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Cuando la jovencísima Mikage se queda sola a la muerte de su abuela, se refugia en la cocina de su vasta casa. Un día, sin embargo, un amable muchacho llama a su puerta y le propone que vaya a vivir con el y con su madre, Eriko. Sin embargo, esta hermosa y acogedora mujer no es quien parece ser. Una fábula en la que la soledad y la aridez emocional quedan mitigadas por la inmensa sabiduría de otro mundo ancestral.

Enrique Montez, smooth-talking heir to the Taco King empire, is man enough to admit that he made a critical error when he underestimated Carolina Flores. The agricultural hotshot should have been an easy conquest—who would turn down the chance to partner with California’s largest fast-food chain? But instead of signing her name on the dotted line, Carolina has Enrique eating out of the palm of her hand, and when fate steps in with an unexpected opportunity, Enrique is willing to do whatever it takes to capture her heart. Growing up as the daughter of farmworkers, Carolina spent her youth picking strawberries in the fields of Santa Maria and vowing to improve the lives of people like her parents. Now, as one of only a few Latina farm owners, she has no time for romance and she’s certainly not about to let the notorious Montez brother anywhere near her business—even if just being near Enrique makes her skin tingle. But she is willing to let him help get her overinvolved family off her back. When Carolina’s father and her lovelorn sisters mistake Enrique for her (nonexistent) boyfriend, she reluctantly agrees to a series of pretend dates to their town’s traditional Mexican-American holiday celebrations. Soon the fake feelings turn real and both Carolina and Enrique must convince each other to take a chance on love before their vacation romance is over.

Chieko es la hija de Takichiro Sada, un prestigioso diseñador de kimonos. Desde pequeña ha creído que una geisha la abandonó siendo una recién nacida, pero al cumplir veinte años, por azar, descubre la verdad: sus padres adoptivos, ansiosos por tener un bebé, la hallaron sola bajo unos cerezos? y se la llevaron. El amor que siente por ellos colma su corazón de tal modo que nunca ha tenido deseos de buscar a sus verdaderos progenitores, pero ahora la situación ha cambiado de forma inesperada, y Chieko deberá encontrar su propia identidad y su lugar en el mundo. Con el trasfondo de la ciudad de Kioto, la antigua capital de Japón, Yasunari Kawabata describe en esta sublime y delicada novela la transmisión de la belleza y la tradición de una generación a la siguiente, y confronta las consecuencias de la posguerra japonesa con una ambivalente mezcla de fascinación y resentimiento. Una novela inolvidable de un Premio Nobel polémico, controvertido y genial.

Obra maestra de Kipling y una de las grandes narraciones de todos los tiempos, Kim cuenta la historia de Kimball O'hara, a quien todos llaman Kim, huérfano de un soldado del regimiento irlandés. La acción transcurre en la India colonial británica, donde el joven y astuto protagonista conoce a un lama tibetano que cambiará el curso de su vida. El lama se propone encontrar un río místico, y el muchacho decide acompañarle y guiarle, pero al mismo tiempo el viaje esconde una misión, que prefigura su futuro como miembro del servicio secreto. La presente edición, en traducción reciente de Verónica Canales, incluye la introducción y las notas del teórico literario Edward W. Said, uno de los grandes exponentes de los estudios poscoloniales.

She escaped a serial killer. Then things got weird. Amber Jamison can’t believe she’s about to become the latest victim of a serial killer. She’s savvy and street smart, so when she gets pushed into, of all things, a white windowless van, she is more angry than afraid. Things get even weirder when she’s miraculously saved by a mysterious woman . . . who promptly disappears. Who was she? And why is she hunting serial killers? You’d think escaping one psychopath would be enough, but Amber’s problems are just beginning. Her close call has law enforcement circling a past she’s tried to outrun. She’s forced to flee across the country, ending up at a seedy motel in Las Vegas with a noir-obsessed manager and a sex worker as her unlikely companions . . . and danger right behind. She’s landed in the cross hairs of the world’s most prolific killer, caught up in a deadly game that’s been going on for years. To survive, she is forced to dust off her old playbook and partner with someone she can’t trust. The odds are against her, but sometimes you just have to roll the dice.

Sending Damon to prison was the worst thing Winter could’ve done. It didn’t matter that he did the crime or that she wished he was dead. Winter thought he’d cool off in jail and be anything but the horror he was, or that at the very least she’d have time to disappear before he got out. But she was wrong. Three years came and went too fast, and prison only gave him time to plan. And while Winter anticipated his vengeance, she didn’t expect this. He doesn’t want to make her hurt. He wants to make everything hurt. Damon knows he needs to get rid of Winter’s father, giving her, her sister, and her mother nowhere to run. The Ashby women are desperate for a knight in shining armor. But that’s not what’s coming. It’s time Damon took control of his future. It’s time he showed them all that he will never stop being the nightmare they think he is. Damon won’t have to break into her home to do it. As the new man of the house, he has all the keys.