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Princesses Daphne, Beatriz, and Sophronia have trained their entire lives for one purpose: to bring down nations. Their mother, Empress Margaraux of Bessemia, is determined to rule the continent of Vesteria, and her daughters are her weapons. Promised for marriage since birth, they are her ticket across enemy lines. And also her decoys. Still, not even Empress Margaraux can control the stars. Sent to their new kingdoms, orders in hand, the princesses have found their own paths, changing the course of their mother’s plans entirely—and tragically. Sophronia chose love, and for that, she lost her life.  Daphne and Beatriz can hardly believe their sister is dead, but both are determined to avenge her. And now, separated by a continent—and their mother’s lies—they see more clearly with every passing day that they might not be working toward the same end. The stars whisper of death, but Daphne and Beatriz are just beginning to understand the true power coursing through their veins. And their mother will do anything to keep them under her thumb—even if it means killing them all.

En 1565 Richard Breton edita en París Les Songes drolatiques de Pantagruel, una colección de 120 estampas grabadas en madera por un autor anónimo, que las firmó utilizando el nombre de Rabelais. El artista desconocido que grabó las estampas pudo ser François Desprez. Una selección de 25 estampas de Desprez fueron la inspiración directa de la serie de 25 litografías de Salvador Dalí tituladas también Les Songes drolatiques de Pantagruel. Dalí mantuvo las composiciones originales, introduciendo pequeños detalles que subrayaban su carácter fantástico. El imaginario carnavalesco pasa por el filtro de la «paranoia-crítica» daliniana, en una expansión de la estética de lo grotesco. Ese ciclo satírico-surrealizante sirve como pretexto visual para revisar a ese artista extravagante que llegó a decir que «la belleza será comestible o no será». Dalí canibaliza el mundo pantagruélico y nos invita a degustar un menú que es más inquietante que sabroso.

El tiburón de más de 20 metros de largo y 20 toneladas de peso, desata una monstruosa cacería devorando todo lo que se cruza a su paso mientras que los científicos a cargo de la misión y el ejército le dan caza, los primeros para capturarlo vivo y los segundos para acabar con la amenaza que representa.

Seton Academic High is a prep school obsessed with its football team and their thirteen-year conference win streak, a record that players always say they’d never have without Seton’s girls. What exactly Seton girls do to make them so valuable, though, no one ever really says. They're just "the best." But the team’s quarterback, the younger brother of the Seton star who started the streak, wants more than regular season glory. He wants a state championship before his successor, Seton’s first Black QB, has a chance to overshadow him. Bigger rewards require bigger risks, and soon the actual secrets to the team's enduring success leak to a small group of girls who suddenly have the power to change their world forever.

The summer after senior year should have been a time for Cam to party and hang out with his friends. It should also have been a time for him to win back the love of his life, Allison Tandy, who'd dumped him so brutally the year before. But it quickly becomes clear that this summer is going to be worse than a failure for Cam. It's going to be a tragedy. Ally is left comatose after a terrible car crash, then Cam tears his ACL in a basketball accident. The operation leaves him in agony, confined to his couch and ruminating over the fact that his ex may not survive. But when (after taking his medication) Cam starts seeing Ally, he starts to think: 1. He may be headed for a complete mental breakdown and 2. This summer might just be interesting afterall. Brimming with honesty and humor, A Heavy Dose of Allison Tandy interrogates how much control we really have over matters of love—and life.

Publicado por primera vez en forma de libro en 1823, Ensayos de Elia ha terminado por convertirse en una de las expresiones literarias más logradas del pensamiento romántico inglés. Pese a que su segundo volumen, Los últimos ensayos de Elia, no vería la luz hasta diez años más tarde, las primeras piezas de la colección comenzaron a aparecer en The London Magazine en 1820 y continuaron publicándose periódicamente hasta 1826. El tono personal y coloquial de sus textos hizo que Lamb se granjease una enorme popularidad entre los lectores. Al igual que sus cartas, estos ensayos, implícitamente nostálgicos y melancólicos, dan cuenta de una personalidad literaria rebosante de ironía, ingenio y humanidad, y hacen suya la mítica afirmación de Montaigne según la cual Lamb mismo (oculto tras la máscara de Elia, aquí) vendría a ser la materia de su libro.