Arcadia Public Library

As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.

In a future Chicago, Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she does not fit into any one group.

The Sacred You" is a book of articles on the theme of how to live in and return to the "here and now", by John Ding-E Young, MD PhD (Yang Dingyi), edited by the translator of one of his book co-authored with his daughter - The Power of Meditation. Young is the author of four books including the bestselling "Primordia Medicine". He is also trained as a cancer researcher and once headed the laboratory of molecular immunology and cell biology at Rockefeller...

"Margarita sospecha que su marido tiene un amorío con una de sus estudiantes. Elizabeth intenta escapar del vacío de una vida de privilegios en la Nueva York de los años cincuenta. Doris Dana, amor y albacea de Gabriela Mistral, vive una noche de alcohol y sexo con una amiga de infancia. Juliana, una pastelera octogenaria, ansía encontrar la identidad de una mujer que cambió el rumbo de su vida. Anne, conserje de un edificio, huye en busca de...

"Cristina Quadri's life is thrown into turmoil when she is suddenly escorted from her strict Catholic school and told that she is really Sofía Lombardi, the daughter of activists who disappeared in the '70s. Questioning everything she once thought true, Cristina embarks on a journey to find her true identity. Meeting others like herself, the young girl soon discovers the real-life horrors of Argentina's relatively recent past and the nightmare that...