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When Morgan and Benji surprise their families with a wedding invitation to Maine, they’re aware the news of their clandestine relationship will come as a shock. Twelve years have passed since the stunning loss of sixteen-year-old Alice, Benji’s sister and Morgan’s best friend, and no one is quite the same. But the young couple decide to plunge headlong into matrimony, marking the first time their fractured families will reunite since Alice’s funeral. As the arriving guests descend upon the tranquil coastal town, they bring with them not only skepticism about the impromptu nuptials but also deep-seated secrets and agendas of their own. Peter, Morgan’s father, may be trying to dissuade his daughter from saying “I do,” while Linnie, Benji’s mother, introduces a boyfriend who bears a tumultuous past of his own. Nick, Benji’s father, is scheming to secure a new job before his wife—formerly his mistress—discovers he’s lost his old one. Morgan, too, carries delicate secrets that threaten to jeopardize the happiness for which she has so longed. And as for Benji—well, he’s just trying to make sure the whole weekend doesn’t implode.

The Young Man is Annie Ernaux’s account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some 30 years younger, when she was in her fifties. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and at the same time leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time— together with a sense that she is living her life backwards. Amidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its course, and menopause approaching. The Young Man recalls Ernaux as the “scandalous girl” she once was, but is composed with the mastery and the self-assurance she has achieved across decades of writing. It was first published in France in 2022.

There was only one woman who could set me free. But I would rather set myself on fire than ask Sloane Walton for anything. Lucian Rollins is a lean, mean vengeance-seeking mogul. On a quest to erase his abusive father's mark on the family name, he spends every waking minute pulling strings and building his empire. The more money and power he gains, the safer he feels. Except when it comes to one feisty small-town librarian… Bonded by an old, dark secret from the past and their current mutual disdain, Sloane Walton trusts Lucian about as far as she can throw his designer-suited body. When bickering accidentally turns to foreplay, the flames are fanned, and it's impossible to put them out again. But with Sloane more than ready to start a family and Lucian refusing to even consider the idea of marriage and kids, these enemies-to-lovers are stuck at an impasse. Until Lucian learns the hard way that leaving Sloane is impossible―the very least he can do is to keep her safe.

This Great Hemisphere is powerful, captivating novel about how far we’ll go to protect the ones we love. With the worldbuilding of N. K. Jemisin’s novels and blazing defiance of Naomi Alderman’s work, it is also a story about what happens when we resist the narratives others write about us. Northwestern Hemisphere, 2529: an Earth on which half of people are now born literally invisible. Sweetmint, a young woman, is one of them and thus relegated to second-class citizenship. She has done everything right her entire life, from school to landing a highly sought-after apprenticeship. But all she has fought so hard to earn comes crashing down when she learns that her brother (whom she had presumed dead) is not only alive and well but also the primary suspect in a high-profile political murder.

Algo pasa entre la estrella de Hollywood Rio McQuoid y Ferne Resnik, la discreta becaria del estudio, convertida sin proponérselo—como una cenicienta moderna—en protagonista de la próxima sensación de Netflix. Él es tremendamente atractivo, engreído y atormentado, pero también tierno. Ella, auténtica y creativa, con personalidad e ideas claras, ¿o no? La tensión sexual entre ellos es altísima, pero nada es fácil en la vida de un divo del cine… ¿Conseguirán Ferne y Rio superar las dificultades? ¿O lo suyo no llegará ni a romance pasajero?

Un libro lleno de sensaciones, reflexión y gran belleza, RTL. Barbery disecciona a través de un grupo de personajes la amistad como una conversación que continúa más allá del tiempo y las fronteras, Harper's Bazaar. Cautivador de principio a fin, Marie France. Una emocionante meditación sobre lo que separa y une a los vivos y a los muertos, el amor y la amistad, la inocencia y la corrupción, la magia de los lugares que habitamos…, Madame Figaro. Muriel Barbery busca y encuentra la armonía, Le Monde des Livres Margaux se presenta en el entierro de un amigo de la infancia, Thomas Helder, años después de abandonar a los suyos sin explicación. En la casa familiar de Thomas, en plena campiña occitana, resurgen con fuerza los recuerdos de su pasado en Ámsterdam y de ese rincón de Francia en el que crecieron, se amaron y, a veces, se mintieron.