NOVEDADES

Aspiring journalist Noa has a secret she's been keeping. Ever since her sister's tragic death, she's felt almost...relieved. Noa and Leah had been locked in competition with one another since childhood, and things came to a head when her sister scored a glitzy internship at a New York society newspaper. Noa can't help but revel in her new found autonomy. But when she gets a lead about the sketchy circumstances surrounding her sister’s untimely death, she knows she needs to investigate−she owes it to Leah. Noa sets out to infiltrate the seedy underbelly of Manhattan high society to investigate her sister’s final days. Along the way she finds herself entangled with the glamorous Avalons' and their close-knit circle of friends and frienemies. But will Noa be able to resist the allure of the Avalons' world and uncover a shocking scandal. Or will she find herself in over her head...like Leah?

Me alegro mucho cuando veo mujeres que comenzaron con 2,500 pesos de préstamos y ya pueden estar tomando cien, trescientos, cuatrocientos mil, o sea, que han ido creciendo con la institución. El trabajo no ha sido en vano, a veces dicen “por qué trabajan en los barrios, esa gente no entiende”, pero, al contrario, al fin y al cabo, los resultados se van teniendo y de ahí hoy tenemos grandes empresarias. En los lugares donde trabajamos nuestras empresarias no tienen una educación formal, si no se la damos, ellas no van a poder salir de la pobreza.

Primavera silenciosa (1962), de la bióloga marina y zoóloga estadounidense Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964), es un libro que es preciso conocer ya que aborda uno de los problemas más graves que produjo el siglo XX: la contaminación que sufre la Tierra. Utilizando un lenguaje transparente, el rigor propio del mejor análisis científico y ejemplos estremecedores, Carson denunció los efectos nocivos que para la naturaleza tenía el empleo masivo de productos químicos como los pesticidas, el DDT en particular. Se trata, por consiguiente, de un libro de ciencia que va más allá del universo científico para adentrarse en el turbulento mundo de "lo social".

The Aldens spend the summer on Grandfather's island! Joe, the island's friendly handyman, helps them with anything they need, but as the children continue to explore their summer home, they realize there is more to the island and to their new friend than meets the eye. Adapted from Gertrude Chandler Warner's Surprise Island chapter book, this early reader allows children to step into reading with a Boxcar Children classic.

Last October, Alice Ogilvie's ex-best friend, Brooke Donovan, was killed—and if it weren't for Alice's unlikely alliance with her tutor, Iris Adams, and her library of the complete works of Agatha Christie, the wrong person would almost certainly be sitting in prison for the crime. The Castle Cove police aren't exactly great at solving crimes. In fact, they're notorious for not solving crimes. Which is why, on the night of Castle Cove High's annual Sadie Hawkins dance, Alice takes the opportunity to explore Levy Castle—the site of one of Castle Cove's most infamous deaths. Mona Moody—­the classic film star—died there almost a century ago, and Alice is pretty sure the police got that invest­igation wrong, too. But before she can even think about digging deeper, she walks right into the scene of a new crime. Rebecca Kennedy, on the ground in a pool of blood. And standing over Kennedy? Another one of Alice's ex-friends—Helen Park. The Castle Cove Police Department thinks it's an open-and-shut case, but Alice and Iris are sure it can't be that simple. Park isn't a murderer—and the girls know all too well that in life, and in mysteries, things are rarely what they appear to be. To understand the present, sometimes you need to look to the past. Castle Cove is full of secrets, and Alice and Iris are about to uncover one of its biggest—and most dangerous—secrets of all.

David Darling viaja a través del tiempo y del espacio planteándose todo tipo de preguntas para dar con lo más grande, lo más pequeño, lo más pegajoso, lo más ruidoso, lo más silencioso, lo más rápido, lo más lento, lo más pesado y lo más brillante: ¿Cuál es la luz más brillante de la Tierra? ¿Y el rincón más frío del universo? ¿Y el material más negro jamás creado? ¿Y la sustancia más venenosa de la naturaleza?no