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Un nuevo satélite de la NASA demuestra la existencia de un extraño objeto enterrado en el hielo del Ártico. Este descubrimiento supone una victoria muy necesaria para la política espacial de Estados Unidos y es clave para la futura elección de su Presidente. La analista de inteligencia Rachel Sexton y el académico Michael Tolland son los encargados de verificar la autenticidad del hallazgo. Pero en su búsqueda descubren algo impensable: todo ha sido un engaño. Antes de que puedan hablar con el Presidente, Rachel y Michael son atacados por un grupo de asesinos a sueldo. Un misterioso hombre los lidera, y no se detendrá ante nada para ocultar la verdad. Dan Brown transporta a los lectores desde la Oficina Nacional de Reconocimiento (NRO), en Virginia, hasta las plataformas de hielo del círculo polar ártico y a los pasillos del Ala Oeste de la Casa Blanca en un emocionante thriller que recorre los secretos mejor guardados de los servicios secretos norteamericanos.

Nino, hijo de guardia civil, tiene nueve años, vive en la casa cuartel de un pueblo de la Sierra Sur de Jaén, y nunca podrá olvidar el verano de 1947. Pepe el Portugués, el forastero misterioso, fascinante, que acaba de instalarse en un molino apartado, se convierte en su amigo y su modelo, el hombre en el que le gustaría convertirse alguna vez. Mientras pasan juntos las tardes a la orilla del río, Nino se jurará a sí mismo que nunca será guardia civil como su padre, y comenzará a recibir clases de mecanografía en el cortijo de las Rubias, donde una familia de mujeres solas, viudas y huérfanas, resiste en la frontera entre el monte y el llano. Mientras descubre un mundo nuevo gracias a las novelas de aventuras que le convertirán en otra persona, Nino comprende una verdad que nadie había querido contarle. En la Sierra Sur se está librando una guerra, pero los enemigos de su padre no son los suyos. Tras ese verano, empezará a mirar con otros ojos a los guerrilleros liderados por Cencerro, y a entender por qué su padre quiere que aprenda mecanografía.

When two best men in a wedding party fall for each other, they realize love isn’t a piece of cake in this hilarious and heartfelt romantic comedy debut by screenwriter Sidney Karger. Max Moody thought he had everything figured out. He’s trying to live his best life in New York City and has the best friend a gay guy could ask for: Paige. She and Max grew up next door to each other in the suburbs of Chicago. She can light up any party. She finishes his sentences. She’s always a reliable splunch (they don’t like to use the word brunch) partner. But then Max’s whole world is turned upside down when Paige suddenly announces some huge news: she’s engaged and wants Max to be her man of honor. Max was always the romantic one who imagined he would get married before the unpredictable Paige and is shocked to hear she’s ready to settle down. But it turns out there’s not just one new man in Paige’s life—there are two.

It’s 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over. It’s strictly the straight-and-narrow for him until he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May and he decides to hit up his old police contact Munson, fixer extraordinaire. But Munson has his own favors to ask of Carney and staying out of the game gets a lot more complicated and deadly.

As character actress Edie O'Dare finishes the final year of her contract with FWM Studios, the clock is ticking for her to find a new gig after an undistinguished stint in the pictures. She's long supplemented her income moonlighting for Hollywood's reigning gossip columnist, providing her with the salacious details of every party and premiere. When an up-and-coming starlet hands her a letter alleging an assault from an A-list actor at a party with Edie and the rest of the industry’s biggest names in attendance, Edie helps get the story into print and sets off a chain of events that will alter the trajectories of everyone involved.

Francine Thwaite has lived all her fifty-five years in her family’s ancestral home, a rambling Elizabethan manor in England’s Lake District. No other living soul resides there, but Francine isn’t alone. There are ghosts in Thwaite Manor, harmless and familiar. Most beloved is Bree, the mischievous ghost girl who has been Francine’s companion since childhood. When Francine’s estranged sister, Madeleine, returns to the manor after years away, she brings with her a story that threatens everything Francine has always believed. It is a tale of cruelty and desperation, of terror and unbearable heartache. And as Francine learns more about the darkness in her family’s past—and the role she may have played in it—she realizes that confronting the truth may mean losing what she holds most dear.