NOVEDADES

Thirty-five contemporary artists create their own version of Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe. Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1863) is generally cited as the first modern painting. The entry slide in art history lectures about modernism, the work remains among the “most audacious painting[s] ever seen in France,” as Ross King described it in The Judgement of Paris (2006). As Manet did with Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, the most provocative painters today collapse the historical and the contemporary onto one plane. Jeffrey Deitch invited a group of these influential artists to create their own versions, combined here with historical responses to Manet’s painting. The slim volume features these often biting and satirical works alongside essays discussing Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe’s enduring influence on contemporary figurative painting.

Madrid, 1954. La joven Margot Sanz Peters regresa a España después de formarse en Londres como periodista de moda. Miembro de una distinguida familia de diplomáticos y amiga íntima de las damas más elegantes de la época -desde Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart hasta Aline Griffith, la futura condesa de Romanones-, la reportera accede rápidamente a los círculos más exclusivos de una ciudad que ha dejado atrás los peores años de la posguerra y empieza a abrirse a la modernidad. Pero Margot es mucho más que una experta en moda. Lectora voraz de las novelas de Sherlock Holmes, desde niña ha sentido fascinación por la mente criminal. Por eso, cuando el enigmático asesinato de una marquesa sacude a la alta sociedad madrileña, nuestra protagonista dará el salto a la revista de sucesos más popular del momento y comenzará a colaborar con la policía, poniendo así a prueba sus dotes de investigación en un juego cada vez más peligroso.

Solo hay una persona capaz de derrotar al villano: ¡Luna Forever! Cuando los guardianes de los niveles la eligen para salvar el futuro del juego, ella y su hermana Sara se quedan atrapadas dentro de la partida. Para salir del videojuego y proteger a Sara, Luna tendrá que cumplir su misión y demostrar que es la mejor gamer.

Her name was written in the pages of someone else’s story: Lucy Westenra was one of Dracula’s first victims. But her death was only the beginning. Lucy rose from the grave a vampire and has spent her immortal life trying to escape from Dracula’s clutches—and trying to discover who she really is and what she truly wants. Her undead life takes an unexpected turn in twenty-first-century London, when she meets another woman, Iris, who is also yearning to break free from her past. Iris’s family has built a health empire based on a sinister secret, and they’ll do anything to stay in power. Lucy has long believed she would never love again. Yet she finds herself compelled by the charming Iris while Iris is equally mesmerized by the confident and glamorous Lucy. But their intense connection and blossoming love is threatened by outside forces. Iris’s mother won’t let go of her without a fight, and Lucy’s past still has fangs: Dracula is on the prowl once more. Lucy Westenra has been a tragically murdered teen, a lonesome adventurer, and a fearsome hunter, but happiness has always eluded her. Can she find the strength to destroy Dracula once and for all, or will her heart once again be her undoing?

Six competitive cubers face off at the Speed Cubing national championships in this graphic novel that’s perfect for fans of Roller Girl and the Last Kids on Earth series. Despite qualifying for the Speed Cubing National Championships in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Tyler Goodman and his mom don’t have the money to get him there. That is, until the retailer CubeMania offers him one of their coveted all-expenses-paid sponsorships! But getting to Vegas is just the beginning: There are hundreds of speed cubers from around the country, and each has something to prove. Like Dirk, who’s certain he’s about to nab his third straight National Championship trophy. Lizzy and Izzy Peterson, twins who crush cubing competitions with the exact same moves and times—until one of them decides to break the mold. Renowned eight-year-old prodigy Eli Newton solved his first puzzle cube at five, yet his dad seems much more excited about the sport and there’s something . . .

Todas las claves de la batalla cultural e ideológica en España. En tiempos de máxima polarización, resulta especialmente valioso un análisis ponderado sobre las principales ideas y propuestas políticas que plantean los partidos políticos españoles en ambos lados del espectro. Como politólogo, Eduardo Bayón propone un desapasionado pero comprometido ensayo que recorre los principales y más recientes hitos de la política española. Lo hace con un notable esfuerzo de desmitificación y aclara aclaración ideas capitales como la libertad, la igualdad, la seguridad, el feminismo, la dupla juventud-rebeldía o la gestión de la economía. Junto a las ideas, aborda asuntos como el consenso político, el sistema electoral español, la identidad nacional y territorial, el populismo o la crisis institucional y la desconfianza, además del fenómeno de los hiperliderazgos y la mediatización de la política. En definitiva, un completo recorrido por las cuestiones más candentes y disputadas de nuestro panorama político. Un libro importante y esclarecedor para cualquier lector interesado en el presente y en el futuro de nuestra vida en común.

Once upon a time, the Peacock sisters were little girls who combed each other’s tangled hair. But decades of secrets have led them to separate lives—and to telling lies, to themselves and to one another. Sylvie is getting married. Again. A librarian and widow who soothes her grief by escaping into books (and shelving them perfectly), Sylvie has caught the attention of an unlikely match: Simon Rampling, a mysterious, wealthy man from Northern England. Sylvie allows herself to imagine a life beside him—one filled with the written word, kindness, and companionship. She’s ready to love again . . . or is she? Cleo is the golden child. A successful criminal defense lawyer with the perfect boyfriend, she is immediately suspicious of Simon. Is he really who he says he is? Cleo heads to Mumberton Castle with a case of investigative files, telling herself she will expose Simon and save her sister from more heartbreak . . . but who is she really trying to save? Emma is living a lie. She can’t afford this fancy trip—and she definitely can’t tell her husband and sons why. She once dreamed of a line of her own perfumes. Fragrances allowed her to speak in silence. Now, that tendency for silence only worsens her situation. Will she emerge with her dignity and family intact? When their toxic mother shows up, the sisters assume the roles they fell into to survive their childhood . . . but they just might find the courage to make new choices. Set over a spectacularly dramatic weekend, in the grand halls of a sprawling castle estate—amid floor-to-ceiling libraries, falconry lessons, and medieval meals—Lovers and Liars is the unforgettable story of a family’s ability to forgive and to find joy in one another once again.

Con el humor y patosismo de El diario de Bridget Jones y el ingenio sarcástico de Sexo en Nueva York, el primer libro de Gigi Vives gira en torno a deslices amorosos y desilusiones románticas basados en hechos reales. Una prosa maravillosa que cuenta historias agridulces y que desvela la realidad del dating en el siglo XXI. Una narrativa divertida y original que expone sin contemplaciones esa búsqueda constante y frustrante de la pareja ideal.

Zuly Taveras, nueva poeta oriunda de Villa Tapia, nos sorprende y emociona con una hermosa y cautivadora lírica impregnada de metáforas ardientes en un aliento estético y espiritual de singular prosapia literaria. Al adentrarse en el fuero entrañable de su fecunda sensibilidad y en la veta espiritual de su mundo interior, nuestra poeta capta y formaliza las intuiciones de su talento creador, a plasma con el encanto de su palabra y el fulgor de su significado, fuente y eco de la expresión que fascina y el sentido que ilumina. En su formalización literaria, base de su visión amorosa y cauce de su inspiración fecunda, fluyen las imágenes de su percepción sensorial y el contenido de su visión del mundo, belleza y sentido de un estremecimiento que eleva y una emoción que embriaga con el aroma rutilante de su aura entrañable y la expresión fecunda de su creación poética.