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Deep in the California woods on an evening in late August, Jane Pearson is camping with her husband, Leo, and their five-year-old son, Benjamin. As dusk sets in, she drifts softly to sleep in a hammock strung outside the tent where Leo and Benjamin are preparing for bed. At that moment, every single person with a Y chromosome vanishes around the world, disappearing from operating theaters mid-surgery, from behind the wheels of cars, from arguments and acts of love. Children, adults, even fetuses are gone in an instant. Leo and Benjamin are gone. No one knows why, how, or where. 

Dark forces have converged on Earth. The world's protectors are scrambling to find a solution to the coming apocalypse. Their only hope is for an Alpha to emerge, a hero gifted with incredible power and trained in the legendary Academies. Theodore Hertz was worried about a class project. Now he's worried about facing ancient evils who want him dead. His only hope is Academy Bloodstone, but the institution that's supposed to protect him is just as dangerous. His homework? Survive.

The colonies stood on the cusp of victory after Yorktown, until King George bought twenty thousand Russian mercenaries using the gold Istäni stole from Lubrerum. While the war between Britain and the colonies erupts anew, another smaller but no less brutal war begins in the wilds of Vermont, when Istäni brings his rivalry with Murdoch back to Maralah.

This omnibus edition contains the first three books in the Portal to Nova Roma series, a slow-burn empire-building epic that blends ancient history, magic, and a system-apocalypse setting — in a world where victory is never guaranteed, and peace can only be won through war. Alexander is not human — he’s a rogue artificial intelligence haunted by loss. When the only person Alexander ever cared about dies, he decides to abandon Earth and its misery, opening a portal into alternate realities in search of a place to begin again.

Publicada por primera vez en 1991 e inspirada en la guerra del Golfo Pérsico, esta novela plantea una pregunta urgente: ¿qué pasaría si existiera una alternativa real al petróleo? Augusto, un científico brillante pero incómodo para muchos, tiene una respuesta: el prototipo, un sistema revolucionario que no recurre ni a la energía solar ni a la nuclear, sino que extrae fuerza y calor directamente de la estructura íntima del espacio-tiempo, es decir, de la lattice.

Der Untergang Galmanars rückt näher, während Risa und Jaro sich mit ihren Verbündeten auf die Auswanderung vorbereiten. Bald schon wird ihnen klar, dass der Platz auf den Rettungsschiffen nicht reichen wird, um alle zu retten, die sich ihnen angeschlossen haben, denn der Zulauf an verängstigten Flüchtlingen aus beiden Stämmen wird immer größer.

Brought to you by Penguin. From the award-winning author of The Raptures and The Fire Starters, a magically surreal novel about history, identity and redemption It’s summer 2017 and the last few residents of the Lough Neagh Archipelago are facing imminent eviction. The flood planned to combat...

For Matt, the true cost of this never-ending war has come home to roost. Not just the loss of distant lands and semi-sentient units but the loss of a friend, a Hero. Now, his fledgling kingdom is under threat and he’s got to scramble, pulling units from multiple towns to do battle with cunning new enemies.

In modern, beautiful Green City, the capital of Southwest Asia, gender selection, war, and disease have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmingly low levels. The government uses terror and technology to control its people, and now females must take multiple husbands to have children as quickly as possible. Yet there are some who resist, women who live in an underground collective and refuse to be part of the system. Secretly protected by the highest echelons of power, they emerge only at night....

This anthology, with an introduction by Robert Silverberg, offers a sweeping survey of robots as depicted throughout literature. Since the Iliad—in which we are shown golden statues built by Hephaestus “with minds and wisdoms”—humans have been fascinated by the idea of artificial life. From the Argonautica to the medieval Jewish legend of the Golem and Ambrose Bierce’s tale of a chess-playing robot, the idea of what robots are—and who creates them—can be drastically different.

When Mycroft Holmes is murdered in London, it is up to retired shadow executive Smith to track down his killer—and stumble on the greatest conspiracy of his life. Strange forces are stirring into life around the globe, and in the shadow game of spies nothing is certain. Fresh from liberating a strange alien object in Abyssinia—which might just be the mythical Ark of the Covenant—young Lucy Westerna, Holmes' protégé, must follow her own path to the truth while, on the other side of the world, a young Harry Houdini must face his greatest feat of escape—death itself. 

Although Emily’s farm has been quiet and safe, Whistler is restless. Between nightmares that won’t let him sleep, and a powerful obsession with his scythe, he worries that demonic forces will come for him again, endangering his family.

It's a miracle that he can see demons, plain as day, and that he can cast them out with the force of his will. It's a miracle that he's friends with Pico della Mirandola, the Count of Concordia. It's a miracle that when Girolamo visits the deathbed of Lorenzo "the Magnificent", the dying Medici is wreathed in celestial light, a surprise to everyone, Lorenzo included. It's a miracle that when Charles VIII of France invades northern Italy, Girolamo meets him in the field, and convinces him to not only spare Florence but also protect it. 

‘Sharpe and his creator are national treasures.' Sunday Telegraph Cape Trafalgar, October 1805 Heading home on a merchant ship from India, Ensign Richard Sharpe finds himself on a far more dangerous journey than he could have anticipated, for war brews at sea. The formidable French navy have...

Qué secretos encierra un cuadro? ¿Qué razones llevaron a Gustave Coubert a pintar el lienzo más provocativo de la historia? ¿Qué motivos llevan a una obra de arte a pasar más tiempo escondida que expuesta? ¿Por qué sus dueños la colgaron en su cuarto de baño? Los hermanos Montalbán, anticuarios castizos de Madrid, y sus ayudantes, Edmundo Esparza y Emilia Sanders, deben realizar una curiosa investigación sobre el cuadro El origen del mundo. Esto les hará indagar en el París de fin del siglo XIX y en la Budapest posterior a la II Guerra Mundial.

Rodrigo es un joven burócrata que podría pertenecer a lo que Strindberg llamó «el club de los jóvenes viejos». Sus días pasan sin mayores aspavientos en un museo de la Ciudad de México, hasta que la secretaria que le hacía la vida...

Esta novela refiere en esencia al cúmulo de contradicciones que suelen presentarse en casi todos los movimientos insurgentes que se levantan para confrontar al Estado en diversos países. Se plantea una que alcanzó el nivel de crimen atroz en la figura de un líder...

Esta apasionante novela retrata la vida del militar que triunfó en el campo de batalla, que negoció con Juan de O’Donojú y logró ser el primer gobernante del México independiente. Viajando desde los salones de la alta sociedad virreinal hasta los campos de batalla empapados de sangre, el oyente será testigo de las intrigas, las traiciones y los heroísmos que tejieron el destino de una nación.

While investigating the origins of a mysterious donation to Oxford University, private detective Charles Maddox encounters the mysterious Baron Von Reisenberg, the subject of many rumors and macabre legends. In the light of day Maddox can find no evidence of anything sinister—until a series of disturbing incidents send him on a quest to expose whatever evil lurks in the Baron's castle. After a terrifying encounter nearly costs him his sanity, Maddox returns home to find London besieged by an elusive murderer branded the Vampire. 

Panic consumes the countryside as the body count rises. Whispers of an unnatural beast spread through the kingdom. When the Queen calls for her heroes, those who answer will have to make do. The best tracker in the known world. A son who follows in his father's footsteps. An investigator with nothing to lose. A Captain with everything to prove. But even once the mystery of the beast is unraveled a far more sinister plot is revealed.