Literatura y Ficción

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?

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...

¿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.

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.

¿Alguna vez se ha sentido cautivado por los ojos melancólicos de un perro rescatado y ha sentido la tentación de adoptar uno? Entonces se pregunta si podrá hacerse cargo de un perro con esos problemas. Pues sí. Ante una decisión de tanto peso, necesita una guía concisa sobre cómo integrar con éxito un perro de rescate en su vida.

Descubre cómo transformar la dinámica familiar con métodos prácticos de DBT y CBT para el dominio emocional sin sacrificar tu cordura. ¿Te sientes constantemente al límite, abrumado por los desafíos emocionales que enfrentas tú y tu hijo? ¿Manejar los arrebatos de tu hijo se siente como una batalla cuesta arriba, dejándote exhausto e inseguro de qué pasos tomar a continuación? ¿Estás buscando una forma de ayudar a tus hijos a manejar sus emociones fuertes de una manera saludable? Si te encuentras asintiendo con la cabeza, no estás solo.

Julián Villarreal, un joven atractivo, se presenta en la lujosa residencia de los Velasco para ofrecer sus condolencias tras la inesperada muerte de Alejandro Velasco, su amigo cercano y rival en el tenis. Sin embargo, pronto se ve envuelto en el fastuoso estilo de los Velasco—y en el misterioso encanto de su hija Sofía. Voluble e ingeniosa, Sofía parece decidida a desafiar a Julián. Y él está dispuesto a seguirle el juego—tanto en la cancha como fuera de ella...

¿Te gustaría tener habilidades de manipulación para influir en la gente? ¿Cuántas veces has oído hablar de la persuasión, del lavado de cerebro, de la manipulación de la manada? Sí, la psicología está en todas partes y forma parte de todos y cada uno de nosotros. Piénsalo: ¿cuántas veces te has sentido casi hipnotizado durante una conversación, discusión o discurso de otra persona?

La crianza es exigente, y cuando el estrés se acumula, la ira puede parecer imposible de controlar. Ya sea la prisa matutina, las batallas a la hora de dormir o las constantes demandas de tu tiempo, la frustración puede volverse abrumadora. Y cada vez que pierdes la paciencia, te preguntas si estás afectando el bienestar emocional de tu hijo. Conozco esta lucha de primera mano. El desgarrador momento en que vi miedo en los ojos de mi hijo después de gritarle, me prometí a mí misma que lo haría mejor.

Del legendario productor musical, un maestro en el arte de ayudar a los demás a conectar con las fuentes de su propia creatividad, llega un libro maravillosamente fraguado a lo largo de muchos años con una visión profunda de la creatividad y de la vida dirigida todo el mundo. "Me propuse a mí mismo escribir un libro acerca de cómo crear una gran obra de arte. En lugar de eso, se reveló como un libro acerca de cómo Ser." Los grandes productores musicales suelen ser reconocidos por un sonido único que solo ellos son capaces de lograr.

Es una historia de amor que emergió dentro de un reality show y que logró trascenderlo, donde se nos muestras las derroteos del amor moderno, cuestionandonos todo, desde el amor, la felicidad, la busqueda de sentido y validación. Los protagonistas buscan encontrarse en un mundo de desencuentros, donde se mezclan las estrategias en un juego de conviviencia, la comodidad con la soledad y el deseo de un amor que logre perdurar. Narrado en primera persona, la estratgia del amor, es la cronica del enamoramiento de su protagonista, mezclado con sus crisis de mediana edad, y el deseo de ...

Un viejo enemigo regresa. Los nuevos mundos coloniales luchan para encontrar la manera de sobrevivir en la red de miles de soles que se ha creado tras la expansión de la humanidad. Todos los nuevos planetas viven en una balanza que se puede decantar hacia la destrucción o hacia un futuro maravilloso. Y la tripulación de la anticuada cañonera Rocinante está enfrascada en el intento de mantener una paz demasiado frágil.

