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Una nueva traducción del manual de vida de Epicteto, un texto que destila los principios del estoicismo en consejos prácticos y directos para cultivar la resiliencia, la paz interna y la libertad personal. Epicteto, maestro de la Antigüedad y uno de los más grandes filósofos estoicos, promulgaba que la felicidad se logra al aceptar lo que no podemos cambiar y en trabajar para mejorar lo que sí está bajo nuestro control. En El arte de vivir, sus lecciones se transforman en un compendio de sabiduría accesible, enfocada en fortalecer la resiliencia emocional y fomentar un bienestar duradero.

He hates her guts. She’d rather shoot off her own foot than ask for help. Maggie Murphy has been away from home too long, and her brother Charlie has made a mess of the family’s ranch and the family’s reputation. Max Welling, the cowboy who saves Maggie from a band of trail robbers, doesn’t even know her, and he already hates her guts. When Charlie kidnaps three small children, Maggie realizes how deep her brother’s treachery runs, and she vows to stop Charlie before more innocent people get hurt.

When August’s brother disappears before his sophomore semester, everyone thinks the stress of college got to him. But August knows her brother would never have left her voluntarily, especially not after their mother so recently went missing. The only clue he left behind was a note telling her to stay safe and protect their remaining family. And after August is attacked by a ten-foot-tall creature with fur and claws, she realizes that her brother might be in more danger than she could have imagined.

Un texto clásico y muy relevante del Budismo Tibetano en una versión accesible para todos los lectores. Con incontables ediciones a lo largo de los...

Nora hält nicht sonderlich viel davon, sich in ihrem ruhigen Alltag stören zu lassen. Der wird jedoch komplett auf den Kopf gestellt, als während eines Schneesturms ein als Krampus verkleideter Mann in ihrem Stall Zuflucht sucht. Es sollte nur für eine Nacht sein, doch der Sturm hält an, sodass er erst einmal bei ihr festsitzt! Unweigerlich muss sie sich näher mit ihrem Gast befassen. Dabei zeigt sich, dass es gar kein Kostüm ist, der Krampus ist echt! Doch wie ist so etwas möglich? Ist er wirklich DER Krampus? Oder sieht er nur so aus? Wurde er verflucht? Und kann man den Fluch brechen?

"This novel will grab you in the gut and hold you there. It’s absolutely outstanding. Once I entered this world I didn’t want to leave.” —Roxane Gay, author of Opinions In this taut Southern family drama featuring multicast narration, the sins of a favorite son rock a small Mississippi...

Eric loves nothing more than the escape of being on stage in his persona of Miss Sassy Frass, but events from five years ago won't let him enjoy the present. After losing the limelight he's come to rely on, this bratty drag queen struggles to find another way to forget his pain. Matt didn't expect his fiancée to up and desert him when he left Boston to help his mother through her chemotherapy treatments. Nor did he expect to lose all of his friends as a result of the breakup.

In The Highly Sensitive, you will realize why high sensitivity is a gift that requires careful management. You will discover how to solve the common problems faced by HSPs the world over and how to live a happy, fulfilling life that lets you use your abilities to the fullest.

With the U.S. DOJ Special Task Force, Operation Avenging Angel, crumbling around her, former Russian assassin Anastasia “Anya” Burinkova finds herself once again with one foot inside the law and the other treading old, familiar ground just beyond the fine line separating the lives of those who are fortunate enough to turn a blind eye to the harsh realities of the darker elements of society and those who see nothing but the shadowy, boundless world of ultimate cruelty, mindless depravity, and the irresistible allure of the seven deadly sins.

En este tercero y último libro de la Trilogia Pa’l Viaje: Una Luz Resplandeciente, queda claro que Tu Mejor Companero de Viaje no son propiamente los libros que conforman la saga, sino la Luz que Resplandece cuando se devela lo que esta oculto.

