NOVEDADES

“Barbarie y resistencia enelparaíso” es una novela que aborda en la ficción y basándose en acontecimientos históricos reales ocurridos en el pasado pre y post colombino, teniendo como escenario la isla de la Española, conocida por sus habitantes como bohío o babeque, así como en la España de entonces, la época primaria de la colonización con sus consabidos impactos culturales, religiosos y sociales, producidos por una España feudal-mercantilista y una cultura taína neolítica y gentilicia.

Being the Clown Prince of Crime’s dog doesn’t win him any friends behind bars, especially after he gets a tough-talking stray cat named Penny tossed into lockup with him. But they’ll have to work together to figure out what the evil Warden Shar Pei’s helper, Dr. Hugo Mange, is up to. And the only way to stop this terrifying team-up is to win the talent show and get visitation with their masters at Arkham on the hill. Because the Joker is sure to help! What could go wrong with that plan? And where does Gotham’s premier playboy Bruce Wayne’s butler Alfred fit in?

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.

They were sisters and they would last past the end of time. Sam and Elena dream of another life. On the island off the coast of Washington where they were born and raised, they and their mother struggle to survive. Sam works on the ferry that delivers wealthy mainlanders to their vacation homes while Elena bartends at the local golf club, but even together they can’t earn enough to get by, stirring their frustration about the limits that shape their existence. Then one night on the boat, Sam spots a bear swimming the dark waters of the channel. Where is it going? What does it want? When the bear turns up by their home, Sam, terrified, is more convinced than ever that it’s time to leave the island. But Elena responds differently to the massive beast. Enchanted by its presence, she throws into doubt the desire to escape and puts their long-held dream in danger. A story about the bonds of sisterhood and the mysteries of the animals that live among us—and within us—Bear is a propulsive, mythical, richly imagined novel from one of the most acclaimed young writers in America.

En el casi medio siglo transcurrido desde la edición completa en alemán de su Libro de los Pasajes, Walter Benjamin se ha convertido en una referencia clave en muchos ámbitos de la crítica. Benjamin elaboró una síntesis única y provocativa de la estetica, política y filosofía. Este volumen de la colección "Pensadores sobre la arquitectura" evalúa la importancia de sus escritos para la teoría y el ejercicio profesional de la arquitectura. A partir del entrelazamiento de vida y obra en los escritos de Benjamin sobre varias ciudades europeas, este libro examina sus contribución a la crítica cultural en relación con obras de Max Ernst, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier y Sigfried Giedion, y sitúa la obra de Benjamin dentro de algunas manifestaciones más recientes de la arquitectura y el urbanismo.

A Lola, viajar a Minnesota para trabajar como niñera y poder mejorar su inglés le pareció una idea perfecta. Lo que no esperaba era que los niños de los que le tocaría hacerse cargo fuesen LA MISMÍSIMA REENCARNACIÓN DEL MAL. Bueno, tal vez suena un poco dramático… Pero sí que son un verdadero desafío para ella y su temperamento. A veces fantasea con perderlos de vista un rato para tener un respiro, pero nunca imaginó que la magia de la Navidad haría realidad su inocente deseo.