Слово «Stuka» применялось ко всем немецким пикирующим бомбардировщикам Второй мировой войны, но оно всегда будет связано с Junkers Ju 87. Несмотря на то что он не был самым лучшим самолетом Люфтваффе, его известность превзошла многие другие типы немецких авиамашин того времени. Ju 87 был принят на вооружение благодаря своей прочной и современной конструкции, простоте постройки и ремонта, а также способности почти отвесно пикировать на цель. Эти качества превратили его в грозное оружие. Книга повествует об истории создания этого самолета, содержит тактико-технические характеристики отдельных моделей и с помощью более 200 рисунков наглядно демонстрирует как выглядели эти самолеты на протяжении 1936-1945 гг

Novela que nos habla de la libertad, la vida, el amor…y su importancia. Nos explica que no hay barrera que no pueda ser traspasada, con el simple deseo de querer hacerlo. Un libro bastante sencillo de leer, una manera muy practica de enseñarnos el concepto de la libertad, a través de la Gaviota que quería aprender a mejorar su vuelo…y descubre que hay muchas cosas más que el subsistir y vivir cómodamente… Libro construido a través de una serie de metáforas y simbolísmos, bastantes sencillos de interpretar. Un libro que podría cambiarte la vida, despertar tus ilusiones, por cierto…más tarde una reseña del libro Ilusiones del mismo autor. Al terminar de leer éste libro que es por cierto, corto…podrías ver las cosas de una manera diferente, con mayor significado… Podría ser tu libro de cabecera, de esos libros que lo lees ahora y te dan ganas de leerlo después y con frecuencia, siempre le encontrarás nuevos significados. Te enseña o muestra, a plantearte como eres, y que es lo que quieres ser, de siembra la semilla de la independencia, la libertad. Por otra parte, te resalta la importancia, la necesidad de compartir, de enseñar lo poco o mucho que tu sepas. Disfrutar, al mismo tiempo, lo ya conseguido y llegar hasta donde tu quieras, ese es nuestro límite, nuestras propias metas. Igualmente resalta, la capacidad de aprendizaje que puede verse notablemente incrementada, cuando alguien está fuertemente motivado. Y por último, resalta también que la juventud o vejez, es…solo un concepto que en éste sentido no aplica…Lo verdaderamente real, es mantener el espíritu despierto, las metas trazadas y la decisión de trascender…

Juana I la Loca (1479-1555), reina de Castilla de 1504 a 1555, era hija de los Reyes Católicos. De acuerdo con la política exterior de su padre, contrajo matrimonio con el archiduque Felipe el Hermoso, primogénito de Maximiliano I. En 1504 aparecieron los primeros síntomas de enajenación mental, que se acentuaron a la muerte de su esposo en 1506. Su vida estuvo llena de intrigas y luchas por el poder. Esta referencia, puramente histórica, no explica el extraordinario y dramático destino de esta reina, a quien el pueblo llano tituló «doña Juana la Loca de amor». Por estirpe y por las prendas naturales con que Dios la dotó, fue muy hermosa, estaba llamada a ser la más dichosa de las criaturas. Educada por Beatriz Galindo, la Latina, se dijo que era la princesa más instruida del Renacimiento. Pero, por contra, fue en extremo desgraciada en este mundo, que para ella resultó un auténtico valle de lágrimas. Pasó los últimos treinta y cuatro años de su vida recluida en Tordesillas, sumida en un mundo de sombras del que sólo salía en contadas ocasiones. Funeral y honores los tuvo más sonados que en vida, y su cadáver, junto con el de su amado esposo, reposa en el panteón real de Granada. Su figura es una de las más trágicas y legendarias que ha dado la monarquía española. Esta obra nos acerca, con sensibilidad y comprensión, a su tragedia

From the Flyleaf… Take a clean-cut middle-aged pilot--well, maybe he's a little further into the penumbra of the law that he wants you to think; charter him into Cyprus with a planeload of soidisant champagne that suddenly turns into far more lethal cargo; mix him up with a bankrupt hotel chain and a canny old smuggler of antiquities, and you have only the opening flourishes of this suave fasten-your-seatbelt thriller. When Roy Case lands in Nicosia, he wants only to greet his partner, Ken Cavitt, fresh from a smuggling rap in a grim Israeli jail, and deliver to Beirut the twelve case of Kroeger Royale '66 for a gala hotel opening. Instead he is immediately plucked up and dangled over a perfect microcosm of the entire Eastern Mediterranean caldron. A small arsenal for terrorist, bankruptcy, blackmail, murder, espionage, Greco-Turkish and Arab-Israeli mayhem, and incongruously, the long-lost crusader sword of Richard Coeur de Lion all add deadly nightshade seasoning. Also playing key roles are the enigmatic daughter of a sinister German antiquarian and a striving and attractive museum scout for New York

‘Do you know what a Judas Horse is? When the wild mustangs are running free, you corral one and train it. When he’s ready, you release him and he’ll bring his team back into the corral — like Judas betraying them...’ Violent burglars have been terrorising residents across the English countryside. But when a mutilated body is discovered in a Cotswolds house, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary group of opportunist thieves. As Detective Jack Warr investigates, he discovers locals with dark secrets, unearths hidden crimes — and hits countless dead ends. With few leads and the violent attacks escalating, he will have to act as audaciously as the criminals if he hopes to stop them. When Warr meets Charlotte Miles, a terrified woman with links to the group, he must use her to lure the unsuspecting killers into one last job, and into his trap. But with the law already stretched to breaking point, any failure will be on Warr’s head — and any more blood spilled, on his hands

