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Tras perder la guerra contra Titán, la Tierra ha quedado cubierta de radiación y la mayor parte de la población superviviente es estéril. Las babosas alienígenas que gobiernan el planeta obligan a los humanos a participar en un juego complejo e interminable en el que se apuestan dos activos muy importantes: tierras y esposas. Pete Garden acaba de perder a Freya y el territorio de Berkeley, en California, pero tiene un plan para recuperarlo todo. Si no se lo impiden los aliens, los traidores psíquicos o su nueva mujer. Los jugadores de Titán es tanto una sátira como una aventura, un libro en el que se examinan los vínculos que unen a las personas y los exasperantes pecados veniales de los burócratas, ya sean éstos humanos o babosas alienígenas.

En el planeta Eltanin, una colonia de terráqueos de la Liga Planetaria está al borde de la extinción debido a las duras condiciones de vida del planeta y a una amenaza inesperada. No tienen otros vecinos que los nómadas primitivos, que, aunque temen a los terrestres, se instalan en las cercanías de la colonia durante los crueles inviernos que duran quince años. En el invierno que se avecina, un riesto hasta ahora desconocido se cierne sobre todos ellos. Las hordas bárbaras del norte, los criminales espectros de la nieve, se acercan a la colonia, y si los terrestres no se unen a los nómadas, superando seis siglos de desconfianzas, éste puede ser el último invierno para todos ellos.

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Two thousand miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Now, when his wife vanishes, leaving him alone with his tiny son, Roland is forced to confront the reality of his restless existence. As the radiation from Chernobyl spreads across Europe, he begins a search for answers that looks deep into his family history and will last for the rest of his life. Haunted by lost opportunities, Roland seeks solace through every possible means—music, literature, friends, sex, politics, and, finally, love cut tragically short, then love ultimately redeemed. His journey raises important questions for us all. Can we take full charge of the course of our lives without causing damage to others? How do global events beyond our control shape our lives and our memories? And what can we really learn from the traumas of the past? Epic, mesmerizing, and deeply humane, Lessons is a chronicle for our times—a powerful meditation on history and humanity through the prism of one man's lifetime.

A partir de un aparente robo de la cabeza de cera de la Princesa de Lamballe del Museo Grévin, Victor B., fotógrafo del museo, ve una serie de hechos sin sentido desencadenarse en torno a este personaje, asesinado durante la Revolución francesa. París cae sumida ante la incertidumbre y la obsesión, todo esto se refleja en el rodaje de una película sobre esta princesa. Poco a poco el comportamiento de los involucrados se irá tornando más extravagante y enfermo, lo cual resultará en crimen obsesivo y enfermo, en el que la historia de las masacres se repetirá con un sentido distorsionado.

Everybody has regrets, Daniel H. Pink explains in The Power of Regret. They’re a universal and healthy part of being human. And understanding how regret works can help us make smarter decisions, perform better at work and school, and bring greater meaning to our lives.   Drawing on research in social psychology, neuroscience, and biology, Pink debunks the myth of the “no regrets” philosophy of life. And using the largest sampling of American attitudes about regret ever conducted as well as his own World Regret Survey—which has collected regrets from more than 15,000 people in 105 countries—he lays out the four core regrets that each of us has. These deep regrets offer compelling insights into how we live and how we can find a better path forward.   As he did in his bestsellers Drive, When, and A Whole New Mind, Pink lays out a dynamic new way of thinking about regret and frames his ideas in ways that are clear, accessible, and pragmatic. Packed with true stories of people's regrets as well as practical takeaways for reimagining regret as a positive force, The Power of Regret shows how we can live richer, more engaged lives.

Bret Easton Ellis’s masterful new novel is a story about the end of innocence, and the perilous passage from adolescence into adulthood, set in a vibrantly fictionalized Los Angeles in 1981 as a serial killer begins targeting teenagers throughout the city. Seventeen-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret’s obsession with Mallory is equaled only by his increasingly unsettling preoccupation with the Trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawing ever closer to Bret and his friends, taunting them—and Bret in particular—with grotesque threats and horrific, sharply local acts of violence. The coincidences are uncanny, but they are also filtered through the imagination of a teenager whose gifts for constructing narrative from the filaments of his own life are about to make him one of the most explosive literary sensations of his generation. Can he trust his friends—or his own mind—to make sense of the danger they appear to be in? Thwarted by the world and by his own innate desires, buffeted by unhealthy fixations, he spirals into paranoia and isolation as the relationship between the Trawler and Robert Mallory hurtles inexorably toward a collision.