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Mitad hada, mitad vampiro, ¡y totalmente única! ¡Conviértete en una vampiestrella del pop con Isadora! Isadora Moon es especial porque es diferente. Su mamá es un hada, su papá es un vampiro y ella tiene un poquito de los dos. Isadora va a su primer concierto con su amiga Araminta. Tienen muchas ganas de ir porque la música de vampiros les encanta. ¡Es de lo mejor! Pero ¿serán las canciones de las Vampibrilli igual de impresionantes en directo?

It was a great love story, one for the ages. The speed of our beginning and the speed of our ending felt like matching bookends. They both came out of nowhere. He wanted it, he wanted me. And then he didn’t. In March 2020, Belle Burden was safe and secure with her family at their house on Martha’s Vineyard, navigating the early days of the pandemic together—building fires in the late afternoons, drinking whisky sours, making roast chicken. Then, with no warning or explanation, her husband of twenty years announced that he was leaving her. Overnight, her caring, steady partner became a man she hardly recognized. He exited his life with her like an actor shrugging off a costume. In Strangers, Burden revisits her marriage, searching for clues that her husband was not who she always thought he was. As she examines her relationship through a new lens, she reckons with her own family history and the lessons she intuited about how a woman is expected to behave in the face of betrayal. Through all of it, she is transformed. The discreet, compliant woman she once was—someone nicknamed “Belle the Good”—gives way to someone braver, someone determined to use her voice. With unflinching honesty and profound grace, Burden charts a path through heartbreak to show the power of a woman who refuses to give up on love. Strangers is a stunning, deeply moving, compulsively readable memoir heralding the arrival of a thrilling new literary talent.

What shall we build, you and I? Let’s gather all our tools for a start. For putting together . . . and taking apart. A father and daughter set about laying the foundations for their life together. Using their own special tools, they get to work, building memories to cherish, a home to keep them safe, and love to keep them warm.

As cryptic as they are compelling, the masterpieces of Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516) remain some of the most enduring enigmas of the art world. Their intricate, allegorical, and often startling content has captivated not only art historians, but also fashion designers, rock stars, writers, and punk rockers, as well as countless modern and contemporary artist successors. Although rooted in the Old Netherlandish tradition, Bosch developed a highly subjective, richly suggestive style to render both the celestial bliss of heaven and the grotesque tortures of hell, most famously and meticulously excecuted in The Garden of Earthly Delights. Here, as in his other known works, his artistic language combined religious humility with a razor-sharp wit, often playing off pictorial versions of contemporary proverbs or figures of speech.

La súbita muerte de todos los animales de la Tierra divide a la sociedad de la República de Heden en dos: los celestes, la élite gobernante; y los domésticos, seres inferiores que provienen del otro lado del Muro y son usados como esclavos, prohibiéndoseles incluso tocar o mirar a los celestes. Eva Salazar, hija del ministro de Alimentación, lleva una vida perfecta. O eso transmiten los periodistas cuando su inminente boda se vuelve mediática. Lo que los medios desconocen es que el enlace está concertado, por intereses políticos, con un hombre al que no ama, y que Nina, la doméstica que la ha criado y a la que, aun yendo en contra de la ley, quiere como a una madre, va a ser abandonada a su suerte al otro lado del Muro. Es entonces cuando Eva comprende que luchar contra el gobierno de la República de Heden es la única solución para hacer justicia en una sociedad oprimida y segregada; y solo los miembros del Frente de Liberación podrán demostrarle que, en medio del horror de un mundo en el que ya no existen los animales, aún hay gente dispuesta a luchar por la libertad.