Anita

A thirteen-year-old girl wakes up in a future where human emotions are extinct and people rely on personal-assistant robots to navigate daily life. Imagine a future in which many human emotions are extinct, and “emotional masseuses” try to help people recover those lost sensations. Individuals rely on personal-assistant robots to navigate daily life. Students are taught not to think but to employ search programs. Companies protect their intellectual property by erasing the memory of their employees. And then imagine what it would feel like to be a sweet, smart thirteen-year-old girl from...

Shanti's quest hangs on the edge of a knife... With Isaru's state critical, Shanti and the crew must leave him in the Hollow. They return to Colonia, this time with leverage that might see her parents saved. But things go from bad to worse when the Sanctum seeks retribution. Shanti finds herself a hunted woman. Former friends have turned to enemies as she flees to the Ruins. There, she hopes vainly that the Sphere Priests will know the true location of Anna's prophecy. They point her in the last place she expected -- the domed cities of the Shen Collective. When she meets with the...

Sociólogo de múltiples intereses, Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo recurre a los encantos del ensayo literario para dirigir su mirada a ciertos aspectos de la vida mexicana. Llenas de ironía y sentido del humor, Estampas de Liliput retrata aquello que son o quisiéramos que fueran la sociedad y la política mexicanas y examina algunos prejuicios institucionalizados, como la "interminable" Revolución mexicana o la omnipresencia del Estado.

Cuando Max Leighton, un apuesto comandante militar, llega gravemente herido a las soleadas playas de Cyrene, el mayor anhelo de Caro Evers es curar las cicatrices emocionales que la guerra ha dejado en ese hombre. Pero tras una noche de pasión, descubre a un sensual maestro cuyo simple contacto la conduce al más absoluto abandono. Max regresa a Londres y, hastiado de los deslumbrantes salones de baile, vuelve a Cyrene en busca de esa tentadora mujer a la que no ha podido olvidar... Sin embargo, una vez allí, descubre que Caro lleva una peligrosa doble vida: además de médica, es espía, y ...