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The body of a woman is found in a Singapore nature park. Nobody has reported her missing and no one knows who she is. The only clue to her identity is a series of tiny numbers etched into her dental implants. In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, a married man is arrested for the murder of his mistress. The police are adamant that he is her killer. However, forensic evidence tells a different story altogether.

Mayo de 1980. La ciudad de Gwangju se moviliza contra la dictadura militar de Chun Doo-hwan, que hace unos meses tomó el poder en Corea del Sur. La oposición civil, liderada por los estudiantes universitarios, se subleva a favor de la democracia, pero el ejército reprime cruelmente las protestas disparando indiscriminadamente a la multitud, sin hacer distinciones entre estudiantes y civiles. Tras la sanguinaria matanza, un joven busca el cadáver de un amigo, un alma intenta aferrarse a su cuerpo abandonado y a sus recuerdos, y un país brutalizado busca su voz.

Embark on a personal journey with singer-songwriter Elyse G. Rogers as she unveils her remarkable transformation from a '90s pop sensation to an independent solo artist. In this captivating memoir, Elyse shares the intimate details of her career, including the pivotal moment she changed her name and the struggles she faced overcoming burnout.

Caught pants down by a dance hostress in a Laotian nightclub; hitching a ride into battle with a chain-smoking pilot in a plane filled with cans of leaking kerosene; fielding cables that arrive in the dead of night from an editor screaming for urgent copy overnight…It's all in a day's work for the foreign correspondent, says author Dennis Bloodworth, who ought to know. He took it all in his stride during the more than 30 years that he spent as foreign correspondent of the London Observer.

Jin, a sensitive kampong boy with an artistic bent, is often found sketching hornbills in the jungle. Stephanie is the Eurasian daughter of an uncompromising brigadier, born into a world of racial and economic privilege. Their torrid affair, set in pre-merger Malaya, must be kept hidden at all costs. But the fragile relationship between these star-crossed lovers is threatened by a single secret—and a moment of thoughtlessness that will echo for decades.

Ren is an elite fighter who feels no emotions. That makes him the perfect soldier to battle the Savages, a feral army of half-animal, half-human species prowling outside the 18 walls protecting the city...at least that's what the propaganda machine will have him believe. He and his motley squad are armed with genetic enhancements before venturing beyond the walls. They come to learn more about themselves and their enemies than they could have ever imagined.

MÁS DE 10 MILLONES DE LECTORES NO PUEDEN EQUIVOCARSE. Lisa Jewell regresa con una inquietante novela que ha arrasado internacionalmente. Thriller del Año en los British Book Awards. Crime Book del Año en los Fingerprints Awards. Alix Summer, presentadora de un popular pódcast, celebra su cuadragésimo quinto cumpleaños en un pub. Allí conoce a Josie Fair, quien también está celebrando su cumpleaños, y descubren que nacieron el mismo día en el mismo hospital. Unos días más tarde vuelven a coincidir, esta vez fuera del instituto de los hijos de Alix.

Una edició exclusiva del clàssic de Delphine de Vigan: perquè viure és saber dir gràcies. La bonica història de la Michka: "T'has demanat mai quantes vegades a la vida havies dit gràcies de debò? Unes gràcies de veritat. L'expressió de la teva gratitud, del teu reconeixement, del teu deute". Una novel·la que és un cant a la vellesa i als llaços de lleialtat i afecte que devem a les persones que han format part de la nostra vida. La Michka, una dona gran, va perdent l'habilitat per parlar i ha de lliurar-se a l'evidència: ja no pot viure sola.

Durante el duro invierno, en una ciudad del norte, un niño se escapa de su casa a causa del maltrato de su padrastro. Encuentra refugio bajo una tubería, cerca de las vías del tren y de la explanada que conduce al bosque. Nadie parece compadecerse de él hasta que unos ojos lo miran con detenimiento y ternura. También con autoridad. Esos ojos pertenecen a una perra callejera. El niño tendrá que aprender a sobrevivir junto a ella y la manada de perros que lidera. Aunque su presencia no será del agrado de todos los perros.

Nicki Keating has been living a double life, torn between the guilt of lying to her husband and the allure of a passionate affair. But when she arrives at her lover’s secluded mountain home for a Valentine’s rendezvous, her darkest nightmare becomes a chilling reality. Terrified and devastated, Nicki must flee—but where can she turn?

