Novedades

“One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind. Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, who loves the Dodgers and his big Italian family, slowly wins her over with patient charm.

Ania hears the explosion of gunshots before she sees the Nazi soldiers approach her beloved home. Her family don’t have time to run, but she does. Hiding nearby, she listens to her sister’s screams and – stroking the red ribbon she keeps tied around her wrist – she begins to plot her revenge… Taunted her whole life for being smarter than anyone else in the village, now living in war-torn Poland, being governed by Nazis who think Poles are subhuman and women only good for one thing… Ania now only has her wits to rely on, if she's going to survive.

In a small dorm room at a liberal arts college in Vermont, a young woman settles into the warm blue light of her desk lamp before calling the mother she left behind in northeastern Brazil. Four thousand miles apart and bound by the angular confines of a Skype window, they ask each other a simple question: what’s the news? Offscreen, little about their lives seems newsworthy. The daughter writes her papers in the library at midnight, eats in the dining hall with the other international students, and raises her hand in class to speak in a language the mother cannot understand.

Jane Carter sees an advertisement for a live-in shop assistant and jumps at the chance to leave her old life behind. After Chadwick the draper takes her on, Jane learns all there is to know about fabrics and dressmaking. She proves a talented saleswoman and befriends Maggie and Lily, the other employees. The girls struggle under exploitative conditions: meagre pay; tiny portions of food; the boss cheating them out of commissions. When the young man Maggie is seeing falls in love with Jane, a bitter falling-out results in Maggie threatening to leave Chadwick’s.

Young Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village, but unlike her beautiful sister, Rose, Eilis' gifts are of a more practical nature: she has a head for numbers, and is a loving and dutiful daughter. Yet her ambition cannot be hidden and soon is noted by the Parish Priest, Father Flood. Via a church contact, he arranges for Eilis to travel to America where a job opportunity has arisen in New York with a reputable 'merchant of Italian origin'.

Key allies rescued from the darkness, the Goddess of Mirrors and Fate turns to the bright, new future she dreams of. The road ahead is long, but she runs to it all the same. Time is always short. A brand new [Domain] awaits capture, and that there are obstacles in the way is never in question. Sometimes, the best policy was to hit them head-on, the best tactic to take the fight to your enemies first.

A bestseller in Japan—a beautiful story about shared self-discovery and friendship involving an unlikely group of students who decide to defy the odds and pursue a seemingly impossible goal together.

With her mother deceased and her father remarried, Caroline is forced to live with her domineering grandfather. But having endured so much loss and cruelty in her young life, she is determined to not let her suffering to have been in vain. Soon, Caroline embarks on a campaign to reclaim her own power and win over the most influential person in her family. She will stop at nothing to build the life—and the independence—she so desperately dreams of.

Most days, Magda is fine. She has her routines. She has her anxious therapy patients, who depend on her to cure their bad habits. She has her longtime colleagues, whose playful bickering she mediates. She’s mourning the recent loss of her best friend, Sara, but has brokered a tentative truce with Sara’s prickly widower as she helps him sort through the last of Sara’s possessions. She’s fine. But in going through Sara’s old journal, Magda discovers her friend’s last directive: plans for a road trip they would take together in celebration of Magda’s upcoming seventieth birthday.

Travesti este un studiu de caz despre un copil hermafrodit, dar şi o explorare a întunecatei sexualităţi adolescentine. Mai presus de orice, însă, acest mic roman, care m-a obsedat şi m-a chinuit mai mult decât orice altă carte a mea, e anabasis-ul meu, drumul meu ascuns şi întortochiat către centrul adânc îngropat al fiinţei mele. Travesti este şi portalul către Orbitor. Trilogia mea n-ar fi putut exista fără exerciţiul de sinceritate aproape sinucigaşă de aici. Nu e uşor să afli cine eşti, nici să te priveşti în ochi după ce ai aflat.

Una hija descubre la grieta en su familia: sus padres están separados y la casa en la que crecen ella y sus hermanos se va poblando de recuerdos. En junio de 2006, el padre de Karina —la protagonista de esta historia— encabeza una lucha popular para que el gobierno de Oaxaca caiga y se haga justicia. Una lucha que trae consigo el estigma de la cárcel. Una lucha que deja una ciudad en llamas. A la par de lidiar con el abandono paterno y la persecución social, Karina intenta descubrir quién ha sido y quién es ahora como mujer.

Téhéran, 1953. Pour leur fille, les parents de Roya veulent le meilleur : ils l'inscrivent dans le meilleur lycée de la capitale, espérant bien faire d'elle la future Marie Curie de ce monde. Une savante, une intellectuelle, une femme capable de changer le cours de l'histoire. Après ses cours, la jeune fille fréquente régulièrement la librairie de M. Fakhri, où elle trouve de quoi étancher sa soif de poésie persane et de littérature étrangère. C'est là qu'elle va faire connaissance de Bahman, jeune activiste politique, bien décidé à changer le monde.

It's 1986, and ‘beautiful, radical ideas' are in the air. A young woman arrives in Melbourne to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In bohemian St Kilda she meets artists, activists, students—and Kit. He claims to be in a ‘deconstructed' relationship, and they become lovers. Meanwhile, her work on the Woolfmother falls into disarray.

Maxton Hall - Dé dark academia must-read en ook bekend van de Amazon Prime-serie. Geld, glamour, luxe en macht: de vier zaken die de dienst uitmaken op Maxton Hall College en vier kwaliteiten die Ruby Bell niet bezit. Maxton Hall is een van de duurste, meest gerenommeerde privéscholen van Engeland en de klassieke Maxton Hall-student is een nazaat van een eeuwenoud adellijk geslacht, van invloedrijke politici of van grootheden uit de zakenwereld, geen doodgewoon meisje met een studiebeurs. Daarom wil Ruby het liefst zo snel mogelijk afstuderen en in de tussentijd zo min mogelijk opvallen.

Primera parte de la trilogía "La lucha por la vida", escrita por Pío Baroja, notable escritor español perteneciente a la Generación del 98. Cada una de las tres novelas que componen la trilogía ("La busca", "Mala hierba" y "Aurora roja"), comprende una de las fases de la vida de Manuel Alcázar, desde que fuera un joven muchacho que convirtiéndose en adulto busca hacerse un sitio en la sociedad.

When the world’s best magicians are offered an extraordinary opportunity, saying yes is easy. Each could join the secretive Alexandrian Society, whose custodians guard lost knowledge from ancient civilizations. Their members enjoy a lifetime of power and prestige. Yet each decade, only six practitioners are invited—to fill five places.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

When Evie and her friends find themselves stranded alone against the Carpathian army, they think all hope is lost. But the fates are ever-changing, and an unexpected ally comes to their aid. New friendships are forged, as the old are tested. As their quest to fulfill the prophecy comes to a close, each of the three must search within themselves to see if they have what it takes.

For 500 years Gaiea’s Hand has stood as a ward against the Dark. The Age of Chaos is a faded memory. The Goddess has left Gailand and given her Blessing to the Queens to rule in her stead. Princess Viella of the court of Hamber is the Spirit of Gaiea, presumptive heir to the throne and budding wielder of magic. And yet she’s still a child—not yet ten years old—and a day spent evading her teachers and her dutiful bodyguard, Luka, is much more satisfying than learning about telepathy, illusions, and other spells, or obeying even her mother, the Queen. There is time enough…until there isn’t.

When you're embarrassed to step out your own front door, is happiness even possible? Jennifer's life is falling to pieces. She's out of work. Her brother's in a coma. Her mom just died. And despite stellar qualifications, every job interview ends in rejection. Also, she's heavier than she's ever been.