Between the Rivers

Major original Star Wars adventure set against the backdrop of the Clone Wars and telling the tale of Anakin Skywalker's rise to full Jedi Knight status. Somewhere between Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III, Anakin Skywalker graduates from Jedi Padawan (apprentice) to Jedi Knight status. This book tells how that happens. A planet that is a crucial communications centre is taken by the Separatists, and the Republic decides to back a guerrilla fighting group called Freedom's Sons in taking it back. A detachment of clone troopers led by Jedi Knight Nejaa Halcyon and Jedi...

Un viaje por los laberintos de la identidad, la degradación y el olvido. La novela cumbre de José Donoso.

Obra ganadora del Cavendish College Fiction Prize, El Manantial narra la denodada lucha de una mujer por salvar su matrimonio e iniciar una nueva vida. Los peores augurios se han hecho realidad. A causa del cambio climático, las precipitaciones han menguado de forma drástica en el Reino Unido y la escasez de agua empieza a deteriorar la vida cotidiana. En esta situación de desconcierto, Mark y Ruth Ardingly deciden marcharse del polvoriento Londres para instalarse a vivir en el campo, cada uno impelido por sus propias razones: Ruth busca una nueva oportunidad; Mark, un sitio donde...

Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity's heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers. After Earth was destroyed, mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien aggressors, the Architects, simply disappeared - and Idris and his kind became obsolete. Now, 50 years later, Idris and his crew have discovered something strange abandoned in space. It's clearly the work...