-Titulo Original : Hidden Christmas The Surprising Truth Behind The Birth Of Christ-Fabricante : Penguin Books-Descripcion Original: From pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller comes the perfect gift for the Christmas holiday-a profoundly moving and intellectually provocative examination of the nativity story Even people who are not practicing Christians think they are familiar with the story of the nativity. Every Christmas displays of Baby Jesus resting in a manger decorate lawns and churchyards, and songs about shepherds and angels fill the air. Yet despite the abundance of these Christian references in popular culture, how many of us have examined the hard edges of this biblical story? In his new book Timothy Keller takes readers on an illuminating journey into the surprising background of the nativity. By understanding the message of hope and salvation within the Bible’s account of Jesus’ birth, readers will experience the redeeming power of God’s grace in a deeper and more meaningful way. Review “[A] great gift book . . . Keller achieves his pastoral goal of teaching Christmas’ most important message-‘God alone has the life, truth, and joy that we lack and cannot generate ourselves’-and in doing so, provides solace for those who seek it.” -Publishers Weekly Praise for Timothy Keller and his other books: “Superb . . . we should be grateful to Keller for his wisdom, scholarship, and humility.” -The Gospel Coalition “Tim Keller’s ministry in New York City is leading a generation of seekers and skeptics toward belief in God. I thank God for him.” -Billy Graham “Unlike most suburban megachurches, much of Redeemer is remarkably traditional. What is not traditional is Dr. Keller’s skill in speaking the language of his urbane audience. . . . Observing Dr. Keller’s professorial pose on stage, it is easy to understand his appeal.” -The New York Times “Fifty years from now, if evangelical Christians are widely known for their love of cities, their commitment to mercy and justice, and their love of their neighbors, Tim Keller will be remembered as a pioneer of the new urban Christians.” -Christianity Today About the Author Timothy Keller was born and raised in Pennsylvania and educated at Bucknell University, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and Westminster Theological Seminary. His first pastorate was in Hopewell, Virginia. In 1989 he started Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City with his wife, Kathy, and their three sons. Today, Redeemer has nearly six thousand regular Sunday attendees and has helped to start more than three hundred new churches around the world. He is the author of Making Sense of God, The Songs of Jesus, Preaching, Prayer, as well as The Meaning of Marriage, The Prodigal God, and The Reason for God, among others. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Christmas is the only Christian holy day that is also a major secular holiday-arguably our culture’s biggest. The result is two different celebrations, each observed by millions of people at the very same time. This brings some discomfort on both sides. Many Christians can’t help but notice that more and more of the public festivities surrounding Christmas studiously avoid any references to its Christian origins. The background music in stores is moving from “Joy to the World” to “Have A Holly, Jolly Christmas.” The holiday is promoted as a time for family, for giving, and for peace in the world. “Christmas is a wonderful, secular holiday,” wrote one enthusiast at the popular Web site Gawker. On the other hand, nonreligious people can’t help but find that the older meaning of Christmas keeps intruding uninvited, for instance, through the music of traditional Christmas carols. It can be irritating to have to answer their child’s question, “What does that music mean-‘born to give them second birth’?” As a Christian believer, I am glad to share the virtues of the day with the entirety of society. The secular Christmas is a festival of lights, a time for family gatherings, and a season to generously give to those...

-Titulo Original : White Women Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism And How To Do Better-Fabricante : Penguin Books-Descripcion Original: An instant New York Times Bestseller! A no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling white supremacy from the team behind Race2Dinner and the documentary film, Deconstructing Karen Its no secret that white women are conditioned to be nice, but did you know that the desire to be perfect and to avoid conflict at all costs are characteristics of white supremacy culture? As the founders of Race2Dinner, an organization which facilitates conversations between white women about racism and white supremacy, Regina Jackson and Saira Rao have noticed white womens tendency to maintain a veneer of niceness, and strive for perfection, even at the expense of anti-racism work. In this book, Jackson and Rao pose these urgent questions: how has being nice helped Black women, Indigenous women and other women of color? How has being nice helped you in your quest to end sexism? Has being nice earned you economic parity with white men? Beginning with freeing white women from this oppressive need to be nice, they deconstruct and analyze nine aspects of traditional white woman behavior--from tone-policing to weaponizing tears--that uphold white supremacy society, and hurt all of us who are trying to live a freer, more equitable life. White Women is a call to action to those of you who are looking to take the next steps in dismantling white supremacy. Your white supremacy. If you are in fact doing real anti-racism work, you will find few reasons to be nice, as other white people want to limit your membership in the club. If you are not ticking white people off on a regular basis, you are not doing it right. Review “Deconstructing white women and white supremacy has never been more necessary than it is right now, and I am always looking for ways to learn, grow, shut the F up, and listen. This book gives you the tools to do just that.”-Chelsea Handler “This book dares to tell necessary truths. The kind of truths that can save lives, and if heard with an open mind and heart - may even help save the soul of this lost nation.” -Frederick Joseph, author of New York Times bestsellers Patriarchy Blues and The Black Friend ...what they’re offering is an opportunity for white women to free themselves and their communities from the toxic ideals of white supremacy and white culture, amessage thats ultimately optimistic and even cathartic.-- Booklist “WHITE WOMEN is not an easy read but is essential if you are dedicated to liberation for all and confronting white supremacy in all the parts of our lives where it hides so easily. This book is not an attack but an extraordinary gift, and I invite you to set your ego aside and approach it with humility and an open heart. -Anna Paquin, actress and producer “[Jackson and Rao] are clear and concise, making their points with no room for argument… [they] are especially astute in their investigation of the language regarding White supremacy… [a] highly insightful, useful text.” -Kirkus Starred Review I am excited for what this book means for us all. In a world where critical race theory is banned in classrooms across the USA, because the white people were not properly taught to think critically about their complicity in systemic oppression, this book is timely. We tend to tiptoe around whiteness, and this book rips the bandage off. This is the book many BIWOC have been needing to give to the white women in our lives; from our white co-workers to our white mother-in-laws, this book is no-holds-barred. This is the answer to many of our prayers. -Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez Author of For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color Delivering clear and deliberate messaging, White Women enables white women to understand how our overt civility and desire to be nice above all else directly equates to racial avoidance and upholds white supremacy. It is the invitation you didnt realize you n...

-Titulo Original : The Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set Volumes 1-4 The First Four Novels (walt Longmire Mysteries)-Fabricante : Penguin Books-Descripcion Original: The perfect gift for Longmire fans: a boxed set of the first four mysteries in the New York Times bestselling Longmire Mystery series With the hit television series Longmire capturing millions of viewers and Craig Johnson’s last seven books hitting the New York Times bestseller list, Walt Longmire is a name on everyone’s lips and has earned his star. As Longmire devotees eagerly await the launch of the fifth season on Netflix, they can delve into the first four novels in the series and keep abreast of the latest goings-on in the world of their favorite straight-talking sheriff. Review Based on the novels by Craig Johnson. . . . Longmire is the best of two worlds: a modern crime drama with dry wit and sometimes heart-wrenching emotion thats also got a glorious setting under the big sky of Wyoming. - The Wall Street Journal About the Author Craig Johnson lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population 25...

