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The year is 1087, and a pox is sweeping through the Italian city of Bari. When a lowly monk is visited by Saint Nicholas in his dreams, he interprets the vision as a call to serve the sick. But his superiors, and the power brokers they serve, have different plans for the tender-hearted Brother Nicephorus. Enter Tyun, a charismatic treasure hunter renowned for “liberating” holy relics from their tombs. The seven-hundred-year-old bones of Saint Nicholas are rumored to weep a mysterious liquid that can heal the sick, Tyun says. For the humble price of a small fortune, he will steal the bones and deliver them to Bari, curing the plague and restoring glory to the fallen city. And Nicephorus, the “dreamer,” will be his guide. What follows is a heist for the ages, as Nicephorus is swept away on strange tides, and alongside even stranger bedfellows, to commit sacrilegious theft. Based on real historical accounts, Nicked is a swashbuckling saga, a medieval novel noir, a meditation on the miraculous, and a monastic meet-cute, filled with wide-eyed wonder at the world that awaits beyond our own borders.

They call it Blackchurch. A secluded mansion in a remote, undisclosed location where the wealthy and powerful send their misbehaving sons to cool off away from prying eyes. Will Grayson has always been reckless, wild, and never been bound by a single rule other than to do exactly what he wanted. He learned long ago that being treated like an animal gives you permission to act like one. Back in high school, he might’ve enjoyed backing Emory into corners when no one was looking, but he could also be warm. And fierce in keeping her safe. But the truth is, he has a right to hate her. Because it’s all her fault. Everything. Devil’s Night. The videos. The arrests. She’s to blame—and yet she regrets nothing. He never expected one of his enemies to come straight to him. But now he knows she’s here somewhere. And as the security detail leaves and the door to the gilded cage opens, giving Will free reign of the house and grounds for another unsupervised month, he remembers with a smile…

In Navola, a bustling city-state dominated by a handful of influential families, business is power, and power is everything. For generations, the di Regulai family—merchant bankers with a vast empire—has nurtured tendrils that stretch to the farthest reaches of the known world. And though they claim not to be political, their staggering wealth has bought cities and toppled kingdoms. Soon, Davico di Regulai will be expected to take the reins of power from his father and demonstrate his mastery of the games of Navolese knowing who to trust and who to doubt, and how to read what lies hidden behind a smile. But in Navola, strange and ancient undercurrents lurk behind the gilt and grandeur—like the fossilized dragon eye in the family’s possession, a potent symbol of their raw power and a talisman that seems to be summoning Davico to act.

Para Jon Fosse escribir es como rezar, y para sus lectores, Trilogía es la puerta para entrar en una profundidad desconocida. Con un lenguaje sencillo y un narrador único, Fosse narra la historia de una pareja de adolescentes que van a tener un hijo e intentan sobrevivir sin ayuda en un mundo hostil. Es una historia que permite entender la indefensión y nos hace conscientes sobre la mirada despiadada de la sociedad. Pero también revive de forma exquisita el primer amor, la experiencia de comenzar la vida. Una obra emocional que, desde la oscuridad de una situación extrema, ilumina a quien la aborda.

Sophie Winston se enfrenta a todo un reto: organizar la boda de su hermana. Hannah es lo que en Estados Unidos se conoce como una Bridezilla, una novia perfeccionista que no va a permitir que nada ni nadie enturbie el día más feliz de su vida: ni su novio, Craig Beacham, que no le cae bien a nadie y es un auténtico impresentable, ni la sucesión de asesinatos e incidentes que comienzan a pro-ducirse desde que una desconocida aparece ahorcada en la pérgola instalada en el jardín para la ocasión. ¿Estará el asesino sentado del lado del novio o de la novia? ¿O estará de pie en el altar? Sophie debe resolver el asesinato a tiempo para evitar que su hermana cometa el mayor (y tal vez el útlimo) error de su vida.

Gemma Doyle, de la Librería y Emporio Sherlock Holmes, y Jayne Wilson, del Salón de Té de la Señora Hudson, están inmersas en los preparativos de la presentación del último libro de la famosísima escritora Renalta van Markoff. El acontecimiento atrae a multitud de personajes, tanto admiradores como detractores, que no dudan en lanzarle a la autora sus reproches, hasta que, repentinamente, Renalta se desploma en plena presentación. La muerte de la escritora pone al descubierto todo tipo de secretos, pero hay uno que se resiste: ¿quién está detrás del asesinato de la novelista? Dispuestas a resolver el caso, Gemma y Jayne adoptarán el método deductivo de Holmes y Watson ?eliminar lo imposible para descubrir lo improbable? hasta lograr dar con el culpable.