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Harriet Lee puede parecer a sus vecinos la típica madre trabajadora, y su hija Perdita la no menos típica colegiala británica, pero hay indicios de que no son tan normales como ellas creen. Para empezar, Harriet hace un pan de jengibre muy especial, que quizá no parezca nada del otro mundo a los londinenses, pero es muy popular en Druhástrana, la lejana tierra—según muchas fuentes inexistente—donde vivió hasta su primera juventud junto a su carismática amiga Gretel Kercheval, una figura que tuvo algo que ver en todo lo que ocurrió—bueno y malo—a Harriet desde niña. No obstante, sólo décadas más tarde, cuando una Perdita ya adolescente se proponga reencontrar a esta amiga de su madre, descubriremos la verdadera historia de Harriet. Inspirada por la tradicional presencia del pan de jengibre en las fábulas infantiles, Helen Oyeyemi nos invita a saborear esta deliciosa historia de una gran familia cuya herencia es una receta. Un relato sorprendente y un auténtico festín para el lector.

Skwerl and Cheese are down on their luck and about to find themselves tangled in the heist of their lives. Skwerl, once an elite member of the CIA's paramilitary unit, was cast out after a raid gone wrong in Afghanistan. Big Cheese Aziz, a former Afghan pilot of legendary skill, now works the graveyard shift at a gas station. Recruited into a shadowy network of "sheepdogs," they embark on a mission to repossess a multi-million-dollar private jet stranded on a remote African airfield. But as they wind through a labyrinth of lies and hidden agendas, they discover that nothing is as it seems. Their contact vanishes, their handler's motives are suspect, and the true source of their payday remains a mystery. With the stakes skyrocketing and the women in their lives drawn into the fray, this unlikely spy duo find themselves deep in the underbelly of modern war and intelligence. From the jungles of Kampala to the glitz of Marseille, they'll need to be as cunning as they are bold to survive in a game where the line between the hunters and the hunted is razor-thin.

A poignant, sharp-eyed, and bitterly funny tale of a family struggling to stay together in a country rapidly coming apart, told through the eyes of their wondrous ten-year-old daughter, by the bestselling author of "Super Sad True Love Story" and "Our Country Friends".

The riveting new novel by the author of the 2021 National Book Award winner and bestseller Hell of a Book People Like Us is Jason Mott’s electric new novel. It is not memoir, yet it has deeply personal connections to Jason’s life. And while rooted in reality, it explodes with dreamlike experiences that pull a reader in and don’t let go, from the ability to time travel to sightings of sea monsters and peacocks, and feelings of love and memory so real they hurt. In People Like Us, two Black writers are trying to find peace and belonging in a world that is riven with gun violence. One is on a global book tour after a big prize win; the other is set to give a speech at a school that has suffered a shooting. And as their two storylines merge, truths and antics abound in equal measure: characters drink booze out of an award trophy; menaces lurk in the shadows; tiny French cars putter around the countryside; handguns seem to hover in the air; and dreams endure against all odds.

Card shark Hailey Gordon and ex con Nick Patterson—fresh off uncovering one of the biggest secrets of the Revolutionary War alongside American history professor Adrian Jensen—now find themselves in Philadelphia, immersed in the history of Benjamin Franklin and Paul Revere. The Liberty Bell, Charles Willson Peale’s Museum, and the Tomb of The Unknown Revolutionary Soldier are connected to Franklin in amazing ways. The more they discover, the more shocking the implications become. The long buried secrets Hailey and Nick are chasing have previously only been known by a select few, who would prefer to keep it that way. A woman known as The Heiress—part of a mysterious organization called The Family—is one of these rare historians. After generations of members have failed before her, The Heiress has been tasked to finally unearth the alchemical secrets Revere and Franklin may have discovered during their lifetimes. And she’s not about to let Nick and Hailey get in her way.

Ignacio y Yuri buscan a tientas una verdad que justifique su existencia en un verano abrasador en el que París parece haberse vaciado. Yuri opera bajo la atenta mirada de Joana, la joven enfermera que Ignacio desea. Uno de ellos se deja arrastrar por la pasión mientras el otro se rinde a los pies del alcohol y la locura. Ambos instarán a Joana a huir, a iniciar un viaje que la llevará a Venezuela: remontar el Orinoco significará para ella la oportunidad de recomponer, desde las tibias entrañas de un barco de carga, sus deshilachadas vidas. Al hilo de ese viaje hacia el Amazonas, la segunda novela de Mathias Enard, además de confirmar su talento literario, nos sitúa en el centro de un triángulo amoroso que se desborda, cuyos vértices son el nacimiento, el cuerpo y el deseo... siendo quizá esas tres cosas meros reflejos en las aguas empantanadas de un río mítico.