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Taboo

Hannah Ferguson · 2024

Women Who Think Too Much

Susan Nolen-hoeksema · 2016

El tejido de las cosas- Lucas Vidaur

People We Meet on Vacation

Emily Henry · 2021

<b>From the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Funny Story </i>comes a sparkling novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations.</b><br><b><br></b><i>Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.<br></i><br>Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. <br><br>Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven't spoken since. <br><br>Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees. <br><br>Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?

Le Petit Prince (French Language Edition)

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 2001

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Mitch Albom • 2003

Yeguas exhaustas

Bibiana Collado Cabrera • 2023

Una madre, con los dedos rígidos de triar naranjas en un almacén y limpiar pisos de vacaciones de otros. Una hija, también con los dedos rígidos, pero de teclear papers, tesis y mil trabajos académicos. Y algo que no encaja. La sensación de que debería estar pasando algo que nunca llega a pasar. Este libro nos presenta un rosario de mujeres extenuadas. La falsa promesa del trabajo duro se hace añicos entre estas páginas mientras suenan Camela o Estopa. Yeguas exhaustas es la historia de una hija que tiene una relación de pareja dañina, que piensa en las heridas del cuerpo, en las tremendas diferencias de clase y sus implicaciones, en el clasismo del «mundo de la cultura», en el acceso al mercado laboral, en la endogamia universitaria y sus laberintos… en definitiva, en el averiado ascensor social. Esta novela trata de manera certera el paso del siglo xx al xxi en España a través de la propia experiencia: «Me exploro, investigo, reinterpreto pedazos de vida. Juego y cuestiono. Busco causas. Busco alivio. Busco cómplices». Y sin duda los encuentra. En Yeguas exhaustas Bibiana Collado Cabrera nos lleva a situaciones vividas y sentidas como individuales que en realidad son colectivas. Tan bien contadas, tan reales, que por momentos se nos olvida que estamos ante una novela.

Marina Abramovic

Marina Ambranovic • 2023

A career-spanning survey on Marina Abramovic, created in close collaboration with the legendary performance artist<br/>Over the past half century, Marina Abramovic has earned worldwide acclaim as a pioneer of performance art. In the fall of 2023 the Royal Academy in London is staging a massive exhibition featuring works from her entire career. Re-performances of some of her best-known and most radical works join new works created for the exhibition. Produced in collaboration with the artist, this important publication brings expert voices into the debate that Abramovic’s work engenders. How far should an artist push herself in pursuit of her work? What role does the audience play in creating a performance? How can performance art outlive the moment in which it takes place?<br/>Among the book’s authoritative authors are Karen Archey, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Adrian Heathfield, Professor of Performance and Visual Culture at the University of Roehampton, London; Svetlana Racanovic, Professor of Theory of Contemporary Art in the Faculty of Fine Arts Cetinje at the University of Montenegro; Andrea Tarsia, curator of the exhibition and Director of Exhibitions at the Royal Academy; Devin Zuber, Associate Professor of American Studies, Religion and Literature at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley and George F. Dole Professor of Swedenborgian Studies at the Center for Swedenborgian Studies, Berkeley. In an interview with Tim Marlow, Abramovic reflects on her extraordinary career and expands on the ideas behind the exhibition. Using an image-recognition app, images in the book are linked to video content, so readers can see many of Abramovic’s original performance pieces come to life.<br/>Marina Abramovic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, former Yugoslavia, in 1946. Now an icon of performance art, Abramovic is known internationally for her endurance pieces in which she subjects herself to unusual and often extreme conditions. From 1977 to 1988 she worked closely with West German artist Uwe “Ulay" Laysiepen, with whom she produced several of her most significant works. Her 2010 solo piece The Artist Is Present served in part to introduce a new generation to Abramovic’s oeuvre; in this piece, which took place over the course of three months, Abramovic sat at a table in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, for eight hours a day as different strangers sat opposite her, holding one another’s gaze for a minute each. She is one of the founders of the Marina Abramovic Institute.