-Titulo Original : The Magicians Trilogy Boxed Set The Magicians; The Magician King; The Magicians Land-Fabricante : Penguin Books-Descripcion Original: The entire #1 New York Times bestselling trilogy that inspired SYFY’s The Magicians, now available in a gorgeous boxed set, including The Magicians, The Magician King, and The Magician’s Land This beautiful boxed set makes a perfect gift for readers of the beloved fantasy series praised by George R. R. Martin, Junot Diaz, and Erin Morgenstern. The Magicians Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A high school math genius, he’s secretly fascinated with a series of children’s fantasy novels set in a magical land called Fillory, and real life is disappointing by comparison. When Quentin is unexpectedly admitted to an elite, secret college of magic, it looks like his wildest dreams may have come true. But his newfound powers lead him down a rabbit hole of hedonism and disillusionment, and ultimately to the dark secret behind the story of Fillory. The land of his childhood fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he ever could have imagined . . . The Magicians is one of the most daring and inventive works of literary fantasy in years. No one who has escaped into the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter should miss this breathtaking return to the landscape of the imagination. The Magician King Quentin Coldwater should be happy. He escaped a miserable Brooklyn childhood, matriculated at a secret college for magic, and graduated to discover that Fillory-a fictional utopia-was actually real. But even as a Fillorian king, Quentin finds little peace. His old restlessness returns, and he longs for the thrills a heroic quest can bring. Accompanied by his oldest friend, Julia, Quentin sets off-only to somehow wind up back in the real-world and not in Fillory, as they’d hoped. As the pair struggle to find their way back to their lost kingdom, Quentin is forced to rely on Julia’s illicitly learned sorcery as they face a sinister threat in a world very far from the beloved fantasy novels of their youth. The Magicians Land Quentin Coldwater has lost everything. He has been cast out of Fillory, the secret magical world of his childhood dreams that he once ruled. With nothing left to lose he returns to where his story began, the Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic. But he can’t hide from his past, and it’s not long before it comes looking for him. Meanwhile, the magical barriers that keep Fillory safe are failing, and barbarians from the north have invaded. Eliot and Janet, the rulers of Fillory, embark on a final quest to save their beloved world, only to discover a situation far more complex-and far more dire-than anyone had envisioned. Along with Plum, a brilliant young magician with a dark secret of her own, Quentin sets out on a crooked path through a magical demimonde of gray magic and desperate characters. His new life takes him back to old haunts, like Antarctica and the Neitherlands, and old friends he thought were lost forever. The Magician’s Land is an intricate and fantastical thriller, and an epic of love and redemption that brings the Magicians trilogy to a magnificent conclusion, confirming it as one of the great achievements in modern fantasy. Review Praise for The Magicians Land “Richly imagined and continually surprising. . . . The strongest book in Grossman’s series. It not only offers a satisfying conclusion to Quentin Coldwater’s quests, earthly and otherwise, but also considers complex questions about identity and selfhood as profound as they are entertaining. . . . The Magician’s Land, more than any other book in the trilogy, wrestles with the question of humanity. . . . This is a gifted writer, and his gifts are at their apex in The Magician’s Land.” -Edan Lepucki, The New York Times Book Review “The strength of the trilogy lies . . . in the characters, whose inner lives and frailties Grossman renders with care and empathy. . . . Quentin[’s] . . . magical journey is deeply human.” -The New Yorker “[A] wonderful trilogy. . . . If the Narnia books were like catn...

-Titulo Original : Wreck This Journal (duct Tape) Expanded Ed.-Fabricante : Penguin Books-Descripcion Original: Review Praise for Wreck This Journal “Not gonna lie, this is probably the coolest journal you’ll ever see. . . . Wreck This Journal is here to inspire you.” -Buzzfeed “Wreck This Journal encourages you to stop fretting about quality and start relishing the artistic process.” -Oprah “Smith’s journal is about destruction, asking readers to poke through pages, submerge them, attach photos and then deface them, and essentially revel in our ‘mistakes.’ The finished product-crumpled pages and sometimes doubled in size-is itself a masterpiece.” -BuzzFeed, Journals That Will Give Your Brain A Workout “I love this book and the playful way that Keri Smith teaches people the act of creating by putting you right on the spot. Wreck This Journal is a fun, interactive book that you will want to work in every day. To create is to destroy, and this book delivers.” -D*I*Y Planner “No matter where you start or where you end, there’s always something interesting to do. . . . The book is an exploration into creativity.” -Buffalo News “The ideal gift for artistic minded people, or not, for that matter, as what I love about this book is that there is no right or wrong. Neat, messy, colorful, dark, you can wreck however you want.” -Hawwa, etc. “I’ve kept journals before, but have never written in them as frequently as I write in my Wreck This Journal. It is great for inspiration; it gives you tasks that are thought-provoking rather than pages of endless blank lines. It is a great way to pass the time and a great gift for anyone, no matter how young or old.” -Teen Ink “Wreck this Journal makes a great gift for someone who’s going through a stressful time, needs a form of release, or anyone who could use a few minutes of fun.” -Jactionary “Wreck This Journal encourages you to experiment and have fun. . . . Flip to any page in the book and you will find a prompt: fun prompts, destructive prompts, creative prompts to help your creative juices flow.” -Craft Critique “Calling all bookworms and creative doodlers, Wreck This Journal is the perfect book to spruce up your summer. . . . It’s a wonderful stress reliever and brings out the inner childish behavior we are so often told to get over. You won’t be disappointed.” -Kristine Marie Babauta, Marianas Variety Praise for Keri Smith “Keri Smith may well be the self-help guru this DIY generation deserves.” -The Believer “A conceptual artist and author luring kids into questioning the world and appreciating every smell, texture and mystery in it.” -TIME Magazine “Not gonna lie, this is probably the coolest journal you’ll ever see. . . . Wreck This Journal is here to inspire you.” -Buzzfeed The internationally bestselling phenomenon with more than 10 million copies sold-and an excellent holiday gift! Paint, poke, create, destroy, and wreck-to create a journal as unique as you are For anyone whos ever had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook comes this expanded edition of Wreck This Journal, a subversive illustrated book that challenges readers to muster up their best mistake- and mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the book-or destroy them. Through a series of creative and quirky prompts, acclaimed guerilla artist Keri Smith encourages journalers to engage in destructive acts-poking holes through pages, adding photos and defacing them, painting pages with coffee, coloring outside the lines, and more-in order to experience the true creative process. With Smiths unique sensibility, readers are introduced to a new way of art- and journal-making, discovering novel ways to escape the fear of the blank page and fully engage in the creative process. To create is to destroy. Happy wrecking! About the Author Keri Smith is a bestselling author, illustrator, and thinker. Her books include Wreck This Journal, The Wander Society, This is Not a Book, How to Be an Explorer of the World, Mess, Finish This Book, The Pocket Scavenger, Wreck This Jo...

