"Holling HoodHood est�a en problemas. Acaba de comenzar el se�nora Baker, y presiente que la maestra tiene algo en su contra. �Por qu�e otra raz�on lo har�ia leer a Shakespeare fuera del horario de class?"-- During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare...

These eleven stories from one of Granta’s “Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists” combine gritty surrealism with explosive interior meditations, traversing the fickle, often terrifying terrain between madness and freedom. In the title story, a so-called “non-inventor” brings snow-white rabbits to an island inhabited exclusively by birds, with horrific results. In “Myotragus” a privileged man’s understanding of the world is violently...

"Guam, in the North Pacific Ocean, is more than 5,000 miles (8,000 km) west of San Francisco. This island has a fascinating past that goes back thousands of years, long before it was colonized by the Spanish in the 1600s. Readers will learn about Guam's history and how it became a U.S. territory in this absorbing look at the largest and most southern of the Mariana Islands. Readers will also discover a lot about the valuable territory's natural resources,...

"La verdadera historia del asesinato de un inmigrante que transformó un acogedor pueblo de Long Island en la zona cero de la guerra contra la inmigración. En noviembre de 2008, Marcelo Lucero, un inmigrante Ecuatoriano de treinta y siete años, fue atacado y asesinado por un grupo de adolecentes cuando caminaba por las calles de Patchogue. Los atacantes iban a "cazar beaners"--término despectivo para Latinos-- algo que formaba parte de su diversión...

Male nurse Greg Focker wants to pop the question to his girlfried Pam Byrnes. But she's daddy's little girl, and daddy, has some old-fashioned ideas about manners and manhood. So Pam and Greg make a pilgrimage to the Byrnes' homestead on Long Island. Greg gets off the wrong foot with Mr. Byrnes and never recovers. Little white lies mushroom into ghastly whoppers. Greg finds out that Mr. Byrnes was in the CIA for 34 years. And so the weekend goes from...

Esto es lo que Annie y Jack tienen que hacer al llegar a las islas de Hawái, luego de viajar muchos años hacia atrás en el tiempo, en la casa mágica del árbol. Aprender surf les resulta muy divertido hasta que empiezan a suceder cosas extrañas. Annie y Jack no tardan mucho en descubrir la causa de todo esto: ¡un maremoto! ¿Podrán ellos salvar a sus nuevos amigos a pesar del peligro? Jack and Annie travel in their Magic Tree House back to...

The mysterious Jay Gatsby uses his fabulous wealth to create an enchanted world fit for his former love, Daisy Buchanan, now married to Tom. Daisy, though, is a romanticised figment of his own imagination, and the extraordinary world that he creates is equally illusory. He gives lavish, legendary parties where the guests and gate-crashers enjoy free-flowing champagne and cocktails and carefree hospitality. But a more sinister reality begins to break...

20 year old Sophie is preparing to marry at her mother's hotel on a Greek island. She has a carefree life, a loving fiancee, and great friends. She is only missing one thing: a father. By reading her mother's diary she discovers that she has three possible fathers. Sophie secretly invites all three men to the wedding in a desperate bid to discover which of them is her father. But not all goes according to plan. Now, old loves are re-kindled, new loves...

A young Irish girl longs for the good old days she often hears about, back when the family lived on Roan Inish and had plenty to eat, and back before her younger brother so mysteriously disappeared.

For Valentina, living on the Galápagos islands means spending her days outside, observing the natural world around her. She greets sea lions splashing on the shore, scampers over lava rocks with Sally-lightfoot crabs, and swims with manta rays. She is a Galápagos girl, and there is no other place she'd rather be!