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"¿Aún crees en monstruos bajo la cama? ¿Te aterroriza la oscuridad? ¿Hasta dónde estarías dispuesto a llegar para no caer en el olvido? ¿Qué harías si te hubiese tocado crecer en la Ruanda de 1994? ¿Y si la desidia se hubiese apoderado de tu vida? ¿Tienes miedo a estar solo? ¿O a sentirte solo?

DNA Never Lies is the first in a series of novels featuring Karen Copperfield, investigative genealogist. Karen helps people make sense of sometimes dark family secrets revealed by DNA tests as they ask: 'what happens when nothing you believed is true?'

Imaginemos una niña que debe hacer un camino en busca de un padre que bebe sin coartadas. Imaginemos también una madre cuyo embarazo es ensimismamiento y hueco después del alumbramiento. Imaginemos finalmente una mujer que se diluye en una memoria entregada al amor que nunca más volverá. Socorro Venegas es una voz conmovedora, poderosa y bella, precisa. Su libro es una contracción continua para un lector agitado en medio de una infancia desubicada de niños enfermos y ciegos, niños aislados, niños que no son niños.

Obsesionado por la angustia de no ser santo, el protagonista de esta novela, un escritor alcohólico y mujeriego de apenas treinta años, intenta hallar el camino hacia la salvación de su espíritu a través del pecado carnal, y se involucra en disímiles episodios eróticos que luego contará en esta suerte de diario.

Agualusa es un traductor de sueños. La sociedad de los soñadores involuntarios es una novela tejida con los más delicados materiales de la poesía" Mia Couto. Aunque lleva muchos años separado, a Daniel Benchimol, periodista y gran lector, le llega el momento de firmar el divorcio. El trámite lo abruma: lo cumple y se larga a la ruta; recién se detiene cuando llega a un hotel frente al mar. En ese lugar perdido, y por una sorprendente serie de azares, cuando pensaba que nada le quedaba por descubrir, su vida recomienza.

Mercedes Bisordi escribe porque sabe escuchar. Su voz narrativa está hecha de recuerdos vitales. Un relato sin centro definido, que se abre en un sistema narrativo áspero, oscuro y hermoso. Mercedes Bisordi fermenta literatura en estado puro, la pulpa misma que forma la hoja donde se imprime lo escrito. El tiempo que lleve olvidar es Una novela sobre los anhelos vitales que nunca se abandonan, pase lo que pase.

Emilia está en el limbo. Para armar el relato de sus dieciocho años acude a las instantáneas que conforman su memoria: su abuela postrada para rezar. Ella misma sentada en las piernas de un sacerdote. El día que conocía a Matías. La noche en que logró escuchar a Júpiter. Emilia quiere salir del coma pero su única vía de contacto con el exterior es también su mayor fobia: una mariposa. Ella ha visto ya tres simulacros del fin del mundo pero los jinetes del apocalipsis tienen que completar el número cuatro.

Los viajes acá relatados están ligados a un único itinerario, como si una tinta indeleble trazara a tientas la senda que el personaje recorre a ciegas. Cada vez que la protagonista se lanza a la aventura -entre países, ciudades o unas pocas calles- lo hace pensando que evita algo, que establece una pausa indispensable.

Grace is a young teacher who, in memory of her Dad, takes on the challenge of climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro. But as the group embark, dark memories begin to surface. She struggles to navigate her role as a teacher, and the mission is jeopardised. Battling with both love and guilt, Grace struggles to discern between present and past, and as she loses her grip on reality, tensions arise within the group. She faces the prospect of being trapped in her grief forever. Will she ever reach the summit?

Giovanna’s pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, is looking more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Will she turn out like her despised Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father have spent their whole lives avoiding and deriding? There must be a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is.

Frank Cotton's insatiable appetite for the dark pleasures of pain led him to the puzzle of Lemarchand's box, and from there, to a death only a sick-minded soul could invent. But his brother's love-crazed wife, Julia, has discovered a way to bring Frank back - though the price will be bloody and terrible...and there will certainly be hell to pay.

"If it were I who were to be always young and the picture to grow old, I would give my soul for it." So says Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's brilliant creation who sells his soul for youth and beauty.

When a lethal bushfire tore through Myrtle, nestled in Victoria's breathtaking Otway Ranges, the town's buildings - and the lives of its residents - were left as smoldering ash. For three women in particular, the fire fractured their lives and their relationships. Eighteen months later, with the flurry of national attention long past, Myrtle stands restored, shiny and new. But is the outside polish just a veneer?

In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture—and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. The story of three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II, The Sheltering Sky is at once merciless and heartbreaking in its compassion. It etches the limits of human reason and intelligence—perhaps even the limits of human life—when they touch the unfathomable emptiness and impassive cruelty of the desert.

Morgravia Sanctus is being hunted. Something terrible has happened to her, a profound trauma that has left behind ‘red dreams’ and a physical agony that can strike at any moment. Her life in danger and her memory fragmented, she arrives in the low-hive of Blackgheist to escape her pursuers and search for ‘the Broker’ – a trafficker in memories and psychic mind manipulation. Soon after, a plague sweeps the city, turning its citizens into blood-hungry monsters. Order collapses, death and slaughter are rampant.

Stella Maris is the story of a mathematician, twenty years old, admitted to the hospital with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag and one request: She does not want to talk about her brother.

The car crash that killed Heaven and Logan left Annie Casteel Stonewall orphaned and crippled. Whisked off to Farthinggale Manor by the possessive Tony Tatterton, Annie pines for her lost family, but especially for Luke, her half-brother. Friend of her childhood, her fantasy prince, her loving confidante...without the warm glow of Luke's love, she is lost in the shadows of despair. When Annie discovers Troy's cottage hidden in Farthinggale's woods, the mystery of her past deepens. Even as she yearns to see Luke again, her hopes and dreams are darkened by the sinister Casteel spell.

Christopher Dollanganger was 14 when he and his younger siblings - Cathy and the twins, Cory and Carrie - were locked away in the attic of Foxworth Hall, prisoners of their mother's greedy inheritance scheme. For three long years he kept hope alive for the sake of the others. But the shocking truth about how their ordeal affected him was always kept hidden - until now.

Maggie, Liz, Helena & Joni. Old friends bound by history, adventures, old secrets. And now, bound by murder. They lace up their hiking boots for the adventure of a lifetime in the Norwegian wilderness: a place of towering mountains, glass-like lakes, log cabins and forests stolen from a fairytale. It’s the perfect place to lose yourself – until a broken body is found at the bottom of a ravine. Somewhere out there, someone knows exactly why a woman has died. And in this deep, dark wilderness, there’s a killer on the trail.

Ulysses is regarded by many as the single most important novel of the 20th century. It tells the story of one day in Dublin, June 16th 1904, largely through the eyes of Stephen Dedalus (Joyce's alter ego from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) and Leopold Bloom, an advertising salesman. Both begin a normal day, and both set off on a journey around the streets of Dublin, which eventually brings them into contact with one another.