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Once upon a time, the Peacock sisters were little girls who combed each other’s tangled hair. But decades of secrets have led them to separate lives—and to telling lies, to themselves and to one another. Sylvie is getting married. Again. A librarian and widow who soothes her grief by escaping into books (and shelving them perfectly), Sylvie has caught the attention of an unlikely match: Simon Rampling, a mysterious, wealthy man from Northern England. Sylvie allows herself to imagine a life beside him—one filled with the written word, kindness, and companionship. She’s ready to love again . . . or is she? Cleo is the golden child. A successful criminal defense lawyer with the perfect boyfriend, she is immediately suspicious of Simon. Is he really who he says he is? Cleo heads to Mumberton Castle with a case of investigative files, telling herself she will expose Simon and save her sister from more heartbreak . . . but who is she really trying to save? Emma is living a lie. She can’t afford this fancy trip—and she definitely can’t tell her husband and sons why. She once dreamed of a line of her own perfumes. Fragrances allowed her to speak in silence. Now, that tendency for silence only worsens her situation. Will she emerge with her dignity and family intact? When their toxic mother shows up, the sisters assume the roles they fell into to survive their childhood . . . but they just might find the courage to make new choices. Set over a spectacularly dramatic weekend, in the grand halls of a sprawling castle estate—amid floor-to-ceiling libraries, falconry lessons, and medieval meals—Lovers and Liars is the unforgettable story of a family’s ability to forgive and to find joy in one another once again.

On a secluded bluff overlooking the ocean sits a Victorian house, lavender with gingerbread trim, a home that contains a century’s worth of secrets. By the time Jane Flanagan discovers the house as a teenager, it has long been abandoned. The place is an irresistible mystery to Jane. There are still clothes in the closets, marbles rolling across the floors, and dishes in the cupboards, even though no one has set foot there in decades. The house becomes a hideaway for Jane, a place to escape her volatile mother. Twenty years later, now a Harvard archivist, she returns home to Maine following a terrible mistake that threatens both her career and her marriage. Jane is horrified to find the Victorian is now barely recognizable. The new owner, Genevieve, a summer person from Beacon Hill, has gutted it, transforming the house into a glossy white monstrosity straight out of a shelter magazine. Strangely, Genevieve is convinced that the house is haunted—perhaps the product of something troubling Genevieve herself has done. She hires Jane to research the history of the place and the women who lived there. The story Jane uncovers—of lovers lost at sea, romantic longing, shattering loss, artistic awakening, historical artifacts stolen and sold, and the long shadow of colonialism—is even older than Maine itself.

Dentro de toda mujer alienta una vida secreta, una fuerza ponderosa llena de Buenos instintos, creatividad y sabiduría. Es la Mujer Salvaje, una especie en peligro de extinción debido a los contantes esfuerzos de la sociedad por «civilizar» a las mujeres y constreñirlas a rígidos papeles que anulan su esencia instintiva. En este libro, Clarissa Pinkola Estés revela ricos mitos interculturales, cuentos de hadas e historias (muchas de ellas relativas a su propia familia) para contribuir a que las mujeres recuperen su fuerza y su salud, atributos visionarios de esta esencia instintiva.

En la ciudad industrial de Coketown el señor Gradgrind dirige una escuela donde se enseña que la vida es «una pura cuestión de números» basada en «hechos» e inculca los mismos principios a sus hijos. Cuando un día sorprende a dos de ellos, Tom y Louisa, espiando entre las barracas de un circo, se enoja sobremanera y les recuerda que la imaginación y el sentimiento son «tonterías destructivas». El fabuloso mundo del circo sirve de contrapartida al sistema despótico y estrictamente regulado de la ideología utilitarista, personificada especialmente en la figura del siniestro banquero Bounderby, y que a lo largo de la trama lo único que prácticamente hace es engendrar canallas y víctimas.

Carlos Pellicer (Villahermosa, entonces San Juan Bautista, 1897-Ciudad de México, 1977). Poeta, escritor, museógrafo y político mexicano, autor de títulos como Hora de junio, Subordinaciones o Práctica de vuelo. Considerado como una voz imprescindible de las letras mexicanas y, en general, de la lengua española en el siglo XX, este volumen ofrece al lector una sustantiva muestra antológica de toda su obra poética.

La selección de los mejores cuentos de Alice Munro, Nobel de Literatura en 2013, hecha por ella misma. "¿Cómo lo hará Alice Munro? Lo que consigue parece magia". Sara Mesa Cuando, una mañana de octubre de 2013, sonó el nombre de Alice Munro como ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura, no eran muchos los lectores que conocían su obra, que habían andado con ella por los pueblos canadienses donde se despliega su mundo y habían descubierto los secretos que se esconden a menudo debajo del mantel de hule de una mesa de cocina cualquiera.