NOVEDADES

Beth vuelve a la ciudad universitaria tras más de un año fuera. Esta vez sabe quién es y está dispuesta a crearse su propio destino a medida día y a día y a dejar que las mariposas desaten su efecto si es así como tiene que ser. Ben sabe que una vez se metió de lleno en la boca del lobo y ni siquiera le preocupa que no exista la salida, porque tiene claras sus prioridades: no hay nada que pueda interponerse entre él, el teatro y las personas a las que quiere. Y Chris… Chris hace tiempo que perdió la esperanza de que un «para siempre» no sea tan solo un imposible más.

Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down. Eli Killgore and his business partners want Kline, period. Eli has his own reasons for pushing this deal through—and he’s a man who gets what he wants. With one burning exception: Rue. The woman he can’t stop thinking about. The woman who’s off-limits to him. Torn between loyalty and an undeniable attraction, Rue and Eli throw caution out the lab and the boardroom windows. Their affair is secret, no-strings-attached, and has a built-in deadline: the day one of their companies will prevail. But the heart is risky business—one that plays for keeps.

Rosie, an idealistic and passionate Peruvian American, leaves her Tennessee hometown to pursue her dream of making it in New York as a writer. But her plan is derailed when she ends up in class with her archnemesis and ex-crush, Aiden Huntington—an obnoxious, surly, and gorgeous literary fiction writer who doesn’t have much patience for the romance genre or for Rosie. Rosie and Aiden regularly go to verbal battle in workshop until their professor reaches her breaking point. She allows them to stay in her class on one condition: they must cowrite a novel that blends their genres. The reluctant writing duo can’t help but put pieces of themselves into their accidentally steamy novel, and their manuscript-in-progress provides an outlet for them to confess their feelings—and explore their attraction toward each other. When Rosie and Aiden find themselves competing against each other for a potentially career-changing opportunity, the flames of old rivalry reignite, and their once-in-a-lifetime love story is once again at risk of being shelved—unless they can find a way to end the book on their own terms.

Notre-Dame de París cuenta la historia de la gitana Esmeralda, quien en compañía de su cabra Djali toca la pandereta y baila en las calles de París para subsistir, hasta que se la acusa de haber asesinado al capitán Phoebus, su amado, y se la condena a la horca. Sin embargo, el jorobado Quasimodo, campanero de Notre-Dame, quien tras su deformidad esconde un corazón sensible y sediento de amor, luchará para salvar a la gitana. Recreación del mito de la bella y la bestia y uno de los monumentos de la literatura francesa, Notre-Dame de París es una historia verdaderamente inmortal.

En 2024 se cumplen cien años de la muerte de Franz Kafka (1883-1924), posiblemente el escritor que con mayor genialidad retrató la angustia, la incertidumbre y el absurdo que la llegada del siglo XX produjo en las vidas de los habitantes de Europa, testigos (y víctimas) de la transformación vertiginosa del mundo que conocían. De ello dan testimonio sus tres novelas, ofrecidas aquí reunidas en un estuche de dos volúmenes: "El proceso" -obra emblemática de lo kafkiano que se inicia con el arresto de Josef K. por una acusación que nunca llegará a conocer-, "El castillo" -en la que el célebre agrimensor K. se enfrenta al laberinto burocrático del poder- y "El desaparecido" -titulada América por Max Brod, la que a juicio del propio Kafka fue su novela más luminosa-.

Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These investigations are vital to how we understand the world we really live in—where one nuclear missile will beget one in return, and where the choreography of the world’s end requires massive decisions made on seconds’ notice with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario explores this ticking-clock scenario, based on dozens of exclusive new interviews with military and civilian experts who have built the weapons, have been privy to the response plans, and have been responsible for those decisions should they have needed to be made. Nuclear War: A Scenario examines the handful of minutes after a nuclear missile launch. It is essential reading, and unlike any other book in its depth and urgency.