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THE SHOW ABOUT WHAT LIES BENEATH Everything can look right on the outside — the life, the roles, the success — and still, something inside shifts. Nothing is obviously wrong, yet something no longer feels true. Unmasked is a podcast by Olga Karpman — entrepreneur, creator, and co-founder of the Dream Big Podcast — exploring what happens beneath it all. After years of building, creating, and speaking with high performers and world-class thinkers, this space turns inward, toward the deeper layers of growth and truth. Each episode moves beyond achievements and into identity, relationships...

In seventeenth-century Denmark, Christenze Kruckow, an unmarried noblewoman, is accused of witchcraft. She and several other women are rumored to be possessed by the Devil, who has come to them in the form of a tall headless man who gives them dark powers: they can steal people's happiness, they have performed unchristian acts, and they can cause pestilence or death. They are all in danger of the stake.

Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew becomes strangely and deeply attached to them, even as tensions boil toward mutiny, especially among the humanoids.

Is it really possible to change your entire personality in a year? An award-winning journalist experiments with her own personality to find out—and reveals the science behind lasting change. Olga Khazan was spiraling toward an existential crisis. Though she treasured her loving relationship...

In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her 60s, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she’s unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is taken. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, Duszejko becomes involved in the investigation.

Brought to you by Penguin. Unlike anything you’ve read before, The Wax Child is an extraordinary tale of witchcraft from one of the most visionary writers at work today It was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in...

What if every challenge you’ve carried was never meant to break you… but to reveal who you were always meant to become? Ascend Into Your Power: Breaking Barriers, Building Legacies, and Becoming Unstoppable is a powerful collection of 24 raw, heartfelt, and deeply human stories from individuals who chose courage in moments that could have defeated them. These authors—leaders, healers, visionaries, mothers, survivors, and everyday warriors—open their hearts to show what it truly means to rise. With a foreword by the legendary Les Brown and a special contribution from Forbes Riley, ...

Si la educación siempre plantea retos, la de los hijos con altas capacidades representa un desafío mayúsculo. Los padres tienen que lidiar en su día a día con cuestiones que las familias con niños normotípicos ni siquiera intuyen. Y es que las personas con competencias intelectuales excepcionales también necesitan -y merecen- ser educadas de una manera excepcional.

After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf Anna, who obsessively devours online news and compulsively orders clothes she can’t afford. To avoid sinking deeper into her depression, she forces herself to read and write.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century "A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior...

HÁBITOS SENCILLOS Y PASO A PASO: PORQUE AL ENTENDER EL SUEÑO DE LOS BEBÉS, DUERMEN ELLOS ¡Y DORMIMOS TODOS! ¿Sabías que está demostrado que todos los padres primerizos pierden cientos de horas de sueño en los primeros años de vida de sus hijos? Este libro va a ponerle remedio a eso. Una obra cercana y práctica para que los padres y madres entiendan qué es y cómo funciona nuestro sueño, porqué es crucial para una buena salud y, sobre todo, cómo conseguir que las rutinas de sueño de sus hijos se desarrollen de forma correcta.

Learn why the concept of "weird" is being reclaimed and turned into a badge of honor, used to show how being different—culturally, socially, physically, or mentally—can be a person's greatest strength. "An insightful ode to oddballs." —The Washington Post Most of us have at some point in...

¿Sientes que nunca eres suficiente para tu madre? ¿La culpa, la ansiedad, la rabia o la confusión siguen contigo aunque te hayas alejado? No estás loca o loco. No eres débil. Y no estás exagerando. Lo que viviste tiene un nombre. Y, sobre todo, tiene salida. Sobrevivir a una madre narcisista es la guía de recuperación definitiva para hijos e hijas de madres narcisistas o tóxicas que siguen arrastrando, en la vida adulta, las secuelas invisibles del abuso emocional: baja autoestima, culpa, ansiedad, hipervigilancia, pensamientos obsesivos y una dolorosa pérdida de identidad. Porque...

“Bewitching … Tokarczuk is an excellent storyteller.” —The New York Times A novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Books of Jacob and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead A woman settles in a remote...

A collection of traditional Zen stories and parables that point out the simplicity of life and transcend the ordinary knowledge. Each story, no matter how short and simple, holds a key to resolution of timeless problems every person faces. Originally, in the form of koans (public sayings) of the great masters presented to students to test their understanding of Zen, these sayings later became stories and intertwined with local legends and fables, creating an incredible source of inspiration, direction and comfort for those in need of guidance. As we read and solve these koans, story after ...

Una sobreviviente de los campos de concentración de Auschwitz y de Birkenau. La visión de cinco chimeneas arrojando el humo de la carne quemada de centenares de miles de seres humanos, entre ellos los padres y los dos hijos de la escritora. Cómo eran y actuaban los dirigentes de Auschwitz y Belsen; quién fue Joseph Kramer, juzgado como el criminal número uno en el proceso de Luneburg. Olga Lengyel conservó como testimonio de esta experiencia las cicatrices y la marca del cautiverio, pruebas que mantuvieron incólume su espíritu de humanismo.

Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a beautiful woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birchenau. This book is a necessary reminder of one of the ugliest chapters in the history of human civilization.

Una novela única, ligera y honda a la vez, que indaga en las posibilidades del género para hablar sobre el cuerpo, el mundo y las estrategias siempre insuficientes con que intentamos cartografiarlos. Al principio de Los errantes, la narradora esboza un autorretrato que es también una poética: "A todas luces yo carecía de ese gen que hace que en cuanto se detiene uno en un lugar por un tiempo más o menos largo, enseguida eche raíces. (...) Mi energía es generada por el movimiento.

A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ” “Just as awe-inspiring as the Nobel judges claimed.” – The Washington Post “Olga Tokarczuk is one of our greatest living fiction writers. . . This could well be a decade-defining book akin to Bolaño’s 2666.” –AV Club “Sophisticated and ribald...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx) "A magnificent writer." — Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning...