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Moscú, hacia 1990. Un chantajista amenaza a un matrimonio con revelar que su hijo de doce años es adoptado. ¿Cómo ha salido a la luz este secreto? La investigación se centra en un juez que confiesa que le han robado varios sumarios. Anastasia Kaménskaya de la policía criminal, sospecha que ese robo múltiple oculta otro asunto mucho más turbio, que ella descubre rápidamente. Un eminente científico degüella a su mujer, pierde la memoria y el juicio, y cuando parece que es capaz de recordar algo, también pierde la vida. ¿Qué misterio se esconde tras ese drama familiar y por qué han querido taparlo?
The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The other city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don't, is the deliciously evocative conundrum at the heart of China Mieville's The City & The City. Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbanist), but from book to book he's tried on different genres, and here he's fully hard-boiled, stripping down to a seen-it-all detective's voice that's wonderfully appropriate for this story of seen and unseen. His detective is Inspector Tyador Borlu, a cop in Beszel whose investigation of the murder of a young foreign woman takes him back and forth across the highly policed border to Ul Qoma to uncover a crime that threatens the delicate balance between the cities and, perhaps more so, Borlu's own dissolving sense of identity. In his tale of two cities, Mieville creates a world both fantastic and unsettlingly familiar, whose mysteries don't end with the solution of a murder.
La trilogia dei «Dragonieri di Pern», di cui «Volo di Drago» è la prima parte, è uno dei più interessanti cicli narrativi che la fantascienza ha prodotto in questi ultimi anni nel suo sforzo di rinnovamento interno, tematico e stilistico; è il tentativo ad ampio respiro di creare «ex novo» una mitologia complessa e coordinata, che non sia un semplice adattamento di mitologie «terrestri».
Esso è dovuto ad un nome nuovo, lanciato da John Campbell sulle pagine di «Analog», Anne McCaffrey, che si rivela scrittrice sensibile, originale e dalle notevoli doti letterarie. Sia i lettori che i critici statunitensi hanno testimoniato illoro apprezzamento per quest’opera, i cui diversi capitoli sono apparsi in più riprese sulle riviste di Campbell: i primi assegnando il Premio Hugo 1968 per il miglior romanzo breve alla parte iniziale del romanzo; i secondi il Premio Nebula 1969 per la stessa categoria all’ultima parte di esso. Anne McCaffrey è stata così la prima donna a vincere i due massimi premi fantascientifici americani.
New in the national bestselling series – Magdalena Yoder solves a case of hotcake homicide.
During a church breakfast, Minerva J. Jay, known for her prodigious appetite, slumps over after ingesting several stacks of pancakes. Police Chief Chris Ackerman wonders if the serving of the fatal flapjacks is a case of assault and batter. Magdalena has her own bun in the oven, but that doesn't stop the chief from asking for her help with the investigation.
Before Magdalena can begin, however, she has to make a special delivery of her own – and just when she thinks she's found her number one suspect, he turns up dead, squished flatter than a pancake by a driverless cement truck. Now, to stop the killer from cooking up another crime, Magdalena has no choice but to jump from the frying pan into the fire.
Ethan Blake is seventeen and desperate to escape from his dead-end life. When he sees someone B.A.S.E. jump from the top of his block of flats, it changes the way he sees the world for ever. Soon, Ethan is caught up in the adrenaline-fuelled world of skydiving. He's a natural, so it's no surprise when he's invited to join an elite skydive team, but is he signing up for more than just jumping out of planes? The team's involved in covert military operations – missions that require a special kind of guts, missions so secret even MI5 denies all knowledge.
Con la guerra civil, `lejana y próxima a un tiempo, quizás más temida por invencible`, como telón de fondo Primera memoria, Premio Nadal 1959, narra el paso de la niñez a la adolescencia de Matia – la protagonista – y de su primo Borja. Los dos viven en casa de su abuela en un mundo insular ingenuo y misterioso a la vez.
A través de la visión particularísima de la joven protagonista – sin madre y con el padre desaparecido – asistimos a su despertar a la adolescencia, cuando, roto el caparazón de la niñez, ciega y asombra, y como no, con dolor a veces, destella el fuerte resplandor de la realidad.