-Titulo Original : Wreck This Journal (paper Bag) Expanded Ed.-Fabricante : Penguin Books-Descripcion Original: Review Praise for Wreck This Journal “Not gonna lie, this is probably the coolest journal you’ll ever see. . . . Wreck This Journal is here to inspire you.” -Buzzfeed “Wreck This Journal encourages you to stop fretting about quality and start relishing the artistic process.” -Oprah “Smith’s journal is about destruction, asking readers to poke through pages, submerge them, attach photos and then deface them, and essentially revel in our ‘mistakes.’ The finished product-crumpled pages and sometimes doubled in size-is itself a masterpiece.” -BuzzFeed, Journals That Will Give Your Brain A Workout “I love this book and the playful way that Keri Smith teaches people the act of creating by putting you right on the spot. Wreck This Journal is a fun, interactive book that you will want to work in every day. To create is to destroy, and this book delivers.” -D*I*Y Planner “No matter where you start or where you end, there’s always something interesting to do. . . . The book is an exploration into creativity.” -Buffalo News “The ideal gift for artistic minded people, or not, for that matter, as what I love about this book is that there is no right or wrong. Neat, messy, colorful, dark, you can wreck however you want.” -Hawwa, etc. “I’ve kept journals before, but have never written in them as frequently as I write in my Wreck This Journal. It is great for inspiration; it gives you tasks that are thought-provoking rather than pages of endless blank lines. It is a great way to pass the time and a great gift for anyone, no matter how young or old.” -Teen Ink “Wreck this Journal makes a great gift for someone who’s going through a stressful time, needs a form of release, or anyone who could use a few minutes of fun.” -Jactionary “Wreck This Journal encourages you to experiment and have fun. . . . Flip to any page in the book and you will find a prompt: fun prompts, destructive prompts, creative prompts to help your creative juices flow.” -Craft Critique “Calling all bookworms and creative doodlers, Wreck This Journal is the perfect book to spruce up your summer. . . . It’s a wonderful stress reliever and brings out the inner childish behavior we are so often told to get over. You won’t be disappointed.” -Kristine Marie Babauta, Marianas Variety Praise for Keri Smith “Keri Smith may well be the self-help guru this DIY generation deserves.” -The Believer “A conceptual artist and author luring kids into questioning the world and appreciating every smell, texture and mystery in it.” -TIME Magazine “Not gonna lie, this is probably the coolest journal you’ll ever see. . . . Wreck This Journal is here to inspire you.” -Buzzfeed The internationally bestselling phenomenon with more than 10 million copies sold-and an excellent holiday gift! Paint, poke, create, destroy, and wreck-to create a journal as unique as you are For anyone whos ever had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook comes this expanded edition of Wreck This Journal, a subversive illustrated book that challenges readers to muster up their best mistake- and mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the book-or destroy them. Through a series of creative and quirky prompts, acclaimed guerilla artist Keri Smith encourages journalers to engage in destructive acts-poking holes through pages, adding photos and defacing them, painting pages with coffee, coloring outside the lines, and more-in order to experience the true creative process. With Smiths unique sensibility, readers are introduced to a new way of art- and journal-making, discovering novel ways to escape the fear of the blank page and fully engage in the creative process. To create is to destroy. Happy wrecking...

-Titulo Original : Finish This Book-Fabricante : Penguin Books-Descripcion Original: From the internationally bestselling creator of Wreck This Journal, a collaborative creative journey where you become the author... One dark and stormy night, author Keri Smith found some strange scattered pages abandoned in a park. She collected and assembled them, trying to solve the mystery of this unexpected discovery, and now shes passing the task on to you, her readers. Your mission is to become the new author of this work. You will continue the research and provide the content. In order to complete the task, you will have to undergo some secret intelligence training, which is included in this volume. Since no one knows what lies ahead, please proceed with caution, but know...this book does not exist without you. Review Praise for Finish This Book “Keri Smith may well be the self-help guru this DIY generation deserves.” -The Believer “Very compelling.” -Wired Magazine “Recommended to anyone who likes nature or mysteries!” -The Guardian “What Keri Smith does with Finish This Book is give you permission (and resources) to be a creative problem solver while finding your own unique voice and creative authority. When you turn the last page you’ve not only finished the book-you have become a creator in the process.” -Braid Creative & Consulting Praise for Keri Smith “A conceptual artist and author luring kids into questioning the world and appreciating every smell, texture and mystery in it.” -TIME Magazine About the Author Keri Smith is a bestselling author, illustrator, and thinker. Her books include Wreck This Journal, The Wander Society, This is Not a Book, How to Be an Explorer of the World, Mess, Finish This Book, The Pocket Scavenger, Wreck This Journal Everywhere, Everything Is Connected, and The Imaginary World of... as well as Wreck This App, This is Not an App, and the Pocket Scavenger app. She enjoys spending time with her husband, experimental musician Jefferson Pitcher, and two children...

-Titulo Original : The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy Box Set The Claiming Of Sleeping Beauty; Beautys Punishment; Beautys Release-Fabricante : Penguin Books-Descripcion Original: Anne Rices, author of Interview With the Vampire, best-selling erotic trilogy in a boxed set In 1983, before E.L. James Fifty Shades of Grey and Sylvia Days Bared to You, Anne Rice, writing as A.N. Roquelaure, began the first installment of the series that is now considered a forerunner of erotic literature. This boxed set, containing The New York Times bestseller The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty’s Punishment, and Beauty’s Release is a testament to Anne Rice’s irresistible talent. Now in a repackaged edition with a new foreword by the author, Rice’s charged eroticism and magical style is back, connecting old and new readers alike. Review PRAISE FOR ANNE RICE: Anne Rice has what might best be described as a Gothic imagination crossed with a campy taste for the decadent and the bizarre. -- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times About the Author Anne Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941. She is the author of many bestselling novels, including the widely successful Vampire Chronicles. Her first novel, Interview with the Vampire, was made into a film in 1994 starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Her other books include the Mayfair Witches series, the novels The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Violin, Angel Time, the Sleeping Beauty trilogy, and most recently, The Wolf Gift. Anne lives and works in Southern California...

-Titulo Original : How It Feels To Float-Fabricante : Penguin Books-Descripcion Original: Profoundly moving . . . Will take your breath away. -Kathleen Glasgow, author of Girl in Pieces Give this to all your friends immediately . . . It tackles mental health, depression, sexual identity, and anxiety with beauty and empathy. -Cosmopolitan A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best of the Year Biz knows how to float, right there on the surface-normal okay regular fine. She has her friends, her mom, the twins. She has Grace. And she has her dad, who shouldnt be here but is. So Biz doesnt tell anyone anything-not about her dark, runaway thoughts, not about kissing Grace or noticing Jasper, the new boy. And not about seeing her dad. Because her dad died when she was seven. But after what happens on the beach, the tethers that hold Biz steady come undone. Her dad disappears and, with him, all comfort. It might be easier, better, sweeter to float all the way away? Or maybe stay a little longer, find her father, bring him back to her. Or maybe-maybe maybe maybe-theres a third way Biz just cant see yet. Debut author Helena Fox tells a story about love, grief, and inter-generational mental illness, exploring the hard and beautiful places loss can take us, and honoring those who hold us tightly when the current wants to tug us out to sea. I havent been so dazzled by a YA in ages. -Jandy Nelson, author of Ill Give You the Sun (via SLJ) Mesmerizing and timely. -Bustle Nothing short of exquisite. -PopSugar Immensely satisfying -Girls Life * Lyrical and profoundly affecting. -Kirkus (starred review) * Masterful...Just beautiful. -Booklist (starred review) * Intimate...Unexpected. -PW (starred review) * Fox writes with superb understanding and tenderness. -BCCB (starred review) * Frank [and] beautifully crafted. -BookPage (starred review) Deeply moving...A story of hope. -Common Sense Media This book will explode you into atoms. -Margo Lanagan, author of Tender Morsels Helena Foxs novel delivers. Read it. -Cath Crowley, author of Words in Deep Blue This is not a book; it is a work of art. -Kerry Kletter, author of The First Time She Drowned Perfect...Readers will be deeply moved. -BooksPublishing Review “I haven’t been so dazzled by a YA in ages. . . . Biz’s voice is wild and rollicking, lyrical and hilarious, utterly authentic . . . There isn’t a false note.” -Jandy Nelson, author of I’ll Give You the Sun (via School Library Journal) [How It Feels to Float] explores intergenerational mental illness in a way that is nothing short of exquisite. -PopSugar A profoundly moving story about grief, loss, and love that will take your breath away. Helena Fox is a writer to be reckoned with. -Kathleen Glasgow, author of Girl in Pieces If youve read Anna Borgess story for The Outline I Am Not Always Very Attached To Being Alive, you are perhaps already acquainted with the idea of treading to stay afloat when living with mental illness. In How It Feels To Float, author Helena Fox tells the story of a young woman floating through life, struggling to hide her dark thoughts and a past marked by intergenerational mental illness. -Bustle “How It Feels to Float is technically a YA novel, but Im not talking Twilight YA. Im talking give-this-to-all-your-twenty-something-friends-immediately YA. This book will relate to anyone thats lived through the confusing mind-f*ck that is being a high school girl. More than that, it tackles mental health, depression, sexual identity, and anxiety with beauty and empathy as protagonist Biz comes to terms with the death of her father amid a devastating social fall-out.” -Cosmopolitan Beautifully written, Bizs story (of dark thoughts, grief and questioning her sexuality) is subtly revealed and immensely satisfying as she slowly unravels and puts herself together again. -Girls Life Teens who don’t want to be labeled, who don’t conform to checklists of attributes or fall into tid...

