Daniela Williams is furious. A nasty break up after being cheated on is a crappy way to start the year. What's worse? Her ex and his new girlfriend are on Daniela's swim team. If she wasn't so against showing she cares about anything, she'd drown him in the pool. This is what she gets for dating teammates. But Daniela never admits defeat in anything - both in and out of the pool. Enter Heath Belfort; a captivating and stupidly handsome local surfer. . . and her ex's biggest swimming rival. Heath smiles through her ex's jabs and beats him in every race. So, what better way to get revenge than to fake date the one person her ex hates most? Heath's up for the challenge . . . on one Daniela agrees to tutor him so he can pass his history class. Private lessons and staged kisses are just fine with her, but can anyone make it out of a fake relationship unscathed?

Norteña. Memorias del comienzo es el primer libro de la cantante y compositora Julieta Venegas. En este relato de su infancia y juventud, la autora recorre los paisajes y vivencias que la conformaron hasta alcanzar una voz propia, y en ese gesto de mirar hacia atrás se revela un mapa emocional hecho de memoria, deseo y aprendizaje. La música atraviesa estas páginas no solo como oficio, sino como refugio, lenguaje y forma de entender el mundo. También como una manera de habitar esa línea invisible que la acompaña desde siempre: una frontera íntima que divide y, al mismo tiempo, da sentido. Este libro es el retrato fragmentario de una vida que se va armando mientras se vive, y que al mirar hacia atrás descubre que todo ―los lugares, las decisiones, los encuentros estaba conectado desde un principio y que, como ella misma escribe, « las canciones pueden ser las historias de las que estamos hechos».

Ella sobrevivió a la guerra, dejó las armas, pero conservó el vértigo. Cuidar a sus hijas continúa siendo su lucha. Aunque roza, tumba, quema es una forma de agricultura itinerante, ella debe quedarse en el mismo lugar para que sus hijas sepan a dónde regresar. Coedición digital Laguna Libros - eLibros.

Los presagios que sobrevuelan Pájaros de mal agüero develan cómo tras lo cotidiano se esconden matices y dobleces llenos del espanto y la sorpresa de lo espeluznante. En este, su primer libro, Stephany Méndez Perico construye relatos de un horror punzante, mordaz y oscuro, que abren la posibilidad de desbordarse de la misma página a través de las sombras y las ausencias, en el límite mismo entre la realidad y la fantasía. Ir al dentista, una entrevista de trabajo, un taller de dibujo, una rutina en el gimnasio: la atmósfera de estas escenas de partida invita al lector a observar las conductas de los protagonistas, a seguir los recovecos de sus pensamientos, a familiarizarse con ellos para luego incomodarse en la deformación de sus rostros y personalidades cuando lo raro los obliga a actuar de forma distorsionada e imprevisible.

Set in the post-martial-law era of late 1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-age of a group of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan's most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, Qiu Miaojin's cult classic novel is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash notes, aphorisms, exegesis, and satire by an incisive prose stylist and countercultural icon. Afflicted by her fatalistic attraction to Shui Ling, an older woman, Lazi turns for support to a circle of friends that includes a rich kid turned criminal and his troubled, self-destructive gay lover, as well as a bored, mischievous overachiever and her alluring slacker artist girlfriend. Illustrating a process of liberation from the strictures of gender through radical self-inquiry, Notes of a Crocodile is a poignant masterpiece of social defiance by a singular voice in contemporary Chinese literature.

As a college student in London during the bitterly cold winter of 1944, Red falls in love with her married classmate Mara. Their affair unleashes a physical passion, a jealousy, and a sense of self-doubt that sweep all her previous experiences aside and will leave her changed forever. Set against the rubble of the bombed city, in a time of gray austerity and deprivation, Winter Love recalls a life at its most vivid.

Alternate cover edition for 9780802135162 This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Innovative, punchy and tender, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of religious excess and human obsession.

Fair Play is the type of love story that is rarely told, a revelatory depiction of contentment, hard-won and exhilarating. Mari is a writer and Jonna is an artist, and they live at opposite ends of a big apartment building, their studios connected by a long attic passageway. They have argued, worked, and laughed together for decades. Yet they’ve never really stopped taking each other by surprise. Fair Play shows us Mari and Jona’s intertwined lives as they watch Fassbinder films and Westerns, critique each other’s work, spend time on a solitary island (recognizable to readers of Jansson’s The Summer Book), travel through the American Southwest, and turn life into nothing less than art.

