NOVEDADES

Dan and Tamma are two teenagers in their last year of high school in the southern Mojave Desert. One is a gifted golden child, the other a mouthy burnout. Climbing boulders in trash-strewn parking lots during cold desert nights, they seal their unique bond and dream of a life of adventure. As the year progresses and adult reality looms, they are rocked by change and pulled apart by irreconcilable obligations. Differences of class, talent, and prospects take on new importance; options dwindle, and their decisions grow ever more consequential and perilous. It feels inevitable, finally, that something must give.

The Sharaf family is the picture of success. Prosperous, rich, happy. They came to this country as refugees with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. And now, after years of hard work, they live in the most exclusive neighborhood, their growing family attending the most prestigious schools. Zorah, the eldest daughter, is the apple of her father’s eye. When an unthinkable tragedy strikes, everyone is left reeling and the family is thrust into the court of public opinion. There is talk that behind closed doors the Sharafs’ happy household was anything but. Did the Sharaf family achieve the American dream? Or was the image of the model immigrant family just a façade?

La obra de Ernesto Cardenal (Granada, 1925-Nicaragua, 2020), de una importancia capital y calidad incontestable, se sitúa en las encrucijadas históricas y estéticas de una parte muy relevante de la poesía contemporánea. Desde que en los años cincuenta empezaron a circular copias mimeografiadas de algunos de sus epigramas, su capacidad para conectar con los lectores ha sido extraordinaria: así, Salmos, Oración por Marilyn Monroe y otros poemas, los «poemas indios», Oráculo sobre Managua, Cántico cósmico o Telescopio en la noche oscura han ampliado las posibilidades de la palabra poética en el ámbito hispánico. Su obra tuvo una especial voluntad de comunicación, de sencillez y claridad, lo que supone un especial atractivo para los jóvenes; a partir de su objetivismo, de incorporar elementos de la vida real, cosas concretas, tanto datos históricos como detalles precisos de cifras, hechos y anécdotas, alcanzó las más altas cotas líricas, en la relación con los otros, consigo mismo y su fe, así como con el universo totalizador en un encuentro místico: «En mi poesía cabe absolutamente todo», afirmaba. Asimismo abrió vías para nuevas poéticas, que darían figuras de la talla de Claribel Alegría, Gioconda Belli, Nicanor Parra, Ana Cristina Rossi y Daisy Zamora.

Edgar Allan Poe dejó un legado literario que se convertiría en un punto de referencia constante para todas las artes y que aflora en autores tan variados como Baudelaire, Dostoievski, Cortázar o Stephen King. Autores de la talla de Matisse, Manet y Gauguin pintaron obras en las que plasmaban el rostro de Poe o imágenes de sus relatos, y el cine sigue rindiéndole homenaje año tras año. Su prosa es hoy un modelo clásico estudiado por todo aspirante a escritor de narrativa breve, y la huella de Poe en la literatura detectivesca y de terror es incuestionable. Este volumen incluye dieciséis de sus mejores relatos; títulos como «La caída de la Casa Usher», «Los crímenes de la calle Morgue» o «La carta robada» son considerados piezas maestras de la literatura universal.

Mackenzie Allen Philip's youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant THE SHACK wrestles with the timeless Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain? The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him.

Seven tickets. An island of dreams. The chance of a lifetime. Welcome to the Grandest Game, an annual competition run by billionaire Avery Grambs and the four infamous Hawthorne brothers, whose family fortune she inherited. Designed to give anyone a shot at fame and fortune, this year’s game requires one of seven golden tickets to enter. With millions on the line, those seven players will do whatever it takes to win. Some of the players are in it for the money. Some for power. Some for reasons all their own. Every single one of them has secrets. Amidst it all is Grayson Hawthorne, tasked with a vital role in this year’s game. But as tensions rise and the mind-bending challenges push the players to their limits—physically, mentally, and emotionally—it soon becomes clear that not everyone is playing by the rules.