize, the more imprisoned we become.
Carmilla
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · 2019
<p><i>"To this hour the image of Carmilla returns to my memory with ambiguous alternations--sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church. Sometimes, I start from a reverie, certain I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing-room door."</i><br></p> <p><p>Isolated in a remote mansion in a central European forest, Laura longs for companionship--until a carriage accident brings another young woman into her life: the secretive and sometimes erratic Carmilla. As Carmilla's actions become more puzzling and volatile, Laura develops bizarre symptoms, and as her health goes into decline, Laura and her father discover something monstrous.</p> <p><p>Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's compelling tale of a young woman's seduction by a female vampire was a source of influence for Bram Stoker's <i>Dracula</i>, which it predates by over a quarter century. <i>Carmilla</i> was originally serialized from 1871 to 1872 and went on to inspire adaptations in film, opera, and beyond, including the cult classic web series by the same name.</p>
Misery
Stephen King · 2016
The #1 New York Times bestseller about a famous novelist held hostage in a remote location by his “number one fan.” One of “Stephen King’s best…genuinely scary” (USA TODAY). Adapted into the classic film Misery (1990). Paul Sheldon is a bestselling novelist who has finally met his number one fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes, and she is more than a rabid reader—she is Paul’s nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. But she is also furious that the author has killed off her favorite character in his latest book. Annie becomes his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house. Annie wants Paul to write a book that brings Misery back to life—just for her. She has a lot of ways to spur him on. One is a needle. Another is an axe. And if they don’t work, she can get really nasty. “Terrifying” (San Francisco Chronicle), “dazzlingly well-written” (The Indianapolis Star), and “truly gripping” (Publishers Weekly), Misery is “classic Stephen King...full of twists and turns and mounting suspense” (The Boston Globe).
El umbral de la noche
Stephen King · 2003
El gran gusano hediondo se ha enseñoreado de la aldea abandonada y no permitirá que nadie acabe con sus misas negras. La máquina planchadora ha probado la sangre de una virgen y quiere más, mucho más, y su macabro deseo no se detendrá ante nada. Los amplios maizales imponen a los chicos sus sanguinarios ritos... El umbral de la noche nos transporta a un mundo de terrores imposibles pero queestán ahí: a la vuelta de la esquina, en un maizal, en un pueblo abandonado, en una lavandería, debajo de la cama o tras la puerta de ese armario que ni siquiera rechina.
Sunburn
Chloe Michelle Howarth · 2023
** Shortlisted for the 2024 Book of the Year: Discover Award by the British Book Awards ** ** Shortlisted for the 2023 Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction ** ** An Evening Standard 'One to Watch in 2023 ** ** An Independent 'Best Romantic Summer Reads' ** It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and doting Martin, her closest childhood friend. Lucy begins to make sense of herself during a long hot summer, when a spark with her school friend Susannah escalates to an all-consuming infatuation, and, very quickly, to a desperate and devastating love. Fearful of rejection from her small and conservative community, Lucy begins living a double life, hiding the most honest parts of herself in stolen moments with Susannah. But with the end of school and the opportunity to leave Crossmore looming, Lucy must choose between two places, two people and two futures, each as terrifying as the other. Neither will be easy, but only one will offer her happiness.
Una sonata de verano
Belén Martínez · 2024
¿Y si tu libro favorito fuera mucho más que una gran historia? Casio Oliver está obsesionado con Preludio de invierno, la primera obra de Óscar Salvatierra, un escritor ya retirado. Aguablanca, el pueblo donde se desarrolla la historia, es el sitio donde Casio pasará el último mes de verano, entre sus pinos, fantasmas y recuerdos olvidados, mientras él intenta dejar atrás la pesadilla en la que se ha convertido su vida desde hace unos meses. Lo que Casio no sabe es que su propia historia ya comenzó hace tiempo, con un chico que le ofreció un paraguas bajo la lluvia, una mansión sobre un acantilado y un libro que esconde magia, muerte y amor entre sus páginas. En el abismo que separa la magia de la realidad, Casio tendrá que decidir por qué luchar y por qué vivir, para que su propia historia valga la pena ser contada...
