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Morgan Rowlands was the most powerful young blood witch for generations. Now, 20 years later, her daughter, 15-year-old Moira, knows there's more to her mother's past than she's been told. As she begins to put the puzzle together, she realizes that there are secrets that could destroy her world.
Jack Barron es el presentador de Bug Jack Barron, el programa de televisión en el que cien millones de espectadores tienen la oportunidad de denunciar la corrupción de políticos y empresarios. Desde el poder de la audiencia Barron no teme enfrentarse a nadie, y eso incluye a Benedict Howards, el millonario director de la Fundación para la Inmortalidad Humana, un instituto que ofrece a sus clientes la inmortalidad a través de la congelación criogénica. Pero el complejo científico de Howards ampara en secreto un negocio de millones de dólares que, de salir adelante la Ley de Utilidad de la Hibernación, se convertirá en un monopolio absoluto. Sin dudarlo ni un momento, Jack lanzará un ataque total contra la Fundación, desatando una devastadora lucha de dinero e influencia y descubriendo que los métodos que emplea su adversario para cumplir sus planes son más siniestros de lo que nadie podía imaginar. En esta lucha de gigantes donde aún queda lugar para el amor apasionado y la traición, sólo puede ganar uno, y ése será quien se quede con todo el poder.Con Bug Jack Barron, Norman Spinrad nos introduce en un mundo inquietantemente próximo a nuestra realidad, donde la política, el dinero y los medios de comunicación compiten sin piedad por la hegemonía de la opinión pública. Polémica, comprometida y de plena actualidad, Bug Jack Barron es una de las obras cumbre de la vanguardia estilística y especulativa sobre nuestro futuro más inmediato.
Twenty-two-year-old Satou, a college dropout and aficionado of anime porn, knows a little secret — or at least he thinks he does! Believe it or not, he has stumbled upon an incredible conspiracy created by the Japanese Broadcasting Company, N.H.K. But despite fighting the good fight, Satou has become an unemployed — a shut-in who has withdrawn from the world…
One day, he meets Misaki, a mysterious young girl who invites him to join her special “project.” Slowly, Satou comes out of his reclusive shell, and his hilarious journey begins, filled with mistaken identity, Lolita complexes — and an ultimate quest to create the greatest game ever!
From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life.
Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn’t bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything about the first night that he moved into his new, spare, and efficient condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. All he knows when he wakes up the next day in the hospital is that his head is sore and bandaged.
His effort to recover the moments of his life that have been stolen from him leads him on an unexpected detour. What he needs is someone who can do the remembering for him. What he gets is-well, something quite different.
We all know a Liam. In fact, there may be a little of Liam in each of us. Which is why Anne Tyler’s lovely novel resonates so deeply.
As distributed computer systems become more pervasive, so does the need for understanding how their operating systems are designed and implemented. Andrew S. Tanenbaum's Distributed Operating Systems fulfills this need. Representing a revised and greatly expanded Part II of the best-selling Modern Operating Systems, it covers the material from the original book, including communication, synchronization, processes, and file systems, and adds new material on distributed shared memory, real-time distributed systems, fault-tolerant distributed systems, and ATM networks. It also contains four detailed case studies: Amoeba, Mach, Chorus, and OSF/DCE. Tanenbaum's trademark writing provides readers with a thorough, concise treatment of distributed systems.
Disfrazado como el legendario proscrito la Sombra Carmesí, Luthien Bedwyr, el noble eriadorano, descarga los primeros golpes de importancia contra el rey invasor, iniciando así la liberación de su pueblo. Pero ahora su ejército rebelde de desarrapados elfos, enanos y humanos se enfrenta a la amenaza de una guerra a gran escala. Mientras el perverso rey hechicero Verderol reúne a su ejército de cíclopes y demonios, Luthien ha de afrontar los rigores del invierno en Eriador y ganar para la causa de la Sombra Carmesí más partidarios entre los orgullosos e individualistas habitantes de distintas ciudades. Se trata de una lucha desigual en la que el joven tiene casi todo en contra. Más de lo que él mismo se imagina.
Torn from their homeland, two Jewish sisters find refuge in Sweden.
It's the summer of 1939. Two Jewish sisters from Vienna -12-year-old Stephie Steiner and 8-year-old Nellie-are sent to Sweden to escape the Nazis. They expect to stay there six months, until their parents can flee to Amsterdam; then all four will go to America. But as the world war intensifies, the girls remain, each with her own host family, on a rugged island off the western coast of Sweden.
Nellie quickly settles in to her new surroundings. She’s happy with her foster family and soon favors the Swedish language over her native German. Not so for Stephie, who finds it hard to adapt; she feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who’s as cold and unforgiving as the island itself. Her main worry, though, is her parents-and whether she will ever see them again.
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