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Elena es una chica responsable, nada alocada e incapaz de sacrificar su futuro profesional por una relación. Tiene un archienemigo desde el colegio al que llama «el Indeseable»…, y acaba de despertar junto a él en su cama después de la boda de su mejor amiga. Marcos lleva toda la vida sacando de quicio a Elena con sus comentarios de sobrado y sus ojos azules como el mar. Quiere olvidar los malos rollos y dejarse llevar durante el verano por una atracción irresistible antes de volver a Londres. Y aunque Elena intenta ignorarle, Marcos es tan obstinado como sexy y la química entre ellos resulta inevitable.

Querido Santa: Todo lo que quería esta Navidad era estar en Nueva York y besar a un tío bueno en Nochevieja o, al menos, terminar la novela romántica que estoy escribiendo. Lo que no estaba en mi lista de deseos era heredar el Polaris, el bed and breakfast de mi familia, después de que lo destruyera un incendio. Y menos aún compartirlo con Jack Halliday, mi exnovio, ahora bombero y manitas oficial de Sunnyside, el encantador pueblecito de California al que juré no regresar. Jack está empeñado en completar la reforma del Polaris, reabrirlo antes de Nochebuena y convertirse en el salvador del espíritu navideño. Y yo, querido Santa, lo único que quiero es venderlo, deshacerme de los recuerdos y perder de vista al hombre que me rompió el corazón.

En la antigua Nínive, a orillas del río Tigris, durante la época de mayor esplendor de Mesopotamia, el culto y despiadado rey Asurbanipal erigió una magnífica biblioteca para atesorar su preciada colección de tablillas, como las de La epopeya de Gilgamesh. El monarca está a punto de quemar vivo a su viejo maestro, aquel que le inculcó el amor por la poesía, pero que ha terminado por traicionarlo. Pronto el Imperio asirio se derrumbará y quedará sepultado.

aqueros cascarrabias, romances ardientes... Bienvenidos a Chestnut Springs, una saga ambientada en un pueblo del mismo nombre que está pegando fuerte y firmada por la sensación de TikTok Elsie Silver. Las normas eran muy sencillas: no meterme en líos y no ponerle ni un dedo encima a su hija. Pero ahora no puedo escapar de ella. Y solo hay una cama. Y, bueno..., las normas están para romperlas. Soy el chico de oro de la monta de toros profesional... O, mejor dicho, lo era, hasta que todo se volvió en mi contra. Ahora, mi representante dice que he de lavar mi imagen, así que no me queda más remedio que aguantar que la tocapelotas de su hija me "supervise a tiempo completo" lo que queda de temporada.

There are few more convincing, less sentimental accounts of passionate love than Wuthering Heights. This is the story of the savage, tormented foundling Heathcliff, who falls wildly in love with Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of his benefactor, and of the violence and misery that result from their thwarted longing for each other.

Flavia de Luce has taken on the mentorship of her odious moon-faced cousin Undine, who has come to live at Buckshaw following the death of her mother. Undine’s main talent, aside from cultivating disgusting habits, seems to be raising Flavia’s hackles, although in her best moments she shows potential for trespassing, trickery, and other assorted mayhem. When Major Greyleigh, a local recluse and former hangman, is found dead after a breakfast of poisonous mushrooms, suspicion falls on the de Luce family’s longtime cook, Mrs. Mullet. After all, wasn’t it she who’d picked the mushrooms, cooked the omelet, and served it to Greyleigh moments before his death? “I have to admit,” says Flavia, an expert in the chemical nature of poisons, “that I’d been praying to God for a jolly good old-fashioned mushroom poisoning. Not that I wanted anyone to die, but why give a girl a gift such as mine without giving her the opportunity to use it?”

With her remarkable insight into the human condition and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?”

Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure. Jack Reacher wakes up alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm has suffered some major damage. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there. The last thing Reacher can recall is the car he hitched a ride in getting run off the road. The driver was killed. His captors assume Reacher was the driver’s accomplice and patch up his wounds as they plan to make him talk.

In Gallup, New Mexico, where violent crime is five times the national average, a serial killer is operating unchecked, his targets indigent Native people whose murders are easily disguised as death by exposure on the frigid winter streets. He slips unnoticed through town, hidden in plain sight by his unassuming nature, while the voices in his head guide him toward a terrifying vision of glory. As the Gallup detectives struggle to put the pieces together, they consider calling in a controversial specialist to help.