When it comes to stories of war, names like Andy McNab and Chris Ryanconstantly top the bestsellers list. These ex-SAS soldiers seem tohave found their niche in the market and fill it with fast-pacedthrillers that chart plots spanning whole wars and continents, decades and careers. Now another name could well be on the way to appearingalongside such bestselling authors. With The Paradigm Shift, RichardHolland has created a story that sits perfectly with the currentpolitical climate and the strained times we live in. From the openingchapter, the story drags the reader from page to page, location tolocation. The story, centring on the Indian Prime Minister s plan toshift power from America and its allies to India, is fictional, butthe depth of detail and research, combined with many of the world scurrent troubles could easily be documented from fact. Whether theaction takes place in The White House, undercover in Yemin or in Delhi the level of detail and atmosphere are sufficient to give readersplenty to dwell on, while being written in a style that is not socomplex it cannot be easily read and followed. Gulf War veteran LukeWeaver, working for the British Secret Service in Special Ops, kicksoff the story. To all but a few select MI6 senior executives, Luke isa dead man, said to have perished in a failed operation. The storyopens with Luke on an operation in Yemen, on the edge of the Omaniborder, before moving the scene to The Pentagon and The White Housewhere the initial threads of the story are set in motion. As the world is caught in a very believable predicament, the British and Americangovernments combine forces by sending their best agents into thebattle of power and politics: Luke Weaver from one side, and theresourceful Kirin D Souza from the other. With well crafted actionscenes running alongside episodes in the White House where wordsbecome the weapons, Hollands has a knack of producing the right toneto his writing that ensures the scenes of political wrangling are just a fast paced and tense as anything else the book has to offer.Despite the scope of the novel, spanning so many continents andcountries, there are only a small number of central characters, allcrafted with their own personalities, weaknesses and strengths.Readers do not get bogged down in excessive back story for numerousbit-part characters, but instead are drawn into the richly constructed stories of Weaver and D Souza. The Paradigm Shift is a well- craftedthriller, boasting a captivating narrative that constantly switchesfrom one place to another ensuring that questions are left unansweredand the pace never slackens. The chapters are quite short, anotherplus point for me as this also aids to make this a page turner ,drawing the reader into continuing to just one more chapter, and justone more, and just one more. This is not my usual genre of choice, but the story has all of the ingredients of a good novel and for thatreason the novel gets full marks from me. Only a limited number ofauthors can write a genre novel that has a power to draw in those whodo not usually go for that subject matter. The Paradigm Shiftsurprised me by keeping my attention and driving me to follow thestory to it s conclusion, which is probably the best recommendation Ican give it. Highly recommended by Anthony Lund, Allbooks --Reviewwww.allbookreviews.com

A veces intrigante y otras encantadora, esta asombrosa primera novela teje un relato de amor, familia, historia y mitos desde la mirada de una mujer inmortal.  

Collete LeSange es una artista solitaria que dirige una elitista escuela de bellas artes para niños en Nueva York. Su belleza juvenil enmascara la oscura verdad de su vida: ha soportado siglos de conmoción y dolor como consecuencia de una decisión que su abuelo tomó hace mucho tiempo: convertirla en inmortal, como él. Ahora, en 1984, la vida de Collete cambia drásticamente con la llegada de un niño prodigio procedente de un hogar con problemas, el regreso de una presencia de su propio pasado y su misteriosa y creciente hambre.  

Combinando una prosa brillante con un suspense que te dejará sin aliento, La diosa de los finales actúa como una gran exploración de la condición humana en toda su complejidad, planteando la pregunta más fundamental: ¿es la vida en este mundo un regalo o una maldición? 

