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When the Bloodmoon rose, death came rushing into the world. Now the water is bitter, blight consumes everything, and the Crone haunts the hills. While the Druid of Blackthorn searches desperately for hope, the Ovate returns from the underworld bringing omens of despair. But Idris, the young bard, Keeper of the Sacred Word, will walk through fire and iron to uncover a question no one has ever dared to ask - a question that carries a world of answers on its back, a question that can change everything.

Moving between Ireland, Scotland and London, Something About Her is a story about the fragility and transformative power of first love. With vivid insight and tenderness, it exposes the fear, hope, and longing that can consume us, particularly when there’s so much you still don’t know about love, about life, and about yourself.

Número Cero, la nueva novela de Umberto Eco, nos descubre la cara oscura del periodismo y la manera en que nuestra realidad está en manos de quienes construyen las noticias

Endlich hat Kathy es geschafft, sich aus ihrer Ehe mit David zu lösen. Seitdem lebt sie mit John, dem Abenteurer und ehemals besten Freund ihres Mannes. Eine neue Liebe, eine neue Stadt und ein neues Leben. Davis, John, Kathy - drei Teile einer Gleichung, die mit mathematischem Geschick einfach umgestellt wurde. Ein scheinbar neues Leben auf altem Grund. Doch nichts ist, wie es scheint. Eigentlich müsste Kathy glücklich sein. Wären da nicht der Ehering, den sie immer noch trägt, und das gemeinsame Haus in Portland, das sie nicht verkaufen möchte.

After years of designing her family’s grand wineries (and a few not-so-grand closets on the side), Abby DeLuca knows she has what it takes to be an award-winning interior designer. Newly divorced and happily man-free, Abby lands the career opportunity of a lifetime and refuses to let anything - or anyone - stand in her way. And that includes St. Helena’s most irresistible contractor, the man who makes her melt every time she sees him - even though he shattered her heart years ago.

En el auge de su madurez, Helena Artigas busca cumplir su más grande sueño: obtener un doctorado. Para ello debe viajar a Madrid a cursar el último semestre en la Universidad Complutense. A pesar de la resistencia familiar, está decidida a lograrlo. Durante la travesía, los objetos más preciados que posee caerán en manos de un extraño. Poco se imagina que ese contratiempo será el inicio de un viaje no sólo a otro país, sino a lo más íntimo y auténtico de su ser y sus anhelos.

The political turmoil of the 1990s in Georgia compels Liza Adamia,15, to relocate to England in pursuit of a better future. To escape her thorny life, Liza seeks solace in the world of books, where the outside fades away, allowing her to lose herself in the flow of time and surroundings. As an ardent reader, she decides to study British Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester, where she encounters Daniel Davis, an enthusiastic writer who sparks the love that faces adversities.

What Estrella knows of life comes from her mother, who has survived abandonment by her husband in a land that treats her as if she were invisible, even though she and her children pick the crops of the farms that feed its people. But within Estrella, seeds of growth and change are stirring. And in the arms of Alejo, they burst into a full, fierce flower as she tastes the joy and pain of first love. Pushed to the margins of society, she learns to fight back and is able to help the young farmworker she loves when his ambitions and very life are threatened in a harvest of death.

Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811. It was published anonymously; By A Lady appears on the title page where the author's name might have been. It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor (age 19) and Marianne (age 16 1/2) as they come of age. They have an older half-brother, John, and a younger sister, Margaret, 13. The novel follows the three Dashwood sisters as they must move with their widowed mother from the estate on which they grew up, Norland Park.

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. 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.

Trebarnsmamman Emelie har tröttnat på tillvaron. Sedan pappan till hennes barn flyttat hem till Gambia har hon kämpat för att få vardagen att gå ihop. Budgeten är tajt, jobbet är urtråkigt och trots påtryckningar vågar hon inte skaffa Tinder. Hon är helt enkelt inte redo. Men just som allt känns som mörkast får hon ett oväntat brev - ett brev vars innehåll kommer att ändra hennes liv för all framtid. Det visar sig att Emelie ärvt ett hus på Sardinön - och när hon åker dit får hon sitt livs chock.

The Garden Party is a 1922 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published (as "The Garden-Party") in three parts in the Saturday Westminster Gazette on 4 and 11 February 1922, and the Weekly Westminster Gazette on 18 February 1922. It later appeared in The Garden Party: and Other Stories. Its luxurious setting is based on Mansfield's childhood home at 133 Tinakori Road (originally numbered 75), the second of three houses in Thorndon, Wellington that her family lived in. The wealthy Sheridan family prepares to host a garden party.

Charlie, a weak-chinned Englishman, doesn't belong in San Francisco, but he's stuck - in an excruciatingly boring job at a junk-mail company and in a failing marriage that couples therapy seems to be making even worse. Then a new salesman joins Charlie's office and turns out to be the world's most annoying coworker. He practices yoga in his cube and eats only raw fruit and vegetables, and his mantra is "I am the best ever!" But once Charlie realizes the true meaning of those five little words, he is inspired.

Os escritores de cartas à mão armada da autoria de Olufunke Ogundimu é uma estória sobre uma comunidade nigeriana que recebe cartas de assaltantes à mão armada a anunciar a sua chegada e uma lista de pertences que tencionam levar. Os assaltantes também enviam cópias destas cartas à polícia, aconselhando as suas potenciais vítimas a não se incomodarem. Usando o pronome colectivo “nós”, Ogundimu retrata efectivamente, com um sentido de humor peculiar, a confusão colectiva e a determinação de civis indefesos e o estado lamentável do policiamento no país.

Sylvia bor ensam i det ödsliga torpet på västkusten där hennes föräldrar avslutade sina liv. De flesta tycker nog det är konstigt, men för henne fanns det aldrig något alternativ. Det är här hon känner frid - vid havet och åkrarna. Det är också här hon äntligen ska skriva sin roman. Hon behöver bara hitta inspirationen igen. Som en blixt från klar himmel blir Sylvia plötsligt upp över öronen förälskad i Mikael. De har bara känt varandra i några timmar, men hon vet att han är den rätte.

"Es va recolzar a la paret i va compassar la seva respiració. Havia de tranquil·litzar-se, aparentar normalitat, sobretot si en obrir la porta es trobava el seu pare o la seva mare. O fins i tot l’Hermínia. La seva germana petita era de les persistents i estava en l'edat de fixar-se en tot, de seguir-la, imitar-la, necessitar-la. El primer, deixar de tremolar".

Livet är numera hektiskt för Juliana Johansson, EU:s enda fredsminister. Efter att ha överlevt ett mordförsök så är den stundande semestern vid barndomens sommarställe i Kårtorp ett efterlängtat avbrott i stressen. Där ska de njuta av varandra - hon och hennes älskade Veronica. Inget ska få komma i vägen. Bara någon dag efter ankomsten till Kårtorp blir Juliana påmind om det olösta mord som skakade samhället på 50-talet. Man misstänkte alltid att det var riksdagsmannen Anderberg som mördat sin unga älskarinna, men inget kunde någonsin bevisas.

While on vacation with her family in Valencia, Claire Halde witnesses a shocking event that becomes the catalyst for a protracted downward spiral and a profound personal unravelling as she struggles to come to grips with her role in the incident. This haunting novel, which unfolds across three timelines set in as many decades, takes the listener on a dark journey through the minds of three women whose pasts, presents, and futures are decided by a single encounter on a scorching summer afternoon.

"Show" és un recull de setze relats breus sobre les diferents realitats que hi ha en una societat urbana com la nostra. Encara que una bola de miralls de discoteca reflecteixi punts de llum i una multitud de joves que viuen el moment, la realitat segueix essent fosca i plena de trampes. Els personatges viuen situacions en mig de la bogeria quotidiana i, de la nit al dia, ja no són el que eren.

Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871. This early complete work, which the author never submitted for publication, describes the schemes of the title character. Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful and charming recent widow, visits her brother- and sister-in-law, Charles and Catherine Vernon, with little advance notice at Churchill, their country residence.