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Freshman Logico arrives at the prestigious Deduction College with a keen interest in logic and a mission to graduate at the top of his class . . . when a series of mysterious killings occur in this fourth instalment of Murdle: The School of Mystery.Join Logico as he investigates tricky campus alliances, cut-throat student elections and trials for the varsity chessboxing team. Along the way, he'll glimpse robed figures in hidden tunnels and hear whispers of a secret society, all overshadowed by the unsolved death of Lord Graystone, founder of the school. Logico must determine whodunnit, how, where and why, before the final bell. And who better to help him than fellow student, the enigmatic Irratino?Examine the clues, interview the witnesses and complete the deduction grids to catch the culprits - and complete them all to unfold an even greater mystery before it's too late. Packed with illustrations, codes and maps, this is the seminal detective casebook to get those little grey cells firing!Not only the good die young! You'll need to be sharper than Sherlock if you dare to Murdle!
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'I WASN'T WORRIED ABOUT THE MYSTERIOUS BLACK BAG THAT MORNING... NO BIG DEAL. UNTIL I GOT CLOSER - AND THEN I KNEW BETTER.'Back in the Summer of 1988, a young Richard Chizmar was catapulted into the centre of a living nightmare as the serial killer Joshua Gallagher - dubbed by the media as The Boogeyman - stalked his tranquil Maryland town.These days, Chizmar enjoys a certain level of notoriety himself as he is the only person to whom Josh Gallagher will talk, on or off the record. Chizmar likes to visit Gallagher in prison, as there are plenty of other nameless victims out there and Gallagher's confession would bring closure to grieving loved ones.But when a masked figure leaves a horrifying calling card in the front of his home, Chizmar finds there is a price for dancing with the devil. It's clear that there is a new player in the game which The Boogeyman controls . . .Both a riveting tale of obsession and an unflinchingly honest exploration of modern society's true-crime infatuation, Becoming the Boogeyman spares no one from the glare of the spotlight.
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Sin aliados. Sin armas. Sin esperanza. ¿Podrá Batman contraatacar? ¡El mundo está a punto de conocer el verdadero poder de Zur! ¡Con la vida de Damian en juego!
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La exposición Los mundos de Alicia. Soñar el país de las maravillas integra las múltiples visiones del personaje en los ámbitos de la literatura, el cine, las artes escénicas y las artes plásticas, y lo sitúa en un siglo XXI que ha borrado las fronteras entre la realidad y el mundo imaginario. Alicia aparece como una figura precursora: una niña con una gran curiosidad por todas las cosas, que desafía la lógica de las ideas inmutables y encuentra su camino en un mundo absurdo.
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A beautifully illustrated guide on how to transform your everyday outfits, Gucci-style.Bring the defining principles of Gucci's style to your own wardrobe with this celebration of one of the world's most renowned fashion houses. From channelling the super brand with your beauty choices, finding your inner extrovert in the clothes you choose, and even bringing the influence of the house's equestrian beginnings into your streetwear - this is an essential handbook for going Gucci, your way.Including the stories, history and personalities who have defined a legacy like no other, there's no better companion for fans of Gucci.
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En la época feudal de Japón, un monje budista se ha enamorado de una mujer muy especial, un kitsune o espíritu zorro que se ha enterado de que su amado corre un grave peligro. Hay quien conspira para atraparlo dentro de un sueño, así que decide ocupar su puesto. No obstante, el monje no está dispuesto a renunciar al amor y emprende un viaje al reino de Morfeo que le cambiará la vida para siempre. Tras adaptar con éxito la novela Coraline, el artista P. Craig Russell retomó el universo narrativo de Neil Gaiman con Sandman: Los cazadores de sueños, versión tan fiel como espectacular de un relato ambientado en el Japón feudal escrito por el gran artífice de Sandman en 1999.
