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Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure. Jack Reacher wakes up alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm has suffered some major damage. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there. The last thing Reacher can recall is the car he hitched a ride in getting run off the road. The driver was killed. His captors assume Reacher was the driver’s accomplice and patch up his wounds as they plan to make him talk.

he millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of compromise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In Towles’s novel, Rules of Civility, the indomitable Evelyn Ross leaves New York City in September, 1938, with the intention of returning home to Indiana. But as her train pulls into Chicago, where her parents are waiting, she instead extends her ticket to Los Angeles. Told from seven points of view, “Eve in Hollywood” describes how Eve crafts a new future for herself—and others—in the midst of Hollywood’s golden age. Throughout the stories, two characters often find themselves sitting across a table for two where the direction of their futures may hinge upon what they say to each other next. Written with his signature wit, humor, and sophistication, Table for Two is another glittering addition to Towles’s canon of stylish and transporting historical fiction.

After her role in taking down a well-placed mole inside the CIA, Agent Lyndsey Duncan arrives in London fully focused on her newest Russian asset, deadly war criminal Dmitri Tarasenko. That is until her MI6 counterpart, Davis Ranford, personally calls for her help. Following a suspicious attack on Russian oligarch Mikhail Rotenberg's property in a tony part of London, Davis needs Lyndsey to cozy up to the billionaire's aristocratic British wife, Emily Rotenberg. Fortunately for Lyndsey, there's little to dissuade Emily from taking in a much-needed confidante. Even being one of the richest women in the world is no guarantee of happiness. But before Lyndsey can cover much ground with her newfound friend, the CIA unveils a perturbing connection between Mikhail and Russia's geoplitical past, one that could upend the world order and jeopardize Lyndsey's longtime allegiance to the Agency. Red London is a sharp and nuanced race-against-the-clock story ripped from today's headlines, a testament to author Alma Katsu’s thirty-five-year career in national security. It’s a rare spy novel written by an insider that feels as prescient as it is page-turning and utterly unforgettable.

Now is the best time in history for entrepreneurship. More than ever, the world needs new businesses and it’s cheaper than ever to create them. And, let’s be frank: most day jobs suck. People spend too much time doing too much work for too little money—and they know it. They want out. But, if the barriers to starting a business are getting lower and lower, why is it SO HARD TO DO for SO MANY PEOPLE? Why are there so many wantrepreneurs playing at business on social media and so few entrepreneurs actually running them?

Like Passages, this groundbreaking book uses the poignant, powerful voices of adoptees and adoptive parents to explore the experience of adoption and its lifelong effects. A major work, filled with astute analysis and moving truths.

Los demonios es sin duda alguna una de las grandes novelas de Dostoyevski y una de las que más intensamente interpela al lector de nuestros días. Dostoyevski la escribió horrorizado por la muerte de un terrorista, Ivánov, asesinado por sus compañeros de lucha de la banda de Necháyev. El escritor decidió exhibir lo que era el terrorismo en una novela-advertencia. Pocas veces la literatura ha penetrado tanto en la conciencia de los terroristas como en Los demonios. Dostoyevski sabía bien de qué hablaba. Él mismo había participado en el Círculo Petrashevski antes de que la policía lo desmantelara y condenara a sus miembros a la muerte. El día de Nochebuena de 1849, tras un simulacro de ejecución, las autoridades penales anunciaron que habían cambiado el veredicto. El escritor, traumatizado para el resto de su vida, fue condenado a un campo de trabajos forzados en Siberia, en lo que sería un ensayo para el gulag soviético décadas después. Al adentrarse en la mente del terrorista, Dostoyevski describe en Los demonios una generación de jóvenes revolucionarios rusos dispuestos a "sacrificarse y sacrificarlo todo a la verdad". Pero como dice el mismo autor, "toda la cuestión está en qué se considera como verdad. Para ponerlo en claro, precisamente, he escrito esta novela". Los demonios se convierte así en una de las novelas más modernas del siglo XIX, y se puede leer en clave de una defensa de la libertad alejada de todos los fanatismos, y como una crítica acérrima, una advertencia y una premonición del Estado totalitario que tardaría medio siglo en producirse.