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It is said that the Canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. Ada Bunting, a bold sixteen-year-old from Barbados, arrives alone in Panama as a stowaway alongside thousands of other West Indians seeking work in the grand building project of the Canal. Francisco, a local fisherman, resents the foreign nations clamouring for a slice of his country, but nothing is more upsetting for him than his son Omar’s decision to work as a digger.

En el primer libro de esta apasionante saga distópica, los dones psíquicos son una sentencia de muerte y hay reglas para sobrevivir: No confíes en nadie. Miente a todos. Y, hagas lo que hagas, no caigas en las trampas de tu mayor enemigo. Wren Darlington ha pasado toda su vida escondida, perfeccionando sus habilidades y ayudando al Levantamiento en pequeñas cosas. En el Continente, ser Modificada significa una muerte segura, y Wren es una de las Modificadas más poderosas que existen. 

Un anatomist olandez din secolul al şaptesprezecelea descoperă tendonul lui Ahile secţionîndu-şi propriul picior amputat. Inima lui Chopin călătoreşte clandestin spre locul odihnei veşnice, dusă la Varşovia de sora lui preaiubită. O femeie trebuie să se întoarcă în...

FBI Agent Nell Flynn is about to work the most personal case of her life. Back home for the first time in a decade, Nell is getting ready to close the family estate after her father's death. But there's one piece of unfinished business. Her father, a homicide detective, was investigating the murders of two young women. Now his partner has asked for Nell's help. Nell soon realises that her father should be the prime suspect, and that his friends on the force are covering for him. 

En una plaza pública de Arabia Saudí, un hombre es ajusticiado bajo un sol abrasador y un chico observa impotente entre la muchedumbre: es su hijo. En un lúgubre hotel de Manhattan, aparece el cuerpo sin vida de una mujer joven y todos los indicios para identificarla han sido eliminados minuciosamente. Una línea invisible conecta todos estos hechos, dibujando un plan perfecto para cometer un monstruoso crimen contra la humanidad, y la única persona capaz de impedirlo es un ex agente que huye de su pasado y ha borrado su identidad: ahora sólo responde al nombre de Pilgrim.

When a professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles upon the corpse of a man in a dark alley, she finds a stark warning on the brick wall beside the body, scrawled in coral nail polish: ‘Beware of me, my love / beware of the silent woman in the desert.’ After reporting the crime to the police, the professor becomes the lead informant of the case, led by a detective with a newfound obsession with poetry and a long list of failures on her back. But what has the professor really seen?

On the dawn of 16 July 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, Cristina Rivera Garza’s sister, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend and subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of femicide. She was a twenty-year-old architecture student who had been trying for years to end her relationship with a high school boyfriend who insisted on not letting her go. A few weeks before the tragedy, Liliana made a definitive decision: at the height of her winter she had discovered that, as Albert Camus had said, there was an invincible summer in her.

Aquellos que nacieron vulgares son solo eso: vulgares. Y cuando el rey decreta que todos los vulgares serán eliminados para preservar su sociedad de élite, carecer de poder se vuelve un crimen, convirtiendo a Paedyn Gray en una criminal por destino y en una ladrona por necesidad. Se hace pasar por psíquica en la ciudad real, pasando desapercibida para seguir viva y fuera de peligro.

Inequality. Influence. Fraud. Sabotage. These are the themes of great fiction and our modern economy. In this collection of short stories by some of today’s most scintillating writers, the rich get poorer and the poor get richer. Yeah, right! From the heartbreaking to the hilarious, here are eight instantly classic battles over currency, class, privilege - and social distance.

Premiul Nobel pentru Literatură 2018 Roman nominalizat la Man Booker International Prize 2019 Într-un cătun de la graniţa Poloniei cu Cehia, unde trăiesc aproape izolaţi de lume un grup de localnici şi cîţiva proprietari ai unor case de vacanţă, au loc o serie de crime...

Alex Clarademont-Díaz, el hijo millennial de la presidenta de los Estados Unidos, es un tesoro para el marketing de la Casa Blanca: atractivo, carismático e inteligente. Lo que nadie sabe es que no soporta al príncipe Henry, el hijo de la reina de Inglaterra. Así que, cuando la prensa sensacionalista se hace con una fotografía que refleja un altercado entre Alex y Henry, las relaciones entre Estados Unidos y el Reino Unido se enfrían.

