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With all his family and friends gone, 100-year-old Murray McBride is looking for a reason to live. He finds it in Jason Cashman, a 10-year-old boy with a terminal heart defect and a list of five things he wants to do before he dies. Together, they race against the limited time each has left, ticking off wishes one by one. But when tragedy strikes, their worlds are turned upside-down, and an unexpected gift is the only thing that can make Jason's final wish come true.

Lisa and Elliot have been best friends ever since the day they met as children. Popular, bright and sporty, Lisa was Elliot's biggest supporter when the school bullies made his life a misery, and for that, he will always be grateful. Twenty years later, life has pulled the pair apart, and Lisa is struggling. Her marriage is floundering, her teenage kids are being secretive and she's so tired she can't think straight. So when Elliot knocks on the door, looking much better than she remembers, she can't help but be delighted to see her old friend again.

A prime number is inherently a solitary thing: it can only be divided by itself, or by one: it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia, too, move on their own axis, alone with their personal tragedies. As a child, Alice’s overbearing father drove her first to a terrible skiing accident, and then to anorexia. When she meets Mattia, she recognizes a kindred, tortured spirit, and Mattia reveals to Alice his terrible secret: that as a boy he abandoned his mentally-disabled twin sister in a park to go to a party, and when he returned, she was nowhere to be found.

Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, suppressing both her heritage and her growing love for her best friend Fran. Yuki leaves the Japanese countryside to pursue her dream of becoming a concert violinist in London. Lonely and far from home, she finds herself caught up in the charms of her older teacher. Haruka attempts to navigate Tokyo's nightlife and all of its many vices, working as a hostess in seedy bars. She grieves a mother who hid so many secrets from her, until finally one of those secrets comes to light.

In the summer of 1942, Hermie is 15. He is wildly obsessed with sex, and passionately in love with an "older woman" of 22, whose husband is overseas and at war. Ambling through Nantucket Island with his friends, Hermie's indelible narration chronicles his frantic efforts to become a man, especially one worthy of the lovely Dorothy, as well as his glorious and heartbreaking initiation into sex.

On the surface, Denny Voss’s life in rural Minnesota is a quiet one. At thirty years old, he lives at home with his elderly mother and his beloved blind and deaf Saint Bernard, George. He cleans up roadkill to help pay the bills. Though his prospects are limited by a developmental delay—the result of an accident at birth—Denny has always felt that he has “a good life.” So how did he wind up being charged with the murder of a mayoral candidate—after crashing a sled full of guns into a tree?

Laila, uma adolescente de 17 anos, sempre teve sonhos premonitórios, mas nunca conseguiu interpretá-los corretamente até que os eventos já tivessem ocorrido. Agora, sua vida sofre uma reviravolta quando ela é obrigada a se mudar de Campinas para Aracaju, uma cidade que guarda apenas memórias fragmentadas da sua infância. Ao chegar na nova casa, Laila se depara com uma confeitaria que já havia visto em seus sonhos. E, mais estranho ainda, conhece Verônica, uma garota de cabelos vermelhos que também povoava suas visões noturnas.

Una chica gana un concurso para participar en un nuevo proyecto en una ambiciosa A Grace le han dicho toda su vida qué hacer. Su madre la ha traído de un lado a otro por la vida sin ninguna consideración sobre ella. Nadie la entiende y vive constantemente aburrida. En un giro del destino, llega a una gran ciudad. Allí descubre la amistad, el amor, pero también quién es. Su padre, desaparecido desde que era muy niña, le dejó unas cartas para que le fueran entregadas a partir de su cumpleaños número quince.

After spinning a tall tale about her life, answering service operator Cathy Eldridge can understand why millionaire recluse Stone Ward enjoys their nightly phone calls. She, too, treasures the moments when he bares his soul to her. They’ve built an intimate friendship, though they’ve never met in person. But then a twist of fate brings her face-to-face with her fantasy man—and into his home. Stone is many things, but mostly he’s out of reach: rich, good-looking and mysteriously sexy. What on earth would he ever see in her?

