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So far, Edgar has proven successful in integrating into his new surroundings, learning, and enhancing his quality of life. Despite his best efforts to stay off the radar and keep his talents a secret, he still needs to survive in a world full of unexpected dangers. As an alchemist, he has a lot of groundbreaking discoveries to offer to the aristocratic society. But the daunting task is to find the right balance and preserve his integrity while pursuing his ambition. How can he be sure that people won't use his innovations for malevolent purposes?

In A Universe Revealed, Diyami Red Hawk is pursuing a sacred mission to build a new Native American city at the ancient site of Cahokia. But his success is based on a lie. If anyone finds out, will his project come crashing down? For years, Jim Collins, a financial genius and superb poker player, has been haunted by the mystery of his father, who was “very famous, but you’ll never find anyone who has heard of him.” When he meets Billy and Carol Boustany, he feels hope for the first time.

My name's Nadia, and I serve the High Queen of the Elves. My friend Neil Freeman also works for her, and he's the deadliest assassin who ever lived. He paid a high price for his abilities, including a damaged memory. But his memory holds secrets that might destroy the world. So when the mad wizards of Singularity come to rip open Neil's mind and steal those secrets, it's up to us to stop them.

This is a touching and heartwarming fictional Christmas story about two actual characters from history—the acclaimed American photographer, Robert Cornelius, and the visiting British writer and most famous man in the world, Charles Dickens. Cornelius is credited with shooting the first photograph in history of a human face, in Philadelphia in 1839—one of photography’s greatest milestones. Dickens’ A Christmas Carol has yet to be published.

I love you putamente es una pequeña joya, un retrato lúdico de una ciudad, una aventura del lenguaje en un estilo único y personalísimo que concilia dos mundos aparentemente opuestos, el del hombre culto amante de la literatura, que tiene que traducir cada rato a sus estultos parceros (si quiere saber qué es estulto, lea el libro) y otro descarnado y popular. Alterna la cultura universal con el parlache, la neolengua del valle de Aburrá, con sus tradicionales dichos paisas y sus neologismos. ¿Que la gente no habla así? Claro que no.

Rodrigo es un joven burócrata que podría pertenecer a lo que Strindberg llamó «el club de los jóvenes viejos». Sus días pasan sin mayores aspavientos en un museo de la Ciudad de México, hasta que la secretaria que le hacía la vida imposible le desliza una nota que dice «Acepto». Rodrigo se enterará de que alguien le ha propuesto matrimonio a Cecilia en su nombre, y la inercia no le deja más opción que casarse. A partir de ahí se desencadena una siniestra odisea en la que pierde su trabajo y pasa el rato espiando a una gallina que deambula por el terreno baldío.

Carretera no siempre fue este showman eminente. Antes de convertirse en subastador ejerció como vigilante en una fábrica de jugos durante muchos años, hasta que el ataque de pánico de una compañera de trabajo cambió su vida de manera irremediable. En el tránsito hacia su destino Carretera deberá enfrentarse a la ira de un hijo al que ha abandonado, llevar a cabo una subasta para ayudar a un cura a salvar su iglesia, y realizar a manera de gran performance final «La historia de mis Gustavos personales», una subasta alegórica.

Estas fábulas son tanto episodios históricos como invenciones. Histórica fue la terrible venganza por la cruel muerte de Inés de Castro, como la huelga de hambre en Roma contra la tiranía de Nerón o el feroz castigo de un emperador griego que tras una batalla perdida condenó a la ceguera a miles de soldados búlgaros que así nunca podrían relatar lo que habían visto. Pura imaginación parecería este suceso que no obstante fue real.

In the near future, the collision of two nuclear superpowers – in two different timelines – is imminent. One America is experiencing its first technological revolution, whilst a parallel United States is a hi-tech police state. But both are poised to wreak destruction.

Rita Douglas is plucked from her dead-end job and trained as a reluctant US spy. All because she has the latent genetic talent to hop between alternate time lines - and infiltrate them. Her United States is waging a high-tech war, targeting assassins who can move between worlds to deliver death on a mass scale, and Rita will be their secret weapon.

Dark State is the second book in the thrilling Empire Games series - set in the same world as Charles Stross' The Merchant Princes series. In the near future, the collision of two nuclear superpowers - in two different time lines - is imminent. One America is experiencing its first technological revolution whilst a parallel United States is a hi-tech police state. But both are poised to wreak destruction.

Rita Douglas is plucked from her dead-end job and trained as a reluctant US spy. All because she has the latent genetic talent to hop between alternate timelines - and infiltrate them. Her United States is waging a high-tech war, targeting assassins who can move between worlds to deliver death on a mass scale, and Rita will be their secret weapon.

Miriam Beckstein has said good-bye to her comfort zone. The transition from journalist to captive in an alternative time line was challenging, to say the least. As was discovering her long-lost family, the Clan, were world-skipping assassins. Now civil war rages in her adopted home, she's pregnant with the heir to their throne and a splinter group want her on their side of a desperate power struggle. But as a leader or figurehead?

Librarian spy Irene thought her to-do list would be her undoing. She's on missions for both the Library and a dear friend - the detective Vale. And she’s also training her new Fae apprentice, who's more interested in the stacks than sleuthing. But now someone is trying to kidnap her and kill her friends. As Irene, Kai and Vale try to track down the would-be assassin, they uncover a plot. It’s even more insidious than usual and could threaten Irene’s headquarters, Vale’s home and the Library itself.

Lee and Mal went looking for monsters on Bodmin Moor four years ago, and only Lee came back. She thought she’d lost Mal forever, now miraculously returned. But what happened that day on the moors? And where has Mal been all this time? Mal's reappearance hasn’t gone unnoticed by MI5 either, and their officers also have questions. Julian Sabreur is investigating an attack on top physicist Kay Amal Khan. This leads Julian to clash with agents of an unknown power – and they may or may not be human. His only clue is grainy footage, showing a woman who supposedly died on Bodmin Moor.