Starred Review. At the start of Smith's superb third thriller to feature Ana Grey (after 2003's Good Morning, Killer), the FBI special agent, who's still recovering from post-traumatic stress disorder after shooting a crazed detective on a suicide mission seven months earlier, learns that the skeletal remains of her missing onetime fiancé, fellow special agent Steve Crawford, have turned up in Oregon's Cascade Mountains. Ana later finds out Steve was murdered by members of an anarchist group with a penchant for homemade bombs. After training at the FBI's undercover school, Ana uses an alias to penetrate the group, which includes a former FBI agent gone bad, Dan Stone. As Allfather Stone plots a terrorist act he calls the Big One, Ana must burrow through layers of paranoia to discover the precise threat the FBI is dealing with. Ana's nuanced and coolly observational narrative voice perfectly complements the well-paced action, which builds to a satisfying conclusion that leaves open the next chapter of Ana's story

JUDAS UNCHAINED

Jude The Obscure, an almost unbearably sad story about love and sexual desire mapped into the peculiar English matrixes of class and destiny in the Victorian 19th century, has come to be recognized as one of Hardy's most important novels. It tells the tragic story of Jude Fawley, a kid from the country whose aspirations to university scholarship are thwarted; his socially unacceptable love affair is also a disaster. *** In the sequence of Thomas Hardy's novels, Jude the Obscure (1895) is the last, and the fiercest, work. It is variously realistic and expressionistic, ironic and elegiac, symbolic and documentary; indeed, the list of its paradoxical attributes can be extended at length, for it is understated and strident, Victorian and modernistic, clumsy and adroit, benign and bitter, subtle and blatant. Its ferocity and ruthlessness mingle with its keen sensitivity, compassion and modes of comedy. Depicting a strife of ideas, beliefs, traditions and prejudices, it is wounded and sounding novel. Hardy denied that Jude the Obscure was autobiographical; but, in all its tensions and conflicts, which it both describes and enacts, it is more intimately (if obliquely) autobiographical than the entirety of the lengthy autobiography which Hardy published in the guise of his second wife. That Life of Thomas Hardy often voices reserve, prudence, detachment and circumspection; the novel voices the passion, anguish, anger and division of the deeper self. Through the mask of fictional identities and narration, Hardy speaks more vitally and comprehensively. W.B.Yeats wrote: “We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.” Out of the quarrels with others and with himself, Hardy made Jude The Obscure.  

Simone Zelitch has created an amazing alternate history in Judenstaat. On April 4th, 1948 the sovereign state of Judenstaat was created in the territory of Saxony, bordering Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Forty years later, Jewish historian Judit Klemmer is making a documentary portraying Judenstaat’s history from the time of its founding to the present. She is haunted by the ghost of her dead husband, Hans, a Saxon, shot by a sniper as he conducted the National Symphony. With the grief always fresh, Judit lives a half-life, until confronted by a mysterious, flesh-and-blood ghost from her past who leaves her controversial footage on one of Judenstaat’s founding fathers—and a note:

From Publishers Weekly Bestsellers Patterson and Gross (Lifeguard) once again deliver what their fans expect in this slapdash revenge thriller. When mob godfather Dominic Cavello is finally brought to trial by FBI agent Nick Pellisante, his longtime nemesis, the accused is strangely unconcerned even as a parade of his former criminal associates finger him as having ordered a hit on a corrupt businessman. The gangster's plan to intimidate the decision-makers at his trial reaches its climax when he arranges for a bomb to blow up the bus transporting the jury. The sole survivor teams up with Pellisante to make Cavello pay. Numerous legal howlers that would be obvious even to those who only know about trials from watching Law and Order may annoy some readers. From Booklist Judge and Jury gets off to a slightly slow start but delivers plenty of twists and turns. FBI agent Nick Pellisante has finally done the impossible: captured Mob boss Dominic Cavello. The jury is selected and Cavello's trial progresses smoothly-it seems the conviction Pellisante is hoping for is within his reach. Several formerly loyal henchmen now sitting in jail strike deals with the prosecution and testify about the savage murders Cavello ordered, and Pellisante takes the stand to detail how Cavello shot two of his colleagues while trying to elude capture. But Cavello has hired Richard Nordeshenko, a methodical and calculating killer, to make sure the trial never concludes. Nordeshenko carries out his plan with brutal efficiency, leaving a wake of devastation in his path. Pellisante is crushed by the abrupt end of the trial and determined to make sure that the retrial isn't similarly derailed, but Cavello and Nordeshenko have an even more diabolical plan in store this time around. A compelling hero and a truly evil villain distinguish this exciting read. *** Bestselling author James Patterson returns with the #1 blockbuster thriller of the summer, an unstoppable novel of law and revenge. Senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante is closing in on the notorious mob boss "The Electrician," when the scheduled sting goes spectacularly awry. Two FBI agents are dead, the boss is wounded, and Pellisante vows the Electrician's next move will be from a jail cell. Andie Echeverra, a part-time actress and a single, full-time mom, is assigned her next role as Juror #11 in the landmark trial against Mafia Don Dominic Cavello. Everybody is on edge. No one has ever crossed the man whose orders have made entire families disappear. Though Cavello's influence extends across blue uniforms and black robes, the case should be open-and-shut. But the legal system fails with devastating results, and Nick and Andie are the only ones left to seek justice. To stop the Electrician, they must take matters into their own hands. They are the judge and jury now. James Patterson spins an all-out heart-pounding legal thriller that pits two people against the most vicious and powerful mobster since John Gotti

