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Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wake—a party to bring her family and community together to celebrate the long life she’s led—her sisters are surprised. Has Flor foreseen her own death, or someone else’s? Does she have other motives? She refuses to tell her sisters, Matilde, Pastora, and Camila.

Alicia has been out of grad school for six months. She has no career prospects and lives with her mom, who won’t stop texting her macabre news stories and reminders to pick up items from the grocery store.

Gemma Peters is doing fine. She’s making a name for herself in the L.A. music biz as a radio producer. She’s got a ride-or-die best friend in Lila, and she gets to come home to Rex, her loving Labrador, every night. But ever since her rock star ex-boyfriend used her to get a record deal from her rock legend dad, she’s made a “no musicians” rule when it comes to dating that’s becoming more like a “no dating” rule, period. So, when Gemma crashes (literally) into Jack one Thursday morning, at first she feels like fate might finally be doing her a favor. The truth is this is no ordinary Thursday.

After the death of his brother, a grief-stricken young man seeks refuge and oblivion in a secluded fishing village dominated by a family of brujas in this haunting debut novel, inspired, in part, by the ramifications of Diné history and thought—a mesmerizing, original tale in the tradition of works by Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, and Gabriel García Márquez.

When Ava Harrison receives a letter containing an unusual job listing one month after the sudden death of her ex-boyfriend, she thinks she’s being haunted. The listing—a job as a live-in caretaker for a peculiar old man and his cranky cat in Driftwood, Alabama—is the perfect chance to start a new life. A normal life. Ava has always been too fearful to even travel, so no one’s more surprised than she is when she throws caution to the wind and drives to the distant beachside town.

Dissatisfied with his empty, Sisyphus-like existence in New York City, where he has abandoned his creative dreams for a job in corporate advertising, a highly cultured aspiring composer wants nothing more than to tear his life up from the root. He soon finds his escape hatch: a university-sponsored mission to South America to look for indigenous musical instruments in one of the few areas of the world not yet touched by civilization. Retracing the steps of time, he voyages with his lover into a land that feels outside of history.

When he arrives in Cuba at the close of the eighteenth century, Victor Hugues, a merchant sailor from Marseille, brings with him not only the idealism of the French Revolution but also its ambition and bloodlust. Landing at the Havana doorstep of a trio of wealthy, eccentric Creole orphans, he sweeps them across the Caribbean Sea to Guadeloupe, whose enslaved Africans he frees only then to exploit them in his fight against the British for colonial sovereignty. What ensues in Alejo Carpentier’s magical realist masterpiece is an explosive clash between the New World and the Old World.

Penning a letter to the higher power she believes in, Rowan finds strange things happen the next day, along with meeting an older woman named Mary. The two become fast friends, and Mary seems to unknowingly address the questions and problems she poses in the letters that Rowan continues to write while they are apart. The coincidences become too much for Rowan, who begins to wonder if perhaps Mary is God. Meanwhile, she learns that her thoughts truly do alter her reality, and that sometimes those things you think are a curse can turn out to be what leads you to live your best life.

Carter, Flynn, Smith, and Jayden are sons of the Billionaire elite of Carbon Beach. All play and no work, their reputation of treating women badly lands on gossip columnist Serena Saxton’s desk. Eager for an expose that will whisk her away from her mediocre Manhattan house-share, she jumps at the chance to travel to Malibu and unearth the secrets of the infamous players. But their darkest secret is one she couldn't have foreseen–they're vampires, looking for one woman to love and to share, and they think Serena might be the one.…

People think being haunted is a bad thing. That’s because they’ve never visited The Curiosity Curio. The spirits who linger in my store dance the jitterbug, look after the plants, and gossip about long-dead relatives. Even though no one believes me about my mediumistic gifts, it’s my job to aid these lost souls. I can help them, even if I gave up hoping to find someone who understood me long ago.

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.

1896, Natick, banlieue de Boston. À l'aube du 20e siècle, dans une ruelle sombre, vit un jeune indien avec sa mère et son père qu'il ne voit que trop rarement. Âgé d'à peine six ans, l'enfant se pense fou. Il voit des choses que personne ne voit, entend ce que personne n'entend. Délaissé par les adultes et pris en souffre-douleur par les autres enfants, leur rejet devient insupportable. Seul, l'enfant s'enferme alors dans un mutisme sourd. Mais est-il réellement fou ?

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?

Шестнадцать лет назад Сюзанна Кларк выпустила "Джонатана Стренджа и мистера Норрелла" — книгу, разошедшуюся по миру тиражом свыше 4 миллионов экземпляров и признанную легендарным шедевром: "Так мог бы выглядеть роман "Мастер и Маргарита", если бы его написал Диккенс" (А. Генис); "Лучшая литературная сказка на английском языке за последние семьдесят лет" (Н. Гейман). И вот наконец мы дождались второго романа Кларк. "Это событие первостепенной важности в мире литературы" (Daily Telegraph).

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.