¿Qué pasaría si la felicidad, el éxito y el amor fueran más fáciles de alcanzar de lo que crees? En su nuevo 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.

Uniendo el punto de vista científico, psicológico y humano, la autora nos ofrece una reflexión profunda, salpicada de útiles consejos y con vocación eminentemente didáctica, acerca de la aplicación de nuestras propias capacidades al empeño de procurarnos una existencia plena y feliz: conocer y optimizar determinadas zonas del cerebro, fijar metas y objetivos en la vida, ejercitar la voluntad, poner en marcha la inteligencia emocional, desarrollar la asertividad, evitar el exceso de autocrítica y autoexigencia, reivindicar el papel del optimismo....

¿Te has preguntado por qué esta es la generación más infeliz en la historia de la humanidad? En este mismo momento, tanto tú como millones de personas en todo el mundo viven vacías y sin paz interior. Deambulan al borde de un abismo, temiendo que de un momento a otro caerán en él. ¿Tú también lo sientes, ese enorme agujero en tu interior? La barrera para comunicarte con tu verdadero yo. La cárcel sin barrotes. El enorme peso de una cruz invisible sobre tus hombros. Y, sobre todo, la incapacidad de sentir la vida. Hace años, Sergia Quiroz inició un viaje interior para ...

When Dorothy’s obnoxious date is found dead in a hotel freezer, it not only ruins a gorgeous cheesecake but threatens the elaborate St. Olaf-themed wedding Rose is hosting.

After her twin sister, Chiara, goes missing at a mom-fluencer weekend, Adrienne Shaw will find her no matter what it takes. They may have been on the outs, but no one comes for her sister and gets away with it. It’s been a year, the authorities have no answers, and her brother-in-law is useless in the matter. It’s time for Adrienne to take the case into her own hands. Following in Chiara’s last footsteps, Adrienne goes undercover, infiltrating the same influencer retreat as the last thing she wants to be: an Instamommy.

Bud Stanley is an obituary writer who is afraid to live. Yes, his wife recently left him for a “far more interesting” man. Yes, he goes on a particularly awful blind date with a woman who brings her ex. And yes, he has too many glasses of Scotch one night and proceeds to pen and publish his own obituary. The newspaper wants to fire him. But now the company’s system has him listed as dead. And the company can’t fire a dead person. The ensuing fallout forces him to realize that life may be actually worth living.

Workaholic Molly is buzzing when her best friend tells her she’s getting married. As maid of honour Molly can’t wait for the perfect bachelorette party in Spain. What could be better than a week in a stunning villa? Sun, sea, cocktails and gossiping – and best of all, no boys allowed. But when the hens arrive they discover that they are not alone. The villa has been accidentally double booked by a group of stags who make it very clear they’re not leaving!

The Chicago Tribune has dubbed Elmore Leonard, “the coolest, hottest writer in America.” In the same league as the legendary great ones—John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain—Leonard demonstrates his remarkable mastery with Get Shorty, one of the most adored of his forty-plus novels. The basis of the hit movie starring John Travolta and Danny DeVito, Get Shorty chronicles the over-the-top, sometimes violent Hollywood misadventures of a Florida mob loan shark who chases a deadbeat client all the way to Tinseltown and decides to stick around and make movies.

Marina gave up her career as a chef to raise her children, but her divorce has left her harried, lonely, and the black sheep of her family. It’s also left her in dire financial straits. Opal is a post-menopausal fitness guru who spends her days chasing likes and followers in an industry that worships youth. Even her glossy online persona can’t mask her checkered past. Lilah is a shy and optimistic librarian who spends her days tending to the stacks, until she wins an unbelievable sum in the lottery. With a growing bank account and a dashing fiancé, life seems too good to be true.

