Cuentos de la mitología griega V

Estamos en el año 2524. Harvest es una colonia agrícola pacífica y próspera, justo en el límite del espacio controlado por los humanos. Estos últimos, sin darse cuenta y sin autorización, han penetrado en territorio sagrado y se han cruzado en el camino de un violento imperio extraterrestre, el Covenant. Lo que comenzó como un encuentro fortuito entre una nave corsaria extraterrestre y un carguero humano llevará a la humanidad a una lucha por su supervivencia. Pero la humanidad se encuentra atrapada en una enconada guerra civil (la Insurrección) y la resistencia de los ciudadanos de ...

Mara, a cello built in 1711 by the famous Antonio Stradivarius that inherited its name from the notorious virtuoso Mara, tells his adventurous life story that includes circling the globe several times, performing in Italy, St. Petersburg, Buenos Aires, Vienna, and the Court of England, as well as playing for kings and commoners alike in cathedrals, castles, promenade concerts in modern philharmonic halls, and still enchanting audiences to this day.

A dry and bitter story (vital and optimistic at the same time) narrates the unimaginable life of B?, a "writer" born in Auschwitz who was baptized with the letter B and a series of numbers tattooed on his thigh. B? commits suicide shortly after the fall of Communism in Hungary, in 1990, and his editor friend Keser?, tries to narrate his life while he searches for B?'s unpublished novel. In 150 pages Kert?sz describes the torture of writing about horror and, defends the power of love, literature and memories to overcome the Auschwitz experience.

Seventeen year old Veronica ""Ronnie"" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains alienated from her parents, especially her father, until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him.