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¡Una rompedora versión de Batman, por Mark Russell, Mike Allred y Laura Allred! ¡Robin entra en escena! Bruce ha descubierto que puede hacer el bien sin una máscara. Sin embargo, cuando Carmine Falcone se apodera de Gotham City con ayuda de una misteriosa sociedad secreta, llega el momento de que Batman reclute a nuevos aliados. ¿Estará la nueva generación a la altura? Periodicidad bimestral.
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WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTIONNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, The New Republic, and the Financial Times.Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day.Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for a school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer. His father, Abed, gets word of the crash and rushes to the site. The scene is chaos—the children have been taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank, some are missing, others cannot be identified. Abed sets off on an odyssey to learn Milad’s fate. It is every parent’s worst nightmare, but for Abed it is compounded by the maze of physical, emotional, and bureaucratic obstacles he must navigate because he is Palestinian. He is on the wrong side of the separation wall, holds the wrong ID to pass the military checkpoints, and has the wrong papers to enter the city of Jerusalem. Abed’s quest to find Milad is interwoven with the stories of a cast of Jewish and Palestinian characters whose lives and histories unexpectedly converge.In A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, Nathan Thrall—hailed for his “severe allergy to conventional wisdom” (Time)—offers an indelibly human portrait of the struggle over Israel/Palestine and a new understanding of the tragic history and reality of one of the most contested places on earth.
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Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the ultimate short trip to Tenerife - and discover twice the place in half the time!Discover Tenerife's most popular experiences, must-see attractions, and unexpected surprises with our handy-sized Pocket travel guide. From visiting the famed Observatorio del Teide on a stargazing excursion, to wine-tasting your way around the DO Valle de la Orotava, and losing yourself in the wonder of the Parque Nacional del Teide.
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Lonely Planet's Pocket Cabo Verde is your guide to the city's best experiences and local life - neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Explore the spectacular island of Santo Antão, climb Pico do Fogo or lay on a beach on Boa Vista, all with your trusted travel companion. Uncover the best of Cabo Verde and make the most of your trip!
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Este segundo tomo de la edición Deluxe de la célebre etapa de Alan Moore en la serie de La Cosa del Pantano arranca con la recopilación integral de uno de sus arcos argumentales más recordados y terroríficos, Gótico Americano. En sus páginas, el protagonista se enfrenta a una muerte por envenenamiento radiactivo, a una laboriosa reencarnación, y al espectacular desarrollo de sus milagrosas habilidades. Ah, y también a un cínico y misterioso hechicero inglés llamado John Constantine que, a cambio de conocimiento, lo embarca en un viaje a las tinieblas del corazón de Estados Unidos. En el trayecto, conocerá la verdad sobre su propio origen, a través del extraño cónclave vegetal conocido como el Parlamento de Árboles.
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*An Economist, Financial Times, Guardian, Prospect and Sunday Times Book of the Year*Shortlisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the YearThis is the only book you need to understand our new world – from the ultimate AI insider, the CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind.Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. In a world of quantum computers, robot assistants and abundant energy, they will organise your life, operate your business, and run government services.None of us are prepared.Mustafa Suleyman has been at the centre of this revolution. The next decade, he explains, will be defined by a wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies. These will create immense prosperity but also present risks.How do we ensure the flourishing of humankind? How do we maintain control over these technologies? And how do we find the narrow path to a successful future? In this groundbreaking book we learn how to think about the essential challenge of our age.Be prepared. Read The Coming Wave.
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'This was utterly brilliant and satisfying. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter will be the best of the secret project novels, and it is easily one of Sanderson's finest books in his career' Novel NotionsFrom Number 1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson - creator of The Stormlight Archive, the Mistborn Saga, and countless bestselling works of science fiction and fantasy - comes this gripping story set in the Cosmere universe told by Hoid, where two people from incredibly different cultures must work together to save their worlds from certain disaster.Yumi has spent her entire life in strict obedience, granting her the power to summon the spirits that bestow vital aid upon her society - but she longs for even a single day as a normal person. Painter patrols the dark streets dreaming of being a hero - a goal that has led to nothing but heartache and isolation, leaving him always on the outside looking in. In their own ways, both of them face the world alone.Suddenly flung together, Yumi and Painter must strive to right the wrongs in both their lives, reconciling their past and present while maintaining the precarious balance of each of their worlds. If they cannot unravel the mystery of what brought them together before it's too late, they risk forever losing not only the bond growing between them, but the very worlds they've always struggled to protect.
