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In 1996, the town of Laurens, South Carolina, was thrust into the spotlight when a white supremacist named Michael Burden opened a museum celebrating the Ku Klux Klan in the community’s main square. Journalists and protestors flooded the town, and hate groups rallied to the establishment’s defense, dredging up the long history of racism and injustice. What came next is the subject of the film Burden, which won the 2018 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award. Shortly after his museum opened, Burden abruptly left the Klan in search of a better life. Broke and homeless, he was taken in by Reverend David Kennedy, an African American leader in the Laurens community, who plunged his church, friends, and family into an inspiring quest to save their former enemy. In this spellbinding Southern epic, journalist Courtney Hargrave further uncovers the complex events behind the story told in Andrew Heckler’s film. Hargrave explores the choices that led to Kennedy and Burden’s friendship, the social factors that drive young men to join hate groups, and the difference one person can make in confronting America’s oldest sin.

At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will have staggering repercussions. Halfway across the globe, the deputy director of U.S. Homeland Security scrambles to mount a response to the rapidly spreading pandemic leapfrogging around the world, which she believes may be the result of an act of biowarfare. And a rogue experimenter in man-made diseases is preparing his own terrifying solution. As already-fraying global relations begin to snap, the virus slashes across the United States, dismantling institutions and decimating the population. With his own wife and children facing diminishing odds of survival, Henry travels from Indonesia to Saudi Arabia to his home base at the CDC in Atlanta, searching for a cure and for the origins of this seemingly unknowable disease. The End of October is a one-of-a-kind thriller steeped in real-life political and scientific implications, filled with the insight that has been the hallmark of Wright s acclaimed nonfiction and the full-tilt narrative suspense that only the best fiction can offer. A swift and all-too-convincing chronicle of science, espionage, action and speculation that moves from Indonesia to Saudi Arabia to the U.S. as it eerily evokes real-life current events.

DAVID HERNÁNDEZ SEVILLANO nació en Segovia (España) en 1977. Ha publicado siete poemarios entre los que destacan Razones de más, Premio Nacional de Poesía Miguel Hernández 2009, y El peso que nos une, XXV Premio de Poesía Hiperión. «El reloj de Mallory detiene el tiempo en la escalada hacia las cumbres de la cotidianidad. Una lectura sin oxígeno que oxigena los símbolos transidos al filo de lo invisible, poesía que se enfrenta al riesgo con el sencillo objetivo de conquistar lo que creíamos conquistado: el amor, la felicidad, la cima de cada día. David Hernández Sevillano es ya un escalador experimentado cuyo campamento base se sitúa a una altura a la que muchos querrían aspirar. Imposible no leer en el reloj sin manecillas de George Mallory una metáfora de la futilidad de la poesía, imposible no leer en el misterio de su cuerpo momificado la fatalidad de la poesía, imposible no imaginar en su empeño último la felicidad de toda la poesía.»

In Felix Francis's latest horseracing thriller in the Dick Francis tradition, a London crisis manager gets caught up in a tragic fire, a murder, and a dark family drama. Harrison Foster, a crisis manager for a London firm, is summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick Stables kills six very valuable horses, including the short-priced favorite for the Derby. There is far more to the "simple" fire than initially meets the eye...for a start, human remains are found among the equestrian ones in the burnt-out shell. All the stable staff are accounted for, so who is the mystery victim? Harry knows very little about horses, indeed he positively dislikes them, but he is thrust unwillingly into the world of thoroughbred racing, where the standard of care of the equine stars is far higher than that of the humans who attend to them. The Chadwick family is a dysfunctional racing dynasty. Resentment between the generations is rife and sibling rivalry bubbles away like volcanic magma beneath a thin crust of respectability. Harry represents the Middle Eastern owner of the Derby favourite and, as he delves deeper into the unanswered questions surrounding the horse's demise, he ignites a fuse that blows the volcano sky-high. Can Harry solve the riddle before he is bumped off by the fallout?

Francisco Javier Navarro Prieto (Tomelloso, 1994) es graduado en filosofía por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Además, ha disfrutado de la beca Santander Iberoamérica con la que ha tenido la oportunidad de estudiar filosofía en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Actualmente estudia el grado de Literatura general y Comparada en la Universidad de Granada, donde ha obtenido diversos premios literarios. El bello mundo, ganador de la XXII edición del Premio de Poesía Joven Antonio Carvajal, es su primer libro publicado.

La juez Lola MacHor y su marido Jaime, médico investigador del CSIC, llevan más de treinta años juntos. Una noche, Jaime invita a cenar a dos amigos, JJ, un médico americano, y a Rafael Scott, asesor de un senador de Texas de origen argentino. Ambos han trabajado duro para conseguir que el prestigioso premio Wolf a la investigación médica recaiga este año en Jaime. Durante la cena, en la que Lola luce una pulsera que había pertenecido a su suegra, JJ muestra vivo interés por la joya y también por un cuadro, regalo de los padres de Jaime y que según ellos es una horrible copia de un Matisse. La pulsera desaparece después de la cena y el cuadro unos días después, cuando se produce un robo en casa de la familia. A dos voces, desde la perspectiva de Lola y por primera vez, dando voz a Jaime, acompañaremos a la pareja en una investigación que en esta ocasión involucra directamente a la juez y a su familia. Clave Matisse es un thriller absorbente que ahonda en temas como la confianza, las relaciones de pareja y las difíciles fronteras entre la mentira, la verdad y el dolor.