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Christine Riccio, una de las booktubers más reconocidas en el mundo, ha escrito una historia sobre las segundas oportunidades, el autodescubrimiento y el valor para no rendirse. Shane ha estado haciendo todo mal. Estudia medicina, tiene calificaciones sobresalientes y unos padres muy orgullosos...

Inquiete, sfrontate, aggressive. Scontente. Cinque terribili ragazze alla ricerca di "qualcosa di diverso, ma divertente", dentro e fuori dalla scuola, per non annoiarsi pianificano azioni sempre più rischiose e illegali. Tra un furtarello, un furto, un colpo grosso (e decisivo) mettono in gioco se stesse, la loro amicizia, la loro adolescenza. Gli sbagli le faranno crescere, loro malgrado. Le porranno di fronte a valori che credevano privi di significato: responsabilità, etica, coscienza. Ma la prova più grande che dovranno affrontare arriverà imprevista.

Amani è nata in Siria ma è cresciuta in Italia. Quando compie sedici anni, con una scusa, la madre la porta nel suo paese di origine per qualche giorno. Dopo i primi entusiasmi per un mondo diverso e affascinante, ricco di profumi e sapori nuovi, Amani scopre di essere stata in realtà fidanzata a un cugino, mai conosciuto e mai amato. Le dicono che in Italia non tornerà più. Amani si ribella a quel fidanzamento e a quell'uomo, pagando un prezzo molto alto, in una realtà dura e violenta dove le donne non sono che oggetti sotto la tutela dei maschi.

Jenny wants to take her new puppy, Toto, to the circus, but Toto isn't willing to sit still and watch the show. Suddenly, there's a whoosh, and the circus cannon goes off.... Where's Toto now? The parallel stories in chapters of alternating languages will help you to find out - in English and Spanish!

Tina wants to make friends with the new girl next door, but she gets off to a bad start. Then, when things start to disappear, Tina gets the blame. But who is the real thief? The parallel stories in chapters of alternating languages will help you to find out - in English and Spanish!

Ali's donkey strays into the arena during a very important chariot race - and wins the race! The parallel stories in chapters of alternating languages will help you to follow Ali's exciting adventure in Spanish and English!

Anna is always imagining things and her brother Paul teases her about it. But one day a stranger turns their world upside down. Who - or what - is he? The parallel stories in alternating language chapters will help you to find out - in English and Spanish!

Lara is thrilled to join her father on the set of his latest adventure film. But then something terrible happens. Lara has to act fast to save her father. The parallel stories in chapters of alternating languages will help you to follow Lara's own very real adventure - in Spanish and English!

Magnus dreams of going to sea with the Viking explorers. A big adventure awaits him. He carries a secret for one day far in the future.... The parallel stories in chapters of alternating languages will help you to follow Magnus to the "new world" in English - and Spanish!

An inspiring biography about the woman whose cooking helped feed and fund the Montgomery bus boycott of 1956. Georgia Gilmore was cooking when she heard the news Mrs. Rosa Parks had been arrested--pulled off a city bus and thrown in jail all because she wouldn't let a white man take her seat. To...

En una habitación de la ciudad de Oaxaca, una joven arquitecta escribe y lee los diarios que ha acumulado a lo largo de diez años. Hace seiscientos días que su madre murió. Lo único que Ka sabe de ella es que padecía una enfermedad de los nervios y amaba los caballos. Leonora, su madre, siempre ha sido un fantasma. Mientras se adapta a su regreso a la ciudad, su nuevo trabajo, las calles, el amor y las bibliotecas, Ka busca su propia historia e indaga en la vida de su madre y su apasionada afición equina.

Andrés y Dulce compartiendo el sentimiento de haber tenido un pésimo día, sin conocerse, han acudido a la misma cafetería, y para tener aún más en común, han ordenado el mismo té, y dadas las coincidencias entablan una conversación ¿Hasta dónde les llevará su primer encuentro?

From world-renowned historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, the bestselling author of Sapiens, comes the second volume in the bestselling Unstoppable Us series that traces human development from the Agricultural Revolution to Prehistoric Egypt. Humans may have taken over the world, but what...

In this emotionally transportive literary debut about family and fate, a young Korean woman becomes entrenched in an infamous crime organization—and the dangerous world she once sought to escape. Raised in Hong Kong by their Korean grandmother in a quiet village, Eunha and her brother Solomon...

In the third book in the New York Times bestselling series from Yuval Noah Harari, explore how different ancient civilizations united and created countries and cultures we have today! How do you become friends with your enemies? The answer to that is one of the strangest tales you’ll ever hear...

As a young woman, Corina leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a writer in the cafés of Paris. Instead, she spends her brief time in the City of Light running out of money and lining up with other immigrants to call home from a broken pay phone. But the months of befriending panhandling artists in the métro, sleeping on crowded floors, and dancing the tango at underground parties are given a lasting glow by her intense friendships with Martita and Paola.

Lou è una giovane donna felicemente sposata, madre della piccola Nova. Ma Lou è anche un clone della precedente Lou, uccisa pochi mesi prima da un serial killer, arrestato per l’omicidio di altre quattro donne, e riportata in vita, insieme alle altre vittime, da un programma governativo di clonazione. Le cinque donne si conoscono, si incontrano, si sostengono. Finché Lou deciderà di andare a fondo alla sua storia e provare a capire quali motivazioni hanno spinto il suo assassino a scegliere proprio lei, trovandosi di fronte a una verità insospettata.

Cuando tras un año de relación Edward Benet, un apuesto caballero inglés, le propone a Amanda Kresley viajar desde Estados Unidos a Gran Bretaña para conocer a su madre, nada hace sospechar que este pueda convertirse en el peor viaje de su vida. Cheston House, una hermosa mansión en mitad de la campiña inglesa, es el idílico lugar donde vive Meredith, la madre de Edward, una mujer extremadamente bella aunque contenida, calculada e incluso algo gélida.

Relatos de la cara B es una colección de relatos cortos sobre personajes que sufren injusticias, cometen abusos o son maltratados por la vida, la sociedad o incluso por ellos mismos. Narraciones de la cara menos social, esa menos exitosa, la que ocultamos a los demás, la que nos avergüenza; pero que forma parte de nuestra realidad. En definitiva, historias reales que a través de sus personajes de ficción nos recuerdan que cualquiera podría verse reflejado en ellas.

The bonds between six women undergoing IVF are tested when one announces an unexpected birth in this absorbing, candid novel about what women endure to become mothers “A multilayered story filled with pain and tears and longing.”—Booklist (starred review) Outside the chat, they had...