When Hazel Blum’s father gets a tenure-track professorship at a prestigious college, she and her family relocate from the hustle and bustle of Brooklyn to a middle-of-nowhere college town in Maine. With her mother, Claire, an aspiring fashion designer, and her father, Gus, an American Studies professor, Hazel and her eleven-year-old brother, Wolf, spend the summer at the town pool, where they acclimate to their new lives and connect with the town’s sprawling community. That is, until a dramatic fallout on the very first day of her senior year.

Una familia hace un viaje de mudanza a un pueblo de trabajadores en las afueras de la ciudad. Un niño, el hijo, comprende con asombro que el mundo que conoce, se acaba en ese mismo sitio donde surgirá uno nuevo. El punto límite para esa transición entre lo conocido y lo ignorado, o lo real y lo imaginado, tendrá una forma concreta; una neblina densa, permanente y gris que indica la aparición de Siberia.

La protagonista, Blanca Potente, vive con su abuela en una ciudad de provincia que podría ser cualquiera, un "pueblo frío de moral conservadora" al que ella misma llama "Twin Peaks de quinta". Blanca estudia la secundaria en una escuela religiosa de sexos segregados y tiene una adicción a las historias románticas basadas en las chick flick de las que hace maratones cada fin de semana a la vez que vive confundida por las monjas que dirigen la escuela y que les inculcan a las estudiantes leyendas para atemorizarlas sobre el sexo pre-matrimonial y con fines no reproductivos.

When Ali McCain, an eighteen-year-old from Los Angeles, is accepted at Oxford, it’s a chance to fulfill his dreams. To study English literature in England; to meet true intellectuals; and to glimpse the life he might have lived had his father—British rock star Gel McCain, legendary frontman of the Pale Fires—not abandoned him and his mother when he was a toddler. But not long after he arrives at the storied campus, Ali is drawn into a dark, disorienting world where events grow more and more curious by the day.

On a bus moving across rural landscapes from town to town, two young people are escaping with nothing to hold except hope. She has committed a horrifying act for which there will certainly be retribution. He is staggering from a devastating discovery. They will find each other and attempt to move forward, even as their grief leaves wounds on their new beginnings. But the talons of the past have dug deep and the wounds have not yet healed.

Ryan Jordan is about to embark on a journey into the past. He is in Aswan, Egypt with a friend, preparing to sail down the Nile on a small felucca. He is captivated by the ancient river even as its currents dredge up painful memories, memories of events that will ultimately propel him on a journey of adventure on the African continent while anchoring him to a past tragedy.

Desplazamientos es un relato entrañable sobre el encuentro con la casa de la infancia y todos los fantasmas y cuentas pendientes que aparecen con este movimiento. Y de nuevo, una mujer que tuerce el rumbo de la historia. Estas dos novelas pertenecen a mundos inventados, esos territorios de ensoñación que Levrero maneja como nadie.

Alonso Sánchez cuenta la historia de Edwin Rodríguez Buelvas, un joven que abandona la ciudad en la que nació para viajar a Bogotá con convencido de que lo que quiere es adelantar sus estudios universitarios. Pero sus planes cambiaron un poco y su sueño ahora será convertirse en: la drag queen más famosa de Colombia...

Anna Katharine Green was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 11th, 1846. Anna’s initial ambition was to be a poet. However that path failed to ignite any significant interest and she turned to fiction writing. She published her first―and most famous work in 1878―‘The Leavenworth Case’. Wilkie Collins praised it and it sold extremely well. Anna Katharine Green died on April 11, 1935 in Buffalo, New York, at the age of 88.

La continuación de "Mujercitas", un clásico imprescindible en el que la escritora estadounidense Louisa May Alcott nos deleita con las vivencias de Meg, Beth, Jo y Amy, cuatro hermanas que afrontan la vida adulta, tras su paso por la adolescencia. Basada en las vivencias de la autora durante su niñez en la ciudad de Concord (Massachusetts)​ y con la Guerra Civil de los Estados Unidos como fondo, entre 1861 y 1865.

Née et élevée dans la secte Les Enfants de Dieu, Lauren Hough est trimballée avec sa famille d'un continent à l'autre, vit dans des foyers surpeuplés et connaît la pauvreté. Les enfants subissent notamment de nombreux abus sexuels lors de « nuits de partage » avec des adultes. À l'âge de 15 ans, Lauren quitte la secte avec sa mère et son frère pour aller vivre chez sa grand-mère au Texas.