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Vox Machina enjoy a week in Westruun’s lap of luxury leading up to the Winter’s Crest Festival. But that costs coin, which has a bad habit of running out, so they join an underground fighting ring and bash their way to cash. Unfortunately, their ring-fighting turns out to be just a warm-up for a cold reality when a mysterious attack on Winter’s Crest festivities leaves the whole town magically frozen—including one of their own. Vox Machina will have to save the day again, against a much bigger foe than they first realized!

Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road. Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend. The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.

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In February 1986, the Halland police receive a call from a man who claims to have attacked his first victim. I’m going to do it again, he says before the line cuts off. By the time police officer Sven Jörgensson reaches the crime scene, the woman is taking her last breath. For Sven, this will prove a decisive moment. On the same night, Sweden plunges into a state of shock after the murder of the prime minister. Could there possibly be a connection? As Sven becomes obsessed with the case, two more fall victim. For years, Sven remains haunted by the murders he cannot solve, fearing the killer will strike again. Having failed to catch him, Sven retires from the police, passing his obsession to his son, who has joined the force to be closer to his father. Decades later, the case unexpectedly resurfaces when a novelist returns home to Halland amid a failed marriage and a sputtering career. The writer befriends the retired police officer, who helps the novelist—our narrator—unspool the many strands of this engrossing tale about a community confronting its shames and legacies.

Del autor del best seller La niña alemana nos llega esta conmovedora novela en la que cuatro generaciones de mujeres experimentan amores, pérdidas, guerras y esperanzas en una historia que va desde el surgimiento del nazismo en Alemania hasta la Revolución cubana y la caída del Muro de Berlín. Berlín, 1931: La joven poeta Ally Keller da a luz a solas a Lilith, una niña mestiza. Mientras los Nazis ascienden al poder, Ally sabe que debe mantener a su bebé oculta para protegerla de la ideología de la raza aria promovida por Hitler. Pero a medida que Lilith crece, cada vez resulta más difícil protegerla... Hasta que un día Ally decide poner en marcha un plan desesperado para enviar a su hija a un lugar seguro al otro lado del océano. La Habana, 1958: Lilith, ya adulta, conserva pocos recuerdos de su madre o de su infancia en Alemania y, aunque ahora está muy ilusionada con su futuro al lado de Martín, un piloto cubano con fuertes lazos con el gobierno de Fulgencio Batista, al estallar la Revolución se encuentra en una encrucijada junto a su hija recién nacida, Nadine. Berlín, 1988: Nadine se ha convertido en una científica que se dedica a velar por la dignidad de de quienes fueron asesinados por los Nazis. Sin embargo, lleva toda la vida sin afrontar la verdad sobre la historia de su familia. Será su hija, Luna, quien la animará a indagar sobre las decisiones que tomaron su madre y su abuela para asegurar su supervivencia. Además, Luna deberá aceptar una traición desconcertante que cambiará todo lo que creía saber sobre sus antepasados. Cuatro mujeres de varias generaciones unidas por el sacrificio se embarcan en sus propios viajes de autodescubrimiento y se convierten en testimonios de la fuerza del amor materno.

Lisboa, 1938. La opresiva dictadura de Salazar, el furor de la guerra civil española llamando a la puerta, al fondo el fascismo italiano. En esta Europa recorrida por el virulento fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista dedicado durante toda su vida a la sección de sucesos, recibe el encargo de dirigir la página cultural de un mediocre periódico, el Lisboa. Pereira tiene un sentido un tanto fúnebre de la cultura: prefiere la literatura del pasado, dedicarse a la elegía de los escritores desaparecidos, preparar necrológicas anticipadas. Necesitado de un colaborador, contacta con un joven, Monteiro Rossi, quien a pesar de haber escrito su tesis acerca de la muerte está inequívocamente comprometido con la vida. Y la intensa relación que se establece entre el viejo periodista, Monteiro y su novia Marta, cristalizará en una crisis personal, una maduración interior y una dolorosa toma de conciencia que transformará profundamente la vida de Pereira. En esta novela, Tabucchi ha conseguido crear un inolvidable personaje que sin duda dejará una profunda huella en el lector, Pereira. Y con la historia de este periodista, Tabucchi nos ofrece también una espléndida historia sobre las razones de nuestro pasado que pueden ser perfectamente las razones de nuestro incierto presente.