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Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her husband’s venture capital firm, and in doing so, is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the blank slate of a beautiful midtown penthouse, in the city that she has always loved. It is also where her two adult daughters now live. As Kezia settles into her new apartment, she meets her movie-star next-door neighbor, Sam Stewart, whose terrace borders hers. Just a couple of weeks after she arrives, however, a devastating crisis strikes New York City. Kezia and Sam find themselves connecting over their strong impulse to help those in need. As they share a life-changing experience of volunteering, a bond is sparked and a friendship is formed. Kezia’s daughters, Kate and Felicity, are taken aback by their mother’s new friendship, both more focused on their own love lives than hers. But Kezia is learning that the changes she’s making are just what she needs to open new horizons. In this powerful and moving new novel, Danielle Steel illuminates the importance of human connection and embracing brave change, proving it’s never too late for a brand-new start.

She said, We needed a tool. So I asked the gods. There have always been whispers. Legends. The warrior who cannot be killed. Who’s seen a thousand civilizations rise and fall. He has had many names: Unute, Child of Lightning, Death himself. These days, he’s known simply as “B.” And he wants to be able to die. In the present day, a U.S. black-ops group has promised him they can help with that. And all he needs to do is help them in return. But when an all-too-mortal soldier comes back to life, the impossible event ultimately points toward a force even more mysterious than B himself. One at least as strong. And one with a plan all its own. In a collaboration that combines Miéville’s singular style and creativity with Reeves’s haunting and soul-stirring narrative, these two inimitable artists have created something utterly unique, sure to delight existing fans and to create scores of new ones.

Meet Jessica Jones: Retired super hero, private investigator, loner. She tried her best to be a shiny spandex crimefighter, but that life only led to unspeakable trauma. Now she avoids that world altogether and works on surviving day-to-day in Hell’s Kitchen, New York. The morning a distraught mother comes into her office, Jessica would prefer to nurse her hangover and try to forget last night’s poor choices. But something about Amber Randall’s story strikes a chord with her. Amber is adamant that something happened to her teenage twins while they were visiting their father in the UK. The twins don’t act like themselves, and they now have flawless skin, have lost their distinctive tics and habits, and keep talking about a girl named Belle. Amber insists her children have been replaced by something horrible, something “perfect.” Traveling to a small village in the British countryside, Jessica meets the mysterious Belle, who lives a curiously isolated life in an old farmhouse with a strange woman who claims to be her guardian. Can this unworldly teenager really be responsible for the Randall twins’ new personas? Why does the strange little village of Barton Wallop seem to harbor dark energies and mysteries in its tight-knit community?

NFTs aren’t just pictures on the internet, or a fad that has come and gone. Rather, they’re a new technology for creating digital assets and providing irrefutable proof of ownership. NFTs open up markets that have never before existed, and are already revolutionizing commerce and brand-building at everything from hot startups to Fortune 500 companies. Kominers and Kaczynski have created a framework that explains what NFTs are, why they’re valuable, and how businesses can leverage them to build highly engaged and intensely loyal communities around their products and brands. Through original research and industry experience, Kominers and Kaczynski describe the possibilities of this new digital frontier with clarity and rigor. The Everything Token is the essential primer on this innovation that has the potential to transform all aspects of business.

Mary Oliver touched countless readers with her tender, accessible poetry, expressing her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Her verses deftly wove close observations of nature with an evergreen state of wonder. She regarded the outdoors with awe, encouraging readers to step outside and breathe in nature’s glory. This deck of fifty inspirational quotes, all pulled from Oliver’s oeuvre, offer bite-sized pieces of life advice—from simple directives like “as long as you are dancing, you can break the rules,” to the entirety of her ode to interpretations of heaven, “Yellow.” “Come to the pond,” she implores, “and live your life.” Pull a card each morning for daily reflection or display a card on the included stand, returning again and again to the simple insight of Oliver’s words. With delightful nature drawings alongside Oliver’s celebrated verses, Instructions for Living provides readers an intimate opportunity to engage with Mary Oliver’s inspiring words, day after day.

Bienvenidos al hotel Forest Manor, un encantador establecimiento en el que tanto los huéspedes como el personal son como de la familia. Excepto Izzy y Lucas, claro, pues la rivalidad que hay entre ellos es tal que incluso les han prohibido coincidir en el mismo turno. Tras dos años de penurias, tal vez haya llegado el momento de que el hotel cierre sus puertas para siempre. Pero entonces Izzy devuelve un anillo perdido a su dueño y la recompensa que recibe convence a la dirección de que tal vez hayan encontrado la solución a sus problemas. Quedan cuatro anillos más en la caja de objetos perdidos, y recae sobre Lucas y ella la responsabilidad de salvar sus empleos. Conforme su amarga enemistad va tornándose en algo diferente (y mucho más complicado), ambos comienzan a preguntarse si podría estar en juego mucho más que el destino de su querido hotel... ¿Podrán salir de diciembre con el corazón intacto?

INTROVERTIDO. CAUTELOSO. EXTREMADAMENTE CORRECTO. Kai depende de una votación para convertirse en el CEO de su imperio familiar, por lo que el billonario no puede permitirse el lujo de distraerse con Isabella. Sofocado por responsabilidades y promesas, cuando están juntos siente que finalmente puede respirar. AUDAZ. IMPULSIVA. ALEGRE. Isabella no ha asistido a una sola fiesta en la que no fuera el centro de atención ni ha conocido a un hombre al que no pueda enamorar…, excepto a Kai, que es miembro del club exclusivo en el que trabaja como camarera. Pero aunque les cueste todo lo que tienen, no pueden resistirse a caer en la tentación de sus deseos prohibidos.

Yeongju ha pasado toda su vida haciendo lo que se esperaba de ella: estudiar, casarse y tener un trabajo respetable. Hasta que un día, cansada, abandona su trabajo de oficina para perseguir su sueño: abrir una librería en un barrio tranquilo y encantador de Seúl. Allí, rodeados de libros, Yeongju y sus clientes se cobijan del mundo. Del barista solitario a la vendedora de café infelizmente casada, todos han vivido decepciones en el pasado. La librería Hyunam-Dong se convertirá en el lugar donde todos ellos aprenden a disfrutar de la vida. Una tierna historia sobre la importancia de encontrar paz y aceptación en la vida, y sobre el poder curativo de los libros.

Georgia Stanton regresa a su pueblo natal después de la muerte de su bisabuela, una famosa escritora de romance a quien quiso como a una madre. Como heredera de sus derechos de autor, es la única que puede decidir el futuro del último manuscrito que quedó incompleto. El encargado de terminar el texto será Noah Harrison, un arrogante y atractivo autor superventas a quien Georgia odia desde el primer minuto y que deberá ganarse su confianza, aunque puede que quizás acabe conquistando su corazón… Juntos, se dan cuenta de que Scarlett estaba guardando la historia de amor más grande para el final: la suya propia. Pero lo que Georgia y Noah no sospechan es que esta historia esconde un gran secreto que podría cambiarlo todo…Narrada en líneas de tiempo alternas, El amor que dejamos atrás examina los riesgos que tomamos por amor y las profundas cicatrices que dejan el amor de una vida.