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El highlander Duncan McRae, más conocido como el Halcón, es un hombre acostumbrado a liderar ejércitos, librar batallas y salir victorioso de todas ellas junto a su clan. Pero al llegar al castillo de Dunstaffnage para celebrar el enlace de su buen amigo Alex McDougall, se encuentra con el mayor reto de su vida, alguien con quien no está acostumbrado a lidiar: lady Megan Phillips, una morena que no le tiene miedo a nada.

The tech boom of our time is changing San Francisco at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists, and known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement, the Bay Area has been transformed by Silicon Valley. But the richer the region gets, the more unequal and less diverse it becomes, and the cracks in the city's facade begin to show. Inspired by Studs Terkel's classic works of oral history, writer Cary McClelland has spent years interviewing people at the epicenter of the Bay Area's rapid change: tech innovators, venture capitalists, coders, homeless advocates, pawn brokers, prosecutors, public defenders....

Un thriller romántico que nos demuestra que el miedo nos puede impedir alcanzar lo que deseamos, lo que necesitamos o lo que soñamos. Atrévete a ganarle la partida y, sobre todo, ¡a ser feliz! Martina es profesora y se resiste a tener que comunicarse con las personas a través de una pantalla, algo que se está poniendo muy de moda en la España de los noventa. Los chats atraen a todo el mundo, pero, sin duda, comienzan a ser una gran fuente de problemas.

Cuando los nazis amenazan con tomar el control de París, una joven cierra para siempre el maravilloso departamento de su abuela, dejando tras sus puertas tesoros y bellezas inimaginables. Marthe de Florian, famosa cortesana durante su juventud, buscó llenar su existencia con arte y lujos, evadiendo los recuerdos de una infancia ensombrecida por la pobreza y los oscuros callejones de Montmartre. Mientras la guerra está a punto de desatarse en Europa, usa las preciadas posesiones que ha coleccionado durante una vida para compartirle su historia y secretos a su nieta Solange.

"Hay dos sensaciones que siempre se recuerdan a lo largo de la vida: la primera vez que la persona amada sostiene tu mano y la primera vez en que un bebé recién nacido te toma de un dedo. En esos precisos momentos quedas unido al otro por el resto de la eternidad". En la Praga de los años treinta, los sueños de Josef y Lenka se hacen añicos ante la inminente invasión nazi. Décadas más tarde, a miles de kilómetros de distancia, en Nueva York, dos extraños se reconocen a través de una mirada. El destino les otorga a los amantes una nueva oportunidad.

In Jenni Rivera: The Incredible Story of a Warrior Butterfly, Leila Cobo - pianist, TV host, and executive director for Latino content and programming at Billboard - brings us Jenni Rivera’s intimate and moving biography, reflecting on the party girl, the elegant woman, the great diva, the friend, the mother, and the grandmother. Discover the humble beginnings of Jenni’s life and career, as well as the emotional and sometimes turbulent moments that defined her persona and spirit.

After living an opulent life with her aunt for the last few years, the last thing 25-year-old Isabella Garcia wants is to have to celebrate Christmas in the small silver-mining town her father and mother founded in the desert. She'd rather stay in California with the handsome Diego Morales, who is courting her. Isabella is further miffed to have to bear the company of Aaron Bailey, a businessman with the Santa Fe Railroad, whom her father has sent to escort her safely home. Aaron finds Isabella spoiled, and she finds him judgmental.

The Guerreros have lived in Nothar Park, a predominantly Dominican part of New York City, for twenty years. When demolition begins on a neighboring tenement, Eusebia, an elder of the community, takes matters into her own hands by devising an increasingly dangerous series of schemes to stop construction of the luxury condos.

Set in Northern New Mexico, an astonishing, beautifully rendered debut about living in a landscape shaped by love, loss, and violence. With intensity, dark humor, and emotional precision, Kirstin Valdez Quade's unforgettable stories plunge us into the fierce, troubled hearts of characters torn between their desires to escape the past and to plumb its depths.

DIARIO LA LIBRO, Temporada 2 asocia las noticias candentes de México y del mundo con la literatura.

