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En Frankenstein, la inmortal obra maestra de la escritora británica Mary Shelley, nos adentramos en un mundo tenebroso y perturbador que desafía los límites de la ciencia y la moral. Adaptada al cine en numerosas ocasiones, esta novela gótica ha dejado una profunda huella en la literatura y en el imaginario popular. El relato sigue la historia del científico Víctor Frankenstein, que, obsesionado con la idea de desafiar las leyes de la vida y la muerte, crea un ser aberrante a partir de miembros de cadáveres. Pero lo que comienza como un experimento ambicioso y audaz, se convierte rápidamente en una verdadera y terrorífica pesadilla a medida que el monstruo adquiere conciencia de su existencia y trata de vengarse de su creador…

Clara Graysword has survived the underworld of Eclipse City through thievery, luck, and a whole lot of illegal magic. After a job gone awry, Clara is sentenced to a lifetime in prison for inking tarot cards—a rare power reserved for practitioners at the elite Arcana Academy. Just when it seems her luck has run dry, the academy’s enigmatic headmaster, Prince Kaelis, offers her an escape—for a price. Kaelis believes that Clara is the perfect tool to help him steal a tarot card from the king and use it to re-create an all-powerful card long lost to time. In order to conceal her identity and keep her close, Kaelis brings Clara to Arcana Academy, introducing her as the newest first-year student and his bride-to-be. Thrust into a world of arcane magic and royal intrigue, where one misstep will send her back to prison or worse, Clara finds that the prince she swore to hate may not be what he seems. But can she risk giving him power over the world—and her heart? Or will she take it for herself?

Un libro que pretende reivindicar un legado cultural de gran peso en las vidas de todos nosotros. Desde la publicación, hace casi treinta años, de la obra de Bruno Bettelheim Psicoanálisis de los cuentos de hadas no había aparecido ningún libro que nos enseñara tanto sobre los cuentos infantiles como el que el lector tiene en sus manos. En Los cuentos de hadas clásicos anotados se recuperan las historias más queridas por los niños de hoy y de siempre a través de la selección de Maria Tatar, una de las mayores expertas mundiales en el campo de literatura popular e infantil. En este volumen, bellamente ilustrado, Tatar ha seleccionado veintiséis cuentos clásicos que son otros tantos modelos que ayudan a los niños a desenvolverse en el mundo real y contribuyen a desarrollar el ingenio y el coraje necesarios para sobrevivir en un mundo gobernado por adultos. Este libro pretende reivindicar un legado cultural de gran peso en las vidas de todos nosotros, guiando a los lectores a través de cada una de las historias, explorando sus orígenes históricos, sus complejidades culturales y sus efectos psicológicos.

Sinaí Ferreira no debió haber interferido en los secretos de los Frey; por desgracia, se obsesionó locamente con uno de ellos, y haría cualquier cosa para conseguirlo. Ruso. Peligrosamente atractivo. Un prodigio. Adicto a revivir personas. Axer Frey era el último chico que una nerd intentaría alcanzar. Menos ella. Entre secretos, jugadas de ajedrez y una intensa tensión sexual, Sinaí descenderá al fondo de un abismo del que no querrá salir.

A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common. Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak. Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them? But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex…right?

One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn’t see coming… Nora Stephens’ life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute. If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.