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The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather’s house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty small town in southern Mexico. A life she can call her own. Yet this new life seems as distant as the stars, until the day she finds a curious wooden box in her grandfather’s room. She opens it - and accidentally frees the spirit of the Mayan god of death, who requests her help in recovering his throne from his treacherous brother.

In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even his own name. But he can sense the beating heart of the city, see its history, and feel its power. In the Bronx, a Lenape gallery director discovers strange graffiti scattered throughout the city, so beautiful and powerful it's as if the paint is literally calling to her. In Brooklyn, a politician and mother finds she can hear the songs of her city, pulsing to the beat of her Louboutin heels.

(…) Gardel solo quiere elevarse, que lo dejen en paz para elevarse. Hace mucho tiempo que está atrapado en la zona inferior, reclamado continuamente por los que escuchan sus discos y gente como usted, que estudian su vida. Todo eso lo tira hacia abajo, ¿comprende?, no lo deja ascender.

De acordo com um mito japonês, os gatos são um símbolo de boa sorte. E, se você for gentil com eles, um dia esse favor será retribuído. Mas, se for gentil com o gato certo, talvez você seja convidado para conhecer um misterioso café que surge em noites de lua cheia em Quioto...

A stunningly original love story between a museum employee and the man in a masterpiece hanging on the walls—a breathtaking debut about time, art, and the enduring power of love.

There is a small fishing village on the Chesapeake Bay called Maiden’s Cove, where food brings people together, bioluminescence lights the sand in the sultry summer months, and myths and legends of mermaids seep into every memory and story.

Encuentras de todo, y todo cabe, en los recovecos de la bolsa de una mujer. Del mismo modo, toda historia, todo mundo narrable, cabe en una prosa concisa, como es el caso. La bolsa en este libro es un "multiverso": se hallan cosas tan comunes como el chicle de Susanita —la hija—, las fantásticas medias de Colón, una pluma del penacho de Moctezuma o hasta la cola de un dinosaurio. Como todo objeto fetiche, la bolsa de la señora Rodríguez es una extensión de ella misma: es la identidad, desmenuzar su contenido es sinónimo de develar su ser interno.

Nachdem die Friedensgespräche gescheitert sind, flieht Seraphina mit Niran zurück nach Eira. Da ihr Herz längst ihm gehört, ist sie entschlossener denn je, den Krieg zu beenden. Dazu muss sie ihre aufkeimenden Phönixkräfte stärken und unter Kontrolle bringen. Nur wenn sie ihre volle Macht erweckt, kann sie ihre Familie retten und sich selbst eine Zukunft mit Niran ermöglichen.

Within the shores of Isla Bestia, guests from around the world discover a utopia of ever-changing performances, sumptuous feasts and beautiful monsters. Many enter, but few ever leave—the wine is simply too sweet, the music too fine and the revelry endless. Sofía, a freedwoman from a nearby colonized island, cares little for this revelry. Born an enslaved mestiza on a tobacco plantation, she has neither wealth nor title, only a scholarly pragmatism and a hunger for answers. She travels to el Carnaval de Bestias in search of her twin brother, who disappeared five years ago.

Holland, 1650. One fine spring day in Friesland, twenty-year-old Clara van Weiren is faced with an ill omen: a whale, beached and rotting in the noonday sun. But Clara doesn’t believe in magic and superstition, and this portent is quickly dismissed when a proposal from a wealthy merchant arrives, promising Clara the freedom she seeks from her mother’s overbearing rule. When her attempts at overseeing the household at the family’s estate lead to her chance encounter with a young man with russet hair and sparkling eyes the color of the sea, she finds herself strangely drawn to him.

Fiona, better known as eco-influencer @FoliageFifi, hasn’t left her apartment since her boyfriend, Ed, died. It’s easy to self-isolate when your heart’s shattered and the planet you’ve spent your whole life trying to save is dying right outside your window. But when a houseplant randomly appears on her doorstep with an anonymous note, Fiona feels a flicker of hope—it’s not just any plant; it’s Ed’s favorite. Thinking it’s a sign, Fiona pours Ed’s ashes into the soil, only to wake up to find the plant has vibrantly flowered. And can…talk?