At sixty-three years old, million-dollar lottery winner PJ Halliday would be the luckiest man in Pondville, Massachusetts, if it weren’t for the tragedies of his life: the sudden death of his eldest daughter and the way his marriage fell apart after that. Since then, PJ spends both his money and his time at the bar, and he probably doesn’t have much time left—he’s had three heart attacks already. But when PJ reads the obituary of his old romantic rival, he realizes his high school sweetheart, Michelle Cobb, is finally single again.

On the surface, Denny Voss’s life in rural Minnesota is a quiet one. At thirty years old, he lives at home with his elderly mother and his beloved blind and deaf Saint Bernard, George. He cleans up roadkill to help pay the bills. Though his prospects are limited by a developmental delay—the result of an accident at birth—Denny has always felt that he has “a good life.” So how did he wind up being charged with the murder of a mayoral candidate—after crashing a sled full of guns into a tree?

When Diane Schwebe, the director of a major New York museum, is awakened in the early morning by a text message from the museum’s lawyer, it is the start of a twenty-four hour roller-coaster ride. Diane has sacrificed many things in her life to help the fading institution stave off irrelevance and financial ruin. In this battle, she’s surrounded by her stalwart supporters and a motley assortment of museum employees, each on the precipice of collapse or revelation.

It started out like any other morning for the Fact Checker. The piece, “Mandeville/Green,” didn’t raise any red flags. There were more pressing stories that week—it being 2004 New York City and all. “Mandeville/Green” was a light, breezy look at a local farm called New Egypt, whose Ramapo tomatoes were quickly becoming the summer’s hottest produce. At first glance, the story seemed straightforward, but one line made the Fact Checker pause: a stray quote from a New Egypt volunteer named Sylvia making a cryptic reference to “nefarious business” at the farmer’s market.

When Hester is diagnosed with terminal cancer on her fortieth birthday, she knows immediately what she must do: abandon her possessions and drive to California to kill her estranged father. With no friends or family tying her to the life she’s built in New York City, she quits her wildly lucrative job in corporate law and starts driving west. She hasn’t made it far when she runs into John, an environmental activist in need of a ride to different superfund sites across the United States.

Denk an das schlimmste Date deines Lebens – und du bist noch nicht einmal nahe dran! Ein ebenso humorvoller wie lebenskluger Roman, eine grandiose Mischung aus Humor und existentiellen Fragen. The Walking Date ist keine normale Dating-Plattform: Hier können sich Menschen, die nicht mehr lange zu leben haben, noch ein letztes Mal verlieben. Deshalb hat sich auch Patient Raphael bei TWD angemeldet, und tatsächlich funkt es zwischen ihm und der ebenfalls erkrankten Nala. Doch am Tag ihres ersten Blind Dates geht es Raphael nicht gut.

Can a man be too handsome? In the summer of 1959 “outlandishly handsome” San Francisco resident Ray Corber makes his living moving pianos—all by himself. Put off by women's “ulterior motives,” this 25-year-old Adonis is inclined to avoid emotional entanglements. Then he's recruited to star in a new play: “The Handsomest Man in the World.” Suddenly Ray finds himself the center of attention by the press, his clamoring fans, and even more enraptured females. Can Ray cope with his new celebrity and the complications of an actor's life? Take a wild ride with this “blue-eyed ...

Join the hilarious and heartwarming adventures of Samuel Pickwick and his quirky band of companions in The Pickwick Papers, Dickens’ delightful and timeless comedic masterpiece. When the kindly but bumbling Mr. Pickwick forms the Pickwick Club and sets out on a series of journeys to investigate the curiosities of life, he unwittingly stumbles into one misadventure after another, from bizarre legal battles to laugh-out-loud encounters with eccentric characters.

Joybird Martin—an Uber driver with cheerfulness to spare—desperately wants to be a life coach. She’s so sunny about her chances that even her snarky father—a has-been TV writer with a failed third marriage—can’t dim her light. So when he shows up broke on her doorstep, Joybird takes him in with no questions asked, trying to find a balance between her bright optimism and his sarcastic pessimism. It works, and she continues sharing her earnest wisdom with her Uber riders.

