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Francine Thwaite has lived all her fifty-five years in her family’s ancestral home, a rambling Elizabethan manor in England’s Lake District. No other living soul resides there, but Francine isn’t alone. There are ghosts in Thwaite Manor, harmless and familiar. Most beloved is Bree, the mischievous ghost girl who has been Francine’s companion since childhood. When Francine’s estranged sister, Madeleine, returns to the manor after years away, she brings with her a story that threatens everything Francine has always believed. It is a tale of cruelty and desperation, of terror and unbearable heartache. And as Francine learns more about the darkness in her family’s past—and the role she may have played in it—she realizes that confronting the truth may mean losing what she holds most dear.

At the dawn of their adolescence, on the eve of the summer solstice, four young girls–Helena, Leonie, Niamh and Elle–took the oath to join Her Majesty’s Royal Coven, established by Queen Elizabeth I as a covert government department. Now, decades later, the witch community is still reeling from a civil war and Helena is the reigning High Priestess of the organization. Yet Helena is the only one of her friend group still enmeshed in the stale bureaucracy of HMRC. Elle is trying to pretend she’s a normal housewife, and Niamh has become a country vet, using her powers to heal sick animals. In what Helena perceives as the deepest betrayal, Leonie has defected to start her own more inclusive and intersectional coven, Diaspora. And now Helena has a bigger problem. A young warlock of extraordinary capabilities has been captured by authorities and seems to threaten the very existence of HMRC. With conflicting beliefs over the best course of action, the four friends must decide where their loyalties lie: with preserving tradition, or doing what is right.

Nueva edición del Herbario que recolectó y clasificó Emily Dickinson (entre los años 1839 y 2846), acompañado por una Antología Botánica de poemas que giran en torno a las plantas, árboles y flores, en edición bilingüe con traducción de Eva Gallud.

Life is full of twists and turns you never see coming. But what if you did? The plane is jam-packed. Every seat is taken. So of course the flight is delayed! Flight attendant Allegra Patel likes her job—she’s generally happy with her life, even if she can’t figure out why she hooks up with a man she barely speaks to—but today is her twenty-eighth birthday. She can think of plenty of things she’d rather be doing than placating a bunch of grumpy passengers. There’s the well-dressed man in seat 4C who is compulsively checking his watch, desperate not to miss his eleven-year-old daughter’s musical. Further back, a mother of two is frantically trying to keep her toddler entertained and her infant son quiet. How did she ever think being a stay-at-home mom would be easier than being a lawyer? Ethan is lost in thought; he’s flying back from his first funeral. A young couple has just gotten married; she’s still wearing her wedding dress. An emergency room nurse is looking forward to traveling the world once she retires in a few years, it’s going to be so much fun! If they ever get off the tarmac. . . .

Una impresionante fusión de los géneros policiaco e histórico en la nueva novela de Leonardo Padura. En 1939, el barco S.S. Saint Louis, con novecientos judíos que lograron huir de Alemania, estuvo fondeado varios días frente al puerto de La Habana a la espera del permiso para los refugiados. El niño Daniel Kaminsky y su tio esperaron en el muelle a que desembarcaran sus familiares, confiados en que usaran ante los funcionarios el tesoro que portaban a escondidas: un pequeño lienzo de Rembrandt que perteneció a los Kaminsky desde el siglo XVII. Pero el plan fracasó y el barco regresó a Alemania, llevándose con él toda esperanza de reencuentro. Muchos años después, en 2007, la noticia de que ese lienzo se subasta en Londres, provoca que el hijo de Daniel, Elías, decida viajar a La Habana desde Estados Unidos para aclarar qué sucedió realmente con el cuadro y su familia. Solo alguien como el Conde puede ayudarle en la misión. Y en los encuentros y las conversaciones sabremos que Daniel decidió cambiar radicalmente de vida y que le atormentaba un crimen. También que ese cuadro, una imagen de Cristo, tuvo como modelo a otro judío, que en la Amsterdam del siglo XVII rompió todas las convenciones de clase y de religión para trabajar en el taller de Rembrandt y aprender a pintar con el maestro.

Herejes de Dune es la quinta novela de la serie "Dune" de Frank Herbert, considerada la cumbre de la ciencia ficción contemporánea. Esta quinta entrega de la serie prosigue con las aventuras de la estirpe de los Atreides en el fascinante planeta de arena. Nos hallamos en el futuro respecto a la acción de Dios emperador de Dune.