It's been a year since Penny first walked through the doors of the Dallergut Dream Department Store, and surviving a year at the store means one thing… She is now an official employee of the dream industry! She can finally take the express commuter train to the Company District, where all the dream-production companies are located, and discover how all raw dream materials and testing equipment are produced. But the Company District is not quite what she expected. Instead it hides a secret underbelly of the magical industry that Penny thought she was a part of.

¿Cuántas vidas y cuántas muertes son posibles en la existencia de una misma persona? Los ingrávidos es una novela sobre existencias fantasmales; una evocación, a la vez melancólica y llena de humor, sobre la imposibilidad del encuentro amoroso y el carácter irrevocable de la pérdida. Dos voces componen esta novela. La narradora, una mujer del México contemporáneo, relata sus años de juventud como editora en Nueva York, en los que el fantasma del poeta Gilberto Owen la perseguía por el metro.

Haven Ambrose, a trailblazing nautical archaeologist, has come to the sun-soaked village of Positano to investigate the mysterious shipwrecks along the Amalfi Coast. But Haven is hoping to find more than old artifacts beneath the azure waters; she is secretly on a quest to locate a trove of priceless gemstones her late father spotted on his final dive. Upon Haven’s arrival, strange maelstroms and misfortunes start plaguing the town. Is it nature or something more sinister at work?

has a secret. She can tell how long someone has left to live just by touching them. Not only that, but she can transfer life from one person to another—something she finds out the hard way when her best friend, Ruth, suffers a fatal head injury on a night out. Desperate to save her, Thea accidentally kills the man responsible and lets his life flow directly into Ruth. Thea comes to understand that she has a godlike power, but how to use it quickly becomes a question of self-control.

At Sunny Pines Retirement Community, where the “Sixty-Two and Better!” share their golden years, secrets abound. Some scandalous, some haunting, and some dangerous. For Birdie Allen, a retired business owner and grandmother, her secret is the only thing she’s got left. Getting old isn’t the hardest part about life. It’s the memories from more than fifty years ago of the death of her unrequited love. And Birdie’s abandoned quest to root out the killer.

Gabby, Talia, and Ozzie Gunn, heirs to a media empire, are in trouble. After several bad investments and one major scandal, their father is now trying to restore their family’s good name with a senatorial run. Even worse? He’s demanding they move to California to join the campaign or risk being cut off. It’s easy to say you don’t care about money when you have enough, but with mounting debts, hobbies, and in the case of Gabby, Portum Bestiae Syndrome—a very expensive condition in which strange symptoms arise and then an exotic animal appears—the siblings don’t have much of a choice.

Die Bibel hat mehr als einmal gelogen. Diese Engel schützen zwar dein Leben, aber dafür verlangen sie deine Seele. Als Marcie nach tiefer Bewusstlosigkeit die Augen aufschlägt, befindet sie sich nicht länger im Kreise ihrer Freunde in Boston. Sie erwacht in einer völlig fremden Umgebung und ist die Gefangene eines Engels, den sie als Feind kennengelernt hat. Voltage hat sie entführt und wie es aussieht, ist sie seine Blutwirtin. Der eine Mensch, der den Blutrausch heilen kann, der in seinen Adern wütet. Maddox' Versuch, sie zu befreien, misslingt und Marcie hat keine Chance zu entkommen.

Ésta es la historia de una mujer que es, en realidad, dos mujeres: Marina Espinosa, casada con un médico prominente y dedicada a la vida doméstica; y Xian, su alter ego, más libre y misteriosa. Un accidente automovilístico abre la puerta a un universo en el que Marina no se había atrevido a entrar. Abandona a su marido y la vida anodina que lleva. Se esconde en un hotel viejo, donde va desempolvando cartas o inmortalizando en su laptop situaciones que transcurren en distintas épocas o tiempos simultáneos; fragmentos de noticias; datos históricos; pasajes de orfandad y maltrato.

Con ecos de El secreto de la boticaria y La Sociedad Literaria del Pastel de Piel de Patata de Guernsey, Evie Woods nos regala una seductora novela rebosante de misterio y de secretos. "La gracia de los libros es que te ayudan a imaginar una vida más plena y mejor de lo que jamás podrías haber soñado". En una tranquila calle de Dublín, una librería perdida está a la espera de ser encontrada... Durante mucho tiempo, Opaline, Martha y Henry han sido los personajes secundarios de sus propias vidas.