Clara y Haavard viven en uno de los barrios más elegantes de Oslo y tienen dos hijos gemelos. Haavard, que proviene de una familia de clase alta, es pediatra en un hospital de Oslo; Clara se crio en una pequeña localidad de la zona de los fiordos de la que se marchó para estudiar Derecho en la capital. Trabaja como asesora en el Ministerio de Justicia. Pero, en realidad, su matrimonio no es tan idílico como parece.

En Kant en 90 minutos, Paul Strathern expone de manera clara y concisa la vida e ideas del autor de la Crítica de la razón pura. El audiolibro incluye una selección de sus escritos, una breve lista de lecturas sugeridas y cronologías que sitúan a Kant en su época y en una sinopsis más amplia de la filosofía.

Post-Roman Britain. Thousands of desperate Saxon refugees are flooding the island, fleeing their homelands as the whole world warms and the waters rise, and worse, the mighty dragon Cythraul from the once-frozen North has been awoken by an evil sorceress. His lust for human flesh is insatiable, and he threatens to extinguish all human life.

Fresh off a summer vacation to remember, Hugo resumes his role protecting the city of San Miguel. As a teen hero trying to make his way through a dangerous world, he's been forced to reflect on the impact he's making around him while juggling his ambitions and romances with his growing responsibilities as Aegis. On top of all that, Hugo and his friends are now on the cusp of adulthood starting their senior year of high school. However, the scars from Damocles's reign of terror have not fully healed, with countless superheroes across America hanging up their capes for good.

Yorkshire Dales, Summer 1997. Vicky Mott slips out the door of her remote cottage, and into the pale dawn light. She scrawls a note for her friends. Gone to see the sunrise. V xxx That's the last anyone ever hears from twenty-year-old music lover Vicky. Another victim of the Fellside Strangler? That would make Vicky the fourth young woman to lose her life this summer. Snatched by a mysterious killer who stalks the fells . . . But Vicky's body is never found.

Ian Knockshine was convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and executed by lethal injection—or so he thought. When he wakes up on the moon with no memory, he discovers he’s been thrust into a brutal lunar prison. Forced to mine for survival alongside other desperate souls, Ian faces a dangerous truth: his missing memories hold the key to an even greater mission.

Lisa es una joven dulce, comprensiva y una diseñadora maravillosa. Lisa ama a Reece, su mejor amigo, futuro heredero de la fortuna de su abuelo. Reece es dulce, bueno y leal. Pero Reece no está solo, comparte su cuerpo con un ser oscuro. Un alma cruel e insaciable a la que no puede controlar. El sueño de Reece es abrir Le Colisée, un santuario en París al servicio de la alta costura. En Le Colisée pasarán muchas cosas, algunas a la vista de todos, otras en sótanos apartados. A veces los hijos aborrecen a sus padres. A veces la culpa puede empujarles a construir su propio infierno.

Theo y Kit han compartido muchas cosas: una gran amistad, ligues secretos, una relación de pareja y, ahora, rumbos distintos. Tras romper en pleno vuelo de camino al viaje por Europa con el que siempre soñaron, sus vidas se separaron definitivamente. Lo único que aún les une es el vale para el tour europeo que no hicieron hace cuatro años. Con el viaje a punto de caducar, a Theo y Kit les parece una idea genial hacer el viaje ahora. En solitario. Por su cuenta. Sin embargo, cuando suben al autobús de la agencia en Londres descubren que han pensado lo mismo, y ahora les esperan tres semanas.

Astrid Hekne has inherited the fighting spirit and hypersensitivity of her grandmother, who was a protector of the mythic Sister Bells that had once hung in the village's centuries-old stave church. The once-traitorous priest Kai Schweigaard, now in his eighties, is wondering how his death, prophesied in a centuries-old tapestry, will come to pass. He delves into the myths about the Night of the Scourge, which, according to old village beliefs, is when the known world will fall and the Earth will be scraped down to bare rock. Then Norway is occupied by the Nazis.

99% of the time what we THINK is the problem is actually NOT the problem. We’ve all been there. You thought you solved a tough problem, and then it’s back again. Or you’ve worked and reworked your solution and you’re hitting dead ends. Why? We have been taught to find answers to problems, not to question the problem itself. We are still using strategies we learned in elementary school to solve complex, non-routine, difficult and potentially dangerous problems.