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La temporada de béisbol ha comenzado y Zachary Wilson, en su último año de escuela, está en la cúspide de su vida. El béisbol es su pasión y su boleto hacia un futuro prometedor. Sin embargo, un desgarro muscular durante un partido lo deja fuera de juego por meses, sumiéndolo en una oscuridad abrumadora. En medio de su desesperación, encuentra un rayo de luz en una situación inesperada: la misteriosa paciente Sunny Smith en el hospital. Intrigado, comienza a visitarla regularmente, compartiendo con ella sus pensamientos más profundos y oscuros.

Un accidente real en el País Vasco de los años ochenta, la vida devastada de una familia. Una historia emocionante, adictiva y conmovedora, como solo Aramburu sabe contar. Nicasio, ya jubilado, acostumbra a subir los jueves al cementerio de Ortuella a visitar la tumba de su nieto. Es uno de los muchos niños fallecidos tras una explosión de gas en un colegio de aquella localidad, un accidente que sacudió al País Vasco y a toda España en 1980.

Cuando la cazadora Feyre mata a un lobo en el bosque, una criatura bestial irrumpe en su casa para exigir una compensación. Así, es trasladada a una tierra mágica y engañosa de la que solo había oído hablar en las leyendas, donde Feyre descubre que su captor no es un animal sino Tamlin: una divinidad inmortal y letal que alguna vez reinó en su mundo. Mientras Feyre vive en su castillo, lo que siente por Tamlin muta de una hostilidad helada a una pasión ardiente y feroz.

Her legacy had been as much a curse as a blessing, so Anastasia Donovan had learned to keep it hidden. But when single dad Boone Sawyer swept into her heart, she longed to reveal everything despite her fear of the consequences. Then fate stepped in…

Le coscienze incarnate in un determinato periodo, che l’uomo chiama “storico”, creano gli eventi che queste “coscienze”, questi “sentire”, “devono” vivere. Per la legge divina ogni evento della vita collettiva e individuale è dettato dalle esigenze evolutive di chi lo vive. Per come la valutano i posteri, la storia è perciò un’illusione.

Ana deja atrás el Redmond College para comenzar con un nuevo empleo y un nuevo capítulo de su vida lejos de su amada Tejas Verdes. Mientras Gilbert estudia medicina, ella trabajará como directora de un colegio en Summerside, donde se enfrentará con un nuevo reto, los Pringle, "la Familia Real" de la ciudad, que muy pronto le harán ver que ella no es la persona que esperaban como directora de la escuela.

Nuevas sorpresas aguardan en los recodos del camino a Ana Shirley cuando decide abandonar su puesto como maestra de niños en la escuela de Avonlea. Llenando su maleta de recuerdos y tras decir adiós al lugar donde hasta ahora ha sido más feliz, se encamina al Redmond College, en Kingsport, Nueva Escocia, para completar su educación. Su antigua amiga Priscilla la espera en la gran ciudad. En esta flamante etapa, Ana, junto a viejos y nuevos compañeros, dejará atrás los días de su infancia y descubrirá la vida en su plenitud.

Since Jeremiah Cortez broke her heart, Phoebe Keller has devoted herself to her career. As an expert in Native American culture, she has her doubts when an anthropologist claims to have discovered priceless artifacts on a nearby reservation. But before Phoebe can pursue the matter, the professor in question turns up dead — and the FBI sends Cortez to investigate.

Un cuento de hadas nunca había sido tan sexy. ¡Déjate seducir por la saga del momento! (Libro 2)

Tras haber superado más pruebas de las que un corazón humano puede soportar, Feyre regresa a la Corte Primavera con los poderes de una alta fae. Sin embargo, no consigue olvidar los crímenes que se vio obligada a cometer para salvar a Tamlin y a su pueblo, ni el perverso pacto que forjó con Rhysand, el alto lord de la temible Corte Noche.

