NOVEDADES

Cuando escribí la primera edición de este libro tenía muy poco conocimiento acerca de la misión que le corresponde desempeñar a los Ángeles Celestiales con todos los seres humanos. Recuerdo que en cada experiencia positiva usaba deliberadamente la palabra “Ángel”, pero sin una conciencia clara del significado tan profundo que tiene esta palabra. Para explicarme mejor expondré un ejemplo sencillo. Cuando algo se me resolvía rápida y fácilmente a través de la ayuda de otra persona, yo decía: “Gracias a un Ángel que me ayudó”. De esta manera, cada vez que necesitaba “una mano amiga” decía: “Dios mío, por favor, mándame un Ángel, necesito encontrar un Ángel en este lugar”. Otras veces perdía algo y de igual manera decía: “Necesito un Ángel que me ayude a encontrar lo que he perdido”. Así, sucesivamente, la palabra Ángel fue ocupando gran parte de mi diario vivir. Igualmente, si trataba a una persona buena, pensaba: “Esa persona es un Ángel o tiene algo de Ángel”. Poco a poco comencé a interesarme más seriamente en los Ángeles.

¿Alguna vez te has sentido perdido o sin propósito? ¿Crees que no tienes las habilidades o el talento para alcanzar tus sueños? ¿Acaso las circunstancias te han hecho dudar de tu valor y propósito en este mundo? Si es así, entonces este libro es para ti. Diseñados para Soñar Despiertos no es un libro cualquiera, es uno que te invita a un viaje de transformación y crecimiento personal y espiritual, donde descubrirás que no existes solo por existir ¡tu vida tiene un propósito! Y tus sueños no son casualidad, sino parte de un plan divino que te ha sido otorgado desde el inicio de los tiempos. Sé que las dudas y las inseguridades pueden ser un gran peso, como lo fueron para mí. Pero quiero asegurarte que no estás solo en este camino. A lo largo de estas páginas, te acompañaré en el proceso de descubrir que tus debilidades no son obstáculos, sino piezas esenciales del plan perfecto que Dios tiene para ti. A través de mi propia historia, te mostraré cómo rendir tus sueños, deseos y planes ante Dios puede abrir las puertas a un futuro lleno de posibilidades y significado.

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe’s theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe. As these characters’ stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town’s white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community—heaven and earth—that sustain us. Bringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride has written a novel as compassionate as Deacon King Kong and as inventive as The Good Lord Bird.

On the other side of town, in the dark glades, under the rain… Macon is the oldest. Thirty-one. Ex-Marine. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him smile. Army is twenty-eight. A single dad with the most beautiful green eyes. He has no idea who he is, if not a Jaeger brother. Iron will be in prison soon. You’d never think it to meet him. He’s a nice guy, actually. But he can’t stop reacting to everything. Dallas is the one I hate. Twenty-one, cruel, and selfish. He takes and then throws away whatever’s left. And Trace is mine. Or he was for about two seconds. No one can tame him for long. Not that I ever wanted to. It was fun, but now I need to go home. Back to my side of the tracks. Away from the swamps and these men. To my parents’ big house. On my clean street. Where I’m never dirty or messy or hot. And I will. I’ll leave first thing tomorrow morning. I just want to crash on the couch tonight. Their house is dark and quiet, everyone else is asleep. Except for one. He sees me crying and comes at me from behind. I let him wrap his arms around my body and hold me tightly. His breath is on my neck, his fingers are in my hair, and he doesn’t stop there. I don’t think it was Trace.

“You can never go home again,” the saying goes—but Hal, Athena, and Erin have to. In high school, the three were students of the eccentric Professor Marsh, trained in a secret system of magic known as the Dissonance, which is built around harnessing negative emotions: alienation, anger, pain. Then, twenty years ago, something happened that shattered their coven, scattering them across the country, stuck in mundane lives, alone. But now, terrifying signs and portents (not to mention a pointed Facebook invite) have summoned them back to Clegg, Texas. There, their paths will collide with that of Owen, a closeted teenager from Alabama whose aborted cemetery seance with his crush summoned something far worse: a murderous entity whose desperate, driving purpose includes kidnapping Owen to serve as its Renfield. As Owen tries to outwit his new master, and Hal, Athena, and Erin reckon with how the choices they made as teens might connect to the apocalyptic event unfurling over the Lone Star State, shocking alliances form, old and new romances brew, and three unsuccessful adults and one frightened teen are all that stand between reality and oblivion. From one of the boldest, most brilliant voices in modern fantastical horror, The Dissonance is a thrilling and beautifully written story of magic and monsters, forgiveness and friendship.

Ever since The Embarrassing Meltdown Incident, Flo has been on an enforced break from life. And the timing couldn’t be better, as her family sets off to Greece for their summer vacation. Enter Jamie Kramer . . . literally. Broad, sun-kissed, and fitter than ever. Jamie is Flo’s brother’s best friend, and the person she wants to see least in the world. He’s also her family’s “adopted” son after he lost his parents at a young age. Flo and Jamie hate each other. Except, Flo actually has a mortifying crush on Jamie, made infuriatingly stronger after The Christmas Incident. And nobody—least of all her family—can know. So, with two weeks of steamy outings, rocky boat trips, and sunshine on the horizon, Flo is going to have to fix the situation the only way she can think of: by spending time with him. What could possibly go wrong for the pair of Enemies to Lovers?

With the dream of Avalon in ruins, Tamsin and her friends are all that stands in the way of Lord Death's plans to unleash the horrors of Anwnn on the world of the living. As the Wild Hunt carves a bloody path across continents, Tamsin is mustering allies, tracking down powerful artifacts, and traversing into new otherlands in search of a way to stop him. Legend tells of a “Mirror of Beasts,” powerful enough to trap even Lord Death in its accursed glass, but the mirror is not all that it seems. Tamsin must confront her own darkest secrets if she hopes to tap the mirror's strength to defeat her enemies. Arthurian legend bleeds into contemporary action, and scars of the past are torn open anew by a starcrossed love that refuses to go quietly. This riveting conclusion to the Silver in the Bone duology will hold you in its thrall until the very last page.

El ascenso meteórico de Taylor Swift al estrellato es la historia de este siglo. Taylor ha dominado la industria musical desde sus inicios como sensación adolescente de la música country hasta convertirse en un fenómeno global del pop. Es la primera mujer con cuatro álbumes en el Top Ten de la lista Billboard de forma simultánea, y ha recibido catorce Grammy Awards y cuarenta American Music Awards.