Risultati letto da "Dominique Franceschi" in Tutte le categorie

Imagine a world devoid of violence - a world where fists can’t hit, guns don’t kill, and bombs can’t destroy. In this tantalizing novel of possibility, this has - suddenly and inexplicably - become our new reality. The US president must find a new way to wage war. The pope ponders whether the Commandment “Thou Shalt Not Kill” is still relevant. 

Mina is 30 and living in London. She fled there at 20 to reinvent herself to escape her small-town past, but a decade later she is drifting, untethered, and uncertain. When her Moroccan-born father Omar dies, she returns to her childhood home on the Calabrian coast, where he ran a bar called the Tangerinn. It was more than just a bar—it was a gathering place, a haven for migrants and misfits, a dream that Mina's sister, Aisha, is struggling to keep alive.

For fans of Tasha Suri's The Jasmine Throne and Rebecca Roanhorse's Black Sun, this debut sapphic rivals-to-lovers fantasy series is based on Incan mythology, featuring an ambitious soldier and a reluctant princess on a quest across the empire. Sinchinrei has one goal: rise through the ranks of...

En "Fiebre de carnaval" Ainhoa es obligada a crecer. Desde el centro del corazón pujante del carnaval, donde lo trágico y lo festivo confluyen, Ainhoa intenta describir la vida familiar, la música y el baile desmedido y lo hace con una voz inocente y perspicaz. Su narración es un desvarío...

En este encantador álbum ilustrado, una precoz niña les da a unos turistas un tour deliciosamente inusual por su pueblo natal en Colombia. Los turistas vienen de todas partes a Salento, el pueblo natal de Luisa, para hacer senderismo en el famoso valle de Cocora. Pero Luisa sabe qué es lo que...

The Love Witch meets Monstrilio in Bruja's Nest, where a young woman's abuse history and ambition erupt into body horror, class war, and monstrous motherhood. Raised amidst poverty, alcoholism, and sexual abuse, Yolanda is determined to seize control of her future. When she starts work as an...

De Meg Medina, ganadora de la Medalla Newbery y Embajadora Nacional de Literatura Juvenil, nos llega este conmovedor homenaje a los que cuidan a los nios y entran en su mundo lleno de ternura. Me quito la manta y me trepo en su regazo. Me pongo su trenza encima de la boca como si fuera un bigote...

From Newbery Medalist Meg Medina, National Ambassador for Young Peoples Literature, comes a poignant salute to the caregivers who enter a childs tender world. Ana cannot contain her excitementher abuela is coming to stay with her and Mami for always! Abuela is sure to let Ana play whenever she...

Al, Nicky, Palmer, Fabiola, and Seba are all on the school soccer team. But that doesn't mean they're all on the same side. For the first time ever, the Jackson Middle School soccer team is going co-ed thanks to Nicky's determination. But Al is going to do whatever he can to keep the girls off the team, just the way his father wants.

After years spent outrunning her past, Cecília reexamines the case of a close family friend killed by a colleague and rival: her father. In 1988, shortly after Brazil reestablishes democratic rule, a state congressman is shot and killed in Porto Alegre. The main suspect: a close friend and...

Omega Morales’s family has been practicing magic for centuries in Noche Buena. But over the years, the town's reputation for the supernatural is no longer one the people carry with pride. So Omega’s family keeps to themselves, and in private, they’re Empaths—diviners who can read and manipulate the emotions of people and objects around them. But Omega’s powers don’t quite work, and it leaves her feeling like an outsider in her own family. 

Un día, Roxy descubre que quizás su ilusión se ha hecho realidad: se ve inmersa en una primera cita con Jack, un chico atractivo y encantador que parece que la quiere dejar sin aliento. Pero literalmente: ha sacado un cuchillo y está a punto de apuñalarla. ¿Es posible que se encuentre dentro de un thriller y acabe de topar con el potencial asesino? Mientras escapa de Jack, Roxie conoce a Grant, un profesor y escritor. Junto a él, tendrá que resolver crímenes y seguir las pistas para llegar al final de la historia.

Diana Castillo just wants to get some stability back in her life. Newly single with two pre-teen daughters, one of whom is recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, the knocks have come hard and fast. When she’s offered a summer in the Hamptons for her and her girls to recoup, Diana jumps at...

I have no idea why I'm locked in a stranger's room. All I know is that I need to escape—now. My abductor—Bedlam has something planned for me. He calls it: The Cycle. I don't know what his sick games are, but I am convinced he plans to kill me. As I learn more about the sadistic monster who...

Una poderosa y escalofriante novela de terror gótico ambientada en la Colombia del siglo XX. Perfecta para fans de Mexican Gothic, La maldición de Hill House y El resplandor. «Un debut absolutamente impresionante... Una autora a la que hay que seguir de cerca y un libro que hay que leer»...

When their parents are kidnapped, the Spy Sisters accept a super-secret mission from Dr. Nobody to track down and defeat the notorious Snake Ten-Fangs. With the help of their family’s bionic dog, Scarlett’s flying carpet, and Kay-7’s smartphone named Brad, the Spy Sisters must travel from India to Alaska to the Galapagos Islands.

Things are getting hairy! What could go wrong on the first day of sixth grade? A: You wake up with leg hair out of nowhere. B: You have zero classes with your BFF and watch her run off with her new (annoying) friend. C: You struggle to decide which school club to join because being mixed race makes you feel like you don't belong anywhere. D: All of the above. SERIOUSLY?!

El sueño americano se ha vuelto pesadilla, y tres latinas indocumentadas han quedado atrapadas: Bolivia y sus dos hijas, María Paz y Violeta. María Paz cree tocar el cielo con las manos al casarse con un policía blanco y norteamericano. Hasta que este es asesinado y a ella la meten presa. Pero la celda no es su peor calvario. María Paz descubre que el verdadero infierno la espera al otro lado de las rejas, y una segunda muerte termina de definir el rumbo de su suerte.

Luciana es la menor de una numerosa familia colombiano-americana en el sur de Florida, pero en medio de una crisis debe convertirse en la única voz razonable de su entorno familiar y lidiar con su excéntrica abuela, que se niega a seguir la orden de evacuación ante la llegada de un huracán.

Hannah Brooks parece una profesora de infantil y no alguien que podría matarte con una servilleta, pero en realidad es guardaespaldas y acaban de asignarle una nueva misión: proteger al actor superestrella Jack Stapleton. Antes, Jack Stapleton estaba en boca de todos y sus fotos, normalmente en playas paradisiacas, surcando las olas como un dios griego, saturaban las revistas de todo el país. Hasta que, tras una tragedia personal hace dos años, se alejó de los focos.