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The highly-anticipated finale to the New York Times bestselling 5th Wave series. The enemy is Other. The enemy is us. They’re down here, they’re up there, they’re nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us. But beneath these...

The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s “late plays.” It tells the story of a king whose jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daughter and the death of his beautiful wife. His daughter is found and brought up by a shepherd on the Bohemian coast, but through a series of...

La plenitud psicológica depende enteramente de nuestros estados de conciencia. El antídoto contra la ansiedad, la desesperación, la mediocridad...

Antídoto para el olvido, la poesía es un faro que alumbra lo que corre el peligro de perderse en la cotidianidad, en las horas que nos arrastran sin clemencia. De ahí que la búsqueda de la felicidad sea una hazaña, y la poesía el medio para que tal empeño no se pierda en el caudal de los días que se suceden sin remedio.

The path to peace is paved in blood. Or so Cutter tells himself during the long nights as he travels deeper into the Black Wood, wrestling with his inner demons and battling those creatures which emerge from the shadows seeking his life.

Una sorprendente novela de fantasía oscura donde los lazos familiares se sellan con sangre y fuego infernal. Candena, una bruja de grandes poderes, ha condenado a toda su estirpe a una vida entre los confines de un bosque mágico. Sin embargo, la cárcel podría no ser el único castigo que le espera a la familia de Candena.

A veces uno se topa con la muerte, a pesar de no haberla presentido, y no solo no se extraña sino que la acepta con la misma naturaleza con la que se acepta la vida.

In 2014, H was back in Afghanistan, providing security for the Japanese Embassy in Kabul. In 2021, when the chaotic evacuation of the Afghan capital began, it was a tough call for the Japanese government to leave behind their significant investment in Afghanistan’s future. When H finally got the go-ahead to extract the embassy’s diplomats and staff, he was leading the only security team remaining in a city rapidly filling with Taliban fighters.

The extant letters of Pliny, written between AD 97 and 112, give us a unique insight into Imperial Rome under the early Antonine emperors. Organised into 10 books, the letters reflect a wide range of topics, mirroring Pliny’s own public and private interests. Among many other subjects, the letters also include an eye-witness account of the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, with the final book containing the exchange of letters between the writer (whose career culminated as Governor of Bithynia) and the emperor Trajan.

Mimi, una chica de once años, sueña con ganar el concurso de pastelería en el que el juez es nada menos que su gran ídolo, un chef de reconocido prestigio. Pero Mimi pierde a su mejor colaborador cuando su padre regresa de un viaje de negocios y misteriosamente es incapaz de distinguir entre sabores deliciosos y desagradables. Un día Mimi decide seguir a través del bosque una extraña música que a la vez le resulta familiar; ahí conoce a un chico de ojos dorados, y juntos cocinan utilizando ingredientes exóticos del mismo bosque.

A decade ago, the soldiers of Bravo Company deployed to Afghanistan for a tour in Kandahar’s notorious Arghandab Valley. By the time they made it home, three soldiers had been killed in action, a dozen more had lost limbs, and an astonishing half of the company had Purple Hearts. In the decade since, two of the soldiers have died by suicide, more than a dozen have tried, and others admit they’ve considered it. Written with an insider’s eye and ear and drawing on extensive interviews and original reporting, Bravo Company follows the men from their initial enlistment on.

Comienzos de los años noventa. La joven Kiona disfruta de una vida sibilina en Manihiki, una pequeña isla del sur del Océano Pacífico, y uno de los sitios más aislados del mundo entero. Kiona trabaja en el negocio familiar de buceo libre, vigilando las ostras y la cosecha de perlas negras. Una mañana un lujoso yate se estrella en el arrecife que rodea la isla. En el barco destrozado, los habitantes locales encuentran a un hombre herido. Su nombre es Erik y él es de Suecia.

How do you close the achievement gap? Start by changing the question. When we use the achievement gap to define success, we shortchange our students. It’s time to recognize that the potential for greatness lies in a unique form within each child—and that the goal of education should be to encourage and develop it. This inspiring manifesto brings in research from different disciplines and demonstrates how to uncover individual greatness by giving students control of their learning.

I am fire and all I touch turns to ash. Despite the odds, Cutter and his companions managed to bring Matt to the capital, where he was crowned king. But instead of getting better, things have only gotten worse. The Known Lands and its people stand at a precipice. One false move, one mistake, and they will all fall into the abyss. Cutter wants only to protect his people, to right his many wrongs. But a warrior’s hands are made for killing, not healing, and fingers drenched with blood can only ruin anything they touch. Such is the warrior’s truth. Such is the warrior’s curse.

Logan Grimm, the War Wizard, has turned his sights upon the elvish realms. In exchange for his resurrection, he must meet with an elf king and offer his services. The elvish realms are under great turmoil with the Lunar Empire seeking to subjugate the kingdoms. Logan aims to stop them, and to do so, he will need to acquire the favor of more Archspirits. Except he is just one man, and while he can mark his followers with runes of power, the Lunar Empire far outnumbers Logan and his allies.

Bárbara Aranguren, indica ya en el título mismo de este nuevo audiolibro la suma importancia de los pequeños detalles en la formación de una personalidad. Una historia contada en tres momentos precisos de una vida, el recurso de la autora para no abandonar el tiempo corto del relato, pero con la continuidad del desarrollo de un carácter, el de Lucía Laborda, mientras descubre el mundo, y con un sutil telón de fondo en el que el marco familiar aparece apenas esbozado, pero lo suficiente como para hacernos sentir que, a fin de cuentas, por el camino de la existencia...

"Despedidas" viene a ser el encuentro de la autora con su propia "voz", con esa voz interior que se fija esencialmente en la aventura de contar, de narrar historias, y en el hecho de hacerlo sin perder nunca esa escucha a la propia "oralidad" de la narración, sin traicionar el hecho de que son los propios personajes y sus circunstancias los que se impusieran a la hora de expresarse a sí mismos más allá de lo retórico o artificial que cada autor crea que es o debiera ser "lo literario".

Angus is a reformed ne’er-do-well looking forward to the birth of his first child when he’s murdered by a man who is in love with his pregnant wife, Gracie. Having never believed in God, heaven or hell, Angus finds himself in the afterlife—a place that provides more questions than answers. As a worldwide pandemic finally reaches the shores of Australia, the afterlife starts to get very crowded and Angus finds a way to reconnect with his wife, Gracie, and maybe even seek revenge on his murderer.

When a man goes out seeking blood, he will find it. Always he will find it. It was a truth Cutter had learned long ago, for he had been that man. For countless years, on countless battlefields, he had sought violence and blood...and the gods help him, he had found it. Found more than his share.

The present world is not the one Logan left behind, but it can be reforged in the hands of the last War Wizard. Logan Grimm, an Elderwood Ranger, fought valiantly against a tide of orcs, only to die among the rest of his men. He stayed dead for 2,000 years, but he's now returned to the world of the living. As the only surviving ranger, he's become a War Wizard, and he plans on using this new magic to take back the continent from the orc scourge. Joined by a caravan of elves, he seeks out the gods who can grant him power.