HACE MUCHO TIEMPO, YO LE ROBÉ EL CORAZÓN A LA HECHICERA. AHORA, ELLA QUIERE RECUPERARLO.
De niña, a Jules le enseñaron que el malvado Alquimista había robado el corazón de la bondadosa Hechicera, condenando a su pueblo a vivir y morir de acuerdo al tiempo atrapado dentro de su sangre y preservado en su moneda. Mientras los ricos llevan una vida próspera durante siglos, los pobres solo viven unos pocos años, si son afortunados.
Pero Jules acaba de descubrir la verdad: ella es la Alquimista y Caro ––la mujer que asesinó a sangre fría a la Reina y a Roan, su primer amor–– es la Hechicera.
Ahora Caro no se detendrá ante nada para destruir a Jules y recuperar su corazón. Obligada a huir de Everless, Jules tiene que indagar en las historias que antes consideró leyendas pero que ahora reconoce como relatos de su propio y peligroso pasado. Porque solo uniendo los misterios de su primera vida, Jules podrá salvar al joven del que se ha enamorado y acabar para siempre con la Hechicera.
«Un fantasy cargado de acción e imprescindible para todos los amantes de la literatura YA». –SLJ

CON EL TELÓN DE FONDO DE LA ANTIGUA BRITANIA, LLEGA UNA HISTORIA OSCURA Y POÉTICA SOBRE LAZOS FAMILIARES Y BRUJERÍA DE LA MANO DE UNA FASCINANTE VOZ NARRATIVA. En el antiguo reino de Dumnonia hay magia en el susurro del viento, en las raíces de los árboles, en cada brizna de hierba... El rey Cador lo sabía, pero ahora la tierra le ha dado la espalda y, en su lugar, ha llamado a sus descendientes. Riva puede curar a otras personas, pero parece no poder sanar sus propias heridas. Keyne lucha por ser aceptado como lo que realmente es: el hijo del rey. Y Sinne sueña con ver el mundo y vivir aventuras. La familia real teme una vida de confinamiento tras los muros de la resistencia, el último bastión de su pueblo contra los sajones invasores. Sin embargo, todo cambia el día en que cenizas caen del cielo. Y traen consigo a Myrdhin, un mago. Y a Tristan, un guerrero cuyos secretos los destruirán. Riva, Keyne y Sinne, tres jóvenes atrapados en una red de traiciones y sufrimiento, que deberán luchar para forjar sus propios caminos. Su historia definirá el destino de Britania.

Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer are among the greatest surviving Anglo-Saxon poems. They, and many their treasures, are included in The Anglo-Saxon World: hronicles, laws and letters, charters and charms, and above ll superb poems. Here is a word picture of a people who came to these islands as pagans and yet within two hundred years had become Christians, to such effect that England was the centre of missionary endeavour and, for a time, the heart of European civilization.

-Best seller del New York Times -Primer tomo de una bilogía -Un fantasy adictivo y con un toque de romance
El tiempo es una prisión, y ella es la llave. En las tierras de Sempera, los ricos controlan todo… incluso el tiempo. Desde la época legendaria de la alquimia y la hechicería, las horas, los días y los años se extrajeron de la sangre, se combinaron con el hierro y se conservaron en monedas. Ahora, aristócratas como la familia Gerling florecen durante siglos, mientras el pueblo vive sus escasos años con amargo resentimiento.
Y nadie está más resentida con los Gerling que Jules Ember. Su padre y ella trabajaron hace mucho tiempo en Everless, el palacio de los Gerling… hasta que un funesto accidente los desterró de allí. Ahora, desesperada por ganar tiempo, Jules regresa a Everless en medio de los preparativos para la boda de Roan, el más joven de los hermanos Gerling, con la hija de la Reina.
Entre la inesperada amabilidad de Roan, la crueldad de su hermano Liam y los escalofriantes rumores que rodean a la Reina, Everless posee más tentaciones –y peligros– de lo que Jules jamás imaginó. Las historias de su infancia comienzan a adoptar nuevos significados, arrojándola a un pasado cada vez más profundo que le cuesta reconocer y revelando una enredada trama de violentos secretos que podrían cambiar su futuro –y el futuro del tiempo– para siempre.

When it comes to stories of war, names like Andy McNab and Chris Ryanconstantly top the bestsellers list. These ex-SAS soldiers seem tohave found their niche in the market and fill it with fast-pacedthrillers that chart plots spanning whole wars and continents, decades and careers. Now another name could well be on the way to appearingalongside such bestselling authors. With The Paradigm Shift, RichardHolland has created a story that sits perfectly with the currentpolitical climate and the strained times we live in. From the openingchapter, the story drags the reader from page to page, location tolocation. The story, centring on the Indian Prime Minister s plan toshift power from America and its allies to India, is fictional, butthe depth of detail and research, combined with many of the world scurrent troubles could easily be documented from fact. Whether theaction takes place in The White House, undercover in Yemin or in Delhi the level of detail and atmosphere are sufficient to give readersplenty to dwell on, while being written in a style that is not socomplex it cannot be easily read and followed. Gulf War veteran LukeWeaver, working for the British Secret Service in Special Ops, kicksoff the story. To all but a few select MI6 senior executives, Luke isa dead man, said to have perished in a failed operation. The storyopens with Luke on an operation in Yemen, on the edge of the Omaniborder, before moving the scene to The Pentagon and The White Housewhere the initial threads of the story are set in motion. As the world is caught in a very believable predicament, the British and Americangovernments combine forces by sending their best agents into thebattle of power and politics: Luke Weaver from one side, and theresourceful Kirin D Souza from the other. With well crafted actionscenes running alongside episodes in the White House where wordsbecome the weapons, Hollands has a knack of producing the right toneto his writing that ensures the scenes of political wrangling are just a fast paced and tense as anything else the book has to offer.Despite the scope of the novel, spanning so many continents andcountries, there are only a small number of central characters, allcrafted with their own personalities, weaknesses and strengths.Readers do not get bogged down in excessive back story for numerousbit-part characters, but instead are drawn into the richly constructed stories of Weaver and D Souza. The Paradigm Shift is a well- craftedthriller, boasting a captivating narrative that constantly switchesfrom one place to another ensuring that questions are left unansweredand the pace never slackens. The chapters are quite short, anotherplus point for me as this also aids to make this a page turner ,drawing the reader into continuing to just one more chapter, and justone more, and just one more. This is not my usual genre of choice, but the story has all of the ingredients of a good novel and for thatreason the novel gets full marks from me. Only a limited number ofauthors can write a genre novel that has a power to draw in those whodo not usually go for that subject matter. The Paradigm Shiftsurprised me by keeping my attention and driving me to follow thestory to it s conclusion, which is probably the best recommendation Ican give it. Highly recommended by Anthony Lund, Allbooks --Reviewwww.allbookreviews.com
Product Description
The Paradigm ShiftThe world watches, sickened by the thought of nuclear deterrents being used is the highly volatile exchanges between the Indian and Pakistan governments. The ensuing events lead to unparalleled chaos across the Middle east Gulf States as the supply of oil is not only threatenedbut finally extinguished. The US and UK governments collaborate toface the world threat head on...the President and his team useinternational d‚tente and political pressure to resolve the crisis, as well as dispatching two of their best agents into the field. LukeWeaver, weary from an assignment within Yemen and the dynamic Kirin,the American field officer familiar with the terrain... Behind thescenes, one of the world?s most powerful nations has secretly joinedan unholy alliance with India to change the axis of world power: nolonger does this axis wish to be dictated to by the US government...As the oil supplies run lower and lower, the world learns that this is only the beginning of their master plan. Fronted by the maniacal ofIndia, the axis plans to change the model of the world forever...theparadigm shift. Battling against time and treachery in the highestcorridors of White House power...the options are running out.

Mina Holland siempre ha estado interesada en la gastronomía y tiene suerte de vivir en Londres, una de las ciudades con la población inmigrante más variada del mundo entero. A partir de entrar en contacto con todas estas cocinas diferentes y de recorrer el mundo para su investigación, la idea de El atlas comestible fue tomando forma en su cabeza. Un libro que es mucho más que una recopilación de recetas o un listado de ingredientes: es una guía informal, absolutamente personal, entretenida, curiosa y práctica para entender que cuando comemos, también viajamos. Un libro para cocineros intrépidos que mezcla, como si de una receta más se tratara, anécdotas, historia, literaria y consejos de los mayores expertos gastronómicos del mundo.
Un libro que tiene su lugar tanto en la cocina como en el salón.