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Do you know what large organizations and successful people in sports, culture or business have in common? In these pages you will discover why the Hollywood industry settled in Los Angeles and had an unprecedented success, you will find out how the shortest player...

1936. In the midst of the Great Depression, in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky, nineteen-year-old Cussy Mary Carter, nicknamed Damsel and with a rare peculiarity in her skin, is one of the traveling booksellers of the Equestrian Library Project sponsored by Roosevelt as part...

Ramón Tamames discusses Hernán Cortés with beautiful writing in this dazzling scenario. The story is surrounded by contemporary protagonists, such as Moctezuma, Malinche, Cuauhtémoc, Carlos V, Father Las Casas, Governor Velázquez, Pizarro, Alvarado, Sandoval, Bernardino de Sahagún, Vasco de Quiroga and many other characters...

In ancient Carthage, where the waves of the Mediterranean caress the African coast, an empire of trade and power was born. But when Rome rose on the horizon, the First Punic War unleashed a fierce struggle that left Carthage in ruins. At the heart...

Of all the emotions that our children experience, I believe that sadness is one of those that is hardest for us to learn to deal with, and not because it bothers us as parents or caretakers, but because it breaks our hearts to see...

How can we work and generate value between the young (genius) and the old (wisdom)? Millennials and boomers, generation Z and generation X share illusions and aspirations? Reality indicates that we are doomed to understand each other and, above all, to respect each other....

Jacky Mauchrétien is a local businessman who has enriched himself by developing a vast network of drug resale and prostitution, and reigns over the Norman village he completely controls. He does not hesitate to prostitute himself and even rape his own daughter, nor to...

After years of reflection and dedication, this book brings together the most brilliant conclusions of the great Spanish economist Ramón Tamames on the international economy and its economic cycles, international cooperation, the development of world trade, or the international monetary system of the IMF...

Adrian Rawson, the mythical scientist, businessman and director of a museum of horrors is serving his sentence. Is his crime so terrifying? He may die in prison after having achieved professional success and happiness with Eva, his wife. But how did he end up...

Born in 1126 in Cordoba, Abu-l-Walid Muhammad would be elevated by the new lords of the Peninsula, the Almohads, as one of their great sages and courtiers, but the audacity of his thinking would eventually cost him everything he had achieved. Centuries later, his...

This book is a hymn to friendship that captures the literary vision of fifteen authors on such universal concepts as companionship, camaraderie, loyalty, attachment, support and trust, from the profound perspectives of disciplines as diverse as philosophy, history, sociology and psychology. A work that...

The blizzard is wreaking havoc in Alaska. In the heart of the storm, a child disappears. It only took seconds, the time to retie her shoelaces, for Bess to let go of the boy's hand and he's out of sight. She goes out looking...

A fun reflection on ambition, adulthood and the complexities of today's world. Tracy Flick is the hard-working assistant principal of a public high school in a quiet, small New Jersey town. At forty years old, she leads a peaceful life and, although her ambition...

Winter is coming, the nights are longer. There are those who gather under the mistletoe with their family and friends while others advocate the abolition of the Christmas spirit under the slogan "Ban Christmas or Die." Among the pages of this collection of stories...

Francesca's placid existence, married with two children, is completely shaken by the arrival of Robert Kincaid, a free and generous nomadic photographer, who transforms all his energy into tenderness. Fate inexorably unites them when they meet in the autumn of their lives. Their love,...

A poor and desperate fisherman travels the kingdom in search of an honest man who will agree to be the godfather of his newborn son. He rejects God (too unfair), rejects the Devil (too cruel), and is about to give up when a shadowy...

A novel about the epic founding and heyday of one of the most mythical bookstores in the world. An exciting hymn to the bookseller's trade and to universal literature. A novel about the epic of the founding and heyday of one of the most...

Koko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes from ella, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment from ella. And now, after a casual affair, she is unexpectedly pregnant again. What will this mean for her...

Cornwall, Midsummer 1947. Pendizack Manor Hotel is buried in the rubble of a collapsed cliff. Seven guests have perished, but what brought this strange assembly together for a moonlit feast before this Act of God - or Man? Over the week before the landslide,...

The Dinosaur is Still Here, the complete work of Augusto Monterroso, brings together for the first time in a single volume all the stories of the master of the micro-story, each one more brilliant, arranged chronologically: those collected in his first Complete Works (and...