Twelve years after the events of House of Salt and Sorrows, the Thaumas sisters are scattered across Arcannia. Despite dreams of adventures far beyond the Salann shores, almost-eighteen year old Verity has remained at Highmoor, lending a helping hand to older sister Camille.
When Mercy sends word that the Duchess of Bloem wife to the celebrated botanist, Gerard Laurent is interested in having Verity paint a portrait of her son, Alexander, Verity jumps at the chance, but can’t understand why Camille won’t allow it. When an argument breaks out between the two, Camille reveals the truth: Verity is still seeing ghosts, she just doesn’t know it.
Stunned, Verity flees Highmoor that night and with nowhere else to turn—makes her way to Bloem. At first, she is captivated by the lush and luxurious province and is also quickly drawn to Alexander Laurent, finding the heir charming, witty, and impossibly handsome.
But it’s not long before she is plagued with nightmares, and the darker side of Bloem begins to show through its sickly-sweet façade.
MARIA necesita escapar de su intensa vida dominada por el vicio, por lo que acepta una oferta de trabajo en un perdido pueblo, donde cree que logrará evadirse de las tentaciones que la rodean en la ciudad.
LEONARDO busca un nuevo empleo y acude al pequeño pueblo del tío de su novia a trabajar en una granja.
TRESPADEJO es ahora el destino de ambos, un remoto lugar en el que Maria y Leo, acompañados por sus nuevos y peculiares vecinos, vivirán una aventura llena de humor, deseo y… ¿amor?
Evan Taft has plans. Take a gap year in Alaska, make sure your little brother and single mother are well taken care of, and continue therapy to process your father's departure. But after his mother's unexpected diagnosis, as Evan's plans begin to fade, he hears something: a song no one else can hear, the voice of a mysterious singer. . .
Shosh Bell has dreams. A high school theater legend, he's headed to performing arts school in Los Angeles, a rising star. But when a drunk driver takes her sister's life, that star turns black. The only thing left is a void and a soft voice singing in his ear.
Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren’t free to dream; they are bound by rules and force.
Amidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu in a country governed by isolation and fear, Cristian is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer. He’s left with only two choices: betray everyone and everything he loves—or use his position to creatively undermine the most notoriously evil dictator in Eastern Europe.
Cristian risks everything to unmask the truth behind the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. He eagerly joins the revolution to fight for change when the time arrives. But what is the cost of freedom?
Master storyteller Ruta Sepetys is back with a historical thriller that examines the little-known history of a nation defined by silence, pain, and the unwavering conviction of the human spirit.
You’d think being abducted by aliens would be the worst thing that could happen to me. And you’d be wrong. Because now the aliens are having ship trouble, and they’ve left their cargo of human women—including me—on an ice planet.
We’re not equipped for life in this desolate winter wasteland. Since I’m the unofficial leader, I head out into the snow to look for help.
I find help all right. A big blue horned alien introduces himself in a rather . . . startling way. Vektal says that I'm his mate, his chosen female—and that the reason his chest is purring is because of my presence. He’ll help me and my people survive, but this poses a new problem.
If Vektal helps us survive, I’m not sure he’s going to want to let me go.
¿Sabías que todos los humanos tenemos un superpoder?
Desde la sabana de África hasta los casquetes polares de Groenlandia, los humanos dominamos el planeta Tierra. Pero, ¿cómo lo hemos logrado? Los leones son más fuertes que nosotros, los delfines nadan mejor, ¡y no tenemos alas!
A través de este apasionante viaje de millones de años, descubrirás cuál es este superpoder que nos hace imparables. ¿Quién dijo que la historia de la humanidad era aburrida? Enanos, serpientes gigantes, el Espíritu del Gran León, el dedo de una niña que vivió hace 50.000 años... Descubre los misterios del origen de la humanidad y adéntrate en una aventura épica y real: la nuestra, la de todos los humanos.
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