Listas, guapas, limpias

Anna Pacheco • 2019

Una estudiante regresa al barrio humilde en el que se crió para pasar un verano junto a su abuela enferma. Todo lo que ocurrirá durante ese largo agosto le cambiará para siempre.<br/>Es el comienzo del verano y la protagonista de Listas, guapas, limpias quiere dejar a su novio, pero hay algo que se lo impide. También hay algo que le hace dudar cuando llega a una fiesta llena de desconocidos y le piden que sea ella la que ponga la próxima canción; o cuando está con su madre en el supermercado del barrio y tiene que escoger una marca de pizza congelada para la cena; o incluso cuando está hablando con su amiga de infancia, Yaiza, y no es capaz de sincerarse sobre sus planes de futuro. Ese sentimiento paralizador no es otra cosa que su conciencia pisoteando cada una de las grandes o pequeñas decisiones que deberá tomar ahora que a ojos de todos ya es una mujer adulta.<br/>A través de una primera persona íntima pero también ácida, en este primer asalto a la ficción de la periodista Anna Pacheco encontramos a una mujer en permanente conflicto con sus ideas políticas, la construcción social de su género y de su clase. En Listas, guapas, limpias no faltarán, además, las referencias a la cultura pop de los 90 y los 2000, la exploración de la sexualidad femenina y una constante cascada de ideas cargadas de humor negro.<br/>Reseñas:<br/>«Si escribir, decía Nabokov, es acariciar los detalles, Pacheco sabe escribir. Y escribe. Muy bien.»<br/>Miqui Otero, El Periódico de Catalunya<br/>«Anna Pacheco sube la apuesta.»<br/>Jenn Díaz, El Periódico de Catalunya<br/>«Listas, guapas, limpias, un relato de iniciación de aparente sencillez que esconde algunas cargas de profundidad en su retrato de la generación millenial y de sus contradicciones. [...] Implacable [...]. Un relato que promete al lector horas felices en libros venideros, porque este primero descubre una desenfadada voz.»<br/>Elena Costa, El Cultural<br/>«Con un estilo fresco, alejado de la solemnidad, con una gran intuición para diseccionar hasta el más nimio de los detalles, Anna Pacheco dibuja un retrato crudo, ácido y lúcido de la clase media.»<br/>Laura Ferrero, Abc<br/>«Anna Pacheco aporta una mirada lúcida y llena de humor, con orgullo pero sin nostalgia.»<br/>Laura Casielles, La Marea<br/>«Con maestría, con gancho, con fuerza y sin clemencia. [...] Pacheco, con una prosa clara y conversacional nos habla de conflictos de clase, del esnobismo de la intelectualidad, de las relaciones familiares y de la amistad.»<br/>Rosa Martí, Esquire<br/>«Pacheco destaca en una gran clarividencia para reflejar dudas e inseguridades y afina con brillo en los detalles: explica bien y bonito. La escritora sale indudablemente vencedora de esta primera prueba.»<br/>Jordi Garrigós, Ara<br/>«Listas, guapas, limpias es un más que ilusionante primer paso para que nuevas voces narran el tiempo de los que hemos vivido una juventud lejos de los marcos hegemónicos de los medios [...] Pacheco sumauna triple y vital reivindicación en su primer disparo; como joven, como pobre y como mujer.»<br/>Yeray S. Iborra, Mondo Sonoro<br/>«La destreza técnica de Anna Pacheco para urdir una mentira, para hacerla verosímil e incluso representativa de toda una generación,[...] lo que hace Anna Pacheco es señalar que la experiencia de las mujeres está siempre determinada artificialmente por relatos de género y de clase, y lo hace desde la virtud de ese mismo artificio: escribiendo una buena novela.»<br/>Eudald Espluga, La Fronde Magazine

El poder del ahora: Un camino hacia la realizacion espiritual (Spanish Edition)

Eckhart Tolle • 2001

Eckhart Tolle begins this best-selling spiritual guide with his own story -- a tale of early despair that culminated in a tremendous experience of awakening one night soon after his 29th birthday. Tolle's galvanizing realization was that the mind is the enemy of enlightenment, and that individuals contain the source of their own pain. The Power of Now explores these issues in depth and uncovers fresh ways of living a more fulfilling life. Now available to Spanish-language readers, the book shows how a combination of Buddhist principles, relaxation techniques, and meditation theory can connect the reader to "the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death."

