Títulos en Contemporánea

Publicado por primera vez en 1917, Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte reúne los mejores cuentos de Horacio Quiroga, siendo la obra que lo posiciona como uno de los mayores cuentistas hispanoamericanos. Con una violencia implícita, en estos cuentos se presenta un mundo perturbador donde, frente a la inexorabilidad de la muerte, la locura y el amor se entrelazan de manera constante. Los relatos son breves y presentan una tensión e intensidad constante, mostrando la lucha desigual del hombre contra la naturaleza, lo salvaje y el horror.

"Ils ne le savaient pas alors, mais c'était là l'unique lieu parfait en ce monde. Un lieu totalement isolé et le seul pourtant à n'être pas aux couleurs de la solitude." Le livre 3 fait entendre une nouvelle voix, celle d'Ushikawa. Et pose d'autres questions : quel est ce père qui sans cesse revient frapper à notre porte ? La réalité est-elle jamais vérifiable ? Et le temps, cette illusion, à jamais perdu ? Sous les deux lunes de 1Q84, Aomamé et Tengo ne sont plus seuls.

Fresh off their victory over Graves and his followers, Marcus and his friends have managed to enjoy a few weeks of relative calm and peace as they continue to build Aldford, preparing the town for a new wave of settlers coming from Eberia. But as the days wear on with no new arrivals in sight, they begin to fear the worse, eventually setting out to search for their promised reinforcements and soon realizing that they weren’t as alone on the frontier as they thought they were.

Les sombres aventures de Seïs continuent ; des révélations bouleversantes sortent de l'ombre... L'aura du Porteur de Mort n'a jamais été aussi oppressante ! Alors que l'ombre des spectres du passé tend à vouloir leur dicter leur destin, Seïs et Naïs font face à de nouvelles révélations qui pourraient bien tout faire basculer. Dans les ténèbres de la montagne, les cris du prisonnier résonnent et viennent troubler leurs certitudes. Méridiane, Shaolan et Torii sont plus près que jamais.

Séïs n'a plus le choix. Pour protéger Naïs et son fils aux pouvoirs mystérieux, il doit tout quitter : Asclépion, la confrérie des Tenshins et peut-être même ce qui lui restait encore d'humanité. À l'ombre de toute chose, la silhouette du Porteur de Mort n'est jamais loin. En Ulutil, la terre de toutes les légendes, loin des affres de la guerre, Seïs espère vivre en sécurité... mais peut-on réellement échapper à son destin ?

Forty-something Annette Osmund always knew she was psychic. She's not, but that didn't stop her from giving those non-existent abilities her all. What she is, however, is a very powerful witch who has just inherited magics she never dreamed possible. Starting over in a new town with her BFF has...

Since the day they unwittingly found themselves in the horror show of Carousel, Riley (the Film Buff), Antoine (the Athlete), Kimberly (the Eye Candy), Camden (the Scholar), and Anna (the Final Girl) have learned the rules of their horror-movie world. They've fought through story after story and come out alive—or at least preserved the storyline enough to come back to life. But their biggest challenge yet lies ahead.

Not all Angels are guardians. Some are hunters. And if they find her, all hell will break loose. Elizabeth James has always seen, heard, and dreamed things others did not. But her strange dreams have started to take over her life. She wakes up exhausted, can't focus at work, and is beginning to doubt her sanity. With useless health insurance and a shoestring budget, a therapist isn't in the cards. She reluctantly takes her unconventional neighbor's advice and decides to see a shaman in hopes of reclaiming her life.

Magiczna opowieść o wyjątkowej pralni, która pewnej nocy rozkwitła na wzgórzu w miasteczku Marigold i o tym, jak jej tajemnicza właścicielka przywołuje swoje moce, by uzdrawiać dusze i urzeczywistniać marzenia. Ji-eun, enigmatyczna kobieta o bladej karnacji i długich, kręconych, czarnych włosach, serwuje gościom pralni napar pocieszenia. Ci, którzy go piją, zwierzają się z tajemnic, którymi nigdy z nikim się nie dzielili, i proszą ją, aby wymazała ich bolesne wspomnienia, jakby wywabiała plamę z koszuli.

