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Rebelión en la granja es como una fábula a la antigua, en la que los animales hablan, razonan, idean y hasta siguen los consejos a la rebelión de un viejo cerdo sabio y experimentado. Los animales entienden que las razones del viejo cerdo para llamar a la rebelión son justas, pues están hartos de la explotación a que Hombre les somete y de que decida sobre sus vidas y las de sus crías. Esperan el momento de rebelarse hasta que llega un día como por sorpresa, y expulsan a Hombre del lugar y empiezan a dirigir la Granja Animal que ellos mismos crean. En principio acuerdan una serie de Mandamientos para regular las relaciones entre sí, basados en el principio de «todos los animales son iguales», rechazando por completo los modos del Hombre, a quien quieren eliminar. GEORGE ORWELL, el seudónimo literario, del escritor inglés Eric Arthur Blair. Fue escritor, periodista corresponsal de guerra, novelista, poeta, ensayista, crítico literario, librero, guionista y publicista. Nació en 1903 en Motihari, durante el dominio colonial británico de la India. A los dos años de edad se trasladó a Gran Bretaña. Acudió a una escuela católica y posteriormente a un instituto público anglicano. Obtuvo unas buenas calificaciones en ambos centros, lo que le permitió optar a una beca de estudios en Wellington y después en la Escuela Preparatoria de Eton. En esta última tuvo a Aldous Huxley de profesor.

At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will have staggering repercussions. Halfway across the globe, the deputy director of U.S. Homeland Security scrambles to mount a response to the rapidly spreading pandemic leapfrogging around the world, which she believes may be the result of an act of biowarfare. And a rogue experimenter in man-made diseases is preparing his own terrifying solution. As already-fraying global relations begin to snap, the virus slashes across the United States, dismantling institutions and decimating the population. With his own wife and children facing diminishing odds of survival, Henry travels from Indonesia to Saudi Arabia to his home base at the CDC in Atlanta, searching for a cure and for the origins of this seemingly unknowable disease. The End of October is a one-of-a-kind thriller steeped in real-life political and scientific implications, filled with the insight that has been the hallmark of Wright s acclaimed nonfiction and the full-tilt narrative suspense that only the best fiction can offer. A swift and all-too-convincing chronicle of science, espionage, action and speculation that moves from Indonesia to Saudi Arabia to the U.S. as it eerily evokes real-life current events.

In 1996, the town of Laurens, South Carolina, was thrust into the spotlight when a white supremacist named Michael Burden opened a museum celebrating the Ku Klux Klan in the community’s main square. Journalists and protestors flooded the town, and hate groups rallied to the establishment’s defense, dredging up the long history of racism and injustice. What came next is the subject of the film Burden, which won the 2018 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award. Shortly after his museum opened, Burden abruptly left the Klan in search of a better life. Broke and homeless, he was taken in by Reverend David Kennedy, an African American leader in the Laurens community, who plunged his church, friends, and family into an inspiring quest to save their former enemy. In this spellbinding Southern epic, journalist Courtney Hargrave further uncovers the complex events behind the story told in Andrew Heckler’s film. Hargrave explores the choices that led to Kennedy and Burden’s friendship, the social factors that drive young men to join hate groups, and the difference one person can make in confronting America’s oldest sin.