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has a secret. She can tell how long someone has left to live just by touching them. Not only that, but she can transfer life from one person to another—something she finds out the hard way when her best friend, Ruth, suffers a fatal head injury on a night out. Desperate to save her, Thea accidentally kills the man responsible and lets his life flow directly into Ruth. Thea comes to understand that she has a godlike power, but how to use it quickly becomes a question of self-control.

At Sunny Pines Retirement Community, where the “Sixty-Two and Better!” share their golden years, secrets abound. Some scandalous, some haunting, and some dangerous. For Birdie Allen, a retired business owner and grandmother, her secret is the only thing she’s got left. Getting old isn’t the hardest part about life. It’s the memories from more than fifty years ago of the death of her unrequited love. And Birdie’s abandoned quest to root out the killer.

Gabby, Talia, and Ozzie Gunn, heirs to a media empire, are in trouble. After several bad investments and one major scandal, their father is now trying to restore their family’s good name with a senatorial run. Even worse? He’s demanding they move to California to join the campaign or risk being cut off. It’s easy to say you don’t care about money when you have enough, but with mounting debts, hobbies, and in the case of Gabby, Portum Bestiae Syndrome—a very expensive condition in which strange symptoms arise and then an exotic animal appears—the siblings don’t have much of a choice.

Die Bibel hat mehr als einmal gelogen. Diese Engel schützen zwar dein Leben, aber dafür verlangen sie deine Seele. Als Marcie nach tiefer Bewusstlosigkeit die Augen aufschlägt, befindet sie sich nicht länger im Kreise ihrer Freunde in Boston. Sie erwacht in einer völlig fremden Umgebung und ist die Gefangene eines Engels, den sie als Feind kennengelernt hat. Voltage hat sie entführt und wie es aussieht, ist sie seine Blutwirtin. Der eine Mensch, der den Blutrausch heilen kann, der in seinen Adern wütet. Maddox' Versuch, sie zu befreien, misslingt und Marcie hat keine Chance zu entkommen.

Ésta es la historia de una mujer que es, en realidad, dos mujeres: Marina Espinosa, casada con un médico prominente y dedicada a la vida doméstica; y Xian, su alter ego, más libre y misteriosa. Un accidente automovilístico abre la puerta a un universo en el que Marina no se había atrevido a entrar. Abandona a su marido y la vida anodina que lleva. Se esconde en un hotel viejo, donde va desempolvando cartas o inmortalizando en su laptop situaciones que transcurren en distintas épocas o tiempos simultáneos; fragmentos de noticias; datos históricos; pasajes de orfandad y maltrato.

La historia está ambientada en la década de los noventa, en la Navidad de 1996 en la villa de Puerto Apache, a punto de ser desmantelada para la construcción de lo que hoy en día es Puerto Madero. Fátima Sánchez, conocida como La Víbora Blanca, es una joven vidente que vive en Puerto Apache y que se gana la vida tirando las cartas, el oficio que aprendió de La Chiquita, la mujer que la recogió literalmente de la basura donde la habían abandonado al nacer y de la que heredó poderes y clientela.

Con un humor delirante, ingenuo y vertiginoso, Zambayonny construye su primera novela a la manera de los antiguos folletines, pero con la sensibilidad contemporánea que lo hizo famoso a través de sus canciones. Karmelo Restelli es un hombre sencillo que esconde, sin saberlo, un asombroso don. La noche que la mujer de su vida se casa con otro hombre, se escapa durante la fiesta de casamiento y emprende un viaje iniciático sin fronteras claras entre la vigilia y la realidad

For Edie Lane, a recipe for disaster doesn’t require that many ingredients. Take an unhealthy amount of wishful thinking and a sprinkle of desperation and that’s how Edie left everything behind in Ireland for her dream job at a bakery in Paris. Except the bakery isn’t in Paris – and neither is Edie. This might not be where Edie intended to be but she soon realizes it's exactly where she needs to be.