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Es Diana, la princesa de Themyscira, la hija de la mítica reina de las amazonas. Y también es Wonder Woman, una de las heroínas más poderosas y respetadas del mundo. No obstante, hay algo que va mal. Su memoria se resquebraja. ¿Es hija de Hipólita y de Zeus, el rey del Olimpo? ¿O acaso su madre la moldeó en las playas de Isla Paraíso? La única solución es regresar a casa, pero no puede. Y, al parecer, la única mujer que es capaz de ayudarla es Cheetah, su peor enemiga. El guionista Greg Rucka y los dibujantes Liam Sharp y Matthew Clark nos presentan Las mentiras, una historia ambientada en la etapa Renacimiento de DC Comics en la que también tienen mucho protagonismo Steve Trevor, Etta Candy y cierta doctora que está empeñada en disputarle a Cheetah el honor de ser la némesis de Wonder Woman.
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A new classic from the world of Roald Dahl!Mr. and Mrs. Twit are just about as nasty and revolting as two people can get. The only thing that brings the two of them pleasure is playing pranks on one another. But, when a new family called the Lovelies move in next door, with their lively 10-year-old twins, they teach The Twits to stop being so mean and horrible and they all live happily ever after . . . Ha! Not really. The Twits HATE the Lovelies. But how far will The Twits go to rid themselves of their horribly nice new neighbours? And what happens when these new neighbours, who are armed with utter loveliness, start to fight back?
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Novena entrega de la serie Último Reino, en la que Pascal Quignard alcanza el centro de su búsqueda de otra forma de pensar que nada tiene que ver con la filosofía.Manolito, un pollito muy curioso, tiene muchas ganas de explorar la pradera.A pesar de las advertencias de su mamá, Manolito decide aventurarse solo, pero pronto se da cuenta de que las cosas pueden salir mal cuando no prestamos atención. Con la ayuda de nuevos amigos, Manolito aprenderá una valiosa lección que no recordará para siempre.VALORES IMPLÍCITOSLa lectura de este cuento pretende enseñar a los más pequeños la importancia de escuchar y obedecer siempre a los padres. Además, destaca el valor de la amistad y la ayuda desinteresada a los demás.
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A collection of the year’s top food and travel writing, selected by the trailblazing New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated host of Taste the Nation and Top Chef Padma Lakshmi.“Food and travel are natural companions,” writes guest editor Padma Lakshmi. From this pairing comes “the possibility of seeing anew, of examining how we make and assign meaning.” The essays in this year’s Best American Food and Travel Writing circle the world—from Dakar in Senegal, to Michoacán in south-central Mexico, to the Camino de Santiago in Spain—and deepen our understanding of our place in it. An ode to the American grilled cheese spurs the desire to find beauty in the smallest daily activities. An obsessive odyssey for the perfect Chinese food blossoms into a heart-wrenching search for a lost childhood. Bold and insightful, joyful and moving, this collection celebrates the experiences that connect us all.
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A pianist falls grandly, helplessly in love in this elegant new novella from the twice-Booker Prize winnerThe Pole tells the story of Witold Walczykiewicz, a vigorous, white-haired pianist, who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his Barcelona concert.Although Beatriz, who is married, is initially unimpressed by Wittold, she soon finds herself pursued and ineluctably swept into his world. As he sends her letters, extends countless invitations to travel, and even visits her husband's summer home in Mallorca, their unlikely relationship blossoms, though only on her terms.As the power struggle between them intensifies -- Is it Beatriz who limits their passion by controlling her emotions? Or is it Witold, trying to force into life his dream of love? Evocative of Joyce's 'The Dead,' The Pole is a haunting work, evoking the 'inexhaustible palette of sensations, from blind love to compassion' (El País) typical of Coetzee's finest novels.Published together with five exceptional stories, this new work from one of our greatest writers is a must for all literary connoisseurs.
