Títulos en Coming of age

Un conocido profesor de teatro, llamado Simón Cátero, embarca en un proyecto a cuatro alumnos suyos. Se trata de crear un espejo de carne y hueso. Los cuatro tienen la impresión de ser usurpadores, habitantes privilegiados de la ciudad; ninguno se atreve a merecer su futuro; los cuatro desean que el proyecto dé un sentido a sus existencias privadas, individuales. Cuando el proyecto fracase, se verán obligados a afrontar la decisión de construir sus vidas.

Jake Callahan. Prince of the popular crowd. My mortal enemy. Gorgeous. All the girls want him. Quarterback. All the boys want to be his friend. He’s the most popular boy in the senior class. And he hates me. Or so I thought. What I mistook for hatred turns out to be…interest. There’s that thin line, right? It makes me crazy. I can’t stand it. Attraction, chemistry, whatever it is, I also can’t resist it. And neither can he.

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.

Publicada originariamente en 1818, La abadía de Northanger narra la historia de Catherine Morland, una joven ingenua aficionada a la lectura de novelas góticas. Invitada por los Tilney a pasar una temporada en su casa de campo, se dedicará a investigar tortuosos e imaginarios secretos de familia.

After escaping from the dark and dismal workhouse where he was born, Oliver finds himself on the mean streets of Victorian-era London and is unwittingly recruited into a scabrous gang of scheming urchins. In this band of petty thieves, Oliver encounters the extraordinary and vibrant characters who have captured audiences' imaginations for more than 150 years.

"Trust only those who earn it." A sentiment I follow without direction but holds more consequence than ever before. One decision, five lives, three futures. This is what's at stake. One night, one choice, four broken Brayshaws. That is where we're headed. Unless I stop it. I have to stop it. I have to remind him of what he's chosen to forget. My town. My choice. My ending.

Valeria Falcón es una actriz de cierta notoriedad que cada jueves visita a una vieja gloria del teatro, Ana Urrutia. La Urrutia padece el síndrome de Diógenes y no tiene dónde caerse muerta. Su ocaso se solapa con la eclosión de un capullo en flor, Natalia de Miguel, una joven aspirante que enamora al cínico Lorenzo Lucas, el álter ego de Addison DeWitt. Nadie tendrá derecho a destrozar la felicidad de Natalia de Miguel, una chica muy delgada quien en pantalla da gordita.

Following the accidental drowning of her sister, 16-year-old Nif and her family move to a small village on the Welsh borders to escape their grief. But rural seclusion doesn't bring any relief. As her family unravels, Nif begins to put together her own form of witchcraft, collecting talismans from the sun-starved land. That is, until she meets Mally, a teen boy who takes a keen interest in her and has his own secret rites to divulge.

When your stepbrother is a hot hockey stud with more notches in his bedpost than, well anyone, he’s the perfect candidate to help you gain a little bedroom experience. At least, that's my plan this V-day.

Orphaned at birth, Oliver Twist is born into the grimmest of 19th century English workhouses with a life of grinding poverty ahead of him. But the boy is a fighter and after being evicted from the workhouse for asking for 'more' and surviving a stint as an undertaker’s assistant, he walks many miles to London and finds a whole new life with a gang of young pickpockets led by the Artful Dodger and their guardian Fagin.

Mage Errant: Publisher's Pack contains books one and two of the Mage Errant series: Into the Labyrinth and Jewel of the Endless Erg. Hugh of Emblin is, so far as he's concerned, the worst student that the Academy at Skyhold has ever seen. He can barely cast any spells at all, and those he does cast tend to fail explosively.

Eilis Lacey es una chica de familia humilde. Como tantos otros, no encuentra trabajo en su pequeño pueblo del sur de Irlanda, de modo que, cuando se le ofrece una posibilidad en Estados Unidos, no duda en aprovecharla.

Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn, considerada una de las primeras grandes novelas estadounidenses, quizá presente una visión más oscura y desencantada que "Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer" (novela con la que comparte personajes pero intercambia protagonistas), porque en ella se visibilizan más...

1943. Alice Fafard, vingt ans, étudie à l’École normale pour devenir enseignante. Elle suit avec un mélange de résignation et de désenchantement une voie déjà toute tracée. Son Brevet obtenu, elle cherche un poste dans une école de la région, en attendant de trouver un prétendant en cette époque où les hommes de son âge se font rares. Pourtant, derrière ses airs tranquilles se cache une grande passionnée de mathématiques, un domaine dans lequel elle excelle. Plus que tout, Alice veut vivre pleinement, goûter à la liberté au-delà des limites imposées aux femmes.

Es el comienzo del verano y la protagonista de Listas, guapas, limpias quiere dejar a su novio, pero hay algo que se lo impide. También hay algo que le hace dudar cuando llega a una fiesta llena de desconocidos y le piden que sea ella la que ponga la próxima canción; o cuando está con su madre en el supermercado del barrio y tiene que escoger una marca de pizza congelada para la cena; o incluso cuando está hablando con su amiga de infancia, Yaiza, y no es capaz de sincerarse sobre sus planes de futuro.

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new teacher and longs to be her pet. However, when a thief begins to target the school, Justine's sense that something isn't quite right grows ever stronger. With each twist of the plot, this gripping story of deception and the corrosive power of guilt takes a yet darker turn. Young as she is, Justine must decide where her loyalties lie.

Bold, charismatic, and charming Blu Henderson wears a fake smile every day, pushing through life because she has to—not because she wants to. Quiet, introverted, and mysterious Jace Boland catches her eye the second she sees him. After that, it’s game over—not just for Blu, but for Jace as well.

When young orphan, Oliver Twist, is sold into an apprenticeship with an undertaker, he leaves behind years of miserable servitude and mistreatment at an English workhouse. Hoping to move on to better things, he decides to escape his new, equally dreary surroundings and head to London. It is there that the novel unravels as Oliver meets a host of larger-than-life characters, including The Artful Dodger, a high-ranking member of a juvenile pickpocketing gang, and their elderly leader, Fagin.

Freshman Lianne Challice is known to millions of fans as Princess Vindi. But sometimes a silver-screen sorceress just wants to hang up her wand, tell her manager to shove it, and become a normal college student. Too bad that's harder than it looks. She's never lived a normal life. She hasn't been to school since kindergarten. And getting close to anyone is just too risky - the last boy she kissed sold the story to a British tabloid.

La paternidad, la infidelidad, la muerte, la incapacidad para comunicar los propios sentimientos, la irrupción súbita del amor, la fascinación por el otro, la arquitectura del deseo, el miedo a la felicidad, los temas centrales que hacen temblar las vidas de los protagonistas de estas excelentes nouvelles son, en realidad, los temas de cualquier vida, pero Barba tiene la maestría de resolverlos aquí con la extraña iluminación «intervenida» con la que se resuelven en la vida real.