NOVEDADES

Jack and Annie don’t need another mummy. But that’s what they get when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to ancient Egypt. There they meet a long-dead queen who needs their help. Will Jack and Annie be able to solve the puzzle, or will they end up as mummies themselves? Did you know that there’s a Magic Tree House book for every kid?

Step inside one of the world’s most enviable closets to celebrate the empowering, sensual, playful, and practical shoe. Hundreds of groundbreaking designs, ephemera, and sketches are featured in this volume, a follow-up to Fashion Designers A–Z, from the most coveted labels such as Christian Louboutin, Manolo Blahník, Gucci, Roger Vivier, and more.

Desde su inicio, el ser humano ha pasado por innumerables guerras, catástrofes y enfermedades. Durante años, ha intentado sobrevivir y sobrellevar situaciones que ellos mismos provocaron. Sin embargo, rondando el año 2150, las preocupaciones parecen escasear en las personas. Se ha alcanzado la cúspide del éxito en el ámbito tecnológico, la salud ha mejorado y la tasa criminal se ha reducido. En apariencia, solo existían vidas perfectas, prolongadas y saludables. Un mundo perfecto en un futuro perfecto. Hasta que un día se desató el caos, la muerte y la desesperación y, cuando el mundo se venía abajo, solo unos pocos quedarían para sobrevivir.

Cuando la Western Rider Cup les ofrece la oportunidad de ganar una recompensa que puede cambiarles la vida, ambos deben decidir si aliarse vale la pena. Unir fuerzas debería ser fácil. siempre y cuando dejen sus diferencias a un lado. El problema es que volver a pasar tiempo juntos puede despertar viejos sentimientos a los que ninguno de los dos quiere hacer frente. Gia y Seth están decididos a ganar. Pero quizá no están preparados para dejar atrás el resentimiento y enfrentarse a su mayor obstáculo: ellos mismos. ¿Serán capaces de firmar una tregua y alcanzar juntos la victoria en las carreras y en el amor?

Henri Rousseau (1844–1910) was a clerk in the Paris customs service who dreamed of becoming a famous artist. At the age 49, he decided to give it a try. At first, Rousseau’s bright, bold paintings of jungles and exotic flora and fauna were dismissed as childish and simplistic, but his unique and tenacious style soon won acclaim. After 1886, he exhibited regularly at Paris’s prestigious Salon des Indépendants, and in 1908 he received a legendary banquet of honor, hosted by Picasso. Although best known for his tropical scenes, Rousseau, in fact, never left France, relying on books and magazines for inspiration, as well as trips to natural history museums and anecdotes from returning military acquaintances. Working in oil on canvas, he tended toward a vibrant palette, vivid rendering, as well as a certain lush, languid sensuality as seen in the nude in the jungle composition The Dream.

Naked, knowing little more than her name, Amber Fallbrook does not recognize the stone tower she’s awoken in, or the vast, glittering ocean beyond its window. Turning, she finds a very a different view: a beautiful, nearly nude man stirring in her bed. He is a stranger, as is the man who barges into the room seconds later, clearly expecting to find Amber alone. Who are they? Who is she? Why can’t she remember? Shocked to discover that she’s in her dormitory room at the Alchemary—the realm’s prestigious university dedicated to the study of alchemy—Amber has no recollection of having been one of the school’s top students for the past two years. The two men—brothers—are her childhood friends, even if “friends” is not exactly the energy in the room. One brother claims he wants to protect her, and the other to help her recover her memory. But nothing is at it seems at the Alchemary. Not the intentions of her classmates and faculty, not the stunning, labyrinthine campus, not the two brothers she’s increasingly attracted to—maybe not even Amber herself. Despite her memory loss, Amber rejoins her classes and prepares for the deadly Alchemary Trials alongside the other Mastery-level students. But as invigorating as the flowing language and symbology of alchemy is, she can’t help but notice that for an institution shining light on the quest for human perfection there are a lot of dark shadows in its winding corridors.