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"With her mega-bestseller Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an untapped power hidden in plain sight. Now, she employs the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and the surprising lessons these states of mind teach us about creativity, compassion, leadership, spirituality, mortality and love. Bittersweetness is a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy when beholding beauty. It recognizes that light and dark, birth and death-bitter and sweet-are forever paired. A song in a minor key, an elegiac poem, or even a touching television commercial all can bring us to this sublime, even holy, state of mind-and, ultimately, to greater kinship with our fellow humans. But bittersweetness is not, as we tend to think, just a momentary feeling or event. It's also a way of being, a storied heritage. Our artistic and spiritual traditions--amplified by recent scientific and management research--teach us its power. Cain shows how a bittersweet state of mind is the quiet force that helps us transcend our personal and collective pain. If we don't acknowledge our own sorrows and longings, she says, we can end up inflicting them on others via abuse, domination, or neglect. But if we realize that all humans know--or will know--loss and suffering, we can turn toward each other. And we can learn to transform our own pain into creativity, transcendence, and connection. At a time of profound discord and personal anxiety, Bittersweet brings us together in deep and unexpected ways"--

In Two Wheels Good, writer and critic Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine, an ever-present force in humanity's life and dream life--and a flash point in culture wars--for more than two hundred years. Combining history, reportage, travelogue, and memoir, Rosen's book sweeps across centuries and around the globe, unfolding the bicycle's saga from its invention in 1817 to its present-day renaissance as a "green machine," an emblem of sustainability in a world afflicted by pandemic and climate change. Readers meet unforgettable characters: feminist rebels who steered bikes to the barricades in the 1890s, a prospector who pedaled across the frozen Yukon to join the Klondike gold rush, a Bhutanese king who races mountain bikes in the Himalayas, a cycle-rickshaw driver who navigates the seething streets of the world's fastest-growing megacity, and astronauts who ride a floating bicycle in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station.

"Garlic must believe in herself to confront a bloodthirsty vampire who has moved into a nearby castle, in this humorous and heartwarming story that reminds readers that strangers are not always as scary as they seem."--

It would seem that all parents are very clear about what they want for their sons and daughters: that they be happy, that they enjoy their lives, that they be good people, that they have values... but rarely do they realize that, unintentionally wanting, many of their actions go against that well-intentioned want.

When Katy's mother dies, Katy is devastated. Carol was not only her mother, but her best friend and the first person she could turn to whenever she needed it. And now, when Katy needs her most, she's gone. To make matters worse, she approaches their mother and daughter trip that they had so excitedly planned: two weeks in Positano, the place where Carol spent the summer before meeting Katy's father. She has been waiting for him for years, and now she must embark on the adventure alone. But as soon as she sets foot on the Amalfi Coast, Katy begins to feel the spirit of her mother. Buoyed by the stunning waters, the beautiful cliffs, the charming neighbors and, of course, the delicious food, Katy feels herself slowly coming back to life. And then Carol appears... Flesh and blood, healthy, sun-tanned and only thirty years old. Katy doesn't understand what's going on, she can only focus on the fact that she has somehow, impossibly, gotten her mother back. A novel about how we move on after loss and how the people we love never really leave us.

Translation of Beyond fear: a Toltec guide to freedom and joy: the teachings of Miguel Angel Ruiz, M.D.

Oscar takes the city subway often and for months he has seen a girl who is always drawing on a yellow notebook. He is intrigued by the notebook, her eyes, how she holds the pencil and what he feels every time they pass each other without saying anything... Valentina has drawn a multitude of strangers, but there is one that is special to her, a boy she calls the boy with glasses. They both don't know each other and have no possibility of meeting... and yet they both feel that they are joined by an invisible thread.

Translation of: The lost duke of Wyndham.

Take the book and bring it to your heart, mention your name, ask a question that requires an affirmation or negation, open the book at random, discover the answer of the angels. Each message in this oracle-book is the same voice of the angels.

José Miguel Lecumberri (Navarra, 1981) poeta, aforista, filósofo y músico. Ha escrito varios libros entre los que destacan los poemarios: El jardín de las nueces (Editorial Praxis), Moncloe Pisicis (Versodestierro) y Amaia (Barbas Poéticas), el libro de ensayos: El matemático negro (Mezcalero Brothers) y la recientemente publicada colección de aforismos: La cuna de Judas (Cisnegro). También ha publicado sus textos y traducciones en las revistas digitales Zenda, La Otra y Barbas Poéticas. Como músico participa en el ensamble sueco-mexicano de noise avant-garde Dark Ages MirrorMan que cuenta con un EP Tezcatlipoca y actualmente está por publicar su primer LP.