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The Wardens’ Empire is falling. A vigilante known only as the ‘Truthsayer’ is raising an army against the wardens. Sylah and Hassa must navigate the politics of this new world, all the while searching for Anoor. Across the sea the Blood Forged prepare for war, requesting aid from other governments. Jond’s role as Major General sees him training their soldiers for combat, but it’s matters of the heart that prove to be the hardest battlefield.

Versalles, 1994. Aunque crece en un entorno feliz, el pequeño Milan sufre con el obstinado silencio de su madre ruandesa sobre sus orígenes y su familia. Ese desconocimiento sólo se irá diluyendo poco a poco, primero con las imágenes del genocidio y luego con la llegada del joven y malherido Claude, al que acogerán durante unos días. Cuatro años más tarde, cuando Milan visite Ruanda por primera vez junto a su madre, su estancia allí supondrá para él una experiencia tan honda que acabará cambiando su vida para siempre.

Margo Millet's got money troubles. As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-Pro-Wrestler, she's always known she'd have to make it on her own. When she finds herself pregnant by her college professor - who is very keen not to be involved - she realizes she will need cash fast. At twenty, alone with a baby, what Margo lacks in options she makes up for in ingenuity, and soon she has a plan: she'll start an OnlyFans as an experiment, producing content and writing storylines unlike anything else out there.

Una absolutamente maravillosa novela de debut que trata temas de amor, crimen, magia, destino y el momento en que un niño llega a su mayoría de edad. Ambientada en Australia en la década de 1980 inspirada por la originalidad, el encanto, la melancolía y la esencia de las novelas Incredibly Close y The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

Andie Marks, known as "Party Girl" in her college days, is now a whip-smart lawyer on the fast track to success. Determined to move on from a bad break-up, she joins her girlfriends for a wild bachelorette weekend in Las Vegas, promising to let her hair down just this once. Vegas is a blur of cocktails and blackjack, and in the middle of it all she meets Mack, a real-life cowboy with a winning hand and an irresistible body.

Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms – but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation is starting to question the Priory's purpose. To the north, in the Queendom of Inys, Sabran the Ambitious has married the new King of Hróth, narrowly saving both realms from ruin. Their daughter, Glorian, trails in their shadow – exactly where she wants to be. The dragons of the East have slept for centuries. Dumai has spent her life in a Seiikinese mountain temple, trying to wake the gods from their long slumber.

When Eli Harpo was four, he underwent emergency open-heart surgery, flatlined on the operating table, and for a brief time, went to heaven and met Jesus. Or at least that's what his father, a loving but devout Baptist minister, has raised him to believe. Nine years later, Eli isn't so sure. His rounds with his father to evangelize at hospices and sell his father's self-published book, Heaven or Bust!, feel inauthentic and strange, especially now that he's started having sex dreams about Jesus.

Todo empieza con una niña de ocho años. Alma no solo sufre bullying, sino que además descubre un secreto familiar que rompe con la felicidad de su hogar. Es entonces cuando se aferra a un sueño que determinará cada uno de sus siguientes pasos. Con coraje y persistencia, deja atrás los años de soledad y timidez para proyectarse en una pasarela de la que no querrá bajarse nunca.

Still bitter about his failed engagement and life on the family ranch, Ian MacKenzie has been cranky for nearly three years. His brother Mack's married bliss hasn't helped, and now his pregnant sister-in-law's airhead best friend is coming for a visit. Candice arrives to help with the new baby, even though it means swapping her Louboutins for snow boots and her flat irons for flannel.

Este conmovedor relato de resiliencia y ambición explora el viaje emocional de un joven mientras supera la tragedia personal, encuentra sanación y aprende el verdadero significado de los sueños y la familia. Alex Ramírez, un joven futbolista decidido a superar su vida modesta en Cuernavaca, México, para lograr su sueño de convertirse en profesional. Al enfrentar la presión de las expectativas crecientes, los recuerdos de su hermano Mateo lo persiguen, especialmente la noche que lo cambió todo.

