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Una lectura profundamente humana que demuestra que, incluso frente al mal absoluto, la esperanza puede sobrevivir en manos de los valientes.

In August 2017, over a thousand neo-Nazis, fascists, Klan members, and neo-Confederates descended on a small southern city to protest the pending removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. Within an hour of their arrival, the city’s historic downtown was a scene of bedlam as armored far-right...

Ben's ordinary big box enables him and Wags, his dog, to take off on some extraordinary, imaginary adventures. Ben's imagination turns his box into a variety of vehicles for great adventures where he discovers the sky's the limit...and young listeners will be encouraged to do the same.

She escaped her ex, broke, and pregnant. Only to be abducted by his identical twin brother...

Jules is an unknown English actress with a precarious career and a wayward but irresistible boyfriend, Trevor. But then she gets the break of a lifetime – a part as stand-in for Lila Dune, American film star and sex-symbol – and her world is transformed.

After thirty years cultivating fruits and vegetables, raising children, and teaching literature, Deborah Lee Luskin stepped out of her garden and into the forest. At sixty, it was time to age fiercely, overcome her suburban fear of getting lost in the woods and her urban reliance on street signs to know where she was. She wanted to forge her own path through the forest by following the deer. A dedicated locavore, Luskin didn’t want just to read the landscape, she also wanted to eat it.

Viveca Stevenson has it all: a handsome and successful husband, an adorable ten-year-old son, and a coastal dream house in Greenwich, Connecticut. She has a solid group of girlfriends and is content with the afterglow of the film career she’s left behind. But when a threatening letter arrives—from a man she does not remember—it cracks open a part of her past she thought was buried for good. A terrifying chain of events is set in motion, forcing Viveca to confront what happened on a shattering Halloween night in high school when she had a different name, a different face, a different voice.

Claudia Lee, 40, is pregnant with her third child, unhappy in her marriage, job, life, body. In the aftermath of a last straw moment that convinces Claudia to file for divorce, she meets Mhairi, a fairy godmother who gives Claudia a magical vacation, returning to life at age 20.

I thought my partner Jett was straight. Off limits. Until a text meant for his brother lands in my phone. Now I know exactly what he feels when he looks at me. We’re supposed to be taking a break for the holiday away from the city. Instead, we’re playing with fire in the woods. Every glance, every breath, every touch is a risk neither of us can afford. Because in our world, love is a liability. All we have on this mountain is our secret. Our truth about what we are to each other. But what if I want more?

Meet a man who was a medical doctor, a geologist, and a surveyor who also knew botany, zoology, and chemistry. Douglass Houghton was all of these, even though he stood barely five feet, four inches tall. Follow his trail as Michigan's first state geologist, as he explores the unknown wilderness of both peninsulas, in the 1830s and 1840s to discover the potential resources of a brand-new state.

Stroll with Deborah Louise Off along the beach with its crashing waves and gusty winds, and you will experience the solace she loves. Deborah paints scenes of family life that are so vivid and vulnerable you’ll feel like you’re there with her. Walk in her shoes as she grows from a young wife to the mother of five rambunctious children to a confident woman of faith. Her stories take us on a wild and tender roller-coaster, from hilarity to grief.

In the heart of Rome, the conclave is choosing a new Pope, and whoever wins will determine the fate of the Eternal City. Astrologer Mia and her fiancé Jacopo, a physician at the Santo Spirito Hospital, plan to marry, but the election result is a shock and changes everything. As Pope Innocent X takes the throne, he brings along his sister-in-law, the formidable Donna Olimpia Maidalchini, known as La Papessa – the female Pope. When Mia is offered a position as her personal astrologer, she and Jacopo find themselves on opposite sides of the most powerful family in Rome.

Former lawyer Merrin McKenzie has returned to her hometown of St Ives, the stunning coastal town in Cornwall. She has settled back into life there in a lovely cottage, and new friendships are beginning to blossom.

Tandis que ses filles prennent leur envol, elle nous emmène aux quatre coins du monde, de New York aux îles Saroniques en passant par Mumbai, Paris ou Berlin, tissant une méditation exaltante et follement intime sur le sens d'une maison et les fantômes qui la hantent. Entremêlant le passé et le présent, le personnel et le politique, la philosophie et l'histoire littéraire, convoquant Marguerite Duras ou Céline Sciamma, elle interroge avec acidité et humour le sens de la féminité et de la propriété.

At school they called her Porky on account of the pigs her family kept outside their bungalow near Heathrow. But she felt no different – not until she realised she was losing her innocence in a way that none of her friends could possibly imagine. Only a child robbed of her childhood can know too late what it means to be loved too little and loved too much.

Born into a driven and successful family, Winnie Knox tries—and fails—to impress her parents and siblings as she bounces from career to career, year to year. In a last-ditch effort, Winnie takes on consulting work at a stately home in England, hoping to gain a nice bit of prestige as she improves the massive British estate.

Tatiana Caldwell's childhood in London is idyllic and filled with the love of doting parents. But when they die in quick succession, she's left heartbroken and destitute. In 1864, at seventeen, she emigrates to Australia, determined to build a new, financially secure life for herself. After an apprenticeship as an undertaker's assistant with Crowe Funeral Services, Tatty marries owner Titus Crowe. Titus himself soon dies, and Tatty inherits the business, becoming Sydney's only female undertaker.

How does a psychologist fail to recognize that her intelligent, sensitive, and book-loving mother has created "the worst hoarder house ever seen?" After making the horrifying discovery that her mother had no water in her house for at least two years, Deborah Derrickson Kossmann begins the otherworldly excavation of a childhood home she hasn't been inside for three decades. Moving back and forth in time, from this surreal nightmare of an archaeological dig to recollecting her past and long buried family secrets, Kossmann seeks to untangle a web of complicated familial relationships.

Un divorce forcément douloureux, une grande maison victorienne troquée contre un appartement en haut d'une colline dans le nord de Londres, deux filles à élever et des factures qui s'accumulent... Deborah Levy a cinquante ans quand elle décide de tout reconstruire, avec pour tout bagage, un vélo électrique et une plume d'écrivain. L'occasion pour elle de revenir sur le drame pourtant banal d'une femme qui s'est jetée à corps perdu dans la quête du foyer parfait, un univers qui s'est révélé répondre aux besoins de tous sauf d'elle-même.

Circling the Wagons is a raw, courageous memoir that chronicles one woman’s journey to reclaim her life after surviving intra-familial childhood sexual abuse. After decades of silence, the author breaks that silence to tell the story she once could not, offering truth, validation, and hope to survivors everywhere, without oversharing. Written primarily for fellow survivors of childhood trauma, the book also speaks to friends, family members, and professionals seeking to better understand and support them.