If We Were Villains
M. L. Rio · 2017
Oliver Marks has just served ten years for the murder of one of his closest friends - a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the detective who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened ten years ago.As a young actor studying Shakespeare at an elite arts conservatory, Oliver noticed that his talented classmates seem to play the same roles onstage and off - villain, hero, tyrant, temptress - though Oliver felt doomed to always be a secondary character in someone else's story. But when the teachers change up the casting, a good-natured rivalry turns ugly, and the plays spill dangerously over into life.When tragedy strikes, one of the seven friends is found dead. The rest face their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, and themselves, that they are blameless.
It Stephen King
Stephen King · 1987
"They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them could withstand the force that drew them back to Derry, Maine to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name. What was it? Read It and find out...if you dare!" - product description.
The Raven Boys
Maggie Stiefvater · 2013
An all-new series from the masterful, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater!<p></p>Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue never sees them--until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks to her.His name is Gansey, a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can't entirely explain. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul whose emotions range from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher who notices many things but says very little.For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She doesn't believe in true love, and never thought this would be a problem. But as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore.
I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman · 2019
<p><b>SISTERHOOD. SECRETS. SURVIVAL.</b><br> <br> <b>Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic TikTok sensation.</b><br> <br> Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus?<br> <br> Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone an outcast in the corner.<br> <br> Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. The woman who will never know men.<br> <br> <b>WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE <i>WATER CURE</i><br> <br> **<i>Orlanda</i>, the next sensation from Jacquline Harpman, is available now**</b></p>
Cometierra
Dolores Reyes · 2019
When she was young, Cometierra swallowed dirt and learned from a vision that her father beat her mother to death. That was only her first vision. Every gift comes with added responsibilities, and the one Cometierra was born with makes her life twice as difficult because she lives in a neighborhood where violence, neglect, and injustice sprout from every corner and where women are the main victims. Through the pursuit of the truth, the discovery of love, and the care between siblings, Cometierra will seek to forge her own path.
That's Not My Name
Megan Lally · 2024
<p>A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller!</p> <p>She thought she had her life back. She was wrong. A gripping debut thriller perfect for fans of Natalie D. Richards and Vincent Ralph.</p> <p>It was a mistake to trust him.</p> <p>Shivering and bruised, a teen wakes up on the side of a dirt road with no memory of how she got there--or who she is. A passing officer takes her to the police station, and not long after, a frantic man arrives. He's been searching for her for hours. He has her school ID, her birth certificate, and even family photos.</p> <p>He is her father. Her name is Mary. Or so he says.</p> <p>When Lola slammed the car door and stormed off into the night, Drew thought they just needed some time to cool off. Except Lola disappeared, and the sheriff, his friends, and the whole town are convinced Drew murdered his girlfriend. Forget proving his innocence, he needs to find her before it's too late. The longer Lola is missing, the fewer leads there are to follow...and the more danger they both are in.</p>
Piercing
Ryu Murakami · 2007
<b><b>“Mr. Murakami’s novels are filled with entertaining psychopaths.”—<i>The New York Times</i><br><br>A pulsating cult-favorite psycho-thriller, the basis of the major motion picture starring Christopher Abbott and Mia Wasikowska</b><br><br>*One of <i>Literary Hub</i>'s <b>“</b>Ten Works of Literary Horror You Should Read (Even if You Don't Think You Like Horror)<b>”</b>*<br><br></b> Kawashima Masayuki is a successful graphic designer living in Tokyo with his loving wife, Yoko, and their baby girl. Outwardly, their lives are a picture of happiness and contentment, but every night while his wife sleeps Kawashima creeds from him bed and watches over the baby’s crib with an ice pick in his hand and an almost visceral desire to use it.<br><br> One night, as this struggle unfolds once more, Kawashima makes a decision to confront his demons and sets into motion an uncontrollable chain of events seeming to lead inexorably to murder. The follow-up to <i>In the Miso Soup</i> from a cult favorite writer, <i>Piercing </i>confirms Murakami as the master of the psycho thriller—terrifying, sickening, and utterly gripping.
