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Audrey's dream as a mother had been for her daughters, Jess and Lily, to be as close as only sisters can be. But now, as adults, they no longer speak to each other, and Audrey's two teenage granddaughters have never met. Audrey has no idea how to fix her family as she wonders if they will ever be whole again.

Each heart-pounding, fast-paced story in this collection features lively writing and young characters who come into contact with the tricks and illusions on life's darker side. A child loses his head inside a pumpkin. A skin-crawling spider spell is cast on a sorcerer's apprentice. A visit to the hospital for a tonsillectomy takes a ghoulish turn. Each story begins with an author's introduction that explains how the idea for it came to him, and features a spooky illustration by artists such as Edward Koren and Bleu Turrell. Historias más sombrías jamás contadas son reunidas en este libro...

Featuring timeless tales, this collection contains the complete works of Aesop’s classic fables. Presentando cuentos fundamentales, esta colleción contiene las obras completas de las fábulas de Esopo.

"En japones, la letra q y el numero 9 son homofonos, los dos se pronuncian kyu, de manera que 1Q84 es, sin serlo, 1984, una fecha de ecos orwellianos. Esa variacion en la grafia refleja la sutil alteracion del mundo en que habitan los personajes de esta novela, que es, tambien sin serlo, el Japon de 1984. En ese mundo en apariencia normal y reconocible se mueven Aomame, una mujer independiente, instructora en un gimnasio, y Tengo, un profesor de matematicas. Ambos rondan los treinta anos, ambos llevan vidas solitarias y ambos perciben a su modo leves desajustes en su entorno, que los...