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Un ensayo necesario de un abogado referente en justicia universal sobre sobre los conflictos armados como medio para zanjar diferencias.Luis Moreno Ocampo es uno de los más importantes referentes relacionados con la justicia universal. Primero desde su función como fiscal adjunto en el Juicio a las Juntas Militares en 1985, en Argentina, y luego desde su cargo como primer fiscal de la Corte Penal Internacional (CPI) de La Haya. Desde el estallido de la guerra en Gaza, ha sido una de las voces más duras y críticas contra Israel. Sus reflexiones acerca del recurso a la guerra como medio para dirimir diferencias, de los delitos reconocidos tras los Juicios de Núremberg y su defensa sin titubeos de la paz sumergen al lector en una lección de jurisprudencia al alcance de su mano.
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To be a journalist is to tell the truth. Here is Russia as it really is.Part memoir, part collection of Elena Kostyuchenko’s fearless reporting, I Love Russia introduces us to places we’ve never seen and to people who’ve been systematically, brutally erased from view by Putin’s regime. We enter secretive state-run facilities for disabled people, abandoned buildings haunted by suicide and violence, and a schoolyard marked by unacknowledged massacre. We meet village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer provinces, and patients and doctors on a Ukrainian maternity ward.The result is a singular, uncompromising, and profoundly humane portrait of a nation – and of an extraordinary woman who refuses to be silenced.
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Ser miembro de la Liga de la Justicia es un honor. Warlord, Metamorfo y Starman lo saben bien, y están dispuestos a todo con tal de demostrar que son dignos del supergrupo más famoso del mundo. No obstante, invocar a Darkseid siempre es un error y, en efecto, todo sale mal. Así comienza una historia que implica a héroes muy conocidos y a otros que apenas se recuerda, incluidos el poderoso Atlas, cierto Manhunter y un justiciero chiflado llamado Creeper. ¿Qué puede tener en común un elenco tan heterogéneo? El guionista Tom King y el dibujante Jorge Fornés, autores de la aplaudida Rorschach, nos traen Calle Peligro, un proyecto que recupera a los personajes de 1st Issue Special, la mítica antología de DC Comics.
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Esta es la historia de un chaval que se ha hecho mayor y ha cambiado la apacible localidad rural donde se crió por el bullicio de la gran ciudad. La particularidad es que ese chaval nació en el malogrado planeta Krypton y posee unas habilidades que le hacen superior al resto de los mortales. Ante la fascinación por una vida nueva y por los peligros y retos que conlleva, ¿qué pesará más? ¿El hombre... o Superman? Este especial incluye de forma íntegra la historia Man and Superman, un proyecto realizado por el legendario guionista Marv Wolfman y el dibujante italiano Claudio Castellini que nos transporta a los inicios de la carrera superheroica del Hombre de Acero.
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How do we write about the singular experience of parenthood? Written in a ‘state of attachment’, or ‘under the influence’ of fatherhood, Childish Literature is an eclectic guide for novice parents, showing how the birth and growth of a child changes not only the present and the future, but also reshapes our perceptions of the past. Shifting from moving dispatches from his son’s first year of existence, to a treatise on ‘football sadness’, to a psychedelic narrative where a man tries, mid-magic mushroom trip, to re-learn the subtle art of crawling, this latest work from Alejandro Zambra shows how children shield adults from despondency, self-absorption and the tyrannies of chronological time. At once a chronicle of fatherhood, a letter to a child and a work of fiction, Childish Literature is the latest, virtuosic addition to the oeuvre of one of the most exciting Latin American writers in recent decades.
