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On January 20, 2001, after nearly thirty years in politics—eight of them as president of the United States—Bill Clinton was suddenly a private citizen. Only fifty-four years old, full of energy and ideas, he wanted to make meaningful use of his skills, his relationships with world leaders, and all he’d learned in a lifetime of politics, but how? Just days after leaving the White House, the call came to aid victims of a devastating earthquake in India, and Clinton hit the ground running. Over the next two decades, he would create an enduring legacy of public service and advocacy work, from Indonesia to Louisiana, Northern Ireland to South Africa, and in the process reimagine philanthropy and redefine the impact a former president could have on the world.

Song of great sorrow. Even greater love. Lost between the timeless lines of Homer’s epic, the women of Troy finally stand to be counted. Their story is one you’ve never encountered, and it will change the fate of Troy forever. Andromache has proven herself a capable leader, but can she maintain that hard-won status now that she is the mother to the city’s long-awaited heir? With enemies closing in, Andromache must bring together a divided city in time to make a final stand. Rhea is a Trojan spy, but she never expected to find love in the enemy camp. When the final battle lines are drawn, Rhea must decide where her loyalties lie and how much she is willing to lose. Helen is no longer the same broken woman first brought to Troy as a captive. Given a second chance at life, she must cast off her shroud of grief and use her healing gifts to save Troy’s greatest hope. Cassandra has seen Troy’s fate. But she knows the truth is only as valuable as the person who tells it . . . and few in Troy value her. All that is about to change. One hero will rise, another will fall . . . and this time, Cassandra will have her say.

Jennifer Worth lives to escape into the world of her favorite romantasy series Elytheum Courts, where the romance is sweeping and the men are brave, chivalrous . . . and winged. Newly single and craving connection, she travels to an immersive fan experience celebrating all things Elytheum, only to see the last face she expected—Scott Daniels, her work nemesis, whose disinterest in Jennifer’s favorite series and standoffishness have made their publishing jobs feel like a feuding fae court. Except the Scott she encounters at the Elytheum Experience, in his secondhand cosplay outfit, is . . . different. Swaggering, flirtatious, confident. Unlucky in romance himself and inspired by Jennifer’s love for the swoonworthy men of Elytheum, Scott is determined to remake himself into the perfect book boyfriend. Jennifer has no interest in helping the man who vexes her every workday and dismisses her fictional fantasies, but as the immersive convention activities force them together, they’re surprised to discover magic like none Jennifer has ever read about. But is enemies-to-lovers romance only for books, or can Jennifer and Scott bring the trope to life?

AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER Most of us assume that the key to overcoming anxiety is to think our way out of it. And for a while, it works. Meditation and mental exercises offer us relief, but there is always something—a work deadline, a family emergency, a particularly distressing newsbreak—that disrupts our sense of peace and sends us right back inside the same anxious spiral we’ve been trying to climb out of. Is there a way to reduce our anxiety, not just in the moment, but in every moment after that? After a lifetime of struggling with anxiety, Martha Beck studied just about everything there was to know about how to calm down. What she realized is that the analytical part of our brain—so valued in Western culture—is the same structure responsible for amping up anxiety. In other words, we cannot logic our way to relief. In Beyond Anxiety, she reveals that to find calm, we must activate an entirely different part of our brain, one responsible for curiosity, wonder, and, most of all, creativity.

Purpose is an active expression of our values and our compassion for others—it makes us want to get up in the morning and add value to the world. The Power of Purpose details a graceful, practical, and ultimately spiritual process for making it central to your life. This revitalized guide will help you integrate it into everything you do. This fourth edition has been completely revised and updated. With a new co-author, new stories and examples and resources, it taps into the broader need for purpose in our post-pandemic world. With more than 40% new content, readers will discover new insights on purpose, a new chapter on Becoming a Purposeful Leader, and The Purpose Formula which includes mind-opening questions to help you unlock your purpose and to live a life of meaning and fulfillment.

