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ALICE SCOTT is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning human thundercloud. And they're both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: to write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the twentieth century. When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she'll choose the person.who'll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice's head in the game. One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice—and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over. Two: she's ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication. | Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition.

¡Levanta las solapas para encontrar al grúfalo! El pequeño ratón lo está buscando, ¿le ayudas a encontrarlo? Asómate a las rocas, mueve los arbustos, observa con atención la copa de los árboles ¡y descubre todos los secretos que esconde el bosque!

An ultimatum from Summer Preston’s thesis advisor thrusts her into an unexpected collision with the hockey team’s captain, Aiden Crawford. She’s caught between conflicting desires of fulfilling her lifelong dream of becoming a sport psychologist and staying as far away as possible from the god-awful sport. And once she meets Aiden—well, let’s just say he confirms all her worst assumptions about hockey players. Being the captain of the college hockey team has its perks, except when a reckless mistake by Aiden’s team threatens to jeopardize their entire season. As punishment, Aiden’s coach nominates him as the subject of a student research project. Participating is the last thing he wants to do, especially since the girl leading the project looks like she could wield his skates as a weapon. Summer can’t stand Aiden’s blasé approach to life, and Aiden doesn’t understand why she’s twenty years old with a twenty-five-year plan. But their bickering soon turns to bantering—and once they let their guards down, there’s nothing to check their feelings.

NAILA ES UNA FRACASADA Mientras todo el mundo progresa en la vida, ella ha perdido la esperanza de encontrarle un sentido a la suya. Deambula sin rumbo, sin una vocación que la guíe. Se considera una persona por definir, construida a medias, y cree que no es lo suficientemente buena en nada. BRUNO NUNCA FRACASA Siempre ha tenido muy claro su objetivo: un trabajo cómodo, estable y bien remunerado. Tras mucho esfuerzo, ha logrado lo que deseaba, pero la meta no tiene nada que ver con lo que esperaba. Aun así, abandonar lo que tanto le ha costado conseguir lo haría sentir como un completo perdedor. A veces, para encontrarse en un laberinto lo mejor es perderse Cuando las vidas de Naila y Bruno se entrelazan de manera inesperada, todo aquello que creían ser se desmorona. Atreverse a sentir significa compartir con el otro esas partes de sí mismos que evitan mostrar al resto. Puede que la solución sea dejarlas salir, o puede que esta sea la razón por la que todo se venga abajo. Cuando los sueños se marchitan por el camino, el amor es el único refugio en el que mantenerlos a salvo

From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) made a mark as one of Spain’s most revered and controversial artists. A master of form and light, his influence reverberates down the centuries, inspiring and fascinating artists from the Romantic Eugène Delacroix to Britart enfants terribles, the Chapman brothers.Born in Fuendetodos, Spain, in 1746, Goya was apprenticed to the Spanish royal family in 1774, where he produced etchings and tapestry cartoons for grand palaces and royal residences across the country. He was also patronized by the aristocracy, painting commissioned portraits of the rich and powerful with his increasingly fluid and expressive style. Later, after a bout of illness, the artist moved towards darker etchings and drawings, introducing a nightmarish realm of witches, ghosts, and fantastical creatures.It was, however, with his horrific depictions of conflict that Goya achieved enduring impact. Executed between 1810 and 1820, The Disasters of War was inspired by atrocities committed during the Spanish struggle for independence from the French and penetrated the very heart of human cruelty and sadism. The bleak tones, agitated brushstrokes, and aggressive use of Baroque-like light and dark contrasts recalled Velázquez and Rembrandt, but Goya’s subject matter was unprecedented in its brutality and honesty.In this introductory book from TASCHEN Basic Art 2.0 we set out to explore the full arc of Goya’s remarkable career, from elegant court painter to deathly seer of suffering and grotesquerie. Along the way, we encounter such famed portraits as Don Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga, the dazzling Naked Maja, and The 3rd of May 1808 in Madrid, one of the most heart-stopping images of war in the history of art.

Andronio, te escribo desde Miseno, la finca que perteneció al héroe Escipión el Africano y donde murió su amada hija Cornelia, mi ama. Ahora que soy libre, yo, Antígona de Mileto, quiero que se cuente su verdadera historia para que el porvenir haga justicia a ella y a sus hijos, Tiberio y Cayo Graco, pues temo que la historia oficial de Roma no lo hará. Perdieron la batalla del presente, pero deben ganar la de la posteridad. Por eso te pido que escribas unos Annales Corneliae que relaten los hechos luctuosos pero heroicos que ensombrecieron la vida de mi ama. No fue pequeña su influencia en la política de su tiempo. Si la República está a punto de perecer es porque ella y sus hijos fracasaron en su empeño por mantener los valores sobre los que se fundó y que la hicieron fuerte.