"Halle and her mother find unexpected solace on a tuberculosis ward in 1930s upstate New York"--

"In 1896, three best friends--Tirzah, Sophia and Polly--who are leading very different lives after boarding school share their dreams, hopes, frustrations and romances through a series of letters as they search for happiness and love near the dawn of the Edwardian era"--

"In segregated High Cotton, Texas, in 1964, the racial divide is as clear as the railroad tracks running through town. It's also where two girls are going to shake things up"--

A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved and labored there. It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who resents the foreign powers clamoring for a slice of his country, nothing is more upsetting than the decision of his son, Omar, to work as a digger in the excavation zone. But...

"Eugene Schieffelin es rico, singular y aficionado a los p̀jaros. Su hermana y su mujer, devotas amantes de Shakespeare. Sus amigos, miembros de una Sociedad m̀s desfasada que cient̕fica que suęa con llenar los cielos neoyorquinos de p̀jaros europeos. Nueva York, una ciudad que a︢n no se parece a ella misma, el escenario ideal para cualquier locura, por descabellada que sea. En esta novela, ambientada en el Nueva York de la segunda mitad del...

"Lucy, a spirited French-Ojibwe orphan, is sent to the stormy waters of Lake Superior to live with a mysterious family of lighthouse-keepers-and, she hopes, to find the legendary necklace her father spent his life seeking... Selena Lucy Landry (named for a ship, as every sailor's child should be) has been frightened of the water ever since she lost her father at sea. But with no one else to care for her, she's sent to foster with the Martins-a large...

"The Last Kingdom is one of the most successful historical fiction series of our time, telling the epic story of the birth of England and introducing one of the greatest fictional heroes: the iconic Uhtred of Bebbanburg -- Saxon-born, Norse-raised warrior and rebel. The final Last Kingdom book was published in 2002, but for Bernard Cornwell, the story felt unfinished. There were some Uhtred tales he still wanted to tell, and over the course of writing,...

"M̌xico, junio de 1872. Un carruaje se estaciona frente al gran p̤rtico del sal̤n donde se celebra un baile en honor a Benito Jùrez. Una mujer misteriosa baja de ̌l, atrayendo la mirada de todos, especialmente de Sebastìn Lerdo de Tejada, ministro e ̕ntimo amigo del presidente. Ella se hace llamar Emilia, pero antes tuvo otros nombres y otras vidas. Siendo una nįa tuvo que huir tras presenciar el brutal asesinato de su madre. Desde entonces,...

"El pacto del agua sigue a una familia que sufre una afliccion peculiar: en cada generacion, al menos una persona muere ahogada, y en Kerala el agua esta en todas partes. A principios del siglo XX, una nina de doce anos es enviada en barco para contraer matrimonio con un hombre de cuarenta al que no conoce. A partir de entonces, la joven y futura matriarca, conocida como Big Ammachi, sera testigo de cambios impensables: una historia llena de alegrias,...

-- The Triumph of the LionsTranslated from the Italian by Katherine Gregor and Howard Curtis