LA METAMORFOSIS (Spanish Edition)
Franz Kafka · 2023
✨ ¡DESCUBRE UNA OBRA MAESTRA: LA METAMORFOSIS DE KAFKA! ✨<br/>Adéntrate en el fascinante mundo de Franz Kafka a través de esta obra maestra literaria que desafiará tus percepciones y te sumergirá en un laberinto de emociones y reflexiones. La metamorfosis es mucho más que una simple narración: es una exploración profunda de la identidad, la alienación y los dilemas existenciales que nos afectan a todos.<br/><br/>✍️ Sumérgete en la mente genial de Kafka y déjate llevar por la transformación de Gregorio Samsa, un viaje que te llevará a las profundidades de la condición humana y te enfrentará a cuestionamientos que resonarán en tu interior.<br/><br/>✒ Esta edición incluye, además, una nueva traducción y un prólogo.<br/><br/>✔️La metamorfosis es un clásico indiscutible que ha dejado una huella perdurable en la literatura universal. No pierdas la oportunidad de descubrir por qué esta historia sigue fascinando a lectores de todas las generaciones.
Dónde estás, mundo bello
Sally Rooney · 2022
"Dos amigas se acercan a la treintena en ciudades distintas y tras mucho tiempo sin verse. Alice, novelista, conoce a Felix, que trabaja en un almacén, y le pide que la acompañe a Roma para promocionar su último libro. En Dublín, su mejor amiga, Eileen, está superando una ruptura y empieza a flirtear con Simon, un chico al que conoce desde que eran niños. Mientras el verano se acerca, las dos chicas se envían correos electrónicos en los que se ponen al día. Hablan de su amistad, de sus relaciones, de arte, literatura y de un futuro cada vez más incierto. Dicen que quieren verse pronto, pero ¿qué pasará cuando lo hagan? Alice, Felix, Eileen y Simon todavía son jóvenes, pero pronto dejarán de serlo. Se juntan y se separan, se desean y se mienten. Tienen sexo, sufren por amor, por sus amistades y por el mundo en el que viven. ¿Están en la última sala iluminada antes de la oscuridad? ¿Encontrarán una manera de creer en un mundo bello?"--
Listen for the Lie
Amy Tintera · 2024
<p><b>A <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller * A <i>Good Morning America</i> Book Club Pick * An <i>NPR</i> Best Book of the Year * A <i>Washington Post</i> Best Thriller of 2024</b><br> <br> "I read this in one sitting! Such a fun and engaging read, with an ending that blew my mind!"<br> <b>--</b><b>Freida McFadden, #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author</b><br> <br> "A world-class whodunit."<br> <b>--Stephen King</b><br> <br> "An extremely successful high-wire act, balancing between dark comedy and darker thrills."<br> <b>--Alex Michaelides, #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author</b><br> <br> "Laugh-out-loud funny, thrilling and twisty..."<br> <b>--</b><b>Liane Moriarty,</b> <b>#1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author</b><br> <br> <b>What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too?</b> <b>And what if the truth doesn't matter?</b><br> <br> After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy's blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer. Lucy and Savvy were the golden girls of their small Texas town: pretty, smart, and enviable. Lucy married a dream guy with a big ring and an even bigger new home. Savvy was the social butterfly loved by all, and if you believe the rumors, especially popular with the men in town. It's been years since that horrible night, a night Lucy can't remember anything about, and she has since moved to LA and started a new life.<br> <br> But now the phenomenally huge hit true crime podcast "Listen for the Lie," and its too-good looking host Ben Owens, have decided to investigate Savvy's murder for the show's second season. Lucy is forced to return to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend's murder, even if she is the one that did it.<br> <br> The truth is out there, if we just listen.</p>
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2003
<b>Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic tale of one man’s pure innocence in the face of a society obsessed with power, money, and manipulation</b><br><br>The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and “be among people.” Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant’s son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this “positively beautiful man” on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature.<br> <br>Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of <i>The Idiot </i>is destined to stand with their versions of <i>Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, </i>and <i>Demons</i> as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad · 2020
A new edition of Heart of Darkness, the 1899 masterpiece by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad about a voyage up the Congo River into the Heart of Africa. The story is narrated by Charles Marlow, recalling his obsessive quest to locate the ivory trader Kurtz, who has become ensconced deep in the jungle managing a remote outpost. As he ventures further and further down the Congo, Marlow finds himself and his surroundings become increasingly untethered. Heart of Darkness has been widely re-published and translated into many languages. It provided the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Heart of Darkness 67th on their list of the 100 best novels in English of the twentieth century. Literary critic Harold Bloom wrote that Heart of Darkness had been analyzed more than any other work of literature that is studied in universities and colleges, which he attributed to Conrad's "unique propensity for ambiguity."
