Novedades

Banal Nightmare is filled with complicated characters who will dazzle you in their rendering just as often as they will infuriate you with their decisions. Halle Butler singularly captures the volatile, angry, aggrieved, surreal and entirely disorienting atmosphere of the modern era.

When Leeann Worthier agreed to marry the wealthy George Willets, she never dreamed that she would end up living in a house she had feared her whole life, the horror mansion where her brother had died. And as she would soon discover, her worst fears were about to be realized.

Join Katie, Stella, Eli, and the Mountainville Gang as They Go to Paris! It’s a Fun, Action-Packed Adventure as Only the Lone Star Littles Can Deliver! It’s Summer 2024, which means the Big Games are taking place in Paris. Mountainville’s own Michael (first introduced in Going for the Gold) is competing, trying to win the gold for Team USA. Always supporting their own, everyone’s favorite Littles and Bigs go to the City of Light to cheer him on. Meanwhile, a scared and lonely Little, Aurelia, hides on the Paris streets, praying for a Daddy and longing to be part of a family. Her ...

In this satirical alternative history, Professor Jeronimo Herodotease and his team of documentary filmmakers and reenactors revivify the dark days of the Grim Depression and Amerika's descent into dictatorship. In the chaos and strife that followed the assassination of President-elect Frankie van Rosenvelt, General Jackson and a cadre of Forcist-minded cockroaches swarmed the stage, gnawed away at democratic norms, and declared martial law under the guise of restoring "Law and Order."

Adrian Mole is thirty, single and a father. His cooking at a top London restaurant has been equally mocked ('the sausage on my plate could have been a turd') and celebrated (will he be the nation's first celebrity offal chef?) And the love of his life, Pandora Braithwaite, is too busy as the newly elected MP for Ashby-de-la-Zouch to notice him. Frustrated, disappointed, and undersexed, Adrian despairs until a letter from his past changes everything.

Adrian Mole is middle-aged but still scribbling. Working as a bookseller and living in Leicester's Rat Wharf; finding time to write letters of advice to Tim Henman and Tony Blair; locked in mortal combat with a vicious swan called Gielgud; measuring his expanding bald spot; and trying to win-over the voluptuous Daisy.... Adrian yearns for a better more meaningful world. But he's not ready to surrender his pen yet.

Sarah Langan's A Better World is gleefully ruthless in its dissection of wealth, power, and privilege, timely in its depiction of a self-destructing world—and it is a prescient warning to us all.