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Now a major motion picture: Love, Simon, starring Nick Robinson and Katherine Langford! William C. Morris Award Winner: Best Young Adult Debut of the Year * National Book Award Longlist "A remarkable gift of a novel."—Andrew Smith, author of Grasshopper Jungle "I am so in love with this book."—Nina LaCour, author of Hold Still "Feels timelessly, effortlessly now."—Tim Federle, author of Better Nate Than Ever "The best kind of love story."—Alex Sanchez, Lambda Award-winning author of Rainbow Boys and Boyfriends with Girlfriends Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he's pushed out—without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he's never met. Incredibly funny and poignant, this twenty-first-century coming-of-age, coming out story—wrapped in a geek romance—is a knockout of a debut novel by Becky Albertalli.

Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now, her marriage of thirty years is in crisis. At the same time, she is called on to try an urgent case: for religious reasons, a beautiful seventeen-year-old boy, Adam, is refusing the medical treatment that could save his life, and his devout parents share his wishes. Time is running out. Should the secular court overrule sincerely held faith? In the course of reaching a decision Fiona visits Adam in hospital - an encounter which stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful new emotions in the boy. Her judgment has momentous consequences for them both.

Pine es un soldado veterano de pasado oscuro que acepta incorporarse alservicio de inteligencia británico con la misión de introducirse en elmundo de Dicky Roper, un traficante internacional de armas que tiene sucentro de acción en una isla del Caribe. Tras varias peripecias que lellevarán a El Cairo, a Suiza y a Cornualles para mezclarse contraficantes menores, los servivios secretos secuestran al hijo de Ropersolo para que Pine lo salve y pueda acceder, al fin, a la isla privadadel traficante, quien no tardará demasiado en descubrir para quiéntrabaja realmente Pine.. Plenamente consciente del cambio de los centros de poder desde 1990, LeCarré ha creado un nuevo personaje similar al mítico Smiley paraprotagonizar esta novela, construida en flash back desde los recuerdosde Pine, en un escenario donde las rivalidades entre las grandespotencias han sido suplantadas por organizaciones criminales que sededican al contrabando de armas y al tráfico de drogas, y cuyos voracestentáculos llegan a todos los estamentos sociales y políticos...

Obra maestra de la literatura universal, Cumbres borrascosas narra la tragica historia de Catalina y Heathcliff, atrapados en un torbellino pasional que finalmente destruira sus vidas. Catalina, victima de una pasion salvaje y frustrada, no consigue superar las convenciones sociales y se precipita a la locura y la muerte. Heathcliff alimenta un odio insaciable e intenta apaciguar su dolor mediante una venganza implacable contra quienes impidieron la consumacion de su amor. Los sombrios y desolados parajes de Yorkshire constituyen un sugestivo decorado para la desgarradora belleza de esta historia inmortal.

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.