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Tu sueño imperios han sidoCortés enters Mehxicoh-Tenoxtitlan with his nine captains, his two translators –Friar Aguilar and Malinalli, interpreter and lover–, his troops and their horses. There the princess Atotoxtli, sister and wife of Moctezuma, accompanied by the priests, entertains them with a meal, and later the emperor...
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Calle Londres 38Philippe Sands explores the hidden truth behind the relationship between Nazism and the Pinochet regime. Drawing on documents, testimonies and conversations, Philippe Sands tries to shed light on the fascinating story that links the arrest of Augusto Pinochet with the life of Nazi officer...
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LimonovThis biographical novel or novelised biography reconstructs the life of a real character who seems as if he has come straight out of fiction. A rash and extravagant character, with an almost implausible life story allows the author to sketch a convincing portrait of...
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ELISABETH, UNA MUCHACHA HITLERIANAYoung Berlin woman Elisabeth Weber falls in love at a May Day demonstration with Erwin Dobbien, a member of the SA who, like her, is blinded by National Socialism. In their enthusiasm, they both turn a blind eye to the terror of the regime....
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LOS HIJOS DE JUANDuring a visit to the Prado Museum, Vega, a university professor, is mesmerized by a suggestive 18th-century portrait. The face of the man painted there shakes her to the core: she has seen it before... although she cannot remember where. An uncontrollable attraction leads...
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DESPEJADOThe story of two strangers destined to understand each other, a little gem of British literature. Ivar, the only inhabitant of a remote Scottish island, has lived for decades in peaceful isolation accompanied by a few animals. Until one day in 1843, he finds...
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FUIMOS LOS AFORTUNADOS (POCKET)It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not...
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Tierra de sombras (New Edition)This is a tale of immense scope that delves into the horrors of a century and traverses the culture and landscape of Bulgaria. Suspenseful and beautiful, the novel explores the power of stories, the pull of the past, and the hope and meaning that...
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Invencibles (Pocket)For decades, England has sold the defeat of our Invincible Armada, in the English Channel, as a great success for the Anglo-Saxons. In reality the combat ended in a draw (the English had more casualties), in the context of a war that lasted 16...
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En resumen, una vida maravillosaIn 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there: a spirited, funny, righteous ghost, she’s been hanging around...
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La librera de KentuckyThe hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything—everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's also the last...
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Naturaleza muertaTuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian who has come...
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Todo en vanoIn East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army is approaching. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into disrepair. Auntie runs the estate as best she can since Eberhard von Globig, a special officer...
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Cuatro hermanasOn a farm in western Missouri during the first half of the twentieth century, Matthew and Callie Soames create a life for themselves and raise four headstrong daughters. Jessica will break their hearts. Leonie will fall in love with the wrong man. Mary Jo...
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El final del affaireIn 1946, in a London where the scars of war are still visible, Maurice Bendrix meets diplomat Henry Miles by chance, whom he hasn't seen for a long time. Henry is married to Sarah, with whom Maurice had an affair during the war. When...
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Deus ExIn Sicily during the Peloponnesian War, Syracusans imprison defeated Athenians in a quarry. Lampo and Gelon, two idle potters who love poetry and drink, decide to feed the Athenians if they recite lines from Euripides. They then plan to stage a production of Medea....
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RefugioThe Great Salt Lake is a key work in U.S. eco-literature. The story depicts the struggle of birds to survive in a habitat threatened by human intervention and the devastating effects of nearby nuclear testing. As Terry cares for her cancer-stricken mother, she investigates...
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Los fuegos de KimboltonIn January 1536, a dying Catherine of Aragon, stripped of her title and imprisoned in Kimbolton Castle, is denied all visitors—even her daughter. But her loyal friend Mary of Salinas defies Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell to be by her side in her final...
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Matar a Fernando VIIFernando VII, the most hated monarch in Spanish history, a traitor to his people, servile to Napoleon and stubbornly committed to absolutism, became the obsession of many. What if the only way to prevent his return was to eliminate him? In the midst of...
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Los misteriosos días de Jesús ResucitadoWhat happened in the days after Jesus' resurrection? Where was he during those forty days? Who really saw him? How was it possible for him to appear in different places at the same time? Why do the canonical Gospels say so little about this...
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