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Having a baby isn't exactly in Soleil Freeman's plans. Being single and pregnant? Even further off her to-do list. Still, she can make this work. if she can figure out how to handle the father.

West Morgan is absolutely perfect summer distraction material. But building a life with a guy who's all about picket fences and tradition is not her deal. Funny thing happens when she drops the "Merry Christmas, you're gonna be a dad" news, though. That delicious attraction that fueled their affair is alive and well. And when West embarks on a campaign to be a family, she's more open to the idea than she thought!

The war between humanity and Faerie devastated both sides. Or so 15-year-old Liza has been told. Nothing has been seen or heard from Faerie since, and Liza’s world bears the scars of its encounter with magic. Trees move with sinister intention, and the town Liza calls home is surrounded by a forest that threatens to harm all those who wander into it. Then Liza discovers she has the Faerie ability to see—into the past, into the future—and she has no choice but to flee her town. Liza’s quest will take her into Faerie and back again, and what she finds along the way may be the key to healing both worlds.<

The long-awaited sequel to Janni Lee Simner's breathtaking YA fantasy debut, .

Liza is a summoner. She can draw life to herself, even from beyond the grave. And because magic works both ways, she can drive life away. Months ago, she used her powers to banish her dangerous father and to rescue her mother, lost in dreams, from the ruined land of Faerie.

Born in the wake of the war between humanity and Faerie, Liza lived in a world where green things never slept, where trees sought to root in living flesh and bone. But now the forests have fallen silent. Even the evergreens' branches are bare. Winter crops won't grow, and the threat of starvation looms. And deep in the forest a dark, malevolent will is at work. To face it, Liza will have to find within herself something more powerful than magic alone.

Here at last is the sequel to , for all those fans of dark fantasy and dystopian adventure who thrilled to Janni Lee Simner's unique vision of a postapocalyptic world infused with magic.

After her mother mysteriously disappears, sixteen-year-old Haley convinces her father to take her to Iceland, where her mother was last seen. There, amidst the ancient fissures and crevices of that volcanic island, Haley meets gorgeous Ari, a boy with a dangerous side who appoints himself her protector.

When Haley picks up a silver coin that entangles her in a spell cast by her ancestor Hallgerd, she discovers that Hallgerd's spell and her mother's disappearance are connected to a chain of events that could unleash terrifying powers and consume the world. Haley must find a way to contain the growing fires of the spell—and her growing attraction to Ari.

Janni Lee Simner brings the fierce romance and violent passions of Iceland's medieval sagas into this twenty-first-century novel, with spellbinding results.

Jaroslav Seifert

(Rep. Checa, 1901-1986)

Poeta checo, premio Nobel en 1984. Su obra, plena de sencillez y sensualidad, fue repetidamente censurada en su país por la negativa de Seifert a abrazar la ortodoxia política. Nació en un barrio obrero de Praga. Sin llegar a terminar sus estudios, pero ya muy conocedor de la historia y cultura de su país, comenzó a escribir, de arte sobre todo, en distintos periódicos y revistas. En 1921 apareció su primer libro de poemas, La ciudad en llamas, en la línea vanguardista del grupo Devetsil, que él mismo contribuyó a fundar. Le seguirían El amor mismo (1923), su transición al poetismo (movimiento poético checo influido por el futurismo y el surrealismo europeos y el marxismo), y En las ondas (1926). En Paloma mensajera (1929) domina lo cotidiano y, estilísticamente, un clasicismo abundante en imágenes naturales y parco en metáforas, alejado del tono, más dramático y tenebroso, de compañeros de generación como Vladímir Holan o Frantisek Halas. Seifert, que fue miembro fundador del Partido Comunista Checoslovaco, rompió sus relaciones con él en 1929, después de un viaje que realizó a la antigua Unión Soviética y de haberse negado a rechazar el gobierno democráticamente elegido, para adoptar una actitud independiente, siempre en defensa de las libertades. Durante la II Guerra Mundial recuperó, por un tiempo, el favor del partido por su oposición encarnizada a los ocupantes nazis. Estas ideas están presentes en los poemas de tono patriótico de Casco de tierra (1945) y Mano y llama (1948). En 1950 se puso otra vez en una situación muy comprometida al defender a su amigo Frantisek Halas acusado, como él, de subjetivismo. En 1956, como consecuencia de un discurso en el que criticaba la política cultural del estalinismo y también de una larga enfermedad, dejó de publicar. Su obra se reanudó en 1965 con Concierto en la isla y en 1966, con un gesto típico de la esquizofrenia reinante en la época, fue nombrado artista nacional. Entre 1968 y 1970 asumió la dirección de la Unión de Escritores Checos, desde la que condenó duramente la invasión soviética de 1968 y firmó la Declaración de las 2.000 palabras, pidiendo a la dirección del partido la continuidad del proceso democratizador que se había iniciado. A partir de 1977, en gran parte por su postura en defensa de los Derechos Humanos en Checoslovaquia, volvió a tener dificultades para publicar y sus dos siguientes libros, La columna de la peste (1977) y El paraguas de Picadilly (1979), con duras advertencias sobre el neoestalinismo, se editaron en Alemania. Sus memorias, Toda la belleza del mundo, aparecieron simultáneamente en Checoslovaquia y Alemania, en 1983, año en el que también se editó su último libro de poemas, Ser poeta. Se le concedió el Premio Nobel en 1984. Seifert es, junto con Holan, Halas y Nezval, una de las voces esenciales de la poesía checa del siglo XX.