-Titulo Original : She Said Breaking The Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite A Movement-Fabricante : Penguin Books-Descripcion Original: Now a major motion picture, starring Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan An instant classic of investigative journalism...‘All the President’s Men’ for the Me Too era. - Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the untold story of their investigation of Harvey Weinstein and its consequences for the #MeToo movement For years, reporters had tried to get to the truth about Harvey Weinstein’s treatment of women. Rumors of wrongdoing had long circulated, and in 2017, when Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey began their investigation for the New York Times, his name was still synonymous with power. But during months of confidential interviews with actresses, former Weinstein employees, and other sources, many disturbing and long-buried allegations were unearthed, and a web of onerous secret payouts and nondisclosure agreements was revealed. When Kantor and Twohey were finally able to convince sources to go on the record, a dramatic final showdown between Weinstein and the New York Times was set in motion. In the tradition of great investigative journalism, She Said tells a thrilling story about the power of truth and reveals the inspiring and affecting journeys of the women who spoke up-for the sake of other women, for future generations, and for themselves. Review “A binge-read of a book, propelled, for the most part, by a clear, adrenaline-spiking ticktock of how their stories came together, and studded with all manner of new astonishing details...This is Kantor and Twohey’s story and one everyone should read for a panoply of reasons. By simply recounting their reporting, the two offer a masterful explanation of how a man like Weinstein is allowed to abuse his power and many women for so long in something approaching plain sight…In many ways, “She Said” is more significant than “All the President’s Men,” and not just because journalism is currently under siege, financially and politically, in a way it was not in the 1970s. There was a finite number of people responsible for the crimes of the Nixon administration; the alleged crimes of Harvey Weinstein are also the crimes of our culture, and they continue to be committed every day by many men all around the world. Although now, one hopes, without as much silence, secrecy and cultural complacency.” - Los Angeles Times Review “She Said, a new book detailing the astonishing behind-the-scenes of the New York Times’s bombshell Harvey Weinstein expose, is an instant classic of investigative journalism. If your jaw dropped at the newspaper’s original allegations against the predatory movie mogul, prepare for it to hit the floor as authors Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey recount how they uncovered the story: secret meetings, harrowing phone calls, private text exchanges with A-list actresses agonizing over whether to go on the record. Ashley Judd plays the stoic warrior; Gwyneth Paltrow, the circumspect liaison who tries to help the reporters find other sources.” - Monica Hesse, The Washington Post “She Said, the journalists’ clear-eyed record of that effort, reads at some moments as a thriller, and at others as an indictment of a system full of rot. But it is ultimately about the women, bonded in their pain, who refused to be silent any longer.” - The Atlantic “‘She Said,’ a chronicle of the #MeToo era by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, reveals the power of women who, together, refused to stay silent.” - The New Republic “Kantor and Twohey even-handedly assess the impact of the #MeToo movement thus far while also turning a perceptive, hopeful eye on the way forward.” - Esquire “She Said is the story behind the story that changed the world….Come for the shocking reveals, stay for how the book expertly parses the current moment.”-Refinery29 “‘She Said’ is riveting and, crafted by two of the countrys most talented journalists, a vibrant, cinematic read.”- CNN “Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey are two names that ...

-Titulo Original : Me Before You, After You, And Still Me 3-book Boxed Set (me Before You Trilogy)-Fabricante : Penguin Books-Descripcion Original: A boxed set featuring the Me Before You Series: Me Before You, After You, and Still Me--the perfect holiday gift for Jojo Moyes fans #1 bestselling author Jojo Moyes is a phenomenon around the world, and enthusiasm has only increased exponentially with the release of Still Me, the third and final book in the Me Before You Series. This fabulous new package will appeal both to first-time readers and die-hard Jojo aficionados--perfect for loved ones, or even as a gift for yourself, this box set makes it easier than ever to fall in love with Lou Clarks unputdownable story. Review Praise for the Me Before You Series: A hilarious, heartbreaking, riveting novel. . . I will stake my reputation on this book. -Anne Lamott, People (MBY) Jojo Moyes has a hit with After You. --USA Today Jojos work never fails to bring a smile to my face with her honesty, humour and empathy about what it is to be human--[Still Me is] a must read! --Emilia Clarke About the Author Jojo Moyes is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of After You, Me Before You, The Horse Dancer, Paris for One and Other Stories, One Plus One, The Girl You Left Behind, The Last Letter from Your Lover, Silver Bay, and The Ship of Brides. She lives with her husband and three children in Essex, England...

-Titulo Original : The Family Firm A Data-driven Guide To Better Decision Making In The Early School Years (the Parentdata Series)-Fabricante : Penguin Books-Descripcion Original: The instant New York Times bestseller! * One of Behavioral Scientist’s Notable Books of 2021 “Emily Oster dives into the data on parenting issues, cuts through the clutter, and gives families the bottom line to help them make better decisions.” -Good Morning America “A targeted mini-MBA program designed to help moms and dads establish best practices for day-to-day operations. -The Washington Post From the bestselling author of Expecting Better and Cribsheet, the next step in data driven parenting from economist Emily Oster. In The Family Firm, Brown professor of economics and mom of two Emily Oster offers a classic business school framework for data-driven parents to think more deliberately about the key issues of the elementary years: school, health, extracurricular activities, and more. Unlike the hourly challenges of infant parenting, the big questions in this age come up less frequently. But we live with the consequences of our decisions for much longer. Whats the right kind of school and at what age should a particular kid start? How do you encourage a healthy diet? Should kids play a sport and how seriously? How do you think smartly about encouraging childrens independence? Along with these bigger questions, Oster investigates how to navigate the complexity of day-to-day family logistics. Making these decisions is less about finding the specific answer and more about taking the right approach. Parents of this age are often still working in baby mode, which is to say, under stress and on the fly. That is a classic management problem, and Oster takes a page from her time as a business school professor at the University of Chicago to show us that thoughtful business process can help smooth out tough family decisions. The Family Firm is a smart and winning guide to how to think clearly--and with less ambient stress--about the key decisions of the elementary school years. Parenting is a full-time job. Its time we start treating it like one. Review “A targeted mini-MBA program designed to help moms and dads establish best practices for day-to-day operations . . . Because this is an Oster book, there’s data scattered everywhere-on the development of reading skills by age, on the concussion risks of playing soccer, on the benefits of dipping Brussels sprouts in sweetened cream cheese. It’s all presented in the breezy, skeptical style that’s made Oster’s work a must-read for parents who don’t have the time to investigate Finnish studies about integrating extracurriculars into the school day.” -The Washington Post “Emily Oster dives into the data on parenting issues, cuts through the clutter, and gives families the bottom line to help them make better decisions. Her books on pregnancy and toddlers skyrocketed her to parenting-world fame, and now she’s back, crunching the numbers on topics that keep parents with school-age kids up at night.” -Good Morning America “Oster is a self-described data nerd, a delightful contrarian who dared question the status quo, shush the shamers and tell parents what made sense.” -The New York Times Book Review “Oster draws on her experience as a business school professor to suggest that economic reasoning-the art of making decision-making given constraints-can tell us a lot about how to make some of these hard decisions a little better. . . . Some careful, economics-inspired thinking can help reduce the anxiety, tension, and stress. . . . For that alone, The Family Firm is worth picking up.” -Charles Fain Lehman, The Washington Free Beacon “With Osters help, rather than fear this next stage of parenting, readers can embrace (and even enjoy) the challenge.” -Booklist “Oster offers a plethora of rational guidance for parents of kids between pre-K and middle school in this eminently practical guide.” -Publishers Weekly “A guide . . . to chart a child’s path with less stress and more optimization for healthy habits and future success.” -TIME “Merging a busines...

-Titulo Original : Biased Uncovering The Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, And Do-Fabricante : Penguin Books-Descripcion Original: Poignant....important and illuminating.-The New York Times Book Review Groundbreaking.-Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy From one of the world’s leading experts on unconscious racial bias come stories, science, and strategies to address one of the central controversies of our time How do we talk about bias? How do we address racial disparities and inequities? What role do our institutions play in creating, maintaining, and magnifying those inequities? What role do we play? With a perspective that is at once scientific, investigative, and informed by personal experience, Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt offers us the language and courage we need to face one of the biggest and most troubling issues of our time. She exposes racial bias at all levels of society-in our neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and criminal justice system. Yet she also offers us tools to address it. Eberhardt shows us how we can be vulnerable to bias but not doomed to live under its grip. Racial bias is a problem that we all have a role to play in solving. Review Winner of the Williams James Book Award from the American Psychological Association Winner of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Book Prize Nonfiction Runner-Up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize A fascinating new book... [Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt is] a genius.-Trevor Noah, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Groundbreaking.-Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy “Powerful…useful for those new to the topic as well as those well-versed in the topic...Eberhardt abandons the jargon-speak of academic research and speaks to the reader’s head, heart, and soul...[and] will make you think about the news, your neighborhood, your work place and yourself with fresh eyes.”-Forbes An immensely informative and insightful analysis of race-based stereotypes. [Eberhardt] also offers practical suggestions for managing mechanisms of prejudice that are rooted in the structures of our brains.”-Psychology Today Explores the reasons for bias of all kinds - racial, religious, gender and more - and lays out research-based strategies that can short-circuit our initial prejudices.-New York Post [A] timely, exhaustive investigation of how bias infiltrates every sector of public and private life... Eberhardt offers tips for reforming business practices, police departments, and day-to-day interactions in pursuit of a fairer world for everyone.-Esquire Combining storytelling with a deep dive into the science of implicit bias, Eberhardt explains how bias and prejudice form-and she describes their pernicious effects on all of us. But she doesn’t stop at the problem: Her book shines a spotlight on what we can do to fight bias at a personal and institutional level.”-Greater Good Magazine “Compelling and provocative, this is a game-changing book about how unconscious racial bias impacts our society and what each of us can do about it.”-Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Jennifer Eberhardt’s work is essential to helping us understand racial inequalities in our country and around the world.”-Michelle Alexander, author of New York Times bestseller The New Jim Crow In accessible language and compelling examples, Dr. Eberhardt draws on copious empirical research to challenge the idea of human objectivity and the tragic outcomes of this false belief. ...This book should be required reading for everyone.-Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility “This book helps us to scientifically view how racial bias works in our own minds and throughout society. We could not ask for a better guide to understand this reality than Jennifer Eberhardt. Her research reveals critical information that can help leaders better understand how biases can impact our judgment and how we are perceived by the communities we are sworn to serve.”-Kamala D. Harris, United States Senator from California “Jennifer is one of the great thinkers and one of the...

-Titulo Original : City Of Thieves A Novel-Fabricante : Penguin Books-Descripcion Original: From the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour and When the Nines Roll Over and co-creator of the HBO series Game of Thrones, a captivating novel about war, courage, survival - and a remarkable friendship that ripples across a lifetime. During the Nazis’ brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the same cell as a handsome deserter named Kolya. Instead of being executed, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own lives by complying with an outrageous directive: secure a dozen eggs for a powerful Soviet colonel to use in his daughter’s wedding cake. In a city cut off from all supplies and suffering unbelievable deprivation, Lev and Kolya embark on a hunt through the dire lawlessness of Leningrad and behind enemy lines to find the impossible. By turns insightful and funny, thrilling and terrifying, the New York Times bestseller City of Thieves is a gripping, cinematic World War II adventure and an intimate coming-of-age story with an utterly contemporary feel for how boys become men. Review “The novel tells a refreshingly traditional tale, driven by an often ingenious plot . . . [Benioff] shifts tone with perfect control-no recent novel I have read travels so quickly and surely between registers, from humor to devastation.” -The New York Times Book Review “This spellbinding story perfectly blends tragedy and comedy.” -USA Today “Splendid . . . Benioff has produced a funny, sad, and thrilling novel.” -Entertainment Weekly “Benioff (a co-creator of HBO’s “Game of Thrones”) peppers his swift-moving plot with pitch-dark humor and unexpected turns. It’s a rousing reading experience, to cackle aloud at one paragraph then gasp at the next. . . . I’m glad I waited until warm weather to start this winter’s tale. But really, any other time would have been just fine. There’s no bad season to read a book this good.” -Ken Jaworowski, The New York Times Book Review “Benioff blends humor and horror expertly.” -San Francisco Chronicle “A deft storyteller, Benioff writes about starvation, cannibalism, and Nazi atrocities with poise and cinematic flair. If Thieves were a movie, it would start out like Schindler’s List and end up like Raiders of the Lost Ark.” -People City of Thieves is a coming-of-age story brilliantly amplified by its worn-torn backdrop . . . Benioff’s finest achievement in City of Thieves has been to banish all possible pretensions from his novel, which never wears its research on its sleeve, and to deliver a rough-and-tumble tale that clenches humor, savagery, and pathos squarely together on the same page. -The Washington Post “City of Thieves is flat-out great . . . Benioff’s screen writing chops are in full force here - the plot careens along with cinematic verve - but that’s expected. The surprise is Benioff’s understated wisdom and tenderness.” -Men’s Journal “David Benioff, has written a gripping war novel. With lots of humour, suspense and tragedy he shows the desperate lives of the people who were caught between two opposing forces during the Second World War.” -The Guardian About the Author David Benioff was born and raised in New York City. He adapted his first novel, The 25th Hour, into the feature film directed by Spike Lee. With many other screenplays to his credit, he is also the writer of the films, Brothers and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Stories from his critically acclaimed collection When the Nines Roll Over appeared in Best New American Voices and The Best Nonrequired American Reading. His latest novel is City of Thieves. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter where he is a co-creator and writer for the HBO hit series Game of Thrones. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. You have never been so hungry; you have never been so cold. When we slept, if we slept, we dreamed of the feasts we had carelessly eaten seven months earlier-all that buttered bread, the potato dumplings, the sausa...

-Titulo Original : Dog Songs Poems-Fabricante : Penguin Books-Descripcion Original: “The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming.” -The Boston Globe Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet’s relationships to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. Oliver’s poems begin in the small everyday moments familiar to all dog lovers, but through her extraordinary vision, these observations become higher meditations on the world and our place in it. Dog Songs includes visits with old friends, like Oliver’s beloved Percy, and introduces still others in poems of love and laughter, heartbreak and grief. Throughout, the many dogs of Oliver’s life merge as fellow travelers and as guides, uniquely able to open our eyes to the lessons of the moment and the joys of nature and connection. Review “Dog Songs . . . is a sweet golden retriever of a book that curls up with the reader.” -The New York Times “Oliver . . . is one of our most adored poets, and a longtime lover of dogs. The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming.” -The Boston Globe “Mary Oliver is a canine lover par excellence. Her combo of woman’s best friend and poetry is utterly irresistible.” -Oprah “Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs is, plainly put, a lovely and accessible book of poems.” -The Rumpus “Oliver’s capacity for simple ecstasy in response to the natural world remains. The new Dog Songs turns . . . material about canines into something meaningful.” -Time Out “The set of poems all feature dogs, a species much beloved by the poet; she writes of her canine companions with as much awe and reverence as she does other miraculous beasts and natural phenomena. They read as embodiments of the natural order, comprehending the cycle of life and death in ways no human can.” -Bust Magazine “Dog Songs collects her most soul-stirring poems and short prose celebrating that special human-canine relationship and what it reveals about the meaning of our own lives-a beautiful manifestation of Oliver’s singular sieve for extracting from the particularities of the poetic subject the philosophical universalities of the human condition to illuminate what it means to live a good life, a full life, a life of purpose and presence.” -Brain Pickings “The collection invites us to linger awhile in the pure happiness Oliver feels toward dogs, most notably, her beloved dog Percy . . . For Oliver, nature is our teacher and dogs some of the best professors.” -Bookish, The Houston Chronicle “Renowned for her love of nature, Ms. Oliver writes exquisite, lyrical poems that . . . remind the reader of how much there is to love in this world. Nowhere is this love more evident than in Oliver’s latest collection, Dog Songs . . . These poems will make you smile, laugh, cry and nod your head in delighted agreement.” -The Bark About the Author Born in a small town in Ohio, Mary Oliver published her first book of poetry in 1963 at the age of 28. Over the course of her long career, she has received numerous awards. Her fourth book, American Primitive, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She has led workshops and held residencies at various colleges and universities, including Bennington College, where she held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching...

-Titulo Original : A Tale For The Time Being A Novel-Fabricante : Penguin Books-Descripcion Original: A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness Finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award “A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.” In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s lived more than a century. A diary is Nao’s only solace-and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox-possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao’s drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future. Full of Ozeki’s signature humor and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home. Review “An exquisite novel: funny, tragic, hard-edged and ethereal at once.” -David Ulin, Los Angeles Times “As contemporary as a Japanese teenager’s slang but as ageless as a Zen koan, Ruth Ozeki’s new novel combines great storytelling with a probing investigation into the purpose of existence. . . . She plunges us into a tantalizing narration that brandishes mysteries to be solved and ideas to be explored. . . . Ozeki’s profound affection for her characters makes A Tale for the Time Being as emotionally engaging as it is intellectually provocative.” -The Washington Post “A delightful yet sometimes harrowing novel . . . Many of the elements of Nao’s story-schoolgirl bullying, unemployed suicidal ‘salarymen,’ kamikaze pilots-are among a Western reader’s most familiar images of Japan, but in Nao’s telling, refracted through Ruth’s musings, they become fresh and immediate, occasionally searingly painful. Ozeki takes on big themes . . . all drawn into the stories of two ‘time beings,’ Ruth and Nao, whose own fates are inextricably bound.” -The New York Times Book Review “Sixteen-year-old schoolgirl Nao Yasutani’s voice is the heart and soul of this very satisfying book. . . . The contemporary Japanese style and use of magical realism are reminiscent of author Haruki Murakami.” -USA Today “A terrific novel full of breakthroughs both personal and literary. . . . Ozeki revels in Tokyo teen culture-this goes far beyond Hello Kitty-and explores quantum physics, military applications of computer video games, Internet bullying, and Marcel Proust, all while creating a vulnerable and unique voice for the sixteen-year-old girl at its center. . . . Ozeki has produced a dazzling and humorous work of literary origami. . . . Nao’s voice-funny, profane and deep-is stirring and unforgettable as she ponders the meaning of her life.” -The Seattle Times “Beautifully written, intensely readable and richly layered . . . one of the best books of the year so far.” -St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Masterfully woven . . . Entwining Japanese language with WWII history, pop culture with Proust, Zen with quantum mechanics, Ozeki alternates between the voices of two women to produce a spellbinding tale.” -O, The Oprah Magazine “Forget the proverbial message in a bottle: This Tale fractures cliches as it affirms the lifesaving power of words. . . . As Ozeki explores the ties between reader and writer, she offers a lesson in redemption that reinforces the pricelessness of the here and now.” -Elle “A powerful yarn of fate and parallel lives.” -Good Housekeeping “Ozeki weaves together Nao’s adolescent yearnings with Ruth’s contemplative digressions, adding bits of Zen...

-Titulo Original : Shop Class As Soulcraft An Inquiry Into The Value Of Work-Fabricante : Penguin Books-Descripcion Original: A philosopher/mechanics wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with ones hands “This is a deep exploration of craftsmanship by someone with real, hands-on knowledge. The book is also quirky, surprising, and sometimes quite moving.” -Richard Sennett, author of The Craftsman Called “the sleeper hit of the publishing season” by The Boston Globe, Shop Class as Soulcraft became an instant bestseller, attracting readers with its radical (and timely) reappraisal of the merits of skilled manual labor. On both economic and psychological grounds, author Matthew B. Crawford questions the educational imperative of turning everyone into a “knowledge worker,” based on a misguided separation of thinking from doing. Using his own experience as an electrician and mechanic, Crawford presents a wonderfully articulated call for self-reliance and a moving reflection on how we can live concretely in an ever more abstract world. Review “Its appropriate that [Shop Class as Soulcraft] arrives in May, the month when college seniors commence real life. Skip Dr. Seuss, or a tie from Vineyard Vines, and give them a copy for graduation. . . . Its not an insult to say that Shop Class is the best self-help book that Ive ever read. Almost all works in the genre skip the self part and jump straight to the help. Crawford rightly asks whether todays cubicle dweller even has a respectable self. . . . Its kind of like Heidegger and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.” -Slate “Matt Crawfords remarkable book on the morality and metaphysics of the repairman looks into the reality of practical activity. It is a superb combination of testimony and reflection, and you cant put it down.” -Harvey Mansfield, Professor of Government, Harvard University “Every once in a great while, a book will come along thats brilliant and true and perfect for its time. Matthew B. Crawfords Shop Class as Soulcraft is that kind of book, a prophetic and searching examination of what weve lost by ceasing to work with our hands-and how we can get it back. During this time of cultural anxiety and reckoning, when the conventional wisdom that has long driven our wealthy, sophisticated culture is foundering amid an economic and spiritual tempest, Crawfords liberating volume appears like a lifeboat on the horizon.” -Rod Dreher, author of Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots “This is a deep exploration of craftsmanship by someone with real, hands-on knowledge. The book is also quirky, surprising, and sometimes quite moving.” -Richard Sennett, author of The Craftsman “Matt Crawford has written a brave and indispensable book. By making a powerful case for the enduring value of the manual trades, Shop Class as Soulcraft offers a bracing alternative to the techno-babble that passes for conventional wisdom, and points the way to a profoundly necessary reconnection with the material world. No one who cares about the future of human work can afford to ignore this book.” -Jackson Lears, Editor in Chief, Raritan “We are on the verge of a national renewal. It will have more depth and grace if we read Crawfords book carefully and take it to heart. He is a sharp theorist, a practicing mechanic, and a captivating writer.” -Albert Borgmann, author of Real American Ethics “Shop Class as Soulcraft is easily the most compelling polemic since The Closing of the American Mind. Crawford offers a stunning indictment of the modern workplace, detailing the many ways it deadens our senses and saps our vitality. And he describes how our educational system has done violence to our true nature as homo faber. Better still, Crawford points in the direction of a richer, more fulfilling way of life. This is a book that will endure.” -Reihan Salam, author of Melting Pot or Civil War? and co-author of Grand New Party “Crawford reveals the satisfactions of the active craftsman who cultivates his own judgment, ...

