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Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her husband’s venture capital firm, and in doing so, is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the blank slate of a beautiful midtown penthouse, in the city that she has always loved. It is also where her two adult daughters now live. As Kezia settles into her new apartment, she meets her movie-star next-door neighbor, Sam Stewart, whose terrace borders hers. Just a couple of weeks after she arrives, however, a devastating crisis strikes New York City. Kezia and Sam find themselves connecting over their strong impulse to help those in need. As they share a life-changing experience of volunteering, a bond is sparked and a friendship is formed. Kezia’s daughters, Kate and Felicity, are taken aback by their mother’s new friendship, both more focused on their own love lives than hers. But Kezia is learning that the changes she’s making are just what she needs to open new horizons. In this powerful and moving new novel, Danielle Steel illuminates the importance of human connection and embracing brave change, proving it’s never too late for a brand-new start.

En el subsuelo de Londres, como debajo de cada gran ciudad, existe un mundo desconocido e invisible, plagado de extraños seres, en el que sobrevivir depende de abrir las puertas adecuadas... Hay mundos bajo tus pies, espías bajo las escaleras y formas que esperan al otro lado de los portales, que solo has atisbado en tus sueños. Tras leer Neverwhere nunca volverás a pasar por los sombríos lugares del mundo moderno con la misma confianza infantil.

Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political systems throughout history have wielded information to achieve their goals, for good and ill. And he addresses the urgent choices we face as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence.

Alma tiene diecisiete años, el pelo castaño, la boca un poco grande y los ojos oscuros. Tiene dos amigas íntimas, Greta y Nata, un puñado de gente con la que se va de fiesta y el recuerdo de una noche que le gustaría olvidar. Alma también tiene una cuenta en Instagram (@colemanmiller18, con 950K seguidores), aunque nadie sabe que es suya. Pero de todo lo que Alma tiene, lo más importante está dentro de la mochila negra que lleva a la espalda. Es algo que va a cambiar su vida en un instante. «Cuidado, aquí se esconde un violador.» Es lo que dicen las grandes letras color sangre en la tela que Alma acaba de colgar en la fachada de su instituto.

Supongamos que lo tienes todo: fama, dinero, reconocimiento profesional, una rica vida social... Y lo dejas todo. Pero lo dejas de verdad. Te vas a vivir a una cabaña abandonada, sin electricidad, sin ninguna de las llamadas «comodidades modernas», a 25 km de cualquier ser humano, en plena naturaleza. Y pasan los meses, y pasan los años, y decides que ésa es tu vida. Y te quedas. Supongamos que llevas años trabajando en la televisión, presentando un programa en 'prime time'. Lo tienes todo: fama, dinero, reconocimiento profesional, una rica vida social... Pero sientes que algo hace 'crack'. Y lo dejas todo. Pero lo dejas de verdad. Porque sabes que arrastras una herida profunda y muy antigua que ni la fama ni el dinero ni los reconocimientos han podido sanar. Y es hora de ocuparse de esa herida. Ésta es la historia de Beatriz Montañez. Ella decidió irse a vivir a una cabaña de piedra, antigua casucha labriega, que llevaba ya varias décadas abandonada.

The year is 1087, and a pox is sweeping through the Italian city of Bari. When a lowly monk is visited by Saint Nicholas in his dreams, he interprets the vision as a call to serve the sick. But his superiors, and the power brokers they serve, have different plans for the tender-hearted Brother Nicephorus. Enter Tyun, a charismatic treasure hunter renowned for “liberating” holy relics from their tombs. The seven-hundred-year-old bones of Saint Nicholas are rumored to weep a mysterious liquid that can heal the sick, Tyun says. For the humble price of a small fortune, he will steal the bones and deliver them to Bari, curing the plague and restoring glory to the fallen city. And Nicephorus, the “dreamer,” will be his guide. What follows is a heist for the ages, as Nicephorus is swept away on strange tides, and alongside even stranger bedfellows, to commit sacrilegious theft. Based on real historical accounts, Nicked is a swashbuckling saga, a medieval novel noir, a meditation on the miraculous, and a monastic meet-cute, filled with wide-eyed wonder at the world that awaits beyond our own borders.