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Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves behind his family to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman, who intrigues both men. As Napoleon’s army invades, Tolstoy vividly follows characters from diverse backgrounds—peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers—as they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their culture.

As the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within the ward's tightly secured walls. When patients and staff start to vanish without a trace, it becomes clear that everyone on the unit is in grave danger. Amy never wanted to spend the night on Ward D. Now she might not make it out alive.

Melisandra balancea sus piernas sobre el río que corre lentamente junto a la hacienda de su abuelo. Aguarda, con la calma propia de los habitantes de Fagua, la llegada anual de los contrabandistas que traerán las últimas noticias del mundo. Pero esta vez con ellos llega un forastero desconocido que le propone emprender juntos la aventura con la que siempre soñó. Siguiendo el curso del río, internándose en la selva, dos jóvenes emprenden un viaje para encontrar Waslala, el paraíso en cuya búsqueda se perdieron los padres de Melisandra, un lugar utópico y legendario que parece haberse esfumado, dejando tan sólo la huella de un ideal imposible, un sueño maravilloso grabado en el recuerdo de unos pocos.

On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will see a cozy ramen restaurant. And only the chosen ones—those who are lost—will find a place to pawn their life choices and deepest regrets. Hana Ishikawa wakes on her first morning as the pawnshop’s new owner to find it ransacked, the shop’s most precious acquisition stolen, and her father missing. And then into the shop stumbles a charming stranger, quite unlike its other customers, for he offers help instead of seeking it. Together, they must journey through a mystical world to find Hana’s father and the stolen choice—by way of rain puddles, rides on paper cranes, the bridge between midnight and morning, and a night market in the clouds. But as they get closer to the truth, Hana must reveal a secret of her own—and risk making a choice that she will never be able to take back.

La obra de Samuel Beckett (Dublín, 1906-París, 1989) constituye una de las más interesantes e incisivas del pasado siglo. Su extraordinaria capacidad para exponer los intersticios de la existencia social de los seres humanos, a través del absurdo, el humor y los juegos de lenguaje, imprimió en la literatura una huella indeleble y extendió sus fronteras conceptuales hasta límites nuevos. "Watt" es una novela experimental, filosófica, cómica e inclasificable que, entre otras cosas, constituye un enorme ejercicio de metaficción. En ella, su homónimo protagonista (Watt), un desharrapado del que apenas llegamos a saber nada, pasa dos años como criado en la casa del señor Knott, un enigmático y caprichoso terrateniente cuyo servicio vive en un ambiente de tensión opresiva. ¿Qué ocurre exactamente en casa del señor Knott? No lo sabemos, y sin embargo, como lectores, asistimos a la inquietante transformación que a causa de ello sufre el personaje principal, cuyos esquemas mentales se resquebrajan por completo.

Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in freefall and her love life is . . . complicated. So when her real dad—a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago—suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach you: about love, and what it actually means to be family.