Die Geschichte von Pinocchio zählt zu den beliebtesten Klassikern bei Jung und Alt. Hauptfigur des Schelmenromans ist Pinocchio, eine Holzpuppe, die der Schreiner Gepetto geschnitzt hat. Auf wundersame Weise ist dem Holzscheit, aus dem Pinocchio geschnitzt ist, Leben eingehaucht, so bewegt sich die Holzpuppe ohne Hilfe und hat auch sonst alle typischen Fähigkeiten eines Kindes.

Jessie, who hasn’t seen her mother since she was 14, is on her way home, bringing with her a foster child who won’t talk and a runaway they’ve picked up along the way. Meanwhile, her estranged mother awaits their arrival at the bus station in Questa, New Mexico, next to a woman who longs for a disappeared love to return.

Die Neugier unserer Jüngsten kennt keine Grenzen. Alles wollen sie genau wissen und den ganzen Tag sind sie damit beschäftigt, uns unzählige Fragen zu stellen. Wieso kaut die Kuh auch im Liegen? Wie belagert der Ritter eine Burg? Warum sind Feuerwehrautos rot? Die Hörspielreihe "WAS IST WAS Junior" ist für alle Kinder gemacht, die noch nicht lesen können oder es gerade erst lernen. Sie entführt wissbegierige kleine Weltentdecker zu Geschichten und Schauplätzen, die ihnen am Herzen liegen und die sie begeistern.

Camila Henríquez Ureña is about to retire from her longtime job teaching Spanish at Vassar College. Only now as she sorts through family papers does she begin to know the woman behind the legend of her mother, the revered Salomé Ureña, who died when Camila was three. In stark contrast to Salomé, who became the Dominican Republic's national poet at the age of seventeen, Camila has spent most of her life trying not to offend anybody. Her mother dedicated her life to educating young women to give them voice in their turbulent new nation.

Yolanda García—Yo, for short—is the literary one in the family. Her first published novel, in which she uses as characters practically everyone she knows, was a big success. Now she’s basking in the spotlight while those “characters” find their very recognizable selves dangling in that same blinding light. But turnabout is fair play, and so here, Yolanda García’s family and friends tell the truth about Yo.

Brain Storm tells the story of how the author survived childhood sexual and ritual abuse and lived a life with Multiple Personality Disorder. The abuse was horrifying and the recovery hellish but throughout, her alters brought her to safety. In no small measure because of it all, she became an activist feminist, successful doctor, devoted parent and loving partner.

In Chingona, Mexican American activist, scholar, and podcast host Alma Zaragoza-Petty helps us claim our inner chingona, a Spanish term for "badass woman." Working for change while preserving her spirit, a chingona repurposes her pain for the good of the world. She may even learn that she belongs to a long line of chingonas who came before her—unruly women who used their persevering energy to survive and thrive.

Una mujer del reino le da al diablo tanta razón para temer como un hombre del reino. Ella vive con la seguridad de saber que Cristo murió y resucitó por ella para poder experimentar la importancia del destino al cual ha sido llamada.

In Nothing Like a Dame, theater journalist Eddie Shapiro opens a jewelry box full of glittering surprises, through in-depth conversations with twenty leading women of Broadway. He carefully selected Tony Award-winning stars who have spent the majority of their careers in theater, leaving aside those who have moved on or occasionally drop back in. The women he interviewed spent endless hours with him, discussing their careers, offering insights into the iconic shows, changes on Broadway over the last century, and the art (and thrill) of taking the stage night after night.

Si el mundo está patas arriba, tú no tienes por qué estarlo. La Dra. Kathleen Smith, especialista en salud mental, te ofrece un antídoto inteligente, con buenas dosis de humor, para estos tiempos complicados y hostiles para el bienestar. ¿Te has preguntado cómo lidiar con esas conversaciones difíciles en casa o en el trabajo?, ¿cómo retomar tu vida social después de todos los meses de aislamiento?, ¿cómo ayudar a tus seres queridos sin salir lastimado?, o ¿cuál es la mejor manera de cuidar de tus emociones para que no las altere