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Dee Dee, loving mother, grieving widow and occasional model, walks away from home with a kiss in the air before disappearing around the corner. And she doesn’t come home that night. Or the next... Maggie, her self-absorbed teenage daughter, refuses to accept that her...

Being a woman and waking up one day, looking around and realizing that you have been following the designs of a society that tells you how to be in order to fit in and be accepted: be productive, be cheerful, always be young, be...

Werther is the young bourgeois who falls in love with the wrong person, and whose impossible love drives him to the deepest despair. An epistolary novel that caused a true revolution in its time and became an icon of Romanticism. A tragic story whose...

Lucy Hart knows better than anyone what it's like to grow up without parents who loved her. In a childhood marked by neglect and loneliness, Lucy found her solace in books, namely the Clock Island series by Jack Masterson. Now a twenty-six-year-old teacher's aide,...

The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently five times as the great families of England fought to the death for the right to rule. Some of the greatest heroes...

This unique book is the result of an in-depth study of the responses given by different philosophical and religious traditions to the existential situation of human beings, who often feel vulnerable in a world that seems harmful, evil, or indifferent to their existence. It...

There are seven houses, and they are empty. The narrator, according to Rodrigo Fresán, is "a sane scientist observing madmen, or people who are seriously considering going mad." And sanity, as always, is superficial. For ten years now, Samanta Schweblin has been drawing us...

Our obsession with success is hard to overlook. Everywhere we compete, rank, and measure. Yet this relentless drive to be the best blinds us to something vitally important: the need to be humble in the face of life’s challenges. In Praise of Failure explores...

Discover the 6 hidden habits of elite sales performers… Have you ever wondered why some sales professionals consistently win year after year, while others have peaks and valleys—or simply fail to ever reach their true potential? Sure, hard work, dedicated effort, product knowledge, and...

Is Spain doomed... or simply misunderstood? For decades we have been told that Spain is hopeless. That we are different, incorrigible, a lost cause. But what if this resignation were nothing more than the result of a clever cultural engineering strategy? What if the...

This meticulous work documents the extraordinary institutional, legal, scientific, and cultural legacy that Spain established in the American territories during its imperial era. Readers will discover how key institutions such as the Council of the Indies, the Holy Brotherhood, and the General Court of...

Being a mother, and being a mother at the same time as other mothers to accompany her, but also with whom to compare herself. Being a daughter, and being the daughter of a mother who fights to not only be a mother, and to...

As a very young child, Mario Obrero, from a Spanish-speaking family, asked his parents to buy him a Galician-Spanish dictionary so he could understand the language of the place where they went on holiday. Later, he immersed himself in Catalan - in its Valencian...

A profound and profoundly important book; a moving personal detective story, an uncovering of secret pasts, and a book that explores the creation and development of world-changing legal concepts that came about as a result of the unprecedented atrocities of Hitler’s Third Reich.

Mattis doesn't understand much about the world. He doesn't understand why others call it simple. Or why his sister Hege, who has cared for him in their quiet lakeside cottage since they were children, is so frustrated. But he knows that the woodcock that...

Fernando Pessoa's passion for the detective genre is well documented in his writings: "One of the few intellectual diversions that persists in what remains of humanity's intellectual life is the reading of detective novels. Among the inestimable and small number of happy hours that...

In 1692, several people were arrested and accused of practicing witchcraft in Salem. Those who brought the accusations were white witches, and those sentenced to the gallows belonged to bloodlines of dark witches. Until then, the covens of both sides had coexisted in balance....

At the dawn of the 8th century, in Asturias, as in other regions of Hispania, the Christians were brutally mistreated and forced to pay an onerous tax if they wanted to continue to profess their religion and not adhere to Islam. The discontent grows...

This essay based on the two opening sentences of the Message Rediscovered is an attempt at an exegesis of the major theological and ontological themes addressed in the work of Louis Cattiaux. The author has arranged these sentences facing each other, proposition by proposition,...

Whether they are black dogs, pale horses or birds of ill omen, certain animals have always maintained a deep connection with the Beyond, terrorizing mankind since time immemorial. In these pages we will follow in the footsteps of messenger dogs of death, nocturnal howlers,...