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From the vast lore surrounding King Arthur, Camelot, and the Knights of the Round Table comes an anthology of gender-bent, race-bent, LGBTQIA+ inclusive retellings.

Among a crop of fresh filmmakers including Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, and Francis Ford Coppola revolutionizing Hollywood in the ’70s, Brian De Palma—a director from Philadelphia with a few social satires under his belt—charted a cinematic path unlike any of his peers. At times he was unfairly dismissed as a Hitchcock copycat; other times he was misunderstood for his peculiar mix of sexuality, humor, music, and violence. But, over the course of ten years, he created a new cinematic language.

When critical systems begin to fail, Maya discovers that someone is sabotaging the mission from within. Then Julian Chen, the ship’s brilliant, infuriating lead architect, is forced out of cryo after a pod malfunction. Arrogant, maddening, dangerously attractive, he is now the only person she can trust. Their uneasy partnership ignites into undeniable heat. Every system failure pulls them closer. Every dark corridor, every repair, becomes an excuse to touch, to linger, to fall deeper into something neither of them can afford.

Darkness is the first thing we know in our human existence. Safe and warm inside the bubble of the womb, we are comfortable in that embracing dark. But as soon as we are bought into the light, we learn to fear the dark. Why? This book is a celebration of all things that go bump in the night and the joy that can be found when the sun goes down. As a society we have closed our curtains to the darkness, now Dani Robertson urges you to cast those curtains wide, step out of your front door and let the darkness pull you in.

Reyna: Losing my husband was the most heartbreaking experience I could have ever gone through. I'm a widow now with only a son to care for. My husband's death has revealed truths I was not ready for. The life he lived as a mobster and now he has left me with a stranger who used to be his boss. Kyro: My best friend is gone. He left me wounded, scared, and broken. Now, he has left me his wife, and his son to care for in his stead. What do I know about being a husband or a father? I'm the leader of a Russian mob. I don't know the first thing about it, but I know punishment and fear...

I was supposed to be on vacation on Earth, resting after I helped Pan defeat Hook and free the realms. I didn't expect to meet Cassandra, a woman with a soul full of the most beautiful music I've ever heard. Nor did I expect my encounter with her to consume my mind. But my father Zeus is determined to exert his power over me, to reinforce his dominance and ensure that I'm no threat to him. Because of his suspicion and envy, visiting Cassandra on Earth is more complicated and dangerous than I anticipated.

When Noemie, Third Princess of Normandy, is forced to accept a gargoyle as her bodyguard, she is determined to hate him. But a series of assassination attempts brings the pair closer together, and she begins to realize that there is much more to her bodyguard than stone and bat-wings and magic. Together, Noemie and Gideon begin to process the grief and loss that each of them has endured. Slowly they unravel the mystery of his origins and uncover secrets that could affect the outcome of the war.

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Este es el primero de los tres audiolibros que conforman la saga literaria en la que se inspira la serie "Lupin". A bordo del transatlántico Provence, cuyas autoridades han sido puestas sobreaviso de la presencia del ladrón, Lupin conoce a Nelly Underdown, una millonaria que le roba el...

The world is a series of red tinted lights and painful bliss. An Underground Favorite, they used to call me. I wear the bruises they leave like jewelry. I never asked to be saved, but when that masked gothic heartthrob came in asking for me, I couldn’t very well say no—not that I had much of a choice in the matter. What started as a reluctant dream come true has dulled after three sexless years together in this sham of a marriage that continues to go nowhere. A girl has needs. So, what I’m doing isn’t so much cheating as it is problem solving.

It’s springtime in Oklahoma, and Ernie, an outcast in a group of outcasts, feels uneasy. Nerves at the abandoned summer camp where he and his fellow oddballs are crashing have been on edge since the arrival of a teenager named Coral, unceremoniously dropped off from her family’s minivan one afternoon. Adding to her aura of mystery, Coral doesn’t say a word. Ever.

Ese lugar entre el sueño y la vigilia es el espacio donde queda la esencia de los sueños, ese sitio invisible salvo cuando a estamos punto despertar, pero aún permanecemos ligeramente dormidos y donde como en una red, quedan irremisiblemente atrapados nuestros anhelos a pesar de sujetarlos con las manos para llevarlos con nosotros. Pero igual que con los hermosos sueños, sucede con nuestras pesadillas cuando son ellas las que se nos aferran con la intención de no dejarnos escapar.

Aquí nos encontraremos con un conjunto de relatos, ficciones oscuras que nos mostrarán histórias imposibles...

Una fría mañana de febrero Betty se sorprende con la llamada de un desconocido que le cuenta la extraña muerte de su pareja, un banquero de la City londinense. Lo que parece un suicidio oculta una trama en la que ella, sin saberlo, está directamente involucrada.

Thanks to Callie and their friends, Helston seems to be changing for the better: Boys are allowed to explore their magic, and girls are permitted to train as warriors. Callie is an official Helston page, Willow in on track to become king, and Elowen and Edwyn are finally safe and free of their father. Everything is…perfect. Except it isn’t. Not in Helston, where every step forward is accompanied by a storm of opposition. Even Queen Ewella and Sir Nick are struggling against the wave of fear and anti-magical sentiment growing daily, while the encroaching threat from across the bridge looms.

La Sirenita vive en su reino acuático con su padre, el rey del mar, su abuela y sus cinco hermanas mayores. Según la tradición, cuando una sirena cumple 15 años, se le permite subir a mirar el mundo de la superficie. Así, cuando cada una de las hermanas va alcanzado la edad suficiente, hacen un visita a la superficie, lo que les permite ver el mundo que hay sobre el nivel del mar: paisajes, animales, el sol, las nubes...

En cierta ocasión, hace ya mucho tiempo, vi un fantasma. Y luego, cuatro años después, vi otro. El primer fantasma era amable, incluso olía bien. A nardos. Era el espíritu de Beatriz Obregón; gracias a ella encontré las Lágrimas de Shiva, un fabuloso collar que había estado

Si la intuición tuviera dientes hace tiempo que me habría comido el mundo. Menos mal que las hadas no me siguen el rollo, porque a mí las indigestiones me sientan fatal. Esa soy yo, Lucía la fantástica: impulsiva, impaciente, impertinente, a veces infantil, muchas veces deslenguada, siempre díscola y muy a menudo obstinada. ¿Qué le voy a hacer? El melodrama me pone. Altamente histriónica.

Urban Books bestseller La Jill Hunt joins Monica Walters to bring listeners humorous, romantic stories of beautiful full-figured women navigating their sometimes complicated love lives.

Tras varios años durante los cuales Marta creía superada la infidelidad de Marcos, se presenta la oportunidad para que ella redescubra aquel rencor durante un viaje de negocios. Si bien ambos han construido una vida familiar junto a sus dos hijos, Lucía y Lucas, un secreto que atormenta al pequeño los forzará como pareja a enfrentar una crisis que no podrían haber previsto.

Life is hard for Ruby growing up in poverty on the wrong side of the mountain on her grandfather's farm where literally the sun didn’t shine. The Appalachian setting isn’t her friend as she searches for an easy life at the "tippy-top" with contentment and security. Ruby makes a series of bad decisions, causing her life to tumble into an unexpected outcome.