NOVEDADES

Ailsa, una impulsiva guerrera, y Saghan, un sereno sacerdote, son los Hijos de la Nieve y la Tormenta, dos jóvenes nacidos de una leyenda y llamados a superar sus diferencias y unirse para guiar un reino fundado por dos pueblos profundamente distintos. Su complicada convivencia, la fuerza aplastante del destino y la sed de venganza de un dios desterrado serán sus principales desafíos en una gesta que pondrá en vilo el devenir de los Nueve Mundos.

Jorn está destinado a ser rey de Neimhaim, aunque su única ambición es vivir en las montañas salvajes donde ha crecido. Es retraído y solitario; todo lo contrario que su prometida, Sygnet, una hermosa joven que adora la corte y vive sin ataduras con la que no tiene nada en común. Antes de que la boda se celebre, Jörn tiene que afrontar una tradición: demostrar que es el mejor guerrero entre los suyos venciendo en duelo a su propia madre. Pero nada sucede como estaba previsto. Lejos de allí, dos hermanos gemelos, Kjartan y Søren, descubren un secreto que podría cambiarlo todo. Y, mientras la Alianza pende de un hilo, Ênhedu-Inanna, una reina inmortal llegada del lejano sur, está dispuesta a aprovecharse de esa debilidad si con ello evita que su pueblo ancestral agonice.

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.

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.

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.

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.