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The war is over. The war has just begun. Three times throughout its history, Nikan has fought for its survival in the bloody Poppy Wars. Though the third battle has just ended, shaman and warrior Rin cannot forget the atrocity she committed to save her people. Now she is on the run from her guilt, the opium addiction that holds her like a vice, and the murderous commands of the fiery Phoenix—the vengeful god who has blessed Rin with her fearsome power. Though she does not want to live, she refuses to die until she avenges the traitorous Empress who betrayed Rin’s homeland to its enemies. Her only hope is to join forces with the powerful Dragon Warlord, who plots to conquer Nikan, unseat the Empress, and create a new republic. But neither the Empress nor the Dragon Warlord are what they seem. The more Rin witnesses, the more she fears her love for Nikan will force her to use the Phoenix’s deadly power once more. Because there is nothing Rin won’t sacrifice to save her country . . . and exact her vengeance.

When Rin aced the Keju—the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies—it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin’s guardians, who believed they’d finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up her daily existence. That she got into Sinegard—the most elite military school in Nikan—was even more surprising. But surprises aren’t always good. Because being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not an easy thing at Sinegard. Targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers she possesses a lethal, unearthly power—an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive—and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school. For while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. The militarily advanced Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War, and only barely lost the continent in the Second. And while most of the people are complacent to go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away . . . Rin’s shamanic powers may be the only way to save her people. But as she finds out more about the god that has chosen her, the vengeful Phoenix, she fears that winning the war may cost her humanity . . . and that it may already be too late.

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.

"Las dos partes de la novela, cuya acción se desarrolla en el año 1926, guardan una estracha relación, pero están claramente separadas en cuanto a los hechos y al ambiente.

Fray Luis de Granada hace en la Introducción del símbolo de la fe, escrita entre 1583 y 1585, un compendio de lo que todo cristiano debe saber, a la manera de los catecismos, a base de preguntas y respuestas. La originalidad del autor se encuentra en la extensa introducción donde explica los temas principales de la doctrina católica, como pueden ser la creación o la redención, destacando sus virtudes frente a los movimientos heréticos que se vivían entonces. Cuán admirable cosa es que una pepita tan pequeña de una naranja tenga dentro de sí virtud para que della nazca un árbol tan hermoso como es un naranjo, tan oloroso cuando está florido, y tan vistoso cuando está cargado de fruto. Ni es menor maravilla que en un piñoncillo esté virtud para producir un tan grande árbol como es un pino. Crece aún esta maravilla ?como el Salvador de­clara en el Evangelio? en el granico de mostaza, el cual, siendo tan pequeño, tiene virtud para que dél nazca un árbol tan grande que se puedan asentar en sus ramas las aves del aire. ¿Quién, pues, fue poderoso para poner en cosa tan pequeña virtud tan grande? Pues desta virtud que hay en las semillas se aprovecha el Apóstol para persuadir el misterio de la resurrección.

Érase una vez un pueblo donde las noches eran largas y la muerte cantaba su propia historia. En el pueblo vivía una niña que quería leer, un hambre que tocaba el acordeón y un joven judío que escribía cuentos hermosos para escapar del horror de la guerra. Al cabo de un tiempo la niña se convirtió en una ladrona que robaba libros y regalaba palabras. Con esas palabras se escribió una historia hermosa y cruel que ahora ya es una novela inolvidable