LETRAS

At the dawn of their adolescence, on the eve of the summer solstice, four young girls–Helena, Leonie, Niamh and Elle–took the oath to join Her Majesty’s Royal Coven, established by Queen Elizabeth I as a covert government department. Now, decades later, the witch community is still reeling from a civil war and Helena is the reigning High Priestess of the organization. Yet Helena is the only one of her friend group still enmeshed in the stale bureaucracy of HMRC. Elle is trying to pretend she’s a normal housewife, and Niamh has become a country vet, using her powers to heal sick animals. In what Helena perceives as the deepest betrayal, Leonie has defected to start her own more inclusive and intersectional coven, Diaspora. And now Helena has a bigger problem. A young warlock of extraordinary capabilities has been captured by authorities and seems to threaten the very existence of HMRC. With conflicting beliefs over the best course of action, the four friends must decide where their loyalties lie: with preserving tradition, or doing what is right.

Mel Robbins has spent her career teaching people how to push past their self-imposed limits to get what they truly desire. She has an in-depth understanding of the psychological and social factors that repeatedly hold you back, and more important, a unique set of tools for getting you where you want to be. In Stop Saying You're Fine, she draws on neuroscientific research, interviews with countless everyday people, and ideas she's tested in her own life to show what works and what doesn't. The key, she explains, is understanding how your own brain works against you. Because evolution has biased your mental gears against taking action, what you need are techniques to outsmart yourself.

Kafka en la orilla: Kafka Tamura se va de casa el día en que cumple quince años. Le llevan a ello las malas relaciones con su padre -un famoso escultor convencido de que su hijo repetirá el aciago sino de Edipo- y el vacío producido por la ausencia de su madre; se dirigirá al sur del país, donde encon­trará refugio en una peculiar biblioteca y conocerá a la misteriosa señora Saeki. Sus pasos se cruzan con los de otro personaje, Satoru Nakata, sobre quien se ha abatido la tragedia: de niño, durante la segunda guerra mundial, sufrió un accidente del que salió con secuelas y dificultades para comuni­carse... salvo con los gatos. Haruki Murakami (Kioto, 1949) es el escritor japo­nés que goza en la actualidad de mayor prestigio en el mundo entero. Ha merecido premios como el Noma, el Tanizaki, el Yomiuri, el Frank O'Connory el Franz Kafka. Tusquets Editores ha publicado su volumen de relatos titulado Sauce ciego, mujer dormida, y sus novelas Crónica del pájaro que da cuerda al mundo; Sputnik, mi amor; Al sur de la frontera, al oeste del Sol y Tokio blues. Norwegian Wood, además de Kafka en la orilla, una espléndida novela de madurez, proclamada mejor libro del año por el New York Times.