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Nieves ejerce su profesión de médico rural en un pueblo de cuatrocientos habitantes del Bajo Aragón. No puede decir que este destino sea el sueño de su vida, pero durante dos años ha trabajado con todo el entusiasmo que su juventud y el distanciamiento con sus pacientes se lo han permitido. Atrás van quedando las sombras de un amor frustrado y el recuerdo de una relación compleja con su padre.

El nivel del lago Kleifarvatn ha ido bajando lentamente después de un terremoto. Al parecer, unas fisuras en el fondo están propiciando el drenaje de las aguas. Un hidrólogo local está estudiando el curioso fenómeno cuando descubre un esqueleto con un agujero en el cráneo y un viejo aparato de radio, con inscripciones en ruso, usado a modo de lastre para que el cadáver no subiera a la superficie. Todo apunta a un asesinato cometido hace bastantes años.

A los pies de la tumba de Jón Sigurðsson, el histórico héroe de la independencia islandesa, yace el cadáver de una joven desnuda. Nadie sabe quién es ni porque la han abandonado en un lugar tan emblemático rodeada de flores. La policíao ha averiguado que era drogadicta y que abusaron de ella. Al frente de la investigación, Erneldur Sveinsson va a ir descubriendo que la chica tan solo es una pieza más en un juego de corrupción, negocios turbios y afán desmedido de poder.

Nos guste o no, vivimos en un mundo regido por el conflicto y la competencia feroz que nos exige siempre estar alertas y entrar en acción en todo momento. Si nos descuidamos, si no reaccionamos a tiempo ante los retos que nos plantea el entorno, si dejamos que los demás nos controlen y decidan por nosotros, estaremos perdidos.

Muy pocas veces alguien se atrevió a recomendar tan fervientemente una novela. "Merece vender más ejemplares que la Biblia", afirmó Rebel Inc., una insolente revista literaria escocesa. De inmediato celebrada por los críticos más estrictos pero leída también por aquellos que raramente se acercan a los libros, "Trainspotting" se convirtió en uno de los acontecimientos literarios y también extraliterarios de la última década.

Fue rápidamente adaptada al teatro y luego llevada a la pantalla por Danny Boyle, uno de los jóvenes prodigio del cine inglés...

En enero, el implacable invierno islandés se adueña por completo de la isla. Elias, un niño de diez años, ha aparecido apuñalado cerca de su casa y en estado de congelación. La víctima del homicidio es el hijo de una inmigrante tailandesa que trabaja duro para mantener a su familia desde que su marido islandés les abandonó. El inspector Erlendur Sveinsson y sus inseparables ayudantes Sigurdur Óli y Elínborg son los encargados de llevar a cabo la desagradable tarea de resolver un asesinato en el que no faltan sospechosos.

Garth had been the favorite for the number-one draft pick in the next season of the USA's top sport. His college career was supposed to end on a high note… but it didn't. Sabotaged in his final game, he found himself shut out of the Dungeon League of America, forced to retire his jersey in shame. With no other options, he leaned on his university degree and became a licensed psychiatrist and therapist. That should have been the end of his dungeon-crawling days. But then, a new dungeon appeared in his city.

I had a great time during my chaotic first year at the academy, where I learned about my demonic powers and made a few gorgeous friends. My sophomore year is starting early, introducing me to new classes and new girls, including a quiet tomboy named Andie and an obsessive redhead named Emma. The girls aren’t the only ones on my radar though. News of an ancient demonic artifact surfaces for the first time in generations, and somehow, it’s linked to me. It’s going to take every connection I have to find it, and it just might lead to something that can destroy the entire Nine Circles.

A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand masterwork. Based on the testimony of some 200 survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own 11 years in labour camps and exile, it chronicles the story of those at the heart of the Soviet Union who opposed Stalin, and for whom the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair.

¿La carga de trabajo que tienes es un obstáculo en tu vida y en tu carrera? Esta guía muestra cómo realizar el trabajo importante, concentrando el tiempo y la energía allí donde pueden obtenerse mayores resultados. Ofrece un abanico de herramientas accesibles para emplearlas como modelo y experimentar con ellas, comprobando personalmente qué es lo que realmente funciona.

Jordan Belfort—immortalized by Leonardo DiCaprio in the hit movie The Wolf of Wall Street—reveals the step-by-step sales and persuasion system proven to turn anyone into a sales-closing, money-earning rock star. For the first time ever, Jordan Belfort opens his playbook and gives you access...

Find one soul-bonded mate, lose another. It feels like the goddess is having a joke at my expense. Between an ugly hag of a sea witch and the worst mother-in-law a witch could ask for, my dreams of a quiet life have gone up in flames. There's no time to get to know my vampire mate, or have cuddles with my bear and incubus. Or think of creative ways to exact revenge on the storm mage for being a complete d*ck. It's lucky we have a new fae ally. Or so I thought until the slippery fu–sorry, kind-hearted member of the Autumn Court, scammed me into accepting a fae bargain.

Every nosy neighbor, gossipy friend, and meddling relative is just one good mystery away from becoming a detective. From behind locked doors or out in broad daylight, driven by chance or curiosity, amateur sleuths get in over their heads in these six hair-raising, hilarious stories.

For more than a year, Howard Schultz, the chairman and former CEO of Starbucks, and former Washington Post senior correspondent and associate editor Rajiv Chandrasekaran searched the country for even more of America's unsung heroes, as a follow-up to Upstanders' first season. Now you'll hear the stories and voices of the people they found - local citizens who are demonstrating unbelievable courage and inspiring a better America at a time when we need these heroes more than ever.

Sixth grade is the worst... and also the best, as Jordan rides the ups and downs of middle-school life in hilarious fashion.

When Mike Radley's magical home grew another floor, he thought he knew what to expect. He didn't expect a kingdom of portal-chewing rats to be living between his walls. He really didn't expect to discover that the wardrobe down the hall was a prison world for a murderous kitsune. And he definitely didn't expect all of his enemies to converge on his house all at once, intent on his destruction. Welcome to Radley's Wardrobe. Expect the Unexpected.

Brought to you by Penguin. The long-awaited sequel to 12 RULES FOR LIFE, which has sold over 5 million copies around the world In 12 Rules for Life, acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson offered an antidote to the chaos in our lives: eternal truths applied to...

1914: Der 19-jährige Paul Bäumer und seine Klassenkameraden haben das Abitur in der Tasche und melden sich, angespornt durch ihren Lehrer, mit Begeisterung zum Kriegsdienst. Doch schon bald erfährt Paul an der Front, was Krieg in seiner ganzen Grausamkeit bedeutet. Während seine Schulkameraden einer nach dem anderen fallen, überlebt Paul vier Jahre im ständigen Angesicht des Todes und seine Kriegserlebnisse scheinen ein gutes Ende zu nehmen. Aber das Schicksal hat einen anderen Plan für ihn.

Sometimes, all it takes is the right motivation . . . Artist Rana Lassiter has sworn off men. After being hurt, she prefers painting passionate scenes of love on her canvas instead of the real thing. But when she meets Mount Pleasance's newest arrival, sexy and suave fireman Dallas Fontaine, she...

He may be homeless but Ben is making the best of things. He has a tent, he has access to food, and even has a couple friends. However, when a mysterious stranger appears, offering food and safety to him and his friend Connor, his instincts tell him not to trust it, instincts that are proven right when Connor is nowhere to be found the next day.