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In these 11 stories, Gary Soto scores again. With a sensitivity and humor born from his own experiences while growing up in California's Central Valley, the author brings to the surface issues such as success and failure, honesty and deceit, love and friendship.

Postcolonial Love Poem, the brilliant second collection from Natalie Diaz, holds in its pages the urgent appeal for all bodies―bodies of lovers, family, enemies, as well as of language and rivers and land―to be held dearly. In her lyrical landscape, Diaz tenderly prods the wounds inflicted by America onto its Indigenous peoples.

Aprende a comprender, adoptar y aplicar la Inteligencia emocional. En voz de la autora: La cultura occidental ha privilegiado la racionalidad por encima de las emociones y la ha considerado casi como la única forma de inteligencia. Sin embargo, en Mis emociones bajo control, la autora y psicoterapeuta Tere Díaz explica que disminuir socialmente el valor de las emociones ha generado que desde la infancia se invisibilice lo que sentimos y que nos desarrollemos sin conocimiento interno sobre el mundo afectivo, lo que impacta en las relaciones y dificulta vivir en un estado de bienestar.

Seventh-grader Viv never looks forward to picture day. It’s just another day where she wears a boring braid and no one notices her. (Her two best friends, Milo and Al, don’t count, of course.) But enough is enough. This year, she’s taking matters into her own hands. Literally. Viv grabs a pair of scissors, her phone for live-streaming, and, well, bye-bye braid. Suddenly Viv is an over-night influencer at Brinkley Middle School. Everyone wants her help planning their next big moment—from haircuts, to dance proposals, activist rallies and mathlete championships.

Sabrina, the self-proclaimed queen of the West Village, feels destined for greatness. While her three best friends have each settled into their careers, she’s still working odd jobs to stay afloat. She dreams of channeling her immense creative potential into…something. So she decides to do what no twenty-something has ever done before—start a podcast.

En una era donde las redes sociales y la inteligencia artificial nos ofrecen infinidad de nuevas oportunidades, en el amor experimentamos múltiples incertidumbres y sinsabores. La forma de vivir hoy las relaciones de pareja y, por tanto, la sexualidad, el afecto y el erotismo se caracterizan por acuerdos que tienden a ser cada vez más flexibles, por necesidades a veces incompatibles y por deseos eróticos diversos.

In short, this is Pablo Escobar's story in the words of one of his closest confidants, his brother Roberto. It's all here - the brutal violence inside the world of the drug cartel, dealing with American drug forces and the CIA, the problems the Escobars faced when going up against the Colombian mafia, even Pablo's moments of kindness and compassion. As Roberto points out, although many people view Escobar as a monster, thousands still visit his grave every year to mourn him, and revere him as a savior.

In Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed, bestselling and award-winning authors as well as up-and-coming voices interrogate the different myths and stereotypes about the Latinx diaspora. These fifteen original pieces delve into everything from ghost stories and superheroes, to memories in the kitchen and travels around the world, to addiction and grief, to identity and anti-Blackness, to finding love and speaking your truth. Full of both sorrow and joy, Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed is an essential celebration of this rich and diverse community.

“Without stories, we cannot live well,” shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures readers. The Best American Short Stories 2023 features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope. A lifelong friendship may become a casualty of the Russia-Ukraine war. Rejected by his lover, a man seeks to reconcile with his family. Twitter users miraculously muster enough empathy to help a lost cat find a forever home.

No subestimes el talento de un grupo de abuelos. En un pacífico complejo privado para jubilados, cuatro improbables amigos se reúnen una vez a la semana para revisar antiguos casos de asesinatos locales que quedaron sin resolver. Ellos son Ron, un exactivista socialista lleno de tatuajes y revolución; la dulce Joyce, una viuda que no es tan ingenua como aparenta; Ibrahim, un antiguo psiquiatra con una increíble capacidad de análisis, y la tremenda y enigmática Elizabeth, que, a sus 81 años, lidera el grupo de investigadores aficionados... o no tanto.

The Lady is about a kind, elegant, playful—and very powerful—way of being in the world that extends to all aspects of life, from business, money and parenting to flirtation, seduction and sex.

Un libro que te enseña a cómo seguir luchando por lo que quieres a pesar del dolor que hoy sientes.

For their 45th anniversary, wealthy science buffs Hank and Molly Nonnar decide to fund an experimental rejuvenation procedure, with only one condition: that they be the first subjects.

An ordinary man wakes one morning to discover he’s a famous reggaetón star. An aging abuela slowly morphs into a marionette puppet. A struggling academic discovers the horrifying cost of becoming a Self-Made Man. In There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven, Ruben Reyes Jr. conjures strange dreamlike worlds to explore what we would do if we woke up one morning and our lives were unrecognizable. Boundaries between the past, present, and future are blurred. Menacing technology and unchecked bureaucracy cut through everyday life with uncanny dread.

Mmm...Yo sólo sé que mi abuela está loca. Ah, y que tiene la culpa de todo. Sí, ¡de todo! Siempre hay alguien culpable de que a uno le guste eso que tanto le gusta, o de que no le guste eso que nunca le ha gustado. El caso es que entre su peinado de Darth Vader, su obsesión de ganarse trofeos por los poemas que escribe y esa manía burlona de recitar versos a todo pulmón cuando bajo del autobús escolar, entre risotadas y con cara de trágame tierra (y todo para obligarme a entrar rápido a su casa), yo me estoy volviendo loco también.

There are two versions of Héctor: the public and the private. It’s the only way to survive in communist Cuba—especially when your father was exiled to the US and labeled an enemy of the people. Héctor must always be seen as a fierce supporter of the regime, even if that means loudly rejecting the father he still loves.

La biografía definitiva de Gustavo Cerati, uno de los músicos argentinos de mayor trascendencia internacional, escrita por uno de los periodistas e historiadores que mejor lo conoció, y que pone en un mismo, exhaustivo tomo, hecho de infinidad de entrevistas y un enorme archivo personal, las distintas dimensiones del hombre y el artista, su recorrido vital, su fuerza creativa y su enorme legado.

“What's most compelling about a scientific story is the way it challenges us to think about the concepts we take for granted,” writes guest editor Carl Zimmer in his introduction. The essays in this year’s Best American Science and Nature Writing probe at the ordinary and urge us to think more deeply about our place in the world around us.

Resolver un nuevo asesinato no formaba parte de sus planes de jubilación. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron e Ibrahim, los cuatro miembros del Club del Crimen de los Jueves, todavía están celebrando haber resuelto su primer caso de asesinato. Con el barullo de la investigación ya a sus espaldas, se preparan para una merecida temporada de descanso y relajación en Cooper's Chase, su elegante comunidad de jubilados. Pero parece que no va a haber suerte porque pocos días después llegará una visita inesperada: un viejo amigo de Elizabeth ha cometido un peligroso error, está en serios apuros, y ha acudido a ella como último recurso.

Un rompimiento amoroso es, al fin y al cabo, una especie de operación quirúrgica mayor. Si dedicas tiempo a la recuperación puedes sanar por completo y ponerte en circulación de nuevo. Pero ¿Sabes cómo hacerlo? Este audiolibro te invita a atravesar el duelo, a vencer la soledad, a crear redes de apoyo, a incursionar en nuevas relaciones eróticas y amorosas para, finalmente elegir un nuevo camino personal.