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The lives of real heroes prove this truth: equality is won when we rise together. 1880s, Ohio. When Mary and Anna enter the Bachelor of Arts program, also known as the "gentlemen's course" of study, at Oberlin College, they have little in common other than the color of their skin and their...

Summer in Gooseberry Bay means sun, sand, and the much-anticipated Movies on the Beach event. Ainsley and her close-knit crew are all in—Josie and Hudson are serving up treats from the food truck, Jemma is wrangling volunteers, and Ainsley and Coop are on security duty. But when a local man turns up dead—murdered in the exact same way as the victim in that week’s film—things take a chilling turn.

¿Hasta dónde está dispuesto a llegar un novelista para hallar la inspiración que no tiene? ¿Saborear las mieles del triunfo merece sacrificar el alma? A través de un personaje tan seductor como absolutamente desalmado, John Boyne aborda estas preguntas en Una escalera hacia el cielo, una novela formidable que es también una magnífica inmersión en el círculo de los escritores, con sus dudas, sus sueños, sus alegrías y sus miserias.

Entre la investigación periodística y el relato literario, Laura Restrepo reconstruye en esta novela la historia de una niña asombrosa, bella y enigmática que llega a Tora con una decisión férrea: trabajar como prostituta. La reciben en el Dancing Miramar, el café más famoso de La Catunga, el barrio de las mujeres, donde se queda hasta convertirse en un mito venerado y extraño que corre de boca en boca por toda la región.

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.

For fans of My (Not So) Perfect Life and Jasmine Guillory’s While We Were Dating, a disarmingly fun debut novel follows Carlisa Henton as her life comes undone after a chance meeting with a rising pop star. Carlisa “Carli” Henton is a musician and songwriter hoping to follow in her...

Ivy Morgan is a woman on the edge, and it’s becoming more and more apparent that she is, in fact, a witch. With each new ability that sprouts up, Ivy is becoming more and more worried about what’s to come. Things only become more and more convoluted when Ivy and her fiancé Jack Harker trip (almost literally) over a missing person’s case while out hiking. When a mysterious purse shows up at a ramshackle home from an era past, they follow a young woman’s trail to her mother’s house and find a dead body.

El amor como nunca te lo habían explicado. Este no es un libro sobre el desamor, el enamoramiento o la sexualidad. Es un manual práctico para impulsar la energía más poderosa que tenemos, la que nos une a los demás, la que multiplica nuestras fuerzas para lograr objetivos y disfrutar de la vida con relaciones nutritivas. Para ello, cada capítulo nos invita a llevar a cabo acciones concretas para elevar la calidad de nuestro vínculo con la pareja, los hijos, los amigos, o incluso en un equipo de trabajo, aportando nuevas visiones para aumentar nuestro balance de amor y el de nuestros seres queridos.

Imagine everything you have ever known fading away, all around you. In this gripping memoir and powerful workbook, Angel Lyn recounts her upbringing as a devout member of the Mormon church, a dedicated housewife and loving mother of five sons in southern Utah. As challenges within her marriage unfold, she discovers a warrant for her husband's arrest that causes her to undergo an epic spiritual transformation, moving away from a deeply religious mindset to a more profound and spiritual approach to life.

Abraham Salgado, que tuvo un pasado más que difícil, ingresa a trabajar en un gigantesco complejo llamado Hospital San Niño, en el que se albergan también enfermos mentales. Pronto descubre, muy a su pesar, que el lugar esconde secretos colosales y perturbadores, y se vuelve cada vez más extraño y siniestro con el paso de los días. No puede escapar de allí, haga lo que haga. El Hospital San Niño es una trampa mortal... y amenaza con destruir a Abraham de un modo inenarrable, del mismo modo que lo ha hecho con incontables almas antes que él.

It’s vacation time for Harper Harlow and her boyfriend Jared Monroe. They have big plans to head to northern Lower Michigan for a wine tasting event – which happens to be close to a small town called Shadow Lake – and they’re even taking Zander and Shawn along for the ride. In Shadow Lake, Ivy Morgan finds herself in a good mood. It’s officially the start of morel season (her favorite holiday) and she knows exactly how she’s going to spend the next three weeks of her life, much to her fiancé Jack Harker’s chagrin. Everything changes when the two groups meet in the woods – the whimsy of morel hunting too much for Harper’s group to turn away from – and they happen to stumble across a body. It seems a local woman, a party enthusiast with a bad reputation, was shot down in the middle of the forest and it appears someone is out there hunting people rather than animals or mushrooms … making for a very dangerous morel season.

It’s a tangled web of intrigue and magic as Rowan and Ivy come face to face with some carefully concealed secrets. They’re going to have to work together if they expect to survive the murderer running free on The Bounding Storm.

Hali Waverly thought she’d seen the worst the world had to offer. Then, her boyfriend Gray Hunter’s parents arrived on her beach. Now, the horror truly begins.

This program features multicast narration. What do the struggles of the past teach us about the urgent challenges in our own time? Resist chronicles the inspiring story of young Black activists who have fought tirelessly at the helm for justice over the last century, from the 1920s to the...

FBI Agent Maggie Allen had a gift for catching serial killers. Now, following the death of her husband and son, she can barely get out of bed. Desperate, Maggie agrees to take part in a drug trial - a last-ditch effort to find something that might help her cope. The drug helps. However, it also carries several unpleasant side effects, not the least of them being an exceptional heightening of all her senses...just the kind of thing her old partner could use to help the FBI track down a prolific serial killer who is proving impossible to catch.

Imagina una balanza en la que uno de sus dos extremos, de tan cargado, toque el suelo, y el otro -donde están tus deseos- quede frágilmente suspendido en el aire. Lo que pesa son tus pensamientos. Para recuperar el mismo equilibrio que caracteriza al resto de nuestro universo, debes aligerar todos esos pensamientos hasta que se adecuen a tus deseos.

In book seven in the series, a whole new group of guests check into the Inn, each with their own reason for being there and their own story to tell. Once of the guests, a single woman named Mylie, finds a long-forgotten letter to Santa in the mouth of the life-sized nutcracker Lacy purchased for Abby after a visit to an antique store. The list does not ask Santa for toys or games, but for time with her parents. Abby wonders what ever happened to the child who left the list, and why the list was still in the nutcracker years later. Her research pulls her into an unsolved mystery.

Una selección de los famosos relatos de misterio y de terror del gran maestro del género. Edgar Allan Poe (Boston, 1809 - Baltimore, 1849), reconocido como el maestro del relato corto, dejó un legado literario que se ha convertido en un punto de referencia constante para todas las artes. Su huella en la literatura fantástica y de terror, así como la literatura detectivesca es incuestionable e inspiró de manera decisiva a escritores de la talla de Melville, Baudelaire, Maupassant, Cortázar o Nabokov.

Un texto clásico y muy relevante del Budismo Tibetano en una versión accesible para todos los lectores. Con incontables ediciones a lo largo de los...

Experiencia con Dios, un clásico moderno que ha vendido millones de copias en todo el mundo, está basado en siete realidades de las escrituras que nos enseñan a desarrollar una verdadera relación con el creador. Al comprender cómo Dios obra en nosotros, aun mientras intentamos comprender sus caminos, podemos comenzar a conocer claramente su voluntad y hacerla, y a descubrir cómo cambian nuestras vidas en forma radical por medio de la gracia.