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No one has set foot on Earth in centuries -- until now. Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth's radioactive surface. Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents -- considered expendable by society -- are being sent on a dangerous mission: to recolonize the planet. It could be their second chance at life...or it could be a suicide mission. CLARKE was arrested for treason, though she's haunted by the memory of what she really did. WELLS, the chancellor's son, came to Earth for the girl he loves -- but will she ever forgive him? Reckless BELLAMY fought...

Michael Rivera Marín plantea a través de lo imaginario una semejanza con la realidad del momento actual. Nos conduce por Ciudad Babel al mundo de un grupo de jóvenes amigos, que se ven enfrentados a buscar la verdad en medio de la ceguera, sordera y abulia de quienes los rodean. Todo es raro en Ciudad Babel, pero a nadie parece afectarle. Solo ellos han descubierto que hay una verdad escondida. La trama se desarrolla con lucidez en un texto lleno de simbologías y signos que empujan a descubrir lo vedado. En la primera página nos encontramos con una cita de Las Rubaiatas de Omar Khayyam:...

The second and exciting episode of the trilogy. An unbreakable love, a terrible secret and a single possible salvation... The enemy besieges Fairy Oak and his power grows stronger every day. The old alliance between Light and Darkness weakens. However, a bond seems indissoluble, the one that unites Vanilla and Periwinkle, the twin witches, equal and opposite, Light and Dark of the same blood. On that lasso, the enemy will drop his axe. Will Periwinkle be able to resist the allure of Darkness? On it depends the salvation of magicians and sinmagicians.

She was little and quick and pretty. Her mother nicknamed her Colibri, Spanish for "Hummingbird". At age four she was kidnapped, torn from her parents on a crowded bus in Guatemala City. Since then, she's traveled with "Uncle," the ex-soldier and wandering beggar who has renamed her Rosa. Uncle has always told Rosa that he searched for his parents but had no success. There's almost no chance Rosa will ever find them--but Rosa still remembers and longs for them. When she was young, Uncle consulted fortune-tellers who told him that Rosa would bring him luck--a treasure big enough to last him...