Novità: le ultime uscite

Ha cominciato a nevicare troppi anni fa. Ma io credo sia da quel momento che Peake ha iniziato a pensare a questo libro. A un libro vero, fatto di pagine e inchiostro, come quelli che c'erano prima del Macero. Un libro che potesse fregare i VIVI, con tutti i loro scanner e i sistemi di controllo, visto che non aveva nulla di elettrico o elettronico. Un libro ribelle, che come noi potesse viaggiare fuori dalle Oasi e le loro leggi.

La primera vez que vi un monstruo pensé que era lo peor que podía pasarme. Me equivocaba. Lo peor fue dejar escapar al ladrón de lo único que nos protegía de ellos. Me llamo Clara Nox, tengo trece años y Nueva York sigue siendo mi hogar… aunque nada es como antes. Entre clases aburridas, compañeros que piensan que el instituto les pertenece y monstruos escondidos en las sombras, he aprendido que hay errores que no se pueden reparar. Ahora, la muestra del aire está en las manos equivocadas y depende de mí recuperarla antes de que sea demasiado tarde.

Bajo las instrucciones de Mister Ling, Felipe emprende con su tío y Elvis una travesía por el Amazonas para encontrar El Dorado, el legendario lugar que despertó la fiebre de oro de los conquistadores. Deben enfrentarse a las inclemencias del clima, al cansancio, a actores del conflicto armado e, incluso, a la misma selva, que parece que se dobla sobre sí misma para confundirlos y proteger su tesoro. Sin embargo, la aventura de Felipe no es solo en el pulmón del mundo: con la guía de un chamán descubre sus vidas pasadas y las vidas actuales de personas que han muerto.

When she was a child, Astrid heard stories about how her mother served on the walls of Humanity's Bulwark to protect their country from their inhuman enemies on every side. With terrifying stories about their many foes, she quickly decided to become a delver in the Dungeon. There, she could gain enough levels and experience to serve as one of Humanity's elites, to protect her borders and countrymen. To do that, she'd need a party, and she had a plan.

Victor Vollmer isn't a paperboy anymore. He's a copyboy now, but his duties at the newspaper get interrupted by a last request from Mr. Spiro, the old man who became Victor's mentor and helped him take on his stutter in the beloved novel Paperboy, a Newbery Honor Book. Victor takes off on a journey that sends him hundreds of miles from home toward the teeth of a gathering storm. Confronted by an unfamiliar and threatening world, he meets a girl who is strong, smart, and bold like no one he's known before, and together they venture to the place where river meets sea.

From Stonewall Honoree Cory McCarthy, joyful, affectionate, read-in-one-sitting novel about letting go of the things we can’t change and holding on to the passion of our instincts. On the far side of a swift and unknowable apocalypse, a few sapiens are surviving off the last scraps of humanity...