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Isabel Allende's new novel is part of the Del Valle series, which includes works such as "The House of the Spirits" and "Portrait in Sepia." And now "Emilia del Valle" joins the author's other powerful characters who navigate between personal history and historical events.

The plot begins in San Francisco in 1866, when an Irish nun, pregnant and abandoned by a Chilean aristocrat after a passionate affair, gives birth to a daughter she names Emilia del Valle. Raised by her loving stepfather, Emilia grows into a brilliant, self-sufficient, and independent young woman , who defies the social norms of her time to pursue her true passion and vocation: writing. At just seventeen, she publishes adventure novels under a male pseudonym. But soon, her fictional world becomes too small for her, and she decides to apply for the journalist position offered to her by the local newspaper to experience reality firsthand and learn more.

Some time later, she'll be presented with the opportunity to travel as a correspondent to the raging Chilean civil war, and she doesn't hesitate to take it. Along with seasoned journalist Eric Whelan , Emilia will find herself in a bankrupt nation on the brink of collapse.

While covering the war between President Balmaceda and the rebel congress, he will take advantage of his stay in the country to explore his ties with the Del Valle family and finally meet his father.

Her reports will place her at the center of the war, enduring terrible violence on the battlefield, in the emergency hospital, and in prison, where she will often struggle between life and death.

At the same time, he will experience—and suffer—love and will also discover, among forests, lakes, and volcanoes, a land where the horrors of war do not reach and where, perhaps, he will end up discovering not only his destiny but his own identity.

A story of love and war, of discovery and redemption , starring a woman who, faced with the greatest challenges, survives and reinvents herself.

Critics say that, as usual, the author blends history, her real life, and the fiction that occupies her in each work very well.

We don't do things like that here! Authors: John Kotter - Holger Rathgeber Label: Conecta

With a fable from the life of meerkat communities in the Kalahari Desert, it addresses very important issues that most of us face every day. It distills John Kotter's celebrated experience in the field of organizational change , as well as the results of his research on the rise and fall of organizations, and how to reinvent themselves in the face of adversity and uncertainty. In the largest meerkat community, when leaders didn't want to hear new ways of solving problems, they would respond: "That's not how we do things here!"

We don't do things like that here!

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How to strengthen your company's cybersecurity Author: Datto Seal: Kaseya

The new eBook launched by experts at Datto, a Kaseya company and provider of AI-powered IT management and cybersecurity software, successfully summarizes the main current risks, challenges, and solutions in the field of corporate cybersecurity in the region in a single digital document. The freely accessible book reveals what is driving the growth of digital threats, how AI is transforming the risk landscape, and what organizations can do to protect themselves. It exposes the most common mistakes IT leaders make.

How to strengthen your company's cybersecurity

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Ulysses Syndrome Author: Santiago Gamboa Publisher: Alfaguara

Like so many characters in reality and fiction, the protagonist of The Ulysses Syndrome is in Paris to become a writer.

But this isn't the grand capital, full of splendor and refinement, but rather the Parisian underworld, where the destinies of hundreds of immigrants, driven by need, loneliness, and the stigma of their foreign status, intersect. In this dark version of the "City of Light," opportunities for survival are so precarious and unexpected that everyone turns to debauchery, as if sex, alcohol, and drugs were the escape from misery.

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I wish you love Author: Pope Francis Seal: Plaza & Janes

Love is the greatest gift we receive and can give. It unites us, makes us equal, and breaks down barriers and distances. It isn't always a sweet fantasy or a soap opera with violins in the background, but rather a concrete and sometimes risky experience.

A demanding path, but one that leads to a definitive destination: a full life.

Love is the gateway to happiness and the cure for the loneliness and anxiety we sometimes fall into. I Wish You Love brings together some of the favorite quotes from the works of García Márquez, Dante Alighieri, Dostoevsky, Ungaretti, Balzac, Tolkien, Merini, Romero, Pasternak, Saint Francis of Assisi, Manzoni, Kierkegaard, Novalis, Borges, and many others.