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"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." It's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city. In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax. In a novel in which she perfects the interior monologue and recapitulates the life cycle in the hours of the day, from first light to the dark of night, Woolf achieves an uncanny simulacrum of consciousness, bringing past, present, and future together, and recording, impression by impression, minute by minute, the feel of life itself.

En el invierno de 1835, Charles Dickens es un joven periodista que se está haciendo un nombre en el Evening Chronicle. Durante una cena en casa del codirector del periódico, Charles queda prendado de la hija de su jefe, la alegre Kate Hogarth, de diecinueve años. De pronto, un grito interrumpe la agradable velada. Charles, Kate y su pa-dre corren a la casa de los vecinos, donde la señorita Christiana Lugoson yace inconsciente en el suelo. Cuando un colega le pone al corriente de una misteriosa muerte muy similar sucedida el año anterior, Charles empieza a sospechar que se trata de un envenenamiento y se siente obligado a investigar.

Don't let the title fool you. This isn't a book about high fiving everyone else in your life. You're already doing that. Cheering for your favorite teams. Celebrating your friends. Supporting the people you love as they go after what they want in life. Imagine if you gave that same love and encouragement to yourself. Or even better, you made it a daily habit. You'd be unstoppable. In this encouraging book, Mel teaches you how to start high fiving the most important person in your life, the one who is staring back at you in the mirror: YOURSELF.

Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation—awkward but electrifying—something life changing begins. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.

EDICIÓN ILUSTRADA de Frankenstein, una historia aterradora y maravillosa que asombró al mundo. Los famosos poetas lord Byron y Percy B. Shelley, junto a sus jóvenes amantes, se entregaron a un juego literario que consistía en idear el cuento más espantoso que se pudiera imaginar. Ninguno de los presentes logró completar un buen relato… salvo la joven amante de Shelley; aquella noche concibió una historia aterradora y maravillosa: Frankenstein. Desde su publicación asombró al mundo y en pocos años adquirió la categoría de «mito moderno».

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.