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El Salvador, 1923. Graciela, a young girl growing up on a volcano in a community of Indigenous women, is summoned to the capital, where she is claimed as an oracle for a rising dictator. There she meets Consuelo, the sister she has never known, who was stolen from their home before Graciela was born. The two spend years under the cruel El Gran Pendejo’s regime, unwillingly helping his reign of terror, until genocide strikes the community from which they hail. Each believing the other to be dead, they escape, fleeing across the globe, reinventing themselves until fate ultimately brings them back together in the most unlikely of ways… Endlessly surprising, vividly imaginative, bursting with lush life, The Volcano Daughters charts a new history and mythology of El Salvador, fiercely bringing forth voices that have been calling out for generations.

Nothing ever happens in sleepy little Fairhill, Vermont. But this morning that will change. And one innocent question could be deadly. What have you done? The teenagers get their kicks telling ghost stories in the old graveyard. The parents trust their kids will arrive home safe from school. Everyone knows everyone. Curtains rarely twitch. Front doors are left unlocked. But Diana Brewer isn’t lying safely in her bed where she belongs. Instead she lies in a hayfield, circled by vultures, discovered by a local farmer. How quickly a girl becomes a ghost. How quickly a town of friendly, familiar faces becomes a town of suspects, a place of fear and paranoia. Someone in Fairhill did this. Everyone wants answers.

Lady Grace Fairfax, witch, knows that something foul is at play that someone had betrayed Anne Boleyn and her coven. Wild with the loss of their leader and her lover, a secret that if spilled could spell Grace’s own end she will do anything in her power to track down the traitor. But there’s more at stake than revenge: it was one of their own, a witch, that betrayed them, and Grace isn’t the only one looking for her. King Henry VIII has sent witchfinders after them, and they’re organized like they’ve never been before under his new advisor, the impassioned Sir Ambrose Fulke, a cold man blinded by his faith. His cruel reign could mean the end of witchkind itself. If Grace wants to find her revenge and live, she will have to do more than disappear.

Written while Mary Shelley was in a self-imposed lockdown after the loss of her husband and children, and in the wake of intersecting crises including the climate-changing Mount Tambora eruption and a raging cholera outbreak, The Last Man (1826) is the first end-of-mankind novel, an early work of climate fiction, and a prophetic depiction of environmental change. Set in the late twenty-first century, the book tells of a deadly pandemic that leaves a lone survivor, and follows his journey through a post-apocalyptic world that’s devoid of humanity and reclaimed by nature. But rather than give in to despair, Shelley uses the now-ubiquitous end-times plot to imagine a new world where freshly-formed communities and alternative ways of being stand in for self-important politicians serving corrupt institutions, and where nature reigns mightily over humanity—a timely message for our current era of climate collapse and political upheaval. Brimming with political intrigue and love triangles around characters based on Percy Shelley and scandal-dogged poet Lord Byron, the novel also broaches partisan dysfunction, imperial warfare, refugee crises, and economic collapse—and brings the legacy of her radically progressive parents, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, to bear on present-day questions about making a better world less centered around “man.” Shelley’s second major novel after Frankenstein, The Last Man casts a half-skeptical eye on romantic ideals of utopian perfection and natural plenitude while looking ahead to a greener future in which our species develops new relationships with non-human life and the planet.

REMY spends his days trying to survive the mean streets of Cutthroat Wedge—one of the many islands floating in the gravitational pull of the magical Maelstrom raging below. But his life changes forever when a violent storm brings a baby dragon to his doorstep, and he feels a bond he has never felt with anyone. Remy names the dragon Storm and vows to protect this new friend, no matter the cost. GEM longs for the day when she call herself a true mage. That is, if she can convince her teachers and peers that just because she’s a princess doesn’t mean she’s lazy and spoiled. But when Gem learns that the floating islands that make up her kingdom are rapidly sinking into the Maelstrom, she makes it her mission to save her world. Against the king’s wishes, she accesses forbidden research and discovers the secret to saving humanity may lie in a True Dragon—a dragon capable of intelligent thought and able to cast and use magic. But True Dragons are extinct . . . aren’t they? Remy’s and Gem’s lives will never be the same when their fates collide, thanks to Storm. With an evil pirate mage named Jhaeros determined to claim the rare dragon for himself, the two must learn to trust in each other as they team up with a shifty pirate captain and her crew, stand together against impossible odds, and embark on the adventure of a lifetime.

¿Cuántos likes vale tu felicidad? Se pasa unas horas más viendo los viajes maravillosos, los cuerpos perfectos y todos los outfits que se prueban cada día los influencers. Y se siente mal porque ella no puede llevar la vida que ve en las redes, sabe que nunca podrá alcanzar una felicidad así.

En una de las periódicas redadas de las autoridades para capturar ilegales a haitianos, en esta ocasión, basándose en la sentencia del tribunal constitucional No. 168/2013, en migración del aeropuerto, las Américas de Santo Domingo, apresan a un negro, funcionario del ministerio de Agricultura, que viajaba a Puerto Rico a un congreso técnico en representación del ministerio, y el inspector de migración, sin tener más base cierta que el color de la piel, no reconoce la Dominican anidad que se demuestra en sus documentos personales, y lo acusa de ser un ilegal haitiano y de falsificar documentos para viajar ilegalmente a los Estados Unidos de América. lo trasladan en una camioneta a un centro migratorio en Santo Domingo y en Haina, para expulsarlo hacia Haití como ilegal, país que no conoce ni donde pudiera tener familiares. Allí conoce a un profesor universitario, también apresado por ser negro, quien para aprovechar el tiempo de detención, le narra el origen de la problemática histórica entre la República Dominicana y Haití. El relato recrea información sobre los padres y abuelos del protagonista de su juventud, de los cafetales, dominicanos, de su hermana, la esposa, su liberación y su viaje final para residir en un país extranjero.

Ella es una joven gitana que huye de su familia para escapar de un matrimonio concertado; el, un relojero que acampa en la frontera y la acoge en su tienda. El encuentro inaugura un entendimiento hecho de diálogos nocturnos, un intercambio de saberes y visiones: ella, que cree en el destino, en las señales, en el dios de las cosas; el, que se siente un engranaje de la máquina del mundo y que interpreta ese mundo según las reglas del juego del Mikado, como si jugar fuera una forma de poner orden en el caos. Un entendimiento que durará toda una vida, incluso en la distancia, y que tendrá consecuencias que reverberarán a lo largo del tiempo: ambos tomarán decisiones inevitables que cambiarán el destino del otro.

Las cosas no siempre son lo que parecen. Ya sabes quién es Dakota Monroe. La pregunta crucial ahora es: ¿quién es Jagger Castleraigh? No es un chico malo, pero tampoco es el bueno. No es un santo, pero todavía no lo llaman Lucifer. No es el príncipe, pero tampoco un villano. Jagger no es inocente y tampoco es culpable. Tras un giro inesperado de los acontecimientos, Dakota y Jagger han descubierto que sus historias están enlazadas; donde termina una comienza la otra y ambas acarrean destrucción. Con un pasado tormentoso, doloroso e inconcluso, Jagger debe enfrentar antiguos demonios y nuevas pesadillas, explorar sus sentimientos por Dakota y proteger a las hermanas Monroe. En este juego del gato y el ratón ¿quién es la presa y quién el cazador?