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The Burning Legion has been defeated, and eastern regions of Kalimdor are now shared by two nations: the orcs of Durotar, led by their noble Warchief, Thrall; and the humans of Theramore, led by one of the most powerful mages alive — Lady Jaina Proudmoore.

But the tentative peace between orcs and humans is suddenly crumbling. Random attacks against Durotar's holdings suggest that the humans have renewed their aggression toward the orcs. Now Jaina and Thrall must avert disaster before old hatreds are rekindled — and Kalimdor is plunged into another devastating war.

Jaina's search to uncover the truth behind the attacks leads her to a shocking revelation. Her encounter with a legendary, long—lost wizard will challenge everything that she believes and illuminate the secret history of the world of…

Vor 27 Jahren verloren Sam und Dean Winchester ihre Mutter an einen übermächtigen dämonischen Feind. In den darauffolgenden Jahren wurden die beiden Brüder von ihrem Vater, John Winchester, darin geschult, das übernatürliche Böse in Amerikas Straßen aufzuspüren und zu töten. Als der abtrünnige Engel Castiel die beiden Winchesterbrüder über ausgesprochen brutale Mordfälle in San Franciscos Chinatown informiert, wird Sam und Dean schnell klar, dass das Herz des Drachens zurückgekehrt ist. Dabei handelt es sich um einen furchterregenden Geist, den ihre Familie bereits in der Vergangenheit mehrfach bekämpfen musste. Werden die beiden Brüder den Schrecken besiegen, der schon ihre Eltern und Großeltern auf die Knie zwang?

Basierend auf der TV-Serie SUPERNATURAL.

Englischsprachige Originalausgabe: „SUPERNATURAL: Heart of the Dragon“ by Keith R.A. DeCandido, published by Titan Books,  

A division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd., London, February 2010.

Detectives Mac Taylor, Danny Messer, Sheldon Hawkes, and Don Flack are called in to investigate a double homicide at a medium-security facility on Staten Island. Racial tensions turned the prison into a pressure cooker that finally boiled over in an all-too-lethal fashion, leaving two inmates dead. One of the killings is an open-and-shut case, complete with eyewitnesses; but the other, the murder of a former cop, defies easy answers. Initial investigation of the crime scene points to one cause of death, but the CSI team's scientific methods uncover something completely different – and wholly unexpected…

On the other edge of the city, Stella Bonasera and Lindsay Monroe look into the murder of a young woman who worked at a popular Italian bakery in the Bronx. They find the perfect suspect almost immediately: a frequent customer who spent a lot of time flirting with the victim and who previously had been arrested for a violent crime. Yet Stella can't help but think that their perfect suspect is just a little too perfect for such a messy murder…

Nothing is as it seems as New York City's dedicated crime scene investigators piece together the clues and examine the evidence to discover the true killers in their midst.

Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies – or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes the dead leave behind in the world… and the imprints that attach to their killers.

Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find dead birds her cat left for her. But now that a serial killer is terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he's claimed haunt her daily, Violet realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.

Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet find the murderer – and Violet is unnerved by her hope that Jay's intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she's falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer… and becoming his prey herself.

Por su inusual talento para entrelazar las emociones más sutiles con momentos de gran tensión dramática y punzante comicidad, Kiran Desai ha concitado en esta última novela la aclamación unánime de crítica y público. Además de lograr un notable éxito de ventas en Inglaterra y Estados Unidos, El legado de la pérdida ha merecido el Premio Man Booker 2006, convirtiendo a Desai en la ganadora más joven de la historia de este prestigioso galardón literario, el más importante de los que se conceden en el Reino Unido.

Si con su primera novela -Alboroto en el guayabal- Desai ya demostraba ser una agudísima observadora de la naturaleza humana, en esta ocasión sumerge al lector en los dramas íntimos de un mundo convulso y apasionante, a caballo entre la India y Nueva York, marcado por el febril antagonismo entre tradición y modernidad. Un viejo juez indio educado en Cambridge pasa sus últimos años retirado del mundo, recluido en un caserón en compañía de su nieta adolescente Sal y de un afable y locuaz cocinero cuyo hijo malvive en Nueva York.

El recrudecimiento de los viejos disturbios indo-nepalíes y el conflictivo romance de Sal con su joven profesor ponen a prueba la centenaria jerarquía social y por ende el precario equilibrio de la casa, obligando a los protagonistas a hacer balance de su pasado. Así pues, atrapados entre la resaca del colonialismo y el espejismo de la globalización, entre el conformismo y el deseo de alcanzar una vida mejor, los personajes constatan en carne propia que nada deja una huella tan honda como lo que se pierde, y que el paso del tiempo nos arrastra hacia una certeza ineludible y rotunda: el presente cambia el pasado, y al volver la vista uno no siempre encuentra lo que dejó tras de sí.

This stunning second novel from Desai (Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard) is set in mid-1980s India, on the cusp of the Nepalese movement for an independent state. Jemubhai Popatlal, a retired Cambridge-educated judge, lives in Kalimpong, at the foot of the Himalayas, with his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and his cook. The makeshift family's neighbors include a coterie of Anglophiles who might be savvy readers of V.S. Naipaul but who are, perhaps, less aware of how fragile their own social standing is?at least until a surge of unrest disturbs the region. Jemubhai, with his hunting rifles and English biscuits, becomes an obvious target. Besides threatening their very lives, the revolution also stymies the fledgling romance between 16-year-old Sai and her Nepalese tutor, Gyan. The cook's son, Biju, meanwhile, lives miserably as an illegal alien in New York. All of these characters struggle with their cultural identity and the forces of modernization while trying to maintain their emotional connection to one another. In this alternately comical and contemplative novel, Desai deftly shuttles between first and third worlds, illuminating the pain of exile, the ambiguities of post-colonialism and the blinding desire for a better life, when one person's wealth means another's poverty.

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Desai's second novel is set in the nineteen-eighties in the northeast corner of India, where the borders of several Himalayan states – Bhutan and Sikkim, Nepal and Tibet – meet. At the head of the novel's teeming cast is Jemubhai Patel, a Cambridge-educated judge who has retired from serving a country he finds "too messy for justice." He lives in an isolated house with his cook, his orphaned seventeen-year-old granddaughter, and a red setter, whose company Jemubhai prefers to that of human beings. The tranquillity of his existence is contrasted with the life of the cook's son, working in grimy Manhattan restaurants, and with his granddaughter's affair with a Nepali tutor involved in an insurgency that irrevocably alters Jemubhai's life. Briskly paced and sumptuously written, the novel ponders questions of nationhood, modernity, and class, in ways both moving and revelatory.

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