What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. It’s 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who raped her – the man she has been forced to marry. Unbroken, she determines to change her name and, alongside it, her life. 1902. Romaine Brooks sails for Capri. She has barely enough money for the ferry, nothing for lunch; her paintbrushes are bald and clotted. But she is sure she can sell a painting – and is fervent in her belief that the island is detached from all fates she has previously suffered. In 1923, Virginia Woolf writes: I want to make life fuller – and fuller. Told in a series of cascading vignettes, featuring a multitude of voices, After Sappho reimagines the lives of a brilliant group of feminists, sapphists, artists and writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as they battle for liberation, justice and control over their own lives. Sarah Bernhardt, Colette, Eileen Gray, Lina Poletti: these are just a few of the women (some famous, others hitherto unsung) sharing the pages of a novel as fierce as it is luminous. Lush and poetic, furious and funny, After Sappho celebrates the women and trailblazers of the past – and offers hope for our present, and our futures.

Two friends must uncover the truth about the bloody reappearance of a cryptid in this queer, X-Files-inspired thriller from the author of Bad Creek. To save her family’s struggling ranch, 18-year-old Claire fabricates a video of her hometown’s legendary alien cryptid, Old Lucky, that grabs the attention of paranormal vloggers Lenny and Evan. Lenny is plagued with doubts about their channel’s future, so catching Old Lucky might just be her chance at finding something real. After Evan deserts Lenny, believing the investigation to be a hoax, Claire agrees to “help” Lenny uncover the history of Old Lucky—and preserve her deceit. But the more the girls are drawn together and the more clues they unearth, the more secrets rise to the surface. The cows are being mutilated, the ranch hand has disappeared, and the strange lights in the sky are back. Something inhuman lurks in Scarberry, where danger lives close to home. The Monsters We Made is an eerie and suspenseful exploration of one town’s dark history and the people who brought it back to life.

En Borderline sagrada, su primera novela, Elisa Tokeshi nos sumerge en la vorágine de convivir con el trastorno límite de la personalidad (TLP). A través de la voz de Julieta, una joven atrapada en un ciclo de autosabotaje que parece no tener fin, la novela reconstruye los años en los que su vida se convirtió en una línea fracturada: intentos fallidos de sanar, promesas rotas con sus padres, con sus amigos y consigo misma, y un descenso vertiginoso por el alcohol, las drogas, los vínculos tóxicos y las heridas autoinfligidas. Borderline sagrada, como un espejo descarnado de lo que significa perder el control, es el testimonio de una reconstrucción. Con una honestidad sensible y brutal, la novela nos revela cómo, después de tocar fondo, es posible desaprender la autodestrucción.

YO, la protagonista y narradora de esta historia, acude a ELLA con la esperanza de encontrar una curación milagrosa. YO le pregunta, incierta: ¿Puede curarme? y ELLA responde, fría: No, no puedo. No soy una bruja, una hechicera ni una santa capas de hacer milagros. En lugar de salir y buscar ayuda en otra parte, Yo empieza a hablar iniciando así, dos veces por semana, un viaje por lugares peligrosos. Más de una vez se preguntará si las dolorosas revelaciones y los inquietantes descubrimientos la conducirán a la anhelada felicidad.

Once cuentos oscuros. Once mujeres contemporáneas. Las protagonistas de esta antología quedan atrapadas en los hilos del destino. Aunque intenten tejer y destejer, cada puntada las devuelve a la tragedia. «Cloto, Láquesis y Átropos estaban sentadas frente a mí, en los rincones de mi pequeño estudio en el distrito del Liberty Village de Toronto. La Moira que hila. La Moira que reparte las suertes o los destinos. La Moira que quiebra, la fatalísima. Parecían comadres, amigas mías de antaño». Elaine Vilar Madruga, Mercedes Duque Espiau, María Fernanda Ampuero, Zezé Atabales, Agustina Bazterrica, Barbara March, Clyo Mendoza, Anna Starobinets, Fernanda Trías, Bora Chung, Lina María Parra Ochoa y Giovanna Rivero.

Kennedy I’m the only woman on staff for the Windy City Warriors, and after years of putting up with a sexist lead doctor, I’m desperate to land my dream job with a new team next year. All I have to do is maintain my professional reputation for my final season in Chicago. But a Las Vegas run-in with the team’s shortstop threatens it all, leaving me with a fuzzy memory and a ring on my left hand. Now, not only am I legally bound to the most persistent man I’ve ever met, but thanks to Isaiah’s scheme to save my job, I have to pretend the whole thing was a planned elopement and not a drunken mistake. Isaiah Rhodes is reckless, impulsive, and frustratingly charming. He’s also my brand-new husband. They got the saying wrong. What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas… sometimes it follows you right back home. Isaiah As the shortstop for Chicago’s professional baseball team, I’ve had my fair share of fun. But that all ended the day Kennedy Kay became a single woman. I’ve crushed on the team’s athletic trainer for years. I’ve flirted to no avail, so imagine my surprise when I woke up in Sin City with a ring on my finger and my favorite redhead in my bed. We agree to stay married for one baseball season, just long enough to keep her job safe, but in my mind, I’m using our time together to prove to her I’m husband material. Kennedy might be reluctant to join in on our game, but it’s one I refuse to lose. So come on, wife… play along.

