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In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore, to farm, to hide, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth—breadwinner, celebrated Shakespearean actor, and master of the house in more ways than one—is at once a mesmerizing talent and a man of terrifying instability. One by one the children arrive, as year by year, the country draws frighteningly closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war. As the tenor of the world shifts, the Booths emerge from their hidden lives to cement their place as one of the country’s leading theatrical families. But behind the curtains of the many stages they have graced, multiple scandals, family triumphs, and criminal disasters begin to take their toll, and the solemn siblings of John Wilkes Booth are left to reckon with the truth behind the destructively specious promise of an early prophecy.

In this entertaining young readers edition of the environmental studies classic, Michael Pollan demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a reciprocal relationship. He links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, energy, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, coffee, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also helped them to thrive.

«Nunca antes el dicho de «el que no arriesga, no gana» había tenido tanto sentido. María y Tomás son los protagonistas de una historia principalmente de amor donde el riesgo les hizo ganar.» María Pombo María y Tomás han conectado a la primera. Pueden pasar horas y horas hablando sobre sueños o cómo cambiar el mundo. Cuando están juntos la magia flota en el aire, aunque ellos sean los últimos en enterarse. Pero ni la vida es un camino de rosas ni este libro es un cuento de hadas. Ellos lo descubrirán enseguida. Como también descubrirán el dolor, el temor, la amistad y, sobre todo, el amor. Esta es una historia de decisiones difíciles, de hacerse mayor de golpe, de realidades que nunca se soñaron y de ilusiones que se cumplen a base de tesón. Pero también es una historia sobre el valor de tomar las riendas de tu propia vida. Botas de colores para días de lluvia te invita a disfrutar del sol tras la tormenta.