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Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left the family when he was nine years old without a trace. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, his family's life has been governed by laws written to preserve “American culture” in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic.   Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn’t know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn’t wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, 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 librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change.

A cop begins seeing huge, blinking eyes where the headlights of cars should be that tell him who to pull over. Two freedom riders take a bus ride that leaves them stranded on a lonely road in Alabama where several unsettling somethings await them. A young girl dives into the depths of the Earth in search of the demon that killed her parents. These are just a few of the worlds of Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele’s anthology of all-new horror stories by Black writers. Featuring an introduction by Peele and an all-star roster of beloved writers and new voices, Out There Screaming is a master class in horror, and—like his spine-chilling films—its stories prey on everything we think we know about our world . . . and redefine what it means to be afraid.

¿Ha llegado la hora de renovar el amor o de empezar un capítulo nuevo? Ingrid Dahl, una alegre librera de veintinueve años que vive en una acogedora ciudad de Ridgetop, situada en las montañas de Carolina del Norte, lleva once felices años con su novio de la universidad, Cory, sin haberse planteado siquiera la posibilidad de casarse. Sin embargo, cuando Riley, la hermana de Ingrid, anuncia su compromiso con su novia después de solo dos años de relación, Ingrid y Cory se sienten presionados y empiezan a reconsiderar su futuro. Ninguno de ellos ha estado con otras personas, así que deciden hacer algo poco convencional: tomarse un mes de descanso para salir con otros y luego iniciar los planes de la boda. Ingrid incluso tiene a alguien en mente: Macon Nowakowski, su compañero de trabajo, que es un encanto en plan gruñón y que le gusta en secreto desde hace años. Sin embargo, los planes se tuercen y, cuando el mes llega a su fin, Ingrid está dispuesta a prorrogar el plazo para vivir por fin su amor pendiente. Overdue es una preciosa historia con un romance lento, rebosante de pasión y deseo, sobre nuevos comienzos y encontrar tu camino.