Chlorine
Jade Song · 2023
In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between a literary dark coming-of-age narrative and an unsettling tale of body horror, told from an adult perspective on the trials of growing up in a society that puts pressure on young women and their bodies… a powerful, relevant novel of immigration, sapphic longing, and fierce, defiant becoming. Ren Yu is a swimmer. Her daily life, in the intense world of competitive swimming, starts and ends with the pool. Her teammates are her only friends. Her coach is her guiding light. If she swims well enough, she will be scouted, get a scholarship, go to a good school. Her parents will love her. Her coach will be kind to her. She will have a good life. But these are human concerns. These are the concerns of those confined to land, those with legs. Ren grew up on tales of mermaid folklore, of creatures of the deep, of the oceans and the rivers. Creatures that called sailors to their doom. That dragged them down and drowned them. That feasted on their flesh. The creature that she’s always longed to become: the mermaid. And in this gripping psychological horror, Ren aches to be in the water. She dreams of the scent of chlorine, the feel of it on her skin. She will do anything she can to make a life for herself where she can be free. No matter the pain. No matter what anyone else thinks. No matter how much blood she has to spill.
The Final Girl Support Group
Grady Hendrix · 2021
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER VOTED GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST HORROR NOVEL OF 2021 A Good Morning America Buzz Pick “The horror master…puts his unique spin on slasher movie tropes.”-USA Today A can't-miss summer read, selected by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, Time, USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, CNN, LitHub, BookRiot, Bustle, Popsugar and the New York Public Library In horror movies, the final girls are the ones left standing when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of their lives…but what happens after? Like his bestselling novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix’s latest is a fast-paced, frightening, and wickedly humorous thriller. From chain saws to summer camp slayers, The Final Girl Support Group pays tribute to and slyly subverts our most popular horror films—movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream. Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece. But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.
Wilder Girls
Rory Power · 2019
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "The perfect kind of story for our current era."—Hypable From the author of Burn Our Bodies Down, a feminist Lord of the Flies about three best friends living in quarantine at their island boarding school, and the lengths they go to uncover the truth of their confinement when one disappears. This fresh debut is a mind-bending novel unlike anything you've read before. It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty's life out from under her. It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don't dare wander outside the school's fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything. But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that there's more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true. And don't miss Rory Power's second novel, Burn Our Bodies Down! Praise for Wilder Girls: 4 STARRED REVIEWS! "Take Annihilation, add a dash of Contagion, set it at an all-girls' academy, and you'll arrive at Rory Power's occasionally shocking and always gripping Wilder Girls."--Refinery29 "This thrilling saga...is sure to be one of the season's most talked-about books, in any genre."--EW "Fresh and horrible and beautiful....readers will be consumed and altered by Wilder Girls."--NPR
The Girls A Novel
Emma Cline · 2017
<b>THE INSTANT BESTSELLER • An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong</b><br><br><b>ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: <i>The Washington Post, </i>NPR<i>, The Guardian, Entertainment Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times, Esquire, Newsweek, Vogue, Glamour, People, The Huffington Post, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Time Out, BookPage, Publishers Weekly, Slate</i></b><br><br> Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their sprawling ranch is eerie and run down, but to Evie, it is exotic, thrilling, charged—a place where she feels desperate to be accepted. As she spends more time away from her mother and the rhythms of her daily life, and as her obsession with Suzanne intensifies, Evie does not realize she is coming closer and closer to unthinkable violence.<br><br><b>Finalist for the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Book Prize • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award • Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • <i>The New York Times Book Review </i>Editors’ Choice • Emma Cline—One of <i>Granta</i><b>’s</b> Best of Young American Novelists</b><br><br> <b>Praise for <i>The Girls</i></b><br><br> “Spellbinding . . . a seductive and arresting coming-of-age story.”<b>—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br> “Extraordinary . . . Debut novels like this are rare, indeed.”<b>—<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br><br> “Hypnotic.”<b><i>—The Wall Street Journal</i></b><br><br> “Gorgeous.”<b><i>—Los Angeles Times</i></b><br><br> “Savage.”<b><i>—The Guardian</i></b><br><br> “Astonishing.”<b><i>—The Boston Globe</i></b><br><br> “Superbly written.”<b>—James Wood, <i>The New Yorker</i></b><br><br> “Intensely consuming.”<b>—Richard Ford</b><br><br> “A spectacular achievement.”<b>—Lucy Atkins, <i>The Times</i></b><br><br> “Thrilling.”<b>—Jennifer Egan</b><br><br> “Compelling and startling.”<b><i>—The Economist</i></b>
