Campanas de Viento

Un pueblo de la Alta Baviera a finales del siglo XVII. Una mujer solitaria, inteligente y dotada de conocimientos que parece casi mágica ante los ojos de la mayoría de la gente. Con la preparación de colgantes y cataplasmas, con el estudio de hierbas, piedras y estrellas, Marika tendrá que encontrar una forma de sobrevivir por sí misma en un mundo que la ve como una amenaza y a las mujeres como poco más que animales. La luz en los ojos de una niña, el asesinato de un padre de familia y la llegada al pueblo de un inquisidor, destruirán el delicado equilibrio que Marika había...

Un novela histórica imposible de olvidas sobre la Primera Guerra de África. Barcelona, 1851. Esta novela cuenta la historia del joven Joan Gort, quien, con solo catorce años, viaja con su padre de Reus a la ciudad de Barcelona, donde lo que tenía que ser una feliz estancia se transforma en una tragedia cuando un inesperado suceso acontece durante la noche de San Juan de 1851. El destino del muchacho cambiará para siempre y lo llevará de una Barcelona putrefacta y maloliente al desierto gélido de Marruecos, ante Tetuán. Nuestro héroe Joan Gort pasará del caos de la ciudad al caos de...

Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood. She starts many investigations, but never finishes any because she hands her cases over to the detectives who work the day shift. Once a rising star in the police department, she received this assignment after accusing a superior of sexual harassment. One evening, she is given two cases she doesn't want to let go of: a brutal beating of a prostitute who is left for dead and the murder of a waiter during a shootout at a night club. Against orders and the her partner's wishes, she continues to investigate after her shift ends. As she delves...

ONE MANS ESCAPE INTO HUMANKINDS GREATEST ADVENTURE… NASA astronaut Alex Shaw is past his prime, once a rising star he has in recent years been side-lined by new technology. Now almost irrelevant he is barely holding it together. Then along came JOVE. When life is discovered on Jupiter he is given one last chance to make history when he is chosen to lead the first human mission to the newly-discovered surface of the giant planet. But the expected, measured, scientific exploratory mission that the crew had prepared for collapses on first contact. Nothing could have prepared them for the...

In this bold novel that shatters the barriers between fiction and reality, the dark object of narrator Chris's desire is Dick, a well-known theorist who refuses to answer her letters. Chris tenaciously continues to pursue him nonetheless, eventually traveling across the country. The passion-fueled journey pushes the protagonist to a state of madness that moves her away from a life in the shadow of her successful husband and brings her to question the very foundation of her femininity. Chris's compulsive love letters act as essays, and a moment arrives when the letters are in and of themselves ...