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A Catholic priest whose life was changed by Zen meditation shares his struggles as a beginning meditator and the revelation that the silence of meditation offers an intense engagement with the world's true nature.

After decades together, Russell and Corrine Calloway want a calm and stable family life, something that seems impossible to achieve in New York after the Lehman Brothers crisis. They dream of raising their children in the countryside, but their economic situation does not allow it. In a risky attempt to revive his publishing house, Russell hires a book that will be his salvation or his ruin, while the reappearance of a friend of Corrine's will question the strength of their relationship. This is an addictive novel that fully immerses us in Manhattan at the beginning of the 21st century, with the election of Obama and the global economic collapse as a background. McInerney follows the footsteps of Russell and Corrine to delve into the challenges of love and marriage and, like a Fitzgerald of our time, draws a superb portrait of the lights and shadows of the American dream. A brilliant conclusion to his trilogy of novels dedicated to the Calloways.

"The elderly Tamara Pavlovna rescues little Lastochka from an orphanage during the grayest years of communism in Moldova. What at first may seem like an act of mercy hides a terrifying reality. Lastochka has been bought to work as a slave collecting, for almost a decade, bottles on the streets of the city. She survives in an environment marked by violence and misery while she rejects the advances of overly stubborn men. The Glass Garden is an exercise in domestic exorcism."--

In 1943, LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later, a coterie of grad students at Harvard are gradually drawn into the inner circle of renowned psychologist and psychedelic drug enthusiast Timothy Leary. Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology Ph.D. student and his wife, Joanie, become entranced by the drug's possibilities such that their "research" becomes less a matter of clinical trials and academic papers and instead turns into a free-wheeling exploration of mind expansion, group dynamics, and communal living. With his trademark humor and pathos, Boyle moves us through the Loneys' initiation at one of Leary's parties to his notorious summer seminars in Zihuatanejo until the Loneys' eventual expulsion from Harvard and their introduction to a communal arrangement of thirty devotees--students, wives, and children--living together in a sixty-four room mansion and devoting themselves to all kinds of experimentation and questioning.

An exceptional novel, a modern classic of extreme elegance and frankness and one of the most brilliant x-rays of the United States in which women began to speak in the first person. The Group is considered the best-known --and controversial-- work of the North American Mary McCarthy. Endowed with a strong autobiographical charge, published in 1963, it addressed issues such as free love, socialism, contraception or abortion from an unprejudiced and purely feminine point of view. In fact, its sale was prohibited in various countries as it was considered offensive to public morals. McCarthy takes us to interwar New York to portray the lives of eight fresh graduates of Vassar College, beginning with the marriage of one of them, Kay Strong, and ending with her funeral in 1940. Kay, Pokey, Dottie, Lakey, Polly, Priss and Helena. Eight independent, restless, free women, at a time when what was expected of them was a home, marriage and family. A game of mirrors that will reveal a heartbreaking reality: only after giving themselves over to adult life and promising not to continue the path traveled by their parents will they face the real world for the first time.

In this collection of autobiographical essays, Maryse Condé vividly evokes the relationships and events that gave her childhood meaning: discovering her parents' feelings of alienation, her first crush, a falling out with her best friend, the death of her beloved grandmother, her first encounter with racism.

"St. Petersburg, its light, its houses and its avenues are the setting for this passionate novel. In one of those 'white nights' that occur in the Russian city during the time of the summer solstice, a lonely and introverted young man narrates how he accidentally meets a girl on the banks of the canal. After the first meeting, the unknown couple will meet for the next three nights, nights in which she, named Nâastenka, will tell her sad story and in which they will make an appearance, in a subtle and enveloping way, of the great passions that move to the human being: love, illusion, hope, hope, lack of love, disappointment."--

Una mañana de enero de 1967, en plena guerra civil de Guatemala, un comerciante judío y libanés es secuestrado en un callejón de la capital. Un narrador llamado Eduardo Halfon a partir de los recuerdos de su infancia, de un misterioso encuentro en un bar y de un extraño viaje a Tokio, esclarecerá los detalles de la vida y el secuestro de aquel hombre, que también era su abuelo.