Histórico

San Francisco, 1866: una monja irlandesa, embarazada y abandonada por un aristócrata chileno tras una apasionada relación, da a luz a una niña a la que llama Emilia del Valle. Criada por su cariñoso padrastro, Emilia se convertirá en una joven brillante de gran personalidad, autónoma e independiente, que desafiará las normas sociales de su tiempo para profesar su verdadera pasión y vocación: la escritura.

La Guía Definitiva para Ganar Cualquier Discusión Sin Perder la Calma (o Tus Relaciones) ¿Te cuesta hacer valer tu punto de vista en debates, negociaciones o conversaciones cotidianas? ¿Alguna vez te has sentido manipulado, superado o acorralado en medio de una discusión? ¿Quieres aprender las tácticas psicológicas que los grandes persuadores utilizan para ganar, manteniéndose éticos y serenos? Si respondiste "SÍ" a alguna de estas preguntas, no estás solo. Todos los días, muchas personas se sienten frustradas, incomprendidas o sobrepasadas en conversaciones que realmente importan.

Cazzu es una de las traperas más importantes de Latinoamérica. No es casual que la llamen La Jefa. No es casual que su perreo moleste a muchos, interpele a tantas, y no deje indiferente a nadie. Durante años, Cazzu se enfrentó a una pregunta: “¿Cómo se siente tener éxito en un género musical tan machista?”. Y como le ocurre a casi cualquier mujer virtuosa y con notoriedad, le pidieron que diera explicaciones. Pero ¿por qué se lo preguntaban más a ella que a los hombres? Y, sobre todo, ¿es realmente machista el reggaetón?

Para muchas parejas, el TDAH no es solo un desafío personal, sino también un reto para la relación. La impulsividad, el olvido, la desregulación emocional y las dificultades en la gestión del tiempo pueden generar tensión, resentimiento y distancia emocional. No estás solo. El TDAH puede hacer que el matrimonio se sienta como una batalla cuesta arriba, pero no tiene por qué ser así.

James Clear nos brinda fantásticas ideas basadas en investigaciones científicas, que le permiten revelarnos cómo podemos transformar pequeños hábitos cotidianos para cambiar nuestra vida y mejorarla. Esta guía pone al descubierto las fuerzas ocultas que moldean nuestro comportamiento - desde nuestra mentalidad, pasando por el ambiente y hasta la genética - y nos demuestra cómo aplicar cada cambio a nuestra vida y a nuestro trabajo. Después de leer este libro, tendrás un método sencillo para desarrollar un sistema eficaz que te conducirá al éxito.

Al finalizar este libro, estarás preparada para: Silenciar a tu crítica interior y dar voz a tu animadora interna que te proporcionará dosis diarias de positividad. Descubrir y abrazar tus cualidades únicas, transformándolas en tus superpoderes. Cultivar una imagen corporal positiva que irradie autenticidad, incluso en una era de apariencias idealizadas. Convertir tus fracasos en lecciones y transformar los reveses en relatos épicos de resiliencia. Desarrollar una práctica de gratitud que destaque la belleza de la vida cotidiana...

El autor de los éxitos Tu vida tu mejor negocio y Empresa admirada nos trae ahora un texto para los líderes empresariales. En la actualidad existe una demanda de líderes que sepan resolver problemas, actuar con asertividad, dar respuestas rápidas y tener facilidad para conectar con las personas. Para muchos de ellos la tarea de transformar organizaciones representa un reto difícil de alcanzar en un entorno cada vez más competitivo y exigente. En este contexto de cambios e incertidumbre, el recurso más urgente y escaso es el liderazgo.

¿Te sientes atrapado en tu propia mente, luchando constantemente contra el estrés, la duda y el análisis excesivo? ¿Tus pensamientos tóxicos están saboteando tu felicidad y tus relaciones? ¿Desearías poder silenciar el ruido en tu cabeza y vivir con claridad y confianza? Para muchos, el pensamiento excesivo no es solo un hábito ocasional, sino una tormenta constante de preocupaciones, dudas y escenarios catastróficos. Te mantiene despierto por las noches, te roba la alegría y genera conflictos innecesarios en tus relaciones. ¿Lo peor? Parece imposible detenerlo.

En TDAH y Tú, exploramos cómo el TDAH impacta nuestra vida diaria y cómo podemos trabajar con él en lugar de contra él. Ya sea que te hayan diagnosticado de niño o que hayas descubierto el TDAH en la adultez, este libro te ayudará a aceptar la forma única en que funciona tu cerebro y a convertir tus desafíos en fortalezas. El TDAH puede traer desafíos, pero también aporta creatividad, resiliencia y habilidades únicas que pueden llevarte a una vida plena y extraordinaria. Si estás listo para dejar de luchar y empezar a prosperar, este libro te mostrará cómo lograrlo.

