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Most nights, you’ll find Alison Hunter at The Venue, the kind of sweaty Nashville spot that’s on the circuit for bands like Bon Iver and Death Cab. Sounds glamorous—but not for Al, who stamps hands at the door with Julien, the quiet coworker who treats her like a little sister. When she can sneak off, she bums drinks from the tattooed bartender and watches the bands, wondering if she’ll ever finish a song of her own after her disastrous attempt to play in public. When a once-in-a-century storm hits and her lead singer ex-boyfriend shows up at the door, Al finds herself stuck in a perpetual cycle of late nights, new flings, and old flames. Obsessed with the disappearance of a troubled indie star, she slowly starts to lose it herself—until one reckless night threatens to derail everything. As propulsive and sexy as the rasp of a static-driven amp, Lo Fi is an openhearted tribute to the messy truth of the creative life, the clash of lust and love, and the yearning to be heard.

Calabria, 1960. Francesca Loftfield, a twenty-seven-year-old, starry-eyed American, arrives in the isolated mountain village of Santa Chionia tasked with opening a nursery school. There is no road, no doctor, no running water or electricity. And thanks to a recent flood that swept away the post office, there’s no mail, either. Most troubling, though, is the human skeleton that surfaced after the flood waters receded. Who is it? And why don’t the police come and investigate? When the local priest’s housekeeper begs Francesca to help determine if the remains are those of her long-missing son, Francesca begins to ask a lot of inconvenient questions. As an outsider, she might be the only person who can uncover the truth. Or she might be getting in over her head. As she attempts to juggle a nosy landlady, a suspiciously dashing shepherd, and a network of local families bound together by a code of silence, Francesca finds herself forced to choose between the charitable mission that brought her to Santa Chionia, and her future happiness, between truth and survival. Set in the wild heart of Calabria, a land of sheer cliff faces, ancient tradition, dazzling sunlight—and one of the world’s most ruthless criminal syndicates—The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia is a suspenseful puzzle mystery, a captivating romance, and an affecting portrait of a young woman in search of a meaningful life.

" El segundo sexo " no sólo ha nutrido a todo el feminismo que se ha hecho en la segunda mitad del siglo XX, sino que es el ensayo feminista más importante de esa centuria. Todo lo que se ha escrito después en el campo de la teoría feminista ha tenido que contar con esta obra, bien para continuarla en sus planteamientos y seguir desarrollándolos, bien para criticarlos oponiéndose a ellos. " El segundo sexo " , que es el ensayo de una filósofa existencialista, se encuadra en el ámbito más amplio de un pensamiento ilustrado que toma de la ilustración precisamente sus aspectos positivos, emancipatorios; ante todo, una concepción igualitaria de los seres humanos, según la cual la diferencia de sexos no altera su radical igualdad de condición. Al mismo tiempo, es un ensayo filosófico que analiza el hecho de la condición femenina en las sociedades occidentales desde múltiples puntos de vista: el científico, el histórico, el psicológico, el sociológico, el ontológico y el cultural. Se trata de un estudio totalizador donde se investiga el porqué de la situación en que se encuentra esa mitad de la humanidad que somos las mujeres.