If you're injuring someone, you should stop—and pay for the damage you've caused. Why, this book asks, does this simple proposition, generally accepted, not apply to climate change? In Climate Justice, a bracing challenge to status-quo thinking on the ethics of climate change, renowned author and legal scholar Cass Sunstein clearly frames what’s at stake and lays out the moral imperative: When it comes to climate change, everyone must be counted equally, regardless of when they live or where they live—which means that wealthy nations, which have disproportionately benefited from greenhouse gas emissions, are obliged to help future generations and people in poor nations that are particularly vulnerable.

Emily Walker hates having her carefully crafted world disrupted by anyone, most of all her legendary nemesis, Jack Bennett. He’s the opposite of the wonderful heroes she dreams up in her double life as a romance writer, which is why Emily was perfectly happy when Jack left Rome, Kentucky, mid-school year with his fiancée. The last thing Emily saw coming was Jack’s return at the start of the summer after calling off the wedding and ending his relationship, but he’s here to stay—as her colleague and her neighbor. Jack is glad to be back, eager to renovate his house and work on the next mystery novel under his bestselling pen name. But when he realizes he’s now neighbors with the one woman who has always pushed his buttons, he discovers something he’s even more excited about—thwarting Emily and her petty plans to sabotage his return. With their chemistry-fueled animosity at an all-time high, Emily accidentally sends an email to their school’s principal that could reveal her secret literary side hustle. She needs to steal back her manuscript, and Jack—she hates to admit—is just the man to help her. Surprisingly, he agrees. Will their unlikely alliance put an end to their rivalry? Or could it lead to a steamy plot twist they never saw coming?

«Que, entendidas en términos extremos, la libertad y la igualdad sean opciones alérgicas la una a la otra no puede querer decir que estemos condenados a la injusticia. Sino, más sencillamente, que hay que renunciar a las utopías, a las opciones extremas». Firme defensor de ideales como la libertad y la democracia, durante más de cinco décadas Mario Vargas Llosa ha reflexionado en su obra literaria y en sus textos periodísticos sobre los problemas que conlleva la utopía política. Las piezas reunidas en este volumen colocan en el foco tres contextos que el autor conoce de primera mano. «A pesar de que América Latina, Israel e Irak son lugares distantes, con historias culturales y políticas difícilmente equiparables, no es tan difícil encontrar un hilo invisible que los une. […] Aquel periodo de tranquilidad ideológica que parecía haber llegado con la caída del comunismo demostró ser una ilusión. La historia seguía viva, más que nunca. El radicalismo islámico, el nacionalismo y el populismo no han dejado en estos años de ser amenazas serias para la libertad y la democracia. Estos ideales se han alejado un poco más, lamentablemente. América Latina no se convirtió en un oasis purgado de todos los vicios modernos, ni en la región donde surgiría un socialismo humanista y libertario. Al contrario, ha sido la política del resto de Occidente la que ha terminado pareciéndose a la latinoamericana: los demonios incubados en el reverso de la utopía —el fanatismo, el nacionalismo, el odio sectario, el populismo— andan sueltos, y ahora acechan a la humanidad entera». — Del prólogo de Carlos Granés

Los Esterházy, una pareja excéntrica sin un pasado claro, llegan a un pueblo de la costa argentina y comienzan a regentar un antiguo hotel. Estos dos seres (y sus dos hijos, una niña y un niño más inquietantes y enigmáticos que ellos) producen el efecto de una partícula enfermiza que se introduce en las grietas de una sociedad pequeña y arrasa con su dinámica cotidiana, aparentemente calma. La pareja resulta ser un amplificador de los prejuicios, los deseos ocultos, las supersticiones, los temores y la violencia larvada en muchos de los habitantes del pueblo. Arderá el viento es la historia de una degradación, de un descascaramiento agónico que poco a poco deja a la vista las miserias del cuerpo social. Expuesta al influjo de los Esterházy, la extraña villa costera deja aflorar la oscuridad que circula por sus zonas subterráneas, como si los visitantes fueran una piedra de toque maligna que lograra sacar a la luz la verdadera naturaleza de los personajes. Escrita en un estilo parco y de una rara intensidad, la novela es la cuidadosa construcción de un deterioro que, aunque transcurra en un país específico, acaba por ser una metáfora distorsionada del espíritu de nuestro tiempo.