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A Modest Proposal' is a 1729 Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift. Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocked heartless attitudes towards the poor as well as British policy toward the Irish in general.

In this third book in the Palo Alto Adventure series, Carlos discovers the secret of the underground river with a dangerous trip inside the waterfall tunnel. Elena and Rafael's Great-aunt Elena tells them about a family secret that has been hidden for over 60 years and that would have further united Juanita's family with the Palmas, owners of the historical Hacienda Palo Alto. Gertrudes, the old family cook, tells them of her adventures during the Mexican Revolution, including facing a firing squad! While the TV Company is filming them again "discovering" the treasure cavern, Leora, Juanita,...

La vida es barata. Las ciudades estado de Zar y Perdition luchan entre sí por el control de una isla que las separa. Zar lucha por la libertad de todos, mientras que Perdition refuerza el status quo. El Director de Perdition ha enviado a su hijo menor, Ollie, en una misión especial a la ciudad enemiga de Zar para poner fin a la guerra. A Zorra, una hija de Zar, se le pide que haga el máximo sacrificio para traer la paz a la tierra. Antes de que se celebre un armisticio, golpea la muerte. ¿Podrán Zorra y Ollie superar sus diferencias y traer paz a sus ciudades? ¿Quién está involucrado...

Quentin Coldwater's life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter: when he turns up for his entrance interview to Princeton he finds his interviewer dead - but a strange envelope bearing Quentin's name leads him down a very different path to any he'd ever imagined. The envelope, and the mysterious manuscript it contains, leads to a secret world of obsession and privilege, a world of freedom and power and, for a while, it's a world that seems to answer all Quentin's desires. But the idyll cannot last - and when it's finally shattered, Quentin is drawn into something darker and far...