It is the Third Millennium, and Planet Earth has become a cesspool of violence and mayhem. The new guardians of society are the Judges, who have the power to dispense both justice and punishment. One of them is feared above all others. In Mega-city One, he is the law… Wrongly accused of murder and sent to the dreaded remote Aspen Prison, Judge Dredd is shocked to discover that he is a clone—the result of a genetic experiment designed to create the perfect lawman. Now, as his sinister twin plots to overthrow system, he will team up with a computer-hacker ex-con and an alluring rookie female judge in an all-out battle for the future of the planet. With the ruthless Judge Hunters tracking him for a crime he didn’t commit, Dredd is in the race of his life—to get back to Mega-city One in time to stop his brother’s cold-blooded conspiracy, before it’s too late… The hottest superhero to grace the screen since Batman, Judge Dredd comes alive in the futuristic action thriller of the century!

Morrow was not afraid of death. He was afraid of women. Too many of them wanted too much of him. And he was only one man. There was Barbara, who for a price became his bedroom alibi. There was young, tempestuous Jake, who wanted him at any cost. There was married Felice, who paid too much for what she got. In this emotion-packed novel, John D. MacDonald, distinguished author of the brass cupcake and MURDER FOR THE BRIDE, takes you into a whirlpool of crime, passion and revenge

Part thriller, part domestic tragedy, at once political and intensely personal, Ivan Kilma's epicly scaled new novel is an inquest into the compromises that turned even the best citizens of Czechoslovakia into accomplices of its late totalitarian regime. "Enormously powerful."-New York Times Book Review

It was nothing more than a one-night stand. Juliana Brody, a judge in the Superior Court of Massachusetts, is rumored to be in consideration for the federal circuit, maybe someday the highest court in the land. At a conference in a Chicago hotel, she meets a gentle, vulnerable man and has an unforgettable night with him — something she’d never done before. They part with an explicit understanding that this must never happen again. But back home in Boston, Juliana realizes that this was no random encounter. The man from Chicago proves to have an integral role in a case she’s presiding over — a sex-discrimination case that’s received national attention. Juliana discovers that she’s been entrapped, her night of infidelity captured on video. Strings are being pulled in high places, a terrifying unfolding conspiracy that will turn her life upside down. But soon it becomes clear that personal humiliation, even the possible destruction of her career, are the least of her concerns, as her own life and the lives of her family are put in mortal jeopardy. In the end, turning the tables on her adversaries will require her to be as ruthless as they are

The climactic novel of the star-spanning Quadrail space opera The Quadrail that connects the twelve civilizations of our galaxy has been the flashpoint of a battle for dominance fought mostly unnoticed by humankind. But Frank Compton of Earth, aided by the enigmatic woman Bayta, has fought on the front lines, using every bit of his human ingenuity and secret agent skills to outwit the Modhri, a group intelligence that would control the minds of every sentient being it can touch. Following a trail of deception and death to Proteus Station, Compton has discovered a conspiracy that threatens all life in the galaxy: the Shonkla'raa, an ancient enemy thought to be long dead, is rising again. So serious is the danger that the Modhri, the enemy of his enemy, may now be his friend, as the burgeoning threat of a race of invincible soldiers emerges. If Compton and Bayta can't stop them, the Shonkla'raa will decimate all who oppose them, destroying the Quadrail and billions of lives throughout the galaxy

The story of the forgotten Kharkov trials, which sought justice for the thousands killed in the Ukraine two years prior to the infamous Nuremberg trial When people think of the Holocaust, they think of Auschwitz, Dachau; and when they think of justice for this terrible chapter in history, they think of Nuremberg. Not of Russia or the Ukraine, and certainly not a town called Kharkov. But in reality, the first war-crimes trial against the Nazis was in this idyllic, peaceful Ukrainian city, which is fitting, because it is also where the Holocaust actually began. Revealing a lost chapter in Holocaust historiography, Judgment Before Nuremberg tells the story of Dawson’s journey to this place, to the scene of the crime, and the discovery of the trial which began the tortuous process of avenging the murder of his grandparents, great-grandparents, and tens of thousands of fellow Ukrainians consumed at the dawn of the Shoah, a moment and crime now largely cloaked in darkness. Eighteen months before the end of World War II—two full years before the opening statement by the prosecution at Nuremberg—three Nazi officers and a Ukrainian collaborator were tried and convicted of war crimes and hung in Kharkov’s public square. The trial is symbolic of the larger omission of Ukraine from the popular history of the Holocaust—another deep irony as most of the first of the six million perished in Ukraine long before Hitler and his lieutenants even decided on the formalities of the Final Solution

