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"Hay cosas que no van del todo bien en la ciudad que nunca duerme. Los avatares de Nueva York han conseguido evitar temporalmente la invasión de la Mujer de Blanco (y de paso la destrucción de todo el universo), pero el misterioso Enemigo con E mayúscula esconde poderes más sutiles bajo la manga. Un nuevo candidato a la alcaldía, experto en el arte de la retórica populista de la gentrificación, la xenofobia y la «ley y el orden», puede llegar...

"Near a small college campus, a student is found strangled in an abandoned barn on the outskirts of town. She's been posed to look like a painting of Ophelia from Shakespeare's Hamlet, the scene taunting the police with a message they don't understand. Detective Ian Carter is known as a straitlaced cop, but seeing the girl's body leaves him shaken and uncertain of where to turn, until a chance meeting with a charmingly awkward literature professor...

Pokolenie Z stało się pierwszym pokoleniem w historii, które dorastało z urządzeniem w kieszeni odwracającym uwagę od otoczenia, a wciągającym do alternatywnego wszechświata, który był ekscytujący, uzależniający, niestabilny i - jak się okazało - niewłaściwy dla dzieci i młodzieży. Od początku drugiej dekady XXI wieku obserwujemy gwałtowne pogorszenie stanu zdrowia psychicznego wśród nastolatków. Rosną wskaźniki dotyczące...

"It's the summer before high school, and Ronny Nguyen finds herself too young for work, too old for cartoons. Her days are spent in a small backyard, dozing off to trashy magazines on a plastic lawn chair. In stark contrast stands her brother Tommy, the pride and joy of their immigrant parents: a popular honor student destined to be the first in the family to attend college. The thought of Tommy leaving for college fills Ronny with dread, as she contemplates...

The world of unknowable objects--magical items that most people have no idea possess powers--has been quiet for decades, but the three current members of a secret society have remained watchful, meeting every six months in the basement of a bookshop in London. They are pledged to protect their archive of magical items hidden away, safe from the outside world--and the world safe from them. But when Frank Simpson, the longest-standing member of the...

"Skwerl and Cheese are down on their luck. Skwerl, who is resourceful like a squirrel (Marines win battles not spelling bees), used to work for Ground Branch, the CIA's elite paramilitary wing. He was fired after a raid went bad in Afghanistan. Big Cheese Aziz, a legendary pilot-his country's Maverick-is equally hard up. The fall of Kabul has left him grounded, working the nightshift at a gas station. Skwerl recruits Cheese into an anonymous network...