Novedades

The country collapses and a new leader emerges known only as "The Maven". Book one of a dystopian trilogy starts with a civil war dividing the country. Hundreds of thousands are killed or go missing. Mave, a young woman, flees the violence. Now a refugee in her own country, with ingenuity and the help of incredible indigenous friends, she walks over 600 miles looking for a safe haven. Soon to be the new leader of the free world, this is the beginning of her journey through what is now called The Reclamation War.

“It’s fine if neither of you can see her. I’m just tired of having all this bad energy around.” Beth has always been a bit different than the other children. Her parents have accepted her, but society still hasn’t. Instead of letting it get her down, Beth decides to try and solve a murder mystery that happened over a decade ago in her newly acquired home. With the aid of a new friend, Beth is determined to find out what happened to the Maydale family, and why they have yet to find peace in the afterlife. They say seeing is believing, but Beth is wondering how much she should ...

The Emperor of Gladness follows a wayward young man in New England who, out of sheer chance, becomes the caretaker for an 82-year-old widow living with dementia. Hallmarks of Vuong's writing - formal innovation, syntactic dexterity, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness - are on full display in this masterful story of friendship and how much we’re willing to risk to possess one of life’s most treasured mercies: a second chance.

After suffering her first big heartbreak two years earlier, Penelope Lin has built a quiet life with no romantic entanglements. She spends her days cataloging a museum's vast collection of Qing Dynasty bound-foot shoes and in the comfortable company of close friends. One day, she happens to meet Hoang, who confesses to releasing mice from the cancer research lab where he works. Hoang's openness catches Penelope off guard; from then on, she finds her carefully constructed life slowly start to unravel.

His family farm and the surrounding community now emptied by war, young Hani embarks on an epic quest–assisted by a brooding yet brilliant donkey–to find his lost sister in the ruins of Troy. Some war stories transcend time and circumstance, and so it is with the resourceful and heartbroken Hani, who must employ every bit of intelligence, every scrap of ingenuity, and ultimately every ounce of his spirit and humor to withstand the forces of civilization’s collapse.

Young Adult Fiction/Suspense: Nothing much exciting ever happens in the small town of Lebanon and most of the residents are happy about that. However, one night the unspeakable would occur that would shock the town out of its quiet and restful slumber; and thrust three 11 year old boys into events normally reserved only for adults. The Two-Wheeler is a coming of age story of three young boys who stumble into a murder in a small Midwestern town for which they believe they are the prime suspects. With the help of an unlikely ally, they devise a cunning plan to reveal the true killer and his ...

Elisa Levi's That's All I Know explores the toll of caring for those who cannot care for themselves, the fear of the unknown that anchors people to unfulfilling lives, and the bravery it takes to stop deceiving oneself, to give in to longing.

Pain, trauma, and abuse seem to be all thirteen-year-old Allison McClanahan knows. Shame, humiliation, and fear was her life before her ambitious case worker, Ms. Rebecca Aisling, took her case and took her under her protective wings. Rescued from an abusive, drug-addled father and the loss of her mother, Allison finds herself placed in foster care. Everything is a whirlwind of confusion. She doesn’t know who she is or where her place is in this world anymore. She yearns for answers and a night without bad dreams and nightmares. Marjan Mehri, an outsider to some but a young woman of hope ...

It’s summer and a young man walks through the gates of a luxurious mansion in the south of France. At the dinner table, the Blakes are waiting for him: Annie, the family matriarch and world-famous singer, her inscrutable husband David and their children, Dot, aloof and rebellious, Lily, the man’s carefree university friend, and their enigmatic older brother Felix. Between sun-drenched days spent lounging by the pool and nights blurring into endless, opulent parties far from the reality of life in London, a restless attraction grows between Felix and the man.

Dr. Charlie Knight fears life is passing him by. He's in his late thirties, and treading water as a family doctor in the same small town he grew up in. Just as he's planning his escape, something changes. He develops a gift, an extraordinary insight for any doctor: a sense of exactly how many days his patients have left to live. But in a country town like Marwick, his patients are his friends. His own family. The people he grew up with, and the girl he still loves. And Charlie discovers this gift may not be a gift at all.

Ten-year-old Margaret hides beneath a blackberry bush in her family’s lush backyard while her brother hunts for her in a game of flashlight tag. Hers is a childhood of sunlit swimming pools, Saturday morning pancakes and a devoted best friend, but her family life requires careful prudence. Her mother can be as brittle as she can be loving, and her father and brother assume familiar, if uncomfortable, models of masculinity. Then late one fateful summer, everything changes. A line is crossed and in the wake of that betrayal the simple pleasures of girlhood slip away.

