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Will Lee, the courageous and uncompromising senator from Georgia, is back—now as President of the United States—in the fifth book in the New York Times bestselling series that began with Chiefs. When a prominent conservative politician is killed inside his lakeside cabin, authorities have no...

Returning from his time in the cities’s militia, Ajax comes to find out his village was destroyed and his mentor was injured due to the whims of a spoiled noble. He knows there is nothing that can be done, as he is now, but luckily for him a dungeon nearby offers the perfect opportunity to train before heading to the Capital. But once he gets there what will he find? A way to heal his mentor? Support to grow even stronger? Nobles who want to use him for their own ends? Maybe all of the above.

En la deprimida España de posguerra, un joven cuyos estudios de medicina se han visto truncados por la Guerra Civil se ve obligado a mentir para poder embarcarse en un barco con destino a México en calidad de médico. Allí conocerá a Eulalia, una joven con un secreto y cuya vida se verá irremediablemente entrelazada con la suya. Empar Fernández nos presenta en esta delicada novela una trama engarzada con precisión de orfebre y lirismo de poeta, un viaje de huida que simboliza la travesía de la vida que todos recorremos.

Washington, DC was in the tight grip of the Russians. They planned to use their base on the Potomac to launch an all-out attack on the warring states of America. But the Red Menace made one mistake - they thought Blade and the Warriors would go like lambs to the slaughter. Instead, they fought with a savagery that would drive the invaders back to the land of perpetual nuclear winter.

By the time Phil Chase is elected president, the world's climate is far on its way to irreversible change. Food scarcity, housing shortages, diminishing medical care, and vanishing species are just some of the consequences. The erratic winter the Washington, D.C., area is experiencing is another grim reminder of a global weather pattern gone haywire: bone-chilling cold one day, balmy weather the next. BONUS AUDIO: Includes an exclusive introduction by author Kim Stanley Robinson.

Казалось бы, что может случиться в самом сердце Даманской империи? И какие силы способны испортить учебу трем лучшим студентам Академии магов, колдунов и ведьмаков? Но то завистники прохода не дают, то шпионы наступают на пятки… да и нежити, как оказалось, в Дамане предостаточно! Когда же в борьбу вступают не только люди, но и нелюди, а за право обладания абсолютным магом сталкиваются интересы сразу нескольких рас, бедным студентам ничего не остается, как начать свою собственную игру, чтобы отстоять право на независимость.