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El diablo de la botella
by Robert Louis StevensonLuego de una vida de aventuras, durante la que se hizo famoso por sus narraciones fantásticas que estremecían a los lectores, Robert Louis se instaló en una isla de Samoa para cuidar su salud. Y como no dejaba de imaginar nuevos relatos, los isleños lo llamaron Tusitala, que significa "el contador de historias", título que para ellos tiene aún más poder que el del mismo rey. La popularidad de Robert L. Stevenson se basa en los emocionantes argumentos de sus relatos, plenos de acción, fantasía y aventura. Es también un maestro de la narración breve, del elaborado suspenso, de la circunstancia sorprendente, de la distancia y la precisión, de la que El Diablo en la Botella constituye una acabada muestra.
Sylvie and Bruno
by Lewis CarrollSylvia and Bruno, first published in 1889, forms the last novel Lewis Carroll published during his lifetime. The novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in a fantasy world.
For the Win
by Cory DoctorowA provocative and exhilarating tale of teen rebellion against global corporations from the New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother, a a call to arms for a new generation. Not far in the future, in the twenty-first century, it's not just capital that's globalized: labour is too. Workers in special economic zones are trapped in lives of poverty with no trade unions to represent their rights. But a group of teenagers from across the world are set to fight this injustice using the most surprising of tools - their online video games. In Industrial South China Matthew and his friends labour day and night as gold-farmers, amassing virtual wealth that's sold on to rich Western players, while in the slums of Mumbai 'General Robotwallah Mala Marshalls and her team of online thugs on behalf of the local gang-boss, who in turn works for the game-owners. They're all being exploited, as their friend Wei-Dong, all the way over in LA, knows, but can do little about. Until they begin to realize that their similarities outweigh their differences, and agree to work together to claim their rights to fair working conditions. Under the noses of the ruling elites in China and the rest of Asia, they fight their bosses, the owners of the games and rich speculators, outsmarting them all with their unbeatable gaming skills. But soon the battle will spill over from the virtual world to the real one, leaving Mala, Matthew and even Wei-Dong fighting not just for their rights, but for their lives.