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Isha Patel is the black sheep of the family. She doesn’t have a “prestigious” degree or a “real” career, and her parents never fail to remind her. But that’s okay because she commiserates with her cousin, best friend, and fellow outcast, Rohan.   When Isha has a breakthrough getting her script in front of producers, it doesn’t go according to plan. Instead of letting her dreams fall through the cracks, Rohan convinces her to snag a pitch session with an Austinite high-profile celeb: the one and only Matthew McConaughey, who also happened to be her professor at the University of Texas years ago—he has to remember her, right? Chasing Matthew McConaughey isn’t easy. Isha needs a drink or two to muster up courage, and she gets a little help from the cutest bartender she’s ever encountered. But when the search for the esteemed actor turns into a night of hijinks and unexpected—albeit fun—chaos, everything falls apart. Isha’s dreams seem farther than ever, but she soon realizes who she really needs to face and that her future may just be alright, alright, alright.

Basil Hallward había terminado el retrato. El joven Dorian, al verlo, no pudo más que desear, desde su frívola inocencia, que fuera su imagen la que envejeciera y se corrompiera con el paso de los años mientras él permanecía intacto. Y así fue: a partir de entonces, Dorian Gray conservó el aspecto puro de los inocentes. Pero ¿a qué precio?

Antígona, hija del rey Edipo, se debate entre ceñirse a la ley impuesta o infringirla para honrar a su difunto hermano Antígona está basada en el mito de la mujer que se atrevió a enfrentarse a los hombres para lograr sus propósitos. En esencia, la trama de la obra plantea una reflexión sobre la tiranía, las razones del estado y los dilemas de conciencia. Representada por primera vez en el año 442 a.C., Sófocles utilizó personajes arquetípicos para contraponer dos nociones opuestas del deber: el respeto a las normas religiosas frente a las civiles, caracterizadas unas por Antígona y las otras por Creonte. Esta edición cuenta con la traducción y el prólogo Luis Gil, profesor emérito en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Incluye, además, el estudio en forma de epílogo realizado por los profesores de comunicación audiovisual de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra Jordi Balló y Xavier Pérez. «Y ¿qué derecho divino he transgredido? Mas ¿por qué he de poner, desdichada de mí, mi vista aún en los dioses? ¿A qué aliado puedo invocar?»

"Enormous and brilliant... A great epic tale"

War leaves nobody alone. Neither the past, the present, nor the future offers true safety, and the only refuge is what you can protect: your family, your friends, your home. Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1746, and it took them twenty years of loss and heartbreak to find each other again. Now it’s 1779, and Claire and Jamie are finally reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children, and are rebuilding their home on Fraser’s Ridge—a fortress that may shelter them against the winds of war as well as weather. But tensions in the Colonies are great: Battles rage from New York to Georgia and, even in the mountains of the backcountry, feelings run hot enough to boil Hell’s teakettle. Jamie knows that loyalties among his tenants are split and it won’t be long before the war is on his doorstep. Brianna and Roger have their own worry: that the dangers that provoked their escape from the twentieth century might catch up to them. Sometimes they question whether risking the perils of the 1700s—among them disease, starvation, and an impending war—was indeed the safer choice for their family.