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The baseball season has begun, and Zachary Wilson, in his final year of school, is at the pinnacle of his life. Baseball is his passion and his ticket to a promising future. However, a muscle tear during a game leaves him out of the game for months, plunging him into an overwhelming darkness. In the midst of his desperation, he finds a ray of light in an unexpected situation: the mysterious patient Sunny Smith in the hospital. Intrigued, he begins to visit her regularly, sharing with her his deepest and darkest thoughts.

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.

A talented sculptor and her psychotherapist fall in love, transgressing numerous ethical boundaries. But as their relationship progresses, what began as the patient’s attempt to liberate herself from her past becomes the most abusive relationship of her life - and the most dangerous.

Horror movies hold a complicated space in the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist and open to subversive readings. It Came from the Closet features twenty-five original essays by writers speaking to this relationship, through connections both empowering and oppressive. From Carmen Maria Machado on Jennifer’s Body, Jude Ellison S. Doyle on In My Skin, Addie Tsai on Dead Ringers, and many more, these conversations convey the rich reciprocity between queerness and horror.

A wedding reception is coming to a close in the Hollywood Hills when the blissful day is shattered by the death of one of the newlyweds. Though the incident appears to be an accident, Homeland Security Investigations agent Carmen Sanchez and her partner, security expert Jake Heron, discover that the tragedy is the third in a series of similar deaths and conclude something far more sinister is at play. The two uncover chilling evidence pointing to a serial killer who has taken evil to the next level.

¿Qué harías si tu hijo de once años desapareciera a plena luz del día y sin dejar rastro? ¿Qué harías si creyeras saber quién se lo ha llevado? La paz en el tranquilo pueblo de Beceite (Teruel) se ve truncada con la repentina...

Hundreds of years after the end of the world, the Appalachian community of Iron Hollow finds itself beset by demons. Such horrors are common these days in the outlands, where most folks die young—if they don’t turn into monsters first. When a legendary knight is summoned to hunt down the latest unearthly beast to haunt their woods, the town’s new oral historian, Shrike, has more reason than most to be concerned. Because that demon was her wife. And while Shrike is certain that May still recognizes her—that May is still herself, somewhere beneath it all—she can’t prove it.

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

Cuando la llamada del amor es más grande que la de la guerra, un hombre se ve atrapado en la preciosa batalla de la pasión. Lord Monty, de nombre Samuel, ha visto truncados sus planes para marchar contra Napoleón. Su padre le acaba de ceder los honores y obligaciones del título, pues aquejado de una enfermedad, el anterior conde necesita que su hijo se quede a su lado y cuide de su hermana pequeña y busque una esposa.

Sixteen-year-old Alonda loves professional wrestling. So when she meets a group of teens with aspirations of wrestling fame in her Coney Island neighborhood, she couldn’t be happier. So as the ragtag team works to put on a show to remember, Alonda leaves behind her old self and becomes Alondra―the Fearless One. But with her conflicting feelings for King, the handsome leader of their group, and Lexi, the girl with the beautiful smile, Alonda has to ask herself: can she be as fearless outside of the ring as she is inside of it?

Ousted by a rival cartel, a brutal drug lord flees Mexico to the distant East. An unwanted child commits a terrible deed and is locked away for years. A Japanese heart surgeon is shunned by the medical community and turns to working as an illegal organ broker. Three lives become entangled in...

Frida Liu es una madre soltera de 39 años propensa a la ansiedad. En Filadelfia, donde vive, la denuncian por dejar a su hija sola durante un breve período de tiempo. Los Servicios de Protección Infantil del Estado, cada vez más empoderados, se llevan a su hija Harriet y ponen en vigilancia la casa de Frida. Después de una serie de visitas supervisadas, un juez considera que Frida no es apta como madre, temporalmente.

The What Do We Know About? series explores the mysterious, the unknown, and the unexplained. Is there really a mysterious, blood-sucking creature called the Chupcabra? Early one morning in 1995, a rancher in Humacao, Puerto Rico, found three of his goats dead. The blood seemed to have been...

Organizar una boda perfecta y memorable es más sencillo de lo que parece. Solo hay que disponer de la información clave -pros y contras incluidos- para tomar las mejores decisiones y disfrutar de los preparativos.

¿Qué sacrificarías para conseguir lo que deseas?

¿Cuánto podrías mentir?

Una extraordinaria novela histórica sobre la creación del observatorio más grande del mundo y sobre los grandes descubrimientos astronómicos de la primera mitad del siglo XX.

Los Ángeles, mayo de 1910.

La misma noche en que la Tierra atraviesa la cola del cometa Halley, llamado ""El Destructor"", en la casa de los mellizos Henry y Ellie Blur sucede algo terrible que los obliga a huir...

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!

Década de 1950. Con el fallecimiento de la Duquesita, matriarca indiscutible del clan de los Cazalet, desaparecen también para siempre los últimos vestigios del mundo de ayer, ese entorno privilegiado en el que prosperó la familia, un universo de grandes mansiones y leales sirvientes, un perfecto equilibrio entre clase, ocio y tradición.

El apacible pueblo costero de Port de la Selva oculta un temible secreto desde que Arsenda, una joven condenada por brujería en el siglo XVII, lanzó una maldición: llevarse a una niña del pueblo cada diez años. Tres meses después de descubrir el misterio que envolvió la desaparición de Silvia Blanch en Montseny, la controvertida periodista Alex Duarte, sin inspiración para una nueva novela, decide alejarse de todo y encerrarse en un retiro literario en el pueblo marinero de Port de la Selva.

Una exploración sobre el poder de la frialdad y la fuerza de la vida sombría. Un thriller que se mete bajo tu piel. El cadáver de una mujer joven decapitada aparece en la casa del polémico magnate de los negocios Jesper Orre, quien ha desaparecido sin dejar rastro. ¿Quién es esa mujer? ¿Orre la mató? El experimentado investigador Peter Lindgre y la investigadora de perfiles psicológicos Hanne Lagerlind-Schön se encargan del caso, que resulta cada vez más desconcertante.

Rita Marí, la heredera de una gran fortuna, sobrevivió a un accidente aéreo en el que murieron tres amigas suyas. Desde entonces, alejada de su marido e hijos, hundida en la culpa, vive recluida en su mansión al borde del mar, en Valencia. Un año después de la catástrofe, Rita desaparece sin dejar rastro y Julián Tresser, antes teniente y ahora capitán de la Guardia Civil de la UCO, protagonista de las dos novelas anteriores de Inés Plana, se traslada desde Madrid con su equipo para investigar el caso.