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Isla Crown ha decidido trazar su propio destino y acabar, ella misma, con Lark, su insidiosa antecesora. Sin embargo, por el camino se dará cuenta de que Skyshade es mucho más peligroso de lo que esperaba. Oro y Grim, por su parte, tendrán que unir sus fuerzas, pues jamás podrían dejarla sola en el camino hacia una muerte asegurada. ¿Serán capaces, estos dos grandes enemigos, de dejar a un lado las traiciones del pasado? Y lo más importante, ¿conseguirá Isla saber qué quiere su corazón roto?

Mukohda, the salaryman from modern Japan who was (accidentally) whisked away to another world via a “Hero Summoning” ritual, finally arrived at the dungeon city of Dolan. Pressured into challenging the dungeon by his familiars, the cowardly Mukohda survives waves of terrifying monsters, and thanks to his familiars' overwhelming might, they became the first party to conquer the dungeon!

When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel", "Hansel and Gretel", and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would publish six other editions, each extensively revised in content and style.

Does happiness come from the pursuit of pleasure or moral virtue? A vivid new translation of Cicero’s exploration of a timeless question.

Han pasado cincuenta años desde que Peter Miller revelara los secretos de Odessa, una organización clandestina de antiguos nazis que luchaban por recuperar el poder. Ahora jubilado y convertido en una leyenda del periodismo, Miller se ha volcado en cuidar de su nieto Georg tras la muerte de su hijo y su nuera en un trágico accidente de coche. Aunque Peter se apartó de su carrera para mantener a su nieto a salvo, no pudo hacer nada para impedir que el joven siguiera sus pasos y la reputación de Georg, que practica un periodismo incisivo y valiente, ha crecido rápidamente en el mundo digital.

Lusted after by everyone she meets, Lucy is the town’s most deviant and desired whore—and proud of it. But there is only one man who has captured her attention: the somber, ever-suffering Venâncio, a carpenter with a dark secret—and a wife. Once upon a time, Venâncio and Dalva, his angelic teenage sweetheart, were a shining example of marital bliss and the envy of all their neighbors—until tragedy left them estranged in their own home.

تُعد رواية 1984 واحدة من أهم وأشد الأعمال الأدبية تأثيرًا في القرن العشرين، إذ تقدم رؤية قاتمة لمستقبل تحكمه الشمولية المطلقة، وتُمحى فيه الحرية الفردية لصالح سلطة لا تُقاوَم. تدور أحداث الرواية في دولة خيالية تُعرف بـ«أوقيانيا»، حيث تفرض السلطة الحاكمة رقابة شاملة على الأفراد، لا تكتفي بمراقبة أفعالهم، بل تمتد لتطويق أفكارهم ومشاعرهم، وحتى لغتهم. يتابع القارئ رحلة وينستون سميث، الموظف الصغير في وزارة الحقيقة، حيث تتمثل مهمته في تزوير السجلات التاريخية بما يتوافق مع الرواية الرسمية للحزب الحاكم. يعيش وينستون صراعًا داخليًا بين خضوعه الظاهري للنظام ورغبته العميقة في التمرد والبحث عن الحقي...

Carta de una desconocida es un retrato duro y descarnado de un amor absoluto, incondicional, secreto y obsesivo no correspondido. Un escritor de éxito recibe una extraña carta el día de su cumpleaños. Esa misiva sin firmar contiene el testimonio de una mujer que le confiesa su amor. Al profundizar en esa confesión que abarca toda una vida, sufrimos por los sentimientos no correspondidos de ella, pero también por la soledad y la carencia de empatía de él.

The Golden Lion has retreated to Atalia with the remnants of his army. An anxious calm has settled over war-torn Bergonia, but it doesn't seem likely that things will stay quiet for very long. With the burden of command finally removed from his shoulders, Max is headed to northern Bergonia. To the lands of the Margraviate de Valier, which were conferred on him by King Carl III.

