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"Esa noche, cuando iba de camino a casa desde el teatro, donde se había pasado las últimas dos horas viendo cómo actuaban otras personas, vio que el apartamento de Ulrik en el distrito de Østerbro tenía las luces encendidas. Tenía el manuscrito en el bolso y, de repente, sintió un deseo vehemente de verlo. Le encantaba sentarse en su sala de estar y que él se sentase en el sillón y la corrigiese atentamente mientras ella andaba hacia delante y hacia atrás frente a él y le mostraba su progreso. Casi sin darse cuenta, tocó el timbre con un dedo."...

Lamb's family strives to better their lives in Jackson, Mississippi, in the late 1930s. Lamb’s mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she's a lesbian. Lamb’s brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north—if only he could curb his impulsiveness and rebellious nature.

Dreams are real. At least they are for Harmony Carson. When the murders carried out during her nightmares begin to manifest themselves in the real world Houston sets everything aside to help Harmony track the killer they are certain has formed a psychic connection with Harmony during her sleep hours.

In book 5, Harmony’s visions are becoming more frequent and they are becoming more intense. It seems they are starting to hurt her but no matter how hard she tries she can't seem to escape them. She can’t sleep and often has headaches. There is one vision specifically that is haunting her nights so she sets out with Houston to find the answers she needs to hopefully stop the nightmares.

After suffering a personal tragedy, Abby Sullivan buys a huge old seaside mansion she has never even seen, packs up her life in San Francisco, and moves to Holiday Bay Maine, where she is adopted, quite against her will, by a huge Maine Coon Cat named Rufus, a drifter with her own tragic past named Georgia, and a giant dog with an inferiority complex named Ramos. What Abby thought she needed was alone time to heal. What she ended up with was, an inn she never knew she wanted, a cat she couldn't seem to convince to leave, and a new family she'd never be able to live without.

Christmas arrives early in Rescue, Alaska, as the search-and-rescue team is tasked with finding a missing Santa. With a new mystery to solve and a holiday decorating contest to bring light to the long days of winter, the town is steeped in holiday cheer until a surprising murder puts a damper on the annual festivities. Meanwhile, Harmony tries to help Houston find the Christmas spirit, while Harley is surprised by a visitor from the north.

His pulse quickened as they approached. He’d waited so long. Too long. He closed his eyes and reveled in the memory, which did not come as a gentle wave, but as a surge of agony from the depths of his personal hell. He’d craved the searing pain, the deeply felt anguish. It was only during these moments, when he was sure that he would drown in a river of grief, that he felt truly alive.

Inesperado best seller en Italia, con traducciones a más de veinte idiomas, Siete breves lecciones de física se ha convertido en un éxito bien sencillo de explicar por algo muy difícil de conseguir: con pasión, fluidez y una encomiable voluntad de presentar de un modo diáfano temas complejos, Carlo Rovelli, científico de estirpe humanista, nos propone un breve pero muy completo recorrido por los hitos de la física de los últimos cien años en siete lecciones magistrales.

El callejón de las almas perdidas nos adentra en el mundo del espectáculo, y las sombras que se amparan en él. Stanton Carlisle es un joven listo y ambicioso que trabaja en una feria ambulante. Junto con otros personajes, como una adivina, un forzudo o un fenómeno humano llamado «el monstruo», la feria viaja de pueblo en pueblo. Pero Stan quiere medrar en el negocio. Y poco a poco, aprenderá a engatusar, engañar y seducir para conseguirlo. Una novela macabra y absorbente que arrastrará al lector hasta las profundidades del mundo del espectáculo.

He watched the boy skipping rocks across the clear, still water. From the cover of dense forest he listened to the childish squeals of delight as the flat hard surface of the stone met the firm unyielding force of the lake. Each hop resulted in an ever widening web of rings, each ring, larger, yet less intense than that which came before. Life, he mused, was like those rings.

Ainsley Holloway had come to Gooseberry Bay to find answers about her past. She’d come to find an explanation for the dreams that haunted her after the death of the cop who’d both rescued and raised her. And she’d come to identify the family she couldn’t remember but knew in her heart she’d once belonged to.

Rescue, Alaska is a small town in northern Alaska where visitors come to hike and ski. Harmony Carson is a lifelong resident who volunteers as a member of the local search and rescue team. Harmony has a unique gift which she often considers a curse. She is able to "see" the individuals she is meant to help rescue, and more often than not she can feel their fear and their pain as well.

Este libro también es la historia de la selva, una historia poblada con los rostos de los conquistadores, aventureros, exploradores, colonizadores, arqueólogos, insurgentes, monteros, iluminados y místicos que vincularon sus vidas en algún momento con la Selva Lacandona.

Es un tema delicado, doloroso y complicado de aceptar… pero no imposible de superar. Empecemos con una breve introducción… el cuerpo humano se rige por un proceso en el que las células del cuerpo se desarrollan y empiezan a crecer y cuando nuestro organismo lo necesite, estas células se empiezan a multiplicar para seguir con los procesos de desarrollo, ya que dichas células del cuerpo llegan a envejecer y mueren y siempre hay un constante ciclo de reemplazo entre las células.

En el mundo de Chandra Livia Candiani, donde la palabra es imagen y poesía, meditar es quedarse quieto, seguir con paciencia la respiración y acogerla en silencio y con humildad; es seguir los movimientos de nuestra mente sin detenernos en los pensamientos sobre el pasado y el futuro, y dejar que pasen delante de nosotros como pájaros en un cielo vasto.

Holly Thompson’s life changed forever when she received an early Christmas present from her dead Aunt Meg. Prior to her death, her former foster mother won the gorgeous PI during one of her Tuesday morning poker games. The only survivor of a tragic automobile accident when she was only days old, Holly grew up never knowing who she was or where she had come from.

It's Christmas in Ashton Falls. The last Christmas before Alex and Scooter go off to college. Zoe is determined to make it the best Christmas ever so she enlists the help of the entire gang, ignoring important clues relating to her own health which lands her at the doctor’s office for an unexpected visit.

The Bistro, which consists of a restaurant, bar, and live music platform, was exactly the sort of project Shelby needed to find her footing in the new life she was still trying to fit into. She knows she'll need help, so she enlists the help of new chef and frequent guest to The Inn at Holiday Bay, Amy Hogan, as well as part-time waitress and longtime local Nikki Peyton. Together with the staff and regular customers that seemed to have come with the place, Shelby is certain she'll be able to create something special.

La autora nos lleva a 1596, año en que un espectáculo atroz fue presenciado por miles de personas en la Alameda Central de la Ciudad de México: tras ser perseguido y torturado, el joven poeta, comerciante y líder religioso Luis de Carvajal, alias “Joseph Lumbroso”, fue quemado en la hoguera junto con su madre, dos de sus hermanas y cinco miembros de su comunidad, condenados por la Inquisición como herejes judaizantes.

I'm safe here. That's how Sadie feels, on a perfect summer day, wrapped in her girlfriend's arms. School is out, and even though she’s been struggling to manage her chronic anxiety, Sadie is hopeful better times are ahead. Or at least, she thought she was safe. When her girlfriend reveals some unexpected news and the two witness a violent incident of police brutality unfold before them, Sadie’s whole world is upended in an instant.