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Sentado, un noble samurái practica el zen. Curtido en mil batallas, es admirado por los jóvenes del clan que acuden a su escuela para adiestrarse en los secretos de la guerra. Es cierto que la gran mayoría sueña con aprender el uso invencible de la katana y del tanto, de la naginata y del tessen; también unos pocos sueñan con ser maestros en el kyu-jutsu, ese difícil arte de disparar con el yumi flechas infalibles… Sin embargo, el viejo guerrero sabe que ningún arma es tan poderosa como la meditación y la austeridad de vida, porque solo el guerrero que emprende y persevera en esta vía alcanzará la honorabilidad.

Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old girl with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. We witness her transformation as she learns the rigorous arts of the geisha: dance and music; wearing kimono, elaborate makeup, and hair; pouring sake to reveal just a touch of inner wrist; competing with a jealous rival for men's solicitude and the money that goes with it. In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction—at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful—and completely unforgettable.

Broke English teacher Penelope Schleeman is as surprised as anyone when her feminist novel American Mermaid becomes a best-seller. Lured by the promise of a big payday, she quits teaching and moves to L.A. to turn the novel into an action flick with the help of some studio hacks. But as she's pressured to change her main character from a fierce, androgynous eco-warrior to a teen sex object in a clamshell bra, strange things start to happen. Threats appear in the screenplay; siren calls lure Penelope’s co-writers into danger. Is Penelope losing her mind, or has her mermaid come to life, enacting revenge for Hollywood’s violations? American Mermaid follows a young woman braving the casual slights and cruel calculations of a ruthless industry town, where she discovers a beating heart in her own fiction, a mermaid who will fight to move between worlds without giving up her voice. A hilarious story about deep things, American Mermaid asks how far we’ll go to protect the parts of ourselves that are not for sale.

EN CUESTIONES DE PASIÓN NO HAY AMIGOS NI ALIANZAS... NI COMPROMISOS. Tras las vacaciones, Rachel James debe volver a su puesto como teniente en el ejército de la FEMF y se encuentra con que la central de Londres no es la misma, ya que los cimientos de su vida perfecta tiemblan con la llegada de un nuevo coronel, soberbio y con una belleza inhumana, que ha tomado el comando. Christopher Morgan está al mando y cree tenerlo todo claro, pero las tentaciones desencadenarán un torbellino de pasiones soltando el tipo de llama que hace arder a aquellos que se hacen llamar amantes. Este complicado juego empieza con Lascivia, una historia +21 ambientada en el mundo de la milicia y la mafia, cargada de traiciones, infidelidades, engaños y amores letalmente tóxicos.

La noche del 30 de julio de 1994, la apacible población de Orphea, en la región de los Hamptons, asiste a la gran apertura del festival de teatro. Pero el alcalde se retrasa... Mientras tanto, un hombre recorre las calles vacías buscando a su mujer, hasta hallar su cadáver ante la casa del alcalde. Dentro, toda la familia ha sido asesinada. Jesse Rosenberg y Derek Scott, dos jóvenes y brillantes policías de Nueva York,resuelven el caso. Pero veinte años más tarde, en la ceremonia de despedida de la policía a Rosenberg, la periodista Stephanie Mailer lo afronta: asegura que Dereck y Jesse se equivocaron de asesino a pesar de que la prueba estaba delante de sus ojos, y afirma poseer información clave. Días después, desaparece. Así se inicia este colosal thriller, que avanza en el pasado y el presente a ritmo vertiginoso, sumando tramas, personajes, sorpresas y vueltas de tuerca, sacudiendo y precipitando al lector sin freno posible hacia el inesperado e inolvidable desenlace.

Lyndsey Duncan worries her career with the CIA might be over. After lines are crossed with another intelligence agent during an assignment, she is sent home to Washington on administrative leave. So when a former colleague--now Chief of the Russia Division--recruits her for an internal investigation, she jumps at the chance to prove herself. Lyndsey was once a top handler in the Moscow Field Station, where she was known as the "human lie detector" and praised for recruiting some of the most senior Russian officials. But now, three Russian assets have been exposed--including one of her own--and the CIA is convinced there's a mole in the department. With years of work in question and lives on the line, Lyndsey is thrown back into life at the agency, this time tracing the steps of those closest to her. Meanwhile, fellow agent Theresa Warner can't avoid the spotlight. She is the infamous "Red Widow," the wife of a former director killed in the field under mysterious circumstances. With her husband's legacy shadowing her every move, Theresa is a fixture of the Russia Division, and as she and Lyndsey strike up an unusual friendship, her knowledge proves invaluable. But as Lyndsey uncovers a surprising connection to Theresa that could answer all of her questions, she unearths a terrifying web of secrets within the department, if only she is willing to unravel it....

Spencer Brooke always knew she was destined to be CEO of her grandfather’s business—the most respected and luxurious department store in New York City. Brooke’s has been at the center of every happy memory she has, but it hasn’t been an easy journey. Seven years after her father’s death, her life is very different from the days when she walked through the store with her grandfather as a young girl. She may be the owner of Brooke’s, but she’s also now a divorced single mother of twin boys. And with the ever-evolving landscape of the fashion industry comes new challenges for Spencer and the legacy she’s inherited. Mike Weston is known for making enormous profits by transforming small businesses into bigger, more successful ones. With his marriage at a breaking point and his children grown up, investing is where he thrives—where he can build something greater. And Brooke’s feels like the perfect opportunity. Yet the firm’s beautiful and savvy CEO turns down the offer before they even meet. Spencer has no interest in outside investors meddling in her family business; her grandfather never saw the need for them, and neither does she. She refuses to be tempted by Mike’s offer, despite her big dreams of expanding the store. But when bad luck strikes, suddenly she is backed into a corner. In Worthy Opponents, Danielle Steel crafts a thrilling story about a powerful woman—and her equally formidable opponent.

Hay amores que hieren, patean y traicionan. El capitán Bratt Lewis está de nuevo en el comando, con una nueva vida planeada y queriendo retomar el tiempo perdido. Pero las personas que dejó no son las mismas: Rachel James falló, el coronel ha jugado sucio y una nueva ficha ha entrado en el tablero. Antoni Mascherano quien no es solo un bioquímico, sino también el líder de la mafia, ha puesto los ojos en la teniente James y su objetivo es tomarla como suya. El panorama se complica en esta segunda entrega donde los rencores empiezan a surgir, las relaciones, a agrietarse y los miedos, a avivarse. Bien dicen que las verdades siempre salen a la luz, y el saber que tan cierto es se comprobará en esta nueva parte donde las pasiones no pueden ocultarse ni los sentimientos disimularse.

San dejó de trabajar después de su boda. Un día observa con cierta alarma que su cara y la de su marido se parecen cada vez más. El marido, que proclama no querer «pensar en nada cuando está en casa», engulle toneladas de comida apoltronado en el sofá mientras ve la televisión. San se pregunta, desconcertada, si no se habrá casado con un ser que no pertenece a la especie humana. Finalmente, los rasgos de la pareja se empiezan a mezclar... A la novela breve que da título al volumen, galardonada con el premio literario más prestigioso de Japón, el Akutagawa, en la que la autora trata de la convención conocida como «matrimonio» de una manera muy original, siguen tres relatos sobre la alienación de lo cotidiano que revelan una imaginación ingeniosa y radicalmente libre.