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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.

From the dragon-filled Temeraire series and the gothic magical halls of the Scholomance trilogy, through the realms next door to Spinning Silver and Uprooted, this stunning collection takes us from fairy tale to fantasy, myth to history, and mystery to science fiction as we travel through Naomi Novik’s most beloved stories. Here, among many others, we encounter: • A mushroom witch who learns that sometimes the worst thing in the Scholomance can be your roommate. • The start of the Dragon Corps in ancient Rome, after Mark Antony hatches a dragon’s egg and bonds with the hatchling. • A young bride in the Middle Ages who finds herself gambling with Death for the highest of stakes. • A delightful reimagining of Pride & Prejudice, in which Elizabeth Bennet captains a Longwing dragon. • The first glimpse of the world of Abandon, the setting of Novik’s upcoming epic fantasy series—a deserted continent populated only by silent and enigmatic architectural mysteries. Though the stories are vastly different, there is a unifying theme: wrestling with destiny, and the lengths some will go to find their own and fulfill its promise.

When you kick over a rock, you never know what's going to crawl out.    Alex Velesky is about to discover that the hard way. He's stolen records from the Swiss bank that employs him, thinking that he'll uncover a criminal conspiracy. But he soon finds that he's tapped into the mother lode of corruption. Before he knows it, he's being hunted by everyone from the Russian mafia to the CIA.    Court Gentry and his erstwhile lover, Zoya Zakharova, find themselves on opposites poles when it comes to Velesky. They both want him but for different reasons.    That's a problem for tomorrow. Today they need to keep him and themselves alive. Right now, it's not looking good.

El cierre de Crónicas de la Dragonlance. La Guerra de la Lanza ya es historia. Las estaciones vienen y se van. Es verano, un verano abrasador como jamás se había visto en Krynn. Afligido por una dolorosa pérdida, el joven mago Palin Majere trata de entrar al Abismo en busca de su tío, el famoso archimalo Raistlin. La Reina Oscura ha encontrado nuevos paladines en los Caballeros de Takhisis, seguidores devotos y leales hasta el fin. Un paladín oscuro, Steel Brightblade, cabalga a lomos de un dragón azul para atacar la Torre del Sumo Sacerdote, la fortaleza que su padre defendiera hasta la muerte. En una pequeña isla, los misteriosos irdas se apoderan de un antiguo objeto mágico, la Gema Gris, y lo utilizan para garantizar su propia seguridad. Usha, una joven criada por los irdas, llega a Palanthas y dice ser la hija de Raistlin. Será un verano mortal, quizás el último verano de Ansalon. Llamas ardientes consumen la hierba seca y Caos, padre de los dioses, regresa. El mundo entero puede desaparecer. Los dos volúmenes de El Ocaso de los Dragones cierran el ciclo iniciado en las Crónicas de la Dragonlance, pero significan también un nuevo comienzo.

El autor pone al descubierto una documentación secreta–clasificada como top secret por el Pentágono–con nuevos y sorprendentes datos sobre la figura y la obra de Jesús de Nazaret. Las revelaciones que aporta son tan rigurosas como desconcertantes.

Llegan Mick Herron y su multipremiada serie protagonizada por Jackson Lamb para modernizar, con brillantez y humor, el género del espionaje. En breve, gran estreno de la serie en televisión/Apple TV+, con Gary Oldman como protagonista. «La mejor serie de novela negra del siglo XXI.» The Mail on Sunday El reino del irreverente y sarcástico Jackson Lamb está en Londres y se llama Casa de la Ciénaga, un vertedero al que van a parar los miembros de los servicios secretos que han cometido un error, ya sea olvidar un documento en un tren, despistarse en una ronda de vigilancia o volverse poco fiables a causa del alcohol. Sus colegas los denominan «caballos lentos», son los parientes pobres del espionaje británico y todos comparten las ganas de salir de allí a cualquier precio y volver a la acción.