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Nick y Allie no sobreviven al accidente de coche, pero sus almas tampoco llegan a donde deberían. Ahora ambos están atrapados entre la vida y la muerte, en una especie de limbo conocido como Everlost: una sombra del mundo de los vivos rebosante de cosas y lugares que ya no existen. Es un sitio misterioso y lleno de peligros, donde las vidas pasadas se desvanecen y donde muchos se convierten en algo... diferente. Cuando localizan a la autoproclamada reina de las almas perdidas, Nick siente que ha encontrado su hogar, pero Allie no está dispuesta a pasar allí la eternidad. Así, decide aventurarse por su cuenta en un territorio oscuro, donde se rumorea que un monstruo amenaza a todas las almas de Everlost.En esta inquietante y evocadora novela, Neal Shusterman -autor de libros tan exitosos como Siega y ganador del Premio Nacional de Literatura Juvenil en Estados Unidos- explora temas como la vida, la muerte y lo que podría haber a medio camino. «Shusterman exhibe con elegancia las complejidades de su mundo paralelo». The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books «Una exploración única de la vida después de la muerte».

Los caminos de Nick y Allie se han separado en Everlost, la extraña tierra a la que llegaron tras su accidente. Nick quiere ayudar a los muertos para que dejen atrás ese limbo, pero la autoproclamada reina de las almas perdidas prefiere mantenerlos atrapados en Everlost para toda la eternidad. Por su parte, Allie ha emprendido un viaje con un antiguo monstruo para buscar a sus padres. Será en esa travesía cuando descubra una impactante verdad que la llevará a cuestionarse su lugar en ambos mundos, el de los vivos y el de los muertos.

They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without. For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books—medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her—Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart.

They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without. For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books—medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her—Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart. When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until Percy can confront the decisions she made and the years she’s spent punishing herself for them, they’ll never know whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past.

Madden construye en Ex libris una narrativa de acertijos posmoderna que es a la vez lúdica y penetrante, y que lo acredita como uno de los grandes maestros visuales de la metaficción en el panorama actual. Estás mirando el volumen Ex libris de Matt Madden. Puede que hayas ido a buscarlo expresamente o que te hayas topado con él en una librería o en casa de alguien. O quizá estés leyendo esto en un catálogo en una pantalla. ¿Qué clase de aventura crees que tendrá lugar entre sus páginas? A juzgar por la cubierta y el título, parece que habla de libros. ¿Está protagonizado por un cómic? Si lo dejas ahora, jamás lo descubrirás. Sin duda, en algún rincón de tu mente se irán ramificando sin parar versiones imaginarias e hipotéticas del argumento. Si quieres descubrir lo que sucede en Ex libris, vas a tener que abrirlo y leer la primera página. Pero, cuidado, ¡podría atraparte!

At a lavish party in the hills outside of San Francisco, Jin Han meets Lidija Jung and nothing will ever be the same for either woman. A brilliant young photographer, Jin is at a crossroads in her work, in her marriage to her college love Philip, and in who she is and who she wants to be. Lidija is an alluring, injured world-class ballerina on hiatus from her ballet company under mysterious circumstances. Drawn to each other by their intense artistic drives, the two women talk all night. Cracked open, Jin finds herself telling Lidija about an old familial curse, breaking a lifelong promise. She’s been told that if she doesn’t keep the curse a secret, she risks losing everything; death and ruin could lie ahead. As Jin and Lidija become more entangled, they realize they share more than the ferocity of their ambition, and begin to explore hidden desires. Something is ignited in Jin: her art, her body, and her sense of self irrevocably changed. But can she avoid the specter of the curse? Vital, bold, powerful, and deeply moving, Exhibit asks: how brightly can you burn before you light your life on fire?