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Anne Fadiman is—by her own admission—the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material in the apartment that she had not read at least twice. This witty collection of essays recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language.

Ex Libris tells the story of Dan Lovel, an ex-diplomatic security agent, and Martine Desmarais, a young antiquities expert, who undertake a mission aimed at identifying art looted by Napoleon and now housed in the Louvre. They have been asked to snatch several books hidden in Prague that catalogue those artworks. But they discover that one of the books holds a secret so fundamental it could ignite global war. Now facing lethal danger, Dan and Martine must question every truth they once believed.

Pulitzer Prize–winning literary critic Michiko Kakutani shares her enthusiasm for more than 100 books in a series of succinct, thought-provoking essays. “An ebullient celebration of books and reading.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Books can connect people across time zones and...

Ella necesitaba un prometido falso. Él era el único hombre al que nunca debió volver a mirar. Descubre una comedia romántica de segundas oportunidades sobre una mujer que inventa un compromiso para impresionar a su familia… y acaba fingiendo estar prometida con el ex que nunca logró olvidar. Lucía Montoro solo quería sobrevivir a una cena familiar. Pero cuando su familia vuelve a tratarla como la eterna decepción simpática, hace lo único razonable: miente. Dice que está prometida. El problema es que el único hombre disponible para sostener la mentira es Nico Salvatierra: su ...

This tale of passion and survival follows Anushka “Noosh” Rossetti, a trained archivist stuck in her small-town library job—until a mysterious man claiming to be Vlad Dracula enters her life. As he proves himself to her, she’s thrust into an exhilarating underworld, where survival means navigating violent power struggles and facing Vlad’s deadly rival.

Fake Dating the Hockey Captain A Spicy College Hockey Romance I wasn’t supposed to kiss the hockey captain. Especially not in front of half the campus… and a group of reporters. But when Noah Carter suddenly points at me and says I’m his girlfriend, I only have two choices: Play along. Or humiliate us both. So we make a deal. Three weeks. One fake relationship. Absolutely no feelings. It should be easy. Except Noah Carter isn’t just the arrogant captain of the North Ridge hockey team. He’s charming, protective… and dangerously good at pretending we’re real. Soon the whole ...

Claudia y Álex fueron la pareja perfecta. O, al menos, eso creyó todo el mundo. Durante años, su historia apareció en fotografías, entrevistas y redes mientras transformaban un caserón en ruinas en el hotel más romántico de la costa. Incluso se casaron allí antes de que terminaran las obras. Lo que nadie sabe es que llevan dos años divorciados. Ahora el Miramar está al borde de la quiebra y una importante empresa de eventos ofrece salvarlo. Solo hay una condición: Claudia y Álex deberán regresar ante las cámaras y convencer al público de que están intentando darse una ...

The Da Vinci Code meets The Silence of the Lambs in this thriller from the author of The Ancient Code, for fans of Dan Brown, Michael Crichton, and mystery adventures. When Sarah Wilderman is forced into an internship for the digital archive project DORESPRE in Seville to redeem herself after...

Isaac Vainio is a Libriomancer, a member of the secret organization founded five centuries ago by Johannes Gutenberg. Libriomancers are gifted with the ability to magically reach into books and draw forth objects. When Isaac is attacked by vampires that leaked from the pages of books into our world, he barely manages to escape. To his horror he discovers that vampires have been attacking other magic-users as well, and Gutenberg has been kidnapped.

In a small town, a boy appears to have performed a miracle. The Vatican has asked Dr. Patrick Bauer to investigate rumors that the boy could be the reborn Messiah. When he recruits his ex-lover and former partner, Sarah Wilderman, to look into the boy, they soon find themselves in a web of...

When Isaac Vainio helped to reveal magic to the world, he dreamed of a utopian future, a new millennium of magical prosperity. One year later, things aren't going quite as he'd hoped. An organization known as Vanguard, made up of magical creatures and ex-Porters, wants open war with the mundane world. Isaac's own government is incarcerating "potential supernatural enemies" in prisons and internment camps. And Isaac finds himself targeted by all sides.

¿Estás lista para despertar la magia que habita en tu interior? Esta colección completa de brujería reúne cinco libros esenciales de magia blanca en un solo volumen transformador que cambiará tu vida para siempre. Este grimorio integral de hechizos para brujas principiantes te guiará paso a paso en el fascinante mundo de la brujería moderna. Aprenderás rituales poderosos, amarres de amor efectivos, conjuros ancestrales y encantamientos probados que te conectarán con tu poder interior. Descubre los secretos milenarios de las brujas místicas: hechizos de amor para atraer a tu alma ...

As I reviewed a somewhat unconventional life, I found I needed to write about all the choices, people, and so-called coincidences that led me from one stage to another; the invisible threads which kept me centered and gave me strength and courage in challenging times.

America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition—from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man—in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction. In this valedictory volume, Yale...

For 500 years, the Porters have concealed the existence of magic from the world. Now, old enemies have revealed the Porters' secrets, and an even greater threat lurks in the shadows. The would-be queen Meridiana, banished for a thousand years, has returned in the body of a girl named Jeneta Aboderin. She seeks an artifact created by Pope Sylvester II, a bronze prison that would grant her the power to command an army of the dead.

Five hundred years ago, Johannes Gutenberg discovered the art of libriomancy, allowing him to reach into books to create things from their pages. Libriomancer Isaac Vainio is part of Die Zwelf Portenre, better known as the Porters, the organization founded by Gutenberg to protect the world from magical threats. Isaac is called in to investigate the killing of a wendigo, along with Porter psychiatrist Nidhi Shah and their dryad bodyguard and lover, Lena Greenwood. But their plan could unleash a far darker evil....

From ‘the most powerful book critic in the English-speaking world’ (Vanity Fair) comes an inspiring and beautifully illustrated selection of the life-changing books that none of us should miss ‘Why do we love books so much?’ For legendary literary critic Michiko Kakutani, books have...

La traición fue el detonador. La venganza, la misión Keira Shaw era la agente perfecta… hasta que la Unidad Fantasma la traicionó. Ahora, perseguida por la red secreta que la creó, solo tiene una misión: devolverles el favor. Este pack explosivo reúne los tres primeros thrillers de la serie Unidad Fantasma: acción sin descanso, conspiraciones internacionales y una protagonista imparable que convierte la venganza en arte. Desde los callejones ensangrentados de Berlín hasta las sombras letales de Langley, Keira debe anticiparse a sus antiguos controladores —un enemigo que conoce ...

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She's in love with Derry, a bright and charming math student, surrounded by friends, and her biggest worry is whether she wants to return to her old life as a student. But her peace is short-lived. After a horrific murder, Sarah becomes the target of a relentless killer. Her investigation pulls her into the depths of a decades-old mystery involving the disappearance of a group of brilliant mathematicians—once poised to revolutionize their field. They called themselves The Dumat Society.