NOVEDADES

Jane fue convencida por sus amigos a quedarse en su escuela un viernes por la noche, y aunque desde un inicio tuvo un muy mal presentimiento y vivió extrañas experiencias, decidió ignorar todas estas. Grave error. Aún más grave si eres consciente del accidente que había ocurrido tiempo atrás, de lo extraño que está el ambiente y de cómo la misteriosa y marginada Camila te advierte repetidamente que renuncies a ese plan.. Cuando llega finalmente el día, el momento, todos están divirtiéndose, pero nuestra protagonista sigue sintiendo incomodidad, y no es hasta que una integrante del grupo de adolescentes queda sin vida de forma aterradora que estos empiezan a alarmarse y a darse cuenta del error que han cometido. Un encuentro inesperado, un extraño final, sentimientos revelados en medio de la tormenta de horrores, y más cosas suceden en el transcurso del intento de escapar de estos jóvenes, y digo intento, porque no todos lo logran.

Focusing on the profound effect that art, craft, and color can play in any interior, this book presents Hollis’s masterful new residential projects, in which the curation of art, objects, and custom furnishings are key to the character of the spaces.

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.

Ariah Erskine se despierta el 12 de junio de 1950 entre mullidas almohadas, toallas bordadas y el suave arrullo de las cataratas del Niágara, donde se ubica su hotel. Es el primer día de lo que espera que sea una magnífica luna de miel con su marido. Pero al otro lado de la cama solo encuentra un lugar vacío. Tras unos días de afanosa búsqueda, la joven acepta que es ahora la viuda de un suicida y trata de rehacer su vida. Hallará consuelo en Dirk Burnaby, que se convertirá en su segundo marido, y se establecerá con él en una casa cerca de las cataratas. Con el nacimiento de sus tres hijos, el retrato de familia feliz parece estar al completo, pero las aguas del Niágara aún no se han calmado y, con el tiempo, volverán a reclamar a sus víctimas.

Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political systems throughout history have wielded information to achieve their goals, for good and ill. And he addresses the urgent choices we face as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence.

New York City, arguably the world’s Art Deco capital, is well known for its striking and still iconic towers that were early expressions of the style writ large most famously the Empire State and Chrysler buildings, both of which still speak so eloquently of the future and the machine age that continues to move us all forward. Art Deco is drawn in steel, in tile, in brass, in bronze, and in stone upon great buildings and small and in the details, as so engagingly shown here. The reader is brought, for example, into the extraordinary Fred F. French Building at 551 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, a treasure house of the form whose ornate lobby is a wonder of sparkling seduction in all directions: racing above is a fan palm and fleur de lis decorated architrave, and golden Assyrian equestrian archers on a field of onyx take aim while stunning chandeliers set with crystal feathers and bronze shoot out their own thin arrows of illumination.