The new director is ordering the Destroyer and his mentor Chiun to kill Smith, the director of CURE. They are searching for Smith, who is successfully hiding, when immediate trouble begins for the deadly duo, because Chiun doesn't want to agree to the killing. Smith is Chiun's emperor, the man who pays the salary that supports the ancient village of Sinanju. Chiun doesn't know about CURE, just about Smith, and the cash always arrives on time. That's enough. Remo is a company man though, a trained killer who works for CURE, the top-secret agency that doesn't exist, and if they don't want Smith to exist any longer, it is his job to murder him. Orders are orders. But who is the new director? Who hired him and who fired Smith? Could there be another infiltrator? CURE's security has been violated before, and there is always that possibility. There are a lot of questions to be answered before judgment day arrives

From Publishers Weekly Written under the pen name J.D. Robb, this futuristic mysteryDset in New York City, year 2059Dshowcases veteran writer Nora Roberts's skills at their best. It's as tough, smart, sassy and successful as its heroine, police lieutenant Eve Dallas. The story opens in the upscale nightclub Purgatory, where Dallas discovers the brutally slain body of a fellow officer; another cop is murdered soon thereafter. Both men, it appears, were on the take, and both were connected to elusive criminal Max Ricker. Dallas 's investigation, which exposes crime and police corruption, puts both her reputation and life in danger. To make matters worse, Purgatory is owned by her own millionaire husband, RoarkeDa business associate of Ricker's before turning legitimateDand the overlap of professional and personal lives adds extra fireworks to an already tempestuous marriage. Robb's plotting is precise and fast paced, creating a satisfying mystery full of lively, credible twists. Secondary charactersDa troubled female police captain, an Internal Affairs cop with a leftover crush on DallasDare as well-drawn as Dallas herself, a tough but endearing 21st-century woman. Sexy, surprising and often funny power struggles between Dallas and Roarke are the tasty icing on this extremely well-made fictional "cake," which is just the right confection for lazy late-summer reading

A breathtaking novel of passion and politics, set in the hotbed of Palestine in the 1940s, by a master of twentieth-century fiction. It is the eve of Britain’s withdrawal from Palestine in 1948, a moment that will mark the beginning of a new Israel. But the course of history is uncertain, and Israel’s territorial enemies plan to smother the new country at its birth. Judith Roth has escaped the concentration camps in Germany only to be plunged into the new conflict, one with stakes just as high for her as they are for her people. Initially conceived as a screenplay for the 1966 film starring Sophia Loren, Lawrence Durrell’s previously unpublished novel offers a thrilling portrayal of a place and time when ancient history crashed against the fragile bulwarks of the modernizing world

Ši neįtikėtina istorija prasidėjo XIII amžiuje, kai žymusis viduramžių keliautojas Markas Polas susiruošė grįžti Europon iš Kinijos. Kelionė užtruko beveik ketverius metus, ir Venecijon sugrįžo tik pats Markas Polas bei jo tėvas. Visi kiti bendražygiai mirė susirgę siaubinga liga, laivus teko sudeginti...XXI amžiaus pradžioje iš Indijos vandenyno gelmių kyla šiurpus maras, grasinantis tapti pasauline pandemija. Išsiaiškinti Judo padermės kilmę, surasti priešnuodį gali tik specialus Sigma padalinys. Tyrimas prasidėjęs Venecijos kapavietėse, tęsiasi Artimųjų Rytų tvirtovėse, Angkor Vato šventyklose! Genetinis kodas, angelų kalba, virusų mutacijos - kiekvienas iš mūsų gali tapti Judu, kuris prieš numirdamas užkrės kitus Judo paderme

Jack Norton es un Caminante Fantasma, un francotirador genéticamente realzado con un sentido despiadado de la justicia, un fantasma bienvenido por el anonimato de la noche. Pero una misión de rescate a su hermano en la jungla lo ha dejado vulnerable a las fuerzas rebeldes. Su única salvación es su poder de telepatía. Entonces se encuentra con Briony, una inusual belleza en una misión por sí misma. Pero comparten algo más que el calor bochornoso… Briony comparte los poderes de los Cazadores Fantasmas. Aunque es diferente. No sabe qué es, o de qué es capaz. Pero sus enemigos sí. Y el vuelo de Jack y Briony los llevará a una espantosa conspiración de mente y cuerpo, a través del globo y dentro del corazón de la oscuridad, donde la sorprendente verdad es algo que ninguno de ellos podría haber previsto o de la que puedan escapar…

Novella d’espionatge amb dues virtuts importants: no és de John Le Carré (algun dia escriuré la ressenya dels llibres que he llegit d’ell, però aviso que no sortirà massa ben parat) i que està ambientada en uns fets reals: la Segona Guerra Mundial i la necessitat dels aliats d’evitar que, de la manera que sigui, el punt del desembarcament a les costes franceses sigui conegut pels alemanys o, millor encara, aquests creguin que serà per un lloc diferent del planificat. El protagonista és el director del contra-espionatge anglès (si no ho recordo malament), un acadèmic convertit a espia si us plau per força com suggereix el títol original. Al bàndol contrari hi ha una xarxa clandestina d’espies alemanys infiltrats a Anglaterra. L’autor juga amb ambigüetats calculades per tal d’induir el lector a sospitar que diferents pesonatges són traïdors i revelaran el secret del lloc real del desembarcament. És una novella d’acció continuada, que fa pensar fins i tot en la necessitat d’informació que tenim -i l’efecte que ens pot causar tenir informació parcial sobre les coses que fem. Fins al final no es desvetllen alguns punts foscos de la trama, i just aleshores vénen ganes de rellegir la novel·la per veure fins a quin punt l’acció dels diferents personatges és coherent amb aquesta realitat

