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Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster, and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. Lily couldn't be more different: flat-broke, raised in Tampa, the only child of scientists who fled Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Despite all this, Lily and Matthew fall in love. In 2021, fifteen-year-old Nick Chen has never felt like he belonged on the isolated Washington island where he lives with his single mother, Lily. He can't shake the sense she's hiding something. When Nick sets out to find his biological father, the journey threatens to raise more questions than it provides answers. In immersive, moving prose, Rachel Khong weaves a profound tale of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance—a story of trust, forgiveness, and finally coming home. Exuberant and explosive, Real Americans is a social novel par excellence that asks: Are we destined, or made? And if we are made, who gets to do the making? Can our genetic past be overcome?

Jack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. And with a burning desire to right wrongs—and rewrite his own agonizing past. DEA Susan Duffy is living for the future, knowing that she has made a terrible mistake by putting one of her own female agents into a death trap within a heavily guarded Maine mansion. Staging a brilliant ruse, Reacher hurtles into the dark heart of a vast criminal enterprise. Trying to rescue an agent whose time is running out, Reacher enters a crime lord’s waterfront fortress. There he will find a world of secrecy and violence—and confront some unfinished business from his own past.

Último libro de Pedro Salinas (1891-1951) publicado en España en vida de su autor, "Razón de amor" aparece en 1936, el mismo año en que da comienzo el largo exilio americano del poeta. Dividido en dos partes, la primera de las cuales fluye como un largo poema, el poemario -cuyo título procede de un poema anónimo del siglo XIII que describe el encuentro de dos enamorados en un huerto florido- prolonga el tema de la separación de los amantes iniciado ya al final de "La voz a ti debida", solo que aquí cobra un nuevo tono la voz del poeta, quien, por medio de la evocación, trata de exorcizar la ausencia de la amada. Como afirma Soledad Salinas de Marichal en la introducción del presente volumen, «se diría un diario íntimo y también una poesía de conjuros, dirigida a recordar, pero también a recobrar, el amor perdido para devolverlo a la realidad presente».