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Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her husband’s venture capital firm, and in doing so, is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the blank slate of a beautiful midtown penthouse, in the city that she has always loved. It is also where her two adult daughters now live. As Kezia settles into her new apartment, she meets her movie-star next-door neighbor, Sam Stewart, whose terrace borders hers. Just a couple of weeks after she arrives, however, a devastating crisis strikes New York City. Kezia and Sam find themselves connecting over their strong impulse to help those in need. As they share a life-changing experience of volunteering, a bond is sparked and a friendship is formed. Kezia’s daughters, Kate and Felicity, are taken aback by their mother’s new friendship, both more focused on their own love lives than hers. But Kezia is learning that the changes she’s making are just what she needs to open new horizons. In this powerful and moving new novel, Danielle Steel illuminates the importance of human connection and embracing brave change, proving it’s never too late for a brand-new start.

The year is 1087, and a pox is sweeping through the Italian city of Bari. When a lowly monk is visited by Saint Nicholas in his dreams, he interprets the vision as a call to serve the sick. But his superiors, and the power brokers they serve, have different plans for the tender-hearted Brother Nicephorus. Enter Tyun, a charismatic treasure hunter renowned for “liberating” holy relics from their tombs. The seven-hundred-year-old bones of Saint Nicholas are rumored to weep a mysterious liquid that can heal the sick, Tyun says. For the humble price of a small fortune, he will steal the bones and deliver them to Bari, curing the plague and restoring glory to the fallen city. And Nicephorus, the “dreamer,” will be his guide. What follows is a heist for the ages, as Nicephorus is swept away on strange tides, and alongside even stranger bedfellows, to commit sacrilegious theft. Based on real historical accounts, Nicked is a swashbuckling saga, a medieval novel noir, a meditation on the miraculous, and a monastic meet-cute, filled with wide-eyed wonder at the world that awaits beyond our own borders.

In Navola, a bustling city-state dominated by a handful of influential families, business is power, and power is everything. For generations, the di Regulai family—merchant bankers with a vast empire—has nurtured tendrils that stretch to the farthest reaches of the known world. And though they claim not to be political, their staggering wealth has bought cities and toppled kingdoms. Soon, Davico di Regulai will be expected to take the reins of power from his father and demonstrate his mastery of the games of Navolese knowing who to trust and who to doubt, and how to read what lies hidden behind a smile. But in Navola, strange and ancient undercurrents lurk behind the gilt and grandeur—like the fossilized dragon eye in the family’s possession, a potent symbol of their raw power and a talisman that seems to be summoning Davico to act.

¿Cómo llegamos a conocernos? ¿Qué significan los otros en nuestras vidas? Asle, un pintor viudo que vive solo en un fiordo noruego, observa su vida entera con la mirada fija en el flujo del mar. No se trata de la nostalgia de un recuerdo, se trata de una observación meticulosa que busca dónde ha fallado. Ha sufrido la adicción, la incomprensión de una sociedad cerrada y su propia oscuridad como artista, pero es el amor hacia Ales lo que le obliga a ir más allá del mundo más cercano.

Para Jon Fosse escribir es como rezar, y para sus lectores, Trilogía es la puerta para entrar en una profundidad desconocida. Con un lenguaje sencillo y un narrador único, Fosse narra la historia de una pareja de adolescentes que van a tener un hijo e intentan sobrevivir sin ayuda en un mundo hostil. Es una historia que permite entender la indefensión y nos hace conscientes sobre la mirada despiadada de la sociedad. Pero también revive de forma exquisita el primer amor, la experiencia de comenzar la vida. Una obra emocional que, desde la oscuridad de una situación extrema, ilumina a quien la aborda.

«El tren hizo una parada en una estación sin pueblo, y poco después pasó frente a la única finca bananera del camino que tenia el nombre escrito en el portal: Macondo. Esta palabra me había llamado la atención desde los primeros viajes con el abuelo, pero sólo de adulto descubrí que me gustaba su resonancia poética. Nunca se lo escuché a nadie ni me pregunté siquiera qué significaba.» Compendio y recreación de un tiempo crucial para Carcía Márquez, Vivir para contarla ofrece el recuento de sus años de infancia y juventud, aquellos en los que se fundaría el imaginario que más tarde daría lugar a relatos imprescindi­bles. Novela de una vida, en sus páginas emocionantes va descubriendo ecos de personajes e historias que poblaron su obra, lo que la convierte en una guía de lectura, una com­pañía indispensable para iluminar pasajes inolvidables que, tras el disfrute de estas memorias entrañables, adquie­ren una nueva perspectiva.