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Tras verse arrastrada al mundo mágico de Caraval, Donatella Dragna por fin ha escapado de su padre y librado a su hermana Scarlett de un funesto matrimonio concertado. Las chicas deberían estar celebrándolo, pero Tella sigue sin poder disfrutar de la libertad. Desesperada, hizo un trato con un misterioso criminal, y ahora le debe algo que nadie ha logrado averiguar hasta el momento: el verdadero nombre del Maestro Legend. Su única posibilidad de descubrir la identidad de Legend es alzarse con la victoria en Caraval, así que Tella se embarcará una vez más en la competición. Caraval siempre ha exigido valentía, sacrificio y astucia, pero ahora el juego requiere algo más. Si Tella no logra cumplir su parte del trato y revelar el nombre de Legend, lo perderá todo. Puede que incluso la vida. Pero si gana, Legend y Caraval serán destruidos para siempre.

One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) remains a quintessential Renaissance genius. The perfect companion to the Leonardo Graphic Work edition, this book is a compact catalogue raisonné of all of the artist’s masterful paintings. Drawn from our best-selling XXL edition, the book traces the artist’s life and work across 10 chapters, presenting all known paintings and drawing on his letters, contracts, diary entries, and writings to explore the man behind such groundbreaking artworks. From Virgin of the Rocks to Virgin and Child with St. Anne to the ever-beguiling Mona Lisa, you’ll find some of the finest treasures of the Louvre, Prado, and National Gallery, London here, as well as Leonardo works lost to time, but no less startling in their precision and poise.

Rigor, suspense y un estilo narrativo impecable se unen en Libelo de sangre. Durante el crudo invierno de 1620 un espantoso crimen ha sembrado el pánico en cada rincón de Madrid: una joven ha sido violada y enterrada junto a un niño al que le han extirpado el corazón. Nadie en la Villa duda de que se trata de un asesinato ritual, y el escribano Sebastián Castro y su esposa pronto serán inculpados de un «libelo de sangre», una acusación falsa que culpa a los judíos de sacrificar a menores cristianos para realizar magia negra. Por suerte, Alonso, el hijo mayor del matrimonio, ha conseguido escapar de la Inquisición, encargada de investigar el delito, pero ahora deberá enfrentarse a otros peligros no menos terribles: el frío, el hambre y a los miserables que pueblan las calles. Devastado y sin más ayuda que la de dos pícaros vagabundos, intentará llevar a cabo el único objetivo que lo mantiene con vida: rescatar a sus padres. Cuando la fe en Dios encendía corazones, pero los delitos contra ella prendían hogueras.

El séptimo día del séptimo mes, la vida de Kai cambió para siempre. Y la balanza entre el mundo de los talenti y los currenti se desequilibró por primera vez desde la Guerra de los Siete. El Liceo Septem se ha convertido en el escenario de la batalla entre el bien y el mal. Kai y sus amigos deberán decidir de qué bando ponen sus talentos, pero antes…

Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel has a problem: the legendary Gresham Trust has been depleted by decades of profligate spending, and behind all the magazine covers and Instagram stories manors and yachts lies nothing more than a gargantuan mountain of debt. The only solution, put forth by Rufus’s scheming mother, is for Rufus to attend his sister’s wedding at a luxury eco-resort, a veritable who’s-who of sultans, barons, and oligarchs, and seduce a woman with money. Should he marry Solène de Courcy, a French hotel heiress with honey blond tresses and a royal bloodline? Should he pursue Martha Dung, the tattooed venture capital genius who passes out billions like lollipops? Or should he follow his heart, betray his family, squander his legacy, and finally confess his love to the literal girl next door, the humble daughter of a doctor, Eden Tong? When a volcanic eruption burns through the nuptials and a hot mic exposes a secret tryst, the Gresham family plans—and their reputation—go up in flames.

In November 1936, publisher Henry R. Luce launched Life as a photo-led weekly news magazine with a clear purpose: “To see life; to see the world; to eyewitness great events.” Before readers’ attention was consumed by television, Life served as their window to the world, and by the late 1940s, it was being viewed by 1 in 3 Americans. Jean Harlow was the first movie star to appear on a Life cover in 1937, and from then until 1972 over 200 covers featured Hollywood-related subjects, illustrating the strength of the bond between Life and the film industry.

REMY spends his days trying to survive the mean streets of Cutthroat Wedge—one of the many islands floating in the gravitational pull of the magical Maelstrom raging below. But his life changes forever when a violent storm brings a baby dragon to his doorstep, and he feels a bond he has never felt with anyone. Remy names the dragon Storm and vows to protect this new friend, no matter the cost. GEM longs for the day when she call herself a true mage. That is, if she can convince her teachers and peers that just because she’s a princess doesn’t mean she’s lazy and spoiled. But when Gem learns that the floating islands that make up her kingdom are rapidly sinking into the Maelstrom, she makes it her mission to save her world. Against the king’s wishes, she accesses forbidden research and discovers the secret to saving humanity may lie in a True Dragon—a dragon capable of intelligent thought and able to cast and use magic. But True Dragons are extinct . . . aren’t they? Remy’s and Gem’s lives will never be the same when their fates collide, thanks to Storm. With an evil pirate mage named Jhaeros determined to claim the rare dragon for himself, the two must learn to trust in each other as they team up with a shifty pirate captain and her crew, stand together against impossible odds, and embark on the adventure of a lifetime.

A selectively curated overview of the little black dress in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, organized by Vogue contributing editor and fashion force André Leon Talley and published on the occasion of an exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah College of Art and Design), André Leon Talley Gallery. Featuring an impeccably selected group of about sixty dresses from many of the most eminent fashion houses, the book is a celebratory tribute to the iconic little black dress and its deeply resonant cultural and social significance in the modern era.

A pesar de no gobernar el Imperio romano directamente, Livia ha sido una de las mujeres más poderosas del mundo. Esposa del primer emperador romano, Augusto, y madre del segundo, Tiberio, se posicionó de forma determinante en el centro de la política romana. En esta biografía de Livia, considerada unánimemente la más completa desde cualquier punto de vista, Anthony Barrett recurre a las fuentes antiguas para ir mucho más allá del retrato parcial de una maquiavélica conspiradora y nos descubre a una Livia compleja cuya prolongada influencia política contribuyó a dar forma al gobierno romano, dejando sentir su ascendencia mucho después de su muerte.