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Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 150 pages ; 20 cm
Description
Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton calls forth his life's work to show us how to cope with the lasting effects and legacy of the Covid-19 pandemic. Drawing on responses of survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nazi death camps, Lifton shows readers how we can carry on and live meaningful lives even in the face of the tragic and the absurd.
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Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"No hay delirio mas voraz que el deseo. Se alimenta de lo que sabe y no sabe, crece mejor en las sombras, en los santuarios prohibidos, en las distancias insalvables.(S1(B S es una escritora que vive en Londres. Ha perdido a un hijo y con el todo lo que la ataba a la vida, incluido su matrimonio. F es abogado y lleva junto a su mujer un pasar tranquilo en Santiago de Chile. S y F se conocen en Londres y a partir de entonces comienzan a reunirse clandestinamente...
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"Morag MacIntyre is a Scottish lass from the remote islands that make up the northernmost reaches of the UK. She's also a third-generation pilot, the heir apparent to an island plane service she runs with her grandfather. The islands--over 500 dots of windswept land that reach almost to Norway--rely on their one hardworking prop plane to deliver mail, packages, tourists, medicine, and the occasional sheep. As the keeper of this vital lifeline, Morag...
Author
Publisher
Plaza & Jan�es
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Winona Farmington so�naba con graduarse de la universidad, mudarse a Nueva York y dedicarse al mundo editorial, pero la vida se interpuso en su camino y tuvo que abandonar los estudios para volver a su peque�na ciudad del estado de Michigan y cuidar a su madre enferma. A�nos m�as tarde, Winnie se consuela viendo Beauchamp Hall, un drama de �epoca ambientado en una gran casa de Norfolk, en cuya historia se sumerge intentando escapar de su...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"At 40, Lena Baker is at a steady and stable moment in life—between wine nights with her two best friends and her wedding just weeks away, she's happy in love and in friendship until a confession on her wedding day shifts her world. Unmoored and grieving a major loss, Lena finds herself trying to teach her daughter self-love while struggling to do so herself. Lena questions everything she's learned about dating, friendship, and motherhood,...
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Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
335 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"A través de la conversación entre Oprah Winfrey y el Dr. Perry, en este libro descubrirás cómo lo que nos sucede en la primera infancia tiene una gran influencia sobre la persona adulta en que nos convertimos. También comprenderás que las adversidades que experimentamos impactan en nuestra salud física y emocional y qué dice la ciencia sobre los patrones de comportamiento que nos cuesta tanto entender. Este libro te ofrece una nueva perspectiva...
8) Apia de Roma
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
639 pages : black and white illustrations on page 8 ; 23 cm
Description
Apia P̤pulus est̀ a punto de perder a su madre. A pesar de su corta edad, conforme a las costumbres imperantes, contrae matrimonio con Salvio Sextus, un pr̤spero comerciante de perlas de edad avanzada. En el Palatino, el barrio m̀s encumbrado de la ciudad, la joven debe revestirse con una coraza para enfrentar la vida con alguien a quien no ama, cumplir con sus obligaciones de ama y defender su casa de las confabulaciones pol̕ticas. Roma es un...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Blowing Rock, North Carolina, 1951. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences which happen from time to time rattle him less than interactions with the living. But when his only friend, the kind but impulsive Jacob Hampton, is conscripted to serve overseas,...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Roommates since college, Jess and Ren have built a strong—if at times codependent—friendship. Now navigating their late thirties, the women co-own a weathered beachfront home, comother a rescued shelter pup and have inadvertently centered their lives around each other. Jess is clever and driven with a lucrative career running her own real estate brokerage. Magnetic but aimless, Ren has been making margaritas at the same local dive and...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in late 19th century Scotland. Growing up in the care of her grandparents on Belhaven farm, Lizzie Craig discovers at a young age that she can see into the future. Her gift of sight is selective-she doesn't, for instance, see that she has an older sister who will come to join the family on...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
183 pages ; 23 cm
Description
El viaje de los colibries ocupa ya un lugar en los corazones de los lectores mexicanos, desde que Sue Zurita publico una edicion independiente hace ocho anos con la que logro llegar a mas de 70 mil personas. Esta nueva edicion, revisada y actualizada, incluye un capitulo inedito: un nuevo final para Romina. Que fue de ella? A donde fue? Que experiencias vivio? Todo ello se cuenta en el nuevo desenlace de la novela.
14) Foráneo
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
agosto de 2023.
Physical Desc
336 unnumbered pages : illustrations (black, white, and shades of green only) ; 21 cm
Description
"Fidel piensa que est̀ listo para finalmente independizarse cuando se muda a Cholollan para estudiar la universidad. Comenzar esta etapa en una ciudad completamente diferente y alejada de sus problemas familiares es lo que cree que necesita para dar rienda suelta a su creatividad, como siempre ha deseado. Sin embargo, al llegar a su nuevo hogar e iniciar el ciclo escolar, Fidel no est̀ listo para las responsabilidades que conlleva vivir solo. Cuando...
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