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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.

The capstone volume of the Library of America edition of John Updike’s novels contains some of the master stylist and social observer’s most ambitious works.   In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996) opens in 1910, when Clarence Wilmot, a Presbyterian minister in Paterson, NJ, experiences a devastating loss of faith. This moment of crisis sets in motion an eighty-year, multigenerational saga whose subject is nothing less than the American Century and modernity itself, seen through the fluctuating fortunes of a single representative family.    In Gertrude and Claudius, Updike boldly imagines the long backstory to the world’s most famous play, prompting readers to revisit and perhaps revise their judgments about Hamlet’s notorious uncle and mother. Drawing on the twelfth- and fifteenth century sources for Hamlet, but also inventing a new history for Claudius in his far-flung travels across medieval Europe, Updike creates a vivid and surprising origin story for the fabled rottenness in Shakespeare’s Denmark.

Political upheaval and social turmoil have peeled back the glitzy layers of capitalism to reveal an uncomfortable truth: historically, businesses have sourced materials from remote corners of the globe and moved millions of people and tons of cargo around the clock—all in the name of profit. Yet many of today’s startups are rewriting the rules of business: how it’s done, by whom, and, most importantly, for what purpose. Journalist Esha Chhabra draws on her decades of reporting to explore not only the “feel good, do good” factors of these restorative enterprises but also the nuanced realities and promise of regenerative business operations.