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En una hermosa mansión en la Costa Azul, Cécile, una joven de diecisiete años, y su padre, Raymond, viudo y cuarentón, pero alegre, frívolo y seductor, amante de las relaciones amorosas breves y sin consecuencias, viven entregados a una vida fácil y placentera. Se bastan a sí mismos, inmersos en una relación basada en la complicidad y el respeto mutuo. El padre, Raymond, ha invitado a su actual novia, Elsa, y los días transcurren sin sobresaltos. Sin embargo, la visita inesperada de Anne, una mujer inteligente, culta y serena, viene a perturbar aquel delicioso desorden. A la sombra del pinar que rodea la casa y filtra el sol abrasador del verano, un juego cruel se prepara. ¿Cómo alejar la amenaza que se cierne sobre la extraña pero armónica relación de Cécile con su padre?

La base militar estadounidense de Mannheim, en Alemania Occidental, es en apariencia un lugar tranquilo. Estamos a finales de los ochenta y la última guerra con participación norteamericana queda lejos. Los soldados marchan y practican tiro, y los oficiales tratan de escalar en la cadena de mando. El soldado Ray Elwood, asistente del coronel Berman y maestro de la burocracia y el papeleo militar, tiene montado en la base un negocio muy lucrativo: fabrica y vende heroína a la tropa. Sin embargo, la extraña muerte de un soldado a quien Elwood tenía en nómina y la llegada a la base de un nuevo sargento y su hija hacen peligrar su modus vivendi. Elwood considera que ha llegado el momento de un retiro dorado, pero para lograrlo necesita llevar a cabo una última operación de grandes dimensiones. Primera y única novela de Robert O’Connor, "Buffalo Soldiers" (1993) describe con humor negro y crudeza la corrupción, el odio racial y la degradación del ejército estadounidense en tiempos de paz.

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.

From the dragon-filled Temeraire series and the gothic magical halls of the Scholomance trilogy, through the realms next door to Spinning Silver and Uprooted, this stunning collection takes us from fairy tale to fantasy, myth to history, and mystery to science fiction as we travel through Naomi Novik’s most beloved stories. Here, among many others, we encounter: • A mushroom witch who learns that sometimes the worst thing in the Scholomance can be your roommate. • The start of the Dragon Corps in ancient Rome, after Mark Antony hatches a dragon’s egg and bonds with the hatchling. • A young bride in the Middle Ages who finds herself gambling with Death for the highest of stakes. • A delightful reimagining of Pride & Prejudice, in which Elizabeth Bennet captains a Longwing dragon. • The first glimpse of the world of Abandon, the setting of Novik’s upcoming epic fantasy series—a deserted continent populated only by silent and enigmatic architectural mysteries. Though the stories are vastly different, there is a unifying theme: wrestling with destiny, and the lengths some will go to find their own and fulfill its promise.

When you kick over a rock, you never know what's going to crawl out.    Alex Velesky is about to discover that the hard way. He's stolen records from the Swiss bank that employs him, thinking that he'll uncover a criminal conspiracy. But he soon finds that he's tapped into the mother lode of corruption. Before he knows it, he's being hunted by everyone from the Russian mafia to the CIA.    Court Gentry and his erstwhile lover, Zoya Zakharova, find themselves on opposites poles when it comes to Velesky. They both want him but for different reasons.    That's a problem for tomorrow. Today they need to keep him and themselves alive. Right now, it's not looking good.

Two opposites decide to test their chemistry with one steamy night together. But will once be enough? Nova Porter isn’t looking for love, and she certainly has no explanation for her attraction to buttoned-up, three-piece-suit-wearing investment banker Charlie Milford. Maybe it’s his charm? Or maybe it’s his determination to help her fledgling business however he can. Either way, she’s distracted every time he’s around. With her new tattoo studio set to open in her hometown of Inglewild, she doesn’t have time for frivolous flirtations. In an effort to get Charlie out of her system once and for all, Nova offers a proposition. One night. No strings. They’ll kick their uncomfortable attraction to the curb and return to their respective responsibilities. But their explosive night together scatters their expectations like fallen leaves. And with Charlie in town as the temporary head of Lovelight Farms, Nova can’t quite avoid him. And Charlie? Well, Charlie knows a good investment when he sees one. He’s hoping he can convince Nova he’s worth some of her time.