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Tras el formidable éxito de Taxi, considerada por la crítica como una de las mejores novelas españolas del año 2017, Carlos Zanón sigue ensanchando los horizontes de su universo imaginativo y nos sorprende de nuevo con una historia descarnada sobre tres personajes atrapados entre los hilos afectivos que les impiden llegar a ser ellos mismos. Sin revelar su identidad, tres músicos talentosos y de cierto éxito -una pareja y su mejor amigo- se embarcan en una gira estival por campings y locales de la costa mediterránea versionando canciones sólo de 1985. A bordo de una impecable Camper California, conducida por un chófer al que apodan vanidosamente Polidori, la banda -compuesta por Jim, Eileen y Cowboy- se lanza a tocar y correr, gozar y sufrir, entre composiciones pop, huesos fracturados y emociones difíciles de manejar. Y a medida que se acercan al final de su recorrido, frente a las costas de Cádiz, los protagonistas se enfrentan a la disyuntiva de quemarse o seguir, pero ya convertidos en otros, sin vuelta atrás.

Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left without a trace when he was nine years old. He doesn’t know what happened to her—only that her books have been banned—and he resents that she cared more about her work than about him. Then one day Bird receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, and soon he is pulled into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of heroic librarians, and finally to New York City, where he will learn the truth about what happened to his mother and what the future holds for them both. Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. It’s about the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children and the power of art to create change.

The automobile industry has abandoned Vacca Vale, Indiana, leaving its residents behind, too. In a run-down apartment building on the edge of town, commonly known as the Rabbit Hutch, lives one of these people, a young girl named Blandine Watkins, who The Rabbit Hutch centers around. Hauntingly beautiful and unnervingly bright, Blandine lives alongside three teenage boys, all recently aged out of the state foster-care system, all of them madly in love with Blandine. Plagued by the structures, people, and places that not only failed her but actively harmed her, Blandine pays no mind to their affection. All she wants is an escape, a true bodily escape like the mystics describe in the books she reads.

Emoción, drama y mucha pasión en una novela que fascinará a las lectoras de La hipótesis del amor. El sueño de Laura Collins siempre ha sido seguir la estela de sus padres, que se conocieron y enamoraron en el Hospital Whitestone de Phoenix, Arizona, uno de los mejores centros médicos del país. Cuando por fin logra la ansiada plaza como residente de primer año siente que su sueño se ha cumplido y ni siquiera la ruptura con su pareja va a poder arrebatárselo. Sin embargo, una vez allí, Laura será puesta a prueba con cada paciente, bajo el estrés, el desgaste emocional, los accidentes, enfermedades e incluso la muerte, además de sentir el miedo perenne a equivocarse. A pesar de todo, cuenta con el apoyo del resto de residentes -Mitch, Sierra, Maisie y Jane- que se convertirán casi en familia y le harán la vida más fácil.

Anne Elliot, daughter of the snobbish Sir Walter Elliot, is woman of quiet charm and deep feelings. When she was nineteen she fell in love with—and was engaged to—a naval officer, the fearless and headstrong Captain Wentworth. But the young man had no fortune, and Anne allowed herself to be persuaded to give him up.

True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they’ll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who’s never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school’s golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the hearing headmistress, a CODA (child of deaf adult(s)) who is fighting to keep her school open and her marriage intact, but might not be able to do both. As a series of crises both personal and political threaten to unravel each of them, Charlie, Austin, and February find their lives inextricable from one another—and changed forever.