Una intensa galería de personajes constituye el contrapunto de su vertiginosa sucesión de sensaciones. Y es que, en unos meses, Matia descubrirá muchas cosas sobre `la oscura vida de las personas mayores`. Melancólica elegía de la perversión de la inocencia, Primera memoria aúna imágenes como espadas y es, una de las mejores novelas de Ana María Matute. Es éste un libro conmovedor. Tanto como puede llegar a ser cruel en medio de su poética. Y a veces se antoja inaccesible: su estilo, su verbo no llegará a todo el mundo, es posible que muchos lo encuentren exasperante. Es literatura sin concesiones. Es decir, no está escrita para todos. Pero no por ello, creo que se trate de una novela elitista: la puede leer cualquiera. Ahora bien, quizás algunos (¿muchos?) no conecten con ella. Desde luego, se podría calificar de obra mágica, en el sentido de que Ana María Matute tiene mucho de hechicera o alquimista de la palabra. La maneja con un desparpajo envidiable, y consigue con ella evocar imágenes, escenas y ambientes y conjurar metáforas. Además, dota a todo el conjunto de una melancolía absoluta, palpable por todas partes. Es normal que sea así, puesto que `Primera Memoria` es una elegía.
Sucede sin previo aviso, ataques súbitos, salvajes y letales. ¿Por qué la gente ataca a sus amigos, a su familia, incluso a desconocidos? ¿Se trata de un virus, de un ataque terrorista o es algo más primitivo? Un opresivo horror domina el país y no queda nadie en quien confiar, ni siquiera en uno mismo.
En la tradición de H. G. Wells, Anthony Burgess y Richard Matheson, Odio es la historia de un hombre y de su papel en un mundo desquiciado, un mundo infectado por el miedo, la violencia y el odio.
«Un viaje delirante, una fábula acerca del sentimiento predominante del siglo XXI. Odio te perseguirá mucho después de que hayas leído la última página.» – Guillermo del Toro, director de El laberinto del fauno
«Un lúcido acercamiento al estado del terror en el que vivimos y una fábula espeluznante acerca de sus últimas consecuencias. Ten cuidado con Odio, se adentrará en tu alma capítulo a capítulo hasta que encuentre la semilla de maldad que acecha en ella.» – J. A. Bayona, director de El orfanato
Dimitri gave Rose the ultimate choice. But she chose wrong.
After a long and heartbreaking journey to Dimitri's birthplace in Siberia, Rose Hathaway has finally returned to St. Vladimir's — and to her best friend, Lissa. It is nearly graduation, and the girls can't wait for their real lives beyond the Academy's iron gates to begin. But Rose's heart still aches for Dimitri, and she knows he's out there, somewhere.
She failed to kill him when she had the chance. And now her worst fears are about to come true — Dimitri has tasted her blood, and now he is hunting her. Only this time, he won't rest until Rose joins him — forever.
The author of Cloud Atlas's most ambitious novel yet, for the readers of Ishiguro, Murakami, and, of course, David Mitchell.
The year is 1799, the place Dejima, the "high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island" that is the Japanese Empire's single port and sole window to the world. It is also the farthest-flung outpost of the powerful Dutch East Indies Company. To this place of superstition and swamp fever, crocodiles and courtesans, earthquakes and typhoons, comes Jacob de Zoet. The young, devout and ambitious clerk must spend five years in the East to earn enough money to deserve the hand of his wealthy fiancée. But Jacob's intentions are shifted, his character shaken and his soul stirred when he meets Orito Aibagawa, the beautiful and scarred daughter of a Samurai, midwife to the island's powerful magistrate. In this world where East and West are linked by one bridge, Jacob sees the gaps shrink between pleasure and piety, propriety and profit. Magnificently written, a superb mix of historical research and heedless imagination, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is a big and unforgettable book that will be read for years to come.
The Supreme Court is one of our most sacred – and secretive – public institutions. But sometimes secrets can lead to cover-ups with very deadly consequences.
Terry Scarborough is a legal scholar and provocateur who craves headline-making celebrity, but with his latest book he may have gone too far. In it he resurrects forgotten language in the U.S. Constitution – and hints at a missing letter of Thomas Jefferson's – that threatens to divide the nation.
