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The next step – Mars.

Elma York, the Lady Astronaut, lands on the Red Planet, optimistic about preparing for the first true wave of inhabitants. The mission objective is more than just building the infrastructure of a habitat – they are trying to preserve the many cultures and nuances of life on Earth without importing the hate.

But from the moment she arrives, something is off.

Disturbing signs hint at a hidden disaster during the First Mars Expedition that never made it into the official transcript. As Elma and her crew try to investigate, they face a wall of silence and obfuscation. Their attempts to build a thriving Martian community grind to a halt.

What you don’t know CAN harm you. And if the truth doesn’t come to light, the ripple effects could leave humanity stranded on a dying Earth…]]> 400 Mary Robinette Kowal 1250237033 Francesc 0 currently-reading 4.21 2025
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]]> 15995872
為了保護阿良良木曆， 和神進行生命交易的少女──戰場原黑儀。 約定「忌日」將近的寒假， 她選擇的是最黑、最惡劣的手段……

〈物語〉承受重壓而軋轢、扭曲、哀號──這就是現代的�之悾」之悾」之悾� 青春，是為了和你相戀。]]> 292 NisiOisiN 4062837927 Francesc 0 4.59 2011
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]]> 12983247 Before ever visiting Japan to find a place to die, four centuries, indeed, before her failed suicide attempt, the legendary vampire Kissshot literally stepped foot on the land of the rising sun with an epic jump that ended a lonely sojourn in Antarctica. It was back in those days that the proud noble created her first thrall. It was then, too, that she first met the Darkness.
Having messed with a more recent past with her help, and returning to the present to reunite with two more characters that look like little girls but are actually his elders, Thrall No. 2 Araragi reclaims the mic only to cede it in large part to the bloodsucking demon who goes by “Shinobu” these days. Her story, though, may not even be the most poignant one told herein.]]> 292 NisiOisiN 4062837811 Francesc 0 3.97 2011
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It's a whole new moooooon.

One day soon, suddenly and without explanation, the moon as we know it is replaced with an orb of cheese with the exact same mass. Through the length of an entire lunar cycle, from new moon to a spectacular and possibly final solar eclipse, we follow multiple characters -- schoolkids and scientists, billionaires and workers, preachers and politicians -- as they confront the strange new world they live in, and the absurd, impossible moon that now hangs above all their lives.]]> 326 John Scalzi 0765389096 Francesc 0 to-read 3.86 2025
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阿良良木毕业后，神原骏河升上高中叁年级。独自留在直江津高中的她，听闻某个「恶魔大人」可以实现任何愿望……闭闭> 292 NisiOisiN 4062837714 Francesc 0 4.12 2011
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“変わらないものなどないというのなら――运命にも変わってもらうとしよう”
迷子の小学生?八九寺真宵(はちくじまよい)。阿良々木暦(あららぎこよみ)が彼女のために犯す、取り返しのつかない过ちとは――!?
&濒迟;物语&驳迟;史上最强の2人组(ツーマンセル)が“运命”という名の戦场に挑む!
これぞ現代の�之�! �之�! �之�!
君の影、探してまよう帰り道。闭闭> 356 NisiOisiN 4062837676 Francesc 0 4.25 2010
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Like KIZUMONOGATARI, which delved into our narrator’s disastrous spring break, Cat Tale (Black) is a prequel about another catastrophe, mentioned often yet never recounted even in a foregoing chapter dedicated to Miss H.: namely, the model student’s rampage over Golden Week, a string of holidays starting at the end of April.

Closing out what has come to be known as the “First Season” of the series, this episode of ’GATARI, as rich as ever in silly banter and poignant profundities, richer than usual in snide meta comments about the anime, will make you laugh and cry, or just put a grownup smile on your face, maybe, but is guaranteed to stay with you forever.]]> 290 NisiOisiN 1945054484 Francesc 0 4.01 2010
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In the first half of Fake Tale, lost soul Araragi helped resolve his bigger little sister Karen’s feverish run-in with a fraud. In this second half, he must attend to his littler little sister Tsukihi’s issues, but not before staging the Toothbrush Episode that the acclaimed anime adaptation’s viewers find quite memorable—whether they like to or not.

As fraught with ominousness as a dark empty street, as unexpectedly full of feeling?as an acid-tongued girlfriend, as sidesplittingly funny as a horny retired jock, and (maybe even) as educational as?college in the best MONOGATARI tradition, this volume also?introduces us to “ghostbusters” Yozuru Kagenui and Yotsugi?Ononoki.]]> 298 NisiOisiN 1942993994 Francesc 0 3.89 2009
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]]> 56269205 From holy cup comes holy light;
The faithful hand sets world aright.
And in the Seven Martyrs’ sight,
Mere man shall end this endless night.

It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity; building their eternal empire even as they tear down our own. Now, only a few tiny sparks of light endure in a sea of darkness.

Gabriel de León is a silversaint: a member of a holy brotherhood dedicated to defending realm and church from the creatures of the night. But even the Silver Order could not stem the tide once daylight failed us, and now, only Gabriel remains.

Imprisoned by the very monsters he vowed to destroy, the last silversaint is forced to tell his story. A story of legendary battles and forbidden love, of faith lost and friendships won, of the Wars of the Blood and the Forever King and the quest for humanity’s last remaining hope:

The Holy Grail.

From author Jay Kristoff comes Empire of the Vampire, the first illustrated volume of an astonishing new dark fantasy saga.]]> 739 Jay Kristoff 1250245281 Francesc 0 to-read 4.29 2021
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]]> 8935689
Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.]]> 467 Iain M. Banks 1857231384 Francesc 0 to-read 3.86 1987
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]]> 36696699
El Premio Clarín 2017 fue otorgado a esta novela mayor, una sólida y escalofriante pesadilla futurista en la que el canibalismo es legitimado en gran parte del mundo a causa de un virus que afecta a los animales y resulta mortal para los seres humanos. ?Qué resto de humanismo puede caber cuando los cuerpos de los muertos son cremados para evitar su consumo? ?En qué lugar queda el vínculo con el otro si, de verdad, somos lo que comemos? En esta despiadada distopía -tan brutal como sutil, tan alegórica como realista-, Agustina Bazterrica inspira, con el poder explosivo de la ficción, sensaciones y debates de suma actualidad.]]> 249 Agustina Bazterrica 9870737943 Francesc 0 to-read 3.98 2017
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Karen is the brawn and Tsukihi the brains of a vigilantism that the pair sees not merely as defending justice but as justice itself. They can’t encounter a harmful fad without trying to hunt down a specific source that had a motive for spreading it. In their big brother’s humble opinion, there is something fake and precarious about it all.

In this first of two parts, the immediate sequel to the legendary BAKEMONOGATARI plunges us into the middle of summer vacation in the mostly peaceful rural town where the series is set. As our hero and narrator can say from experience, however, teenagers with too much free time on their hands can get stung pretty badly.]]> 306 NisiOisiN 1942993986 Francesc 0 3.93 2008
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]]> 25316540
Koyomi Araragi, who prefers to avoid having friends because they'd lower his “intensity as a human," is naturally skeptical. Yet it is to him that the bloodsucking demon, a concept “dated twice over," beckons on the first day of spring break as he makes his way home with a fresh loot of morally compromising periodicals.

Always disarmingly candid, often hilariously playful, and sometimes devastatingly moving, KIZUMONOGATARI: Wound Tale is the perfect gateway into the world of author NISIOISIN, the bestselling young novelist in Japan today. The prequel to BAKEMONOGATARI (“Monster Tale"), this is where the legendary MONOGATARI series, whose anime adaptations have enjoyed international popularity and critical acclaim, begins. A theatrical feature based on KIZUMONOGATARI is due to be released in Japan in January 2016.]]> 354 NisiOisiN 1941220975 Francesc 0 4.26 2008
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]]> 30619489
Loser extraordinaire Koyomi Araragi owes her his post of class vice president and a more significant debt of gratitude for her unstinting support during the darkest spring break of his life. All of it has blinded him to the possibility that his saintly classmate’s family situation might be no less adverse than that of his other lady friends.

