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The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction - but assassins are getting closer to her door. Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.

An enchanting New York Times and international best seller and award-winner about life, art, literature, philosophy, culture, class, privilege, and power, seen through the eyes of a 54-year-old French concierge and a precocious but troubled 12-year-old girl.

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (Village Voice), from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Goldfinch. Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric...

Cándido figura a la cabeza de todas las novelas y cuentos de Voltaire como la pieza indiscutible del arte narrativo del Siglo de las Luces. Es una novela de aprendizaje, y su héroe un optimista que ha asimilado las teorías del providencialismo leibniziano: cree a pies juntillas que el mundo es un paraíso, a pesar de que, desde la primera línea, la realidad se encarga de negarlo.

Nueve mujeres, muy distintas entre sí y que nunca se han visto antes, comparten sus historias. Natasha, su terapeuta, ha decidido reunirlas en la convicción de que las heridas empiezan a sanar cuando se rompen las cadenas del silencio. No importa el origen ni la extracción social, la edad o la profesión: todas acarrean sobre sus hombros el peso del miedo, la soledad, el deseo, las inseguridades.

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.

Luc O'Donnell is tangentially - and reluctantly - famous. His rock-star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next 20 years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad's making a comeback, Luc's back in the public eye, and one compromising photo is enough to ruin everything. To clean up his image, Luc has to find a nice normal relationship...and Oliver Blackwood is as nice and normal as they come. He's a barrister, an ethical vegetarian, and someone who has never inspired a moment of scandal in his life. He’s perfect boyfriend material.

La búsqueda es la historia de Waldek Grodek, un niño polaco de diez años cuya apacible vida se ve interrumpida por la invasión alemana a Polonia. A partir de ese momento, sus juegos infantiles y sus excusiones como Boy Scout se transformaron en estrategias para sobrevivir.

Un joven quinceañero llamado por va de vacaciones a un castillo escocés y allí va en contra del amor, pero ese amor se va a desarrollar solamente en la penumbra de la noche, con lo que nunca va poder identificar claramente a la joven de la que se enamora locamente. El va intentar por todos los medios poder ver a la claridad del día asomada, pero no saben sorprendente final que le espera.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST ...

OXFORD,. INGLATERRA. LA CIUDAD DE LOS. CAPITELES DORMIDOS,. DE LOS OSCUROS SECRETOS... Y DEL DESEO. Vine a Oxford para vengar la muerte de mi hermana, en su lugar encontré una red de mentiras. Lealtades ancestrales. Fortunas construidas sobre el pecado. Harían cualquier cosa por proteger su riqueza. Soy yo la que podría derrocar sus imperios. Pero ¿podré destruir al hombre que amo? El tiempo se está acabando…. TRILOGÍA THE OXFORD LEGACY:. CROSS MY HEART (Atraviesa mi corazón). BREAK MY RULES (Rompe mis reglas). SEAL MY FATE (Sella mi destino). Los lectores caen rendidos ante Seal My Fate:.

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.

God is change. That is the central truth of the Earthseed movement, whose unlikely prophet is 18-year-old Lauren Olamina. The young woman's diary entries tell the story of her life amid a violent 21st-century hell of walled neighborhoods and drug-crazed pyromaniacs—and reveal her evolving Earthseed philosophy. Against a backdrop of horror emerges a message of hope: if we are willing to embrace divine change, we will survive to fulfill our destiny among the stars.

After Rita Racons fails her college’s required English course and her plans for a summer with friends are ruined, she loses all sense of direction. Until Rita heeds her free-spirited grandmother’s advice to get off their roof terrace and go out and find her place in the world. Boarding a plane from Barcelona to New York is just the beginning. Fate eventually lands Rita in Atlanta as an au pair with two questions: What is an au pair, and where the hell is Atlanta?

When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which leads him through comedy and tragedy, love and heartbreak, and friendship and betrayal.

Il bel viso della bambina Giovanna si è trasformato, sta diventando quello di una brutta adolescente. Ma è proprio così? E in quale specchio bisogna guardare per ritrovarsi e salvarsi? La ricerca di un nuovo volto oscilla tra due Napoli consanguinee che però si temono e si detestano: la Napoli di sopra, che s'è attribuita una maschera fine, e quella di sotto, che si finge smodata, triviale. Giovanna oscilla tra alto e basso, in una città che pare non offrire né risposte né scampo.

A sus veintinueve años, Laura se siente perdida. Desde fuera parece tenerlo todo bajo control: un trabajo que, aunque ya no la motiva, es estable; una pareja ideal…, pero en el fondo no es más que una ilusión. Mientras alterna su oficio como actriz de doblaje con el de camarera en una cafetería, su pareja, Borja, ha decidido por los dos que deben mudarse a Estados Unidos, debido a su trabajo. La relación entre ambos pasa por horas bajas, rozando el descarrilamiento, y ella no sabe qué hacer.

Tienen poco más de veinte años, y se conocieron en una manifestación contra las armas nucleares. Florence es una chica de clase media alta, su padre es un exitoso hombre de negocios y su madre una activa profeso­ra universitaria, y viven en una casa donde se comen quesos franceses y yogur. Edward, en cambio, pertenece a una familia que apenas se sos­tiene en la zona baja de la clase media; su padre es maestro, y su madre, tras un imprevisible accidente, vive desde hace años en una nebulosa.

Boy Altared explores themes of memory, secrecy, resilience, and personal development in religious settings, focusing on the tension between innocence and experience without explicit detail. The novel follows Jamie’s growth during the late 1960s, set against pivotal events like the Manson murders, moon landing, Woodstock, the Stonewall riots, the Vietnam War, and the Civil Rights Movement. Guided by Father Nelson and Harry, Jamie faces challenges within the church that mirror broader societal changes.

Alexia Salvador Rami is coming into adulthood. Life is hell for boys like him in the unforgiving streets of Lahore, Pakistan but especially bad for Rami a teenager grappling with inner turmoil; he has fallen in love. When Danyaal, a boy rooted in honesty and integrity, comes into Rami’s life, their unparalleled bond strengthens. Obsessed with relentless intimacy toward each other, despite the growing concern of heads turning, eyes narrowing, through thick and thin, Rami and Danyaal forge ahead with the romance developing between them until one fateful day.