Юлія Шекет Libros

Adrienne Young regresa al mundo de Úžin con el intrigante relato de "Santo". Elias, desde pequeño, aprendió lo que sucede cuando no se presta atención a las viejas historias. Nueve años después, circulan relatos sobre el hijo de un pescador que puede sobrevivir a las tormentas más aterradoras, ganándose la reputación de un aventurero que disfruta de las travesías por las Úžiny. A solo unos días de cumplir el sueño de su difunto padre: tener su propio barco, una tripulación y una licencia comercial para convertirse en uno de los primeros comerciantes de Úžiny, su camino se cruza con el de una joven buscadora del Mar Sin Nombre, quien oculta más de un secreto. A medida que su atracción hacia ella crece, Elias se aleja de todo por lo que ha trabajado en los últimos tres años. Se encuentra al borde de repetir sus errores y de enfrentar la crueldad del mar. Para sobrevivir al destino que le espera, deberá decidir entre el amor de la chica que puede cambiar su mundo en ruinas o la fe sagrada que le ha dado su apodo: Santo.

At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril’s son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured Maeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another. It is this unshakable bond between them that both saves their lives and thwarts their futures. Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they’re together. Throughout their lives, they return to the well-worn story of what they’ve lost with humor and rage. But when at last they’re forced to confront the people who left them behind, the relationship between an indulged brother and his ever-protective sister is finally tested.

The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected--she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed. She is labeled an Iron Widow, a much-feared and much-silenced kind of female pilot who can sacrifice boys to power up Chrysalises instead.​ To tame her unnerving yet invaluable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest and most controversial male pilot in Huaxia​. But now that Zetian has had a taste of power, she will not cower so easily. She will miss no opportunity to leverage their combined might and infamy to survive attempt after attempt on her life, until she can figure out exactly why the pilot system works in its misogynist way--and stop more girls from being sacrificed