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There is no love lost between the Oslo and Bergen branches of the powerful Falck family. So when its steely matriarch dies with no will to be found, the seeds of an inheritance dispute are sown.Yet her legacy could be more damaging still. A manuscript confiscated by the secret police in the seventies holds devastating secrets about the Falcks' activities during the war. Her granddaughter Sasha is set on uncovering the truth, whatever the cost, bringing her into conflict with her father, whose family loyalty is matched only by his patriotic fervour. And in the wings waits Hans Falck, war doctor and philanderer, head of the impoverished Bergen branch, who has a few secrets of his own.It all leads back to the sinking of the SS Prinsesse Ragnhild, lost to a British mine in 1940. But can the official verdict be trusted? The shocking truth lies 300 metres under the sea.Part literary thriller, part sweeping family saga, The Sea Cemetery is a dark and dramatic tale of secrets, betrayals and doomed love, drawing on the true story of one of Norway's most devastating maritime disasters.
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Un arzobispo encerrado dos años en una jaula, la catedral de Santiago sitiada, amores prohibidos y apasionados, guerras, pactos, odios, excomuniones... Galicia en el SXV.En 1467, trescientos veintidós años antes de la Revolución Francesa, se instaura en Galicia el segundo gobierno democrático de Europa -después del griego-, con la primera Xunta de Melide. La carta del rey Enrique IV autorizando el derrocamiento de las fortalezas donde se ocultan malhechores protegidos por la nobleza predadora, enciende la chispa de la revuelta irmandiña que hunde las raíces de la libertad bajo los muros de las fortalezas. Nobleza, clero, burguesía y pueblo llano, sin distinción de edad, raza o condición, luchan unidos contra los abusos generalizados y la violencia de muchos de los nobles, logrando echar del reino a todos aquellos que no juran la constitución de la hermandad aprobada por el rey.
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La edición imprescindible de Aquí, la obra maestra de Richard McGuire, con postfacio de Chris Ware y las primeras páginas publicadas en la revista RAW. En 1989, Richard McGuire publicó en la revista RAW una historieta de seis páginas en blanco y negro titulada ''Aquí'', en la que narraba la historia del rincón de una habitación y de todo lo ocurrido en ese pequeño espacio a lo largo de miles de años. Aquellas páginas se convirtieron en algunas de las más transformadoras, influyentes y estudiadas del medio. Aquí es la materialización de una visión pionera en el mundo del cómic, a cargo de uno de sus más grandes innovadores autores. Desde su primera publicación en novela gráfica, premiada como la Mejor Obra en el Festival de Angulema 2016, Aquí se ha convertido en una obra histórica del cómic contemporáneo, de las más celebradas y elogiadas de la última década. En 2024 se estrena la película basada en el cómic, dirigida e interpretada por el mismo elenco que Forest Gump. Aquí regresa en la encuadernación original de la novela gráfica, en cartoné y sobrecubierta. La edición ampliada y revisada de aquella historieta seminal, con un postfacio de Chris Ware y las primeras páginas publicadas en la mítica revista RAW.La crítica ha dicho...«Una obra de arte y literatura que no se parece a nada visto o leído hasta ahora [...]. Un libro como éste se da una vez cada década, si no cada siglo. Os garantizo que recordaréis siempre dónde estabais cuando lo leísteis por primera vez».Chris Ware «Todos los cómics son partituras del tiempo, y el libro de Richard es una sinfonía. Se me ocurren pocos libros que justifiquen plenamente la atípica cuota de interés dedicada a los cómics estos últimos años, pero éste es sin duda uno de ellos».Art Spiegelman«McGuire tiene un lugar inigualable en mi panteón como uno de los colaboradores más innovadores y con más talento de Raw y The New Yorker. Richard es también un artista de artistas».Françoise Mouly, editora de arte de The New Yorker y fundadora y coeditora de Raw«Uno de los más apasionantes experimentos de novela gráfica que he visto en mi vida».Los Angeles Times «El concepto del libro es de una sencillez impactante, y en tanto que revela la universalidad de la existencia con toda su belleza, fealdad y trivialidad resulta profundamente conmovedor».Booklist«Un libro que se situará directamente en la primera fila del género de novela gráfica».The New York Times
