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Brown, Pierce – Golden Son (Red Rising Trilogy, 2) –
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub

Golden Son is a 2015 science fiction novel by American author Pierce Brown, the second in his Red Rising trilogy.
The sequel to 2014’s Red Rising, Golden Son continues to follow lowborn Darrow’s plan to destroy the Society from (More) within.
Darrow, now one of the Peerless Scarred and in the service of his enemy, Nero au Augustus, is poised to gain control of his own fleet of warships, which he knows will be useful to the Sons of Ares and their plan to undermine the Society. During his final exam at the Academy, Darrow faces off against Cassius’s older brother, Karnus au Bellona, in an epic space battle. Darrow pulls a tactical move but underestimates Karnus and loses, resulting in several casualties. Karnus becomes praetor of his own fleet and all of Darrow’s plans have unraveled. Defeated, Darrow returns to his quarters at the Academy and set upon by Karnus and members of House Bellona, bent on revenge for Julian’s death. After Darrow suffers from this humiliation and the loss to Karnus, Augustus releases Darrow from his contract and advises he will be auctioned to another House at the Summit, a gathering of the Great Houses on Luna. Without the protection of Augustus, Darrow is vulnerable to Bellona family whose matriarch has tasked them to murder Darrow and bring back his heart.

Brown, Pierce – Red Rising (Red Rising Trilogy, 1) –
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub

Red Rising is a 2014 science fiction novel by American author Pierce Brown and the first of the eponymous trilogy. The novel, set on a future planet Mars, follows low born miner Darrow as he infiltrates the ranks of the elite (More) Golds.
It has been seven hundred years since mankind colonized other planets. The powerful ruling class of humans has installed a rigid and color-based social hierarchy, where the physically superior Golds at the top rule with an iron fist. Sixteen-year-old Darrow is a Red, a class of workers who toil beneath the surface of Mars mining helium-3 to terraform the planet and make it habitable. His wife Eo sings a forbidden folk tune in public as a protest against their virtual enslavement, and is arrested and hanged by Mars’ ArchGovernor, Nero au Augustus. Darrow cuts down and buries his wife’s body, a crime for which he is also hanged. However, Darrow awakes to find that he has been drugged and delivered into the hands of the Sons of Ares, a terrorist group of Reds who fight against the oppression of the “lowColors”. They have adopted the video of Eo’s song and execution as a rallying vehicle for their cause. Darrow joins the Sons when he learns that Mars was already terraformed centuries before and that the Reds have been tricked into perpetual servitude and subjugation.

Archer, Jeffrey – Be Careful What You Wish For (Clifton Chronicles, 4) –
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub

Be Careful What You Wish For, the fourth instalment in Jeffrey Archer’s The Clifton Chronicles, opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been involved in a (More) fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend Bruno?
When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton wants to replace him. But Don Pedro Martinez intends to install his puppet, the egregious Major Alex Fisher, in order to destroy the Barrington family firm just as the company plans to build its new luxury liner, the MV Buckingham.
Back in London, Harry and Emma’s adopted daughter wins a scholarship to the Slade Academy of Art where she falls in love with a fellow student, Clive Bingham, who asks her to marry him. Both families are delighted until Priscilla Bingham, Jessica’s future mother-in-law, has a visit from an old friend, Lady Virginia Fenwick, who drops her particular brand of poison into the wedding chalice.
Then, without warning, Cedric Hardcastle, a bluff Yorkshireman who no one has come across before, takes his place on the board of Barringtons. This causes an upheaval that none of them could have anticipated, and will change the lives of every member of the Clifton and Barrington families. Hardcastle’s first decision is who to support to become the next chairman of the board: Emma Clifton or Major Alex Fisher? And with that decision, the story takes yet another twist that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Archer, Jeffrey – Best Kept Secret (Clifton Chronicles, 3) –
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub

1945. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor’s deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington.
Harry (More) returns to America to promote his latest novel, while his beloved Emma goes in search of the little girl who was found abandoned in her father’s office on the night he was killed.When the General Election is called, Giles Barrington has to defend his seat in the House of Commons and is horrified to discover who the Conservatives select to stand against him. But it is Sebastian Clifton, Harry and Emma’s son, who ultimately influences his uncle’s fate.
In 1957, Sebastian wins a scholarship to Cambridge, and a new generation of the Clifton family march onto the page. After Sebastian is expelled from school, he unwittingly becomes caught up in an international art fraud involving a Rodin statue that is worth far more than the sum it raises at auction. Does he become a millionaire? Does he go to Cambridge? Is his life in danger?

