An abandoned ship puts Jim Holden and his crew on the trail of a secret capable of provoking war across the solar system. Their search for answers intersects with a larger conspiracy, as mistrust between rival powers makes every discovery politically explosive.
Eladio Monroy accepts a seemingly modest search for a box of sentimental value. The assignment draws him into the orbit of a dead millionaire, an uneasy couple and a dangerous poetry reader, exposing violence beneath Gran Canaria’s respectable surfaces.
Reconstructing the life of her mother Lucile, the narrator confronts memories of beauty, family intimacy and growing psychological distress. This autobiographical novel explores the silences of family history and the limits of writing about a person who remains partly unknowable.
Wade Watts spends much of his life in the OASIS, a virtual world whose deceased creator has hidden the key to an immense inheritance inside a series of puzzles. Finding the first clue makes Wade a contender and a target in a competition that reaches far beyond the game.
Yuval Noah Harari offers a broad interpretation of human history, connecting biological development with culture, institutions and technological change. Moving from early human societies to modern ambitions, the book asks how shared ideas have helped shape collective life.
A frontier lawman returns to the city to take responsibility for his noble family. He intends to leave gunfights behind, but crime follows him into a modernising society where metal-based magic remains as useful in elegant streets as in the wilderness.
Two armies converge on a seemingly insignificant hill in the North. A disgraced swordsman, an ambitious prince and a weary veteran pursue very different goals through the same battle, revealing how honour and power look from opposing positions.
Left alone on Mars after his crew believes him dead, astronaut Mark Watney must turn a temporary habitat into a means of long-term survival. Food, equipment and communication become problems to solve while any possibility of rescue remains far beyond his reach.
This collection brings together Clean Code and The Clean Coder, connecting readable software with professional conduct. Robert C. Martin addresses code structure, testing and refactoring alongside communication, commitments and the responsibilities programmers face in their working lives.
After her husband asks to pause their long marriage, Mia returns to the town where she grew up. Becoming involved in the lives of the women around her, she reconsiders the relationships and assumptions that have shaped her sense of herself.
Nora Ephron looks back on family, journalism, friendships and the peculiar frustrations of growing older. These autobiographical essays move between vanished memories and sharply retained details, finding material in professional beginnings, everyday irritations and the pleasures that acquire new weight when time feels less abundant.
Humanity and Trisolaris maintain a fragile peace through deterrence and exchanged knowledge. When aerospace engineer Cheng Xin awakens from hibernation, information from an earlier era returns with her, unsettling the balance on which two civilizations have come to depend.
The discovery of a tomb identified with Saint James in 824 begins a mystery that resurfaces two centuries later. Mabilia and the stonemason Arno become connected to signs, a manuscript and competing interests along the pilgrimage route. The novel explores the entanglement of faith, knowledge and medieval power.
An ordinary man finds his existence reduced to the same rooms, journeys and daily obligations. The apparent stability of work and family begins to feel like confinement. His attempt to break the pattern turns into a search for change that forces him to reconsider what freedom might cost.
Offered the governorship of El Hierro, Gonzalo Baeza resists returning to an island bound to a painful past. His earlier expedition brought danger, love and knowledge of a closely guarded secret. Against the conquest of the Canary Islands, the novel follows the collision between ambition and the lives of the islanders.
Having escaped the arena, Katniss Everdeen faces a rebellion that wants to make her its public symbol. As the conflict with the Capitol intensifies, survival demands new choices about trust, responsibility and the people she is determined to protect.
Real Academia Española y Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
This handbook condenses the academies’ larger Spanish grammar into a reference for students and interested speakers. It retains the original chapter structure and guidance on usage while presenting grammatical analysis more accessibly. The result surveys the structures and variation of contemporary Spanish across its speaking communities.
Slough House is an unpromising London posting for MI5 officers whose careers have gone wrong, overseen by Jackson Lamb. River Cartwright wants to return to meaningful intelligence work. The kidnapping of a young man, accompanied by a threat of an execution broadcast online, draws the sidelined agents toward a crisis with competing interests behind it. The first Slough House novel brings professional resentment, ambition and public duty into the same assignment.
A journalist investigates the life of his great-grandmother, Amelia Garayoa, who abandoned her family before Spain’s Civil War. Following her movements through twentieth-century Europe uncovers espionage, political commitments and intimate choices that resist any simple account of who she was.
Lexie Sinclair builds an independent life in the art world of 1950s London. Decades later, Elina and Ted struggle after the difficult birth of their first child. As troubling memories emerge, the two stories approach one another through questions of motherhood, identity and the past.