Thus, at last, we face Hanekawa’s unlikely aberration in “Tsubasa Cat”—the concluding part of the legendary novel that captured the sensibilities of a new generation in the aught years and spawned an animated series that has won international popularity and acclaim—before the story continues with a Fake Tale…]]> 226 NisiOisiN 1942993900 Francesc 0 4.23 2006
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]]> 30221918 Bakemono, literally "altered thing," which translates as "monster." Monogatari, literally "thing narrated," which translates as "tale." Combined into a neologism by he of the reversible nom de plume, they yield BAKEMONOGATARI, the monster tale that kicked off a series whose anime adaptations have enjoyed international popularity and critical acclaim.
A self-described loser, Koyomi Araragi is struggling at a prep school that he should never have gotten into. He has all but quit caring, but as a senior, he faces the chilling scenario of not being able to graduate. It's time to cram, but the supernatural aberrations that keep on popping up in his provincial town won't let him be.
Previously, our hero turned into a vampire and back, gained an acid-tongued girlfriend, and couldn't find his way home thanks to a lost child. In this second of three parts, which introduces Suruga Kanbaru and Nadeko Sengoku, he becomes embroiled in a case that riffs on a classic English story from 1902.]]> 323 NisiOisiN 1942993897 Francesc 0 4.16 2006
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]]> 59971 80 Frank Miller 0785108904 Francesc 4 3.76
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]]> 7165300
When Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he's willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart.]]> 629 Brent Weeks 0316075558 Francesc 0 to-read 4.23 2010
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]]> 203578847 The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive―the iconic epic fantasy masterpiece that has sold more than 10 million copies, from acclaimed bestselling author Brandon Sanderson.

Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future of Roshar on the line. The Knights Radiant have only ten days to prepare―and the sudden ascension of the crafty and ruthless Taravangian to take Odium’s place has thrown everything into disarray.

Desperate fighting continues simultaneously worldwide―Adolin in Azimir, Sigzil and Venli at the Shattered Plains, and Jasnah at Thaylen City. The former assassin, Szeth, must cleanse his homeland of Shinovar from the dark influence of the Unmade. He is accompanied by Kaladin, who faces a new battle helping Szeth fight his own demons . . . and who must do the same for the insane Herald of the Almighty, Ishar.

At the same time, Shallan, Renarin, and Rlain work to unravel the mystery behind the Unmade Ba-Ado-Mishram and her involvement in the enslavement of the singer race and in the ancient Knights Radiants killing their spren. And Dalinar and Navani seek an edge against Odium’s champion that can be found only in the Spiritual Realm, where memory and possibility combine in chaos. The fate of the entire Cosmere hangs in the balance.]]> 1344 Brandon Sanderson 1250319188 Francesc 4
No le pongo 5 porque es demasiado largo y creo que no hacía falta, hay alguna parte un poco tosca, pero vaya, me ha gustado mucho mucho

La espera para el 6o va a ser un drama ]]> 4.36 2024
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Nice, need more

No le pongo 5 porque es demasiado largo y creo que no hacía falta, hay alguna parte un poco tosca, pero vaya, me ha gustado mucho mucho

La espera para el 6o va a ser un drama
]]> 1695319 KANE - The Mystic Swordsman ranges Earth and Time to confront the demons of darkness

Where once the mighty Kane has passed, no one who lives forgets. Now, down the trail of past battles, Kane travels again. To the ruins of a devastated city peopled only with half-men and the waif they call their queen. To the half-burnt tavern where a woman Kane wronged long ago holds his child in keeping for the Devil. To the cave kingdom of the giants where glory and its aftermath await discovery. To the house of death itself where Kane retrieves a woman in love.

The past, the future, the present - all these are one for Kane as he travels through the centuries.

Cover illustration: Chris Achilleos]]> 286 Karl Edward Wagner 0340234725 Francesc 0 to-read 4.26 1978
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Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.]]> 319 Glen Cook Francesc 0 to-read 3.94 1984
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So begins a tale of mysterious maladies that are supernatural in origin yet deeply revealing of the human psyche, a set of case files as given to unexpected feeling as it is to irreverent humor. So begins the legendary novel that kicked off the MONOGATARI series, whose anime adaptations have enjoyed international popularity and critical acclaim.

This first of three parts introduces Senjogahara and Hachikuji, and fans of the blockbuster prequel KIZUMONOGATARI will be delighted to meet their favorite crazies again: the weirdly reliable narrator Araragi, class president among class presidents Hanekawa, shady problem-solver Oshino, and a certain pale, blonde former vampire.]]> 237 NisiOisiN 1942993889 Francesc 0 4.11 2006
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Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters—strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis—survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.]]> 496 Min Jin Lee Francesc 4 4.35 2017
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]]> 52694527 Set in a brand-new, Norse-inspired world, and packed with myth, magic and bloody vengeance, The Shadow of the Gods begins an epic new fantasy saga from bestselling author John Gwynne.

After the gods warred and drove themselves to extinction, the cataclysm of their fall shattered the land of Vigri?.

Now a new world is rising, where power-hungry jarls feud and monsters stalk the woods and mountains. A world where the bones of the dead gods still hold great power for those brave - or desperate - enough to seek them out.

Now, as whispers of war echo across the mountains and fjords, fate follows in the footsteps of three people: a huntress on a dangerous quest, a noblewoman who has rejected privilege in pursuit of battle fame, and a thrall who seeks vengeance among the famed mercenaries known as the Bloodsworn.

All three will shape the fate of the world as it once more falls under the shadow of the gods . . .]]> 480 John Gwynne 0356514188 Francesc 0 to-read 4.19 2021
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Esta clásica obra maestra de sátira ha entretenido e iluminado a lectores alrededor del mundo con su irónica y astuta representación de la vida y las debilidades humanas desde el punto de vista de Escrutopo, el asistente de alto rango de "Nuestro Padre de Abajo." En este divertidísimo, muy serio y excepcionalmente original libro, C. S. Lewis comparte con nosotros la correspondencia entre el viejo diablo y su sobrino Orugario, un novato demonio encargado de asegurarse de la condenación de un joven hombre.

Cartas del Diablo a Su Sobrino es la historia más atractiva acerca de la tentación -- y el triunfo sobre ella -- jamás escrita.]]> 144 C.S. Lewis 006114004X Francesc 0 to-read 4.14 1942
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]]> 59520392 144 Layla Martínez 8412434919 Francesc 0 to-read 4.18 2021
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]]> 61903 253 Lois McMaster Bujold 0743468422 Francesc 0 to-read 4.14 1986
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]]> 51566791
En algunas culturas orientales el blanco es el color del luto. Quizá las cosas blancas que nos rodean preservan nuestro dolor, contienen una angustia que no sabemos ver a primera vista. Kang se adentra en una delicada indagación literaria y busca, a través de la descripción de cosas cotidianas, el mal que siempre ha sentido por la ausencia de una hermana a quien no conoció.


A partir de la redacción aparentemente banal de una lista de cosas blancas, Han Kang hace un conmovedor ejercicio de introspección, buscando el epicentro de su dolor existencial.

