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Glade Io is a rebel. Having fled with her younger sisters to live among the Ferrymen, she knows there is no going back now. She is committed to the cause of overthrowing the brutal Authority, and she trains her new comrades in the art of combating Datapoints like herself - those tasked with the Ferrymen’s destruction.

Rebeca, una chica arrogante que lo tiene todo, vivirá días inexistentes en el calendario de los humanos. En estos días aprenderá mucho de sí misma y de su compañero Olaf, un anciano sabio, que compró en una subasta de artículos valiosos y antigüedades. A bordo de una bicicleta de dos plazas, juntos viajarán a lugares, tiempos y dimensiones muy especiales, como una bodega abandonada, donde ella es humillada; una escuela, donde se transforma en niña; el cielo, donde visita a su padre; y un hospital, donde se convierte en madre.

Ojalá mi pareja leyera este libro tiene la intención de resaltar los valores y las virtudes que hacen a la mujer ser única. En una plática constructiva entre amigos, se pretende que uno de los personajes se haga dueño de sí mismo, crezca como ser humano, y valore los hechos mínimos de la vida cotidiana.

Glade Io is torn between two worlds. She’s a trained killing machine - selected by the ruthless Authority to be a Datapoint, a tech-enabled agent of the state who eliminates threats to the human colonies throughout the solar system in the Culling. But her time among rogue colonists called the Ferrymen has convinced her that The Authority has far more sinister plans in store, and all the justifications they fed to her are lies.

Das Glimmerfest steht vor der Tür. Alle Glühwürmchen von Glimmersheim sind schon ganz gespannt: Welches Team wird wohl dieses Jahr den Lichterwettbewerb gewinnen, die Glitzerritter oder die Funkensprüher? Glühwürmchen Johannes ist besonders aufgeregt. So sehr er auch übt und sich anstrengt, er glüht einfach nicht! Mit seinen kläglichen Versuchen, eine große Leuchte zu sein, erntet er nur Gelächter und Spott. Vor allem gegen den "Neuen" aus Brasilien kommt Johannes einfach nicht an.

Glade Io is a trained killer. Marked at a young age as an individual with violent tendencies, she was taken from her family and groomed to be a Datapoint—a biotech-enabled analyst who carries out the Culling. She is designed to identify and destroy any potential humans that threaten the colonies: those marked as lawbreakers, unproductive or sick. But when she’s kidnapped by rogue colonists known as the Ferrymen, everything Glade thinks she knows about the colonies, and The Authority that runs them, collapses into doubt.

Valle-Inclan decia en una carta que estaba escribiendo "una novela americana de caudillaje y avaricia gachupinesca...en una prosa expresiva y poco academica". Esa obra fue Tirano Banderas donde con una prosa brillante muestra las pequeneces de los dictadores de nuestra America.

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En dödsmisshandel av en gammal man på Västra kyrkogården i Göteborg är inledningen på en serie bisarra mord. Det finns vittnen till mordet på den gamle, men varför vågar de inte berätta? Ett kors upptäcks av pastor Waldemar Eklunds fru i deras trädgård på Klädesholmen på Tjörn. En ung naken kille är uppbunden på korset och död utan synliga skador.

On the west coast of Sweden, in Skärhamn on Tjörn, Chief Inspector Greger Thulin thinks he lives at an idyllic spot. But even the most beautiful painting can have a faulty stroke of the brush. Hiding behind the walls of Bleket School, are bullying and drug addicted students. Homeroom teacher, Jonas Blomgren, lives on Rönnvägen. Amanda Durén and Belinda Wallin are pupils in his class.

Arne Hildeng is found dead on his luxury Storebro yacht docked at the harbor in Skärhamn. Also onboard is Andrea, his wife. Did she murder her husband? Or could the murderer be someone else in the Hildeng family? And Chief Inspector Greger Thulin didn't expect to see yet another Storebro dock at the wharf. Arne Hildeng's brother, Jon, and his wife, Mette, climb out of that boat, and Inspector Katarina Linde notices that Mette tries to keep her face hidden. But Katarina can see that the bruises are fresh.

Greger Thulin och hans kollegor på Grova Brottsroteln i Göteborg får ännu ett märkligt fall på sitt bord. Tvåbarnsmamman Maria Eriksson anmäls försvunnen av sin arbetsgivare. Ingen har hört eller sett någonting i samband med försvinnandet, det verkar som att Maria har lämnat sitt hem och gått upp i rök. Hennes svärfar hävdar bestämt att hon lämnat sin man och sina två små söner för en annan man. Men kan det stämma?

Gothenburg, Sweden: During a break-in at the luxurious home of Kenneth and Viola Svalborg, someone has neatly sliced valuable paintings from their frames. Also missing is the neighbor's beautiful 15-year-old daughter, Elina Gullberg, who was babysitting for the Svalborg's two sons. Did she follow the thieves of her own accord? Was she involved with the break-in? Her parents, Daniel and Miriam Gullberg, are sick with worry.

Olas sumerge al lector en un mundo de dominó, ron, puros habanos, sexo, drogas y boleros, a la vez que traza un paralelismo entre tres episodios de éxodo cubano a Estados Unidos. Un libro sobre Cuba que no toma partido con izquierdas ni derechas, sino con gente de a pie, sofocada por las circunstancias. Un homenaje al emigrante, sus esperanzas y sacrificios.

Desert Town is dark crime fiction for those who have a taste for the perverse and violent. It was made into a major film, Desert Fury, starring Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott and Mary Astor. It’s the story of seventeen year old Paula Haller’s transition into womanhood as she defies her mother, Fritzi’s dominance. Fritzi runs the small town of Chuckawalla including the Purple Sage casino and saloon as well as a bordello or two.

Clarissa Sullivan dreams for more from life than sipping tepid tea in stifling parlors in Victorian Boston. She defies her family's wishes, continuing to teach poor immigrant children in Boston's West End, finding a much-needed purpose to her life. As a suffragette, Clarissa is considered a firebrand radical no man would desire. For why should women want the vote when men have sheltered women from the distasteful aspects of politics and law?

Committed...to living a life she desires with the man she loves, Clarissa Sullivan continues to teach poor immigrant children and to agitate for the vote for women as she awaits Gabriel's return to Boston. Will her stepmother leave her in peace, or is her life about to change again in unforeseen ways?

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Morgenthau's classic text, published in 1948, not only introduced the concept of political realism but also established it as the dominant approach in international relations and the guiding philosophy of US foreign policy during the Cold War.