Then, during a publicity tour, Scarborough is brutally murdered in a San Diego hotel room, and a young man with dark connections is charged. What looks like an open-and-shut case to most people doesn't to defense attorney Paul Madriani. He believes that there is much more to the case and that the defendant is a pawn caught in the middle, being scapegoated by circumstance.
As the trial spirals toward its conclusion, Madriani and his partner, Harry Hinds, race to find the missing Jefferson letter – and the secrets it holds about slavery and scandal at the time of our nation's founding and the very reason Scarborough was killed. Madriani's chase takes him from the tension-filled courtroom in California to the trail of a high court justice now suddenly in hiding and lays bare the soaring political stakes for a seat on the highest court, in a country divided, and under the shadow of power.
Seattle police detective Joanne Walker started the year mostly dead, and she's ending it trying not to be consumed by evil. Literally.
She's proven she can handle the gods and the walking dead. But a cannibalistic serial killer? That's more than even she bargained for. What's worse, the brutal demon can only be tracked one way. If Joanne is to stop its campaign of terror, she'll have to hunt it where it lives: the Lower World, a shamanistic plane of magic and spirits.
Trouble is, Joanne's skills are no match for the dangers she's about to face—and her on-the-job training could prove fatal to the people she's sworn to protect..
Uno de los primeros clientes del abogado Paul Madriani es Jonah Hale, un anciano que se encuentra en un grave aprieto cuando Jessica, su hija, sale de la cárcel: Jonah y su esposa se han encargado de la educación de Amanda, su nieta de ocho años, debido a la drogadicción de la madre de la niña, pero, a raíz del importante premio que ha ganado el matrimonio en la lotería, Jessica decide secuestrar a la pequeña y pedir a su padre una gran suma de dinero si desea recuperarla. Jonah, que tiene la custodia legal, se niega, por lo que Jessica recurre a los servicios de Zolanda, una activista radical de los derechos de la mujer, que acusa a Jonah de haber abusado sexualmente de Amanda. El caso se complicará con un asesinato del cual Jonah será el principal sospechoso.
The Old Weatherman dreams of a plan that could be his swan song, an attack to drive a stake through the heart of the right-wing establishment and bury it for good. Now he's found the money, the ideal weapon, and the professional who knows how to use it. And he has set his sights on the perfect target at the very seat of the United States government, in the heart of downtown Washington. It will be a strike heard round the world.
San Diego defense attorney Paul Madriani is still reeling from the trauma of a near nuclear explosion he helped avert at the naval base in Coronado. Threatened by federal authorities to keep quiet about the close call in California, Madriani is now faced with a new problem in the steely-eyed and alluring Joselyn Cole, a weapons control expert, who believes he has to go public with what he knows if they have any hope of stopping a similar event in the future.
But Madriani has been linked to the murder of a Washington, D.C., political staffer, and authorities believe a shadowy figure called Liquida – a hired assassin known as "the Mexicutioner" – may be responsible. And this man, as the last survivor of the attack in San Diego, might be driven by a bizarre and horrifying star-crossed vendetta, and might now be looking for Madriani himself. What Madriani and Cole begin to fear is that the Old Weatherman and this madman have joined forces and intend to pull the city – and the country – into a vortex of terror before Madriani and Cole can find answers to the enigma that is "the rule of nine."
On the heels of Patient Zero and Pride and Prejudice with Zombies comes David Moody's electrifying sequel to Hater in which humanity fights itself to the death against a backdrop of ultimate apocalyptic destruction.
In Dog Blood the Earth has been torn apart. Everyone is either human or Hater, victim or killer. Major cities have become vast refugee camps where human survivors cower together in fear. Amidst this indiscriminate fighting and killing, Danny McCoyne is on a mission to find his daughter, Ellis. Free of inhibitions, unrestricted by memories of the previous world, and driven by instinct, children are pure Haters and might well be the deciding factor in the future of the Hater race. But as McCoyne makes his way into the heart of human territory, an incident on the battlefield sets in place an unexpected chain of events, forcing him to question everything he believes he knows about the new order that has arisen and about the dynamic of the Hate itself.
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