In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. Close to despair, he receives a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas Corelli, who makes him the offer of a lifetime -- write a book unlike anything that has ever existed -- a book with the power to change hearts and minds. In return, he will receive a fortune, and perhaps more. But as David begins...

Con las manos temblorosas, Harry le dio la vuelta al sobre y vio un sello de lacre púrpura con un escudo de armas: un león, un águila, un tejón y una serpiente, que rodeaban una gran letra H.
Harry Potter nunca había oído nada sobre Hogwarts cuando las cartas comienzan a caer en el felpudo del número cuatro de Privet Drive. Escritas en tinta verde en un pergamino amarillento con un sello morado, sus horribles tíos las han confiscado

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Mario Benedetti es una de las grandes figuras de la literatura en lengua hispana. La Tregua es una de sus obras más señeras. Brillante narrador y poeta, el autor dibuja con trazos finos la figura de un hombre inmerso en su ciudad y su vida, guiando al lector en un proceso de identificación tan intenso que la vida del protagonista se pega en la piel y la sensibilidad. Una novela que constituye una verdadera obra maestra, en la que el clima, los

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When she discovers that her boyfriend Guero, a Mexican drug smuggler, has been killed by rivals and that she is the next target, Teresa Mendoza must give up her old life and become a member of a dark and deadly world in order to survive.

"Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history -- with unsettling...

"September 1896: An aspiring archaeologist, Smith College graduate Betsy Hayes travels to Athens, desperate to break into the male-dominated field of excavation. In the midst of the heat and dust of Greece she finds an unlikely ally in Charles, Baron de Robecourt, one of the few men who takes her academic passion seriously. But when a simmering conflict between Greece and Turkey erupts into open warfare, Betsy throws herself into the conflict as a...

El principito es la maravillosa historia de un pequeño niño que viene de un planeta apenas mas grande que una casa, hace preguntas y busca respuestas a cosas que para los adultos pueden ser poco importantes. The little prince is the marvellous story of a small boy who comes from a planet barely larger than a house, and who asks questions and seeks answers to things that for adults might be of little importance.

"En el Madrid excitado de 1980, el antaño exitoso director de cine Eduardo Muriel encarga al joven Juan De Vere que investigue y sonsaque a un amigo suyo de media vida, el Doctor Jorge Van Vechten, de cuyo indecente comportamiento en el pasado le han Ilegado rumores. Ese trabajo permitirá al muchacho asistir al extraño, desequilibrado presente del matrimonio del cineasta con Beatriz Noguera y asomarse a sus misteriosos agravios pretéritos. Descubrirá...

"... Brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America- a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record. In 1527, the conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez sailed from the port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda with a crew of six hundred men and nearly a hundred horses. His goal was to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States for the Spanish crown and, in the process, become as wealthy and famous as Hernán...