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No hay mejor desafío para la astuta Miss Marple que un crimen aparentemente imposible de resolver. Leyendo el periódico, actividad a la que Miss Marple se entrega cada día con placer, la anciana topa con la necrológica de Jason Rafiel, un millonario al que había conocido un año antes durante uno de sus viajes. Unos días más tarde, el abogado de Mr. Rafiel le entrega una carta que el acaudalado conocido había dictado antes de morir. En ella le comunica a Miss Marple que, si consigue resolver un crimen, recibirá la notable cantidad de 20.000 libras. Aunque el reto es enorme, pues la carta no especifica ni quién es la víctima, ni dónde ni cuándo tuvo lugar el fatal suceso, Jane Marple no tarda en aceptar el desafío e iniciar sus pesquisas.

Society darling Persephone Dimitriou plans to flee the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start over far from the backstabbing politics of the Thirteen Houses. But all that's ripped away when her mother ambushes her with an engagement to Zeus, the dangerous power behind their glittering city's dark facade. With no options left, Persephone flees to the forbidden undercity and makes a devil's bargain with a man she once believed a myth...a man who awakens her to a world she never knew existed.

Case era el mejor vaquero del ciberespacio: se ganaba la vida robando información y traspasando defensas electrónicas. Pero cometió el error de traicionar a la gente equivocada y como castigo dañaron su sistema nervioso con una toxina que extinguió su talento micrón a micrón. Desterrado del ciberespacio y prisionero en la cárcel de su cuerpo físico, Case coquetea con la muerte en los suburbios ultratecnológicos. Hasta que se ve envuelto en un peligroso plan de objetivo desconocido que le ofrece una segunda oportunidad, y una cura, a cambio de un precio...

Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her husband’s venture capital firm, and in doing so, is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the blank slate of a beautiful midtown penthouse, in the city that she has always loved. It is also where her two adult daughters now live. As Kezia settles into her new apartment, she meets her movie-star next-door neighbor, Sam Stewart, whose terrace borders hers. Just a couple of weeks after she arrives, however, a devastating crisis strikes New York City. Kezia and Sam find themselves connecting over their strong impulse to help those in need. As they share a life-changing experience of volunteering, a bond is sparked and a friendship is formed. Kezia’s daughters, Kate and Felicity, are taken aback by their mother’s new friendship, both more focused on their own love lives than hers. But Kezia is learning that the changes she’s making are just what she needs to open new horizons. In this powerful and moving new novel, Danielle Steel illuminates the importance of human connection and embracing brave change, proving it’s never too late for a brand-new start.

En el subsuelo de Londres, como debajo de cada gran ciudad, existe un mundo desconocido e invisible, plagado de extraños seres, en el que sobrevivir depende de abrir las puertas adecuadas... Hay mundos bajo tus pies, espías bajo las escaleras y formas que esperan al otro lado de los portales, que solo has atisbado en tus sueños. Tras leer Neverwhere nunca volverás a pasar por los sombríos lugares del mundo moderno con la misma confianza infantil.

Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political systems throughout history have wielded information to achieve their goals, for good and ill. And he addresses the urgent choices we face as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence.