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Exiled back to Montverre, an ancient and elite academy hidden in the mountains where his fate hangs in the balance, Léo Martin, in the rarified world of learning he once loved, feels a strange connection to the new Magister as the legendary Midsummer Game approaches.
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Set in the 23rd century, "The glass bead game" is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish. Since childhood, Knecht has been consumed with mastering the Glass Bead Game, which requires a synthesis of aesthetics and scientific arts, such as mathematics, music, logic, and philosophy, which he achieves in adulthood, becoming a Magister Ludi (Master...
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"A masterly locked-room mystery set in a near-future Orwellian state. The year is 2037, and on the tiny island of Isola, seven people have been selected to compete in a forty-eight-hour test for a top-secret intelligence position with the totalitarian Union of Friendship. One of them is Anna Francis, a workaholic bureaucrat with a nine-year-old daughter she rarely sees and a secret that haunts her. Her assignment: to stage her own death and then to...
5) La isla
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Una isla aislada, siete candidatos optan al mismo trabajo secreto, una espeluznante prueba de estrés psicológico de 48 horas y el asesinato en directo de una mujer inestable. Es el año 2037, y en la pequeña isla de Isola siete personas han sido seleccionadas para participar en un juego mental patrocinado por el estado para reclutar al candidato ideal para un puesto en el servicio de inteligencia de la totalitaria Unión de la Amistad. Uno...
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