Malignant Sadness

Lewis Wolpert • 2006

Several years ago, Lewis Wolpert had a severe depressive episode. Despite a happy marriage and successful scientific career, he could think only of suicide. When eventually he did recover, he became aware of the stigma attached to depression - and just how difficult it was to get reliable information. With characteristic candour and determination he set about writing this book, an acclaimed investigation into the causes and treatments of this devastating disease, which formed the basis for a BBC TV series. This paperback edition features a new introduction, in which Lewis Wolpert discusses the reaction to his book and television series, and recounts his own recurring struggle with depression.

The American Roommate Experiment

Armas Elena • 2022

Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She hasn’t told her family and now has terrible writer’s block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. Luckily she has her best friend Lina’s spare key while she’s out of town. But Rosie doesn’t know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking—for lack of a better word—on Instagram for the last few months. Lucas seems intent on coming to her rescue like a Spanish knight in shining armor. Only this one strolls around the place in a towel, has a distracting grin, and an irresistible accent. Oh, and he cooks.<br/><br/>Lucas offers to let Rosie stay with him, at least until she can find some affordable temporary housing. And then he proposes an outrageous experiment to bring back her literary muse and meet her deadline: He’ll take her on a series of experimental dates meant to jump-start her romantic inspiration. Rosie has nothing to lose. Her silly, online crush is totally under control—but Lucas’s time in New York has an expiration date, and six weeks may not be enough, for either her or her deadline.<br/><br/>From the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Martín, who are forced to share a New York apartment.

Book Lovers

Emily Henry • 2022

An insightful, delightful, instant #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Funny Story. “One of my favorite authors.”—Colleen Hoover One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming... Nora Stephens' life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute. If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.

La novela del verano

Emily Henry • 2024

Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

Shannon Lee • 2020

Bruce Lee’s daughter illuminates her father’s most powerful life philosophies―demonstrating how martial arts are a perfect metaphor for personal growth, and how we can practice those teachings every day.<br/><br/>"Empty your mind; be formless, shapeless like water."<br/><br/>Bruce Lee is a cultural icon, renowned the world over for his martial arts and film legacy. But Lee was also a deeply philosophical thinker, learning at an early age that martial arts are more than just an exercise in physical discipline―they are an apt metaphor for living a fully realized life.<br/><br/>Now, in Be Water, My Friend, Lee’s daughter Shannon shares the concepts at the core of his philosophies, showing how they can serve as tools of personal growth and self-actualization. Each chapter brings a lesson from Bruce Lee’s teachings, expanding on the foundation of his iconic “be water” philosophy. Over the course of the book, we discover how being like water allows us to embody fluidity and naturalness in life, bringing us closer to our essential flowing nature and our ability to be powerful, self-expressed, and free.<br/><br/>Through previously untold stories from her father’s life and from her own journey in embodying these lessons, Shannon presents these philosophies in tangible, accessible ways. With Bruce Lee’s words as a guide, she encourages readers to pursue their essential selves and apply these ideas and practices to their everyday lives―whether in learning new things, overcoming obstacles, or ultimately finding their true path.<br/><br/>Be Water, My Friend is an inspirational invitation to us all, a gentle call to action to consider our lives with new eyes. It is also a testament to how one man's exploration and determination transcended time and place to ignite our imaginations―and to inspire many around the world to transform their lives.