Brown, Pierce – Amanecer rojo (Serie Amanecer rojo, 1) –
Language: Spanish, Novel – Format: ePub

Marte lleva siglos colonizado por la humanidad, que ha establecido un estricto sistema de castas condicionadas genéticamente para garantizar la explotación de las riquezas minerales y la supremacía de la clase gobernante. Los (More) Rojos son los mineros sometidos al poder de los Dorados, la clase superior de la sociedad, que dispone de todos los logros y adelantos de la civilización, mientras que la clase más baja sólo puede esperar una muerte lenta en los túneles de explotación o a manos de la policía.
Pero la rebelión se está incubando en el seno de esa sociedad. Darrow, un Rojo desesperado por el asesinato de su esposa, recibe una propuesta sorprendente: someterse a una serie de modificaciones para convertirse en un Dorado y participar en el brutal método de formación de la casta dirigente, que los convierte en máquinas de matar desalmadas, con el fin de dinamitar su poder desde dentro. El muchacho acepta y desde ese momento tendrá que luchar por sobrevivir en una sociedad sin moral y sin amigos.

Boyne, John – The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas –
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub

When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no (More) one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance.
But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different to his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences.

Boyne, John – La casa del propósito especial –
Language: Spanish, Novel – Format: ePub

Mientras acompaña a su esposa Zoya, que agoniza en un hospital de Londres, Georgi Danílovich Yáchmenev rememora la vida que han compartido durante sesenta y cinco años, una vida marcada por un gran secreto que nunca ha salido a la (More) luz. Los recuerdos se agolpan en una sucesión de imágenes imborrables, a partir de aquel lejano día en que Georgi abandonó su mísero pueblo natal para formar parte de la guardia personal de Alexis Romanov, el único hijo varón del zar Nicolás II.
Así, la fastuosa vida en el Palacio de Invierno, las intimidades de la familia imperial, los hechos que precedieron a la revolución bolchevique y, finalmente, la reclusión y posterior ejecución de los Romanov se entremezclan con el durísimo exilio en París y Londres en una hermosa historia de un amor improbable, al mismo tiempo un apasionante relato histórico y una conmovedora tragedia íntima.
Con un dominio absoluto del ritmo y el suspense, John Boyne mantiene vivo el interés hasta las últimas páginas, en las que un inesperado desenlace dejará, una vez más, una profunda huella en los lectores.
Tras asombrar al público y la crítica con El niño con el pijama de rayas John Boyne vuelve a demostrar un especial don narrativo para tratar grandes acontecimientos históricos desde perspectivas desconocidas, proyectando sobre lo ya sabido una luz nueva y sorprendente.

Lamb, Charles & Mary – Cuentos de Shakespeare –
Language: Spanish, Short Stories – Format: ePub

Escritos en pleno auge del movimiento romántico que caracterizó al siglo XIX, los Cuentos de Shakespeare son un clásico de la literatura anglosajona. Estas adaptaciones pretendían iniciar al lector en el universo shakespeariano (More) realzando toda la modernidad del autor.
Los hermanos Charles y Mary Lamb seleccionaron, entre comedias y tragedias, un total de veinte obras y las vertieron en prosa. Su intención era acercar a los jóvenes al complejo universo de pasiones humanas del genial dramaturgo y facilitar la lectura de las tramas desvelando el misterio de la gran literatura.
A la versión en español de esta obra, realizada por el afamado traductor Adan Kovacsics, añadimos un estudio preliminar que firma la escritora y catedrática de la Universidad de Essex, Marina Warner. Entre sus líneas de investigación destaca el estudio de la fábula como género literario.

Gaskell, Elizabeth – Mary Barton –
Language: Spanish, Novel – Format: ePub

Una trama llena de situaciones límite, una escritura cultivada y puntillosa y unos personajes descritos con simpatía y vigor realzan el valor de esta novela. Por sus obligaciones como mujer de un pastor unitario, Elizabeth Gaskell (More) hubo de conocer de primera mano las condiciones de vida de los obreros de Manchester y las consecuencias de la revolución Industrial. En un ambiente de tensión social, agravado por la pobreza y el desempleo, se inscribe la peripecia de una muchacha que coquetea con el apuesto hijo del patrono y desprecia al pretendiente que daría su vida por ella.

Pérez-Foncea, Juan Antonio – Invencibles –
Language: Spanish, Novel – Format: ePub

La empresa de la Gran Armada de Felipe II es uno de los episodios más deformados de la Historia de España. De hecho, no es posible comprenderlo a fondo sin antes conocer el marco en el que se desenvolvió: la Guerra Anglo-Española (More) (1585 a 1604), un conflicto que se saldó con la firma de un tratado de paz favorable a España.
Inglaterra se encargó desde el primer momento de ocultar sus enormes bajas de guerra, así como de magnificar el desgaste sufrido por España, que a la postre no resultó tan importante, y que desde luego resultó muy inferior al desastre de la llamada “Contra Armada”, muy poco conocida por el gran público, y que sin embargo significó la mayor derrota inglesa hasta esa fecha.
Esta novela recrea con amenidad aquellas apasionantes gestas de carabelas y galeones, ayudándonos a mejor conocer nuestra propia historia.