NOVEDADES

Como si se tratara de un acto de magia verbal que transforma la realidad desde sus engranajes más profundos, El abc de Byobu juega con la figura del «biombo» (que en japonés comparte raíces con «pantalla» y «viento») para reflexionar sobre lo cotidiano. Como señala Luis Felipe Fabre, «Byobu, más que un personaje, es un estado de conciencia». La premio Cervantes uruguaya Ida Vitale construye un universo vasto y cálido que cobra vida en la imaginación del lector.

Nuestro cerebro también requiere un ejercicio regular. Esperamos estar en gran forma mental sin hacer ningún trabajo, y cuando nos damos cuenta de que tenemos dificultades, buscamos una solución rápida en lugar de desarrollar habilidades que nos ayudarán en el futuro. Entrena tu mente combina terapia conductual cognitiva (TCC) y terapia de aceptación y compromiso (ACT), para delinear veinte pasos fáciles que puedes practicar para liberarte de las formas de pensar y comportamientos que dañan salud mental. Desde eliminar las compulsiones que causan incertidumbre, ansiedad y angustia hasta aliviar el estrés y la distracción. El entrenamiento mental es la clave para pasar de una vida frenética y llena de ansiedad a una que se centra en tus valores fundamentales. Todo esto te hará sentir mentalmente fuerte, más en forma y mejor equipado para navegar por las complejidades de la vida cotidiana.

The Sharaf family is the picture of success. Prosperous, rich, happy. They came to this country as refugees with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. And now, after years of hard work, they live in the most exclusive neighborhood, their growing family attending the most prestigious schools. Zorah, the eldest daughter, is the apple of her father’s eye. When an unthinkable tragedy strikes, everyone is left reeling and the family is thrust into the court of public opinion. There is talk that behind closed doors the Sharafs’ happy household was anything but. Did the Sharaf family achieve the American dream? Or was the image of the model immigrant family just a façade?

The eminent and much-awarded designer is well-known and respected for her high-end, poetic gardens that are contemporary yet full of elegant softness inspired by quintessential English gardens—perfect for today’s lifestyles and a lovely way to update and complement a historic house. Here, she fully explores her own twenty-acre garden, which she has developed and cared for meticulously over decades—the historic Pepperidge Farm estate in Fairfield, Connecticut—breaking down her design process by touring the garden in sections and adding thematic essays full of a career’s worth of tips and tricks so all home gardeners can adapt elements of her approach themselves, including the following: form and structure, color, ornament, incorporating history, layering plantings, creating meadows, cultivating an orchard, planning a perennial garden, creating a pool garden, incorporating edibles and vegetables, making a garden appealing to wildlife, and planning for seasonality (winter structure and interest).

After being fired for taking an uncharacteristic risk at her commodities trading job, Bea Macon sublets her New York apartment and books a one-way ticket to stay with her mother, Christy, a free spirit who has been living in Salt Lake City on Bea’s dime. Usually the responsible one, Bea isn’t about to admit exactly why she’s suddenly decided to visit, but she isn’t the only one keeping secrets: Christy has a man. She has a map. She has . . . a username on a forum devoted to unearthing $1 million in buried treasure hidden somewhere in the western US? Bea is convinced this is just another one of her mother’s wild larks. But Christy believes she’s onto something—and she’s arranged a rendezvous in a rural town called Mercy with the guy she’s been obsessively trading theories with online to prove it. Out in the desert that one woman believes to be a promised land, the other a wasteland, Bea and Christy find themselves embroiled in a more high-stakes, transformative escapade than either could have imagined.