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Clanton, Mississippi, 1990. Stuart Kofer, ayudante del sheriff, se considera intocable. Aunque, cuando bebe más de la cuenta, algo bastante habitual, vuelca sus ataques de ira en su novia, Josie, y los hijos adolescentes de esta, el código de silencio de la policía siempre le ha protegido. Pero, una noche, tras golpear a Josie hasta dejarla inconsciente en el suelo, su hijo Drew sabe que solo tiene una opción para salvar a su familia. Cogeuna pistola y decide tomarse la justicia por su mano. En Clanton, no hay nada que suscite más odio que un asesino de policías… excepto, quizá, su abogado. Jake Brigance no quiere encargarse de este caso imposible, pero es el único con suficiente experiencia para defender al chico. Y cuando comienza el juicio, parece que solo hay un resultado en el horizonte para Drew: la cámara de gas. Pero, como la ciudad de Clanton descubre una vez más, cuando Jake Brigance se hace cargo de un caso imposible… todo es posible.

Gail Baines is having a bad day. To start, she loses her job—or quits, depending on whom you ask. Tomorrow her daughter Debbie is getting married, and she hasn’t even been invited to the spa day organized by the mother of the groom. Then, Gail’s ex-husband Max arrives unannounced on her doorstep, carrying a cat, without a place to stay and without even a suit. But the true crisis lands when Debbie shares with her parents a secret she has just learned about her husband-to-be. It will not only throw the wedding into question but also stir up Gail and Max’s past. Told with deep sensitivity and a tart sense of humor, full of the joys and heartbreaks of love and marriage and family life, Three Days in June is a triumph, and gives us the perennially bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer at the height of her powers.

This Great Hemisphere is powerful, captivating novel about how far we’ll go to protect the ones we love. With the worldbuilding of N. K. Jemisin’s novels and blazing defiance of Naomi Alderman’s work, it is also a story about what happens when we resist the narratives others write about us. Northwestern Hemisphere, 2529: an Earth on which half of people are now born literally invisible. Sweetmint, a young woman, is one of them and thus relegated to second-class citizenship. She has done everything right her entire life, from school to landing a highly sought-after apprenticeship. But all she has fought so hard to earn comes crashing down when she learns that her brother (whom she had presumed dead) is not only alive and well but also the primary suspect in a high-profile political murder.

Tudor es el hijo menor de dos sirvientes de la corte de un gran boyardo de la atrasada Valaquia. Desde su nacimiento, la ambición parece guiar cada uno de sus pasos, y en su arduo ascenso al poder no dudará en dejar su camino sembrado de cadáveres. En su historia se cruzan el rey Salomón, la reina de Saba, el bisabuelo de John Lennon, el general Napier y la reina Victoria. Tudor será Theodoros: bandido y pirata, pecador devoto, el terror de los mares de la Hélade. Vivirá en bosques y monasterios, presenciará batallas y milagros, y finalmente se convertirá en Tewodros: el despiadado Emperador de Emperadores, soberano absoluto de Abisinia. Theodoros constituye un ejercicio de pura libertad creativa en una narración torrencial, libérrima, exuberante, la culminación de una obra absolutamente épica. Un terremoto literario. Una novela arrolladora que abarca desde lo realista hasta lo fantasmagórico. Historias de amor y de aventuras, reales y fantásticas, voluptuosas y crueles. Cărtărescu entrelaza lo histórico, lo legendario y lo filosófico con pasajes prodigiosamente hermosos para crear un universo que abarca desde la Creación hasta nuestros días y que va incluso más lejos: hasta el Juicio Final.

The Young Man is Annie Ernaux’s account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some 30 years younger, when she was in her fifties. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and at the same time leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time— together with a sense that she is living her life backwards. Amidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its course, and menopause approaching. The Young Man recalls Ernaux as the “scandalous girl” she once was, but is composed with the mastery and the self-assurance she has achieved across decades of writing. It was first published in France in 2022.

When Morgan and Benji surprise their families with a wedding invitation to Maine, they’re aware the news of their clandestine relationship will come as a shock. Twelve years have passed since the stunning loss of sixteen-year-old Alice, Benji’s sister and Morgan’s best friend, and no one is quite the same. But the young couple decide to plunge headlong into matrimony, marking the first time their fractured families will reunite since Alice’s funeral. As the arriving guests descend upon the tranquil coastal town, they bring with them not only skepticism about the impromptu nuptials but also deep-seated secrets and agendas of their own. Peter, Morgan’s father, may be trying to dissuade his daughter from saying “I do,” while Linnie, Benji’s mother, introduces a boyfriend who bears a tumultuous past of his own. Nick, Benji’s father, is scheming to secure a new job before his wife—formerly his mistress—discovers he’s lost his old one. Morgan, too, carries delicate secrets that threaten to jeopardize the happiness for which she has so longed. And as for Benji—well, he’s just trying to make sure the whole weekend doesn’t implode.