Muybridge es uno de los grandes precursores del cine, injustamente olvidado por la historia, que se codeó con los más grandes inventores y pintores de su época: Edison, Tesla, Rodin, Degas… Fascinado por la fotografía, un proceso técnico en sus inicios, se convirtió rápidamente en uno de los fotógrafos más famosos de su época. Financiado por el hombre más rico de Estados Unidos, logró algo hasta entonces inédito: captar en película el recorrido de un caballo al galope. Al conseguir domar el movimiento, Eadweard Muybridge se convierte en el primer hombre en detener el tiempo; también, en el primer hombre en proyectar una película, mucho antes que Edison y los hermanos Lumière; y en el primer hombre declarado inocente tras matar a quemarropa al amante de su mujer… Con su estilo inconfundible, Delisle relata la invención de la fotografía, el declive de la pintura y el comienzo del cine.

¿Qué ocurriría si siguiéramos punto por punto las claves de los bestsellers de autoayuda? Esto será lo que Cuca Báumez, prometedora consultora en apuros, intentará poner en práctica. ¿Logrará, a base de proferir anglicismos y frases motivacionales, todo lo que se proponga? Hecha a sí misma es una sátira sobre la moderna obsesión con el éxito y el desarrollo personal, una mirada crítica al mundo laboral sumada a una clara perspectiva de género. Una hilarante comedia en la que conviven el costumbrismo y la inteligencia artificial, ambientada en el Madrid de las Big Four poblado de tiburones de medio pelo y lobos de Wall Street wannabes.

This is the autobiography of Hedy Lamarr, who is famous for two things: First: Her movie career, as she was regarded as the most beautiful woman in Hollywood. She was also the first woman ever to appear nude in a movie. Second: She is famous as an inventor, a scientist and a researcher, especially during the Second World War, as she developed and patented a method to defend against torpedoes and missiles. She also developed an anti-aircraft system where the anti-aircraft fire would not hit the aircraft but would explode nearby. Nowadays, in the aftermath of the shooting down of Malaysian Airline 17 over Eastern Ukraine, killing 298 passengers, a new look is being taken at the process developed by Hedy Lamarr. The missile that shot down the Malaysian Airplane used a system similar to the one developed by Hedy Lamarr, and the defense against torpedoes she developed might have applications to prevent future commercial aircraft from being knocked down.

From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran. In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother’s endless grievances, Ellie dreams of a friend to alleviate her isolation. Luckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind, passionate girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook in the stone kitchen of Homa’s warm home, wander through the colorful stalls of the Grand Bazaar, and share their ambitions for becoming “lion women.” But their happiness is disrupted when Ellie and her mother are afforded the opportunity to return to their previous bourgeois life. Now a popular student at the best girls’ high school in Iran, Ellie’s memories of Homa begin to fade. Years later, however, her sudden reappearance in Ellie’s privileged world alters the course of both of their lives. Together, the two young women come of age and pursue their own goals for meaningful futures. But as the political turmoil in Iran builds to a breaking point, one earth-shattering betrayal will have enormous consequences. Written with Marjan Kamali’s signature “evocative, devastating, and hauntingly beautiful” (Whitney Scharer, author of The Age of Light) prose, The Lion Women of Tehran is a sweeping exploration of how profoundly we are shaped by those we meet when we are young, and the way love and courage transforms our lives.