MeMoria
Moria Casán · 2012
<p>“Yo no me hago preguntas porque nunca miro para atrás. Sin embargo, todo aquel que se siente feliz consigo mismo sabe que, cada tanto, en nuestra memoria se encuentran algunas respuestas impensadas. Son señales que quedaron titilando y que delinean el camino recorrido. El pasado dice quiénes fuimos y de alguna manera explica por qué estamos donde estamos. Decidí recorrerlo para escribir estas memorias.” ¿Quién es Moria Casán? ¿La vedette? ¿La actriz? ¿La madre y abuela? ¿La mujer monumental? ¿Quién se esconde detrás del repertorio de personajes de vida cuyas ropas ha ido vistiendo a lo largo de las décadas? Ana María Casanova fue también una niña y una adolescente y tuvo un primer amor y una caravana de hombres luego. Vivió momentos de enorme crudeza y perversión; de todo salió de un modo que asombrará al lector. Todo lo sorteó esta mujer que casi se autoprocreó en la superación constante de desafíos. Moria Casán escribe aquí su autobiografía, cuenta quién fue Ana María, hija, joven, amante y siempre mujer atrevida hasta lo inimaginable. “Tuve una vida extraordinariamente intensa y es momento de revelarla.”</p>
Betty
Tiffany McDaniel · 2020
A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians about a young girl and the family truths that will haunt her for the rest of her life. “A girl comes of age against the knife.” So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a white mother and a Cherokee father, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings. The world they inhabit in the rural town of Breathed, Ohio, is one of poverty and violence—both from outside the family and, devastatingly, from within. But despite the hardships she faces, Betty is resilient. Her curiosity about the natural world, her fierce love for her sisters, and her father’s brilliant stories are kindling for the fire of her own imagination, and in the face of all to which she bears witness, Betty discovers an escape: she begins to write. Inspired by generations of her family, Tiffany McDaniel sets out to free the past by delivering this heartbreaking yet magical story—a remarkable novel that establishes her as one of the most important voices in American fiction.
Cadáver exquisito (Premio Clarín 2017) / Tender is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica · 2020
<b>PREMIO CLARÍN 2017</b><br><br><b>En esta despiadada distopía -tan brutal como sutil, tan alegórica como realista-, Agustina Bazterrica inspira, con el poder explosivo de la ficción, sensaciones y debates de suma actualidad.</b><br><br>La súbita aparición de un virus letal que ataca a los animales modifica de manera irreversible el mundo: desde las fieras hasta las mascotas deben ser sistemáticamente sacrificadas, y su carne ya no puede ser consumida. Los gobiernos enfrentan la situación con una decisión drástica: legalizando la cría, reproducción, matanza y procesamiento de carne humana. El canibalismo es ley y la sociedad ha quedado dividida en dos grupos: los que comen y los que son comidos.<br><br>Marcos Tejo, encargado general del frigorífico Krieg, separado de su esposa y a cargo de su padre, es un oscuro burócrata. El día en que recibe como regalo una mujer criada para el consumo, las tentaciones lo transforman en una conciencia peligrosa de pliegues truculentos que lo llevará a transgredir las nuevas normas hasta límites que la sociedad desconoce.<br><br>¿Qué resto de humanidad cabe cuando los muertos son cremados para evitar su consumo? ¿Quién es el otro si, de verdad, somos lo que comemos?<br><br><b>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION<br><br><b>The electrifying, award-winning, internationally bestselling novel about a dystopian world in which animals have been wiped out, humans are being harvested for food, and society has been divided into those who eat and those who are eaten.</b><br><br></b>Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that animals had been infected with a virus and their meat had become poisonous. Then governments initiated the Transition. Now, human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.<br><br>Then one day he’s given a gift: a specimen of the finest quality. He leaves her in his barn, tied up, a problem to be disposed of later. But she haunts Marcos. Her trembling body, her watchful, knowing eyes. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.<br><br>From Agustina Bazterrica, one of Latin America’s most celebrated and original new voices, <i>Tender Is the Flesh</i> is propulsive and profound, a searing cautionary tale about the cost of consumption and the ties that bind and break us.