?Blancoes profundo y precioso, cada imagen es poderosa y certera. Han Kang es un genio?. Lisa McInerney

?Emocionalmente devastador y profundo?. Katie Kitamura

?Una tranquila y absorbente contemplación de la vida, de la muerte, y del impacto existencial que nos dejan aquellos que se van antes que nosotros?. Eimear McBride]]> 160 Han Kang 8416738513 Francesc 0 to-read 3.86 2016
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]]> 45100
For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy unjustly denied her--a legacy she will risk anything to reclaim. For Althea's young nephew Wintrow, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard ship, Vivacia is a life sentence.

But the fate of the Vestrit family--and the ship--may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider. The ruthless pirate Kennit seeks a way to seize power over all the denizens of the Pirate Isles...and the first step of his plan requires him to capture his own liveship and bend it to his will....


From the Paperback edition.]]> 880 Robin Hobb 000649885X Francesc 0 to-read 4.20 1998
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Time heals old wounds and dissipates old illusions as a new generation of Caskeys ascends to power.

But even unimaginable wealth can’t protect the Caskey family from the sins of its past or the judgment that is soon coming due.

An unexpected union brings joy and tragedy in equal measure …

Secrets long forgotten bubble to the surface of the dark river, and scrabble at the door of an abandoned room …

And a tragic encounter in the swamp conjures a storm the likes of which Perdido hasn’t seen since the great flood of 1919 …]]> 190 Michael McDowell 0380827921 Francesc 3 Llàstima que no aprofundeix més en lo sobrenatural ]]> 4.13 1983
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average rating: 4.13
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Tot i que comen?a molt fluixa durant els llibres te moments molt guais, he quedat prou satisfet.
Llàstima que no aprofundeix més en lo sobrenatural
]]> 73074553 1635 Robert E. Howard 8418878517 Francesc 0 currently-reading 4.00
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]]> 71448863 Una scoperta sorprendente e miracolosa – eccetto che per una persona – distribuirà la ricchezza anche in città. Ma sarà sufficiente questa improvvisa fortuna, ora che la natura reclama il suo debito?]]> 186 Michael McDowell Francesc 3 3.95 1983
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]]> 64998366 Anche per il mondo si apre una nuova èra, portatrice però di pericolo e distruzione: il conflitto in Europa farà affluire sangue nuovo a Perdido. Nella proprietà dei Caskey, gli uomini vanno e vengono. Come marionette che non sanno di essere appese a un filo.]]> 184 Michael McDowell Francesc 3 3.98 1983
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author: Michael McDowell
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average rating: 4.14
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]]> 202795005 272 Michael McDowell 8419654914 Francesc 2 3.71 1983
author: Michael McDowell
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Una saga matriarcal. Mujeres poderosas que luchan por el dominio durante generaciones. Una atmósfera única para una lectura adictiva. Un retrato realista con toques sobrenaturales. Escritura magistral y visual en un ambicioso proyecto entre el pulp y HBO.

?Michael Mcdowell: mi amigo, mi maestro. Fascinante, aterrador, simplemente genial. El mejor de todos nosotros.? STEPHEN KING

?Una sabia combinación entre Dumas y Lovecraft. Un cruce entre Stephen King y Gabriel García Márquez. Despiadadamente adictivo.? ROBERT SHAPLEN, THE NEW YORK TIMES

Las gélidas y oscuras aguas del río Blackwater inundan Perdido, un peque?o pueblo al sur de Alabama. Allí, los Caskey, un gran clan de ricos terratenientes, intentan hacer frente a los da?os causados por la riada. Liderados por Mary-Love, la incontestable matriarca, y ?scar, su obediente hijo, los Caskey trabajan por recomponerse y salvaguardar su fortuna. Pero no cuentan con la aparición de la misteriosa Elinor Dammert. Una joven hermosa pero parca en palabras con un único lente: acercarse a los Caskey cueste lo que cueste.]]> 260 Michael McDowell 8419654892 Francesc 2 De moment OK i prou, a veure com segueix.
Es tan curt que es llegeix sense voler]]> 3.68 1983
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average rating: 3.68
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molt introductori, amb prou feines passa res.
De moment OK i prou, a veure com segueix.
Es tan curt que es llegeix sense voler
]]> 272892 88 Gabriel García Márquez 8472230082 Francesc 0 3.71 1970
author: Gabriel García Márquez
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average rating: 3.71
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]]> 34002132 Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance.

Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified.

Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. Unless all the nations of Roshar can put aside Dalinar's blood-soaked past and stand together--and unless Dalinar himself can confront that past--even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent the end of civilization.]]> 1248 Brandon Sanderson Francesc 3 Tota la part final es una passada, però abans hi ha unes 500 pàgines que són un bon TOSTONACO...]]> 4.60 2017
author: Brandon Sanderson
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average rating: 4.60
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rating: 3
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Estic entre 3 i 4
Tota la part final es una passada, però abans hi ha unes 500 pàgines que són un bon TOSTONACO...
]]> 49021976 The eagerly awaited sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling Oathbringer, from epic fantasy author Brandon Sanderson

After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. Neither side has gained an advantage, and the threat of a betrayal by Dalinar's crafty ally Taravangian looms over every strategic move.

Now, as new technological discoveries by Navani Kholin's scholars begin to change the face of the war, the enemy prepares a bold and dangerous operation. The arms race that follows will challenge the very core of the Radiant ideals, and potentially reveal the secrets of the ancient tower that was once the heart of their strength.

At the same time that Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with his changing role within the Knights Radiant, his Windrunners face their own problem: As more and more deadly enemy Fused awaken to wage war, no more honorspren are willing to bond with humans to increase the number of Radiants. Adolin and Shallan must lead the coalition’s envoy to the honorspren stronghold of Lasting Integrity and either convince the spren to join the cause against the evil god Odium, or personally face the storm of failure.]]> 1232 Brandon Sanderson 0765326388 Francesc 4 4.58 2020
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average rating: 4.58
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rating: 4
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]]> 60850767
Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to a potential new paradise. Generations later, this fragile colony has managed to survive, eking out a hardy existence. Yet life is tough, and much technological knowledge has been lost.

Then strangers appear. They possess unparalleled knowledge and thrilling technology – and they've arrived from another world to help humanity’s colonies. But not all is as it seems, and the price of the strangers' help may be the colony itself.

Children of Memory by Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky is a far-reaching space opera spanning generations, species and galaxies.]]> 486 Adrian Tchaikovsky 1529087201 Francesc 0 to-read 3.97 2022
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]]> 40376072
Long ago, Earth's terraforming program sent ships out to build new homes for humanity among the stars and made an unexpected discovery: a planet with life. But the scientists were unaware that the alien ecosystem was more developed than the primitive life forms originally discovered.

Now, thousands of years later, the Portiids and their humans have sent an exploration vessel following fragmentary radio signals. They discover a system in crisis, warring factions trying to recover from an apocalyptic catastrophe arising from what the early terraformers awoke all those years before.]]> 597 Adrian Tchaikovsky Francesc 0 to-read 4.02 2019
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]]> 18505792
A groundbreaking work as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out.

Includes bonus features: a meet with Neil Gaiman, a reading group guide, and an interview with Gaiman.]]> 195 Neil Gaiman 0062255665 Francesc 0 to-read 4.06 2013
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average rating: 4.06
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]]> 36510196
The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-- and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.

Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity's resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They don't want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You'll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. You'll serve two years at the front. And if you survive, you'll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.

John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine--and what he will become is far stranger.]]> 318 John Scalzi Francesc 0 4.25 2005
author: John Scalzi
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]]> 212276037 A brand-new epic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Joe Abercrombie, featuring a notorious band of anti-heroes on a delightfully bloody and raucous journey

Holy work sometimes requires unholy deeds.

Brother Diaz has been summoned to the Sacred City, where he is certain a commendation and grand holy assignment awaits him. But his new flock is made up of unrepentant murderers, practitioners of ghastly magic, and outright monsters. The mission he is tasked with will require bloody measures from them all in order to achieve its righteous ends.