Podnosząca na duchu opowieść o magicznej księgarni, której klienci mogą cofnąć się w czasie, zobaczyć swoje życie na nowo i uwierzyć, że każdy problem da się rozwiązać. Tu zbiegi okoliczności stają się przeznaczeniem Odwiedźcie dziś wieczorem Księgarnię Napojów Księżyca. Sprawdzcie, co może wam polecić niebieskowłosy Mun.

Okay, eines ist mir mittlerweile klar: Eine Omega zu sein, bedeutet, man hat Sex. Eine Menge Sex, der obendrein alle Grenzen sprengt, die ich bisher kannte. Und das auch noch mit einem anbetungswürdigen Mann, der ganz genau weiß, wie er einen am Rande der Ekstase hält. Da treten die weiteren Ereignisse meines ersten Tages in seinem Rudel beinahe in den Hintergrund.

The final showdown has arrived. Nemain, the murderous, self-appointed Queen, has her sights set on the magic running through my veins. She'll stop at nothing to steal my power and begin her reign of terror over every fae in the world. Worse, my mating bond with Balor hurtles us closer and closer...

Witches Angelina and Evan Everhart-Trueblood take a case that spirals out of control until the whole city is at risk in this exciting new novel from New York Times bestselling author Faith Hunter. Angelina Everhart-Trueblood and her brother Evan run Everhart Investigations, a PI firm in...

A glowing symbol painted on a crumbling wall. Sentient smoke that chokes and burns. An ancient magic, long hidden from the world. Bridget’s most important job has always been protecting her younger sister, Dahlia. But as adults, their relationship has become strained. Then, Dahlia vanishes...

Georgina Kincaid has been a bad, bad succubus...which should be a good thing. But lately, thanks to her foul mood over breaking up with best-selling writer Seth Mortensen, she's been so wicked that Seattle's über-demon Jerome, decides to "outsource" Georgina to a rival - and have her spy for him in the process.

I like my whiskey like I like my women: stretching a metaphor way too far. A couple of years ago I screwed up so badly that everybody I remotely cared about wound up dead, nearly dead, or just plain betraying me. Some days, I'm sober enough to care. My list of "things I really don't need right...

Após um brutal treinamento de oito anos em Underhill, Kallik, uma mestiça metade humana e metade feérica, sobreviveu ao teste final e poderá retornar para casa e, quem sabe, ter a vida que sempre sonhou desde que perdeu a mãe e se viu jogada em um orfanato depois de ser renegada pelo próprio pai. Mas durante seu juramento, Underhill—o lar ancestral dos feéricos e fonte da magia primordial—é destruído, Alli é a única que sabe o que aconteceu de verdade no momento em que tudo explodiu.

Brought to you by Penguin. Would you rewrite your destiny if it meant losing a part of your past? On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will see only a cosy ramen restaurant. And just the chosen ones – those who are lost – will find a place to pawn...

Davi isn't your average zoomer. For starters, she's somehow become trapped in a fantasy world - and not one full of rainbows and unicorns, but one packed with all manner of terrifying monsters and deadly magic. Proper Lord of the Rings stuff. And, for reasons unknown, the humans of the Kingdom look to her for protection against the Dark Lord. To make matters worse, Davi's stuck in a time loop. So every time she fails to defeat the Dark Lord (which is every time) she has to start over. But Davi has a plan. What if instead of trying to defeat the Dark Lord...she becomes the Dark Lord instead?

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY AND INDIE BESTSELLER! A spine-tingling standalone novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune—a supernatural road-trip thriller featuring an extraordinary young girl and her two unlikely protectors on the run from cultists and the government...