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Mary Oliver touched countless readers with her tender, accessible poetry, expressing her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Her verses deftly wove close observations of nature with an evergreen state of wonder. She regarded the outdoors with awe, encouraging readers to step outside and breathe in nature’s glory. This deck of fifty inspirational quotes, all pulled from Oliver’s oeuvre, offer bite-sized pieces of life advice—from simple directives like “as long as you are dancing, you can break the rules,” to the entirety of her ode to interpretations of heaven, “Yellow.” “Come to the pond,” she implores, “and live your life.” Pull a card each morning for daily reflection or display a card on the included stand, returning again and again to the simple insight of Oliver’s words. With delightful nature drawings alongside Oliver’s celebrated verses, Instructions for Living provides readers an intimate opportunity to engage with Mary Oliver’s inspiring words, day after day.

She said, We needed a tool. So I asked the gods. There have always been whispers. Legends. The warrior who cannot be killed. Who’s seen a thousand civilizations rise and fall. He has had many names: Unute, Child of Lightning, Death himself. These days, he’s known simply as “B.” And he wants to be able to die. In the present day, a U.S. black-ops group has promised him they can help with that. And all he needs to do is help them in return. But when an all-too-mortal soldier comes back to life, the impossible event ultimately points toward a force even more mysterious than B himself. One at least as strong. And one with a plan all its own. In a collaboration that combines Miéville’s singular style and creativity with Reeves’s haunting and soul-stirring narrative, these two inimitable artists have created something utterly unique, sure to delight existing fans and to create scores of new ones.

Meet Jessica Jones: Retired super hero, private investigator, loner. She tried her best to be a shiny spandex crimefighter, but that life only led to unspeakable trauma. Now she avoids that world altogether and works on surviving day-to-day in Hell’s Kitchen, New York. The morning a distraught mother comes into her office, Jessica would prefer to nurse her hangover and try to forget last night’s poor choices. But something about Amber Randall’s story strikes a chord with her. Amber is adamant that something happened to her teenage twins while they were visiting their father in the UK. The twins don’t act like themselves, and they now have flawless skin, have lost their distinctive tics and habits, and keep talking about a girl named Belle. Amber insists her children have been replaced by something horrible, something “perfect.” Traveling to a small village in the British countryside, Jessica meets the mysterious Belle, who lives a curiously isolated life in an old farmhouse with a strange woman who claims to be her guardian. Can this unworldly teenager really be responsible for the Randall twins’ new personas? Why does the strange little village of Barton Wallop seem to harbor dark energies and mysteries in its tight-knit community?

NFTs aren’t just pictures on the internet, or a fad that has come and gone. Rather, they’re a new technology for creating digital assets and providing irrefutable proof of ownership. NFTs open up markets that have never before existed, and are already revolutionizing commerce and brand-building at everything from hot startups to Fortune 500 companies. Kominers and Kaczynski have created a framework that explains what NFTs are, why they’re valuable, and how businesses can leverage them to build highly engaged and intensely loyal communities around their products and brands. Through original research and industry experience, Kominers and Kaczynski describe the possibilities of this new digital frontier with clarity and rigor. The Everything Token is the essential primer on this innovation that has the potential to transform all aspects of business.

Un viejo profesor de filosofía con un pasado inconfesable y unas ataduras presentes no menos oscuras forma parte de un grupo de ancianos que representan una rebelión. ¿Es un instigador? ¿Es un mero observador? ¿Forma todo parte de un plan, o nada es lo que parece y al mismo tiempo todo es peor? Jordi Ibáñez construye una enigmática historia de espías al servicio de Rusia en la Barcelona actual, con sujetos que juegan peligrosamente a ser lo que no son, con charlas crepusculares entre viejos agentes atiborrados de alcohol y mala conciencia, con alguna que otra monja planteando preguntas difíciles, con jueces adormilados, y con ese viejo filósofo lúcido y avergonzado de su pasado poniéndose discretamente al servicio de una jovencísima muchacha caída del cielo. Este es un libro sobre las posibilidades que ofrece la vejez. El juego, el complot, la amistad, la conversación, el cuidado y los afectos liberados del deseo, la actuación ?los viejos actores, los saltimbanquis resistentes? tejen el complejo tapiz de voces y saberes que el autor ofrece sin esquivar la cuestión más decisiva de todas: que envejecer es una oportunidad para asomarse al fin a la sabiduría.

Es una calurosa noche de julio en Madrid cuando dos hombres son destripados y lanzados al vacío desde un puente de la M30 en lo que parece un siniestro ajuste de cuentas entre clanes. Sus vísceras aterrizan sobre un descapotable que termina hundiéndose en el Manzanares con sus ocupantes, tres chicas que volvían de fiesta. Una de ellas fallece en el acto: es la hija pequeña del comisario, quien exige a sus agentes respuestas rápidas y poco ruido en los medios. Se trata de una orden casi imposible de cumplir por el subinspector Jotadé Cortés, el único policía gitano de su comisaría y un irreverente sin remedio que aborrece las jerarquías y acostumbra a saltarse las normas. Pero todos saben que también posee una intuición por encima de la media y que fue el hombre de confianza de la inspectora Indira Ramos en su último caso. Leal a sus compañeros y respetado en la calle, Jotadé se encontrará en una encrucijada que le obligará a volver a un pasado incómodo y a hacer lo imposible para proteger lo más importante de su vida.