Tras el largo verano, el invierno se acerca a los Siete Reinos. Lord Eddars Stark, señor de Invernalia, deja sus dominios para unirse a la corte del rey Robert Baratheon el Usurpador, hombre díscolo y otrora guerrero audaz cuyas mayores aficiones son comer, beber y engendrar bastardos. Eddard Stark desempeñará el cargo de Mano del Rey e intentará desentrañar una maraña de intrigas que pondrá en peligro su vida… y la de los suyos. En un mundo cuyas estaciones duran décadas y en el que retazos de una magia inmemorial y olvidada surgen en los rincones más sombríos y maravillosos, la traición y la lealtad, la compasión y la sed de venganza, el amor y el poder hacen del juego de tronos una poderosa trampa que atrapa en sus fauces a los personajes… y al lector

Después de ser torturado, el ex SEAL y Caminante Fantasma, Jess Calhoun, regresa a su ciudad natal en Sheridan, Wyoming, donde posee una estación de radio local. Sus intenciones son vivir tranquilamente, escribir canciones y realizar su fisioterapia. Saber Wynter contesta a un anuncio para la estación de radio… el trabajo perfecto de noche para ella. Es afortunada al alquilarle a Jess, el segundo piso de la estación, en donde también puede trabajar como un ama de casa de medio jornada. Jess pasa la mayor parte de su tiempo encerrado y aislado en su oficina privada. Pero frente a la fragilidad e inocencia de Saber se despierta en su alma, el poderoso deseo de protegerla, cuidarla y… amarla

Jeffrey Archer, con su habitual maestría narrativa, presenta en su última novela una apasionante historia marcada por un insólito cruce de destinos: dos hermanos gemelos separados al nacer y que desconocían la existencia del otro, se reencuentran treinta años más tarda como rivales políticos. Ambos pertenecen a familias de distinta extracción social y credo ideológico, pero el azar propiciará que sea Fletcher quien defienda a su hermano Nat, acusaso del asesinato de su rival en las elecciones a gobernador. Cuando Fletcher sufra un accidente y sea necesario conseguir sangre de un grupo muy extraño se desvelará el parentesco. Una trama perfectamente urdida en torno a las sorpresas que puede deparar el destino, al podeer político, al juego sucio, a la pérdida y al reencuetro, que ha hecho las delicias de miles de lectores en Inglaterra y Estados Unidos

Comenzó como una misión para encontrar a un político muy conocido cuyo avión se estrelló en el Congo. Pero la riesgosa operación tomó un giro inesperado cuando Mari, un miembro físicamente mejorado del equipo de rescate, fue tomada como rehén por las fuerzas rebeldes. Ahora, encarcelada en un recinto aislado, Mari tiene sólo una oportunidad para sobrevivir: escapar. Pero ella no contaba con Ken Norton, un experto asesino y un guerrero Fantasmas, que lucha para dejar atrás las paredes de la prisión en una misión por sí mismo… una que involucra al propio pasado de Mari y al destino misterioso de su hermana gemela… y que unirá a Ken y a Mari en una pasión embriagadora que subirá las apuestas en el juego más mortal de supervivencia que ellos hayan jugado alguna vez

Había vuelto para reclamarla Durante tres años, ella había sido la imagen que turbaba sus sueños. El recuerdo de un apasionado y anónimo encuentro empujó al magnate Jesse King a regresar a Morgan Beach, California. Estaba decidido a encontrar a esa mujer misteriosa para poseerla una vez más. Un King jamás perdía. Bella Cruz no se alegraba en absoluto de ver de nuevo a Jesse King. El millonario la había seducido, abandonándola después… ¡y ni siquiera la reconocía! Pero como era su nuevo casero, debía tener contacto con él. Esperaba que Jesse no descubriera su identidad porque, si así fuera, Bella jamás podría negarse a su seducción

Agatha es una joven sombrerera que vive marcada por una vida sombría y sin amor. Un accidente ocurrido durante la infancia la ha dejado lisiado, pero eso no le ha impedido luchar por una vida mejor. Las circunstancias la han llevado a convertirse en adalid de la moral y defensora de la Ley Seca. Scot, dueño de una taberna en la que el juego y el alcohol son el pan de cada día, oculta tras su vida de libertinaje un corazón destrozado y un espíritu apasionado, capaz de albergar una increíble grandeza…

En un futuro no muy lejano, las armas y los chalecos antibalas son algo habitual. Tal vez la excepción sea una comunidad de EE. UU que dice garantizar la protección de sus habitantes gracias al control que ejercen los agentes del Servicio de Seguridad del Estado, el futuro estado 51. En este contexto del tiempo, Susan Clayton, que trabaja elaborando pasatiempos para una revista, recibe un mensaje cifrado que parece significar «Te he encontrado». La críptica nota es especialmente siniestra en un momento en que un asesino en serie acecha Florida, un asesino que puede ser el desaparecido padre de Susan y al que piden, a su hermano, ayude a encontrar. Su madre Diana, muer fuerte y, al tiempo con miedo esta con un cáncer terminal pero sabe que juntos deberán enfrentarse a la amenaza. Su hermano Jeffrey, reputado criminalista y experto en asesinos en serie es reclutado por la policía del nuevo estado para encontrar a un asesino en serie del que piensan es su padre sin embargo, el va mas como cebo que como experto

