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Todos buscamos el camino de la FELICIDAD sin darnos cuenta de que la felicidad no está lejos. La felicidad está dentro de cada uno, Solo hay que saber encontrarla. En el libro felicidad, Camilo un joven universitario decide buscar la felicidad.

Their last battle ended with death and despair, but they have no time to mourn. One of their own has been taken and the Quinae Praesidia set out to find and rescue her. In this third and last installment of the FIVE series, the FIVE discover new powers, make a desperate run through the Netherworld, land on an island paradise…and find that Brone, always a step ahead of them, is becoming more powerful than ever.

A woman walks into a tattoo parlour. But this is no ordinary woman, and this is Hackney in 2233. Jones' body is covered in tattoos but she wants to add one final inking to her gallery - a thin line of ink mixed with blood that connects her body art together, creating a unique map. As the two artists set to work, Jones tells them the story behind each tattoo. As Jones is no ordinary woman, these are no ordinary stories: each one represents a doorway to a life Jones fell into, a 'remembering'.

Told through three distinctive voices, Small Hours is an evocative, moving and illuminating story of a family in crisis and the ghosts of the past who still haunt them, of life-changing conversations in the early hours of the morning, and of a great love between two people whose time left together is running short.

A “mesmerizing...wildly entertaining” (The Boston Globe) magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to rob a train, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally...

Join Alistair, Ghost, Yekong and the other siblings as they race to find where their father, the Nephilim, is being held. The story comes full circle as the creature that sired them is now their target. Can they possibly defeat a being that is half-angel?

Claire Murray hides out in the left-brain comfort zone of the library, denying the gifts of a girlhood spent in a spiritualist community. When she is forced to curate a museum of random junk donated by a powerful donor and share space with a ghost who throws tantrums via a vending machine, her orderly world grows less predictable.

Quentin y Julia son dos de los cuatro reyes de Fillory, un reino de fantasía perfecto. Pero, de repente, se hallan de vuelta en el deprimente mundo de Massachussetts de donde proceden. Su queste ha fracasado. ¿Lograrán regresar al país de sus sueños?

Abandoned by an eccentric father on the eve of her 12th birthday, Justine Cook has lived with her fair share of unanswered questions. Now, 10 years later, she leaves her life in southern Michigan and heads north to the mysterious town of Lantern Creek after seeing his picture in a local newspaper. Once there, she discovers her father had been leading a double life, and meets the autistic brother she never knew—a young man who is mute, but able to read her mind.

Кипр. 1974 год. Пара юных влюбленных, грек Костас и турчанка Дефне, тайно встречаются в романтической таверне под сенью старого фигового дерева, растущего прямо в зале. Дерево это становится свидетелем трагических событий, расколовших пополам некогда мирный прекрасный остров, исковеркавших судьбы его обитателей и, казалось, навсегда разлучивших Костаса и Дефне.

A young girl that has been held in a secret facility since her birth and trained to be a killer has escaped into the realm of humans. With those in charge seeking to eliminate her, she must find refuge in the only place safe from both sides: Bathory Asylum, a safe haven for supernatural beings.

Sussex, Inglaterra. Um homem de meia-idade volta à casa onde passou a infância para um funeral. A construção não é mais a mesma, e ele é atraído para a fazenda no fim da estrada, onde, aos sete anos, conheceu uma garota extraordinária, Lettie Hempstock, que morava com a mãe e a avó. Ele não pensava em Lettie há décadas, mas mesmo assim, ao se sentar à beira do lago (o mesmo a que ela se referia como um oceano) nos fundos da velha casa de fazenda, o passado esquecido volta de repente.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2024 ""Very intriguing and atmospheric ... a fascinating read in the light of contemporary events.” –Alexander McCall Smith, Bestselling Author of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency ""With its earthy prose...

Elsa Park is a particle physicist at the top of her game, stationed at a neutrino observatory in the Antarctic, confident she's put enough distance between her ambitions and the family ghosts she's run from all her life. But it isn't long before her childhood imaginary friend—an achingly familiar, spectral woman in the snow—comes to claim her at last. Years ago, Elsa's now-catatonic mother had warned her that the women of their line were doomed to repeat the narrative lives of their ancestors from Korean myth and legend. But beyond these ghosts, Elsa also faces a more earthly fate.

Firuzeh and her brother Nour are children of fire, born in an Afghanistan fractured by war. When their parents, their Atay and Abay, decide to leave, they spin tales of their destination, the mythical land and opportunities of Australia. As the family journeys from Pakistan to Indonesia to Nauru, heading toward a hope of home, they must rely on fragile and temporary shelters, strangers both mercenary and kind, and friends who vanish as quickly as they’re found.

These seven short stories are a mix of everything from fairytales and romance, to science fiction and magical realism.

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, People, Los Angeles Times, NPR, and more Winner of France’s Prix du Premier Roman Étranger “An inventive ode to self-determination and also a surrealistic vision of Black life as forged within the crucible of American history . . . [written...

In TopKnotch, three Shih Tzu girls—Ginger, Hapi, and Missy—scheme to extricate their late 20-something owner, Robin, from a series of foibles. Robin is an engineer who works for her uber-successful, but domineering dad, Fritz. She’s engaged to marry Sean, who works as the intellectual properties attorney for their firm, Rosencratz & Dessein.

"Betrayal, loss, love, redemption, and justice collide in this masterpiece of a novel. You won’t want to miss The Book of Thorns." —Paulette Kennedy, author of The Devil and Mrs. Davenport A spellbinding tale of secrets, betrayal, and magic from the author of The Heir to Blackwood Library!...

Es gibt Orte, an denen der Geist der Literatur in der Atemluft liegt. So ein Ort ist Timpamara, und hier lebt Astolfo Malinverno. Bücher und Geschichten bestimmen sein ganzes Leben, und als er seiner großen Liebe begegnet, scheinen die Grenzen zwischen Literatur und Realität auf wundersame Weise zu verschwimmen. In Timpamara, einem fiktiven Dorf in Italien, leben die Menschen schon lange von und mit der Literatur, denn hier entstand im 19. Jahrhundert die erste Papierfabrik Kalabriens.