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Whether it’s anxiety about going to the doctor, boiling rage when we’re stuck in traffic, or devastation after a painful break-up, our lives are filled with situations that send us spiraling. But as difficult as our emotions can be, they are also a superpower. Far from being “good” or “bad,” emotions are information. When they’re activated in the right ways and at the right time, they function like an immune system, alerting us to our surroundings, telling us how to react to a situation, and helping us make the right choices.

Amanece el día de los Quincuagésimos Juegos del Hambre y el miedo atenaza a los distritos de Panem. Este año, en honor al Vasallaje de los Veinticinco, se llevarán de sus hogares al doble de tributos. En el Distrito 12, Haymitch Abernathy intenta no pensar demasiado en sus probabilidades. Lo único que le importa es que se acabe el día para poder estar con su chica. Cuando anuncian el nombre de Haymitch, todos sus sueños se rompen en pedazos. Lo separan de su familia y de su amada, y lo envían al Capitolio con los otros tres tributos del Distrito 12: una amiga que es casi como una hermana pequeña para él, un chico obsesionado con analizar apuestas y la chica más estirada de la ciudad. Cuando empiezan los Juegos, Haymitch comprende que en el Capitolio quieren que fracase. Sin embargo, algo dentro de él desea luchar… y que el eco de esa lucha llegue mucho más allá de la mortífera arena.

Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor with her sisters and their father and stepmother. Once there were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last--the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge--and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods.

A bordo de La Argentina Hipólito Bouchard cruza los mares provocando terror. Marino francés, corsario audaz y, por momentos, temible titán es conocido por sus combates en las guerras por la independencia de Argentina, como el asedio a California, hacia 1816. Con un estilo que evoca las novelas de aventuras y piratas, Federico Andahazi nos ofrece una trama que incluye tesoros ocultos, intriga política, batallas navales y camaradería corsaria. Además de Bouchard, desfilan por estas páginas grandes figuras como el Almirante Brown, el marino Tomás Espora y Lord Byron. Mares de Furia retrata los últimos estertores de la España colonial en América y brinda un panorama de lo variopinta, solidaria y férrea que fue la empresa independentista en el continente. Con un estilo cautivador y trepidante que nos invita a meternos de lleno en la época, Andahazi consigue el retrato de un grupo de hombres que batalló, con honorabilidad, valentía y una inagotable sed de justicia, en pos de la libertad de toda América.

Written to be read aloud to babies and babies-to-be (yes, babies in utero!) the book includes an introduction by Mrs. Dr. Seuss Audrey Geisel revealing how she and Theodor were fascinated by the idea that babies could hear sounds while still in the womb. With sixteen pages featuring guided prompts and Seussian illustrations for parents to record their child’s first memories of reading, this warm and winsome welcome to the world of Dr. Seuss will be cherished for generations!

AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER Most of us assume that the key to overcoming anxiety is to think our way out of it. And for a while, it works. Meditation and mental exercises offer us relief, but there is always something—a work deadline, a family emergency, a particularly distressing newsbreak—that disrupts our sense of peace and sends us right back inside the same anxious spiral we’ve been trying to climb out of. Is there a way to reduce our anxiety, not just in the moment, but in every moment after that? After a lifetime of struggling with anxiety, Martha Beck studied just about everything there was to know about how to calm down. What she realized is that the analytical part of our brain—so valued in Western culture—is the same structure responsible for amping up anxiety. In other words, we cannot logic our way to relief. In Beyond Anxiety, she reveals that to find calm, we must activate an entirely different part of our brain, one responsible for curiosity, wonder, and, most of all, creativity.