Descubre los secretos para eliminar pensamientos y conductas negativas y desbloquear todo tu potencial para el éxito. Si te sientes atrapado, abrumado o incapaz de escapar de tus pensamientos negativos, este libro te pondrá en el camino correcto. Ya sea que esta negatividad provenga de una relación pasada que terminó mal, un trauma infantil, un fracaso profesional o simple inseguridad, este libro te ayudará a reconocer cómo la negatividad consciente (y muchas veces inconsciente) afecta tu personalidad, tu perspectiva y tus decisiones.

In Communication Skills for Women, you'll discover how to overcome societal expectations, advocate for yourself, and turn everyday interactions into opportunities for connection and influence. From handling interruptions with grace to expressing emotions without fear, each chapter is packed with actionable strategies and real-life insights.

¿Qué pasaría si la felicidad, el éxito y el amor fueran más fáciles de alcanzar de lo que crees? En su nuevo audio libro, Mel Robbins, reconocida experta en motivación y mentalidad, te propone un enfoque revolucionario: aprender a soltar. Soltar las expectativas, el control, las comparaciones y el miedo para empezar a vivir plenamente.

El poder de la mente subconsciente es un libro de autoayuda publicado por primera vez en 1963 por el autor Joseph Murphy. El libro sostiene que la mente subconsciente es una fuente de poder ilimitado que puede utilizarse para lograr cualquier objetivo.

Un escritor que curiosamente responde al nombre de Juan José Millás recibe el encargo del periódico en el que colabora para escribir el que, cree, puede ser su último reportaje. Por ello debe pensar con cuidado el tema que sirva de broche de oro a toda una carrera.

En De animales a dioses, Yuval Noah Harari traza una breve historia de la humanidad, desde los primeros humanos que caminaron sobre la Tierra hasta los radicales y a veces devastadores avances de las tres grandes revoluciones que nuestra especie ha protagonizado: la cognitiva, la agrícola y la científica.

Swordsman Richard Hughes has arrived on the banks of the Grand Canal looking for a simpler life, only to be plunged—alongside Phillip de Chambray, a remarkable woman unable to show her true self—into the thick of the murkiest, most dangerous European politics, at a moment when someone is trying to destroy the opera, and Venice itself.

May 1941. One of the senior choristers of St Paul's Cathedral choir, Dr Edwin Roberts, is found beaten to death in the crypt of the Cathedral. Coburg and Lampson are called in to investigate, and when they get there, Coburg is pleasantly surprised to be greeted there by Arthur Waterson, now sporting a dog collar, someone he was at Eton with many years before. Waterson believes that there may be a connection between the very precious books that are houses in the Crypt and Dr Roberts' work at Bletchley Park.

During what those who lived through it call “The Golden Age of Advertising,” an aspiring young Mad Man, Brian Durston, finds his uncle, the President and CEO of the ad agency Brian has just joined, dead with a bullet through his brain. The police think it’s suicide, but Brian finds that impossible to believe. More than one person wanted his uncle dead, and perhaps not coincidentally, the agency’s largest account just went into review. As if that wasn’t bad enough, his uncle’s insurance company won’t pay because apparently the policy holder took his own life. Without the money ...

SHE’S A NOVICE IN A WORLD WHERE EXPERTS DIE QUICKLY. Normandy, 1943: Ginny Drake, tasked with evacuating Nazi collaborator Claude Duvall from France, is murdered during a London briefing. British Intelligence needs a quick replacement, someone identical in appearance and fluent in French. Janelle Wilson, a war widow born in France, accepts the assignment, sparing her identical twin. She must convince Duvall that she is Ginny Drake—or he’ll refuse to cooperate. While Inspector Charley Abbott investigates Ginny Drake’s murder, Janelle Wilson arrives in Normandy. She partners with ...

July 1935: An oddly dressed young woman is found wandering a country road, bloody and covered in ants. Later, a body is found in a wrecked car about two miles away. The question is, what happened to the woman, and is the blood hers? Follow the continued drama of the families in Tennessee Valley Blues Mysteries.

+++In Memory of Pope Francis+++ In 2014, Pope Francis opened the Pontifical Gardens of Castel Gandolfo to the public for the first time, transforming a place of private contemplation into a space accessible to all. This act of openness and humility, so deeply aligned with his Franciscan spirit, became a profound source of inspiration for this novel. Without his gesture of sharing, this story could never have come to life.An electrifying thriller for our age of chaos. From the quiet gardens of Castel Gandolfo to the deepest vaults of the Vatican, one man holds the fate of the world in his ...

