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Una comedia divertida, romántica y sensual en la que el amor aparece cuando menos lo esperas. Madrid, 1994. Aída, Elsa, Rocío, Shanna y Céline estudiaron juntas en el Colegio Americano de Madrid. Sus carreras profesionales las han distanciado, ya que se han visto obligadas a trasladarse a distintos lugares del mundo. Pero ahora tienen un motivo muy importante para reunirse de nuevo: la boda de Aída. Diez años más tarde... Aída ya no es feliz en su matrimonio. Elsa se reencuentra con Javier, el hermano de Aída, en un hospital de Los Ángeles. El muchacho que Elsa recordaba se ha convertido en un atractivo doctor. Rocío, que se ha pasado la vida rechazando pretendientes porque desde niña siempre ha esperado la llegada de su superhéroe, sufre un accidente y la rescata un bombero. Shanna ha cambiado de hombre cada vez que su trabajo de reportera la ha obligado a mudarse. Sin embargo, el verdadero amor está mucho más cerca de lo que ella imagina. Céline, la más infeliz y dura de las cinco, se enamora de repente y su vida da un giro de ciento ochenta grados.

Con Omertà, su obra póstuma, Mario Puzo logra sumergirnos por última vez en el apasionante mundo de la Mafia y concluye magistralmente el ciclo que inició con El Padrino. Omertà: código de honor siciliano que reclama unsilencio obstinado acerca de los asuntos de la Cosa Nostra. Tras toda una vida consagrada al mundo del crimen, Don Raymonde Aprile decide ceder el testigo al joven Astorre, su mano derecha. De esta manera, pretende preservar la intachable trayectoria de sus hijos, que han vivido al margen de la Mafia, y dedicarse a supervisar los bancos internacionales que posee. Sin embargo, el agente Cilke del FBI verá con recelo la jubilación de Don Aprile. Cilke está consiguiendo que algunos miembros de la organización rompan el juramento de omertà. Mientras el FBI trata de estrechar el cerco en torno a la Mafia, Astorre Viola y los Aprile se debaten entre la compasión y la venganza.

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.

Inspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naiveté and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up.

Arcade and Daffodil are twins born one minute apart. With their fiery red hair and thirst for escape, they form an unbreakable bond nurtured by their grandmother’s stories. Together, they disappear into their imaginations and forge a world all their own.  But what the two sisters can’t escape are the generational ghosts that haunt their family. Growing up in the shadow of their rural Ohio town, the sisters cling tightly to one another. Years later, Arcade wrestles with the memories of her early life, just as a local woman is discovered drowned in the river. Soon, more bodies are found. As her friends disappear around her, Arcade is forced to reckon with the past while the killer circles closer. Arcade’s promise to keep herself and her sister safe becomes increasingly desperate and the powerful riptide of the savage side becomes more difficult to survive. Drawing from the true story of women killed in Chillicothe, Ohio, acclaimed novelist and poet Tiffany McDaniel has written a moving literary testament and fearless elegy for missing women everywhere.

«Había una vez una prostituta llamada María...» así, comienza la novela que conmovió al mundo. Once minutos es una obra de realismo social y crítico a través del erotismo y el sexo. Reclama la importancia de no negar los instintos que surgen del lado oscuro del deseo. Es la reivindicación de la sexualidad femenina y la exploración del miedo a la entrega total más allá de tus propias barreras. Porque el mundo gira alrededor de algo que dura solamente once minutos.