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Longing to escape his island home, a boy named Hodaka runs away during his first summer of high school to find a new life in Tokyo. As rain falls for days on end and Hodaka struggles to adjust, he meets a girl named Hina who holds a mysterious power: With a single prayer, she can part the clouds...

Cada mes de agosto Ana Magdalena Bach toma el transbordador hasta la isla donde está enterrada su madre para visitar la tumba en la que yace. Esas visitas acaban suponiendo una irresistible invitación a convertirse en una persona distinta durante una noche al año.

Violeta Sanoguera had always done what she was told. She left the man she loved in Colombia in pursuit of a better life for herself and because her mother and grandmother didn’t approve of him. Chasing dreams of education and art in New York City, and with a new love, twenty-eight-year-old Violeta establishes a new life for herself, on her terms. But when her grandmother suddenly dies, everything changes.

When Dana and Nigel got married, they had such promise. After sixteen years, the cracks are showing. Dana is a burned-out ER nurse, and Nigel is a recently unemployed stay-at-home dad whose professional identity is disappearing. Questioning the directions their lives have taken, Dana and Nigel are each granted a wish from a mysterious stranger. For one week they can escape the pressure of their lives in favor of ones in which they never married.

Em uma vila distante do sertão nordestino, um aprendiz de mágico faz a alegria da população com truques mirabolantes tirados de sua cartola. Acostumado com os olhares surpresos e abestalhados, Dino não espera que na noite da véspera de São João a mesmice de sua vida esteja prestes a findar. Uma forasteira desconhecida de olhos grandes e encantadores, que carrega asas de ferro nas costas, parece assisti-lo de maneira diferente, vendo além do que mostra em seu espetáculo.

This collection of eight stories paints a vivid image of people who don't do what you might expect them to living on the fringes in America. Not stories of triumph over adversity but something completely other. Described in language that is brilliantly sardonic, Woods' characters return repeatedly to places where they don't belong - often the places where they were born. In the background are the endless American wars and occupations and too many early deaths of friends and family. This is fiction that is fresh and of the moment, even as it is timeless.

If you could and rewrite your memories, would you do it? International bestselling author Elísabet Benavent explores doomed love, memories, and regrets in this sensational contemporary romance full of witty humor, emotional catharsis, and a satisfying happy ending. Fashion editor Miranda loves...

When a grieving woman unexpectedly steps into a different version of her life, she must choose between the husband she loves and the daughter she lost in this brave, gripping novel. “A beautiful story that will make you rethink all the moments you’ve wished for a different outcome...

This is an audiobook of short stories that can be listening to over a cup of coffee in some sunny nook where you can be pleasantly surprised by the twists and turns of the different tales.

When not performing two sold-out shows every night, Music Hall Steampunk illusionists and consultants to Scotland Yard, slick-talking Michael Magister and the feisty Phoebe Le Breton, must solve the crime of the century, while saving the nation from a conclave of fiendish psychopaths led by the crazed renegade Jesuit known only as "The Black Bishop".

Emilia and Gregorio spent their childhood following their grandmother through the mountains of central México, gathering the ingredients she used for curandera work and learning about the supernatural world. When she passes away, the siblings are left alone. So they scrape together their money and pay coyotes to smuggle them to their father in the United States. The siblings are exhausted before they even reach the border, where the coyotes seize Emilia for their own harsh ends.

Evie Berry is a 30-year-old wannabe screenwriter who spends her days managing a London cinema bar and making the podcast Pasta La Vista with her best friend, Ben. She's also obsessed with Hugo Hearst. Have you heard of him? Of course you have. He's only one of the most influential and not to mention swoon-worthy best-selling writers of his generation. When Evie's not hooking up with her on-again, off-again booty call 'Ever-Ready Freddy' (and sometimes even when she is), she fantasises about what might have been if she'd met Hugo years ago, when he was just a struggling writer.

Peter Roth is a talented musician and an expert drunk. For years, he's heard voices in his head, voices of anyone he's ever respected, and they're all judging him for his failures. As his twenties are dwindling away, Peter decides to embark on a make-or-break trip to the West Coast with his girlfriend and his sister, honing his music along the way. One of the voices comes along for the ride - only it turns out that this one is real. As Peter makes his way across the country, he has no idea that there are dark forces gathering against him - and what it's going to take to survive.

2015. Eighteen-year-old Boyd Montgomery returns from her grandfather’s wedding to find her friend Isaac missing. Drought-ravaged central Texas has been newly inundated with rain, and flash floods across the state have begun to sweep away people, cars, and entire houses as every river breaks its banks.

Abgeschlossenes Architekturstudium, tolle Freunde, coole WG ... in Juliets Leben läuft alles nach Plan. Doch dann geschieht das Unfassbare. Bei einem Autounfall verliert sie ihre Eltern. Völlig verzweifelt zieht Juliet sich in ihr Elternhaus in Köln zurück. Dort findet sie eine Nachricht ihrer Mutter, die ihre Welt vollends aus den Angeln hebt: William, ihr tot geglaubter Großvater, lebt - und zwar im fernen Michigan. Und ausgerechnet dort wohnt auch Finn, der junge Tierarzt, dessen Stimme und Gedanken plötzlich überall sind! Doch Mindwhisperer leben gefährlich.

Inscrita en la tradición del realismo mágico, Cuando llegues al otro lado es una poderosa narración que recorre y traspasa las fronteras entre la realidad y lo sobrenatural, entre el origen y el destino. Una novela emocionante de caminos cruzados que revela cuán profundas son las raíces que nos habitan.

FonoLibro se enorgullece en presentar el audiolibro “Con la muerte no se juega” de Hans Trujillo. Ganadora del International Latino Book Awards 2019 en Los Ángeles, como "Mejor Primera Novela de Ficción"; Y premiada con el “Excellence Award” en el Stroud Arts Book Festival 2018 en New Orleans. Un sorprendente relato donde la realidad y la ficción se mezclan, cuando un joven fotógrafo tiene la osadía de tomar la única foto que se conoce de “La Muerte”, quién desde entonces lo comienza a perseguir como su sombra.

It was a beautiful morning. Despite the ancient oracle's strange warning, Lydia set sail. She was experienced. She had done this plenty of times before. The oracle offered her a lucky talisman. Lydia took it. Now, it seems both their luck has run out. She is stuck on an island with a charm whose magic is spent. Will it ever return, or is she doomed to spend the rest of her life marooned in the middle of nowhere?

AliƧin is living the dream–too bad she doesn’t feel like it. With the rock-star costume her manager forces her to wear feeling more like a straightjacket, she wishes she could ditch it all and just sing. After her broken-down tour bus ends up stranding her in Nowhere, a chance encounter with a hysterical rabbit leaves her tumbling down the rabbit hole into Wonderland...only this isn’t the Wonderland everybody knows.

Charlie Holiday has a perfectly good life. Well, from the outside. Inside, he knows there's more to it. He just doesn't know quite what that is. Or how to get it. Or where to start. Or, well, anything. He just knows there's more. As if "they" have been listening, he's about to be approached to join the world of the paranormal.