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Una misión peligrosa. Una traición imperdonable. Un secreto perdido en el tiempo... 1584: Isabel I gobierna Inglaterra, pero un complot peligroso se está gestando en la corte, y la reina María de Escocia no se detendrá ante nada para arrebatarle el trono a su prima. Solo hay una cosa que se interpone en su camino: Tom, el boticario de confianza de la reina, que es el perfecto espía silencioso... 2021: Mathilde viaja por el mundo en su autocaravana, nunca ha pertenecido a ningún lugar. Cuando recibe la noticia de una herencia, se sorprende al descubrir que tiene una familia en Inglaterra.

Art historian Elizabeth Clarke arrives with the intent to acquire a rare female sculpture. But what begins as a quest for a highly valued cultural artifact evolves into a trip that will force Elizabeth to contend with her career, her ambition, and her troubling history. Disoriented by jet lag, debilitating migraines, and a dependence on prescription pills, Elizabeth turns to her translator to guide her around the labyrinthine island. When she’s introduced to her translator’s inscrutable wife—a subversive artist whose work seeks to deconstruct the female form—she becomes enthralled by her.

En "Mujeres que follan" hay sexo loco y sexo aburrido, sexo vainilla y sexo duro, sexo romántico y sexo no convencional, pero hay mucho más. El sexo nunca es solo sexo. Hablar de sexo es hablar de educación emocional, de clase social, de la presión por tener un cuerpo bonito, del mito del amor romántico, de relaciones tóxicas, de feminismo y de patriarcado. El sexo nos acompaña a todas desde que nacemos hasta que morimos, pero no todas lo vivimos de la misma manera.

Jovita dreamed of wearing pants! She hated the big skirts Abuela made her wear. She wanted to scale the tallest mesquite tree on her rancho, ride her horse, and feel the wind curl her face into a smile. When her father and brothers joined the Cristero War to fight for religious freedom, Jovita wanted to go, too. Forbidden, she defied her father's rules - and society's - and found a clever way to become a trailblazing revolutionary, wearing pants!

The Golden State is at war. The Conservators are winning. With an insidious nano reform, they’ve cleaned out cities and upended thousands of Unfortunate lives by controlling a single emotion: inescapable fear. Billionaire CEO Damon Yates, the only one with the potential clues to stop the threat, has disappeared. Twin sisters Jade and Crys—along with their dedicated crew of Exiles—have fled Los Angeles for a remote Texas hideout and are leading the formidable mission to find him.

As an orphaned girl, Harmony survived a strange war waged by an enemy called the Quondam. They crushed every technological advancement in the world, eviscerated the landscape, and killed millions. It can still be stopped. As prophesied, Harmony has a destiny to fulfill. Thirty years later, she is in a tenuous alliance with a cult of zealots who worship time itself. A master code breaker, she’s enlisted to obliterate the power of the Quondam and prevent a war that has already ended.

This collection includes the first three books of the Florida Keys Bed & Breakfast Cozy Mystery series.

La primera edición especial incluye una dedicatoria manuscrita impresa escrita por la autora. Así quería ser yo: anónima. Oculta, pero presente. La vida está llena de etapas, algunas preciosas e inolvidables, otras más difíciles y complicadas, lo importante es saber cuándo hay que cerrar cada una de ellas. La madurez no nos avisó. Apareció de repente con la enfermedad de Lucía, que superamos como siempre lo habíamos hecho, estando unidas. Aparentemente, Laux, Sara, Lucía y yo éramos las mismas cuatro amigas inseparables, pero las circunstancias de la vida no nos lo estaban poniendo fácil.

Amor, amistad y nuevos comienzos... A Beth le encanta su trabajo en una residencia de ancianos, pero no le gusta la estrecha y sucia casa compartida en la que vive. Por eso, cuando se le presenta la oportunidad de mudarse a Nightingale Square y compartir casa con el encantador Eli, no lo duda. La comunidad de Nightingale Square recibe a Beth con los brazos abiertos y, cuando ella necesita ayuda para organizar una recaudación de fondos para la residencia, hacen todo lo posible por ayudarla.

