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Sister. Pawn. Liar. Traitor. Her words sent two queens to the scaffold. Her secrets shaped a kingdom. But her true story was hidden. Until now. Philippa Gregory brings the Boleyn traitor out of the shadows in a groundbreaking tale of love, betrayal — and survival.

In 1982 Soviet-controlled Poland—a time and place of suspicion and mistrust—when geopolitical forces and violent men descend upon her little town of Zygmuntowo, Emilia must decide if she is willing to risk prison or worse for self-respect and for her unexpected love.

A Liu Zhenyun le llevó tres años escribir esta novela, la más grande y madura de su acervo literario. La primera parte describe el pasado: Moisés Wu salió de Yanjin para encontrar a la única persona con quien "podía hablar", su hijastra. La segunda parte narra el presente: Niu Aiguo, hijo de aquella querida hijastra, también emprendió un viaje desde Yanjin men busca de un amigo con quien hablar. Ambos salieron y tardaron cien años.

While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Twenty-five years later, as the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster spreads across Europe, Roland's wife mysteriously vanishes and he is forced to confront the reality of his rootless existence and look for answers in his family history.

Technological advancement is now carefully planned, and the concept of individuality has been eliminated. A young man known as Equality 7-2521 rebels by doing secret scientific research. When his activity is discovered, he flees into the wilderness with the girl he loves. Together, they plan to establish a new society based on rediscovered individualism.

When a foreign exchange student is found murdered at an Iowa University, Deputy Sheriff Clyde Banks finds that his investigation extends far beyond the small college townall the way to the Middle East. Shady events at the school reveal that a powerful department is using federal grant money for highly dubious research. And what its producing is a very nasty bug.

Clay Maxwell is a smart, quick witted, sex-driven manwhore with the good looks to match. Plenty of women have shared his bed, but only one has ever been constant: Andrea. Their rules were simple. When they were together, it was just the two of them. When they were apart, anything was fair game. And it worked. For 10 years. But one of them has changed the game.... Clay must decide if his player ways are worth losing the one girl who has always been there.

The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are now figments of the past. Corruption, deception, and insurgency humwithin the once steadfast leadership of the Hives, nations without fixed location.

Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, is dismayed to find that many of the people he knows support presidential candidate Berzelius Windrip. The suspiciously fascist Windrip is offering to save the nation from sex, crime, welfare cheats, and a liberal press. But after Windrip wins the election, dissent soon becomes dangerous for Jessup. Windrip forcibly gains control of Congress and the Supreme Court and, with the aid of his personal paramilitary storm troopers, turns the United States into a totalitarian state.

Ne "I Miserabili" Victor Hugo narra con assoluta sensibilità ed estrema modernità la solitudine dell'uomo, il contrasto tra ceti sociali, ma anche la redenzione attraverso la rivolta e l'amore. Il romanzo, dal ritmo incalzante, magistrale e irripetibile per l'autenticità delle emozioni e per la complessità della trama narrativa, viene qui tradotto ad alta voce da un unico narratore, Moro Silo, che con la sua più che trentennale esperienza di lettore, riesce a cogliere l'enorme quantità di significati presenti nel libro nel massimo rispetto dello stile unico e originale dell'autore, del suo contesto storico-culturale e filologico.

A quirk of fate has enabled the donation of a history-altering amount of cash to the ministry of a popular religious leader in a solidly Conservative state. Having interpreted the donation as a sign from above, the pastor has divined its purpose: to enable his state’s formal secession from the Union and to have their U.S. Senator appointed President of the newly created country.

Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon commit a crime. Using data from her dreams, the RAA’s algorithm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming the person she loves most: her husband. For his safety, she must be kept under observation for twenty-one days. The agents transfer Sara to a retention center, where she is held with other dreamers, all of them women trying to prove their innocence from different crimes.

Por eso se va del hogar que supuestamente debe protegerla y entra en una casa okupada. Allí, al calor de compañeros que han buscado refugio de la ferocidad de los salarios precarios y del desalojo paulatino de los habitantes de los barrios por franquicias, hoteles y apartamentos turísticos, se entrega a la única vida que para ella tiene sentido: la de vivir en una comunidad de resistencia, en la que no se descarta la violencia.

On a Yorkshire farm, a man is brutally bludgeoned with a solid gold bar. A plucky young journalist sets out to uncover the truth surrounding the attack, connecting the dots between an amoral banker landlord, an iconoclastic columnist, and a radical anarchist movement. She solves the mystery, but her viral longread exposé raises more questions than it answers.

De padre tunecino y madre de origen argelino, Hubert Abraham Haddad, nacido en Túnez en 1947, siempre ha tenido presentes sus raíces judías y bereberes. Estandarte de la francofonía, ha escrito más de 15 novelas pero con Palestina, Premio Renaudot 2009 y Premio de los Cinco Continentes de la Francofonía 2008, alcanza al gran público.

It is a Tuesday evening in June when Ruth receives the phone call that all parents dread. Her daughter Daisy has been hit by a car during a deadly storm in Puerto Rico. How Ruth wishes she could tell Daisy she loves her. That she is sorry her own muddy feelings about Daisy's move to San Juan caused them to fight. What a waste of precious breath. Instinctively, it's her mother, Rafaela, Ruth wants to turn to. Rafaela whose own memories of growing up in Puerto Rico are becoming ever more vivid, as have her sudden flashes of forgetfulness.

En su despacho, Isabel San Martín se encuentra a dos días de las elecciones generales, en las que se presenta como candidata a la presidencia. Su brillante desempeño y trayectoria como ministra de Economía la posiciona como la favorita en las encuestas. Inspirándose en la malagueña Victoria Kent, abogada y política republicana española, Isabel quiere ganar para prestar real apoyo a la ciudadanía y a las mujeres. Pero tendrá que hacer frente a múltiples problemas en la cuenta atrás para el recuento de votos. ¿Realmente está el país preparado para recibir a una mujer al frente del gobierno?

Año 2112. Una alarma climática sin precedentes asola el planeta Tierra: bosques deforestados; especies extinguiéndose todos los días; una contaminación que roza ya lo irremediable. Zoe, una joven bióloga y activista ecológica para quien la lucha se ha convertido en su forma de vida, es seleccionada para formar parte de Cosnápolis, una ciudad secreta, aparentemente idílica y donde todos sus habitantes viven en armonía, que ha logrado preservar la flora y la fauna.

Cuando los malos se enfrentan a los malos no hay esperanza posible, siempre ganarán los corruptos, los que juegan sucio, los que lucran con el destino de un país. Cuando la noche cae sobre un pueblo, las sombras de la política son la peor pesadilla de un México que sigue dormido. ¿Hasta dónde es capaz un ser humano para conseguir y conservar el poder?

In a reality not too distant from our own, where the so-called Mental Parity Movement has taken hold, the worst thing you can call someone is 'stupid'. Everyone is equally clever, and discrimination based on intelligence is 'the last great civil rights fight'. Best friends since adolescence, Pearson and Emory find themselves on opposing sides of this new culture war. Radio personality Emory – who has built her career riding the tide of popular thought – makes increasingly hard-line statements while, for her part, Pearson believes the whole thing is ludicrous.