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Descubre el hotel más famoso del mundo de la mano de los Wilder, una familia llena de secretos, ambición y poder. Primer volumen de la gran serie sobre el distinguido hotel Savoy y la familia que lo regenta, ambientada en los años 30. Londres 1932. Todos conocen el Hotel Savoy, seña de distinción y hogar de la vanguardia artística e intelectual europea. Conocen también a sir Laurence Wilder, el carismático dueño del hotel. Cuando el patriarca de la familia Wilder es víctima de un infarto, se desvela que no es su hijo Henry sino su nieta ilegítima, la jovencísima Violet Mason, quien heredará el hotel. Mientras la salud de su abuelo se torna cada vez más frágil, Violet tendrá que tomar las riendas del hotel familiar en una época extraña y turbulenta al mismo tiempo que está a punto de alcanzar el sueño por el que tanto ha luchado: convertirse en una de las primeras mujeres en escribir para la BBC. Violet lleva toda la vida deseando ser aceptada por su familia y esta puede ser la ocasión perfecta para conseguirlo, pero parece que alguien no está de acuerdo con la decisión de sir Laurence y no se lo pondrá nada fácil.

Segundo volumen de la gran serie sobre el distinguido hotel Savoy y la familia que lo regenta, ambientada en los años 30. Londres 1936. Violet hereda el legado de su abuelo y dirige el Hotel Savoy. Además de sus interminables responsabilidades, tiene una gran deuda personal. Violet se siente responsable de la muerte de su compañero John. Solo el encuentro con el noble francés Omar de la Durbollière parece ofrecerle una nueva oportunidad. Aunque observa horrorizada los cambios políticos en Alemania, acepta la invitación a los Juegos Olímpicos de Verano. Sin embargo, no solo en el escenario de la política mundial, sino también en el Hotel Savoy, los acontecimientos suceden de forma tan rápida que Violet será incapaz de impedirlos.

Cinco mujeres: cuatro están vivas, tres son forasteras, dos son hermanas, una está muerta. Y todas han pasado alguna vez por el Hotel World, que ahora nos acoge para mostrarnos una noche de sus vidas. Por los pasillos van desfilando sus esperanzas y sus desencantos, alojados en la memoria de ese lugar. Cada una se cruzará con las demás sin reparar en la casualidad de sus encuentros. Juego, desafío, inventiva desbordante... Esta novela es una alquimia de mundos opuestos que chocan para dar como resultado una parábola moderna sobre la comunicación y la indiferencia y, finalmente, una defensa del amor.

The untold story of the mysterious family dynasty at the center of China’s Huawei. On December 1, 2018, Meng Wanzhou, daughter of Ren Zhengfei, founder and CEO of China’s most powerful company, Huawei Technologies, was detained at the request of U.S. authorities as she prepared to board a flight out of Vancouver, Canada. The detention of Huawei’s female scion set the U.S.-China trade skirmish on fire— and, for the first time, revealed the Ren family’s prominence in Beijing’s power structure. In The Listening State, acclaimed Washington Post reporter Eva Dou exposes the untold story of the rise of Ren Zhengfei and the mysterious family dynasty at the center of Huawei, whose connections to state apparatus reveal a deeper truth about China’s surveillance web and its global ambitions. Through its technologies, Huawei has helped solidify and enforce China’s growing police state, in which outspoken entrepreneurs like Jack Ma have been silenced, tycoons have disappeared, and executives must put patriotism above profit.

SALEM I wasn’t supposed to be here. I was supposed to be marrying my fiancé, looking forward to a tropical honeymoon. Instead, I found myself on a ferry headed for historic Balfour Manor on Blackridge Island, in the Pacific Northwest. Now I’m stranded, with a woman I’m irresistibly drawn to. Rayne holds secrets as dark and mysterious as her old house. Crimson shadows stalk the halls and strange voices call out in the night—but it's she who haunts me most. Following a gruesome murder, the island's true nature is revealed, and every night becomes a fight for survival. Something is stalking the forest, killing indiscriminately . . . And this time, we're its prey. RAYNE Death has followed me since childhood. My mother's murder and father's violent death changed me, teaching me just how cruel the world could be. I never got what I wanted, until Salem showed up at my door. She’s adventurous, beautiful, and doomed if she stays here. Now, I suddenly have something to lose: the woman who broke down my walls and saw through my mask, who showed me I'm worth loving. My family has long been buried, but even the vilest of secrets must be dug up again to survive the evil that hunts us. I finally have something to fight for, and I'll do whatever it takes to save her.

The García sisters—Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after the discovery of their father's role in an attempt to overthrow the brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. In the wondrous but not always welcoming United States, their parents try to hold on to their old ways as the girls try to find new lives: by straightening their hair and wearing American fashions, and by forgetting their Spanish. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the old world and the new. In Julia Alvarez's beloved first novel, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, the sisters tell their stories about being at home—and not at home—in America. Penguin Vitae—loosely translated as "Penguin of one's life"—is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.