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"The world has undergone many changes in the years since monsters came out of the shadows. An anti-monster group known as the Black Hand has started to organize across the United States. In response, pro-monster organizations have been growing in numbers and militancy. Targeted killings of suspected monsters and their allies, monsters spirited away in the dead of night, and the beginnings of pro-monster legislation are all signs of a cosmic shift...

"The Puppy Pirates race the Kitten Pirates in a hunt for an elusive sea monster"--

"Two years after his wife's death, oceanographer and former navy SEAL, Atticus Young, attempts to reconcile with his rebellious daughter, Giona, by taking her on the scuba dive of a lifetime--swimming with a pod of peaceful humpback whales in the Gulf of Maine. But the beauty of the sea belies a terror from the deep--a horrific creature as immense as it is ancient. There is no blood, no scream, no fight. Giona is swallowed whole by the massive jaws....

"A witch struggling to regain what she has lost casts a dangerous spell and finds much more than she expected in this enchanting new romcom by New York Times bestselling Lana Harper. Seven months after having been hit by an accidental power surge that nearly obliterated her memory, Delilah Harlow is still picking up the pieces. Her once diamond-sharp mind has become shaky and unreliable, and bristly, self-sufficient Delilah is forced to rely on friends,...

Una hechicera oscura en ciernes decidida a no usar sus formidables poderes descubre aun mas secretos sobre el funcionamiento de su mundo en la impresionante secuela de A Deadly Education, el comienzo de la innovadora serie cruzada de Naomi Novik. En Scholomance, El, Orion y los demas estudiantes se enfrentan a su ultimo ano y al espectro inminente de la matriculacion, un ritual mortal que deja con vida a pocos estudiantes despues. El esta decidida...

Seth Winters presents a rip-roaring spoof of the classic Jane Austin tome, Sense and Sensibility. Evicted from their home after their father's death, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are desperate to find suitors, and even more desperate to defend their coastal cottage from giant squid, great white sharks, and other sea monsters. Armed with nets, harpoon guns, and plenty of dry wit, they'll need to conquer unscrupulous cads, meddling matriarchs, and a...

The "war with no name" has begun, with human extinction as its goal. The instigator of this war is the Colony, a race of intelligent ants who, for thousands of years, have been silently building an army that would forever eradicate the destructive, oppressive humans. Under the Colony's watchful eye, this utopia will be free of the humans' penchant for violence, exploitation and religious superstition.

"Revisit the village of Sleepy Hollow and discover that the oldest legends can be the hungriest, in this atmospheric, terrifying new novel from the author of Alice and The Girl in Red. Everyone in Sleepy Hollow knows about the Horseman, but no one really believes in him. Not even Ben Van Brunt's grandfather, Brom Bones, who was there when it was said the Horseman chased the upstart Ichabod Crane out of town-or snuffed out Crane's life by throwing...

Ahora en español, nos llega esta escalofriante historia de Stephen King, clásico bestseller #1 del New York Times, "un punto de referencia en la literatura estadounidense" según el Chicago Sun-Timessobre siete adultos que vuelven a su ciudad natal para hacerle frente a una pesadilla que vivieron cuando eran adolescentes...un mal sin nombre: Eso. Bienvenido a Derry, Maine. Es una ciudad pequeña, un lugar tan conmovedoramente familiar como tu propia...

"When the colonial Marines set out after their deadliest prey, the Xenomorphs, it's what Corporal Hicks calls a bug hunt - kill or be killed. Here are fifteen all-new stories of such "close encounters".--Dust flap.