After a string of bad dates and no prospects, Sophia Othonos has finally hit the jackpot: an actual nice guy. When he suggests a romantic getaway, she’s sure they’re about to take the next step toward their future. A rustic cruise to the Galápagos Islands isn’t exactly her idea of a vacation, but Sophia is ready for anything…until her boyfriend has to cancel. Now she’s all alone on a trip that was meant for two. Sophia finds herself at a crossroads about who she is, what she wants, and whether her relationship is really everything she thought.

In this stunning and powerful debut, a girl with no name embarks on a fraught three-way relationship with Matt, a Satanist and a tattoo artist, and his girlfriend Frances, a new mom. The liaison is caged by strict rules and rigid emotional distance. Nonetheless, it’s all too easy to surrender to an attraction so powerful she finds herself erased, abandoning even her own name in favor of a new one: Lilith.

África Ecuatorial. Hasta allí se han trasladado Nadia, Alexander y su abuela Kate para disfrutar del primer safari en elefante. Kenia es una fiesta de color: bella y sensual, una mezcla de sabores, olores y sonidos inunda cada rincón de esta tierra. Sin embargo, este paraíso también esconde sus sombras.

Il était une fois une famille heureuse et unie. Des jumelles de six ans qui se ressemblaient comme deux gouttes d'eau. Des enfants fusionnelles qui grandissaient ensemble et s'adoraient. Avant de se jalouser et s'empoisonner. Il était une fois deux fillettes inséparables. Pour le meilleur, ou pour le pire ? Il était une fois une histoire qui n'a rien d'un conte de fées. "Avec elle", de Solène Bakowski, et "Sans elle", d'Amélie Antoine, deux romans pour un projet commun. Un point de départ identique pour deux histoires distinctes qui peuvent se lire indépendamment l'une de l'autre.

Il était une fois une famille heureuse et unie. Des jumelles de six ans qui se ressemblaient comme deux gouttes d'eau. Des enfants fusionnelles qui grandissaient ensemble et s'adoraient. Jusqu'à un soir de feu d'artifice où l'une d'elles se volatilise brutalement. Il était une fois deux fillettes inséparables. Jusqu'à ce qu'il n'en reste plus qu'une. Il était une fois une histoire qui n'a rien d'un conte de fées. "Avec elle", de Solène Bakowski, et "Sans elle", d'Amélie Antoine, deux romans pour un projet commun.

Both inventive and shocking, Trust Exercise has become a sensation for its timely insights into sex, power and the nature of abuse. Sarah and David are in love - the obsessive, uncertain love of teenagers on the edge of adulthood. At their performing arts school, the rules are made by their magnetic drama instructor Mr Kingsley, who initiates them into a dangerous game. Two decades on we learn that the real story of these teenagers' lives is even larger and darker than we imagined, and the consequences have lasted a lifetime.

Escrito por el novelista Alfred C. Martino, esto es una fábula caprichosa sobre un niño y una niña, jugando en una playa y construyendo castillos de arena, aprendiendo sobre el amor, la vida y envejecer juntos.

Teagan Cross, college senior, rebel, and wiseass extraordinaire, goes from princess to pauper in a single phone call. Overnight, her life of privilege becomes one of survival. She's not going to fall apart, though. She's a rebel and she's strong...determined to live life on her own terms...and nothing's going to stop her from getting things done. But when a twist of fate brings her to the doorstep of a different kind of Rebel, she's forced to figure out when something's worth fighting for and when something's worth letting go.

Quinlan Torres has responsibilities - one more year of college, a brother who needs a lot of extra supervision, and a best friend in the middle of a hostile takeover of her late father's company. The best thing for her to do would be to keep her head down, her eye on the ball, and her mind clear of any distractions. Problem is, her best friend's boyfriend has this brother....

En su conmovedor relato en primera persona, una joven es testigo de la desgarradora ocupación de su ciudad por el Tercer Reich. A través de su testimonio personal, narra los días tumultuosos que acompañaron la llegada de los nazis, pintando un vívido retrato de la conmoción, el miedo y la desesperación que impregnaron cada rincón de su existencia.