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"Todo, tal y como lo conoc�iamos, ha cambiado. El calor es agobiante se ha agrietado el cielo y la geograf�ia es otra. La humanidad, adem�as, se ha du­plicado. Entonces se desata una guerra global entre fuerzas igualadas cuya clave parecer�ian ser las ni�nas y ni�nos de los orfanatorios. En una de esas instituciones comienza la m�as arriesgada y madura de las novelas de Emiliano Monge. Tejer la oscuridad es una distop�ia que...

Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone, his friends are dead, he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting misanthrope. In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield or sneaks off to the mountains to fish and to pretend that things are the way they used to be. But when a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep...

En una sociedad vacia y marcada por las diferencias de clase, casi todos aceptan sin oposicion la perdida de libertades y las prohibiciones. Nadie se hace preguntas. Tras la Gran Pandemia, ya son muy pocos quienes se atreven a recordar que un mundo mejor fue posible. Julia Romero es una joven periodista que se niega a aceptar la version oficial de que su padre, un reportero que abandono repentinamente el oficio anos atras, se ha suicidado. Cuando...

For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon. But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition...

"In The City, government is god - in The Sector, anarchy rules. The Membrane stands between those worlds. Some cross it to The Sector, seeking the forbidden. Some cross it to The City, seeking a chance to see the sky. Some try to stay. Most die trying. In a world without paper, names are earned. Sector-born, Carbon has been forged by his life, and violence became his only credential. Knowing his life expectancy, Carbon risked everything for a chance...

"The best-selling author of The Debt to Pleasure and Capital returns with a chilling fable for our time. Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall--an enormous concrete barrier around its entire border. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate souls who are trapped amid the rising seas outside and attack constantly. Failure will result...

"Yan Lianke has secured his place as contemporary China's most essential and daring novelist, "with his superlative gifts for storytelling and penetrating eye for truth" (New York Times Book Review). His newest novel, The Day the Sun Died--winner of the Dream of the Red Chamber Award, one of the most prestigious honors for Chinese-language novels--is a haunting story of a town caught in a waking nightmare. In a little village nestled in the Balou...

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society's mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart...

The trees arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest. Buildings are destroyed. Broken bodies, still wrapped in tattered bed linen, hang among the twitching leaves. Adrien Thomas has never been much of a hero. But when he realizes that no help is coming, he ventures out into this unrecognizable world. Michelle, his wife, is across the sea in Ireland and he has no way of knowing whether...