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Cuando Eufrasia Vela empieza a trabajar como cuidadora de ancianos, no sospecha que su oficio la llevará a una encrucijada existencial. La íntima relación que mantiene con doña Carmen, el doctor Harrison y Los Siete Magníficos —entrañables personajes que se apoderan de su pensamiento y su cariño— la obliga a replantearse su papel de madre y hermana, las vicisitudes de la longevidad, las formas de la compasión y el sorpresivo valor que los cuyes, esos conejillos de Indias tan peculiares, adquieren en su presupuesto moral.

Follow Europe’s most cunning art thief, forger, and amateur sleuth as she tracks down priceless antiquities and foils nefarious plots.

A poetry collection by Ismael S. Rodriguez Jr.

Paloma has been watching the Grand Vespertilio Show her entire life. Grand, America’s most beloved horror host showcases classic, low-budget and cult horror movies with a flourish, wearing his black tuxedo and hat, but Paloma has noticed something strange about Grand, stranger than his dark make-up and Gothic television set.

No one expects to meet their father at their mother’s funeral. But for Gabby Medina, that’s exactly what happens. Her dad abandoned her when she was a baby, and now he’s back. And he wants to give her a house. Gabby doesn’t want the house—or him. But she could use the money. So Gabby agrees to take it under two conditions: First, she can sell the house whenever she wants. Second, accepting it doesn’t mean she accepts him.

Berührende Gedichte des weltweit erfolgreichen Instagram-Poeten. In seinen poetischen Texten beschreibt Yung Pueblo, wie sich intensive Emotionen in unser Unterbewusstsein einbrennen und unsere Handlungen und Beziehungen beeinflussen. Klarheit über seine Vergangenheit zu gewinnen und die Verbindung zu sich selbst zu finden, schafft die Grundlage für persönliches Wachstum. Mit seiner markanten Stimme, die zugleich kraft- und stimmungsvoll ist, begleitet uns der Autor auf dieser Suche und hilft, die Gefühle der Vergangenheit endlich zu verstehen.

What if you could go back and change your life? For Brennan Ramirez, that question is no longer hypothetical. Brennan is determined that the ultimate way to fix his family's life for the best is to go back and prevent the traumatic childhood abuse that haunts his wife to this day.

The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence. When thirteen‑year‑old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling. One night, twelve years later, oldest sister Jessica spots a woman on her TV screen in Catfight, a raunchy reality show. She rushes to tell her younger sister, Nina: This woman's hair is dyed red, and she calls herself Ruby, but the beauty mark under her left eye is instantly recognizable. Could it be Ruthy, after all this time?

En este relato de imaginación desbordante y gran belleza, Karina Sainz Borgo mezcla la realidad con lo fantástico y el mito para levantar, con una prosa cuidadísima y muy poética, un mundo nuevo centrado en una isla imaginaria donde habita el doctor Schubert, medio médico y medio aventurero.

September 11, 1973: Eleven-year-old Alejandro Penda watches from his apartment window as Santiago, Chile falls to a military coup, destroying his family and his childhood. Arriving alone in America, he’s taken in by the Larks: a prominent family in the town of Guelisten. Though burdened by unresolved grief for his disappeared parents, he becomes fiercely loyal to the Larks, eventually marrying one of their daughters, Valerie.

An upper-middle class man, Luis, is living his dream life alongside his high school crush and now wife, Krystal, and their two kids. With both having established careers, they’ve afforded the luxury of having a more than comfortable life that has allowed for many travels and adventures. They were undoubtedly the perfect family, until a sidebar conversation at work prompted him to buy a ticket to one of the largest lottery jackpots in history.

La jamás inocencia es una novela para aprender y para reflexionar, sobre las peripecias de los personajes, y sobre nosotros mismos, como seres humanos y como seres sociales. A partir de la historia de una adolescente que súbitamente se enfrenta al horror del mundo vemos cómo pueden estar tejidos y entretejidos los hilos de la realidad, y además cómo es posible que la realidad siempre sea mucho más densa de lo que imaginamos.

El asesinato del general Joaquín Tinoco el 10 de agosto de 1919 precipitó,en pocas horas, la caída de la dictadura de su hermano Pelico. Durante treinta meses, los Tinoco gobernaron el país a sangre y fuego, a contrapelo de la posición oficial del presidente Wilson y de la crisis económica ocasionada por la Primera Guerra Mundial.

Fernanday Julio tienen un amor enfermo. Ella es una joven universitaria de Monterrey que busca sentirse protegida; él, un poderoso narco. Su relación no sólo es violenta, sino obsesiva. El miedo de Fernanda le ha hecho aceptar el maltrato de “su hombre”,volversedependiente. Sin embargo, poco a poco ella también empezará a ejercer violencia como una necesidad para sentirse poderosa.

Veronica is late, and Julián is increasingly convinced she won't ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about trees to coax his stepdaughter, Daniela, to sleep. He has made a life as a literature professor, developing a novel about a man tending to a bonsai tree on the weekends. He is a narrator, an architect, a chronicler of other people's stories. But as the night stretches on before him, and the hours pass with no sign of Veronica, Julián finds himself caught up in the slipstream of the story of his life—of their lives together.

A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural—is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, migration, and so on.

A young father and son set out on a road trip, devastated by the death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travel to her ancestral home, where they must confront the terrifying legacy she has bequeathed: a family called the Order that commits unspeakable acts in search of immortality.

Marcelino lives alone on his parents’ farm, set deep in the beautiful but impoverished countryside of Asturias, northern Spain. It’s the place where he grew up, where he doted on his beloved baby brother, where he protected his mother from his father’s drunken rages. But when Marcelino’s brother tricks him out of his land and home, a moment of uncontrolled anger sparks a chain of events that can’t be reversed.

Zurita es un referente indiscutible de las letras chilenas y una de las más grandes voces de la poesía contemporánea. Esta selección a cargo de Ignacio Echevarría recorre los amores y los infiernos de la devastada biografía del poeta, así como la convulsionada y luego lánguida historia del Chile del último medio siglo, siempre a través de una escritura que aspira a moverse con la misma fuerza que la naturaleza. Los versos recogidos en esta antología provienen de los poemarios Tu vida rompiéndose y La vida nueva.

The cabin lies deep in the woods, where the trees are so dense it's easy to miss. On the outside it might look like it's crumbling, crawling with weeds, but on the inside it's warm and cosy. A fire crackles in the fireplace. Dinner simmers on the stove. Maya once saw this cabin as an idyllic place, like a cottage from a fairy tale, but now she knows the danger that lurks beneath. The summer she visited the cabin was the summer her best friend Aubrey died. Now, another woman from Maya's hometown has died in the same strange, unexplained way.