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Having a seat at the table doesn’t mean that your voice is actually welcome. Knowing something is wrong doesn't mean it's easy to speak up. In fact, there are incentives for many of us to stay silent. Why speak up if you know that it won’t be received well, and in fact, often makes things worse? In Unlearning Silence, Hering explores how we’ve learned to be silent, how we’ve benefited from silence, how we’ve silenced other people—and how we might choose another way. She teaches how to recognize and unlearn unconscious patterns so we can make more intentional choices about how we want to show up in at home and at work. Only by unlearning silence can we more fully unleash talent, speak our minds, and be more complete versions of ourselves… and help other people do the same. With compassion, clarity, and understanding, Hering guides readers through real-life examples and offers a concrete road map for doing this vital and challenging work.

Los Angeles is a city of stark contrast, the palaces of the affluent coexisting uneasily with the hellholes of the mad and the needy. That shadow world and the violence it breeds draw brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis into an unsettling case of altruism gone wrong. On a superficially lovely morning, a woman shows up for work with her usual enthusiasm. She’s the newly hired personal assistant to a handsome, wealthy photographer and is ready to greet her boss with coffee and good cheer. Instead, she finds him slumped in bed, shot to death. The victim had recently received rave media attention for his latest project: images of homeless people in their personal “dream” situations, elaborately costumed and enacting unfulfilled fantasies. There are some, however, who view the whole thing as nothing more than crass exploitation, citing token payments and the victim’s avoidance of any long-term relationships with his subjects. Has disgruntlement blossomed into homicidal rage? Or do the roots of violence reach down to the victim’s family—a clan, sired by an elusive billionaire, that is bizarre in its own right? Then new murders arise, and Alex and Milo begin peeling back layer after layer of intrigue and complexity, culminating in one of the deadliest threats they’ve ever faced.

Elise es una ambiciosa detective; o lo era antes de que el cáncer del que se recupera le hiciese tambalear sus cimientos. Ahora se acaba de mudar a Ebbing, un idílico pueblo en el que no conoce a nadie. Durante su convalecencia, asiste desde su ventana a las tensiones entre los turistas de fin de semana y los lugareños. Elise sólo puede adivinar lo que sucede tras las puertas de sus vecinos; sin embargo, Dee, la joven que la ayuda con la limpieza, es una presencia invisible que ve y oye todo. Todo se hace añicos cuando dos adolescentes son hospitalizados y un hombre desaparece. Elise se verá de nuevo en marcha en busca de respuestas, pero la pequeña comunidad cierra filas para guardar bien sus secretos.

Amor, reconciliación, perdón y ternura. La tercera entrega de El juego perfecto te robará el corazón por completo. Blanca y Cam se quisieron como nadie, pero, en ocasiones, amar demasiado no es sinónimo de amar para siempre. Han pasado los años y, aunque siempre han estado pendientes el uno del otro, no se dirigen la palabra. Eso cambia cuando Cam sufre un gravísimo accidente y Blanca siente que no puede estar alejada de él. Ella desea su recuperación más que nada en el mundo. Juntos llegarán no solo a sanar las heridas abiertas, sino a cerrar las de un pasado que ninguno de los dos ha logrado olvidar. ¿Podrán darse una nueva oportunidad y dejar de fingir que no se aman?

En Unos cuantos sueños, Adichie dirige una mirada feroz hacia estas mujeres en una novela brillante y trascendental que aborda la naturaleza misma del amor. ¿Es posible alcanzar la verdadera felicidad o se trata de un estado fugaz? ¿Hasta qué punto debemos ser honestos con nosotros mismos para amar y ser amados? A través de una mordaz reflexión sobre las decisiones que tomamos y las que se toman por nosotros, sobre las hijas y las madres, sobre nuestro mundo interconectado, Unos cuantos sueños late con urgencia emocional y observaciones conmovedoras e inquebrantables sobre el corazón humano, con un lenguaje lleno de belleza y fuerza. Esta novela confirma el estatus de Adichie como una de las escritoras más conmovedoras y vibrantes del actual panorama literario.

The capstone volume of the Library of America edition of John Updike’s novels contains some of the master stylist and social observer’s most ambitious works.   In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996) opens in 1910, when Clarence Wilmot, a Presbyterian minister in Paterson, NJ, experiences a devastating loss of faith. This moment of crisis sets in motion an eighty-year, multigenerational saga whose subject is nothing less than the American Century and modernity itself, seen through the fluctuating fortunes of a single representative family.    In Gertrude and Claudius, Updike boldly imagines the long backstory to the world’s most famous play, prompting readers to revisit and perhaps revise their judgments about Hamlet’s notorious uncle and mother. Drawing on the twelfth- and fifteenth century sources for Hamlet, but also inventing a new history for Claudius in his far-flung travels across medieval Europe, Updike creates a vivid and surprising origin story for the fabled rottenness in Shakespeare’s Denmark.