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Oof! After solving the case of the Royal Rumpus, Olive Cobin Zang and her elite team of underdogs are on top of the world. As the awkward, crime-fighting Misfits, they’re acing every mission thrown at them from NOCK (aka No One Can Know, the covert agency they work for). But when their classmate Zeke starts receiving threatening notes, the Misfits are stumped. They’re no strangers to danger, but this case is a total head-scratcher. Who would target kind, friendly Zeke . . . unless he’s not what he seems to be? At the same time, unusual earthquakes start shaking up San Francisco just as priceless art goes missing, and the Misfits are called to investigate. Is it a coincidence that the city is under attack while Zeke is getting mysterious messages? Or is it all just a cover for a scheme bigger than any they’ve faced before?

NO SOY SOLO UNA CHICA. TAMBIÉN SOY UNA DE ELLOS. En un mundo hostil regido por titanes monstruosos y dioses inmortales, mi único objetivo es sobrevivir. Tras quedar huérfana, me he centrado en mi educación y en ocultar mis cicatrices. Pero, de pronto, algo sucede… De forma inesperada, descubro que soy parte de la élite: por mis venas corre sangre de diosa. Esto me obliga a asistir a la Academia de Guerra Espartana, donde debo superar una serie de pruebas que demostrarán si soy digna de la inmortalidad. Nada es imposible para alguien como yo, pero antes tendré que lidiar con cuatro grandes problemas: mis aterradores mentores Aquiles y Patroclo; y mis profesores, Caronte, el guía del inframundo, y Augusto, el hijo del dios de la guerra. Y, por si fuera poco, creo que estoy perdiendo la cabeza… Mis enemigos me rodean. Su odio, su obsesión por mí y su oscura necesidad de controlarme me están asfixiando. Pero no tienen ni idea de con quién se están metiendo. ¿ESTOY DESTINADA A SER UNA DIOSA… O UNA BESTIA?

Long ago and far away (and somewhere south of France) lies the kingdom of Esquaveta. There, Princess Tullia is in nearly as much peril as her struggling kingdom. Esquaveta desperately needs to forge an alliance, and to that end, Tullia's father has arranged a marriage between her and an odious prince. However, one month before the "wedding of the century," Tullia falls in love with a lowly apprentice scribe. The king turns to Anatole, his much-maligned magician. Seventeen years earlier, when Anatole first came to the castle, he was regarded as something of a prodigy. But after a long series of failures—the latest being an attempt to transform sand into gold—he has become the object of contempt and ridicule. The only one who still believes in him is the princess. When the king orders Anatole to brew a potion that will ensure Tullia agrees to the wedding, Anatole is faced with an impossible choice. With one chance to save the marriage, the kingdom, and, of most importance to him, his reputation, will he betray the princess—or risk ruin?

“Machete amola’o” es una obra que, desde la experiencia cuasi biográfica del autor, nos encanta con el paisaje histórico de La República Dominicana del siglo XX. La autoctonía reflejada en esta obra, desde un incipiente poblado, de nombre “Navarrete” hasta las aceras “postmodernas” de Los Estados Unidos, pone de manifiesto una vorágine de elementos dignos de ser consumidos desde la voraz lectura acompañada de los ojos de la imaginación recreativa y contemplativa. Sin dudas, no debe haber un dominicano que, al enfrascarse en la tarea de leer estas páginas salpicadas de una tinta cónsona, desde la pluma de su autor, el Ing. Ramón Núñez Almonte que, con sobrado conocimiento de causa, nos enrostra la realidad de una patria convulsa, particular y heroica. No solo desde la sociedad dominicana macro, sino con impresionantes y vivaces peripecias personales desde su micro mundo.

Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute—she sneaks out to join him. So begins a new adventure for Ada, and for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take the two kids in. As Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read, and watches for German spies, she begins to trust Susan—and Susan begins to love Ada and Jamie. But in the end, will their bond be enough to hold them together through wartime? Or will Ada and her brother fall back into the cruel hands of their mother? This masterful work of historical fiction is equal parts adventure and a moving tale of family and identity—a classic in the making.