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Nada es tan fácil y simple en la vida de alguien como yo. ¿Qué se siente al vivir con tres chicos tan guapos? Eres tan afortunada. Que envidia. Vivir con esas bellezas, que privilegio. ¿Cómo puedes vivir con ellos? ¿Te has tirado alguno? ¿Podrías conseguirme su número de teléfono? Eso es solo un poco de lo que he tenido que lidiar desde que los chicos Hidalgo crecieron y se convirtieron en el sueño húmedo de todas las chicas de este lugar. Artemis, Ares y Apolo Hidalgo son los responsables de muchos suspiros de chicas en las calles y con los que crecí aunque no seamos familia. Muchas personas me creen afortunada, pero están tan equivocados sobre mi vida, no saben mi historia, no todo es color de rosa en la vida de una chica como yo.

Una fría mañana de diciembre de 1984, Griselda, argentina exiliada en Francia, se despierta con un fuerte dolor de cabeza. Tras pedir auxilio infructuosamente a Claudio, su marido, vuelve a casa, llena la bañera y ahoga en ella a sus dos hijos menores. La mayor, Flavia, de apenas seis años, se salva por hallarse en la escuela. Treinta años después, Laura Alcoba entrevista a los supervivientes de esta tragedia y, sin despejar el misterio del acto de Griselda, intenta acercarse a lo inconcebible. Preguntada sobre su madre, Flavia, que ahora es una exitosa fotógrafa, la describe como «presente, amorosa. Muy amorosa». Tras la Trilogía de la casa de los conejos, Laura Alcoba nos brinda una narración deslumbrante y perturbadora sobre la oscuridad que se esconde en las relaciones más cotidianas y la posibilidad de apostar por el amor y el perdón.

La novela que dio origen al“fenómeno Moccia”tal y como fue escrita en 1992, con nuevo prólogo del autor. ¡¡Enamócciate!! Babi es una estudiante modelo y la hija perfecta. Step, en cambio, es violento y descarado. Provienen de dos mundos completamente distintos. A pesar de todo, entre los dos nacerá un amor más allá de todas las convenciones. Un amor controvertido por el que deberán luchar más de lo que esperaban. Babi y Step se erigen como un Romeo y Julieta contemporáneos en Roma, un escenario que parece creado para el amor. Vuela alto, más arriba que nunca: a tres metros sobre el cielo, donde viven los enamorados.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Two sisters must learn from each other’s strengths and trust in the redeeming power of love in a touching new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. The Lakey sisters are perfect opposites. After their mother died and their father was lost in grief, Willa had no choice but to raise her sister, Harper, and their brother, Lucas. Then, as an adult, she put her own life on hold to nurse Harper through a terrifying illness. Now that Harper is better and the sisters are living as roommates, Willa has realized her dream of running her own bakery and coffee shop, bringing her special brand of caretaking to the whole Oceanside community. Harper, on the other hand, is always on the go. Overcoming a terrible illness has given her a new lease on life, and she does not intend to waste it. When Harper announces her plan to summit Mount Rainier, Willa fears she may be pushing herself too far. Harper, for her part, urges Willa to stop worrying and do something outside of her comfort zone—like taking a chance on love with a handsome new customer.

A traveling salesman during the Depression takes his children with him on an impromptu visit to a former girlfriend. A poor girl steels herself to marry a rich fiancé she can’t quite manage to love. An abandoned woman tries to choose between the opposing pleasures of seduction and solitude. To read these stories is to succumb to the spell of a true narrative sorcerer, a writer who enchants her readers utterly even as she restores them to their truest selves.

From New York Times best-selling author Cal Newport comes a bold vision for liberating workers from the tyranny of the inbox - and unleashing a new era of productivity. Modern knowledge workers communicate constantly. Their days are defined by a relentless barrage of incoming messages and back-and-forth digital conversations - a state of constant, anxious chatter in which nobody can disconnect, and so nobody has the cognitive bandwidth to perform substantive work. There was a time when tools like email felt cutting edge, but a thorough review of current evidence reveals that the "hyperactive hive mind" workflow they helped create has become a productivity disaster, reducing profitability and perhaps even slowing overall economic growth. Equally worrisome, it makes us miserable. Humans are simply not wired for constant digital communication. We have become so used to an inbox-driven workday that it's hard to imagine alternatives. But they do exist. Drawing on years of investigative reporting, author and computer science professor Cal Newport makes the case that our current approach to work is broken, then lays out a series of principles and concrete instructions for fixing it. In A World without Email, he argues for a workplace in which clear processes - not haphazard messaging - define how tasks are identified, assigned and reviewed. Each person works on fewer things (but does them better), and aggressive investment in support reduces the ever-increasing burden of administrative tasks. Above all else, important communication is streamlined, and inboxes and chat channels are no longer central to how work unfolds.