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For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life—until the unthinkable happens. Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.

Toby Fleishman thought he knew what to expect when he and his wife of almost fifteen years separated: weekends and every other holiday with the kids, some residual bitterness, the occasional moment of tension in their co-parenting negotiations. He could not have predicted that one day, in the middle of his summer of sexual emancipation, Rachel would just drop their two children off at his place and simply not return. He had been working so hard to find equilibrium in his single life. The winds of his optimism, long dormant, had finally begun to pick up. Now this. As Toby tries to figure out where Rachel went, all while juggling his patients at the hospital, his never-ending parental duties, and his new app-assisted sexual popularity, his tidy narrative of the spurned husband with the too-ambitious wife is his sole consolation. But if Toby ever wants to truly understand what happened to Rachel and what happened to his marriage, he is going to have to consider that he might not have seen things all that clearly in the first place.

Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road. Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend. The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.

Marilyn Monroe era puro fuego, sexualidad a flor de piel, romances turbulentos, pero también era una mujer frágil, asustada y repleta de inseguridades que buscaba en otros -en el Ex Deportista, en el Dramaturgo o en el Presidente- ese amor que ella misma se negaba. Una artista superdotada cargada de conflictos, temores y pasiones desatadas; una niña que no dejó de huir hacia delante y que llegó a burlar a la propia muerte para convertirse en leyenda.

El autor austríaco por antonomasia, creador del mito habsbúrguico y el escritor más español de la historia de la literatura en lengua alemana, Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), sufrió el infortunio de vivir en una época marcada por la represión del sistema Metternich. La férrea censura lo desmoralizó, impulsándolo a retirarse al ámbito privado en su mejor momento artístico. Aunque nunca dejara de escribir, su existencia como artista no volvería a ser la misma, y la mayor parte de sus obras posteriores no vería la luz hasta después de su muerte, por lo que los honores tardíos y su transformación en héroe de las letras austríacas nunca perdieron para él un profundo sabor amargo. Esta colección reúne sus dos únicos textos narrativos de ficción, "El monasterio de Sendomir" y "El pobre músico", en los que demuestra una gran maestría en el género de la novela corta. Se completa el volumen con tres breves escritos sobre Beethoven, para quien escribió un libreto de ópera y al que dedicó dos discursos con ocasión de la muerte del célebre compositor.

Lo característico y representativo de Julio Verne es el suspense, la emoción, el misterio y esa sensación latente y constante de aventura en cada una de sus páginas. Y es que si por algo destaca su obra, es por esa capacidad de apoderarse del lector, de atraparlo en cada una de las páginas de la novela, de retenerlo, expectante y fascinado, en el relato y desarrollo de su trepidante historia. En esta obra “ 20.000 Leguas de viaje submarino “ sabe combinar ingeniería, ciencia y literatura en sus fascinantes y detallados relatos.