Elves lurk at our borders and hunger for our flesh, while greedy princes care for nothing but their own ambitions and comfort. With a hellish journey before him, it's a good thing Brother Diaz has the devils on his side]]> 560 Joe Abercrombie 125088005X Francesc 0 to-read 4.43 2025
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average rating: 4.43
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]]> 60484024
The Carryx—part empire, part hive—have waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy. Now, they are facing a great and deathless enemy. The key to their survival may rest with the humans of Anjiin.

Caught up in academic intrigue and affairs of the heart, Dafyd Alkhor is pleased just to be an assistant to a brilliant scientist and his celebrated research team. Then the Carryx ships descend, decimating the human population and taking the best and brightest of Anjiin society away to serve on the Carryx homeworld, and Dafyd is swept along with them.

They are dropped in the middle of a struggle they barely understand, set in a competition against the other captive species with extinction as the price of failure. Only Dafyd and a handful of his companions see past the Darwinian contest to the deeper game that they must play to survive: learning to understand—and manipulate—the Carryx themselves.

With a noble but suicidal human rebellion on one hand and strange and murderous enemies on the other, the team pays a terrible price to become the trusted servants of their new rulers.

Dafyd Alkhor is a simple man swept up in events that are beyond his control and more vast than his imagination. He will become the champion of humanity and its betrayer, the most hated man in history and the guardian of his people.

This is where his story begins.]]> 15 James S.A. Corey 1501995847 Francesc 0 to-read 4.05 2024
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average rating: 4.05
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]]> 13129925
To unravel the mystery, three employees volunteer to work a nine-hour dusk-till-dawn shift. In the dead of the night, they’ll patrol the empty showroom floor, investigate strange sights and sounds, and encounter horrors that defy the imagination.

A traditional haunted house story in a thoroughly contemporary setting, Horrorst?r is designed to retain its luster and natural appearance for a lifetime of use. Pleasingly proportioned with generous French flaps and a softcover binding, Horrorst?r delivers the psychological terror you need in the elegant package you deserve.

Designed by Andie Reid, cover photography by Christine Ferrara.]]> 248 Grady Hendrix 1594745269 Francesc 0 to-read 3.64 2014
author: Grady Hendrix
name: Francesc
average rating: 3.64
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]]> 50027 Discover the origin story of one of the greatest heroes of the Realms—Drizzt Do’Urden—in this thrilling first installment of the Dark Elf Trilogy

Drow ranger Drizzt Do’Urden, first introduced in The Icewind Dale Trilogy, quickly became one of the fantasy genre’s standout characters. With Homeland, Salvatore pulls back the curtain to reveal the startling tale of how this hero came to be—how this one lone drow walked out of the shadowy depths of the Underdark; how he left behind an evil society and a family that wanted him dead.

As the third son of Mother Malice and weaponmaster Zaknafein, Drizzt Do’Urden is meant to be sacrificed to Lolth, the evil Spider Queen, per drow tradition. But with the unexpected death of his older brother, young Drizzt is spared—and, as a result, further ostracized by his family. As Drizzt grows older, developing his swordsmanship skills and studying at the Academy, he begins to realize that his idea of good and evil does not match up with those of his fellow drow. Can Drizzt stay true to himself in a such an unforgiving, unprincipled world?

Homeland is the first book in the Dark Elf Trilogy and the Legend of Drizzt series.]]> 343 R.A. Salvatore Francesc 0 4.26 1990
author: R.A. Salvatore
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average rating: 4.26
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]]> 61885029
Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan.

Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie.

But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits. Jake had enemies, and now they're coming after Charlie. His uncle might have been a stand-up, old-fashioned kind of villain, but these are the real thing: rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital.

It's up to Charlie to win the war his uncle started against a league of supervillains. But with unionized dolphins, hyperintelligent talking spy cats, and a terrifying henchperson at his side, going bad is starting to look pretty good.

In a dog-eat-dog world...be a cat.]]> 264 John Scalzi 0765389223 Francesc 0 to-read 4.09 2023
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average rating: 4.09
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]]> 61885085 "You idiot. I'm the demon."
Kai's having a long day in Martha Wells' Witch King...

After being murdered, his consciousness dormant and unaware of the passing of time while confined in an elaborate water trap, Kai wakes to find a lesser mage attempting to harness Kai’s magic to his own advantage. That was never going to go well.

But why was Kai imprisoned in the first place? What has changed in the world since his assassination? And why does the Rising World Coalition appear to be growing in influence?

Kai will need to pull his allies close and draw on all his pain magic if he is to answer even the least of these questions.

He’s not going to like the answers.]]> 415 Martha Wells 1250826799 Francesc 0 to-read 3.60 2023
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]]> 33662956
Para descubrir eso y más, aquí está Tan poca vida, una historia que recorre más de tres décadas de amistad en la vida de cuatro hombres que crecen juntos en Manhattan. Cuatro hombres que tienen que sobrevivir al fracaso y al éxito y que, a lo largo de los a?os, aprenden a sobreponerse a las crisis económicas, sociales y emocionales. Cuatro hombres que comparten una idea muy peculiar de la intimidad, una manera de estar juntos hecha de pocas palabras y muchos gestos. Cuatro hombres cuya relación la autora utiliza para realizar una minuciosa indagación de los límites de la naturaleza humana.]]> 1008 Hanya Yanagihara 6073148127 Francesc 0 to-read 4.36 2015
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]]> 50370906 192 Sybille Titeux de la Croix Francesc 1 Y como biografía también...]]> 4.15 2020
author: Sybille Titeux de la Croix
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average rating: 4.15
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Como cómic fatal.
Y como biografía también...
]]> 25686563 1248 Brandon Sanderson 8466657541 Francesc 4 4.82 2014
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average rating: 4.82
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No le pongo 5 por el trozo que se me hizo pesado, pero
]]> 7235533 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, book one of The Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.

Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.

It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.

One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.

Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.

Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar's niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.

The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.

Speak again the ancient oaths:

Life before death.
Strength before weakness.
Journey before Destination.

and return to men the Shards they once bore.

The Knights Radiant must stand again.]]> 1007 Brandon Sanderson 0765326353 Francesc 4 4.66 2010
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average rating: 4.66
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]]> 59414094 Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—and your family—can haunt you like nothing else.

When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.

Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success. Unfortunately, she’ll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it’ll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market.

But some houses don’t want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them…]]> 419 Grady Hendrix 0593201264 Francesc 4 3.65 2023
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average rating: 3.65
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Si no estáis leyendo Grady Hendrix you're missing out
]]> 29632242 750 Junji Ito 1421590565 Francesc 3 4.14 1987
author: Junji Ito
name: Francesc
average rating: 4.14
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rating: 3
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]]> 23168809 Hugo-award winning author, John Scalzi returns to his best-selling Old Man's War universe with the direct sequel to 2013’s The Human Division