Ein Wein, der auf dem Meeresgrund gereift ist – so etwas hat Adeline noch nie gehört. Der edle Tropfen ist von Miranda, einer alten Dame, die im Rathaus von Nizza, Adelines Arbeitsplatz, nach Hinweisen auf ihren tot geglaubten Sohn gesucht hat. Adeline, die sich als Archivarin leidenschaftlich für Familienforschung interessiert, fasst sich ein Herz und reist zu Miranda nach San Remo, in die Stadt der Blumen, traumhaften Buchten und malerischen Strände, um Nachforschungen anzustellen.

En un Londres devastado por las bombas y que empieza a recuperarse de las terribles heridas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Juliet Ashton, una joven escritora en busca de inspiración novelesca, recibe la carta de un desconocido llamado Dawsey Adams. El hombre, que vive en la isla de Guernsey, un pequeño enclave en el canal de la Mancha, está leyendo un libro de Charles Lamb que había pertenecido con anterioridad a Juliet.

Nesta série, invertemos o ângulo pelo qual um caso de abuso sexual normalmente é tratado para mirá-lo sob um novo prisma: o da cobertura na imprensa. Por trás da explosão de denúncias contra o ex-líder espiritual João de Deus, acusado de estuprar mais de 300 mulheres, estava uma jornalista que enfrentou, dentro da própria redação, uma corrida de obstáculos para que um furo de reportagem fosse publicado. Silenciadas é uma série sobre jornalismo e sobre as vozes das mulheres.

The Darlings of New York are untouchable. But no one is safe from a scandal this big. When Carter Darling's business partner commits suicide, it triggers a huge financial investigation. The allegations are serious. The danger of it exposing their private lives is equally threatening. In times of crisis, the Darlings have always stuck together. But with the stakes so high, how long will their loyalty last?

Sono le quattro e trenta del mattino. Dalla loro barca il dottor Manfredi Monterreale e Sante Tammaro, giornalista di un quotidiano online, intravedono sulla costa un uomo che trascina a fatica una grossa valigia e la getta fra gli scogli. Poche ore dopo il vicequestore Vanina Guarrasi riceve una chiamata anonima: una voce femminile riferisce di aver assistito all'uccisione di una ragazza avvenuta quella notte in un villino sul mare. Due fatti che si scoprono legati e dànno il via a un'indagine assai più delicata del previsto.

With her delicate touch, Sofia Bauer restores books to their original splendor. In this art she finds refuge from her crumbling marriage and the feeling that her once-vibrant life is slipping away. Then an antique German edition takes her breath away. Slipped covertly into the endpapers is an intriguing missive, the first part of a secret…from one bookbinder to another.

The Classics Slacker reads the classics so you don't have to! The Classics Slacker had always intended to read the classics of world literature but never quite got around to it. You didn’t, either? Not to worry. The Classics Slacker has stopped slacking and started summarizing them for you in The Classics Slacker series—blatantly irreverent takes on the “Great Books.” Whoooooosh!!! It’s always windy over the moors in England where lovers Heathcliff and Catherine run around, day and night, climbing crags, counting birds, and defying everyone who would keep them apart.

Descubre el épico final de la trilogía Powerless de Lauren Roberts. A Paedyn y a Kai vuelve a separarles una realidad que se impone a sus deseos, y deberán enfrentarse a una terrible decisión en esta emocionante conclusión de la exitosa trilogía romántica, perfecta para fans de Sarah J. Maas.

Un cadavere che scompare, poi riappare. Un duplice omicidio accompagnato da una macabra messinscena. Con il Capodanno alle porte, pasticcio peggiore non poteva capitare al vicequestore Vanina Guarrasi. Se poi una delle vittime è un prete, il caso diventa ancora più spinoso. Comincia tutto in una notte di neve, sull'Etna. Il custode di un vecchio albergo in ristrutturazione chiama la Mobile di Catania: nel salone c'è una donna morta.