NOVEDADES

Zen, soothing, mystical, meditative—words cannot do justice to Asia’s most beautiful interiors. Whether it’s a gilded Tibetan monastery, a plantation in Sri Lanka, or a private villa in Thailand, each of the havens featured in this book are remarkable not only in aesthetic, but also in spirit. This showcase features about 40 exceptional locations across Tibet, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Singapore, and Malaysia. Highlights include traditional Burmese stilt houses; the breathtaking Shiv Niwas Palace in India, visited by James Bond in Octopussy; Cambodian temples; a rice barge-turned houseboat in Thailand; the “Blue Mansion”, an magnificient, indigo-painted courtyard house featured in the film Indochine; a breathtaking garden designed by Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa; and many, many more.

Sometimes Llama Llama feels happy and other times he feels sad. Sometimes he is excited and sometimes angry. Join Llama Llama as he gets ready for bed and experiences the universal highs and lows that all kids get at bedtime. Llama Llama Feelings is the perfect book for our youngest readers to learn about their emotions and why they might feel a certain way. Easy to understand and perfect for little hands, this is a must-add to any young reader’s library.

Most nights, you’ll find Alison Hunter at The Venue, the kind of sweaty Nashville spot that’s on the circuit for bands like Bon Iver and Death Cab. Sounds glamorous—but not for Al, who stamps hands at the door with Julien, the quiet coworker who treats her like a little sister. When she can sneak off, she bums drinks from the tattooed bartender and watches the bands, wondering if she’ll ever finish a song of her own after her disastrous attempt to play in public. When a once-in-a-century storm hits and her lead singer ex-boyfriend shows up at the door, Al finds herself stuck in a perpetual cycle of late nights, new flings, and old flames. Obsessed with the disappearance of a troubled indie star, she slowly starts to lose it herself—until one reckless night threatens to derail everything. As propulsive and sexy as the rasp of a static-driven amp, Lo Fi is an openhearted tribute to the messy truth of the creative life, the clash of lust and love, and the yearning to be heard.

Si algo hila los diferentes escritos que componen Lo que trajo el mar, son las miradas particulares que Báez va consignando. Hojas de ruta variopintas en las que el autor hace un ejercicio literario para comprender el mundo que lo rodea. Así, entre la cultura pop, las islas caribeñas, las ciudades continentales, las lecturas de su vida, músicos y canciones, platos y sabores, vaivenes y momentos estáticos, Báez crea una biografía personal y americana. Un nuevo mapa de lo que significa ser habitante o migrante de un territorio.

“Were we gangsters? No. But did we know how to start a fire?” In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse, and the family moves on with their lives, resuming their prized places in the saga of the American dream, comforted in the realization that though their money may have been what endangered them, it is also what assured them their safety. But now, nearly forty years later, it’s clear that perhaps nobody ever got over anything, after all. Carl has spent the ensuing years secretly seeking closure to the matter of his kidnapping, while his wife, Ruth, has spent her potential protecting her husband’s emotional health. Their three grown children aren’t doing much better: Nathan’s chronic fear won’t allow him to advance at his law firm; Beamer, a Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anything—substance, foodstuff, women—in order to numb his own perpetual terror; and Jenny has spent her life so bent on proving that she’s not a product of her family’s pathology that she has come to define it. As they hover at the delicate precipice of a different kind of survival, they learn that the family fortune has dwindled to just about nothing, and they must face desperate questions about how much their wealth has played a part in both their lives’ successes and failures.

¿Puedo convertir mis deseos en realidad? ¿Soy verdaderamente capaz de moldear mis pensamientos para lograr mis objetivos? ¡Claro que sí! Éste libro se basa en la maravillosa obra de Charles H. Hannel titulada "La llave Maestra". A través de sus páginas podremos comprobar que todo lo que sucede en la vida, tanto lo que deseamos como lo que no, viene dado por la ley más poderosa del Universo: La Ley de la Atracción.