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Five years after On the Road, the book that made him an overnight celebrity, Kerouac examines with wrenching clarity his unwished for fame, escalating alcoholism, and troubling alienation from nature. In a thinly veiled autobiographical account of his time in Big Sur at the cabin...

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...

Vic and Melinda Van Allen's loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers as long as she does not desert her family. Eventually, Vic...

This is the last unpublished anthology of Isaac Asimov's science fiction, a work that brings together all those original stories that had never before been published in book form. Goodbye to Earth represents the latest and greatest achievement of the fifty-year career of this...

If someone told you that due to a strange twist of fate you are going to spend some time in the company of an elderly monk and his wonderful cats, would you believe it?; that you will undertake an initiatory journey, dotted with encounters...

Soldier… Sorcerer… Savior… Who is Vhalla Yarl?Vhalla Yarl marches to war as property of the Solaris Empire. The Emperor counts on her to bring victory, the Senate counts on her death, and the only thing Vhalla can count on is the fight of her...

Originally published in 1965, this autobiographical novel covers a key year in Jack Kerouac's life, the period that led up to the publication of On the Road in September of 1957. After spending two months in the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout on Desolation...

When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its medieval art collection...

Cassel Sharpe knows he’s been used as an assassin, but he’s trying to put all that behind him. He’s trying to be good, even though he grew up in a family of con artists and cheating comes as easily as breathing to him. He’s...

An exciting story about three generations of Japanese women seeking empowerment and autonomy. Through the stories we discover how the women of a Japanese family face their financial challenges at different stages of life: during marriage, children, education, illness, divorce, retirement, and old age.

At thirty-five, Mika Suzuki’s life is a mess. Her last relationship ended in flames. Her roommate-slash-best friend might be a hoarder. She’s a perpetual disappointment to her traditional Japanese parents. And, most recently, she’s been fired from her latest dead-end job. Mika is at...

The Galactic Empire was collapsing. His fall was inexorable, but as slow as the Empire was extensive. It would have gone unnoticed had it not been for a man, Hari Seldon, who knew how to anticipate the future: through the science of psychohistory, he...

Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet...

A gruesome curse. A city in upheaval. A monster with unquenchable appetites. Marlinchen and her two sisters live with their wizard father in a city shifting from magic to industry. As Oblya’s last true witches, she and her sisters are little more than a...

Getting to know diet becomes a fundamental tool for historians and for anyone interested in learning about a given civilization. Plus, it has the great quality of bringing a culture closer to the reader due to the everyday nature of the act of eating...

Committed to the political causes of her time, intellectually brilliant and a pioneer in the fight for women's rights and freedom, Simone de Beauvoir is one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century. This wonderfully illustrated book traces the life of Simone...

More than a dozen brilliant illustrators accepted the challenge of working as a director with stories by a prestigious writer. The texts are signed by Juan José Millás, who has put together a selection of micro-stories and short stories whose main theme is adultery....

Lu Gaitán is a political scientist by training, a witch and an astrologer by choice. She is currently studying Philosophy and a diploma program in Ecofeminism at the University of Buenos Aires. She teaches astrology and, in addition to Asuntos de Venus, her first...

Tiny Crab is a tidy crab, and a crab who loves his beach. So, when his friends come to visit surely they will keep things clean... But what if they don’t? What if they leave rubbish EVERYWHERE?!With an environmental message, this book is perfect...

Sneak like a mouse... fly like a bird! Raised by a family of mice, Robin feels like the odd one out. She sets off on a journey to prove she can fit in – but will she make it back home again? Robin Robin...