Kai I’m a single dad and starting pitcher for Chicago’s MLB team. I’m stretched too thin, but I don’t want help raising my son. Each of his previous nannies only lasted a few weeks before I let them go. Now, my coach is putting his foot down by hiring the one person I can’t fire—his daughter. Miller Montgomery is the last woman I should fall for. Too wild, too young, and too unattached. Chicago is just a quick stop for her. I thought I’d be counting down the days until she left, but summer feels too short when I start thinking about forever. Miller As a high-end pastry chef who recently won the most prestigious award in my industry, I’m desperate to prove I deserve it. But with a new title comes new pressure, and I can’t create a fresh and inspiring dessert to save my life. With only two months to get back on track, I should be focusing in the kitchen, but instead, I let my dad talk me into using my time off to nanny for his star player’s kid. Kai Rhodes forgot how to have fun, and I’m eager to jog his memory. But when he and his son start to feel like home, I have to remind us both that my time in Chicago ends with the summer. Besides, I’ve always been a runner, and the last thing I want is to get caught.

Tras la muerte de su hermano, juan francisco regresa al pueblo donde creció para hacerse cargo de la casa familiar. Ese regreso lo enfrenta a los recuerdos que marcaron su vida y a una pregunta ¿qué tan cierta es la memoria que tenemos de nosotros mismos? En La memoria es un animal esquivo, maría del mar ramón narra con delicadeza y profundidad la historia de un hombre atrapado entre la nostalgia, la culpa y la imposibilidad de reconciliarse con su pasado. Una novela sobre la fragilidad de los vínculos, los mitos personales y los silencios que nos definen. Con una prosa precisa y evocadora, ramón ofrece una mirada íntima y honesta sobre el mundo masculino, explorando las fisuras de la identidad y el peso de lo que callamos.

In the aftermath of the Third Poppy War, shaman and warrior Rin is on the run: haunted by the atrocity she committed to end the war, addicted to opium, and hiding from the murderous commands of her vengeful god, the fiery Phoenix. Her only reason for living is to get revenge on the traitorous Empress who sold out Nikan to their enemies. With no other options, Rin joins forces with the powerful Dragon Warlord, who has a plan to conquer Nikan, unseat the Empress, and create a new Republic. Rin throws herself into his war. After all, making war is all she knows how to do. But the Empress is a more powerful foe than she appears, and the Dragon Warlord’s motivations are not as democratic as they seem. The more Rin learns, the more she fears her love for Nikan will drive her away from every ally and lead her to rely more and more on the Phoenix’s deadly power. Because there is nothing she won’t sacrifice for her country and her vengeance The sequel to R.F. Kuang’s acclaimed debut THE POPPY WAR, THE DRAGON REPUBLIC combines the history of 20th-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating effect.

Mary Shelley, autora de la novela que dio un nuevo impulso al género gótico, era hija del pensador radical William Godwin –quien también cultivó el género en dos magníficas obras: «St. Leon» y «Caleb Williams»–, y contrajo matrimonio con el poeta Percy Bysshe Shelley. Las historias que presentamos en este volumen están envueltas en un ambiente romántico y tratan de describir caracteres cuyo elemento más conspicuo es el estar sometido a la influencia de fuertes pasiones, que a veces dan pie a sucesos sobrenaturales o extraordinarios en extremo, o son el producto de este tipo de acontecimientos. Así, en La transformación, un fuerte orgullo se convierte en el tirano que mueve todos los actos del protagonista del relato, lo que le conduce a una situación extraordinaria, en cuya descripción abundan todos los elementos que hacen nacer en el lector la sensación estética de lo sublime. En otro relato, El sueño, lo que conduce al acto extraordinario es un intenso conflicto entre dos pasiones contrarias, y en El mortal inmortal son los celos los que llevan a cometer al protagonista un acto que le conducirá a una situación sentimental más conflictiva e intensa, que marca el final del relato. Tanto la exposición de caracteres constituidos por una estructura pasional anormal y deforme como la descripción de las situaciones extraordinarias y horribles que dichos caracteres hacen surgir, que tienden a impresionar al lector, colocan a todos estos relatos en el centro mismo de lo gótico.

Crimen y castigo (1866), considerada por la crítica como la primera obra maestra de Dostoievski, es un profundo análisis psicológico de su protagonista, el joven estudiante Raskolnikov, cuya firme creencia en que los fines humanitarios justifican la maldad le conduce al asesinato de un usurero petersburgués. Pero, desde que comete el crimen, la culpabilidad será una pesadilla constante con la que el estudiante será incapaz de convivir. El estilo enfebrecido y compasivo de Dostoievski sigue con maestría única los recovecos de las contradictorias emociones del estudiante y refleja la lucha extrema que libra con su conciencia mientras deambula por las calles de San Petersburgo. Ya en prisión, Raskolnikov se da cuenta de que la felicidad no puede ser alcanzada siguiendo un plan establecido a priori por la razón: ha de ganarse con sufrimiento.