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"A captivating psychological suspense debut about a young woman still haunted by her teenage best friend's death who learns of an eerily similar death and must find her way back to a cabin in the New England woods, armed only with hazy memories, to finally find out the truth that has eluded her. Maya was a high school senior when her best friend Aubrey mysteriously dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man, Frank, they'd been hanging around with...

"Maya no está pasando por su mejor momento. Acaba de dejar un medicamento que regula los ataques de pánico, sufre síndrome de abstinencia, lleva días sin dormir y bebe demasiado. Por eso, cuando frente a la pantalla de su móvil revive lo ocurrido el verano de sus diecisiete años no sabe si puede confiar en la lucidez de su mente. Las imágenes de seguridad de una cafetería registran la muerte súbita de una joven. Junto a ella está Frank Bellamy....

It is June and Shit is sad. She knows she will not get to leave her neighbourhood that summer, and the beach is far, far away. And that clouds like the bottom of a donkey's belly will hover all summer over her town, high among the volcanoes of northern Tenerife. But Shit - our nine-year-old narrator - has a best friend, Isora. Shit likes everything about Isora. The colour of her arms and her hair and her eyes. Her handwriting and the way she wrote...

I know I'm holding a good book in my hand when I use the other to call my friends and read poems to them. How generous John Repp is! He zooms in on the moment, but he's always glancing at everything that surrounds it. His funny poems have dark hearts, just as the sad ones are clearly written by someone capable of belly-shaking laughter. They tell wonderful stories, yet they contain chewy little nuggets that are often indifferent and even hostile to...

El autor superventas n.°1 del New York Times presenta a una extraordinaria nueva protagonista que deberá enfrentarse al mismo tiempo a nuevas amenazas...y a antiguas pesadillas. Atlee Pine vive marcada por la terrible experiencia que vivió en su infancia: cuando tenía seis años, un desconocido secuestró a su hermana gemela, Mercy, y nadie volvió a verla nunca más. Tres décadas después, Atlee se ha convertido en una agente del FBI con extraordinarias...

The holiday: Amanda lives in Los Angeles and is a movie trailer editor. Iris lives in Surrey, England and is a journalist. The two live five thousand miles apart and have never met, but both are dealing with the same problem: men. Amanda just broke up with her cheating boyfriend. Iris has pined for her ex. Amanda comes upon a website that advocates home exchange and the two decide to swap houses for two weeks at Christmas - both with a goal to forget...

To get the "ratoncitos, " little mice who have moved into the barrio, to come to come to his house, Chato the cat prepares all kinds of good food: fajitas, frijoles, salsa, enchiladas, and more. Wisely, the mice bring along a canine friend who ensures that Chato eats tortillas and not them for dinner.

"Busca alrededor del bosque...en lo más alto del árbol, por el suelo, y entre flores y arbustos, ¿dónde estarán? Al levantar cada una de las solapas, los bebés encontrarán divertidas sorpresas: un pájaro golpeando un roble, un cervatillo, dos cachorros de zorro en su guarida subterránea y una familia de búhos en la copa de un pino"-- various websites. "Look up in the trees, down to the forest floor, and behind the flowers and ferns, and...

Witness is the first collection of Benedetti's poetry in English translation to draw on thirty of his published collections from 1948-2009 is presenting the full range of his poetic voice. Benedetti (1920-2009) is regarded as one of Latin America's most important writers of the 20th century.

Gabriela Mistral was the first Latin American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in 1945. Mistral has fascinated scholars, writers, and artists, who have tried to piece together the variegated layers of her persona and her "emotionally outspoken verses," as Langston Hughes described them. Sundial House's centenary edition commemorates Mistral's debut anthology, Desolación (1922), edited by Federico de Onís at Columbia...