El Perfume del Rey

Rhys O'Morda se encuentra en la puerta del infierno después de jurar que nunca volvería. Cuando el archidemonio, Kadir, roba el poderoso amuleto Triskele de la diosa, Rhys se queda con el destino del mundo descansando sobre sus hombros. Maldiciendo su derecho de nacimiento, se propone abordar los nueve círculos del inframundo. Enfrentar ríos de fuego, lluvias heladas, criaturas chupa-almas y sus debilidades internas no son nada comparado con encontrarse cara a cara con su Compañera Destinada. Su mayor desafío no es pasar las pruebas de cada círculo en el infierno, sino tratar de...

In a Berkeley lab, Bruce Banner works intensely day and night. A bright scientist with repressed emotions and few social skills, Bruce and his colleague, the sharp and beautiful Betty Ross, experiment with the body's ability to repair itself and fight disease. But their research draws unwanted attention. For the power of regeneration catches the eye of the military, which sees its potential on the battlefields of the future. But when Bruce is exposed to radiation in an accident that should have killed him, a ferocious truth about his past begins to emerge-along with something else, something...

Encerrado en la habitación de un hotel, un hombre observa por una rendija abierta en la pared a los huéspedes que, sucesivamente, ocupan el cuarto de al lado. El mirón contempla sin ser visto a clientes solitarios, amantes adolescentes, parejas adúlteras... Con un lenguaje directo y preciso, que encierra un hondo aliento poético, Henri Barbusse construye una novela inimitable, en la que se dan cita todas las obsesiones del hombre: el amor, el engaño, la sexualidad, la religión, la muerte... Publicada por primera vez en 1908, El Infierno conserva la frescura y fuerza imperecederas de...

The feisty Mrs. Powell has died and left Delbert with a pair of big shoes to fill. Mr. Powell, anxious to become rich on the property he inherited from his dead wife, cannot wait to leave the horrid and backward village of Cerro - and so takes no notice of the prosaic Delbert, the only employee of the Cerro Hardware Store. In his mourning for Mrs. Powell's friendship, Delbert comes to his own realizations concerning the forces that threaten to ruin Cerro, and decides to wage a secret war against what will eventually destroy all he knows and loves. Delbert's initial act of vandalism wreaks...