Year House

How seeing Earth through the eyes of an astronaut brings new wonder and meaning to life on our planet.

Jonas Jonasson nos regala un personaje maravilloso. Un abuelo sin prejuicios que no está dispuesto a renunciar al placer de vivir. Momentos antes de que empiece la pomposa celebración de su centésimo cumpleaños, Allan Karlsson decide que nada de eso va con él. Vestido con su mejor traje y unas pantuflas, se encarama a una ventana y se fuga de la residencia donde vive, dejando plantados al alcalde y a la prensa local.

Gina Frangello spent her early adulthood trying to outrun a youth marked by poverty and violence. Now a long-married wife and devoted mother, the better life she carefully built is emotionally upended by the death of her closest friend. Soon, awakened to fault lines in her troubled marriage, Frangello is caught up in a recklessly passionate affair, leading a double life while continuing to project the image of the perfect family. When her secrets are finally uncovered, both her home and her identity will implode, testing the limits of desire, responsibility, love, and forgiveness.

Russia's interference in 2016 marked only the latest chapter of a hidden and revelatory history. In Rigged, David Shimer tells the sweeping story of covert electoral interference past and present. He exposes decades of secret operations - by the KGB, the CIA, and Vladimir Putin's Russia - to shape electoral outcomes, melding deep historical research with groundbreaking interviews with more than 130 key players, from leading officials in both the Trump and Obama administrations, to CIA and NSA directors, to a former KGB general.

One day Heidi Julavits sees her son silhouetted by the sun and notices he is at the threshold of what she calls “the end times of childhood.” When did this happen, she asks herself. Who is my son becoming—and what qualifies me to be his guide? What follows starts to feel like uncharted waters. Rape allegations rock the university campus where she teaches, unleashing questions of justice and accountability. Julavits begins to wonder how to prepare her son to be the best possible citizen of the world he’s about to enter. And what must she learn about herself in order to responsibly steer him.

Um seinen Traum vom Kauf eines alten Hauses zu verwirklichen, willigt Spencer ein, The Fix gemeinsam mit seiner Ex zu renovieren. Eine explosive Mischung aus Wut und erotischer Anziehungskraft macht die medienwirksam begleitete Renovierung für Spencer zur Herausforderung. Während des Castings für Mr. Februar kommt heraus, warum Brooke ihn damals vor dem Traualtar stehen ließ.

Tyree und Eva waren ein glückliches Paar, bis das Schicksal sie auseinanderriss. Jetzt begegnen sie sich wieder, doch in der Zwischenzeit ist viel passiert. Beide zögern, sich der Vergangenheit zu stellen. Aber Tyree kann von Evas sinnlichen Kurven nach wie vor nicht genug bekommen. Und auch Eva ist von Tyrees heißem Körper bei der Wahl von Mr. Mai mehr als nur angetan.

Shelby und Nolan könnten unterschiedlicher nicht sein. Bei einer Party in der Bar The Fix lässt Shelby sich ausnahmsweise richtig gehen und verbringt eine heiße Nacht mit ihm. Für sie ist es eine einmalige Sache, denn sie ist bereits mit dem perfekten Mann - Alan - zusammen. Doch Nolans Sex-Appeal lässt sie nicht mehr los.

Mina und Cameron kennen sich schon ihr ganzes Leben. Er fand sie schon immer heiß. Und auch Mina konnte sich an Camerons sexy Körper noch nie sattsehen. Erst nach einem gemeinsamen Abend im The Fix kommen sie sich näher - die Luft knistert. Doch Mina hat ein verlockendes berufliches Angebot aus Hollywood und müsste dafür die Stadt verlassen. Wie wird sich Mina entscheiden, und wer wird Mr. März?

Jenna und Reece sind seit ihrer Kindheit befreundet, doch ein unerwarteter leidenschaftlicher Kuss sorgt für Verwirrung. Als ihrer Lieblingsbar The Fix die Schließung droht, hat Event-Managerin Jenna die Idee eines Kalenders mit zwölf heißen Männern. Am Abend des ersten Castings taucht ein Überraschungskandidat auf: Wer wird (Jennas) Mr. Januar?

A. E. Hotchner first met Paul Newman in 1955 when the virtually unknown actor assumed the lead role in Hotchner’s first television play, based on an Ernest Hemingway story. The project elevated both men from relative obscurity to recognition and began a close and trusted friendship that lasted until Newman’s death in 2008.

Aké. Los años de la niñez es el relato en primera persona de la infancia de Soyinka en una aldea de Nigeria llamada Aké, en los años en torno a la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Allí el pequeño Wole, un muchacho de una curiosidad infinita, amante de los libros y propenso a meterse en líos y aventuras, crece con la doble influencia de los aires occidentales y de las antiguas tradiciones espirituales youruba.

Courtroom 302 is the fascinating story of one year in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. Here we see the system through the eyes of the men and women who experience it, not only in the courtroom but in the lockup, the jury room, the judge's chambers, the spectators' gallery. From the daily grind of the court to the highest-profile case of the year, Steve Bogira's masterful investigation raises fundamental issues of race, civil rights, and justice in America.

After John F. Kennedy's speech in front of the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth on November 22, 1963, he was greeted by, among others, an 11-year-old Benjamin Taylor and his mother waiting to shake his hand. Only a few hours later, Taylor's teacher called the class in from recess and, through tears, told them of the president's assassination. From there Taylor traces a path through the next 12 months, recalling the tumult as he saw everything he had once considered stable begin to grow more complex.

When Frank Johnson arrived in Vietnam in 1969, he was 19, a young soldier untested in combat like thousands of others - but with two important differences: Johnson volunteered for the elite L Company Rangers of the 101st Airborne Division, a long range reconnaissance patrol (LRRP) unit, and he kept a secret diary, a practice forbidden by the military to protect the security of LRRP operations. Now, more than three decades later, those hastily written pages offer a rare look at the daily operations of one of the most courageous units that waged war in Vietnam.

If you think of our 34th president as little more than the babysitter-in-chief during the prosperous fifties, think again. Dwight Eisenhower was bequeathed an atomic bomb and was the first American president not to use it. He ground down Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism until both became, as he said, "McCarthywasm".

Summer, 1851. Racial tensions in America were higher than ever. The year before, President Millard Fillmore had passed the Fugitive Slave Act to return runaway slaves to the South. In February, Congress had established the reservation system, forcing Native Americans to leave their homelands. White Americans were strengthening dominance over people of color across the continent. In Oregon City, one biracial man named Jacob Vanderpool found himself in the crosshairs of this racist discrimination.

Two thousand years ago, the prophecy of fire and light foretold the coming of the queen empress who would lead the empire into a time of peace and tranquility. But instead of the coming of a prosperous world, a forbidden love for the empress waged a war that ravaged the land, creating a chasm between the factions and raising the death toll of innocent lives until the final, bloody battle.

During their eight years in the White House, Bill and Hillary Clinton worked together more closely than the public ever knew. For Love of Politics is the first book to explain the dynamics of their relationship, showing that it is impossible to understand one Clinton without factoring in the other.

Disfruta de este regalo navideño: Mis galletas crujientes de Nochevieja, una de las recetas de Días de Navidad, de Jeanette Winterson. Puedes escuchar su original punto de vista sobre el significado de Año Nuevo mientras cocinas.