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Los mejores libros jamás escritos. «Si mi vida ha de valer dinero, más cale que lo tome yo que no otro.» Vida, ascendencia, nacimiento, crianza y aventuras de Diego de Torres Villarroel es la obra inaugural de la novela autobiográfica, un cambio radical para las letras hispánicas del siglo XVIII y, por ello, una obra capital de nuestra literatura. Como si de un relato picaresco se tratase, el autor utiliza los grandes acontecimientos de su vida para hilvanar una extraordinaria narración en la que hace gala de un tono despreocupado, burlesco, provocador y sin duda único. Esta cuidada edición proporcionará al lector las herramientas necesarias para comprender la obra en su contexto y en toda su amplitud. De este modo, la profesora e investigadora María Angulo Egea la ha dotado de una introducción, un aparato de notas y unas actividades sobre la lectura.

Charlie es una niña rubia, de ojos azules, educada y cariñosa. Pero también es piroquinética. Sí, puede encender fuego a distancia, desde inofensivas fogatas hasta hogueras voraces. Y si posee estas capacidades a los siete años, horroriza pensar en sus poderes destructores cuando sea adulta. Aunque, la verdad, tiene pocas probabilidades de llegar a la edad adulta. Porque el servicio secreto norteamericano encargado de realizar investigaciones científicas y paracientíficas para su aplicación militar ha decidido estudiar a Charlie y luego eliminarla, tal como estudió y eliminó a sus padres después de haberlos utilizado en sus experimentos...

Uno de los últimos fenómenos de la plataforma Wattpad: una historia de amor alocada, divertida y llena de giros inesperados. Cuando los secretos salen a la luz... ¡todo es posible. Alaska Hans tiene un secreto: le encanta escribir. Y se le da especialmente bien. Tanto que su novela escrita bajo seudónimo se ha convertido en un éxito total en la plataforma JoinApp. Drake, su insoportable pero atractivo vecino lo descubrirá y nada volverá a ser lo mismo entre los dos. Porque cuando tu vecino sexy descubre tu mayor secreto... ¿hay algo que puede ir mal? Escenas comprometedoras, situaciones incómodas y una historia romántica que nos recuerda que el amor platónico no es más que una simple excusa para aquellos que no se atreven a dar el paso. Una novela alocada, caótica, divertida y sobre todo... +18.

Together in one volume, here are a pair of literary touchstones from Truman Capote’s extraordinary early career: the transcendently popular novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms, the debut novel he published as a twenty-three-year-old prodigy. Of all his characters, Capote once said, Holly Golightly was his favorite. The hillbilly-turned-Manhattanite at the center of Breakfast at Tiffany’s shares not only the author’s philosophy of freedom but also his fears and anxieties. For Holly, the cure is to jump into a taxi and head for Tiffany’s; nothing bad could happen, she believes, amid “that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets.” Other Voices, Other Rooms begins as thirteen-year-old Joel Knox, after losing his mother, is sent from New Orleans to rural Alabama to live with his estranged father—who is nowhere to be found. Instead, Joel meets his eccentric family and finds a kindred spirit in a defiant little girl. Despite its themes of waylaid hopes and lost innocence, this semiautobiographical coming-of-age novel revels in small pleasures and the colorful language of its time and place.

They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . . Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is. Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living.

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?