Por primera vez en castellano, una de las novelas más emblemáticas del maestro de la ficción norteamericana. Pammy y Lyle Wynant son una pareja atractiva, moderna, que parece tenerlo todo. Sin embargo, tras su vida `ideal` ronda un tedio persistente y una desesperación contenida que les llevan a vivir aventuras diferentes, pero igual de letales. Insólitos en su terca normalidad, estos fríos `jugadores` se enfrentan diferentes a la violencia que los rodea y que han contribuido a crear. El terrorismo y el lado más oscuro de la clase adinerada contemporánea y su profundo descontento, son la base sobre la que se sustenta esta ácida y curiosísima novela…

Decimotercera novela de la serie de la comprometida investigadora privada Vic Warshawski. En esta ocasión, se involucra en un caso enraizado en los años sesenta, en plena efervescencia de la lucha por los derechos de la comunidad afroamericana Durante los disturbios raciales de 1967, cuando los blancos reaccionaron con dureza ante los planes de integración en los barrios, Lamont Gadsden desapareció sin dejar rastro. Años después, su anciana madre le encomienda el caso a Vic Warshawski. La detective se enfrentará a un periodo desagradable de la historia de su ciudad, en el que una marcha pacífica de Martin Luther King se saldó con la muerte de una joven negra, y lo que ella consideraba un caso cerrado e imposible se convierte en algo mortalmente peligroso. Viejas cuestiones de la historia racial de Chicago y secretos familiares −suyos propios y del desaparecido− saldrán a la luz de manera sorprendente

“A high-voltage shock to the system. It’s smart, witty, crammed with action and disturbingly plausible. Highly recommended.” THEY SEARCHED FOR GOLD. THEY FOUND DEATH. Iraq 2005. Seven mercenaries hear an enticing rumor: somewhere, abandoned in the swirling desert sands, lies an abandoned Republican Guard convoy containing millions of pounds of Saddam’s gold. They form an unlikely crew of battle-scarred privateers, killers and thieves, veterans of a dozen war zones, each of them anxious to make one last score before their luck runs out. After liberating the sole surviving Guard member from US capture, the team makes their way to the ancient ruins where the convoy was last seen. Although all seems eerily quiet and deserted when they arrive, they soon find themselves caught in a desperate battle for their lives, confronted by greed, betrayal, and an army that won’t stay dead. A brilliant, gripping portrait of survival in the face of complete annihilation perfect for fans of Jonathan Maberry and Guillermo Del Toro’s The Strain. An unputdownable military thriller that SFFworld.com called "Three Kings meets The Walking Dead,” Juggernaut is a heart-pounding, fast-paced read that doesn’t let up until the last page

Lex Gibson is nervous. The prospect of spending a weekend working with Romy, the only woman to ever touch his legendary guarded heart, has the lion of the corporate world.unsettled. The tension between free-spirited Romy and buttoned-up Lex simmers dangerously. To complicate things further, Romy has a tiny daughter, who has Lex confused and distracted. They say never to mix business with pleasure, but Romy's adorable baby might just seal their very personal business deal – and change their family situation forever!

Una novela que retrata el país y sus dirigentes sin disimulos. Año 2005. Un irlandés llamado Liam Yeats, ex terrorista del IRA y ex agente del Mossad, llega a Valencia con el objetivo de matar al hombre más peligroso de la ciudad: el empresario Juan Lloris, que se dispone a iniciar el asalto definitivo a la Alcaldía. Las sospechas de Lloris sobre su persona de confianza le harán contratar a un investigador que descubrirá algo que dará un vuelco a esta intriga. Mientras tanto, el incombustible F. Petit continuará ejerciendo de funambulista y los partidos mayoritarios establecerán una alianza insólita que sólo se explica por su propia supervivencia. Una novela de intriga que profundiza sobre la psicología del profesional del crimen y que mantiene la denuncia sobre el escurridizo juego político que se da en Valencia, una ciudad española, tal vez, similar a otras

John Katzenbach, maestro del suspenso psicológico, nos enfrenta de nuevo a una trama tan hipnótica como las de El psicoanalista y La historia del loco. Matthew Cowart, un famoso y ya establecido periodista de Miami, recibe la carta de un hombre condenado a muerte que asegura ser inocente. Pese a su escepticismo inicial, Cowart empieza a investigar el caso, comprende que el acusado no cometió los delitos que se le imputan y pone al descubierto mediante sus artículos una información que permite al convicto Robert Earl Fergurson salir en libertad. Cowart obtiene entonces un premio Pulitzer por su tarea periodística. Sin embargo, y para su horror, el escritor se percata de que ha puesto en marcha una tremenda máquina de matar y que ahora le toca a él intentar, en una carrera contra el reloj, que se haga justicia fuera de los tribunales