Elspeth necesita a un monstruo. Y el monstruo podría ser ella. La joven necesita más que suerte para estar a salvo en el siniestro mundo rodeado de neblina al que llama hogar. Necesita a un monstruo. Ella lo llama el Tormento, un antiguo y perturbado espíritu atrapado en su cabeza. La protege. Guarda sus secretos. Pero todo tiene un precio, especialmente la magia.

At long last, an extraterrestrial civilization reached out and made the First Contact. However, no one on Earth took their communique for the genuine article. In a similar vein, very few people appreciated just how little time our new suzerains had promised to keep our planet safe. Regardless, the end of their message showed humankind how to access a mysterious game. The objective of this game is unclear. No one can say where its servers are located, and its inner workings are beyond comprehension.

Cisnes salvajes marcó a toda una generación con la historia épica de tres hijas de la China del siglo XX. Comenzaba en 1909, bajo el último emperador, con el nacimiento de la abuela de Jung Chang, que se convirtió en concubina a los quince años, y recorría las vidas de tres generaciones de mujeres hasta la muerte de Mao Zedong y la llegada al poder de Deng Xiaoping. Casi medio siglo después, China ha pasado de ser un Estado arcaico y aislado a convertirse en una potencia mundial con Xi Jinping, que la ha transformado en un régimen comunista con rasgos capitalistas.

I have been reborn from an advanced techno-magic world into a world where magic is still in its infancy. In this new world I have the body of a young baron and my entire worldly possessions are one village—a village surrounded by monsters and hostile aristocrats on the fringes of a young, rapidly expanding empire. The other thing I have, though, is knowledge beyond what this world has dreamt of, and nothing will stop me from building my own magic empire!

Setting down his thoughts on swordplay, on winning, and on spirituality, legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi intended this modest work as a guide for his immediate disciples and future generations of samurai. He had little idea he was penning a masterpiece that would be eagerly devoured by people in all walks of life centuries after his death.

Discourses on Livy, written in 1531, is as essential to understanding Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental preference for a republican state. Comparing the practice of the ancient Romans with that of his contemporaries provided Machiavelli with a consistent point of view in all his works. Machiavelli's close analysis of Livy's history of Rome led him to advance his most original and outspoken view of politics--the belief that a healthy political body was characterized by social friction and conflict rather than by rigid stability.

Who knew making friends could be this hard? Ainz and Mare have donned disguises and joined Aura in the dark elf village, where things aren’t exactly going according to plan.The villagers have no idea how they should interact with these extraordinary visitors, and it looks like finding some...

Perhaps the greatest poem of the Western world, The Iliad tells the story of 50 critical days towards the end of the Trojan war. Achilles has quarrelled with Agamemnon and sulks in his tent, while Hector brings his Trojans to the brink of victory; but fate will have the last word.

What can be better than attending a magic academy? New friends, new knowledge, new emotions. All you have to do is study, close rifts, and not think too much of anything else. I also had two students, who needed my time and experience, which took a lot of my time. No time to get into any trouble, right? Wrong! Especially when you are a chaos mage and an entire squad of assassins is hunting you down. They even took the place of some of the best students at the magic academy just to get closer to me. Let them try! A chaos warrior never runs from trouble!

Beautiful, popular, and fortunate, Anna Karenina is an upright wife and mother. But her passionless marriage to a senior statesman leads her into the arms of Count Alexey Vronsky. The dashing cavalry officer stokes in her something exciting and defiant. In abandoning the rules of her noble station, she's aware of the risks: a degraded reputation and the hostile recriminations of St. Petersburg society. But there are even greater stakes as Anna follows desires both romantic and carnal, emancipating and destructive.

Publicado póstumamente en 1964, París era una fiesta es el libro más personal y revelador de Hemingway, quien, ya en el crepúsculo de su vida, narra aquí los dorados, salvajes y fructíferos años de su juventud en el París de los años veinte, en compañía de escritores como Scott Fitzgerald o Ezra Pound, la llamada «generación perdida».