-Titulo Original : In The Woods A Novel (dublin Murder Squad)-Fabricante : Penguin Books-Descripcion Original: The bestselling debut, with over a million copies sold, that launched Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher and “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” (The Washington Post). “Required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting.” -The New York Times Now airing as a Starz series. As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours. Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox-his partner and closest friend-find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery. Now, with only snippets of long-buried memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery of the case before him and that of his own shadowy past. Richly atmospheric and stunning in its complexity, In the Woods is utterly convincing and surprising to the end. Review [An] ambitious and extraordinary first novel...rank it high. -The Washington Post “Part whodunit, part psychological thriller, and wholly successful...French’s plot twists and turns will bamboozle even the most astute reader...A well-written, expertly plotted thriller.” -NPR “In the Woods is as creepily imaginative as it gets.” -USA Today “Drawn by the grim nature of her plot and the lyrical ferocity of her writing, even smart people who should know better will be able to lose themselves in these dark woods.” -The New York Times Book Review Praise for Tana French “When you read Ms. French - and she has become required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting - make only one assumption: All of your initial assumptions are wrong” -The New York Times Tana French is the most interesting, most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years. -The Washington Post [Tana French] inspires cultic devotion in readers…most crime fiction is diverting; Frenchs is consuming. -The New Yorker “To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she’s simply this: a truly great writer.” -Gillian Flynn “French is a poet of mood and a master builder of plots.” -The Washington Post “One of the most distinct and exciting new voices in crime writing.” -The Wall Street Journal “French does something fresh with every novel, each one as powerful as the last but in a very different manner. Perhaps she has superpowers of her own? Whatever the source of her gift, it’s only growing more miraculous with every book.” -Salon About the Author “It has become increasingly clear that American-born, Dublin-based Tana French is the most interesting, most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years. (The Washington Post) Tana is the author of the bestselling In the Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbor, The Secret Place and The Trespasser. Her books have won awards including the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards, the Los Angeles Times Award for Best Mystery/Thriller, and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction. She lives in Dublin with her family. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Prologue Picture a summer stolen whole from some coming-of-age film set in small-town 1950s. This is none of Ireland’s subtle seasons mixed for a connoisseur’s palate, watercolor nuances within a pinch-sized range of cloud and soft rain; this is summer full-throated and extravagant in a hot pure silkscreen blue. This summer explodes on your...

-Titulo Original : Prayer Experiencing Awe And Intimacy With God-Fabricante : Penguin Books-Descripcion Original: Renowned pastor and New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet Timothy Keller explores the power of prayer. Christians are taught in their churches and schools that prayer is the most powerful way to experience God. But few receive instruction or guidance in how to make prayer genuinely meaningful. In Prayer, renowned pastor Timothy Keller delves into the many facets of this everyday act. With his trademark insights and energy, Keller offers biblical guidance as well as specific prayers for certain situations, such as dealing with grief, loss, love, and forgiveness. He discusses ways to make prayers more personal and powerful, and how to establish a practice of prayer that works for each reader. Dr. Keller’s previous books have sold more than one million copies. His Redeemer Presbyterian Church is not only a major presence in his home base of New York, it has also helped to launch more than two hundred fifty other churches in forty-eight cities around the world. His teachings have already helped millions, the majority of whom pray regularly. And with Prayer, he’ll show them how to find a deeper connection with God. Review Praise for Prayer . . . Keller provides a contextually rich guide and companion to prayer. - Kirkus . . . If you follow Keller into the arsenal, you will be powerfully equipped to overcome the world/flesh/Devil and see your prayers for kingdom advance answered by almighty God. And if you follow Keller to the banqueting table, you will increasingly feast on new and old treasures of awe and intimacy with your heavenly Father. - The Gospel Coalition Praise for Encounters with Jesus Keller’s work belongs on the bookshelf of every serious Bible student. It is not a quick read, but, instead should be savored like fine wine, one sip at a time to glean the full impact of his life-changing message. - Examiner Praise for Timothy Keller and his booksTim Kellers ministry in New York City is leading a generation of seekers and skeptics toward belief in God. I thank God for him. - Billy Graham “Unlike most suburban megachurches, much of Redeemer is remarkably traditional. What is not traditional is Dr. Keller’s skill in speaking the language of his urbane audience . . . Observing Dr. Keller’s professorial pose on stage, it is easy to understand his appeal.” - The New York Times “Fifty years from now, if evangelical Christians are widely known for their love of cities, their commitment to mercy and justice, and their love of their neighbors, Tim Keller will be remembered as a pioneer of the new urban Christians.” - Christianity Today Magazine “With intellectual, brimstone-free sermons that manage to cite Woody Allen alongside Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Keller draws some 5,000 young followers every Sunday. Church leaders see him as a model of how to evangelize urban centers across the country, and Keller has helped ‘plant’ 50 gospel-based Christian churches around New York plus another 50 from San Francisco to London.” - New York Magazine “Theologically rich and philosophically informed, yet accessible and filled with practical wisdom.” - Comment Magazine on Every Good Endeavor “This book is for us all and through its reading it can change and reshape your entire outlook on your life.” - Sarah Macintosh on Every Good Endeavor “It’s a great resource to equip you to speak with your secular friends; to show them why the Christian understanding of marriage is not only a tremendous blessing, it’s the only one that works.” - ChristianPost on The Meaning of Marriage “The Meaning of Marriage is incredibly rich with wisdom and insight that will leave the reader, whether single or married, feeling uplifted. While the book is filled with expertly selected biblical verses, nonreligious readers willing to ‘try on’ these observations may find answers not only to the meaning of marriage but to that even bigger question-the meaning of life itself.” - The Washington...