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An essential, definitive visual guide and history to the variety of human rights and protections–great for activists, rights defenders, and young readers who love visual learning.Wth timelines, easy-to-follow graphics and bite-sized bits of info, this book explains it all from workers' rights to the right to a clean environment, and the people who fought to protect those rights.All people deserve to be respected and valued. Regardless of where we were born, how much we have, what we believe or think, or our age or the color of our skin–all lives are important and we deserve to live them with satisfaction, justice, safety, and freedom.There are many different kinds of human rights and many people who have fought to establish and protect those rights. Here you can learn about rights for indigenous, workers, children, and lgbtq+ people, the right to go to school and have a home, the right to think a certain way and practice the religion of your choice–rights we may not even realize weren't always protected.Did you know that the right to be a child--to go to school and not have to work or be married off--had to be fought for and made law? Did you know that in some countries the right to live in a safe home with water and electricity is not guaranteed?Did you know that at one time in America, Indigenous people were not allowed to speak their native languages?Human Rights is an oversized, graphically vibrant book with timelines, short and easy-to-understand explanations, important people who fought for changes in human rights law, and a chapter on protecting future rights. It's an essential visual reference that explains all there is to know about our human rights and the laws and doctrines that protect them.
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Loving Kane nearly destroyed me once, now that he's Alpha he could be my end.My life collapsed the day my Were lover Kane abandoned me four years ago, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake. Now I need his help.I've got one shot to save my brother, as long as I solve the murders plaguing our city, Cambria. It'll mean diving headfirst into the political minefield of our supernatural elite. But a new alpha has joined the fray. He's dangerous, he's devastating, and he's the same man who obliterated my world all those years ago.The deal: fake being his mate to solve the case. The cost: everything.As catastrophe looms and old passions ignite, I'm faced with the impossible choice between loyalty and love. But the killer is watching and waiting to strike. . .
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In a world of magical artifacts and fantastical beings, a woman determined to save her family joins forces with an unlikely partner—a minotaur—in this captivating special hardcover edition of USA Today bestselling Ruby Dixon’s new steamy romantasy.As a Holder’s daughter, Aspeth Honori knows the importance of magical artifacts . . . which is why it’s a disaster that her father has gambled all theirs away. Now that her family is in danger of losing their hold—and their heads—if anyone finds out the truth, Aspeth decides to do something about it. She’ll join the Royal Artifactual Guild and the adventurers who explore ancient underground ruins to retrieve the coveted arcane items.It’s a great plan—with one big problem. The guild won’t let her train because she’s a woman. Aspeth needs a chaperone of some kind. The best way to get around this problem? Marry someone who will let her become an apprentice. Who better than a surly guild member who requires a favor of his own? He’s a minotaur (it’s fine) who is her teacher (also fine) . . . and he’s about to go into rut (which is where it gets tricky). He also has no idea she’s a noble (oops), and he’ll want nothing to do with her if he discovers her real identity.Now Aspeth just has to pass the guild tests, thwart a fortune hunter, and save her hold—oh, and survive a rut with her monstrous, horned husband, whom she might be falling in love with.It’s time to dig deep. Literally.
