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En 1614, una embajada japonesa llega a Sevilla y el samurái Hasekura dirige la expedición a la que acompaña un sevillano, el franciscano Luis Sotelo. El propósito de la embajada era abrir una ruta de comercio entre Japón y España, y conseguir para los franciscanos un segundo obispado. Cuando la embajada se encuentra en Europa arrecia la persecución de los cristianos en Japón. Hasekura se bautiza en Madrid en presencia del rey Felipe III y es recibido en Roma por el papa Paulo V. No obstante, la poca representatividad de la embajada y los informes desfavorables que llegan al Consejo de Indias obligan a Hasekura y a Sotelo a un difícil regreso, sin haber conseguido nada.

Escritos a lo largo de medio siglo, los poemas que conforman Los dedos de la Aurora giran en torno al mundo clásico, tema nuclear en la obra de Luis Alberto de Cuenca al que se ha acercado como traductor, filólogo y estudioso y que ha dejado una huella profunda y perdurable en su poesía, una de las más prestigiadas e influyentes de las últimas décadas. Los autores helenísticos de la Antología Palatina, en particular, pero también los elegíacos y epigramistas latinos, la épica de Homero o de Virgilio y la lírica arcaica, comparecen en homenajes que a la vez que transmiten el legado de la Antigüedad lo reelaboran en clave irónica o sentimental. Seleccionada por Luis Miguel Suárez, con prólogo del autor y epílogo de Victoria León, la antología ofrece una muestra deliciosa y altamente significativa de un universo poético que recrea las fuentes grecorromanas o se sirve de la narratividad de sus mitos para indagar en los universales de la condición humana, expresando un vitalismo a prueba de tinieblas.

Deborah Harkness’s sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. Harkness has created a universe to rival those of Anne Rice, Diana Gabaldon, and Elizabeth Kostova, and she adds a scholar's depth to this riveting tale of magic and suspense.

Jackie Howard returns to the Walter ranch after a summer in New York. She needed space―and got it. But she doesn't know where things stand with her and Cole Walter after that goodbye kiss. Over the summer, she stopped texting him. She never stopped thinking about him. Still, with Cole living off in town to work at Tony's garage before he heads off to college, Jackie thinks it'll be easy to avoid him―only to find that when she sees him face to face at last, it's, well... impossible to resist him. Things are getting complicated: he's the boy she can't get off her mind, and the Walters have become the family she loves and needs. How can Jackie move forward when she's afraid of taking the next step?

Madeline has always been extremely close to her family, so she is shocked when her older brother gets engaged without including them (or even giving them a heads up!). Mads has never been the biggest fan of his fiancée, Katie, so in order to remain one happy family, she is determined to bond with Katie before the big day, which includes reluctantly agreeing to be a bridesmaid. During a late-night bridesmaids-only game of "Truth or Dare" Mads is cornered into revealing she has never been kissed or even been on a date, which spurs the other girls to unite on a quest to find Mads the perfect plus-one for the wedding. Next thing she knows she's navigating a series of disastrous dates that include some major misunderstandings and mishaps. All of a sudden Mads finds her heart tugged in different directions: to Connor, the boy next door who knows her best. To Marco, the former classmate who knows how to push all her buttons. And to some of the new suitors who surprisingly aren't all bad. As the wedding draws nearer, Mads has to figure out who she wants most as a dance partner, while also making sure her brother isn't making the biggest mistake of his life.

You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play. Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah’s voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out why. Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah’s pain, and as he follows Hannah’s recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever.

Resilience is the inner strength and flexibility that allows you to weather any challenges you encounter. And these days it's more important than ever. In How to Be Resilient, Dr. Gail Gazelle of Harvard Medical School guides you through supportive advice and exercises that make it easier to deal with difficult times, and build the skills to survive, heal, and keep moving forward. Inside, you'll learn how to be adaptable in the face of change, build essential community with others, and enjoy the good things in your life to the fullest!

Josslyn Drake knows only three things about magic: it’s rare, illegal, and always deadly. So when she’s caught up in a robbery gone wrong at the Queen’s Gala and infected by a dangerous piece of magic—one that allows her to step into the memories of an infamously evil warlock—she finds herself living her worst nightmare. Joss needs the magic removed before it corrupts her soul and kills her. But in Ironport, the cost of doing magic is death, and seeking help might mean scheduling her own execution. There’s nobody she can trust. Nobody, that is, except wanted criminal Jericho Nox, who offers her a deal: his help extracting the magic in exchange for the magic itself. And though she’s not thrilled to be working with a thief, especially one as infuriating (and infuriatingly handsome) as Jericho, Joss is desperate enough to accept. But Jericho is nothing like Joss expects. The closer she grows to Jericho and the more she sees of the world outside her pampered life in the city, the more Joss begins to question the beliefs she’s always taken for granted—beliefs about right and wrong, about power and magic, and even about herself.

Society darling Persephone Dimitriou plans to flee the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start over far from the backstabbing politics of the Thirteen Houses. But all that's ripped away when her mother ambushes her with an engagement to Zeus, the dangerous power behind their glittering city's dark facade. With no options left, Persephone flees to the forbidden undercity and makes a devil's bargain with a man she once believed a myth...a man who awakens her to a world she never knew existed.