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Rhode Island, 1846. Estranged from his family, writer Merritt Fernsby is surprised when he inherits a remote estate in the Narragansett Bay. Though the property has been uninhabited for more than a century, Merritt is ready to call it home—until he realizes he has...

You're 82 years old. You've shrunk six centimetres, you only weigh 45 kilos yet you're still beautiful, graceful and desirable' ... so begins André Gorz's 'open love letter' to the woman he has lived with for 58 years and who lies dying next to...

On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the Compañía de Santa Gertrudis―the largest employer in the region, and a subsidiary of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company―may have committed murder. The alert was first raised at six in the morning: a fire...

On August 23, 1927, anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in the electric chair after one of the most famous, dramatic and controversial trials in American judicial history. They were two Italian immigrants who had been arrested in the midst of an...

Clive Franklin, a Russian language expert in the Foreign Office, is unexpectedly summoned to Moscow to act as translator for the British Prime Minister. His life is turned upside down when, after more than a decade, he discovers that his former lover, Marina Volina,...

This edition brings together seventeen stories that were not subject to the alterations carried out by Wilhelm, and are, therefore, those closest to the source from which they were extracted. By reading it you will understand how long and difficult the task of both...

This is a story of perseverance, individual improvement and team spirit. With origins in the North American Depression and a few years after World War II, Daniel James Brown narrates the epic of the team of eight rowers and their coxswain from the University...

This is the author's second book of stories, published after The Hedonists, which enjoyed excellent reception from critics. As in that first book, we move through different scenarios, from Rio de Janeiro to Río Muni, from New York to Ibiza or from London to...

¡One of the best mangas in history is back! Winner of the Shogakukan Award for best shonen manga. Kiyomaro has received the most amazing gift of his life: Zatch Bell, a strange boy with a red book that contains incredible power that only Kiyomaro...

This Introduction to Philosophy addresses central questions of thought, such as "what is philosophy?" or "what does it mean to think from a philosophical point of view?" In these pages there is no simplified exposition of famous theories nor summaries or outlines of the...

This book presents to children, as well as to adults, 30 saints from yesterday and today who stand out for their friendship with Jesus: Augustine, Dominic, Francis, Catherine, Ignatius, John of God, Francis Xavier, John Bosco, Damian of Molokai, Teresa of Lisieux, John XXIII,...

A hero is not only the soldier who fights in war, but also the god who defies Zeus to protect humans, or the princess who stands up to her father to save her beloved. Taken from the most remarkable stories of ancient Greece, this...

When layoff hits you without warning, when someone decides your time at the company has expired, you often don't even see it coming. Your boss may shower you with praise, highlight how important you've been, and thank you for your accomplishments, but he never...

Marta Sanz reflects on writing and the profession of a writer, with mentions of book fairs, readings from childhood and adulthood, meetings with famous writers and colleagues or her collaborations in El País. She has in her hands the reader a very free, combative...

The Ozarks Mountains are a mythical territory in the North American imagination: a place where, since the mid-20th century, those who fled from the impositions of society, the law, money or themselves were found. Thus, in just a few decades, in that abrupt and...

The most original history of universal gastronomy through its protagonists: from Apicius to Julia Child. Apicius, Brillat Savarin, Buddha, Carême, Julia Child, Dumas, Escoffier, Grimod, Hippocrates de Cos, Jefferson, Catherine de Medici, Montezuma, Moses, Parabere, Pardo Bazan, Parmentier, Ziryab... Great masters of the history...

Kaoru stops at the beginning of the slope. The house she grew up in now seems much smaller than she remembered. But when Sakura comes out to greet him wagging her tail, the feeling of confusion disappears. Kaoru is at home. And the time...

Ah Boon is born into a fishing village amid the heat and beauty of twentieth-century coastal Singapore in the waning years of British rule. He is a gentle boy who is not much interested in fishing, preferring to spend his days playing with the...

Yuri Herrera stands out with his first book, Works of the Kingdom, in which, through the eyes of a composer, he unfolds before the reader a panorama of the palace life of a drug trafficking cartel. Lobo, protagonist and narrator of the novel, is...

Violet Gentile, a 27-year-old girl, leaves her life in New York to accompany her boyfriend, Yuki Nakamura, when he learns terrible news that affects his family. Overnight, she begins a new journey in Hakone, a small town west of Tokyo, where she is forced...