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Cameron Diaz shares her formula for becoming happier, healthier, and stronger in this positive, essential guide that is grounded in science and inspired by personal experience. Throughout her career, Cameron Diaz has been a role model for millions of women. By her own candid admission, though, this fit, glamorous, but down-to-earth star was not always health-conscious. Learning about the inseparable link between nutrition and the body was a life-changing lesson.

In her third and most important work, Juliet Diaz, the best-selling author of Witchery, offers an approach to magic, spirituality, and healing like no other and takes listeners through the deep work of decolonizing their spirituality.

Over 20 years ago, the students in first-year teacher Erin Gruwell’s high school class in Long Beach, California, were labeled “unteachable” - but she saw past that. Instead of treating them as scores on a test, she understood that each of them had a unique story to tell. Inspired by books like Anne Frank’s diary, her students began writing their own diaries, eventually dubbing themselves the Freedom Writers. Together, they co-authored The Freedom Writers Diary, which launched a movement that remains incredibly relevant and impactful today.

This novel is a collections of short stories, each with a different main character, tied together by the spirits that haunt them and a drug that keeps them young. Ligare, the demon that causes sleep paralysis, is a soul lacking in personality and hungering for creativity. His presence is a burden upon the world, draining passion from his victims. Autumn, the Muse, has been a homebody, taking care of her father for the last 100 years, made possible by the drug Rejuverron. As she steps back into the world she accidentally changes the lives of those she meets.

En esta edición especial de "Memorias de Idhún" de Laura Gallego presentamos la trilogía completa en un solo audiolibro: La resistencia, Tríada y Panteón. Atrévete a explorar un mundo mágico lleno de aventuras, fantasía, acción y romance.

Indigenous seer, gifted plant whisperer, and Witchery author Juliet Diaz invites you to walk the path of the plant witch. Journey far beyond the basic medicinal and magical properties of plants, deep into Mother Earth's drumming heart. Drawn from ancestral practices passed down by generations of teachers, the lessons in this book will awaken your intimate connection with nature, your ancestors, your guides, and to your true self through the powerful magic of plants.

The stories in This Is How You Lose Her, by turns hilarious and devastating, raucous and tender, lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weaknesses of our all-too-human hearts. They capture the heat of new passion, the recklessness with which we betray what we most treasure, and the torture we go through - "the begging, the crawling over glass, the crying" - to try to mend what we've broken beyond repair. They recall the echoes that intimacy leaves behind, even where we thought we did not care.

Mejor no preguntarle a Greg Heffley qué tal la pasó durante las vacaciones de verano, porque no quiere ni oír hablar del asunto. De hecho, al empezar el nuevo curso Greg está deseando olvidar los últimos tres meses de su vida, en particular cierto acontecimiento…

T.S. Eliot was a towering figure in 20th-century literature, a renowned poet, playwright, and critic whose work - including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), The Waste Land (1922), Four Quartets (1943), and Murder in the Cathedral (1935) - continues to be among the most-read and influential in the canon of American literature. The Essential T.S. Eliot collects Eliot’s most lasting and important poetry in one career-spanning audiobook, with an introduction from Vijay Seshadri, one of our foremost poets.

Estaba la pájara pinta sentada en un verde limón se ha vuelto, con el tiempo, un hito en la literatura colombiana y uno de los textos más estudiados para entender el origen de la violencia que todavía hoy azota a este país. Su lenguaje fresco, ágil y rico ha permitido que la novela perdure y que cada día sea más valorada por las nuevas generaciones.

En sus exitosas conferencias, Yokoi Kenji Díaz transmite un poderoso mensaje de optimismo y de fe en el ser humano. Hijo de padre japonés y madre colombiana, sus vivencias en ambos países lo enfrentaron rápidamente con situaciones en las que el liderazgo, la motivación y el amor le sirvieron de tabla de salvación para ver con otros ojos el mundo.

We all need help centering ourselves to serve ourselves and our world. In this small, beautiful book, the Kogi—a remote and ancient tribe in the mountains of Colombia—offer their learnings. They pose nine provocative questions to help people around the planet to spiritual peace.

On a stormy Halloween weekend, Ray enlists his best friends Joaquin, Sofia, and Isabella to help him make a documentary of Malicia, the abandoned theme park off the coast of the Dominican Republic where his mother and brother died in a mass killing thirteen years ago. But what should be an easy weekend trip quickly turns into something darker because all four friends have come to Malicia for their own reasons: Ray has come to Malicia to find out the truth of the massacre that destroyed his family.

El dilema de muchas personas, es que cuando alguien les atrae, no se comportan como ante un igual sino como si vieran una aparición de alguna especie de Semi-Dios, es decir con sumisión, ansiedad y una enrarecida devoción; por eso, en el mejor de los casos no les prestan atención y en el peor los utilizan, un cobarde que no es capaz de acercarse a quien le gusta, es alguien que no la merece, el cortejo y las relaciones requieren el valor, osadía y el heroísmo de atreverse y tomar riesgos....

Cualquier persona, ya sea adolescente o adulta, interesada en desarrollar una Inteligencia Emocional que le permita comprender su mundo afectivo, manejar sus sentimientos y desarrollar, con ella misma y quienes le rodean, relaciones de intimidad, bienestar y acompañamiento.

"In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing,” writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. “Food means growing and hardship, and health and medicine, and work and holiday. In its abundance it is a gift and a joy, and in its absence a curse and a tragedy. If a culture has writing, that culture has food writing.” The stories in this year’s Best American Food Writing are brilliant, eye-opening windows into the heart of our country’s culture.

El espíritu de la ciencia-ficción transcurre en México DF durante los años setenta y narra la vida de dos escritores jóvenes que intentan vivir de la literatura. Mientras Remo Morán busca incansablemente la manera de subsistir sin abandonar su sueño, Jan Schrella vive confinado en la pequeña buhardilla que ambos comparten, desde donde envía cartas delirantes a sus escritores de ciencia-ficción favoritos.

Mercedes Rosende teje en "Qué ganas de no verte nunca más" una novela negra vertiginosa y atrapante. Como caracteriza a la autora, la psicología de los personajes es tan sugestiva como la acción que los acompaña. En este caso, la historia se desdobla en múltiples relatos ambientados en una Montevideo oculta y poco común para los simples mortales. Intrigas, muertes, robos, corrupción, chantajes y secretos rodean a la protagonista, dando vida a esa ciudad que se mueve en las tinieblas y en un túnel que, aunque oculto, permanece en la memoria.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to En un lugar de la Mancha and experience the compelling world of Don Quixote.

Seamos realistas: Greg Heffley nunca va a dejar de ser un renacuajo y alguien debería explicárselo a su papá. Resulta que Frank Heffley cree que su hijo puede cambiar. Y para que se haga más fuerte, decide inscribirlo en todo tipo de deportes de competencia y otras actividades “varoniles”.