¿En qué momento nos hemos vuelto especialistas en leer y escuchar en diagonal, barrer debajo de la alfombra y mirarnos el ombligo sin descanso? Narcisismo, falta de comunicación real, gestión emocional nula… Las relaciones contemporáneas, ya sean laborales, familiares, de amor o de amistad, se caracterizan cada vez más por el temor al compromiso y la tendencia a eludir conflictos, todo ello exacerbado por nuestro enganche a las redes sociales. Desde el humor y la reflexión crítica, Candela Sierra indaga en los problemas de comunicación cotidianos sintomáticos de nuestra época, poniendo el foco sobre la superficialidad de las relaciones, cierta miseria moral o nuestra tendencia a comportarnos como auténticas ovejas. Y lo hace sacándole todo el jugo a los recursos expresivos que ofrece el lenguaje del cómic: los personajes se enfadan por fallos de rácord, cortan por elipsis o desaparecen detrás de bocadillos ególatras, en una paleta cromática muy personal que bebe de influencias como la de Brecht Evens.

Debut author Shen Tao introduces readers to the lush, deadly world of The Poet Empress, a sweeping, epic and intimate fantasy perfect for fans of The Serpent & the Wings of Night, The Song of Achilles and She Who Became the Sun. Wei Yin is desperate. After the fifth death of a sibling, with her family and village on the brink of starvation, she will do anything to save those she loves. Even offer herself as concubine to the cruel, dissolute heir of the blood-gutted Azalea House—where poetry magic is power, but women are forbidden to read. But in a twist of fate, the palace now stands on the knife-edge of civil war, with Wei trapped in its center. . . with a violent prince. To save herself and the nation, she must survive the dangers of court, learn to read in secret, and compose the most powerful spell of all. A ballad of love. . . and death. The Poet Empress is an epic fantasy that explores darker themes, subjects, and scenes that may not be suitable for all readers. Please see the author's content note at the beginning of the book.

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of murder and cannibalism while also critiquing misogyny, exploring Asian fetishization and stereotypes, sharing what it’s like to navigate two cultures and telling a touching story of a family in turmoil.” —New York Times Book Review Crying in H-Mart meets My Sister, the Serial Killer in this feminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective. Ji-won’s life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her appa’s extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Her mother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her college freshman grades, failing. Her dreams, horrifying… yet enticing. In them, Ji-won walks through bloody rooms full of eyes. Succulent blue eyes. Salivatingly blue eyes. Eyes the same shape and shade as George’s, who is Umma’s obnoxious new boyfriend. George has already overstayed his welcome in her family’s claustrophobic apartment. He brags about his puffed-up consulting job, ogles Asian waitresses while dining out, and acts condescending toward Ji-won and her sister as if he deserves all of Umma’s fawning adoration. No, George doesn’t deserve anything from her family. Ji-won will make sure of that. For no matter how many victims accumulate around her campus or how many people she must deceive and manipulate, Ji-won’s hunger and her rage deserve to be sated. A brilliantly inventive, subversive novel about a young woman unraveling, Monika Kim’s The Eyes Are the Best Part is a story of a family falling apart and trying to find their way back to each other, marking a bold new voice in horror that will leave readers mesmerized and craving more.

Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—and your family—can haunt you like nothing else. When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world. Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success. Unfortunately, she’ll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it’ll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market. But some houses don’t want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them…

Set in the unforgiving maw of the Rocky Mountains, Nowhere Burning is the latest harrowing novel from bestselling author Catriona Ward, perfect for fans of Riley Sager and the hit series Yellowjackets. A refuge for lost children may also be their prison. In the middle of the night, Riley pulls her younger brother Oliver out of bed, and the two run away from home. Riley is intent on joining a group of teenagers squatting in the abandoned ruins of an infamous movie star’s ranch, Nowhere. For actor Leaf Winham, Nowhere was a place to hide from his fame, and to hide his crimes―until a fire ravaged his home and exposed him as a murderer. It is rumored that the ranch nestled in the peaks of the Rocky Mountains is now home to group of feral children, a place where adults cannot enter, and Riley hopes to find a new family there. But the Nowhere Kids are fierce in defending their turf and their clan, and Riley quickly realizes that while she and Oliver may have left the devil they knew, this group is a new type of diabolical. For something dark lives in the burned shell of Nowhere, something which asks a terrible price for sanctuary...

A BUZZFEED 'HIGHLY ANTICIPATED BOOK' FOR 2021 Meet Gilda. She cannot stop thinking about death. Desperate for relief from her anxious mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local church and finds herself abruptly hired to replace the deceased receptionist Grace. It's not the most obvious job - she's queer and an atheist for starters - and so in between trying to learn mass, hiding her new maybe-girlfriend and conducting an amateur investigation into Grace's death, Gilda must avoid revealing the truth of her mortifying existence. A blend of warmth, deadpan humour, and pitch-perfect observations about the human condition, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is a crackling exploration of what it takes to stay afloat in a world where your expiration - and the expiration of those you love - is the only certainty.

Anastasia Romanov es apenas una niña cuando se da cuenta de que puede ver fantasmas. Es algo que mantiene callado en el Palacio de Invierno por miedo a que los espíritus puedan hacerle daño. Hasta que Dimitri, el nuevo pinche de cocina, entra a palacio. Él es para Anastasia un millar de sensaciones que nunca antes había experimentado; la fragilidad de una amistad pura, que se convierte en hogar, al tiempo que se fragua un amor prohibido entre dos adolescentes que se convierten en el mundo del otro. Pero, en pleno auge de la guerra en Rusia, un día de julio de 1918, sus vidas se truncan para siempre. La dinastía de los Romanov cae. Años más tarde una noticia impactante hará que Dimitri deba tomar una decisión; él sabe que Anastasia murió, pero los rumores son cada vez más fuertes: la hija pequeña de los Romanov vive. Y él intuye cómo podría encontrarla: buscando a la mejor médium del país.

¿Quién es Belaundia Fu? Es la mejor amiga de Marta a los siete años: la amiga invisible que, en esos momentos en que las cosas no salen como había planeado y ni siquiera la abuela es capaz de consolarla, se sienta con ella y espera hasta que se le pase. Belaundia Fu es la voz sensata, ideal e infalible que, cuando Marta tiene dieciséis años y pese a que prefiera no escucharlas, le dice las verdades a la cara: por ejemplo, que ese chico, Charlie, no le conviene. Pero cuando Marta ya ha cumplido veintidós, cuando ya se ha licenciado, cuando está empezando a tomar las decisiones que van a marcar el resto de su vida, ¿qué hace aún ahí Belaundia Fu? Ahí sigue porque es quien, desde siempre, le narra a Marta su propia historia. ¿Quién es Belaundia Fu?, nos preguntamos; y, sin embargo, la pregunta que verdaderamente importa es: ¿quién es Marta? Luminosa y emocionante, Los nombres propios es una indagación sobre la identidad y la relación que establecemos con el mundo que nos rodea. Dominada por una voz narrativa de una madurez excepcional, la primera novela de Marta Jiménez Serrano reflexiona acerca de cómo llegamos a convertirnos en quienes somos, sobre el hecho mismo de crecer y la manera en que lo hacemos: aprendiendo a nombrar aquello que nos importa.