Dr. Adam Bloom has the perfect life. He's financially secure and lives in a luxurious house with his wife, Dana, and their twentytwo- year-old daughter, Marissa, a recent college graduate. Late one night, his daughter wakes him up and says, 'Somebody's downstairs.' Adam uses his gun to kill one of the unarmed intruders, but the other escapes. From that moment on, everyone's life in the Bloom household will never be the same.

Adam doesn't feel safe, not with the other intruder out there somewhere, knowing where he lives. Dana suggests moving but Adam has lived in the house all his life and he doesn't want to run away. As the family recovers from the break-in and the Bloom's already rocky relationship rapidly falls apart, Marissa meets a young, talented artist named Xan. Adam feels that something's not quite right with Xan, but his daughter ignores his warnings and falls ever deeper in love with him. When suspicious things start happening to the Blooms all over again, Adam realizes that his first instinct about Xan was probably dead on.

With , Jason Starr is at his best, crafting a harrowing page-turner that will blow readers away.

David Miller is in a funk. He recently slumped down the journalistic food chain from the Wall Street Journal to a finance rag called Manhattan Business. The reason for Miller's fall: his unhealthy obsession with his sister only increased after she died of cancer. In addition, the young reporter lost his friends after rejecting their prescient assessment of his girlfriend as "psychotic"-and she's repaid his loyalty by partying the nights away with another man. So when Miller's lost wallet leads to a shakedown by a junkie hooker, he figures it's just another bad episode in the bleak sitcom of his life. But then the hooker's jealous boyfriend dies, potentially putting Miller on the hook for a murder rap. Flames licking at his heels, Miller grimly soldiers through a squalid story that takes on his flattened affect as it navigates the usual sordid twists and dares readers to give a damn. It's the literary equivalent of a Big Mac or Snickers bar: satisfying to devour but immediately forgotten-save for a familiar pang of guilt about straying from healthier fare.<

Kirpal Singh is travelling on the slow train to Kashmir. As India passes by the window in a stream of tiny lights, glistening fields and huddled, noisy towns, he reflects on his destination, which is also his past: a military camp to which he has not returned for fourteen years. Kirpal, Kip to his friends, is timorous and barely twenty when he arrives for the first time at General Kumar's camp, nestled in the shadow of the mighty Siachen Glacier that claimed his father's life. He is placed under the supervision of Chef Kishen, a fiery, anarchic mentor with long earlobes and a caustic tongue who guides Kip towards the heady spheres of food and women. 'The smell of a woman is thousand times better than cooking the most sumptuous dinner, kid,' he muses over an evening beer. Kip is embarrassed – he has never slept with a woman, though a loose-limbed nurse in the local hospital has caught his eye. In Srinagar, Kashmir, a contradictory place of erratic violence, extremes of temperature and high-altitude privilege, Kip learns to prepare indulgent Kashmiri dishes such as Mughlai mutton and slow-cooked Nahari, as well as delicacies from Florence, Madrid, Athens and Tokyo. Months pass and, though he is Sikh, Kip feels secure in his allegiance to India, the right side of this interminable conflict. Then, one muggy day, a Pakistani 'terrorist' with long, flowing hair is swept up on the banks of the river, and changes everything. Mesmeric, mournful and intensely lyrical, "Chef" is a brave and compassionate debut about hope, love and memory, set against the devastatingly beautiful, war-scarred backdrop of occupied Kashmir.<

Mientras trabaja en la restauración del Pórtico de la Gloria de Santiago de Compostela, Julia Álvarez recibe una noticia devastadora: su marido ha sido secuestrado en una región montañosa del noreste de Turquía. A partir de ese momento, Julia se verá envuelta sin quererlo en una ambiciosa carrera por controlar dos antiguas piedras que, al parecer, permiten el contacto con entidades sobrenaturales y por las que están interesados desde una misteriosa secta oriental hasta el presidente de los Estados Unidos.

Una obra que deja atrás todos los convencionalismos del género, reinventándolo y empujando al lector a una aventura que no olvidará.