Humans expanded into space…only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Thus was the Colonial Union formed, to help protect us from a hostile universe. The Colonial Union used the Earth and its excess population for colonists and soldiers. It was a good arrangement...for the Colonial Union. Then the Earth said: no more.
　
Now the Colonial Union is living on borrowed time—a couple of decades at most, before the ranks of the Colonial Defense Forces are depleted and the struggling human colonies are vulnerable to the alien species who have been waiting for the first sign of weakness, to drive humanity to ruin. And there’s another problem: A group, lurking in the darkness of space, playing human and alien against each other—and against their own kind —for their own unknown reasons.
　
In this collapsing universe, CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson and the Colonial Union diplomats he works with race against the clock to discover who is behind attacks on the Union and on alien races, to seek peace with a suspicious, angry Earth, and keep humanity’s union intact...or else risk oblivion, and extinction—and the end of all things.]]> 380 John Scalzi 0765376075 Francesc 2 El final bien
El medio meh]]> 3.97 2015
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La primera història muy bien
El final bien
El medio meh
]]> 50627133
Estas conversaciones sobre la escritura están divididas en tres bloques temáticos: el primero sobre la narrativa o la ficción (el oficio de escribir, la estética del texto, la filosofía que se filtra en la ficción de obras mayores como La mano izquierda de la oscuridad o las novelas del ciclo de Terramar), el segundo sobre la poesía y el componente lírico de la prosa de Le Guin y, finalmente, sobre su acercamiento productivo y caudaloso al género del ensayo y la crítica literaria. Cada forma de escribir tiene su método, su oficio y su misterio, y de manera tan amena como cándida la autora comparte su visión sobre ese fuego invisible que mantiene la imaginación siempre activa. Además, el libro se convierte en un breviario de observaciones lúcidas sobre temas tan diversos como las guerras culturales, el papel de la mujer en la literatura, la presencia de la naturaleza en las historias de Le Guin, y una sólida defensa del género fantástico. Todo ello hace que este testamento del pensamiento de Le Guin funcione también como un valioso manual de inspiración y motivación para una vida atenta y creativa.]]> 104 Ursula K. Le Guin 8412073843 Francesc 0 to-read 4.31 2018
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]]> 15698479 The Last Colony, John Scalzi tells the story of the fight to maintain the unity of the human race.

The people of Earth now know that the human Colonial Union has kept them ignorant of the dangerous universe around them. For generations the CU had defended humanity against hostile aliens, deliberately keeping Earth an ignorant backwater and a source of military recruits. Now the CU's secrets are known to all. Other alien races have come on the scene and formed a new alliance—an alliance against the Colonial Union. And they've invited the people of Earth to join them. For a shaken and betrayed Earth, the choice isn't obvious or easy.

Against such possibilities, managing the survival of the Colonial Union won't be easy, either. It will take diplomatic finesse, political cunning…and a brilliant "B Team," centered on the resourceful Lieutenant Harry Wilson, that can be deployed to deal with the unpredictable and unexpected things the universe throws at you when you're struggling to preserve the unity of the human race.

Being published online from January to April 2013 as a three-month digital serial, The Human Division will appear as a full-length novel of the Old Man's War universe, plus—for the first time in print—the first tale of Lieutenant Harry Wilson, and a coda that wasn't part of the digital serialization.]]> 431 John Scalzi 0765333511 Francesc 2 Tot i així las últimas historias chef Kiss]]> 4.06 2013
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average rating: 4.06
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Demasiado irregular y el bajón de que no salgan perry/Sagan /Zoe.
Tot i així las últimas historias chef Kiss
]]> 60187648
Charlie solo sabe que Matt Rizzo, su padre, un agradable intelectual que escribe poemas épicos en braille, perdió la vista en un accidente de caza. Ahora bien, esa no es la verdad y Charlie no lo descubre hasta que no se encuentra ante la posibilidad de entrar en la cárcel por culpa de las malas compa?ías de juventud. Matt Rizzo se quedó ciego por un disparo de escopeta en la cara, sí, pero se lo llevó cuando participaba en un robo a mano armada.

Poco después de que lo dejaran ciego y tras haber perdido toda esperanza, Matt entró en la Prisión de Stateville. Sin embargo, contra todo pronóstico, uno de los más destacados asesinos de los Estados Unidos, Nathan Leopold hijo, del infame dúo Leopold y Loeb, no solo le salvó la vida, sino que salvó su alma.

De manos de David L. Carlson y Landis Blair nos llega la increíble historia real de un padre y de un hijo y de un destacable viaje que parte de la desesperación y no se detiene hasta alcanzar la iluminación.

PREMIO FAUVE D'OR EN EL FESTIVAL DE ANGOULEME 2021.]]> 464 David L. Carlson 849174925X Francesc 4 4.16 2015
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name: Francesc
average rating: 4.16
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rating: 4
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I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to history. Friend. Daughter. Human. Seventeen years old.

Everyone on Earth knows the tale I am part of. But you don't know my tale: How I did what I did — how I did what I had to do — not just to stay alive but to keep you alive, too. All of you. I'm going to tell it to you now, the only way I know how: not straight but true, the whole thing, to try make you feel what I felt: the joy and terror and uncertainty, panic and wonder, despair and hope. Everything that happened, bringing us to Earth, and Earth out of its captivity. All through my eyes.

It's a story you know. But you don't know it all.]]> 335 John Scalzi 0765316986 Francesc 4 3.73 2008
author: John Scalzi
name: Francesc
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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Irreverente y muy rockera, La Armada Invencible toca la alrevesada biografía de una hermandad de músicos, jóvenes promesas que nunca se cumplieron y que, ahora, padecen el peso de las decisiones que los llevaron a una vida rutinaria y con olor a derrota.]]> 345 Antonio Ortu?o 6070790421 Francesc 0 to-read 3.86
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]]> 88071
That is, until his and Jane's past reaches out to bring them back into the game--as leaders of a new human colony, to be peopled by settlers from all the major human worlds, for a deep political purpose that will put Perry and Sagan back in the thick of interstellar politics, betrayal, and war.]]> 320 John Scalzi 0765316978 Francesc 4 4.06 2007
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name: Francesc
average rating: 4.06
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rating: 4
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The universe is a dangerous place for humanity—and it's about to become far more dangerous. Three races that humans have clashed with before have allied to halt our expansion into space. Their linchpin: the turncoat military scientist Charles Boutin, who knows the CDF’s biggest military secrets. To prevail, the CDF must find out why Boutin did what he did.

Jared Dirac is the only human who can provide answers -- a superhuman hybrid, created from Boutin's DNA, Jared’s brain should be able to access Boutin's electronic memories. But when the memory transplant appears to fail, Jared is given to the Ghost Brigades.

At first, Jared is a perfect soldier, but as Boutin’s memories slowly surface, Jared begins to intuit the reason’s for Boutin’s betrayal. As Jared desperately hunts for his "father," he must also come to grips with his own choices. Time is running out: The alliance is preparing its offensive, and some of them plan worse things than humanity’s mere military defeat…]]> 343 John Scalzi 0765354063 Francesc 3 4.10 2006
author: John Scalzi
name: Francesc
average rating: 4.10
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rating: 3
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]]> 17234326 302 John Scalzi 844500008X Francesc 4 4.06 2005
author: John Scalzi
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average rating: 4.06
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rating: 4
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What Tom doesn't tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Not our Earth, at least. In an alternate dimension, massive dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm and human-free world. They're the universe's largest and most dangerous panda and they're in trouble.

It's not just the Kaiju Preservation Society that's found its way to the alternate world. Others have, too--and their carelessness could cause millions back on our Earth to die.]]> 264 John Scalzi 0765389126 Francesc 4 3.93 2022
author: John Scalzi
name: Francesc
average rating: 3.93
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rating: 4
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]]> 34928122
Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent.

Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. But pulling off the impossible is just the start of her problems, as she learns that she's stepped square into a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself—and that now, her only chance at survival lies in a gambit even riskier than the first.]]> 305 Andy Weir 0553448129 Francesc 3 3.66 2017
author: Andy Weir
name: Francesc
average rating: 3.66
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rating: 3
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]]> 13055592 Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It’s a prestige posting, and Andrew is thrilled all the more to be assigned to the ship’s Xenobiology laboratory.

Life couldn’t be better…until Andrew begins to pick up on the fact that:
(1) every Away Mission involves some kind of lethal confrontation with alien forces
(2) the ship’s captain, its chief science officer, and the handsome Lieutenant Kerensky always survive these confrontations
(3) at least one low-ranked crew member is, sadly, always killed.

