"16-year-old Raquel lives in a small town in Portugal, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else's business. Her parents are divorced and she's just been suspended for cursing out a school aide asking about her father's new marriage. She has two best friends, Luaisa and Fred, but wants something more. Then, from afar, she sees Pardalita, a senior and a gifted artist who's moving to Lisbon to study in the fall. The two girls get to know...

"Todos conocen a Sonya Kantor. Su imagen fue usada en un cartel como propaganda por parte de la Delegación, un gobierno que controló durante décadas a la población a través de un implante ocular que premiaba o castigaba cada acción. Sin embargo, se produjo un levantamiento y todos sus miembros y simpatizantes fueron llevados a la Abertura, una prisión en la que cumplen cadena perpetua. Ahora, tras diez años encerrada, un viejo conocido le...

How many ways can you spell peril?This collection of ten dark science fiction short stories explores a dystopian future in which humans may find more questions than answers. Some of the answers might be better off unlearned

"Una sola travesti es suficiente para socavar los cimientos de una casa, deshacer los nudos de un compromiso, romper una promesa, renunciar a una vida», piensa la inolvidable actriz que narra esta historia de pactos invisibles y pasiones arrasadoras. Vulnerables, los personajes de Camila Sosa Villada se pierden en una vida burguesa y apacible, abrumados por infiernos y culpas. Erotismo y violencia habitan sus vínculos, pero también una profunda...

Alfred David and Mary Elizabeth Meek have compiled a collection of fairy tales that ranges from the Grimm brothers' inimitable recreations of archetypal folktales to the modern prose charm of James Thurber's Many Moons. The appeal of the stories is wide and varied: the refined intelligence of Perrault, the wondrous imagination of Andersen, the descriptive power of Ruskin, the bittersweet melancholy of Wilde. These are but a few of the artists represented...

"Faltan dos semanas para la boda de la teniente Valentina Redondo y Oliver Gordon. En plenos preparativos, los sorprende la noticia de un atentado masivo en el Templo del Agua del famoso balneario cántabro de Puente Viesgo. Las instalaciones del idílico paraíso de agua estaban ocupadas por un grupo de empresarios, y todo apunta a que la masacre ha sido perpetrada con una peligrosísima arma química. Valentina tendrá que cooperar con el ejército...

"Miramos el mundo una sola vez, en la infancia. Lo demás es memoria», escribió Louise Glück. De eso trata este informe nocturno, como le llama el protagonista al recorrido por los lugares en los cuales vivió con su familia. Los reyes de la mudanza van y vienen por las distintas casas y departamentos de alquiler mientras la vida pasa en un camión cargado de enseres domésticos y ocurre la Ciudad de México en los años sesenta. Un hombre adulto...

When he launched Non Sequitur a decade ago, Wiley Miller knew he didn't want a running joke. So he took the name of his strip from the Latin phrase for "it does not follow" and created a comic that features no central character or theme, no setting or time frame, just a Twilight Zone of cartoon moments. Day after day, Non Sequitur hilariously jabs at the feats and foibles of life, skewering everyone from doctors to politicians. Wiley's irreverent,...

'' – '' – As the storm clouds of war gather, seeks refuge in the grounds of her family estate. Handsome landscaper has recently arrived to tend to the gardens, and the connection between him and Cordelia is as immediate as it is forbidden. Isaac begins to secretly teach her how to cultivate the gardens, so when he and all the young men are called away to war, Cordelia takes over. From the battlefields of Europe, Isaac sends her letters, that give...

Step behind the palace doors in this gripping historical novel that is a must-have for fans of The Crown and Princess Diana! Buckingham Palace, 1981. Her engagement to Prince Charles is a dream come true for Lady Diana Spencer, but marrying the heir to the throne is not all that it seems. Alone and bored in the palace, she resents the stuffy courtiers who are intent on instructing her about her new role as princess of Wales... But when she discovers...