Penrose and Pyke must put aside their own problems in a race against the clock to rescue a kidnapped infant. When private detective Charlie Penrose Pyke is asked to investigate the kidnapping of a child, his instinct is to refuse. As their first wedding anniversary approaches, Charlie fears for the fragile state of his wife, Grace, for whom this heart-breaking case could be the final straw. But how can he let the desperate parents down, when they have struggled for years to conceive only to have their baby snatched away? Besides, Charlie is their only hope, because the ransom note threatens...

Lord Nicholas Monterris is trapped. The only heir to a declining dukedom, Nic is destined for a marriage of convenience. What he doesn’t expect is for his bride to be Lady Leaf Serral, daughter of his father’s hated rival. Tradition dictates the families are confined together while the marriage contract is crafted, which should be the worst part. Until Nic learns the Serrals’ head negotiator is master vowsmith Dashiell sa Vare—beautiful, perfect Dashiell sa Vare—an old flame he has neither forgiven nor forgotten. Nic’s only defense is false smiles and too much wine.

When wounded Templar Knight Sir Marcus de Rancourt receives word that his sister is dying, he returns to a home he hasn't seen in twenty years, only to find his sister dead, and her children orphaned. Sir Marcus decides to take on the greatest challenge of his life and remain behind to raise the children, his loyal sergeant and squires insisting on joining him to work the land by his side.

Mitch Pembroke, accompanied by his best-friend and bodyguard, Kit Moran, is in Newport News visiting Jenny Lee Danforth and her family, hoping to spend a few pleasant weeks getting to know them in preparation for the coming wedding. But all is not peaceful in Virginia and a storm of vice and corruption threatens the security of the entire Danforth clan. Jenny Lee’s older brother has involved himself with the mobsters who run the local gambling halls and he is in way over his head. Can Mitch find the leverage to protect the Danforths from his soon-to-be brother-in-law’s idiocy? Or will ...

Does the truth really set you free? A missing serving girl. A swindled nobleman. An Irish mobster. London 1811. When her stepcousin Alexander Dovefield, the future Baron of Newark, asks for her help to find a missing serving girl from his favorite gambling hell, Lady Zoe Demas once again enlists inquiry agent Quinton Huxley to piece together the puzzle of who is cheating whom. What at first seems like a simple swindle takes a sinister and murky turn when bodies start to pile up. As they attempt to solve the mystery, Quinton also struggles with revelations about his own past . . . and what ...

Una historia de amor, silencio y verdades que arden. Clara y Lautaro no se ven desde hace más de treinta años. Un incendio en el viejo edificio municipal los vuelve a reunir. Entre las cenizas, aparece una caja con documentos firmados por Clara en 1982… y un nombre que ya no debía existir: Casilda. ¿Quién fue realmente esa mujer? ¿Por qué no figura en ningún registro? ¿Qué sabían Clara y Lautaro… y por qué callaron durante tanto tiempo? Donde Arde lo que Callamos es una novela intensa, conmovedora y profundamente humana. Una historia donde el pasado no está muerto, solo ...

Come partake of newly-discovered cases Dr. Watson never dared release in his lifetime…. From the foggy streets of gas-lit London, to a certain Devonshire manor steeped in legend, the eighth omnibus in The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes travels across Victorian England to places teeming with mystery and adventure. Inside Omnibus Eight are two previously-published novellas, two short stories, and an exclusive vignette found nowhere else. Included are: The Devil of Baskerville Hall, in which the newly-married Sir Henry Baskerville again consults with Sherlock Holmes, after events ...

London, 1928. Lucy Darkwether has always made her own rules. After breaking off her engagement to pursue a degree in Ancient History, she's now the proud owner of London's newest antiquarian bookshop. So when a rival shop in Cecil Court is chosen to host an exhibition of Egyptian treasures, Lucy's pride is stung — until the grand opening ends in a gruesome murder. Is this the revenge of a disgraced colleague? A private vendetta? Or a curse visited upon those who disturb the past?

London 1901: Der Temple-Bezirk mit seinen alten Gebäuden und verwinkelten Straßen liegt im Herzen Londons und bildet das Zentrum der englischen Rechtswelt. Ein Ort, an dem Traditionen alles bedeuten und Mord seit Jahrhunderten nur in Fallbüchern vorkommt – bis jetzt ... Als der Anwalt Gabriel Ward an einem sonnigen Morgen im Mai aus seinen Räumen tritt, stolpert er buchstäblich über die Leiche des obersten Richters. Da die Polizei im Temple-Bezirk keine Befugnisse hat, wird Gabriel mit der Aufklärung betraut.

1939, Los Angeles. Evelyn Galloway can't believe her luck! On her first day in LA, she lands her dream job of script supervisor, and on the hottest film in town—Hitchcock's adaptation of Rebecca. But her good fortune quickly changes when a legendary actor cancels their lunch the following day and is found murdered at home. Evelyn realizes she could be a witness to the crime, having passed the bungalow's grounds on her way home the night before. Who was the man looking upset in a gazebo? And why was movie starlet Madeleine Nabors running wildly away from the scene?