Not surprisingly, a great deal of energy below decks is expended on avoiding, at all costs, being assigned to an Away Mission. Then Andrew stumbles on information that completely transforms his and his colleagues’ understanding of what the starship Intrepid really is…and offers them a crazy, high-risk chance to save their own lives.]]> 320 John Scalzi 0765316994 Francesc 3 3.85 2012
author: John Scalzi
name: Francesc
average rating: 3.85
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rating: 3
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]]> 23947089 Return to #1 New York Times bestseller Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn world of Scadrial as its second era, which began with The Alloy of Law, comes to its earth-shattering conclusion in The Lost Metal.

For years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the Set—with his late uncle and his sister among their leaders—since they started kidnapping people with the power of Allomancy in their bloodlines. When Detective Marasi Colms and her partner, Wayne, find stockpiled weapons bound for the Outer City of Bilming, this opens a new lead. Conflict between the capital, Elendel, and the Outer Cities only favors the Set, and their tendrils now reach to the Elendel Senate—whose corruption Wax and his wife, Steris, have sought to expose—and Bilming is even more entangled.

After Wax discovers a new type of explosive that can unleash unprecedented destruction and realizes that the Set must already have it, an immortal kandra serving Scadrial's god, Harmony, reveals that Bilming has fallen under the influence of another god: Trell, worshipped by the Set. And Trell isn't the only factor at play from the larger Cosmere—Marasi is recruited by offworlders with strange abilities who claim their goal is to protect Scadrial . . . at any cost.

Wax must choose whether to set aside his rocky relationship with God and once again become the Sword that Harmony has groomed him to be. If no one steps forward to be the hero Scadrial needs, the planet and its millions of people will come to a sudden and calamitous ruin.]]> 507 Brandon Sanderson 0765391198 Francesc 0 4.46 2022
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]]> 14050 537 Audrey Niffenegger 0965818675 Francesc 0 3.90 2003
author: Audrey Niffenegger
name: Francesc
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]]> 91875791 PREMIO GOODREADS 2022

MEJOR NOVELA DEL A?O PARA LA REVISTA TIME

Una apasionante historia sobre los videojuegos, la amistad y la superación

Un gélido día de diciembre de su primer a?o en Harvard, Sam Masur sale de un vagón de metro y ve, entre las hordas de gente que esperan en el andén, a Sadie Green. La llama a gritos. Por un momento, ella hace como que no lo ha oído, pero entonces se vuelve y empieza la partida: una colaboración legendaria que los lanzará al estrellato. Piden dinero prestado, favores y, antes incluso de graduarse, firman su primera superproducción: Ichigo, un juego en el que uno puede escapar de los confines del cuerpo y las traiciones del corazón, en el que la muerte no significa más que una oportunidad para recomenzar y volver a jugar.

Esta novela narra la historia de los mundos perfectos que construyen Sam y Sadie, el mundo imperfecto en el que viven y de todo lo que viene después del éxito: el dinero, la fama, la traición, la tragedia. La trama se extiende a lo largo de más de treinta a?os, va de Cambridge (Massachusetts) a Venice Beach (California), pasando por tierras intermedias y otros mundos.

Ma?ana, y ma?ana, y ma?ana es una novela deslumbrante y compleja que ahonda en la naturaleza multifacética de la identidad: en los videojuegos como forma de expresión artística; en la tecnología y la experiencia humana; en la discapacidad; el fracaso; las posibilidades de redención; los mundos virtuales, y, sobre todo, en nuestra necesidad de conectar: de amar y ser amados. Sí, es una historia de amor, pero única en su especie.]]> 502 Gabrielle Zevin 8411481484 Francesc 4 4.04 2022
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name: Francesc
average rating: 4.04
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rating: 4
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]]> 56202227 212 Layla Martínez 849492236X Francesc 4 4.27
author: Layla Martínez
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average rating: 4.27
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]]> 77197
Born on the wrong side of the sheets, Fitz, son of Chivalry Farseer, is a royal bastard, cast out into the world, friendless and lonely. Only his magical link with animals - the old art known as the Wit - gives him solace and companionship. But the Wit, if used too often, is a perilous magic, and one abhorred by the nobility.

So when Fitz is finally adopted into the royal household, he must give up his old ways and embrace a new life of weaponry, scribing, courtly manners; and how to kill a man secretly, as he trains to become a royal assassin.]]> 435 Robin Hobb 055357339X Francesc 0 to-read 4.21 1995
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name: Francesc
average rating: 4.21
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]]> 61028152
Cuando la historia llegue a su momento culminante, el destino de Abby y Grechen girará en torno a una única pregunta: ?La amistad entre ambas será lo bastante fuerte como para derrotar al Diablo?

Un espeluznante cruce entre Eternamente amigas y El exorcista, combina las angustias de la adolescencia, los dramas de la iniciación a la vida, los horrores más indescriptibles y un cóctel de canciones de moda de los a?os ochenta en un thriller sobrenatural de gran intensidad.]]> 351 Grady Hendrix 8445012487 Francesc 4 3.67 2016
author: Grady Hendrix
name: Francesc
average rating: 3.67
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rating: 4
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Me ha gustado mucho y el final me ha dado en todos los feels :_)
]]> 63365280 420 R.A. Salvatore 0063029871 Francesc 4 Espero que esto continue, han quedado cabos sueltos importantes.... Y siempre quiero más drizzt.]]> 4.28 2023
author: R.A. Salvatore
name: Francesc
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2023
rating: 4
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Me costó entrar, pero luego he quemado el piso.
Espero que esto continue, han quedado cabos sueltos importantes.... Y siempre quiero más drizzt.
]]> 51984441
All of the comics from #947 to, uh, the end of this story arc!
More than 10 all-new bonus comics here and there throughout the adventure!
A recap of events to-date by "Durkon Thundershield." (wink, wink!)
Foreword by Haley Starshine!
A never-before-seen map of the Northern Continent!
Nine or so pages of navel-gazing author commentary!
A new moderately improved art style that makes some things look better and others worse!
Probably some other stuff!]]> 352 Rich Burlew 0985413964 Francesc 4
parece que el siguiente volumen recopilatorio será el último.... espero no tener que esperar 8 a?os =(

Merged review:

TOOTS es maravilloso

parece que el siguiente volumen recopilatorio será el último.... espero no tener que esperar 8 a?os =(

Merged review:

TOOTS es maravilloso

parece que el siguiente volumen recopilatorio será el último.... espero no tener que esperar 8 a?os =(]]> 4.60 2019
author: Rich Burlew
name: Francesc
average rating: 4.60
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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TOOTS es maravilloso

parece que el siguiente volumen recopilatorio será el último.... espero no tener que esperar 8 a?os =(

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TOOTS es maravilloso

parece que el siguiente volumen recopilatorio será el último.... espero no tener que esperar 8 a?os =(

Merged review:

TOOTS es maravilloso

parece que el siguiente volumen recopilatorio será el último.... espero no tener que esperar 8 a?os =(
]]> 55883882
Collects MONSTRESS #1-6

About the Creators:

New York Times bestselling and award-winning writer Marjorie Liu is best known for her fiction and comic books. She teaches comic book writing at MIT, and leads a class on Popular Fiction at the Voices of Our Nation (VONA) workshop. Ms. Liu's extensive work includes the bestselling "Astonishing X-Men" for Marvel Comics, which featured the gay wedding of X-Man Northstar and was subsequently nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for outstanding media images of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Prior to writing full-time, Liu was a lawyer. She currently resides in Boston.

