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ONE MANS ESCAPE INTO HUMANKINDS GREATEST ADVENTURE… NASA astronaut Alex Shaw is past his prime, once a rising star he has in recent years been side-lined by new technology. Now almost irrelevant he is barely holding it together. Then along came JOVE. When life is discovered on Jupiter he is given one last chance to make history when he is chosen to lead the first human mission to the newly-discovered surface of the giant planet. But the expected, measured, scientific exploratory mission that the crew had prepared for collapses on first contact. Nothing could have prepared them for the...

«LA SUCESORA DE TOLSTÓI». Neue Zürcher Zeitung «Una epopeya georgiana fulminante» ( Kultur ) por la autora de La octava vida (para Brilka) , ganadora de los premios Anna Seghers, Literaturpreis «Text & Sprache» y Bertolt Brecht, con más de un millón de lectores y traducida a veintiocho idiomas El siglo xx llega a su fin y en la Georgia soviética los gritos de autodeterminación se oyen cada vez más alto. El destino de cuatro niñas radicalmente diferentes se ve unido por el patio que separa sus casas en un barrio de Tbilisi. Juntas, Dina, Nene, Ira y Keto, la narradora, navegan el ...

At the onset of his career with the FBI, Alex Cross is instructed to track down a band of kidnappers who are snatching people and possibly selling them into slavery, a case that is complicated by a terrible threat to Cross's own family and his frustrations with the Bureau's outdated methods.

On a dark and dangerous road, British adventurer Colonel Tyrone Rycroft saves the life of an alluring countess and is drawn into a web of intrigue and seduction in the treacherous imperial court.