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Desde que son niños, Edie, Jake y Ryan han sido insepa­rables; ellos tres contra el mundo. Edie pensaba que su amistad podría con todo así que, cuando su marido, Jake es brutalmente asesinado y su mejor amigo, Ryan, acusado del crimen, su mundo se desmorona. Edie se encuentra sola por primera vez en muchos años en la casa del acantilado que compartía con Jake. Está en pleno duelo y tiene miedo, y no le faltan razones para tenerlo, pues alguien la está vigilando, alguien que lleva mucho tiempo esperando este momento. Ahora que Edie es vulnerable, el pasado del que ha intentado huir desesperadamente está a punto de llamar a su puerta.

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.