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"Al principio, el misterioso letrero parece una broma de mal gusto: Es hora de un nuevo juego, Bayview . Pero cuando alguien desaparece, queda claro que ese juego se ha vuelto serio, y nadie entiende las reglas. Todo el mundo puede ser la siguiente víctima. Y ahora que un individuo inesperado ha vuelto a Bayview, las cosas empiezan a ser mortales. Simon tenía razón sobre los secretos: al final, todos salen a la luz."--

Traveling the world via aircanoe, siblings Tink and Bee-Lung spread spores of a mysterious empathy-generating fungus to build bonds between people, while Everfair's Princess Mwadi and Prince Ilunga are unwittingly manipulated by their mother who pits Europe's influenza-weakened political powers against each other.

"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives."--...

"New York City, 1911. Edith Wharton, almost equally famed for her novels and her sharp tongue, is bone-tired of Manhattan. Finding herself at a crossroads with both her marriage and her writing, she makes the decision to leave America, her publisher, and her loveless marriage. And then, dashing novelist David Graham Phillips--a writer with often notorious ideas about society and women's place in it--is shot to death outside the Princeton Club. Edith...

"Larkspur Nielsen is determined to keep the family homestead running and to fulfill their dream of starting a seed catalog, even if she must do it alone. When she discovers that Isaac McTavish has feelings for her, she pushes him away to protect her heart. But how can she build the life she's always dreamed of when unexpected dangers arrive?"--Provided by publisher.

"Entre ironías, burlas, improperios, maldiciones, blasfemias, este librito sin pretensiones hará reír a muchos e iluminará a montones. Trata modestamente de apresar el cambio frenético que se ha apoderado del mundo. Su autor vive en la Luna y desde allá dispara. Es un francotirador lunático que abre fuego contra el que sea: presidentes, papas, reguetoneros, raperos, médicos... Y con especial delectación contra las reverendas madres, perpetuadoras...

"1925. London. When Alice Diamond, AKA "Diamond Annie," is elected the Queen of the Forty Elephants, she's determined to take the all-girl gang to new heights. She's ambitious, tough as nails, and a brilliant mastermind, with a plan to create a dynasty the likes of which no one has ever seen. Alice demands absolute loyalty from her "family"--it's how she's always kept the cops in line. Too bad she's now the target for one of Britain's first female...

"They say Mackerel Sky was founded when Captain Burrbank first saw Nimuë the Mermaid and forgot the sea. Stricken by love, he moored his tall ship and made camp on the highest cliff, hoping to forever gaze upon her beauty. That camp became a settlement, the settlement a town, the town a community both blessed and cursed by their tempestuous affair. Three hundred years later, the legend of the Mermaid and the Captain who loved her still invigorates...

"Holden James picked the worst time to have a meltdown. His chance to audition for his favorite game show, Madcap Market, should have been a moment of triumph, a glorious, loving homage to his adored mom, who died six years ago. Instead, he's destroying the minibar in a grim Los Angeles hotel room? recently dumped, partnerless and sliding into misery. But at least the hotel service is sublime. It even comes with an unfairly fit and sexy (smart-ass)...

"Once there was a girl named Kiki, who found a fish on the asphalt. The fish was very hot and very dry. But when Kiki put it in the bathtub, it started swimming, and growing, and speaking. 'I want to grant you a wish for saving me,' it said. Alas, this fish was only a fish of small wishes, and Kiki's wish was too big--unless there was a way for both their dreams to come true"-- Provided by publisher.