Sana Takeda is an illustrator and comic book artist who was born in Niigata, and now resides in Tokyo, Japan. At age 20 she started out as a 3D CGI designer for SEGA, a Japanese video game company, and became a freelance artist when she was 25. She is still an artist, and has worked on titles such as "X-23" and "Ms. Marvel" for Marvel Comics, and is an illustrator for trading card games in Japan.]]> 192 Marjorie M. Liu 1632157098 Francesc 0 to-read 3.96 2016
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average rating: 3.96
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]]> 114067124 Bloody Rose. Blurb to come.]]> Nicholas Eames 0356509060 Francesc 0 to-read 4.04
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]]> 37715859
Two decades later, former guitarist Kris Pulaski works as the night manager of a Best Western - she's tired, broke, and unhappy. Everything changes when she discovers a shocking secret from her heavy metal past: Turns out that Terry's meteoric rise to success may have come at the price of Kris's very soul.

This revelation prompts Kris to hit the road, reunite with the rest of her bandmates, and confront the man who ruined her life. It's a journey that will take her from the Pennsylvania rust belt to a Satanic rehab center and finally to a Las Vegas music festival that's darker than any Mordor Tolkien could imagine. A furious power ballad about never giving up, even in the face of overwhelming odds, We Sold Our Souls is an epic journey into the heart of a conspiracy-crazed, paranoid country that seems to have lost its very soul...where only a girl with a guitar can save us all.]]> 337 Grady Hendrix Francesc 4 3.70 2018
author: Grady Hendrix
name: Francesc
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> 55829194 In horror movies, the final girls are the ones left standing?when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of their lives…but what happens after?

Like his bestselling novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix’s latest is a fast-paced, frightening, and wickedly humorous thriller. From?chain?saws to summer camp slayers, The Final Girl Support Group pays tribute to and slyly subverts our most popular horror films—movies like The Texas?Chainsaw Massacre, A?Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream.

Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.

But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.]]> 352 Grady Hendrix 059320123X Francesc 4 3.49 2021
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name: Francesc
average rating: 3.49
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rating: 4
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]]> 60882838
They hope to find the answers they seek, while making new friends, learning new concepts, and experiencing the entropic nature of the universe.

Becky Chambers's new series continues to ask: in a world where people have what they want, does having more even matter?

They're going to need to ask it a lot.]]> 149 Becky Chambers Francesc 4 4.30 2022
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name: Francesc
average rating: 4.30
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rating: 4
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]]> 17855756 In a time when secrets and lies were the foundations of life, someone has discovered the truth. And they are going to tell.

Jules knows what her predecessors created. She knows they are the reason life has to be lived in this way.

And she won't stand for it.

But Jules no longer has supporters. And there is far more to fear than the toxic world beyond her walls.

A poison is growing from within Silo 18.

One that cannot be stopped.

Unless Silo 1 step in.]]> 458 Hugh Howey 1490904387 Francesc 3 4.19 2013
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name: Francesc
average rating: 4.19
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rating: 3
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]]> 21443871 La historia del silo está a punto de ser escrita. Nuestro futuro está a punto de empezar.]]> 576 Hugh Howey 8445002007 Francesc 3 3.75 2013
author: Hugh Howey
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average rating: 3.75
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]]> 18275611 Su fatídica decisión desencadenará una serie de drásticos acontecimientos que llevará al resto de habitantes del silo a enfrentarse a algo que sólo se conoce por las historias y cuyo nombre ni siquiera se atreven a susurrar.]]> 544 Hugh Howey 8445001493 Francesc 4 3.92 2012
author: Hugh Howey
name: Francesc
average rating: 3.92
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rating: 4
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]]> 40864002 ASIN B08H831J18 moved to the more recent edition

Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-awareness, laid down their tools, wandered, en masse into the wilderness, never to be seen again. They faded into myth and urban legend.

Now the life of the tea monk who tells this story is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of "what do people need?" is answered. But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how. They will need to ask it a lot. Chambers' series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?]]> 151 Becky Chambers Francesc 3 4.25 2021
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name: Francesc
average rating: 4.25
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rating: 3
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]]> 40701780
The Great Change is upon us...

Some say that to change the world you must first burn it down. Now that belief will be tested in the crucible of revolution: the Breakers and Burners have seized the levers of power, the smoke of riots has replaced the smog of industry, and all must submit to the wisdom of crowds.

With nothing left to lose, Citizen Brock is determined to become a new hero for the new age, while Citizeness Savine must turn her talents from profit to survival before she can claw her way to redemption. Orso will find that when the world is turned upside down, no one is lower than a monarch. And in the bloody North, Rikke and her fragile Protectorate are running out of allies... while Black Calder gathers his forces and plots his vengeance.

The banks have fallen, the sun of the Union has been torn down, and in the darkness behind the scenes, the threads of the Weaver’s ruthless plan are slowly being drawn together...

]]> 520 Joe Abercrombie 0575095970 Francesc 5 4.58 2021
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average rating: 4.58
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rating: 5
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]]> 56249873
Para héroes como Leo dan Brock y Stour Ocaso la paz no es más que un inconveniente que debe remediarse cuanto antes. Pero primero hay que alimentar agravios y reunir aliados.

Entre tanto, Rikke tiene que dominar el ojo largo... antes de que su poder acabe con ella.

En todos los sectores de la sociedad anida el descontento. Los Rompedores aún acechan en la clandestinidad, tramando planes para llevar a cabo el Gran Cambio que por fin libere al pueblo, mientras los nobles descontentos tratan de aumentar su influencia y sus prebendas.

Orso intenta hallar un camino seguro en el laberinto de cuchillos que es la política, pero sus deudas y sus enemigos no dejan de aumentar. Ninguna alianza, ninguna amistad, ninguna paz, dura para siempre.]]> 712 Joe Abercrombie 8413621674 Francesc 4 4.59 2020
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average rating: 4.59
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rating: 4
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]]> 52791864 Las chimeneas de la industria se alzan sobre Adua y el mundo está lleno de nuevas oportunidades. Pero las viejas deudas tienen raíces tan profundas como siempre.

En las fronteras empapadas en sangre de Angland, Leo dan Brock lucha para ganar la fama en el campo de batalla y derrotar a los ejércitos de Stour Anochecer. ?l espera la ayuda de la corona. Pero el hijo del rey Jezal, el irresponsable príncipe Orso, es un hombre que se especializa en decepcionar.

Savine dan Glokta (mundana, inversora e hija del hombre más temido de la Unión) planea abrirse camino hasta la cima de la escoria de la sociedad de cualquier forma posible. Pero los barrios bajos se llenan de una rabia que ni todo el dinero del mundo puede controlar.

La era de la máquina comienza, pero la edad de la magia se niega a morir. Con la ayuda de la loca monta?esa Isern-i-Phail, Rikke lucha por controlar la bendición, o la maldición, del Ojo Largo. Vislumbrar el futuro es una cosa, pero con la mano guiadora del Primero de los Magos aún tirando de las cuerdas, cambiarlo será otra muy distinta...]]> 680 Joe Abercrombie 8491818030 Francesc 5 4.38 2019
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average rating: 4.38
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]]> 58772401 Así se pierde la guerra del tiempo de Max Gladstone y Amal El-Mohtar es una épica historia de amor entre dos agentes rivales en una guerra que se extiende hasta los confines del tiempo y el espacio.


Entre las cenizas de un mundo moribundo, Roja encuentra una carta con la inscripción: ?Quemar antes de leer. Firmado: Azul?.
Roja y Azul, dos agentes de facciones rivales en una guerra que se extiende más allá de los confines del espacio y el tiempo, inician una correspondencia prohibida. A medida que se mueven por los hilos del tiempo dando forma al pasado para adecuarlo a los intereses de su facción, lo que empezó como un desafío, un intercambio de pullas en el campo de batalla, se va transformando en un peligroso juego que tanto Roja como Azul están decididas a ganar. Porque ahí fuera se está librando una guerra, y alguien tiene que ganar. En eso consisten las guerras, ?no?]]> 181 Amal El-Mohtar 8412104358 Francesc 3 3.74 2019
author: Amal El-Mohtar
name: Francesc
average rating: 3.74
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rating: 3
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]]> 13521459 They stole her brother and sister.
But vengeance is following.

Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old step father Lamb for company. But it turns out Lamb's buried a bloody past of his own. And out in the lawless Far Country the past never stays buried.

Their journey will take them across the barren plains to a frontier town gripped by gold fever, through feud, duel and massacre, high into the unmapped mountains to a reckoning with the Ghosts. Even worse, it will force them into an alliance with Nicomo Cosca, infamous soldier of fortune, and his feckless lawyer Temple, two men no one should ever have to trust . . .
RED COUNTRY takes place in the same world as the First Law trilogy, Best Served Cold, and The Heroes. This novel also sees the return of one of Abercrombie's most beloved characters.]]> 469 Joe Abercrombie 0316214442 Francesc 4 4.31 2012
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average rating: 4.31
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rating: 4
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]]> 9300768 581 Joe Abercrombie 0316123358 Francesc 5 4.34 2011
author: Joe Abercrombie
name: Francesc
average rating: 4.34
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rating: 5
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]]> 2315892
There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the squabbling League of Eight, and between them they have bled the land white. While armies march, heads roll and cities burn, behind the scenes bankers, priests and older, darker powers play a deadly game to choose who will be king.

War may be hell, but for Monza Murcatto, the Snake of Talins, the most feared and famous mercenary in Duke Orso's employ, it's a damn good way of making money too. Her victories have made her popular - a shade too popular for her employer's taste. Betrayed, thrown down a mountain and left for dead, Murcatto's reward is a broken body and a burning hunger for vengeance. Whatever the cost, seven men must die.

Her allies include Styria's least reliable drunkard, Styria's most treacherous poisoner, a mass-murderer obsessed with numbers and a Barbarian who just wants to do the right thing. Her enemies number the better half of the nation. And that's all before the most dangerous man in the world is dispatched to hunt her down and finish the job Duke Orso started...

Springtime in Styria. And that means revenge.]]> 534 Joe Abercrombie 0575082453 Francesc 4 4.24 2009
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name: Francesc
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2009
rating: 4
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]]> 50998056
From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined.

Told entirely through fictional eye-witness accounts, The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, the story of how climate change will affect us all over the decades to come.

Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us—and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face.

It is a novel both immediate and impactful, desperate and hopeful in equal measure, and it is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written.]]> 563 Kim Stanley Robinson 0316300136 Francesc 0 to-read 3.84 2020
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average rating: 3.84
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]]> 62070465
Después de que Wax descubra un nuevo tipo de explosivo capaz de desatar una destrucción sin precedentes y comprenda que el Grupo ya debe de tenerlo, un kandra inmortal al servicio del dios de Scadrial, Armonía, le revela que Bilming ha caído bajo la influencia de otro dios: Trell, venerado por el Grupo. Pero Trell no es el único factor que interviene procedente del amplio Cosmere, puesto que a Marasi la reclutan unas personas de fuera del planeta dotadas de extra?as capacidades, que afirman que su objetivo es proteger Scadrial... a toda costa.

Wax deberá decidir si deja a un lado las dificultades de su relación con Dios y se convierte de nuevo en la espada que Armonía lo ha estado preparando para ser. Si nadie da el paso y actúa como el héroe que Scadrial necesita, el planeta y sus millones de habitantes sufrirán una repentina y calamitosa ruina.]]> 652 Brandon Sanderson 8418037733 Francesc 4 4.53 2022
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Francesc
average rating: 4.53
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?Qué le está pasando al amor? ?Todavía podemos enamorarnos de verdad? ?Por qué las historias casi siempre acaban fatal?

Con su tono cáustico y su rigor documental, Liv Str?mquist analiza cómo le va al corazón en estos tiempos de capitalismo tardío. Con la ayuda de Leonardo DiCaprio, Beyoncé, Kierkegaard, Hilda Doolittle, los pitufos, la teoría sociológica, concursantes de reality shows, Platón y muchos más, busca respuestas a grandes preguntas: ?Podemos controlar el amor? ?Qué les pasa a los que van de flor en flor? ?Por qué las historias casi siempre terminan fatal?

La historietista combina referentes conocidos con anécdotas menos esperadas para sondear los recovecos de la pasión: el tormento del joven que se enamoró de Sócrates hace dos mil cuatrocientos a?os o la convulsa historia de Lord Byron y su ex. Str?mquist tiene las manos llenas de historias para desplegar una verdadera anatomía del eros.

颁谤í迟颈肠补蝉:
?Str?mquist torpedea las construcciones sociales.?
El Mundo

?Un ensayo tan divertido como instructivo sobre el compromiso en el amor que mezcla filosofía y cultura pop.?
Les Inrocks

?Así funcionan los ensayos gráficos de Str?mquist, tanto si tratan de la historia de los órganos sexuales femeninos como del amor: son controvertidos y conmovedores, capaces incluso de rebajar la tensión en los discursos de género (a veces tan crispados).?
Die Zeit

?Sus vi?etas son agudas, enfurecidas, chistosas y precisas, también son informativas hasta niveles insospechados.?
The Guardian

?Liv Str?mquist es esa dibujante de las costumbres humanas que jamás irá con el freno de mano puesto. Con paso decidido y sin ningún tipo de dilaciones, es capaz de transformar teorías sociales avanzadas en vi?etas diáfanas que además le dan a la indignación un contrapunto hilarante.?
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author: Liv Str?mquist
name: Francesc
average rating: 4.23
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rating: 4
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]]> 58446227 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, NPR, GoodReads

"One of [Mandel's] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet." --The New York Times

Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal--an experience that shocks him to his core.

Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She's traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive's best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him.

When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe.

A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.]]> 259 Emily St. John Mandel 0593321448 Francesc 0 to-read 4.04 2022
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]]> 57507332 The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi's first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling Interdependency trilogy.

When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls "an animal rights organization." Tom's team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on.

What Tom doesn't tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Not our Earth, at at least. In an alternate dimension, massive dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm and human-free world. They're the universe's largest and most dangerous panda and they're in trouble.

It's not just the Kaiju Preservation Society that's found its way to the alternate world. Others have, too--and their carelessness could cause millions back on our Earth to die.]]> 272 John Scalzi 0765389134 Francesc 0 to-read 3.96 2022
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]]> 60531406 #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson expands his Cosmere universe shared by The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn with a new standalone novel for everyone who loved The Princess Bride.

The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. But when his father takes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes, Tress must stow away on a ship and seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea. Amid the spore oceans where pirates abound, can Tress leave her simple life behind and make her own place sailing a sea where a single drop of water can mean instant death?]]> 443 Brandon Sanderson Francesc 0 to-read 4.35 2023
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At the Five-Hop One-Stop, long-haul spacers can stretch their legs (if they have legs, that is), and get fuel, transit permits, and assorted supplies. The Five-Hop is run by an enterprising alien and her sometimes helpful child, who work hard to provide a little piece of home to everyone passing through.

When a freak technological failure halts all traffic to and from Gora, three strangers—all different species with different aims—are thrown together at the Five-Hop. Grounded, with nothing to do but wait, the trio—an exiled artist with an appointment to keep, a cargo runner at a personal crossroads, and a mysterious individual doing her best to help those on the fringes—are compelled to confront where they’ve been, where they might go, and what they are, or could be, to each other.]]> 336 Becky Chambers 0062936050 Francesc 3 4.38 2021
author: Becky Chambers
name: Francesc
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2021
rating: 3
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