Twenty-year-old Julia Maitland is ready to find a husband. Lord Dominic Brandon has proposed, delighting Julia's socially ambitious mother, despite Brandon's unsavory reputation and rumored ties to smuggling. Though her father favors Jack Douglas-who lacks a title but will inherit his father's fortune-Julia has eyes only for Kit, Jack's younger brother, who will inherit very little. When Julia accompanies her Aunt Lucy to the estate of Lucy's recently deceased childhood friend, she is stunned to see Kit, who inherited the estate and new surname from his godmother, making him the Master of Morancourt. The attraction between the pair blossoms but Julia knows a loveless union still awaits unless she can convince her family otherwise. Aylmer is more enamored of the period than of her characters, and the plot serves as merely a framework for sumptuous descriptions of Regency-era events and fashions. Despite a treasure trove of Austen-era trivia, a stronger narrative would have made the love affair more compelling

Apostat. Fugitif. Conquérant. Il s’appelle Julian Comstock ; il est le neveu du président des États-Unis. Son père, le général Bryce Comstock, a été pendu pour trahison (on murmure qu’il était innocent de ce crime). Julian est né dans une Amérique à jamais privée de pétrole, une Amérique étendue à soixante états, tenue de main de maître par l’Église du Dominion. Un pays en ruine, exsangue, en guerre au Labrador contre les forces mitteleuropéennes. Un combat acharné pour exploiter les ultimes ressources naturelles nord-américaines. On le connaît désormais sous le nom de Julian l’agnostique ou (comme son oncle) de Julian le Conquérant. Ceci est l’histoire de ce qu’il a cru bon et juste, l’histoire de ses victoires et défaites, militaires et politiques. Fresque post-apocalyptique, western du XXIIe siècle, fulgurant hommage à Mark Twain, Julian est le plus atypique des romans de Robert Charles Wilson. Une réussite majeure et une critique sans concession des politiques environnementales actuelles

From the Hugo-winning author of Spin, an exuberant adventure in a post-climate-change America. In the reign of President Deklan Comstock, a reborn United States is struggling back to prosperity. Over a century after the Efflorescence of Oil, after the Fall of the Cities, after the Plague of Infertility, after the False Tribulation, after the days of the Pious Presidents, the sixty stars and thirteen stripes wave from the plains of Athabaska to the national capital in New York City. In Colorado Springs, the Dominion sees to the nation’s spiritual needs. In Labrador, the Army wages war on the Dutch. America, unified, is rising once again. Then out of Labrador come tales of a new Ajax—Captain Commongold, the Youthful Hero of the Saguenay. The ordinary people follow his adventures in the popular press. The Army adores him. The President is troubled. Especially when the dashing Captain turns out to be his nephew Julian, son of the falsely accused and executed Bryce. Treachery and intrigue dog Julian’s footsteps. Hairsbreadth escapes and daring rescues fill his days. Stern resolve and tender sentiment dice for Julian’s soul, while his admiration for the works of the Secular Ancients, and his adherence to the evolutionary doctrines of the heretical Darwin, set him at fatal odds with the hierarchy of the Dominion. Plague and fire swirl around the Presidential palace when at last he arrives with the acclamation of the mob. As told by Julian’s best friend and faithful companion, a rustic yet observant lad from the west, this tale of the 22nd Century asks—and answers—the age-old question: “Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?” Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2010

In the reign of President Deklan Comstock, a reborn United States is struggling back to prosperity. Over a century after the Efflorescence of Oil, after the Fall of the Cities, after the Plague of Infertility, after the False Tribulation, after the days of the Pious Presidents, the sixty stars and thirteen stripes wave from the plains of Athabaska to the national capital in New York City. In Colorado Springs, the Dominion sees to the nation’s spiritual needs. In Labrador, the Army wages war on the Dutch. America, unified, is rising once again. Then out of Labrador come tales of a new Ajax - Captain Commongold, the Youthful Hero of the Saguenay. The ordinary people follow his adventures in the popular press. The Army adores him. The President is.troubled. Especially when the dashing Captain turns out to be his nephew Julian, son of the falsely accused and executed Bryce. Treachery and intrigue dog Julian’s footsteps. Hairsbreadth escapes and daring rescues fill his days. Stern resolve and tender sentiment dice for Julian’s soul, while his admiration for the works of the Secular Ancients, and his adherence to the evolutionary doctrines of the heretical Darwin, set him at fatal odds with the hierarchy of the Dominion. Plague and fire swirl around the Presidential palace when at last he arrives with the acclamation of the mob. As told by Julian’s best friend and faithful companion, a rustic yet observant lad from the west, this tale of the 22nd Century asks - and answers - the age-old question: “Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?” Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 2006. In 2009 the author has extended the story into a full length novel titled Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America, which was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2010

Genetic manipulation has created the first super soldier, the Circ. The second generation of Circs, able to transform into hulking, inhuman beasts at will and psychically gifted is much more dangerous than the first. Under Project Dawn Endeavor, the secret four-man team belongs to the mysterious Mrs. Sharpe who is bent on cleaning up science gone wrong around the globe on behalf of the United States government. But there’s more to her agenda than patriotism. If only the team knew what she really had planned. As leader of the Circs of Dawn Endeavor, Julian Hawkins takes his responsibilities seriously. With two of his Circs now mated, life for his team is evolving, slowly but surely, into something with which Jules is unfamiliar, and he's not sure what to do about it. As if personal strife wasn't enough, an old enemy has Jules in his sights. Kidnapped and held prisoner in the remote Amazon jungle, Jules comes perilously close to dying when a woman made of light saves him. She has the purest aura he’s ever seen, a body made for loving, and a heart made just for him. Except she's not real. But months after his rescue, when Mrs. Sharpe introduces the woman as a new part of the team, can he trust what he sees? Or is the woman there for another reason entirely, one that will put his team, and his heart, in dire jeopardy?

