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William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him—so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college, it’s as if the world has lit up around him. With Julia comes her family, as she and her three sisters are inseparable: Sylvie, the family’s dreamer, is happiest with her nose in a book; Cecelia is a free-spirited artist; and Emeline patiently takes care of them all. With the Padavanos, William experiences a newfound contentment; every moment in their house is filled with loving chaos. But then darkness from William’s past surfaces, jeopardizing not only Julia’s carefully orchestrated plans for their future, but the sisters’ unshakeable devotion to one another. The result is a catastrophic family rift that changes their lives for generations. Will the loyalty that once rooted them be strong enough to draw them back together when it matters most?

In San Francisco in 1866, an Irish nun, abandoned following a torrid relationship with a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a daughter named Emilia del Valle. Raised by a loving stepfather, Emilia grows into an independent thinker and a self-sufficient young woman. To pursue her passion for writing, she is willing to defy societal norms. At the age of seventeen, she begins to publish pulp fiction using a man’s pen name. When these fictional worlds can no longer satisfy her sense of adventure, she turns to journalism, convincing an editor at The Daily Examiner to hire her. There she is paired with another talented reporter, Eric Whelan.

¿Quién eres? ¿De donde viene el mundo?.. Éste es el punto de partida de una apasionada expedición a través de la historia de la filosofía con un enigmático filósofo. Es la primera novela hasta el momento que presenta una completa-y entretenida- historia de la filosofía desde sus inicios hasta nuestros días.

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.

In Gallup, New Mexico, where violent crime is five times the national average, a serial killer is operating unchecked, his targets indigent Native people whose murders are easily disguised as death by exposure on the frigid winter streets. He slips unnoticed through town, hidden in plain sight by his unassuming nature, while the voices in his head guide him toward a terrifying vision of glory. As the Gallup detectives struggle to put the pieces together, they consider calling in a controversial specialist to help.

Más de siglo y medio después de la muerte de Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), celebramos la publicación de los Ensayos completos de uno de los mayores cuentistas y, en general, uno de los más importantes escritores de la historia. Lejos de ser la persona atormentada y melancólica que en ocasiones se nos ha presentado, esta edición muestra a un Poe comprometido con la literatura y la estética, así como con la crítica literaria de la obra de sus contemporáneos. En este primer volumen ?traducido por uno de los grandes expertos de su obra, Antonio Rivero Taravillo?, el creador y el intelectual confluyen en estos textos magistrales y poco conocidos, abarcando desde el análisis más profundo del verso y la composición poética, a la crítica atenta de autores como Dickens, Coleridge, Hazlitt o Defoe. Reunidos por primera vez en español y en tres volúmenes, en estos Ensayos completos se podrá comprobar el talento de Poe para hablar de literatura y el contexto cultural en el que participó. Una oportunidad para descubrir, por fin, todas aquellas facetas menos conocidas del autor de obras maestras como La caída de la casa Usher, El cuervo o Los crímenes de la calle Morgue.