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Growing up in an orphanage, Nica's imagination burned with fantastical stories. When she's adopted, Nica thinks she's leaving the orphanage, and her world of otherworldly tales, behind her. That is, until Rigel - as mesmerising and handsome as he is troubled - joins the family. It isn't long before their shared hardships spark something magical between them. But before their fantasies for a brighter future can become reality, they'll have to face...
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Growing up in the small town of Winston, Pennsylvania feels like drowning. Leah goes to church every Sunday, works when she isn't at school, and takes care of her baby brother, Owen. Like every girl in Winston, she tries to be right and good and holy. If she isn't the Lord of the Wood will take her, and she'll disappear like so many other girls before her. But living up to the rigorous standards of the town takes its toll. One night, when Owen won't...
4) The limits
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"A novel set in French Polynesia and New York City about three characters--a fifteen year old girl toggling between her mother, a marine biologist studying coral reefs on an island off the coast of Tahiti, and her father, a surgeon in Manhattan--who undergo massive transformations over the course of a single year"--
From Mo'orea, a tiny volcanic island off the coast of Tahiti, a French biologist obsessed with saving Polynesia's imperiled coral reefs...
5) El regreso
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"Trevor Benson no tuvo intenciones de volver a New Bern, Carolina del Norte. Pero una terrible explosi̤n a las fueras del hospital en el que trabajaba como cirujano, le obliga a volver a casa desde Afganist̀n con graves heridas. La destartalada cabąa que hab̕a heredado de su abuelo parece el lugar ideal para recuperarse. Trevor, que cuida las amadas colmenas de abejas de su abuelo, no est̀ preparado para enamorarse de alguien del pueblo. Sin...
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"From Philip K. Dick Award finalist Elwin Cotman, an irresistibly unnerving collection of stories that explore the anxieties of living while Black--a high-wire act of literary-fantastical hybrid fiction. A rural town finds itself under the authoritarian sway of a tree that punishes children. A pair of old friends navigate their fraught history as strange happenings escalate in a Mexican restaurant. A pair of narcissistic friends wreak havoc on an...
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