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Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love touched the world and changed countless lives, inspiring and empowering millions of readers to search for their own best selves. Now, this beloved and iconic book returns in a beautiful 10th anniversary edition, complete with an updated introduction from the author, to launch a whole new generation of fans. In her early thirties, Elizabeth Gilbert had everything a modern American woman was supposed to want—husband, country home, successful career—but instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed by panic and confusion. This wise and rapturous book is the story of how she left behind all these outward marks of success, and set out to explore three different aspects of her nature, against the backdrop of three different cultures: pleasure in Italy, devotion in India, and on the Indonesian island of Bali, a balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence.

Emmy Harlow is a witch but not a very powerful one—in part because she hasn't been home to the magical town of Thistle Grove in years. Her self-imposed exile has a lot to do with a complicated family history and a desire to forge her own way in the world, and only the very tiniest bit to do with Gareth Blackmoore, heir to the most powerful magical family in town and casual breaker of hearts and destroyer of dreams. But when a spellcasting tournament that her family serves as arbiters for approaches, it turns out the pull of tradition (or the truly impressive parental guilt trip that comes with it) is strong enough to bring Emmy back. She's determined to do her familial duty; spend some quality time with her best friend, Linden Thorn; and get back to her real life in Chicago.

On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In a New Jersey laundry room, a woman does her lover’s washing and thinks about his wife. In Boston, a man buys his love child, his only son, a first baseball bat and glove. At the heart of these stories is the irrepressible, irresistible Yunior, a young hardhead whose longing for love is equaled only by his recklessness--and by the extraordinary women he loves and loses.

Unas emocionantes memorias de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, autor de El principito, basadas en sus experiencias en la Fuerza Aérea Francesa a comienzos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial Escrito en 1942, Piloto de guerra narra la experiencia del autor en la Fuerza Aérea Francesa como piloto de un avión de reconocimiento durante la batalla de Francia en 1940, centrándose en una misión sobre la ciudad de Arrás. La obra, publicada durante el exilio de Saint-Exupéry en Estados Unidos, es un relato y una reflexión acerca de la derrota de Francia, así como un llamamiento al país del norte para que se sume a la guerra contra el Tercer Reich. Publicado originalmente en Estados Unidos en francés e inglés, el libro fue prohibido en Francia, pero circuló en ediciones clandestinas durante la guerra.

Publicada en 1931, Vuelo nocturno se basa en las experiencias de Antonine de Saint-Exupéry como piloto de la compañía aérea Latécoère, que buscaba abrir nuevas rutas para el correo entre América, África y Europa en los años veinte, cuando los vuelos estaban llenos de peligros e incertidumbre. La novela narra una misión nocturna sobre la Patagonia argentina, durante la que un piloto portador del correo del sur se ve atrapado en un enorme frente de tomermenta. Sus ansiedades y las del personal de tierra se mezclan para reflejar todo el drama de una profesión en la que, en ciertos momentos, el deber llegaba a fundirse con el heroísmo.

Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father just as quick to accept on her behalf. Having barely left girlhood behind, Lucrezia must now enter an unfamiliar court whose customs are opaque and where her arrival is not universally welcomed. Perhaps most mystifying of all is her new husband himself, Alfonso. Is he the playful sophisticate he appeared to be before their wedding, the aesthete happiest in the company of artists and musicians, or the ruthless politician before whom even his formidable sisters seem to tremble?