La ceguera del cangrejo - Alexis Ravelo

Oficialmente, la historiadora del arte Olga Herrera falleció en un absurdo accidente en Lanzarote mientras ultimaba una biografía del más famoso artista de la isla: César Manrique. Pero para Ángel Fuentes, militar de profesión destinado en el Líbano y compañero sentimental de la víctima, la verdad de su muerte tuvo que ser otra, aunque nadie salvo a él le interese averiguarla.
Recién aterrizado en suelo canario, el sargento Fuentes irá reproduciendo a través del volcánico paisaje lanzaroteño el itinerario que realizó su pareja para documentarse. Pero no tardará en sospechar que no está solo en su viaje, que hay quien sigue sus pasos como antes debió de seguir los de Olga, que ella debió descubrir algo que muchos están dispuestos a silenciar...
Sobre una telúrica e incomparable geografía, a la vez física y simbólica, La ceguera del cangrejo despliega una absorbente intriga criminal en la que todos sus protagonistas se ven enfrentados a dos únicas opciones: abrir los ojos para encarar la verdad o, como los cangrejos que habitan los Jameos del Agua, vivir ciegos y ajenos a la realidad circundante.

Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone.…

A convict with a thirst for revenge.

A sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wager.

A runaway with a privileged past.

A spy known as the Wraith.

A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums.

A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes.

Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz’s crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction–if they don’t kill each other first.

Imperial Triumph - Michael Kulikowski

Imperial Triumph presents the history of Rome at the height of its imperial power. Beginning with the reign of Hadrian in Rome and ending with the death of Julian the Apostate on campaign in Persia, it offers an intimate account of the twists and often deadly turns of imperial politics in which successive emperors rose and fell with sometimes bewildering rapidity. Yet, despite this volatility, the Romans were able to see off successive attacks by Parthians, Germans, Persians and Goths and to extend and entrench their position as masters of Europe and the Mediterranean. Imperial Triumph shows how they managed to do it.

Michael Kulikowski describes the empire's cultural integration in the second century, the political crises of the third when Rome's Mediterranean world became subject to the larger forces of Eurasian history, and the remaking of Roman imperial institutions in the fourth century under Constantine and his son Constantius II. The Constantinian revolution, Professor Kulikowski argues, was the pivot on which imperial fortunes turned - the beginning of the parting of ways between the eastern and western empires.

This sweeping account of one of the world's greatest empires is incisive, readable and authoritative.

Factfulness - Hans Rosling

Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.

When asked simple questions about global trends - why the world's population is increasing; how many young women go to school; how many of us live in poverty - we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.

In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and a man who can make data sing, Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens, and reveals the ten instincts that distort our perspective.

It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most.

Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world.

1876 - Gore Vidal

With the centennial year of the United States as the target of this historical novel, Gore Vidal again mounts a glorious expedition into that grimy and intricate activity called politics. And this is politics as it ought to be: gossip, corruption, money, dinner parties, more corruption, and all the tacky panoply of power. Into the rarefied atmosphere of a world where money has begun to talk very loudly ? usually through the mouths of people called Astor ? step Charles Schuyler and his daughter Emma. Charlie is the unacknowledged bastard son of Aaron Burr; Emma is rather beautiful; and both think it is prudent to return from penury in Europe and secure a fortuitous marriage for Emma. But America is no longer a young republic; it's a fledgling international superpower with its attendant seedy administration, dubious election campaigns, snobbery, 'popped corn', 'speaking tubes' and 'perpendicular railways' (lifts). It's a world that will welcome into its social and political bosom these two attractive exotics with the right names. And it's a world whose every political peccadillo, social slip-up and irresistible intrigue is recorded in this, the journal of Charlie Schuyler.

Sabado, Domingo - Ray Loriga

Sábado, domingo narra una historia y la vuelve a contar años después. En la primera, un adolescente relata un suceso escabroso del verano anterior. Junto con su amigo Chino, salen un sábado y ligan con una camarera. La noche parece ir bien, hasta que todo se tuerce y acaba en desastre: es un funesto sábado que nuestro narrador se niega a recordar. Pero después de cada sábado, viene un domingo.

Veinticinco años después, ese adolescente, que ahora es un hombre con muchas malas decisiones a cuestas, acompaña a su hija a la fiesta de Halloween en el Colegio Internacional de las afueras de Madrid.Allí comparte charla con una mujer desconocida que se oculta tras la máscara de un disfraz. La conversación, intrascendente en apariencia, pronto lo conduce a aquella noche. No hay más remedio que aceptar que finalmente es domingo, el día que nos obliga a enfrentarnos a nuestro pasado.

Sábado, domingo es una novela sobre la culpa, sobre las deudas que se asumen como propias en la vida y sobre la huida que se impone cuando aceptar la realidad parece no ser posible.

The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Prince Lyov Nikolayevitch Myshkin is one of the great characters in Russian literature. Is he a saint or just naïve? Is he an idealist or, as many in General Epanchin's society feel, an "idiot"? Certainly his return to St. Petersburg after years in a Swiss clinic has a dramatic effect on the beautiful Aglaia, youngest of the Epanchin daughters, and on the charismatic but willful Nastasya Filippovna. As he paints a vivid picture of Russian society, Dostoyevsky shows how principles conflict with emotions - with tragic results.

My sister, the serial killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite

Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead.

Korede's practicality is the sisters' saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the trunk of her car is big enough for a body, and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures of her dinner to Instagram when she should be mourning her "missing" boyfriend. Not that she gets any credit.

Korede has long been in love with a kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where she works. She dreams of the day when he will realize that she's exactly what he needs. But when he asks Korede for Ayoola's phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and how far she's willing to go to protect her.

Sharp as nails and full of deadpan wit, Oyinkan Braithwaite's deliciously deadly debut is as fun as it is frightening.