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Two years after Zara's sister and her boyfriend were killed in a plane crash, the last person Zara expected to show up on her doorstep was Preston's father, Alistair Wilde. Yet, there he is, with an offer Zara may not be able to pass up: be his son's girlfriend for three months, live with the two of them in a remote house, and one million dollars is hers for the taking. The challenge turns out to be harder than she ever expected. Nash isn't just wild, he's dangerous. And Alistair is far more broken than he lets the world believe. The three of them are bound by grief. Only Zara can feed Nash's hunger and heal Alistair's pain. Lines are crossed. Rules are broken. On the island, there's no one to tell them this is wrong. And now she'll have to choose before she tears their family apart.

Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations—until he is inexplicably elevated to wealth by an anonymous benefactor. Full of unforgettable characters—including a terrifying convict named Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham, and her beautiful but manipulative niece, Estella, Great Expectations is a tale of intrigue, unattainable love, and all of the happiness money can’t buy. “Great Expectations has the most wonderful and most perfectly worked-out plot for a novel in the English language,” according to John Irving, and J. Hillis Miller declares, “Great Expectations is the most unified and concentrated expression of Dickens’s abiding sense of the world, and Pip might be called the archetypal Dickens hero.”

Teeming with tension, this immersive, rhapsodic story transports readers to the Swiss mountainside, bringing to mind the writing of Thomas Mann while offering character studies as vivid and bracing as Eudora Welty’s. Feed is running low in a rural village in Switzerland. The town council meets to decide whether or not to ascend a chimerical mountain in order to access the open pastures that have enough grass to “feed seventy animals all summer long.” The elders of the town protest, warning of the dangers and the dreadful lore that enfolds the mountain passageways like thick fog. They’ve seen it all before, reckoning with the loss of animals and men who have tried to reach the pastures nearly twenty years ago. The younger men don’t listen, making plans to set off on their journey despite all warnings. Strange things happen. Spirits wrestle with headstrong young men. As the terror of life on the mountain builds, Ramuz’s writing captures the rural dialog and mindsets of the men. One of the most talented translators working today, Bill Johnston captures the careful and sublime twists and turns of the original in his breathtaking translation.

Now and then, language would thrust its way into her sleep like a skewer through meat, startling her awake several times a night." In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight. Soon the two discover a deeper pain binds them together. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. For him, it's the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages, and the fear of losing his independence.

Un misterio enterrado durante siglos. Uno de los símbolos más importantes de la cristiandad. Una búsqueda que podría cambiar el curso de la Historia. Valencia, 2023. Sonia Fabrat, doctora en Historia, recibe una extraña propuesta del arzobispado: localizar el paradero del cáliz de la catedral de Valencia. Una sociedad secreta alemana está tratando de hacerse con la reliquia, y otros investigadores ya han desaparecido por hurgar donde no debían. Pero Sonia es incapaz de resistirse al reto. Con la ayuda de un sacerdote experto en exorcismos y de una tenaz agente del Centro Nacional de Inteligencia, iniciará una carrera contrarreloj que la llevará desde España hasta Israel, pasando por Italia, para encontrar el santo cáliz. Sin embargo, pronto descubrirá que los alemanes no son los únicos que buscan la reliquia y que no puede fiarse de nadie… Con el ritmo vertiginoso de los maestros del thriller histórico, Jesús M. Sánchez nos plantea una incógnita centenaria: ¿Podría ser el cáliz de la catedral de Valencia el auténtico santo grial?

En un mundo sin color ni justicia, dominado por la miseria de muchos y la codicia de unos pocos, existe una región que nadie quiere transitar. Una zona tenebrosa en la que impera la traición y acecha el peligro. Ese lugar es el Páramo. Nyx lo sabe bien. Ella es una caminante, una criatura poseedora de un don excepcional que no solo la convierte en la más letal de las asesinas, sino que también la ata a un amo despiadado del que sueña con escapar. A pesar de su juventud, Lem tampoco es ajeno a la crueldad. La vive de cerca en la Academia, donde trata sin éxito de dominar el arte de predecir el futuro. Consciente de que un gran fracaso implica un castigo ejemplar, la huida se convierte en su única opción. Se abre ante ambos un futuro incierto y un camino sembrado de riesgos. El Páramo es un territorio para incautos, criminales… o desesperados, aquellos a quienes no les importa escoger entre libertad o muerte.