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I was the average daughter. The troublemaker. The side character in my sister's story. My sister was a Prodigy; endowed with exceptional skills and bonded with a guardian. In a world where all leaders, scientists, and artists are selected and pledged to shifters, she was born for greatness. I was born to live in her shadow. In a moment of rebellion, I trespassed on pack lands and an alpha guardian shifter, Theo, bonded to me. Tragedy makes me reject the pairing. They say I am a Prodigy now—someone special. I think they’re wrong.

When Zoe finds a body laying across the grave of Isaac Wainwright, the man behind a hundred-year-old legend, she sets out to find the killer before the deputy who is substituting for Salinger finds a way to pin the murder on her. Meanwhile, Ellie is asked to babysit her cousin's baby, Levi is AWOL, and the entire Donovan-Zimmerman household is busy with Halloween activities.

I worked hard, everything I planned almost within my grasp, and then one flicker in time, mere seconds, and it’s all gone. Now I’m starting at zero, stuck in a place called the outpost, which is neither here nor there but some limbo land for those who haven’t transitioned.

Sydney Whitmore, a forensic psychologist working for the FBI, moves to Shipwreck Island and renews her relationship with Ezra Reinhold, a reclusive billionaire who enjoys poking around in cold cases and has the means to hire the best people to find the answers no one else has been able to.

Rescue Alaska is a fast moving mystery series with a paranormal twist which takes place in a small town in northern Alaska where visitors come to hike and ski. Harmony Carson is a lifelong resident who volunteers as a member of the local search and rescue team. Harmony has a unique gift which she often considers a curse. She is able to "see" the individuals she is meant to help rescue, and more often than not she can feel their fear and their pain as well.

Algunas de las piezas más exquisitas de la narrativa breve de Virginia Woolf. Virginia Woolf (1882 –1941) participó del insigne grupo de Bloomsbury y fundó con su marido una editorial en la que publicó, entre otros escritores importantes, a sus amigos T.S. Elliot y Katherine Mansfield. Además del celebérrimo ensayo Una habitación propia o de la novela La señora Dalloway, Woolf es también la autora de una valiosa obra de cuentos de la que recogemos aquí una muestra representativa.

"Esa noche, cuando iba de camino a casa desde el teatro, donde se había pasado las últimas dos horas viendo cómo actuaban otras personas, vio que el apartamento de Ulrik en el distrito de Østerbro tenía las luces encendidas. Tenía el manuscrito en el bolso y, de repente, sintió un deseo vehemente de verlo. Le encantaba sentarse en su sala de estar y que él se sentase en el sillón y la corrigiese atentamente mientras ella andaba hacia delante y hacia atrás frente a él y le mostraba su progreso. Casi sin darse cuenta, tocó el timbre con un dedo."...

Harper Harlow-Monroe has everything she’s ever wanted. She has a husband she loves, a best friend who is only irritating 50 percent of the time, and a daughter who refuses to be “normal.” So, basically, she has it all.

Dreams are real. At least they are for Harmony Carson. When the murders carried out during her nightmares begin to manifest themselves in the real world Houston sets everything aside to help Harmony track the killer they are certain has formed a psychic connection with Harmony during her sleep hours.

Syd has settled into her new home at the resort just in time for a good old fashion Thanksgiving, but before she can leave the stress of her old life behind, she must first complete one final interview relating to Conrad Baker, the serial killer whose actions sent her running to Shipwreck Island in the first place.

In this first book in the series, a longtime local, Tim Maverick, sends his old friend Harley Medford a letter with a photo stating that if he should turn up dead at some point in the near future, the man in the photo is the one who killed him. When Tim is found dead only two weeks later, Harley comes to Rescue to find the man he is convinced killed Tim. He hears that Harmony has a reputation for finding people, so he enlists her help. The journey to find the truth behind Tim's untimely death will take Harmony on a journey of discovery she never saw coming.

In book 5, Harmony’s visions are becoming more frequent and they are becoming more intense. It seems they are starting to hurt her but no matter how hard she tries she can't seem to escape them. She can’t sleep and often has headaches. There is one vision specifically that is haunting her nights so she sets out with Houston to find the answers she needs to hopefully stop the nightmares.

After suffering a personal tragedy, Abby Sullivan buys a huge old seaside mansion she has never even seen, packs up her life in San Francisco, and moves to Holiday Bay Maine, where she is adopted, quite against her will, by a huge Maine Coon Cat named Rufus, a drifter with her own tragic past named Georgia, and a giant dog with an inferiority complex named Ramos. What Abby thought she needed was alone time to heal. What she ended up with was, an inn she never knew she wanted, a cat she couldn't seem to convince to leave, and a new family she'd never be able to live without.

Christmas arrives early in Rescue, Alaska, as the search-and-rescue team is tasked with finding a missing Santa. With a new mystery to solve and a holiday decorating contest to bring light to the long days of winter, the town is steeped in holiday cheer until a surprising murder puts a damper on the annual festivities. Meanwhile, Harmony tries to help Houston find the Christmas spirit, while Harley is surprised by a visitor from the north.

His pulse quickened as they approached. He’d waited so long. Too long. He closed his eyes and reveled in the memory, which did not come as a gentle wave, but as a surge of agony from the depths of his personal hell. He’d craved the searing pain, the deeply felt anguish. It was only during these moments, when he was sure that he would drown in a river of grief, that he felt truly alive.

Inesperado best seller en Italia, con traducciones a más de veinte idiomas, Siete breves lecciones de física se ha convertido en un éxito bien sencillo de explicar por algo muy difícil de conseguir: con pasión, fluidez y una encomiable voluntad de presentar de un modo diáfano temas complejos, Carlo Rovelli, científico de estirpe humanista, nos propone un breve pero muy completo recorrido por los hitos de la física de los últimos cien años en siete lecciones magistrales.

He watched the boy skipping rocks across the clear, still water. From the cover of dense forest he listened to the childish squeals of delight as the flat hard surface of the stone met the firm unyielding force of the lake. Each hop resulted in an ever widening web of rings, each ring, larger, yet less intense than that which came before. Life, he mused, was like those rings.

Ainsley Holloway had come to Gooseberry Bay to find answers about her past. She’d come to find an explanation for the dreams that haunted her after the death of the cop who’d both rescued and raised her. And she’d come to identify the family she couldn’t remember but knew in her heart she’d once belonged to.

Rescue, Alaska is a small town in northern Alaska where visitors come to hike and ski. Harmony Carson is a lifelong resident who volunteers as a member of the local search and rescue team. Harmony has a unique gift which she often considers a curse. She is able to "see" the individuals she is meant to help rescue, and more often than not she can feel their fear and their pain as well.

Harper Harlow has been through it all and she’s come out on top. She has a husband she loves, a best friend who is careening toward the wedding of a lifetime, and a new business adventure to stoke her entrepreneurial spirit.