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Millones de personas suben cada año la gran escalinata de mármol para visitar el Museo Metropolitano de Arte, pero solo una privilegiada minoría tiene acceso ilimitado a todos sus rincones y recovecos: son los vigilantes, que deambulan discretamente en trajes azul marino, con un ojo atento al tesoro de 185.000 metros cuadrados. Absorto en el inicio de su glamorosa carrera en The New Yorker, Patrick Bringley nunca imaginó que acabaría siendo uno de ellos. Todo cambió cuando a su hermano mayor le diagnosticaron un cáncer terminal, momento en el cual sintió la imperiosa necesidad de alejarse del bullicio cotidiano. Así, dejó el semanal y buscó consuelo en el lugar más bello que conocía. Para su sorpresa, y para deleite del lector, este refugio se convirtió en su segundo hogar durante una década. Lo seguimos mientras custodia delicados tesoros desde Egipto hasta Roma, pasea por los laberintos bajo las galerías, desgasta nueve pares de zapatos y se maravilla ante las bellas obras bajo su cuidado. Bringley entra en el museo cual fantasma, silencioso y casi invisible, pero pronto encuentra su voz y su tribu: las obras de arte y sus creadores, y la vívida subcultura de los vigilantes del museo —un magnífico mosaico de artistas, músicos, operarios incondicionales, inmigrantes, bromistas y soñadores —. Conforme se fortalecen sus vínculos con sus colegas y con el arte, llega a comprender lo afortunado que es al vivir entre las paredes de ese pequeño universo que tanto se asemeja a las mejores facetas de nuestro mundo, al que regresa con gratitud de manera gradual. Toda la belleza del mundo es un retrato sorprendente e inspirador de un magnífico museo, sus tesoros ocultos y las personas que lo mantienen en funcionamiento, escrito por uno de sus más íntimos observadores.

Anthony Fennell, a journalist, is in pursuit of a story buried at the bottom of the sea: the network of tiny fibre-optic tubes that carry the world's information across the ocean floor - and what happens when they break. A darkly epic novel about connection, disconnection and destruction - from bestselling and National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann.

Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner—of war and of her own mind. Her Resistance friends and allies have been brutally murdered, her abilities suppressed, and the world she knew destroyed. In the aftermath of a long war, Paladia’s new ruling class of corrupt guild families and depraved necromancers, whose vile undead creatures helped bring about their victory, holds Helena captive. According to Resistance records, she was a healer of little importance within their ranks. But Helena has inexplicable memory loss of the months leading up to her capture, making her enemies wonder: Is she truly as insignificant as she appears, or are her lost memories hiding some vital piece of the Resistance’s final gambit? To uncover the memories buried deep within her mind, Helena is sent to the High Reeve, one of the most powerful and ruthless necromancers in this new world. Trapped on his crumbling estate, Helena’s fight—to protect her lost history and to preserve the last remaining shreds of her former self—is just beginning. For her prison and captor have secrets of their own . . . secrets Helena must unearth, whatever the cost.

Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a Happily Ever After, he kills off his entire cast. They’re polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke and bogged down with writer’s block. Then one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.

EMORY Blackchurch es una mansión oculta, en un lugar remoto, a donde los más ricos envían a sus hijos rebeldes para que aprendan de sus errores. Will Grayson siempre fue salvaje e imprudente. Disfrutaba arrinconándome en el instituto cuando nadie estaba mirando, así ni un alma sabría que al chico popular le gustaba una perdedora como yo. Ahora me odia y está justificado. Porque es todo culpa mía. Todo. La Noche del Diablo. Los vídeos. Que los arrestaran.

What do a barracks for British troops in the Falklands War, a floating jail off the Bronx, and temporary housing for VW factory workers in Germany have in common? The Balder Scapa: a single barge that served all three roles. Though the name would eventually change to Finnboda 12. And then to Safe Esperia. And later on, to the Bibby Resolution. And after that . . . in short, a vessel with so many names, and so many fates, that to keep it in our sights—as the protagonist of this fascinating economic parable—Ian Kumekawa has no choice but to call it, simply, the Vessel. Despite its sturdy steel structure, weighing 9,500 deadweight tons, the Vessel is a figure as elusive and abstract as the offshore market it comes to embody: a world of island tax havens, exploited labor forces, free banking zones, Thatcherism, Reaganomics, and mass incarceration, where even the prisoners are held offshore. Fitted with modular shipping containers, themselves the product of standardized global trade, the ship could become whatever the market demanded. Whether caught in an international dispute involving Hong Kong, Nigeria, Indonesia, and the Virgin Islands—to be settled in an English court of law—or flying yet another foreign “flag of convenience” to mask its ownership—the barge is ever a container for forces much larger than even its hulking self. Empty Vessel is a jaw-dropping microhistory that speaks volumes about the global economy as a whole. In following the Vessel—and its Sister Vessel, built alongside it in Stockholm—from one thankless task to the next, Kumekawa connects the dots of a neoliberal world order in the making, where regulation is for suckers and “Made in USA” feels almost quaint.