A cozy small-town Thanksgiving featuring a wedding, a cookoff, and a murder. The Inn at Holiday Bay is a heartwarming cozy mystery series about losing everything, taking a chance, and starting again. After suffering a personal tragedy Abby Sullivan buys a huge old seaside mansion she has never even seen, packs up her life in San Francisco, and moves to Holiday Bay Maine, where she is adopted, quite against her will, by a huge Maine Coon Cat named Rufus, a drifter with her own tragic past named Georgia, and a giant dog with an inferiority complex named Ramos.

A deep kiss and a single rule. Like most women in dead-end relationships, Holly Markham was used to finding substitutes for love. But throwing herself into the arms of a leather-clad stranger was never on her list. When Holly's best friend Tori takes her to a dance for lesbians only, she realizes that Tori is gently trying to push her out of the closet. While it was true that Holly had been trying to come to terms with her growing attraction toward women, no one expected Holly to take one look at the mysterious Reyna and fall hopelessly in lust.

Antes de la publicación de La tumba en 1964, no existía en la literatura mexicana un escritor que transgrediera las formas narrativas como lo hizo José Agustín con su primera novela. La tumba seguirá siendo leída por distintas generaciones por su intacto espíritu rebelde, desencantado y mordaz. Un clásico que celebra sus primeros 50 años.

Hailed as “The Paris Review of BIPOC literature,” Kweli Journal has been a launching pad for many of today’s most celebrated writers. This powerful anthology marks the journal’s 15th anniversary, showcasing 15 unforgettable stories curated by founder Laura Pegram. With a foreword from award-winning author Edwidge Danticat, the narratives included in this vivid anthology explore the devastation of leaving home and the struggle to adapt to reimagined lives, lost loves, distant families, and buried pasts.

In this riveting continuation of the Brisco family saga, brothers Dub and Tim strive to persevere against their early 1900s post-slavery beginnings—clashing with their history of family trauma and their different coping mechanisms for living in a world that doesn’t accept them. While Dub becomes a respected coal miner and finds prosperity for his family, Tim continues a slow descent into a fog of psychosis, alcoholism, and perpetual joblessness—forced to live an isolated existence on Dub’s property despite his desire for deeper connection.

L’incontro casuale tra un uomo, Larraby e una donna, Celia, in un’assolata località di vacanza spagnola è l’incipit che dà il via al racconto di una vita ormai trascorsa. Celia si confida con lo sconosciuto, non gli nasconde nulla del suo passato, soprattutto della sua esperienza matrimoniale andata in frantumi. Parla di sé senza reticenze, forse perché finalmente si è assunta la responsabilità di quanto è accaduto ed è forse disposta a ricominciare a sperare.

This compelling and complex romance about love across cultures follows a Black girl and Brown boy who find themselves—and each other—while pursuing their passions the summer before college.

Artemis Fowl tiene doce años, una mente privilegiada y un plan perfecto: robar el oro de las criaturas mágicas para financiar su pequeño imperio criminal. Lo que todavía no sabe es que los duendes, elfos y hadas del mundo subterráneo poco se parecen a los de los cuentos infantiles...Equipados con la tecnología más puntera y armados hasta los dientes, están más que preparados para la lucha. Pero Artemis también.

From 1845 to 1865 the Gulf of Mexico was at the center of American expansion and southern imperialism. A Continuous State of War tells the story of several communities as well as countries such as Mexico and Cuba, to uncover the way that wars within the upper rim of the Gulf of Mexico facilitated American and southern attempts to conquer Latin American nations. In the push for westward expansion that preceded the Civil War, white southerners along with other Americans engaged in violent conquest in Latin America and the American West.

Bath 1830. Percival Webster, duca di Clarendon, è convinto che le rigide norme che regolano la vita sociale del Ton siano eccellenti e giuste e che vadano applicate con rigore, senza eccezioni. In ottemperanza a questo stile di vita, ha deciso di contrarre un matrimonio di convenienza scegliendo, come futura duchessa, una lady adeguata sotto tutti i punti di vista: non troppo bella, non troppo intelligente, non troppo appariscente. A tal proposito, ha individuato in Lady Albertina Cadwell l’esemplare perfetto.