-Titulo Original : Ceremony (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)-Fabricante : Penguin Books-Descripcion Original: Review An exceptional novel-a cause for celebration. --The Washington Post Book World Ceremony is the greatest novel in Native American literature. It is one of the greatest novels of any time and place. I have read this book so many times that I probably have it memorized. I teach it and I learn from it and I am continually in awe of its power, beauty, rage, vision, and violence. --Sherman Alexie Her assurance, her gravity, her flexibility are all wonderful gifts. --The New York Review of Books The novel is very deliberately a ceremony in itself-demanding but confident and beautifully written. --The Boston Globe Without question Leslie Marmon Silko is the most accomplished Native American writer of her generation. --The New York Times Book Review Thirty years since its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature, a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing. Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He is deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people. Only by immersing himself in the Indian past can he begin to regain the peace that was taken from him. Masterfully written, filled with the somber majesty of Pueblo myth, Ceremony is a work of enduring power. About the Author Leslie Marmon Silko was born in Albuquerque in 1948 of mixed Laguna Pueblo, Mexican, and white ancestry. She grew up on the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. Her other books include Almanac of the Dead, Storyteller, and Gardens in the Dunes. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Grant. Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-eight novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. His other works include two collections of essays, three memoirs, and more than thirty screenplays, including the coauthorship of Brokeback Mountain, for which he received the Academy Award. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Table of Contents About the Author Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Preface Introduction Ceremony Sunrise. About the Author LESLIE MARMON SILKO was born in Albuquerque in 1948 of mixed ancestry-Laguna Pueblo, Mexican, and white. She grew up in the Laguna Pueblo Reservation, where she lives with her husband and two children. She is the author of the novel Almanac of the Dead, and her stories have appeared in many magazines and collections (including Writers of the Purple Sage). She is the recipient of a five-year MacArthur Foundation grant. LARRY McMURTRY is the author of twenty-eight novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. His other works include two collections of essays, three memoirs, and more than thirty screenplays, including the coauthorship of Brokeback Mountain, for which he received an Academy Award. He lives in Archer City, Texas. PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi - 110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), cnr Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany, Auckland 1310, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press 1977 Published by New American Library 1978 Pu...

-Titulo Original : Leviathan-Fabricante : Penguin Books-Descripcion Original: Book: Leviathan - Paul Auster Product Description A compelling (Los Angeles Times) tale of friendship, betrayal, estrangement, and the unpredictable intrusions of violence in the everyday – from the author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin. . . . So begins the story by Peter Aaron about his best friend, Benjamin Sachs. Sachs had a marriage Aaron envied, an intelligence he admired, a world he shared. And then suddenly, after a near-fatal fall that might or might not have been intentional, Sachs disappeared. Now Aaron must piece together the life that led to Sachs death. His sole aim is to tell the truth and preserve it, before those who are investigating the case invent an account of their own. Review Praise for Leviathan: Rich and complex. . .with fully fleshed characters, a fast-paced plot, thematic sophistication, and narrative cunning. – The Boston Globe The allure of Auster s elegant plotting, the play of his ideas, and the sensuous nature of the prose keep us firmly hooked. – The Chicago Tribune Auster s most accessible, engaging book. He treats us to his best, clear-eyed prose. – The New York Times Magazine About the Author Paul Auster is the bestselling author of The New York Trilogy and many other critically acclaimed novels. He was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize in 2006. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Importado, textos en ingles!!...

-Titulo Original : The Invention Of Solitude-Fabricante : Penguin Books-Descripcion Original: Book: The Invention Of Solitude - Paul Auster Product Description From Paul Auster, author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel – his very first book, a moving and personal meditation on fatherhood This debut work by New York Times-bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy), a memoir, established Auster s reputation as a major new voice in American writing. His moving and personal meditation on fatherhood is split into two stylistically separate sections. In the first, Auster reflects on the memories of his father who was a distant, undemonstrative, and cold man who died an untimely death. As he sifts through his Father s things, Auster uncovers a sixty-year-old murder mystery that sheds light on his father s elusive character. In the second section, the perspective shifts and Auster begins to reflect on his own identity as a father by adopting the voice of a narrator, A. Through a mosaic of images, coincidences, and associations A, contemplates his separation from his son, his dying grandfather, turning the story into a self-conscious reflection on the process of writing. Review Praise for The Invention of Solitude Moving, delicately perceived portraits of lives and relationship. – The New York Times Book Review Integrates heart and intellect, sensation and speculation. . .as it relentlessly tries to make sense of the shocks of living. – Newsday Eloquent. . .Paul Auster s memoir combines the subjects of time, language, and family into a beautifully moving and intelligent mosaic. – Charles Baxter About the Author Paul Auster is the bestselling author of The New York Trilogy and many other critically acclaimed novels. He was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize in 2006. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Importado, textos en ingles!!...

-Titulo Original : Moon Palace (Contemporary American Fiction)-Fabricante : Penguin Books-Descripcion Original: Book: Moon Palace (contemporary American Fiction) - Paul Auster Product Description The beautiful and haunting (San Francisco Chronicle) tale of an orphan s search for love, for his unknown father, and for the key to the elusive riddle of his fate, from the author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the sixties, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to his past, the answers to the ultimate riddle of his fate. As Marco journeys from the canyons of Manhattan to the deserts of Utah, he encounters a gallery of characters and a series of events as rich and surprising as any in modern fiction. Beginning during the summer that men first walked on the moon, and moving backward and forward in time to span three generations, Moon Palace is propelled by coincidence and memory, and illuminated by marvelous flights of lyricism and wit. Here is the most entertaining and moving novel yet from an author well known for his breathtaking imagination. From New York Times-bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy). From Publishers Weekly Marco Fogg, loner and dreamer, is forced from his Manhattan apartment and roams Central Park as a vagrant until he is rescued by gentle Kitty Wu. The moon as a poetic and planetary influence over earthly affairs runs as a theme, wittily ransacked, throughout this elegant fiction, said PW . Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review Auster is a masterly storyteller. . .Moon Palace shimmers with mysteries. – The Washington Post Book World Enormously compelling. . .Auster has a rare combination of talent, scope, and audacity. – The New Republic Good hearted and hopeful, verbally exuberant. – The New York Times Book Review Reads like a composite of works by Fielding, Dickens, and Twain. . .Auster has a lot of fun concocting Marco s adventures, almost has much fun as one has in reading them. – Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times About the Author Paul Auster is the bestselling author of The New York Trilogy and many other critically acclaimed novels. He was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize in 2006. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Importado, textos en ingles!!...

-Titulo Original : In The Country Of Last Things-Fabricante : Penguin Books-Descripcion Original: Book: In The Country Of Last Things - Paul Auster Product Description From the author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel – a spare, powerful, intensely visionary novel about the bare-bones conditions of survival In a distant and unsettling future, Anna Blume is on a mission in an unnamed city of chaos and disaster. Its destitute inhabitants scavenge garbage for food and shelter, no industry exists, and an elusive government provides nothing but corruption. Anna wades through the filth to find her long-lost brother, a one-time journalist who may or may not be alive. New York Times-bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy) shows us a disturbing Hobbesian society in this dystopian, post-apocalyptic novel. Review Praise for In the Country of Last Things: Powerful, enigmatic, imaginative, and handled with artistry. . .One of the better modern attempts at describing hell. – The Washington Post Book World Reminiscent in many ways of Orwell s 1984. . .Auster creates within these pages a place so real it could be our own country, perhaps our very own city. – The Atlanta Journal Constitution About the Author Paul Auster is the bestselling author of The New York Trilogy and many other critically acclaimed novels. He was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize in 2006. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Importado, textos en ingles!!...