When ballet dancer Clara Campbell arrives in New Orleans, lonely and homesick, she is immediately captivated by the story of Windisle Plantation and the tragic tale that is said to have transpired beyond its gate. Legend has it that it is abandoned by all living souls, but to Clara’s great surprise, it is not a ghost she hears through the stone wall surrounding the property, but a flesh and blood man: a scarred stranger with a pain deeper and darker than the churning waters of the Mississippi river that flows beside his self-imposed prison.

The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather’s house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty small town in southern Mexico. A life she can call her own. Yet this new life seems as distant as the stars, until the day she finds a curious wooden box in her grandfather’s room. She opens it - and accidentally frees the spirit of the Mayan god of death, who requests her help in recovering his throne from his treacherous brother.

In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even his own name. But he can sense the beating heart of the city, see its history, and feel its power. In the Bronx, a Lenape gallery director discovers strange graffiti scattered throughout the city, so beautiful and powerful it's as if the paint is literally calling to her. In Brooklyn, a politician and mother finds she can hear the songs of her city, pulsing to the beat of her Louboutin heels.

Con ecos de El secreto de la boticaria y La Sociedad Literaria del Pastel de Piel de Patata de Guernsey, Evie Woods nos regala una seductora novela rebosante de misterio y de secretos. "La gracia de los libros es que te ayudan a imaginar una vida más plena y mejor de lo que jamás podrías haber soñado". En una tranquila calle de Dublín, una librería perdida está a la espera de ser encontrada... Durante mucho tiempo, Opaline, Martha y Henry han sido los personajes secundarios de sus propias vidas.

Gwenith and the Witch Queen introduces us to Gwenith as her life is completely changed after meeting a Witch name Ezmerelda. This story gives you a fantastical introduction two these two characters as they seek out righting the world and creating justice for women.

Dice Borges que las páginas de este libro son el irresponsable juego de un tímido que no se animó a escribir cuentos y que se distrajo en falsear y tergiversar historias ajenas. Historias de infames: ladrones, rufianes, piratas, traidores. Aquí están, entre otros, el atroz Lazarus Morell, redentor de esclavos.

A high-concept speculative novel about heartache, hope, and human resilience, The Poppy Fields explores the path of grief and healing, a journey at once profoundly universal and unique to every person, posing the questions: How do we heal in the wake of great loss? And how far are we willing to go in order to be healed?

In LEVIATHAN BEACH the thin veil between fantasy and reality ceases to exist. Thomas’ concerns with war, labor, sex and the shared prospects of biological life on this planet depict human beings as minimum wage plovers in the title story, whereas disgruntled green anoles become a child’s potential salvation in “Cold War Kirby.”

Guido Demian, un fabricante de pianos vienés de tercera generación, construye junto a su padre un instrumento musical al que bautizan acordeón. Tras la muerte de Cyrill, su padre, el misterioso artefacto empuja a Guido a una travesía azarosa que habrá de llevarlo, en enrevesadas circunstancias, hasta el otro lado del mundo, a una tierra de música y embrujo: las costas del Mar Caribe.

Nunca olvides que ser longevo no te hace inmortal. COMIENZA LA CUENTA ATRÁS. NO TE PIERDAS LA SAGA MÁS ESPERADA. Lago del Castillo es un carismático y atractivo longevo de 10.300 años de edad con un cerebro prodigioso.Sin embargo, cuando una mañana despierta en San Francisco, lejos de su hogar en Santander, no es capaz de recordar ni su nombre ni los detalles de la misteriosa investigación que le ha llevado hasta allí; una investigación con la que pretende descifrar los motivos por los que ni él ni los demás miembros de su familia envejecen.

Septimania, la primera novela de Jonathan Levi tras su aclamado libro A Guide for the Perplexed, es una gran obra: una historia al mismo tiempo personal y mítica, con temas tan grandes como el universo y tan pequeños como una semilla de manzana.

For Lydia, Jenny, and Selene, au pairing in Korea is the opportunity of a lifetime. Lydia wants nothing more than to transform into a leading lady; Jenny is determined to swear off love for good 5,955 miles away from her ex; and Selene is convinced working in Korea will finally lead her to her biological mother. The girls find comfort in the magic of instant companionship when their host families introduce them. During a combined family vacation, they visit an enchanted waterfall on Jeju Island and make a wish under a full moon. Overnight, everything changes.