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In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.

¿La tecnología amenaza nuestra paz? Un apasionantethriller histórico de vertiginosa actualidad, que enfrenta pasado y presente, tradición y tecnología, por el autor deEl club Dante. Boston, 1868. El Instituto de Tecnología de Massachusetts se ha adjudicado la misión de utilizar la ciencia en beneficio de todos. Sin embargo, cuando los instrumentos de navegación de los buques se descontrolan inexplicablemente y, poco después, otra misteriosa catástrofe deja devastado el corazón de la ciudad, una implacable sombra se cierne sobre el MIT. ¿Se trata de un sabotaje llevado a cabo con medios científicos o es la Naturaleza que se rebela contra el intento humano de controlarla?

Historia y suspense sobre la misteriosa muerte de Edgar Allan Poe. Una novela del autor de El Club Dante. Una muerte. Dos investigadores. Un duelo de inteligencias. Baltimore, 1849. El cuerpo de Edgar Allan Poe es enterrado en una tumba sin nombre. El público, la prensa y la propia familia asumen su condición de escritor caído en desgracia, de borracho con un patético final. Pero un joven abogado llamado Quentin Clark decide descifrar las extrañas circunstancias de la muerte de Poe. Inspirado por los relatos del autor, Clark intenta encontrar a la única persona que puede resolver este extraño caso: el personaje real en el que se basó Poe para crear al infalible detective C. Auguste Dupin.

Emoción, drama y mucha pasión en una novela que fascinará a las lectoras de La hipótesis del amor. El sueño de Laura Collins siempre ha sido seguir la estela de sus padres, que se conocieron y enamoraron en el Hospital Whitestone de Phoenix, Arizona, uno de los mejores centros médicos del país. Cuando por fin logra la ansiada plaza como residente de primer año siente que su sueño se ha cumplido y ni siquiera la ruptura con su pareja va a poder arrebatárselo. Sin embargo, una vez allí, Laura será puesta a prueba con cada paciente, bajo el estrés, el desgaste emocional, los accidentes, enfermedades e incluso la muerte, además de sentir el miedo perenne a equivocarse. A pesar de todo, cuenta con el apoyo del resto de residentes -Mitch, Sierra, Maisie y Jane- que se convertirán casi en familia y le harán la vida más fácil.

The automobile industry has abandoned Vacca Vale, Indiana, leaving its residents behind, too. In a run-down apartment building on the edge of town, commonly known as the Rabbit Hutch, lives one of these people, a young girl named Blandine Watkins, who The Rabbit Hutch centers around. Hauntingly beautiful and unnervingly bright, Blandine lives alongside three teenage boys, all recently aged out of the state foster-care system, all of them madly in love with Blandine. Plagued by the structures, people, and places that not only failed her but actively harmed her, Blandine pays no mind to their affection. All she wants is an escape, a true bodily escape like the mystics describe in the books she reads.

True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they’ll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who’s never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school’s golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the hearing headmistress, a CODA (child of deaf adult(s)) who is fighting to keep her school open and her marriage intact, but might not be able to do both. As a series of crises both personal and political threaten to unravel each of them, Charlie, Austin, and February find their lives inextricable from one another—and changed forever.