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An anthology that celebrates the power of culture in Palestinian resistance, with selections of memoir, short stories, essays, book reviews, personal narrative, poetry, and art.Includes twenty-five black-and-white illustrations by Palestinian artists.The Arabic word sumūd is often loosely translated as “steadfastness” or “standing fast.” It is, above all, a Palestinian cultural value of everyday perseverance in the face of Israeli occupation. Sumūd is both a personal and collective commitment, people determine their own lives, despite the environment of constant oppressions imposed upon them. This anthology spans the 20th and 21st centuries of Palestinian cultural history, and highlights writing from 2021–2024. The collection of writing and art features work from forty-six contributors from Hossam Madhoun, co-founder of Gaza's Theatre for Everybody, as he survives the post-October 2023 war on Gaza,Novelist Ahmed Masoud with “Application 39,” a sci-fi short story about a Dystopian bid for the Olympics,Sara Roy and Ivar Ekeland with “The New Politics of Gaza as Prologue,” an analysis of Israel’s divide and conquer policies of fragmentation,Historian Ilan Pappé with a review of Tahrir Hamdi’s book, Imagining Palestine, in which he unpacks the relationship between culture and resistance,Essayist Lina Mounzer with “Palestine and the Unspeakable,” an offering on the language used to dehumanize Palestinians,And poetry by the next generation of poets who have inherited the mantle of the late Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008).The essays, stories, poetry, art and personal narrative collected in Sumū A New Palestinian Reader is a rich riposte to those who would denigrate Palestinians’ aspirations for a homeland. It also serves as a timely reminder of culture’s power and importance during occupation and war.Allison Epstein combines cleverly constructed plot with unforgettable characters in this exuberant historical page-turner, intercut with fractured retellings of traditional Eastern European folk stories that are equal parts deadly dark and slyly illuminating. Vividly written and emotionally intense, Let the Dead Bury the Dead reminds us that the concerns of the past aren't quite as far behind us as we like to believe.
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A gripping new novel set in the universe of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick HarkawaySet in the missing decade between two iconic instalments in the George Smiley saga, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Nick Harkaway's Karla's Choice is an extraordinary, thrilling return to the world of spy fiction's greatest writer, John le Carré.It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West's spy war with the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only on a more peaceful life. And indeed, with his marriage more secure than ever, there is a rumour in Whitehall – unconfirmed and a little scandalous – that George Smiley might almost be happy.But Control has other plans. A Russian agent has defected in the most unusual of circumstances, and the man he was sent to kill in London is nowhere to be found. Smiley reluctantly agrees to one last simple task: interview Susanna, a Hungarian émigré and employee of the missing man, and sniff out a lead. But in his absence the shadows of Moscow have lengthened. Smiley will soon find himself entangled in a perilous mystery that will define the battles to come, and strike at the heart of his greatest enemy…
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A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves on the present—loaded with assassins and mad poets, RPGs and slasher films, pop bands and the perils of social media.March, 1919. Far-flung Korean patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to protest the Japanese occupation of their country. This government-in-exile proves mostly symbolic, though, and after Japan’s defeat in World War II, the KPG dissolves and civil war erupts, resulting in the North-South split that remains today.But what if the KPG still existed now, today—working toward a unified Korea, secretly harnessing the might of a giant tech company to further its aims? That’s the outrageous premise of Same Bed Different Dreams, which weaves together three distinct narrative voices and an archive of mysterious images and twists reality like a kaleidoscope, spinning Korean history, American pop culture, and our tech-fraught lives into an extraordinary and unforgettable novel.Early on we meet Soon Sheen, who works at the sprawling international technology company GLOAT, and comes into possession of an unfinished book authored by the KPG. The manuscript is a mysterious, revisionist history, tying famous names and obscure bit players to the KPG’s grand project. This strange manuscript links together figures from architect-poet Yi Sang to Jack London to Marilyn Monroe. M*A*S*H is in here, too, and the Moonies, and a history of violence extending from the assassination of President McKinley to the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007.Just as foreign countries have imposed their desires on Korea, so too has Park tucked different dreamers into this sprawling bed of a novel. Among them: Parker Jotter, Korean War vet and appliance-store owner, who saw something--a UFO?--while flying over North Korea, Nora You, nail salon magnate, and Monk Zingapan, game designer turned writing guru. Their links are revealed over time, even as the dreamers remain in the dark as to their own interconnectedness. A thrilling feat of imagination and a step forward from an award-winning author, Same Bed Different Dreams begins as a comic novel and gradually pulls readers into another dimension—one in which utopia is possible.