Bautizada por la prensa americana como El código Da Vinci para mujeres, Juliet, el sensacional debut de Anne Fortier, transforma la inmortal historia de Romeo y Julieta en una trepidante aventura del siglo XXI. Una historia a caballo entre la Edad Media y la actualidad, un apasionante viaje al corazón de Italia que combina historia, intriga, misterio y romance. Juliet y su hermana, huérfanas desde pequeñas, se han criado con su tía en Virginia. Cuando ésta muere, Juliet se ve obligada a viajar a Italia para saber qué se esconde tras la enigmática herencia que ha recibido de ella. Pronto descubre que en realidad es italiana y que, además, es descendiente de las personas en las que se inspiró Shakespeare para escribir Romeo y Julieta. Dispuesta a conocer la verdadera identidad de sus padres y los secretos que rodean sus repentinas muertes, Juliet se ve envuelta en una peligrosa trama que enfrenta a las dos familias más poderosas de Siena desde la Edad Media. Descubre que una antigua maldición recae sobre ellas y que únicamente la búsqueda de un supuesto tesoro llamado, «Los ojos de Julieta» podría detenerla…Juliet puede ser la próxima víctima y sólo un hombre puede salvarla de su destino, pero ¿dónde está? «Esta novela lo tiene todo: Romeo y Julieta, la nobleza italiana y el mundo de la mafia, aventuras y valientes heroínas; documentos secretos y tesoros escondidos; amores apasionados y violentas venganzas que perduran a lo largo de los siglos. Un debut sensacional.» KATHERINE NEVILLE, autora de El ocho y El fuego

"One of those rare novels that have it all… I was swept away." – Sara Gruen Twenty-five-year-old Julie Jacobs is heartbroken over the death of her beloved aunt Rose. But the shock goes even deeper when she learns that the woman who has been like a mother to her has left her entire estate to Julie's twin sister. The only thing Julie receives is a key – one carried by her mother on the day she herself died – to a safety-deposit box in Siena, Italy. This key sends Julie on a journey that will change her life forever – a journey into the troubled past of her ancestor Giulietta Tolomei. In 1340, still reeling from the slaughter of her parents, Giulietta was smuggled into Siena, where she met a young man named Romeo. Their ill-fated love turned medieval Siena upside-down and went on to inspire generations of poets and artists, the story reaching its pinnacle in Shakespeare's famous tragedy. But six centuries have a way of catching up to the present, and Julie gradually begins to discover that here, in this ancient city, the past and present are hard to tell apart. The deeper she delves into the history of Romeo and Giulietta, and the closer she gets to the treasure they allegedly left behind, the greater the danger surrounding her – superstitions, ancient hostilities, and personal vendettas. As Julie crosses paths with the descendants of the families involved in the unforgettable blood feud, she begins to fear that the notorious curse – 'A plague on both your houses!' – is still at work, and that she is destined to be its next target. Only someone like Romeo, it seems, could save her from this dreaded fate, but his story ended long ago. Or did it? From Anne Fortier comes a sweeping, beautifully written novel of intrigue and identity, of love and legacy, as a young woman discovers that her own fate is irrevocably tied – for better or worse – to literature's greatest star-crossed lovers

The New York Times bestselling novel of rock ’n’ roll, super fandom, and love, by the beloved author of About a Boy and High Fidelity. Nick Hornby returns to his roots—music and messy relationships—in this funny and touching new novel which thoughtfully and sympathetically looks at how lives can be wasted but how they are never beyond redemption. Annie lives in a dull town on England’s bleak east coast and is in a relationship with Duncan which mirrors the place; Tucker was once a brilliant songwriter and performer, who’s gone into seclusion in rural America—or at least that’s what his fans think. Duncan is obsessed with Tucker’s work, to the point of derangement, and when Annie dares to go public on her dislike of his latest album, there are quite unexpected, life-changing consequences for all three. Nick Hornby uses this intriguing canvas to explore why it is we so often let the early promise of relationships, ambition and indeed life evaporate. And he comes to some surprisingly optimistic conclusions about the struggle to live up to one’s promise

Living alone with his dog in the remote cabin in the woods, Julius Winsome is not unlike the barren winter lands that he inhabits: remote, vacant, inscrutable. But when his dog Hobbes is killed by hunters, their carelessness—or is it cruelty?—sets Julius’s precarious mindset on end. He is at once more alone than he has ever been; he was at first with his father, until he died; then with Claire, until she disappeared with another man into a more normal life in town; and then with Hobbes, who eased the sorrow of Claire’s departure. Now Hobbes is gone. Julius is left with what his father left behind: the cabin that he was raised in; a lifetime of books, lining every wall of his home, which have been Julius’s lifelong friends and confidantes; and his great-grandfather’s rifle from World War I, which Julius had been trained to shoot with uncanny skill and with the utmost reluctance. But with the death of his dog, Julius’s reluctance has reached its end. More and more, simply and furtively, it is revenge that is creeping into his mind. Fresh snow is on the ground as the hunters lumber into his sights. They’re well within the old gun’s range. They pause, and they’re locked into the crosshairs. Julius’s finger traces the trigger. Will he pull it? And what will that accomplish? What if he simply has nothing left to lose?