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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...
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"A bold and inspiring memoir and manifesto from a renowned voice in the women's leadership movement who shows women how to cultivate the single skill they really need in order to thrive: the ability to let go. Once the poster girl for doing it all, after she had her first child, Tiffany Dufu struggled to accomplish everything she thought she needed to in order to succeed. Like so many driven and talented women who have been brought up to believe that...
4) 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...