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En 1868, en los barrios del placer exótico del Japón, donde el sexo está en venta y el único fruto prohibido es el amor, un soldado fugitivo está a punto de conocer a una bella cortesana. Hana tiene diecisiete años cuando su marido parte a la guerra, dejándola sola. Para salvar la vida, huye de su casa y se refugia en Yoshiwara, el famoso barrio del placer. Allí se ve forzada a formarse como cortesana. Yozo, un viajero, aventurero y brillante espadachín, regresa a Japón después de cuatro años en el Occidente victoriano. Viaja al norte para unirse a sus camaradas rebeldes, pero es...

IMAGINE SEEING THINGS OTHERS DON'T SEE, REAL THINGS THAT ARE FAR AWAY When Tessa's visions begin to haunt her, nobody believes her. After all, she's a young girl, and, clearly, her imagination is running wild. So why is the government so keen on taking her away from her family and paying for her education? BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR Tessa's remote viewing gift is an asset for the government, but her daily work is tedious. When she is asked to participate in what looks like an exciting mission, Tessa doesn't hesitate. But if she's such a critical asset to the service, why is her life in...

This novel features the reader as a protagonist. The narrator, a frustrated college professor who happens to be "our friend," addresses the reader constantly ("You, the one holding this book"). Set in the year 2025, the novel immerses the reader in such fictitious worlds as La Rmoras, a town in Baja California that appears in one of Urroz's previous works. The author presents comical anecdotes about Mexican history (Pancho Villa is almost murdered by Japanese cooks), current urban problems that continue in the future (poverty, corruption, and pollution), and the world of academia....

Liz Carlyle, agente del servicio de antiterrorismo del MI5, el servicio de espionaje británico, vuelve al trabajo tras recuperarse de las heridas que sufrió en la resolución de su último caso. Y a su regreso, uno de sus agentes encubiertos le pone tras la

Tragedy has struck His Majesty’s Aerial Corps, whose magnificent fleet of fighting dragons and their human captains valiantly defend England’s shores against the encroaching armies of Napoleon Bonaparte. An epidemic of unknown origin and no known cure is decimating the noble dragons’ ranks–forcing the hopelessly stricken into quarantine. Now only Temeraire and a pack of newly recruited dragons remain uninfected–and stand as the only means of an airborne defense against France’s ever bolder sorties.