Mari Parenteau was eight years old when she was inserted into the astronaut training program with an international crew of scientists, specialists in the fields of astrophysics, botany, and engineering. Six years later, she wakes from her stasis coma sleep aboard the international space station, Oberon One, now in orbit between Ganymede and Callisto, on a long-term expedition to explore and investigate Jupiter and its four Galilean moons of Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Six years lost and gone... a childhood abruptly shortened against her will. She wakes in the shadow of a stormy ...

Warning: RAINE contains adult situations some readers may find offensive. This is a deeply emotional story that contains violence, explicit sex, strong language, and is not considered suitable for readers under 18. Shy. Intelligent. Naive. Statistic. Raine Forester was an average girl leading an average life. She slipped beneath everyone's radar, until Camron Moss, the most popular guy in school, took interest in her and changed everything. Some acts are unforgivable. Raine thought she'd been accepted. She thought she was one of them. She thought she was in love... until one moment made her...

This is a coming-of-age novel, a love story and a story about difficult life choices, all in the rich historical setting of the 1920s and beyond. Coming of age in the hedonistic 1920s, in the wake of World War I and the Spanish Flu pandemic, Nick Farraday is obsessed with the maddening, impulsive Jo. Season of Plenty begins in the 1920s, in the wake of World War I and the Spanish Flu pandemic, and then sweeps on through the 1930s and beyond to the Second World War and after. Set in England and Germany from 1925, the novel charts the life and loves of Nick Farraday, as he completes ...

Fifteen-year-old Savannah Jorja Dale is a sensitive poet searching for happiness. Savannah and her siblings, Montana and Phoenix, all named for the places their drug-addicted mom would like to visit, are being raised by their Mimi. When Mimi dies of cancer, their lives become uprooted and more chaotic. The three teens must move in with their eccentric great grandma, Granny Crackers, and pick trash to earn their keep. Granny Crackers runs a never- ending garage sale from the back lot of her house in a Midwestern, inner city neighborhood known as Paris Village. Savannah seeks answers to the ...

Peter Leroy returns in memory to the fifth grade, where he finds himself gazing at Veronica McCall across the Gulf of Puberty. Remembering Veronica, the hottest little number in Babbington's elementary grades at that time, inevitably leads him to reflect on the many varieties of love and lust to which the human animal is subject; to consider the roots of the animosity between Babbington's clamdiggers and chicken-farmers; to recall the occasion of his first meeting Porky White, who was to become the brains behind the Kap'n Klam chain of bivalve-based fast-food restaurants; and forces him to ...

Beverley Johnson is young and naïve when she meets the equally young but not so innocent Collie. She is soon swept up in his charm and her world is complete when they finally get together. She hangs on to his coat tails for dear life, even as he takes her to dark spaces that have her questioning what she sees and believes. How Beverley Johnson Lost Her Religion is the story of a one woman’s journey to freeing herself from the ties that kept her bound and in darkness

He flipped off the wrong driver. Now the shadows won’t leave him alone. Twelve-year-old Evan Ritchie was having a bad day when he made a small, impulsive gesture toward a stranger in an SUV wearing a green cap. He didn’t think it meant anything—until the man began watching him. Following him. Leaving messages only Evan can find. And when Evan tries to tell someone, no one believes a word he says. Set in the year 2000, The Green Cap is a tightly wound psychological horror novella in the vein of The Black Phone. From suburban sidewalks to shadowed backyards, Logan Carter tells a ...

Thirteen year-old Taylor Landt's step-mother believes that he should be the next great football player for the high school he'll be attending in the fall. Having a dad who is an accomplished professional linebacker, and growing up surrounded by professional football coaches and players should all but guarantee his ability to dominate on the field. Unfortunately he hates playing football, and knows his height and build will never allow him to be successful at the sport. Faced with a step-mother who ignores his obvious talents in other areas, and thinks he is a blight on his father's ...

Nathan Foster was a coward. Kicked out of Marine boot camp and afraid to face his high-ranking Marine father, he stole his father's frequent flyer miles to run away to Thailand until he could figure out what to do with his wreck of a life. Socially inept, Nathan quickly gravitated to the bars where, for once in his life, women seemed to like him. And at 19 years old, he liked them right back. Between bargirls to university girls interested in farangs, Nate is able to forget his failures back in the States. With expats from around the world, he finds an interesting mix of men trying to find ...