NOVEDADES

Venice, 1958. Peggy Guggenheim, heiress and now legendary art collector, sits in the sun at her white marble palazzo on the Grand Canal. She’s in a reflective mood, thinking back on her thrilling, tragic, nearly impossible journey from her sheltered, old-fashioned family in New York to here: iconoclast and independent woman. Rebecca Godfrey’s Peggy is a blazingly fresh interpretation of a woman who defies every expectation to become an original. The daughter of two Jewish dynasties, Peggy finds her cloistered life turned upside down at fourteen, when her beloved father perishes on the Titanic. His death prompts Peggy to seek a life of passion and personal freedom and, above all, to believe in the transformative power of art. We follow Peggy as she makes her way through the glamorous but sexist and anti-Semitic art worlds of New York and Europe and meet the numerous men who love her (and her money) while underestimating her intellect, talent, and vision. Along the way, Peggy must balance her loyalty to her family with her need to break free from their narrow, snobbish ways and the unexpected restrictions that come with vast fortune.

Kalyna’s family has the Gift: the ability to see the future. For generations, they traveled the four kingdoms of the Tetrarchia selling their services as soothsayers. Every child of their family is born with this Gift—everyone except Kalyna. So far, Kalyna has used informants and trickery to falsify prophecies for coin, scrounging together a living for her deteriorating father and cruel grandmother. But Kalyna’s reputation for prophecy precedes her, and poverty turns to danger when she is pressed into service by the spymaster to Rotfelsen. Kalyna is to use her “Gift” to uncover threats against Rotfelsen’s king, her family held hostage to ensure her good behavior. But politics are devious; the king’s enemies abound, and Kalyna’s skills for investigation and deception are tested to the limit. Worse, the conspiracy she uncovers points to a larger threat, not only to Rotfelsen but to the Tetrarchia itself. Kalyna is determined to protect her family and newfound friends, but as she is drawn deeper into palace intrigue, she can no longer tell if her manipulations are helping prevent the Tetrarchia’s destruction—or if her lies will bring about its prophesized downfall.

In the 1950s, Oscar Hammerstein is asked to write the lyrics to a musical based on the life of a woman named Maria von Trapp. He’s intrigued to learn that she was once a novice who hoped to live quietly as an Austrian nun before her abbey sent her away to teach a widowed baron’s sickly child. What should have been a ten-month assignment, however, unexpectedly turned into a marriage proposal. And when the family was forced to flee their home to escape the Nazis, it was Maria who instructed them on how to survive using nothing but the power of their voices. It’s an inspirational story, to be sure, and as half of the famous Rodgers & Hammerstein duo, Hammerstein knows it has big Broadway potential. Yet much of Maria’s life will have to be reinvented for the stage, and with the horrors of war still fresh in people’s minds, Hammerstein can’t let audiences see just how close the von Trapps came to losing their lives. But when Maria sees the script that is supposedly based on her life, she becomes so incensed that she sets off to confront Hammerstein in person. Told that he’s busy, she is asked to express her concerns to his secretary, Fran, instead. The pair strike up an unlikely friendship as Maria tells Fran about her life, contradicting much of what will eventually appear in The Sound of Music. A tale of love, loss, and the difficult choices that we are often forced to make, Maria is a powerful reminder that the truth is usually more complicated—and certainly more compelling—than the stories immortalized by Hollywood.

La hermosa y joven Elinor Carlisle se encuentra en el banquillo de los acusados, está siendo juzgada por el posible asesinato de su prima Mary Gerrard. Las pruebas son abrumadoras: solo Elinor tenía el motivo, la oportunidad y los medios para administrar el fatal veneno. Sin embargo, dentro de la hostil sala del tribunal, solo un hombre aún cree que Elinor es inocente hasta que se demuestre lo contrario: Hércules Poirot es lo único que se interpone entre Elinor y la horca.

El capitán Hastings, el fiel amigo del singular detective Hércules Poirot, relata una serie de casos resueltos gracias al método deductivo del detective belga, quien aprovecha cualquier incidente sin relación aparente con la investigación para descubrir siempre la verdad. Su secreto: el poder de las células grises de su privilegiado cerebro. Por las páginas de esta obra desfilan misterios de los más variopinto: primero fue el misterio de una estrella de cine y un diamante, un suicidio que en realidad fue un asesinato, un misterioso piso absurdamente barato, una muerte sospechosa en una sala de armas cerrada, el robo de bonos por un millón de dólares, la maldición de la tumba de un faraón, un robo de joyas junto al mar y hasta el secuestro de un Primer Ministro.

Esta asombrosa obra, brinda al lector un recorrido por los 6 períodos más sobresalientes de la historia del Cristianismo. El Dr. Hurlbut narra a detalle el avance de la Iglesia, los líderes de cada período, la doctrina, la condición de la época, y mucho más. Estos elementos aportarán al lector un entendimiento más amplio de la historia del Cristianismo.