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At the dawn of their adolescence, on the eve of the summer solstice, four young girls–Helena, Leonie, Niamh and Elle–took the oath to join Her Majesty’s Royal Coven, established by Queen Elizabeth I as a covert government department. Now, decades later, the witch community is still reeling from a civil war and Helena is the reigning High Priestess of the organization. Yet Helena is the only one of her friend group still enmeshed in the stale bureaucracy of HMRC. Elle is trying to pretend she’s a normal housewife, and Niamh has become a country vet, using her powers to heal sick animals. In what Helena perceives as the deepest betrayal, Leonie has defected to start her own more inclusive and intersectional coven, Diaspora. And now Helena has a bigger problem. A young warlock of extraordinary capabilities has been captured by authorities and seems to threaten the very existence of HMRC. With conflicting beliefs over the best course of action, the four friends must decide where their loyalties lie: with preserving tradition, or doing what is right.

Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s Space Shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space. Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easy-going even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warm-hearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane. As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe.

Chamo San aporta su imaginario, atrevido y personal, a las grandes obras del genio frances. Sus historias cobran aquí una nueva dimensión, dando lugar a una maravillosa alquimia entre ambos artistas. Digna de la mismísima imaginación arrolladora de Julio Verne. Esta recopilación incluye versiones adaptadas de las siguientes novelas: La vuelta al mundo en 80 días Viaje a la Luna Veinte mil leguas de viaje submarino Miguel Strogoff Dos años de vacaciones Viaje al centro de la Tierra Un capitán de quince años Cinco semanas en globo Los hijos del capitán Grant La isla misteriosa Escuela de Robinsones

¡Ha llegado el momento de coronar al baloncesto como el deporte rey del recreo! Enzo está reclutando jugadores, ¿te unes a su equipo? Enzo es nuevo en el colegio. Y, como siempre, parece el único en el patio interesado en jugar al baloncesto. Bueno, también está Teresa, que es una crack para los tiros libres. Además, resulta muy complicado jugar si la única pista con canastas está invadida por los futboleros. Se creen los dueños del lugar y no ceden ni un centímetro de pista. Enzo no va a dejar que las cosas queden así. Él quiere jugar al baloncesto, así que tendrá que buscar a varios compañeros de su clase para crear el equipo definitivo, el único capaz de ganar a los futboleros en un partido. Las normas del patio están a punto de cambiar.

Durante el verano de 1980, la profesora de Astrofísica Joan Goodwin comienza a formarse para ser astronauta en el Centro Espacial Johnson de Houston junto con un grupo de compañeros excepcional: Hank Redmond, piloto de Top Gun; John Griffin y Lydia Danes, especialistas de la misión; la bondadosa Donna Fitzgerald; y Vanessa Ford, una magnética y misteriosa ingeniera aeronáutica. Mientras los nuevos astronautas se preparan para sus primeros vuelos, Joan halla un amor y una pasión que nunca había imaginado, y comienza a cuestionarse todo cuanto creía saber sobre su lugar en el universo observable. Y entonces, en diciembre de 1984, mientras se lleva a cabo la misión STS-LR9, todo cambia de un momento a otro.

«A veces el amor te pone en el camino equivocado para que sepas cuánto duele». A las doce de la mañana del 14 de diciembre, una joven llena de magulladuras se presenta desnuda en las instalaciones del FBI de Nueva York con varias notas amarillentas en la mano. El inspector Bowring, jefe de la Unidad de Criminología, intentará descubrir qué oculta la joven y su conexión con otro caso, el de una mujer que aparece decapitada horas más tarde y cuyo nombre coincide con el que estaba escrito en una de las notas. A medida que avance en la investigación se dará cuenta de que este caso abre antiguas heridas difíciles de cicatrizar.

Passionate about designing buildings and neighborhoods that quietly transform the urban environment, Torti Gallas is committed to improving cities, towns, and distressed communities throughout the United States and around the world. This fully illustrated book shows how they have combined the disciplines of architecture, planning, and urban design into a single practice, creating housing and mixed-use buildings that bring catalytic change to urban neighborhoods: the mixed-use apartment buildings, rowhouses, and single-family homes that comprise the fabric of a city. Their work hearkens back to a tradition that, before World War II, created some of the country’s finest neighborhoods, including Forest Hill Gardens in Queens, Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, and Russian Hill in San Francisco. Featuring 60 built projects, this book shows how Torti Gallas is dedicated to raising the level of this architecture to a new high.

Slim Aarons: Style showcases the photographs that both recorded and influenced the luminaries of the fashion world. This collectible volume features luscious early black-and-white fashion photography, as well as color portraits of the fashionable elite—like Jacqueline de Ribes, C.Z. Guest, Nan Kempner, and Marisa Berenson—and those that designed the clothes, such as Oscar de la Renta, Emilio Pucci, Mary McFadden, and Lilly Pulitzer. ​Featuring a number of never-before-seen images and detailed captions written by fashion historians, Slim Aarons: Style is a collection of the photographer’s most stylish work. Slim Aarons, at least according to the man himself, did not photograph fashion: “I didn’t do fashion. I did the people in their clothes that became the fashion.” But despite what he claimed, Aarons’s work is indelibly tied to fashion. Aarons’s incredibly influential photographs of high society and socialites being unambiguously themselves are still a source of inspiration for modern day style icons. This coffee table book is perfect for sharing, displaying, and gifting.

How do you make your home come alive with personality, charm, and memory? In the introduction to Sean Scherer’s first book, Kabinett & Kammer: Creating Authentic Interiors, Anderson Cooper writes, “Scherer has a unique ability to place otherwise ordinary objects in a completely unexpected context or grouping and in so doing change the way you see them.” In Sean Scherer’s Vignettes, Scherer focuses in on the art of combining common objects into aesthetically pleasing groupings, or vignettes. Contending that a vignette can set the whole mood and tone of a room, he shows you how to use any surface in your home, from a tabletop to a bookshelf to a wall, to create lively displays of your favorite items. Beautifully illustrated with Scherer’s own photographs, the book demonstrates how to balance color, texture, and shape, and provides lessons on how to create both symmetrical and asymmetrical vignettes.