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Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left without a trace when he was nine years old. He doesn’t know what happened to her—only that her books have been banned—and he resents that she cared more about her work than about him. Then one day Bird receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, and soon 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 heroic librarians, and finally to New York City, where he will learn the truth about what happened to his mother and what the future holds for them both. Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. It’s about the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children and the power of art to create change.

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.

La reina japonesa del crimen. El lado oscuro de Japón te dejará sin aliento. Masako, Kuniko, Yoshie y Yayoi trabajan en el turno nocturno de una fábrica de comida preparada de los suburbios de Tokio. Todas tienen graves problemas tanto de dinero como familiares (maridos infieles, suegras discapacitadas o hijos imposibles) y se desenvuelven en una atmósfera hostil e inhóspita. Una noche, Yayoi estrangula a su marido, Kenji, cansada de sus continuas agresiones físicas. Masako, Kuniko y Yoshie la ayudarán a deshacerse del cuerpo. La policía recela de ellas, pero no dispone de pruebas que las incriminen. En cambio, en su lista de sospechosos se halla Satake, el dueño de un casino y un bar de alterne que Kenji frecuentaba. Mientras tanto, un prestamista vinculado a la yakuza las descubre y chantajea a las mujeres para que se ocupen de otros cadáveres.

Una nueva dimensión de terror y misterio. En algún punto entre la vida y la muerte… flota la verdad. Cuando Dan Collins despierta y descubre que su vida pende de un hilo, se ve obligado a valerse de su proyección astral para descubrir quién intentó asesinarle. ¿Quién es la bella mística que intenta ayudarle? ¿Por qué quiere August Fryne el alma de Dan y qué tiene que ver este con un demonio que parece ser Dorian Gray? Una historia de suspense detectivesco extraño y ocultista que trata de la vida, de la muerte… y de todo lo que hay entremedio.

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.

Protegido por puestos defensivos y tropas cosacas, se alza el Moscú milenario. Dentro de los tres anillos de defensa (y detrás de los muros del Kremlin) se alza su imponente palacio. Allí, Su Majestad el Emperador premia a lo mejor de lo mejor, a los más valientes entre los valientes, la flor del cuerpo de oficiales, el apoyo y la esperanza del imperio, con una misión. Tendrán que abandonar la capital, decorada festivamente para el día del Arcángel Miguel, e ir a las tierras oscuras que una vez pertenecieron a la gran Rusia, para resolver un misterio. De camino a su destino destino más allá del Volga y detrás del impenetrable velo de niebla, el interrogante penderá sobre las tropas cosacas: ¿dónde desaparecieron todos los exploradores y por qué los puestos fronterizos guardaron silencio al respecto?