Cuando apagas la luz: 30 casos reales que no te dejarán dormir
La sociedad de las pesadillas · 2025
<p> <b>Si creías conocer la noche, piénsalo de nuevo, porque cuando apagues la luz, nada volverá a ser igual</b> </p> <p>Prepárate para adentrarte en los secretos más oscuros de este mundo. La Sociedad de las Pesadillas ha recopilado evidencia de los fenómenos paranormales más famosos a través sus videos e investigaciones, pero ahora están listos para contar las aterradoras experiencias verídicas que les han compartido a lo largo del tiempo, así como también sus propias vivencias paranormales que los dejaron marcados para siempre. Historias que van desde luces extrañas en el cielo, hasta presencias que susurran detrás de las paredes.</p> <p>Descubre una cara de la realidad donde lo cotidiano se mezcla con lo sobrenatural: encuentros con entidades desconocidas, dimensiones ocultas y sucesos que desafían toda explicación. Entre estas páginas encontrarás treinta relatos reales que te harán mirar dos veces debajo de tu cama antes de irte a dormir.</p>
Ultravioleta
Milo Quifes · 2024
Not My Problem
Ciara Smyth · 2021
Perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and Nina LaCour, this queer coming-of-age story from the author of The Falling in Love Montage is wry, multilayered, and unflinchingly honest. Aideen has plenty of problems she can’t solve. But when she stumbles upon overachiever Meabh Kowalska having a full-blown meltdown, she sees one that she can actually fix. Meabh is desperate to escape her crushing pile of extracurriculars. Aideen volunteers to help—by pushing her down the stairs. Problem? Solved. Meabh’s sprained ankle is the perfect excuse to ditch her overwhelming schedule. But when one of their classmates learns about their little scheme, more “clients” start asking for Aideen’s “help”—kicking off a semester of traded favors, ill-advised hijinks, and even an unexpected chance at love. Fixing other people’s problems won’t fix her own. But it might be the push Aideen needs to start. Problem-Solving for Hire: Aideen has a unique talent for fixing her classmates’ problems—usually with ill-advised hijinks and a complete lack of foresight. First on her list? Overachiever Meabh Kowalska. Rivals to Romance: She’s supposed to be helping Meabh. Instead, Aideen finds herself falling for the last girl in the world she ever expected to like. Witty YA Contemporary: Packed with a hilarious, sarcastic voice and an Irish setting, this story is perfect for readers who love smart, character-driven comedies. Found Family: While running from her own messy life, Aideen accidentally builds a chaotic but loyal crew of accomplices, clients, and maybe even real friends.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation A Novel
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2019
<b>The <i>New York Times </i>Bestseller • <b><i>New York Times </i>Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century</b> • Named a Best Book of the Year by <i>The Washington Post, Time, </i>NPR, <i>Vice, Bustle</i>, <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The Guardian</i>, <i>Kirkus Reviews</i>,<i> Entertainment Weekly</i>, and The AV Club<br><br>“One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> <br><br>“Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” <b>—<i>Vogue<br><br></i>“Ottessa Moshfegh is easily the most interesting contemporary American writer on the subject of being alive when being alive feels terrible.” —Jia Tolentino, <i>The New Yorker</i></b><br><br></b>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><i>My Year of Rest and Relaxation</i> 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.
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar · 2020
<b>* HUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA * NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS WINNER: BEST NOVELLA *</b><br> <br><b>“[An] exquisitely crafted tale...Part epistolary romance, part mind-blowing science fiction adventure, this dazzling story unfolds bit by bit, revealing layers of meaning as it plays with cause and effect, wildly imaginative technologies, and increasingly intricate wordplay...This short novel warrants multiple readings to fully unlock its complexities.” —<i>Publishers Weekly </i>(starred review)</b><br> <br> <b>From award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone comes an enthralling, romantic novel spanning time and space about two time-traveling rivals who fall in love and must change the past to ensure their future. </b><br><br>Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment finds a letter. It reads: <i>Burn before reading.</i><br> <br>Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.<br> <br>Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That’s how war works, right?<br> <br>Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers, <i>This Is How You Lose the Time War </i>is an epic love story spanning time and space.
