NOVEDADES

Desde la veneración de los antiguos egipcios por la acacia y el loto hasta el lenguaje victoriano de las flores y las obras de Vincent van Gogh y Georgia O'Keeffe, siempre hemos buscado sentido en la naturaleza. A menudo se ha atribuido un significado específico a ciertas plantas, y se ha relacionado con sus usos alimenticios o medicinales, sus asociaciones con santos y héroes o cualidades más abstractas o estéticas, como la resistencia, la belleza y la fuerza. Una guía, elegante y bellamente ilustrada que entreteje la botánica, la mitología, el folclore, los textos religiosos y siglos de arte y literatura para explorar el simbolismo cultural y los significados subyacentes de más de cincuenta plantas.

"I have something new to talk about . . . tonight I will be going out," Mama gently tells Llama Llama. At first, Llama feels okay with this. After all, Mama has gone out before and Gram and Grandpa have stayed with him. But this time they can't. Someone new is coming over, and the more he thinks about it, the more he worries! He knows he will be miserable . . . and then the doorbell rings. It's Molly from the ice cream store. What is she doing here? And she has ice cream! Maybe having a new babysitter isn't nearly as bad as he thought!

All stories come to an end. Effy learned that when she defeated the Fairy King. Even though she may never know exactly what happened at Hiraeth, she is free of her nightmares and is able to pen a thesis with Preston on the beloved national fairy tale Angharad. She has finally earned a spot at the literature college, making her the first woman in history to enroll. But some dreams are dangerous, especially when they come true. The entire university—and soon the entire nation—is waiting for her to fail. With the Fairy King defeated and Myrddin’s legacy exposed, Effy can no longer escape into fantasy. Who is she without her stories? With Effy under threat, Preston is surprised to discover a rage simmering inside him, ringing in his ears like bells. He begins to dream of a palace under the sea, a world where he is king—visions that start to follow him even in waking. As the war between Llyr and Argant explodes, Effy and Preston find themselves caught in the crossfire: Effy losing her dreams and Preston losing himself in his. Are dreams ever truly just dreams?

1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization. For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide…

En un mundo fracturado por la oscuridad, donde los antiguos guardianes han caído y las ciudades de cristal apenas resisten el embate de las sombras, surge una profecía olvidada: el nacimiento del Portador de la Luz. Helion, un niño marcado desde su nacimiento con el símbolo sagrado de Ábalos, es el único capaz de desafiar a las fuerzas que buscan sumergir al Sistema Prime en el caos eterno. Su vida, atravesada por la pérdida y el dolor, lo empuja hacia un destino imposible de evadir. Pero no está solo: aliados inesperados, misterios ancestrales y enemigos ocultos lo acechan en cada paso. Este primer capítulo abre las puertas a una saga épica donde la luz y la oscuridad chocan en una guerra cósmica. Batallas legendarias, secretos prohibidos y un héroe destinado a encender la llama de la esperanza aguardan en estas páginas.

Una selección inédita de más de trescientas pinturas, dibujos y grabados de espectros, demonios, hadas y brujas. Un periplo mágico e inquietante al mundo de las sombras, de la mano de 150 maestros. Una bella y sobrecogedora selección inédita de pinturas, dibujos y grabados del Romanticismo, el academicismo, el simbolismo y el prerrafaelismo, con la colaboración de expertos en historia de la magia, el espiritismo y la demonología.