Mick Morkan and Ike Sears represent Nguyet Finn and Cassandra Correa, Vietnam veterans and victims of the Iran-Contra Affair. Nguyet’s husband was killed, and Cass grievously injured flying supply missions to Contra guerrillas in Nicaragua. They recover large verdicts against Harley Montaigne, an operative who ran the Contra operation. However, the jury lets the higher-up defendants off the hook—and Harley’s assets are limited to a sport fishing boat, woefully insufficient to cover the verdicts. Before Morkan and Sears can seize Harley’s boat, he tells them that the higher-ups had ...

Within these pages lies a tale of secrets, shadows, and suspense. "The Secrets of Blackwood Manor" invites you to step across the threshold into a world where the line between reality and the supernatural blurs, where the past refuses to stay buried, and where love blossoms amidst an atmosphere of chilling dread. Eleanor Van Worth, a young governess with a keen intellect and a courageous heart, arrives at the imposing Blackwood Manor to care for the children of a recently widowed father. The grand yet decaying mansion immediately reveals its enigmatic nature—locked doors, hidden ...

A thrilling tale from the author of the popular 'Reverend Shaw' series of Golden Age mysteries! London, 1930: When aspiring film actress Evelyn Parks is found strangled late one night at Hampstead underground station, Scotland Yard detectives begin a desperate manhunt across the fog-shrouded city. Evelyn's neighbour Clarice Thompson begins to suspect that the killer was someone she knew —perhaps even a fellow resident at the Lovell Villa Private Hotel, the down-at-heel boarding house in which Evelyn rented a room.

Le front de la Somme, automne 1916. Alors que les soldats succombent par milliers dans les tranchées, la mort frappe de façon plus singulière ailleurs mais avec tout autant de cruauté... C'est d'abord une chanteuse célèbre d'avant guerre, la Dame blanche, soupçonnée d'espionnage et sommairement exécutée par des justiciers improvisés. C'est ensuite Albert Saulx, un as de l'aviation française, retrouvé mystérieusement poignardé par une baïonnette allemande, au retour d'une mission aérienne, des roses rouges répandues dans le cockpit de son appareil.

True Crime and Folklore from Pulaski County and Beyond Step back into the hollers, hills, riverbanks, and even downtown to the courthouse, to the whispers of Southern Kentucky in the second volume of Hometown Murders & Mysteries, a collection of chilling true crime and local legend rooted in the heart of Pulaski County and its neighboring communities. From a brutal Christmas night murder beneath the bluffs of Fishing Creek to the unsolved disappearance of strangers whose bones were found in a forgotten well, these stories carry the weight of justice delayed, and sometimes denied. Volume II ...

As a ten-year-old in Charleston, Charlotte Savatier was traumatized when she watched her Wacataw Indian mother and French father hang for a crime they didn’t commit. That day, her Wacataw uncle whisked her off to Quebec City. A decade later, during the American Revolution, Charlotte’s husband, an attorney in the British army, is sent to Charleston to investigate the murder of a prominent French prisoner of war. Charlotte and her uncle seize the opportunity for revenge. They’ve known all along who framed and murdered her wealthy parents.

The silver screen glitters, but deadly secrets and hidden vices lurk behind the velvet curtain. Chicago, 1926. John Starek's opulent movie palace, the Empire, dazzles patrons with its priceless art and elegant ambiance. For Gayle Wells, one of the country's first female organists, the Empire is a dream come true—a place where she can pursue her musical ambitions and save enough money to buy her very own "Tin Lizzie." But the theater's glamorous facade hides dark secrets. When valuable artworks begin to disappear and a string of murders shakes the theater, Gayle finds herself entangled in ...

Köln, 50er Jahre: Cosima ist Erbin der einflussreichen Industriellenfamilie Liefenstein. Doch mit der Gründung einer Stiftung für bedürftige Frauen und Mütter geht sie ihren eigenen Weg. Da tritt der Journalist Leo Marktgraf in ihr Leben, der Nachforschungen über den Tod eines Freundes anstellt. Die Leiche des Anwalts wurde am Ufer des Rheins gefunden, nur kurz nachdem er öffentlich schwere Anschuldigungen gegen die Liefensteins erhoben hatte. Cosima will Licht in die dunkle Vergangenheit ihrer Familie bringen und muss schon bald erkennen, dass nichts so ist, wie es scheint.

Edinburgh, 1948. Welfare Officer Helen Crowther has enough on her plate between her hectic job, her complicated love life, and her growing reputation as a troublemaker. Last year's scandal did nothing to help with the disapproval she already gets as a woman in her line of work. All she wants now is to focus on doing what she loves: helping the poor of the Fountainbridge ward in the city of Edinburgh. The last thing she needs is another string of murders to distract her . . .