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Today’s workers have more opportunities and mobility than any generation before. They also face unprecedented challenges, including inflation, labor and housing shortages, and climate volatility. Even the notion of retirement is undergoing a profound rethink, as our lifespans extend and our relationship with work evolves. In this environment, the tried-and-true financial advice our parents followed is no longer enough. It’s time for a new playbook.

Calabria, 1960. Francesca Loftfield, a twenty-seven-year-old, starry-eyed American, arrives in the isolated mountain village of Santa Chionia tasked with opening a nursery school. There is no road, no doctor, no running water or electricity. And thanks to a recent flood that swept away the post office, there’s no mail, either. Most troubling, though, is the human skeleton that surfaced after the flood waters receded. Who is it? And why don’t the police come and investigate? When the local priest’s housekeeper begs Francesca to help determine if the remains are those of her long-missing son, Francesca begins to ask a lot of inconvenient questions. As an outsider, she might be the only person who can uncover the truth. Or she might be getting in over her head. As she attempts to juggle a nosy landlady, a suspiciously dashing shepherd, and a network of local families bound together by a code of silence, Francesca finds herself forced to choose between the charitable mission that brought her to Santa Chionia, and her future happiness, between truth and survival. Set in the wild heart of Calabria, a land of sheer cliff faces, ancient tradition, dazzling sunlight—and one of the world’s most ruthless criminal syndicates—The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia is a suspenseful puzzle mystery, a captivating romance, and an affecting portrait of a young woman in search of a meaningful life.

In the bestselling The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver showed how forecasting would define the age of Big Data. Now, in this timely and riveting new book, Silver investigates “the River,” the community of like-minded people whose mastery of risk allows them to shape—and dominate—so much of modern life. These professional risk-takers—poker players and hedge fund managers, crypto true believers and blue-chip art collectors—can teach us much about navigating the uncertainty of the twenty-first century. By immersing himself in the worlds of Doyle Brunson, Peter Thiel, Sam Bankman-Fried, Sam Altman, and many others, Silver offers insight into a range of issues that affect us all, from the frontiers of finance to the future of AI. Most of us don’t have traits commonly found in the River: high tolerance for risk, appreciation of uncertainty, affinity for numbers—paired with an instinctive distrust of conventional wisdom and a competitive drive so intense it can border on irrational. For those in the River, complexity is baked in, and the work is how to navigate it. People in the River have increasing amounts of wealth and power in our society, and understanding their mindset—and the flaws in their thinking— is key to understanding what drives technology and the global economy today. Taking us behind the scenes from casinos to venture capital firms, and from the FTX inner sanctum to meetings of the effective altruism movement, On the Edge is a deeply reported, all-access journey into a hidden world of power bro­kers and risk-takers.

Anna ha perdido el apetito por la Gran Manzana, así que intercambia los rascacielos de Nueva York por el pequeño pueblo irlandés de Maumtully (población: 1.217 personas) para ayudar a sus amigos, Brigit y Colm, con su hotelito costero. Sin embargo, a los lugareños el negocio les parece una idea terrible. Tanto que, de hecho, el hotel recibe amenazas... y ataques. Pero para algo Anna ha trabajado en el mundo de la belleza: ninguna situación se pone demasiado fea para ella. El único obstáculo frente a ella es Joey Armstrong. Su antiguo amor y, ahora, su aliado pese a la historia que comparten y a todo lo que pudieron haber sido.

Londres, 1937. Si hay algo que Rebecca Heyworth odie más que asistir a las fiestas que organizan sus padres es saber que pronto se verá obligada a escoger marido. Ella no quiere a un hombre que la controle, solo quiere pintar y que la dejen vivir a su manera. De momento, tiene que conformarse con asistir a unas clases de arte, pero todo cambia cuando el atractivo Leopold se cruza en su camino. Leopold Blum, un pintor de origen alemán afincado en París, es miembro destacado del surrealismo y acude a la capital inglesa para exponer su obra. Fascinado por la vitalidad y la pasión de la joven, la invita a acompañarlo a Francia. Tras romper con su familia y su pasado, Rebecca viajará hasta la ciudad de la luz, donde se codeará con los artistas del momento, vivirá una intensa historia de amor y descubrirá su auténtico talento mientras la sombra de la Segunda Guerra Mundial se cierne sobre el futuro del mundo y amenaza con tomar las riendas de sus destinos.

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.