New Releases by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

"It's opening night, but far from glamorous. Alice is performing in a local Bay Area production of The Winter's Tale, the complete opposite of what she had envisioned for her career back home in Los Angeles. She doesn't have dreams of superstardom per se, but the basement theatre in a wildfire-choked town simply isn't ideal. To make matters worse, her best friend Sadie is not even coming. Pragmatic and serious Sadie and flighty, creative Alice have been best friends since high school-really one another's only friends-but now that they are through with college (which they attended together) and living on opposite ends of California, Alice would at least expect her friend's support. Sadie, determined not to cancel her plans with her boyfriend, ends up enlisting the help of her mother Celine. A professor of Women's and Gender Studies at UC Berkeley, Celine's landmark treatise on sex and identity made her notorious, but she's struggling to write her new book in a post-second-wave feminism world. When Sadie begs her to attend Alice's play, she relents, if only for an escape from writer's block. But in a turn of events perplexing even to herself, Celine becomes entranced by Alice's performance and realizes that her daughter's lanky, slightly annoying, best friend is now an irresistible young woman. Set over the course of decades-from Alice and Sadie's friendship's early days and Celine's decision to leave her husband to the radical movements of 90s Berkeley and navigating contemporary Hollywood-Alice and Celine's affair will test the limits of their love for Sadie and their own beliefs about power, agency, and feminism. Witty and relatable, sexy and surprising, Sarah Blakley-Cartwright's debut adult novel is a mesmerizing portrait of the inner lives of three very different women"--

A la mort de sa soeur, Valérie est inconsolable. Henry, le séduisant fils du forgeron, tente de gagner ses faveurs, mais le coeur indompté de la belle bat pour un autre garçon, Peter, le bûcheron exclu du groupe, qui lui offre des escapades palpitantes. Un jour, un chasseur fait une terrible révélation aux villageois : la créature qui les terrorise vit parmi eux. Chacun devient suspect. On découvre bientôt que seule Valérie peut entendre la voix du Loup. Et celui-ci exige qu'elle le rejoigne avant que le sang coule...

Valerie, una coraggiosa ragazza a cui la nonna ha donato un manto di seta rosso, vive nel piccolo villaggio di Daggorhorn, assediato da anni da un lupo mannaro. Di giorno la belva prende sembianze umane e di notte, quando la luna ha il colore del sangue, si aggira per i boschi e uccide senza pietà...

La campana de la aldea dobla una, dos, tres veces: alguien ha sido asesinado. Repica una cuarta vez... El asesino es el Lobo. En una época en que las aldeas son tan pequeñas que todo el mundo se conoce, una muchacha intenta abrirse camino en la vida. Y Valerie no es una «buena chica». Cuando el hombre lobo la elige, ella debe tomar una decisión imposible. Con un matrimonio concertado en su nombre y un amor sincero que la invita a la huida, Valerie no tiene a quién recurrir. Su padre está borracho en el pueblo, su madre desea controlarla, y las demás chicas... se apresuran a acusarla de brujería. ¿Quién la salvará? ¿O puede salvarse ella sola? En esta nueva, peligrosa y absorbente versión del cuento clásico, quizá resulte complicado dar con un final feliz.

Valerie's sister was beautiful, kind, and sweet. Now she is dead. Henri, the handsome son of the blacksmith, tries to console Valerie, but her wild heart beats fast for another: the outcast woodcutter, Peter, who offers Valerie another life far from home. After her sister's violent death, Valerie's world begins to spiral out of control. For generations, the werewolf has been kept at bay with a monthly sacrifice. But no one is safe. When an expert wolf hunter arrives, the villagers learn that the creature lives among them - it could be anyone in town. It soon becomes clear that Valerie is the only one who can hear the voice of creature. The Wolf says she must surrender herself before the Blood Moon wanes . . . or everyone she loves will die. This is a dangerous new vision of a classic fairy tale, and for readers who want even more of Valerie's riveting story, a bonus chapter that extends the drama is available at http://www.redridinghoodbook.com/.

O corpo de uma garota é descoberto em um campo de trigo. Em sua carne mutilada, marcas de garras. Quando Valerie descobre que sua irmã foi assassinada pela lendária criatura, ela acaba mergulhando de forma irreversível em um grande mistério que vem amaldiçoando sua aldeia por gerações. A revelação vem com Father Solomon - o Lobo que está entre eles - o que torna qualquer pessoa do vilarejo suspeita. Estaria Peter, sua paixão secreta desde a infância, envolvido nos ataques? Ou seria Henry, seu noivo, o Lobisomem que assola as redondezas? Enquanto todos estão à caça da besta, Valerie recorre à Avó em busca de ajuda, que dá à neta uma capa vermelha feita à mão e a orienta através da rede de mentiras, intrigas e decepções que vem controlando o vilarejo por muito tempo.