On a quiet farm, the animals rise up against their human masters, dreaming of a world where all are equal. Inspired by the ideals of freedom and justice, they overthrow their oppressive rulers. However, what begins as a hopeful revolution quickly spirals into a grim tale of power, corruption, and betrayal. George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a masterful allegory that explores the complexities of revolution and the inevitable corruption that follows.

Jessamyn St. Germain is meant to be a star. Not an actor who occasionally books yogurt commercials and certainly not a lowly usher at one of Vancouver’s smallest regional theaters. No, she is bound for greatness, and that’s why the part of Maria in the theater’s upcoming production of The Sound of Music is hers. Or it’s going to be.

Funny, whip-smart, and often tender, Bitter Texas Honey introduces us to the unforgettable and indefatigable Joan West: ambitious, full of contradictions, utterly herself. As she wades through it all—addiction, politics, loss, and, notably, her father’s string of increasingly bizarre girlfriends—we witness her confront what it means to be a person, and an artist, in the world.

Comic, ironic, grotesque, disturbingly poetic in its use of language, and profoundly sorrowful, Chevengur—here published in a new English translation based on the most authoritative Russian text—is the most ambitious of the extraordinary novels that the great Andrey Platonov wrote in the 1920s and 1930s

"Europe and Elsewhere" by Mark Twain is a collection of essays and stories that provide insights into the author's experiences in Europe and beyond. From humorous anecdotes to reflections on society and politics, the book covers a range of topics such as memorable midnight experiences, editorial writings, temperance crusades, and national stupidities. With contributions from Brander Matthews and Albert Bigelow Paine, the book offers a unique perspective on the world through Mark Twain's witty storytelling and critical observations of human nature and society. Published in 1923.

For someone who hates secrets, Las Vegas hairdresser Lucy Rey is about to be faced with a whole bunch of them. After discovering that her fiancé has been cheating on her with someone from his improv class, she finds herself short on funds and desperate for a change of scenery. Enter a most unusual job opportunity: a Bearer of Bad News. Sure, it’s weird—the job description has few details, and the bad news is more like a vaguely worded threat—but Lucy can’t say no to the perks: an all-expenses-paid trip to the Italian Dolomites, plus a generous bonus if she proves she’s delivered the message.

What would you do if you thought your coworker was getting away with murder—literally? Dolores dela Cruz has been dying to spot one in the wild, and he fits the mold perfectly: strangler gloves, calculated charm, dashing good looks that give a leg up in any field . . . including fields of unmarked graves. The new office temp is definitely a serial killer.

Garantiert kein Safe Space: Der Debütroman der Queen of Meme. Weil Peggy Brinkmann, 37, ihr Studium weder erfolgreich beenden noch erfolglos abbrechen kann, haben ihr die Eltern den Geldhahn zugedreht. Seitdem muss sie sich Küche und Bad mit Martin teilen, der sich wahlweise mit seinem Schwanz oder dem Lackieren seiner Fingernägel beschäftigt – und trotzdem nicht schwul ist.

Derrymore Academy circa 2007 is home to teenagers who have their eyebrows shaped and their sweet sixteens tented. Their first kisses arrive around the same time as their boating licenses and they celebrate getting their braces off with Mediterranean vacations. It is here that Emery Hooper, adopted at birth into the country club set, thrives. The one blight on her otherwise perfect life? Lilah Chang. The Chinese-American student is the embarrassing epitome of every Asian stereotype Emery despises—and is inexplicably determined to become Emery's friend.

Frances Partridge, fifty-five, is a beloved children’s author. Geraint Blevins, forty-one, is an auto mechanic and devoted family man. Parker Poplawski, twenty-three, is just starting her career as a wardrobe assistant on a hit TV show. What do these people have in common? Nothing, that’s what. Until each of them reaches a breaking point and snaps in spectacular fashion. They meet in a court-mandated anger management class: three very different people, forced to spend a lot of time together, who slowly end up bonding and helping one another in unexpected ways.