Two years after Emperor Augustus's bloody defeat of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, he triumphantly returns to Rome. To his only child, Julia, he brings an unlikely companion - Selene, the daughter of the conquered Egyptian queen and her lover. Under the watchful eye of Augustus's wife, Livia, Selene struggles to accept her new home among her parents' enemies. Bound together by kinship and spilled blood, these three women - Livia, Selene, and Julia - navigate the dangerous world of Rome's ruling elite.

Some kids inherit a family business; Jo Ward inherited a badge. Once voted Most Likely to End Up in Jail, the town wild child has become sheriff - hell-bent on uncovering the truth about her father’s mysterious death. Life is quiet in rustic River Bend, but Jo longs for something beyond her small hometown and the painful memories it holds. All that keeps her sane is the support of her best friends, Melanie and Zoe.

Zoe Brown may have been voted Most Likely to Never Leave River Bend, but the paper-thin walls and suffocating air of her family's double-wide trailer were not what she wanted for her life. Other than BFFs Melanie and Jo, the only thing that kept Zoe sane during high school was her boyfriend, Luke. She didn't just leave, she escaped - turning her back on the shame of her black-sheep siblings and imprisoned dad. Now a celebrity chef in Dallas, she can afford all the things she never could have growing up.

Dito es el juguete preferido de Jack. Ha estado a su lado, en los buenos y malos momentos, hasta que una Nochebuena sucede algo terrible: Dito se pierde. Pero es una noche especial, una noche para los milagros y los casos perdidos, una noche en que los objetos, incluidos los juguetes, pueden cobrar vida. Y el juguete más nuevo de Jack, el cerdito de Navidad (el frustrante sustituto de Dito), ha tramado un plan muy arriesgado. Juntos se embarcarán en un viaje mágico para recuperar y salvar al que hasta ahora ha sido el mejor amigo Jack.

In 1770s Boston, a prosperous merchant's daughter, Eliza Boylston, lives a charmed life - until war breaches the walls of the family estate and forces her to live in a world in which wealth can no longer protect her.

Launching into new territory that the author hadn’t mapped out when he embarked on the series, Nekomonogatari (White) tells the tale of heroine Tsubasa Hanekawa from her own perspective, in her own voice - if that can hold true for a damaged soul who, depending on who you’re asking, suffers from a split personality or a supernatural aberration.

Kat and Doug felt like Aurora Village was the perfect community. Minutes from the city, affluent without pretension, low crime with a friendly vibe - it’s everything Kat never had, and that she’s determined to provide for her infant daughter. But everything changes overnight when Kat finds a scrawled note outside their front door. That wasn’t very neighborly of you. As increasingly sinister and frighteningly personal notes arrive, each one stabs deeper into the heart of Kat’s insecurities, paranoia, and most troubling, her past.

En vísperas de la Primera Guerra Mundial una niña es abandonada en un barco con destino a Australia. Una misteriosa mujer llamada La Autora ha prometido cuidar de ella, pero desaparece sin dejar rastro...

Mia Lassiter is thrilled to finally put her artistic skills to use working for her aunt's interior design shop in her hometown of East Beach. While renovating an old mansion overlooking stunning Lake Haven, she encounters a scruffy but attractive man named Brennan - the owner's son. She doesn't realize this sexy recluse is actually Everett Alden, the world-famous rock star in hiding who's nursing his own artistic and personal crises.

A self-described loser, Koyomi Araragi is struggling at a prep school that he should never have gotten into. He has all but quit caring, but as a senior, he faces the chilling scenario of not being able to graduate. It's time to cram, but the supernatural aberrations that keep on popping up in his provincial town won’t let him be. Previously, our hero turned into a vampire and back, gained an acid-tongued girlfriend, and couldn't find his way home thanks to a lost child.

At this point in her life, bravery is not a trait Willa Hart would readily claim. She believes her seven-year-old daughter, Savannah, who never knew her father and successfully tackled chemotherapy, is truly the courageous one. Yet after Willa has a fateful encounter with handsome young doctor Patrick McCade, her outlook - and her view of herself - begins to change.