La herencia de los Astralnautas 1: La mano de la tormenta

An exceptional novel, a modern classic of extreme elegance and frankness and one of the most brilliant x-rays of the United States in which women began to speak in the first person. The Group is considered the best-known --and controversial-- work of the North American Mary McCarthy. Endowed with a strong autobiographical charge, published in 1963, it addressed issues such as free love, socialism, contraception or abortion from an unprejudiced and purely feminine point of view. In fact, its sale was prohibited in various countries as it was considered offensive to public morals. McCarthy...

Este es un libro sobre relatos de la vida unidos por un punto en común: la ironía, sutil o exagerada, genera situaciones curiosas pero ambientadas en la vida diaria. Personajes cotidianos son los protagonistas de esta mezcla explosiva de regusto ácido aliñada con un toque de humor negro que seguro sorprenderá a sus lectores.

Aedan es un joven de quince años que siempre ha soñado con convertirse en un héroe y combatir el mal. En el día de su cumpleaños su padre le dará como regalo la posibilidad de hacer unas pruebas de aptitud para la Orden Blanca. Una orden de guerreros de todo tipo y razas que se dedican a proteger la paz mundial. Rothgar, un enano, capitán de la Orden Blanca, vendrá para examinarlo, pero determinará que no está preparado para unirse a la orden. Tras esta mala noticia Aedan volverá abatido a su casa y esa misma noche unos mercenarios atacarán el pueblo. Aedan sufrirá una gran...

The bestselling coauthor of such page-turning thrillers as Relic and The Cabinet of Curiosities, Douglas Preston now spins an unforgettable tale of greed, adventure, and betrayal in The Codex. "Greetings from the dead," declares Maxwell Broadbent on the videotape he left behind after his mysterious disappearance. A notorious treasure hunter and tomb robber, Broadbent accumulated over a half a billion dollars' worth of priceless art, gems, and artifacts before vanishing---along with his entire collection---from his mansion in New Mexico. At first, robbery is suspected, but the truth proves far ...