La vida invisible de Addie LaRue
Victoria Schwab · 2020
El Jardín de Las Mariposas (Novela Negra) / The Butterfly Garden (Noir)
Dot Hutchinson · 2024
<b>Más escalofriante que <i>El silencio de los inocentes</i>. La belleza nunca había sido tan aterradora.</b><p></p><p>Cerca de una aislada mansión existe un jardín donde se cultivan delicadas flores y en él, abrigada por frondosos árboles, habita una exquisita y peculiar colección de mariposas que es resguardada por el Jardinero, un hombre que desconoce los límites de su obsesión por preservar la belleza.</p><p>Maya es una sobreviviente del jardín y ahora tendrá que narrar a los agentes del FBI los horrores que vivió mientras <b>permanecía en cautiverio junto con otras chicas </b>que ni siquiera habían alcanzado la mayoría de edad. En su memoria viven las peores pesadillas. En su espalda, como en las de todas las jóvenes mariposas, un tatuaje le recordará por siempre un crimen imperdonable.<br></p><p><b>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION</b></p> <p><b>More chilling than <i>The Silence of the Lambs</i>. Beauty has never been so terrifying.</b><p></p><p>Near an isolated mansion, there is a garden where delicate flowers are cultivated, and within it, sheltered by lush trees, resides an exquisite and peculiar collection of butterflies guarded by the Gardener, a man who knows no bounds in his obsession to preserve beauty.</p><p>Maya is a survivor of the garden and now must recount to FBI agents the horrors she experienced while<b> in captivity along with other girls </b>who had not even reached adulthood. In her memory live the worst nightmares. On her back, like all the young butterflies, a tattoo will forever remind her of an unforgivable crime. <p></p>
Babel
R. F. Kuang · 2022
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War “Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out.” -- Shannon Chakraborty, bestselling author of The City of Brass From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization. For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide… Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?
El rey oscuro
C.S. Pacat · 2022
El fantasma de Canterville
Oscar Wilde · 2013
Pequenos favores
Erin A. Craig · 2022
<p> Best-seller do New York Times </p> <p> <br> “Único, encantador e assombroso.”– Brigid Kemmerer, autora da série Cursebreakers, best-seller do New York Times </p> <p> <br> A vida isolada em Amity Falls tem um cotidiano previsível. Ellerie Downing passa seus dias cuidando das colmeias da família, perseguindo as irmãs e sonhando com coisas maiores, enquanto seu irmão gêmeo, Samuel, vagueia livremente e desfruta de sua juventude. </p> <p> <br> Segundo a crença popular, os primeiros colonos lutaram contra criaturas monstruosas para se estabelecerem em Amity Falls, e acredita-se que esses seres ainda estejam na floresta, impedindo os Downing e os outros habitantes de se aventurarem em terras mais distantes. E, quando uma expedição enviada à cidade para buscar suprimentos desaparece, um clima de medo e insegurança instala-se no vilarejo. </p> <p> <br> Acontecimentos estranhos começam a assolar a cidade e, à medida que as estações mudam, fica claro que algo está terrivelmente errado. As criaturas das lendas são reais e estão se oferecendo para satisfazer os desejos mais profundos dos moradores, por mais grandiosos que sejam, em troca de um pequeno favor. <br> Essas exigências aparentemente triviais, no entanto, escondem intenções sinistras. Logo Ellerie se vê em uma corrida contra o tempo para impedir que tudo que ela ama seja destruído. </p> <p> <br> Pequenos favores é um romance hipnotizante e arrepiante sobre desejos e sonhos sinistros e o que espreita nas sombras das pessoas que você acha que conhece. </p>
Cabin Fever
Antonella Menoni · 2024
A veces quisiera dormir dentro de un pomelo
Thaís Espaillat · 2019
La piel curtida del verano
Julia Leggiero · 2022
Bunny
Mona Awad · 2019
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Enter the Bunnyverse with the “wild, audacious . . . unforgettable” (Los Angeles Times) #DarkAcademia novel that started it all – the precursor to We Love You, Bunny “[A] cult classic.” —People “[A] viral sensation.” —USA Today “O Bunny you are sooo genius!” —Margaret Atwood “We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?” 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. 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. 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. Named a Best Book of the year by TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature, and The New York Public Library