¿Florecerá el amor en el jardín de invierno? Freya Fuller está viviendo su sueño: trabaja como jardinera en una hermosa finca de Suffolk, donde también reside. Pero, cuando la propietaria muere, Freya se ve obligada a dejar su trabajo y su casa, sin tener a dónde ir. Sin embargo, con la suerte de su lado, le surge la oportunidad de ayudar a crear un hermoso jardín de invierno que abrirá al público en Navidad y se muda a Nightingale Square.

Si la vida te da limones... ¡Ponte a cocinar! La vida de Poppy no siempre ha sido fácil, pero sus sueños por fin están al alcance de su mano. Está a punto de mudarse a una bonita casa en Nightingale Square, cerca del jardín comunitario, donde puede alimentar su pasión por las conservas y los pepinillos. Puede que no tenga la mejor relación con su familia, pero está rodeada de amigos que la quieren, y está segura de que incluso su nuevo vecino gruñón, Jacob, oculta más en su interior de lo que se refleja en el exterior.

Aida Rodriguez has, to put it mildly, lived a whirlwind life. Her rags-to-riches story is mind-blowing: She was kidnapped as a child by her mother in the Dominican Republic and brought to the US. She was later kidnapped again by her grandmother and uncle and moved from New York to Florida. As an adult, she ended a difficult marriage and endured homelessness with her children in Los Angeles. But through it all she never lost her sense of humor.

The transporting stories in this year’s The Best American Mystery and Suspense are populated by those who exist on the fringe of our society and want more than what life has dealt them: A haunted veteran turned career criminal is on the run. An injured fighter turned bouncer seeks vengeance for his lost love. An assassin on his last job finds himself questioning his life choices and breaks all the rules to understand his final victim.

If Mari Feijoo could, she would turn her family’s Peak Cubanity down a notch, just enough so that her snooping neighbor and classmate Mykenzye wouldn’t have anything to tease her about. That’s why this year, there’s no way that Mari’s joining in on one of the big-gest Feijoo family traditions—burning the New Year’s Eve effigy her abuela makes.

When Eli leaves the cramped Bulgarian apartment he shares with Elizabeth, his more organized and successful wife, he discovers that he now inhabits her body. Not only have he and his wife traded bodies, but Elizabeth, living as Eli, has disappeared without a trace. What follows is Eli’s search across Europe and to America for his missing wife—and a roving, no-holds-barred exploration of gender and embodied experience.

Early one morning in 1995, a rancher in Humacao, Puerto Rico, found three of his goats dead. The blood seemed to have been drained from their bodies. As dozens more farm animals were found dead across the island, the fear of the so-called Chupacabra—the "goat sucker"—grew. But was a mysterious cryptid really responsible for all of these deaths? And if so, where would it go next? Follow the trail of the Chupacabra in this exciting new title.

From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of 19 brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica’s vision of the human experience emerges in complex, unexpected ways—often unsettling, sometimes thrilling, and always profound. In “Roberto,” a girl claims to have a rabbit between her legs. A woman’s neighbor jumps to his death in “A Light, Swift".

In this “unforgettable adventure, and one you don’t want to miss” (Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author), painter Remedios Varo and her lover, poet Benjamin Peret escape the Nazis by fleeing Paris and arriving at a safe house for artists on the Rivieria. Along with Max Ernst, Peggy Guggenheim, and others, the two anxiously wait for exit papers. As the months pass, Remedios begins to sense that the others don’t see her as a fellow artist; they have cast her in the stifling role of a surrealist ideal: the beautiful innocent.

For lovers of both Barbie and Gloria Steinem, The Movement is the first oral history of the decade that built the modern feminist movement. Through the captivating individual voices of the people who lived it, The Movement tells the intimate inside story of what it felt like to be at the forefront of the modern feminist crusade, when women rejected thousands of years of custom and demanded the freedom to be who they wanted and needed to be.

Carmen Sanchez is a tough Homeland Security agent who plays by the rules. But when her sister is attacked, revealing a connection to a series of murders across Southern California, she realizes a conventional investigation will not be enough to stop the ruthless perpetrator. With nowhere else to turn, Sanchez enlists the aid of Professor Jake Heron, a brilliant and quirky private security expert who, unlike Sanchez, believes rules are merely suggestions. The two have a troubled past, but he owes her a favor and she’s cashing in.