NOVEDADES

Entre la teoría y la práctica hay un abismo que solo la experiencia cruza. La arquitectura no solo se aprende en los libros, sino en la obra, en la negociación con clientes imposibles, en la lucha contra presupuestos que nunca alcanzan y en cada decisión que convierte un dibujo en un espacio habitable.

Of course I want to be like them. They're beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever. And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe. Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him--and face the consequences. In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, discovering her own capacity for bloodshed. But as civil war threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.

In her small Montana hometown, Lauren Parker has assumed a few different roles: teenage hellraiser; sister of superstar Gabe Parker; and most recently, tragically widowed single mother. She's never cared much about labels or what people thought about her, but dealing with her grief over the loss of her husband Spencer has slowly revealed that she's become adrift in her own life. Then she meets the devilishly handsome actor Ben Walsh on the set of her brother's new movie. They have instant chemistry, and Lauren realizes that it has been far too long since someone has really and truly seen her. Her rebellious spirit spurs her to dive headfirst into her desire, but when a sexy encounter becomes something more, Lauren finds herself balancing old roles and new possibilities. There's still plenty to contend with: small-town rumors, the complications of Ben's fame, and her daughter's unpredictable moods. An unexpected fling seemed simple at the time--so when did everything with Ben get so complicated? And is there enough room in her life for the woman Lauren wants to be? Alternating between Lauren's past with Spencer and her present with Ben, Totally and Completely Fine illuminates what it means to find a life-changing love and be true to oneself in the process.

Tras oír un grito de mujer seguido por un disparo en un edifico de la alta burguesía parisina, un transeúnte acude a las autoridades para denunciar un presunto crimen. Tocará a un joven Maigret, por entonces adjunto del comisario, desplazarse al lugar de los hechos para tratar de penetrar en un entorno social hermético. En este precuela de sus investigacinones más famosas, nos retrotraemos a sus comienzos en la fuerzas del orden durante la Belle Époque, cuando desputan ya su sagacidad, su paciencia y su capacidad para comprender la naturaleza humana.

De viaje por Estados Unidos para estudiar los métodos de la policía de ese país, Maigret asiste a una audiencia en la que se busca determinar si la muerte de una muchacha arrollada por un tren debe clasificarse como suicidio u homicidio. Con una reflexión de fondo sobre la justicia, la novela es una historia típicamente norteamericana en la que aparecen grandes espacios, carreteras en el desierto y soldados sin escrúpulos, lo que demuestra la rapidez con que Simenon comprendió el imaginario estadounidense que por entonces empezaba a globalizarse

Publicada por primera vez en 1818, La abadía de Northanger narra la historia de Catherine Morland, una joven muy aficionada a las novelas góticas. Por ello, cuando los Tilney la invitan a pasar una temporada en su casa de campo, se pone a investigar tortuosos e imaginarios secretos de familia. Pero al comprender que la vida no es una novela, la inocente Catherine pondrá los pies en la tierra y encauzará su futuro según dictan las normas morales y sociales de la época.