«The jungle hides a girl who cannot die. Pia has always known her destiny: to start a new race, a line of descendants who will bring end to death. She has been bred for immortality, raised by a team of scientists in a secret compound hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest. Now those scientists have begun to challenge her, with the goal of training her to carry on their dangerous work. For as long as she can remember, Pia’s greatest desire has been to fulfill their expectations. But then one night she finds a hole in the impenetrable fence that surrounds her sterile home.»
«At the moment of death, three teenagers were offered a new life…to travel through time to keep the world safe. Liam O’Connor should have drowned in the Titanic in 1912. Maddy Carter should have perished in a plane crash in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.»
«Cress, having risked everything to warn Cinder of Queen Levana’s evil plan, has a slight problem. She’s been imprisoned on a satellite since childhood and has only ever had her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress and excelent hacker. Unfortunately, she’s just received orders from Levana to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice. When a daring rescue of Cress involving Cinder, Captain Thorne, Scarlet, and Wolf goes awry, the group is separated. Cress finally has her freedom, but it comes at a high price.»
«Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhicker’s Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor. «
Libro en pasta dura. «It was just supposed to be a rutine examination. But when the doctors snake the telescopic tube down Robert Smith’s throat, what they discover doesn’t make medical sense… In his naked, anesthetized state on the operating table, Robert hears the surgeons’ shocked comments: «What the hell is that?»
«It’s me,» Robert thinks, «and I’ve got to get out of here.» Armed with a stolen automatic and the videotape of his strange organs, he manages to escape, and to embark on an orphan’s violent odyssey to find out exactly who -exactly what- he is.»
«Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana. Winter despises her stepmother and knows Levana won’t approve of her feelings for her childhood friend, the handsome palace guard Jacin. But Winter isn’t as weak as Levana believes her to be, and she’s been undermining her stepmother’s wishes for years. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even have the power to launch a revolution and win a war that’s been raging for far too long.»