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Veronika decide morir

Overview Veronika es una joven completamente normal. Es guapa, no le faltan pretendientes y tienen un buen trabajo. Su vida transcurre sin mayores sobresaltos, sin grandes alegrías ni grandes tristezas. Pero no es feliz. Por eso, una mañana de noviembre, Veronika decide acabar con su vida. Sueños y fantasías. Deseo y muerte. Locura y pasión. En su camino hacia la muerte, Veronika experimenta placeres nuevos y halla un nuevo sentido a la vida, un sentido que le había permanecido oculto hasta ahora, cuando tal vez ya sea demasiado tarde para echarse atrás. Veronika decide morir plantea que cada segundo de nuestra existencia optamos entre la alternativa de seguir adelante o de abandonar. Product Details BN ID: 2940000227299 Publisher: Sant Jordi Asociados Publication date: 5/8/2012 Language: Spanish

WOLF PACK:

Overview In early June 1945, nine American submarines slipped beneath the waves of the Tsushima Strait, picked their way through a dense minefield using state-of-the-art sonar, and entered the Sea of Japan, Emperor Hirohito’s "private pond." Over the next few weeks, these relentless hunters would decimate what remained of the Japanese merchant fleet, already driven to near extinction by coordinated submarine attack groups. It was the culmination of one of World War II’s most successful naval strategies–the wolf pack. In Wolf Pack,Steven Trent Smith, the acclaimed author of The Rescue, traces the development of the pack from its origins at the end of the First World War, through its devastating use by the Nazis against British convoys, to the key role it played in America’s victory in the Pacific. Drawing from personal letters and journals, ships’ logs, official reports, interviews, and thousands of top secret documents only recently declassified, Steven