Latest

It would seem that all parents are very clear about what they want for their sons and daughters: that they be happy, that they enjoy their lives, that they be good people, that they have values... but rarely do they realize that, unintentionally wanting,...

Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother’s love―and she’s on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was...

Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband’s masterpiece for the screen, seventy-seven-year-old Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set, Nineteen years after Frank’s passing, Maud is the only person who can...

Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin a journey through space,...

Veronica is late, Veronica is inexplicably late, and the book goes on until she comes back or until Julián is sure she won't come back. Towards the end, Julián wants to write and not be written, but to wait is to allow himself to...

Why does God allow evil? Why is there a whole world of demons? Summa Daemoniaca is a treatise on demonology about the nature of the devil, hell, devilish possession, exorcism and all issues related to these powers of darkness.

Marco has an ideal life: lots of followers, sport medals and an extraordinary girlfriend, until a bad move from his father exposes him to everyone as a fraud. And he gives up. The music and a woman's love will want to rescue him. The...

All parents would like to be remembered as good parents. But, objectively, nowadays many of them find great difficulties in achieving that aspiration. This book explains how to become good parents on the first day.

Here is the expected return of one of the most attractive psychopaths in contemporary literature. Tom Ripley is living very happily with Heloise, his charming French wife, enjoying a refined and peaceful life in the little French town where he has settled, when the...

1956. After getting pregnant, Ivy Jenkins is sent to St Margaret's, a dark and gloomy house for single mothers she will never leave. Her baby is adopted against her will. Today, Samantha Harper is a journalist in desperate need of a break. When she...

A book with windows to discover what the pages hide while the little ones in the house play, turn pages, and learn new concepts. "Big and Small" is part of "Open the Windows", a collection to awaken the spirit of observation and the ability...

One summer in the sixties, in a staid suburb south of London, nineteen-year-old Paul comes home from university and is urged by his mother to join the tennis club. There he’s partnered with Susan Macleod, a fine player who’s forty-eight, confident, witty, and married,...

No one behind, no one forward. The way that the ancients opened has been closed. And the other, wide and easy, of all, does not go anywhere. I'm alone and I make my way.... This edition of Octavio Paz's poems brings together all the...

After the death of God and the dismemberment of utopias, our time seems to be thrown into uncertainty. Many of the intellectual efforts today are aimed at finding a common framework on which to base acts and speeches. And history shows us that we...

Julio is convinced that it’s better to stay in his room and watch a bonsai grow than struggling with literature. This narrative is marked by the disappearance of a woman. Bonsai is poet and literary critic Alejandro Zambra's novelist debut.

The peaceful life of Spencer Ashby, a school teacher in a small town in the state of New York, comes crashing down the morning that Belle Sherman -the daughter of a friend of his wife whom the couple had been hosting for some time-...

At a time when European citizens are increasingly detached from their political representatives while uncertainties are growing, Tzvetan Todorov makes us discover or rediscover figures who, each in their own way, have managed to reconcile moral demands and public action. They lived in different...

This book denounces that the dangers that lie in wait for Western democracies are not so much external, as we have been led to believe by invoking Islamist terrorism, religious extremism, or dictatorial regimes, but internal. Thus, the enemy is within us. Todorov calls...

The landmark modern novel Mrs. Dalloway creates a portrait of a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway as she orchestrates the last-minute details of a grand party. But before Virginia Woolf wrote this masterwork, she explored in a series of fascinating stories...

Girl Meets Boy was published in 2007 and is one of his most appreciated books by critics and readers. An unforgettable revisitation of Ovid's Metamorphoses that tells us about the transforming power of love.