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Esta es la historia de los supervivientes de cualquier naufragio que, a pesar del horror, siguen creyendo en la bondad humana.En la ciudad de Sevilla, en la actualidad, un inspector de policía al borde de la jubilación investiga una serie de asesinatos que vienen a perturbar el último tramo de su vida profesional. La investigación desentraña una madeja en la que, progresivamente, encuentra la trama de la propia vida causando dolor y caos.La piel de la ciudad, tan camaleónica como la de las personas que la habitan, se torna hostil cuando la noche saca a pasear sus demonios. Nada es lo que parece. Tras las máscaras se esconden perversiones inimaginables que contrastan con personajes luminosos, poniendo el contrapunto a la hipocresía de una sociedad acomodada y burguesa que transita por la calculada ambigüedad de la indiferencia.Esta historia es, en realidad, el entramado de muchas historias. Las de todos aquellos que han sobrevivido a cualquier naufragio y siguen creyendo, a pesar de todo, en la bondad humana. Es un alegato a favor de las víctimas desde quienes siguen rescatando a los que bracean exhaustos en el embravecido mar de las vidas maltrechas.
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From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the impact of his singular legacy on the dreams and nightmares of the twentieth century and the nascent age of AIBenjamín Labatut’s When We Cease to Understand the World electrified a global readership. A Booker Prize and National Book Award finalist, and one of the New York Times’ Ten Best Books of the Year, it explored the life and thought of a clutch of mathematicians and physicists who took science to strange and sometimes dangerous new realms. In The MANIAC, Labatut has created a tour de force on an even grander scale.A prodigy whose gifts terrified the people around him, John von Neumann transformed every field he touched, inventing game theory and the first programable computer, and pioneering AI, digital life, and cellular automata. Through a chorus of family members, friends, colleagues, and rivals, Labatut shows us the evolution of a mind unmatched and of a body of work that has unmoored the world in its wake.The MANIAC places von Neumann at the center of a literary triptych that begins with Paul Ehrenfest, an Austrian physicist and friend of Einstein, who fell into despair when he saw science and technology become tyrannical forces, it ends a hundred years later, in the showdown between the South Korean Go Master Lee Sedol and the AI program AlphaGo, an encounter embodying the central question of von Neumann's most ambitious unfinished project: the creation of a self-reproducing machine, an intelligence able to evolve beyond human understanding or control.A work of beauty and fabulous momentum, The MANIAC confronts us with the deepest questions we face as a species.
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El pánico se había adueñado del aire de la ciudad. Incluso los almendros escondían sus flores, temerosos de perderlas en el fuego que se apreciaba en el horizonte al caer la tarde. Huir, desaparecer, abandonar eran palabras que avanzaban penosamente por las calles y plazas. Aquella tarde de febrero de 1937, Eduardo Gómez, su hija Almudena y sus nietos, Pablo y Paloma, se unieron a una caravana de personas a las que el miedo había empujado hasta la carretera que seguía la recortada línea de la costa entre Málaga y Almería. Un viaje despiadado, cuyo interminable eco desandará el camino tejido por el tiempo.
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Upside Down is a powerful story of unconventional romance, bold choices and second chances, from the billion copy bestseller, Danielle Steel.Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law is a Hollywood icon. A stunning beauty at sixty-two, her star is as bright as ever. Widowed at a young age by a philandering husband, Ardith is in no hurry to marry again. Her daughter, Morgan, a successful cosmetic surgeon, has always blamed her mother for a lonely childhood while Ardith was away on location, and the relationship remains strained despite Ardith’s efforts to strengthen their bond.While Ardith’s long-time partner is away filming in London, Josh Gray, an actor waiting for his big break, is employed as Ardith’s assistant at her Bel Air home. When tragedy strikes he becomes an invaluable support, stirring up conflicting feelings in her for this younger man.In New York, Morgan is swept off her feet by Ben Ryan, one of the country’s most famous TV news reporters. Though more than two decades her senior, she falls headlong for his charm and attention. But, when a blackmail scheme puts his career – and their relationship – on the line, she doesn’t know where to turn.It’s time for Morgan to decide whether she can bury the hurt of the past and forgive, and for Ardith to find a way to follow her heart – because finding true happiness with the right partner has nothing to do with age . . .
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