El verano en que Dios dorma / The summer that God slept

The Demon Dog gets down with a new book of scenes from Americas capital of kink: Los Angeles. Fourteen pieces, some fiction, some nonfiction, all true enough to be admissible as states evidence, and half of it in print for the first time. And every one of them bearing the James Ellroy brand of mayhem, machismo, and hollow-nose prose. Here are Mexican featherweights and unsolved-murder vics, crooked cops and a very clean D.A. Here is a profile of Hollywoods latest celebrity perp-walker, Robert Blake, and three new novellas featuring a demented detective with an obsession with a Hollywood...

La historia de los dioses que harán llover en tierras sagradas, aun cuando estés viviendo lejos de tus creencias. La comunidad de Tukari Temai, maraakame de la sierra nayarita, se encuentran en sequía y él debe hacer lo necesario para que la lluvia llegue a los sembradíos... Pero él no ha sido del todo puro y los dioses saben que Urima, una joven y lujuriosa huichola, lo mantiene lejos de sus creencias y costumbres. ¿Podrá este gran maraakame conseguir el favor del cielo y hacer llover en tierra sagrada?

This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Lucy Snowe is a 14-year-old girl staying at the home of her godmother Mrs. Bretton in the clean and ancient town of Bretton. Also in residence are Mrs. Bretton's son, John Graham, and Polly, a peculiar little girl whose visit is cut short when her father arrives to take her away. Soon after Polly's departure Lucy leaves Mrs. Bretton's home and moves on. Some years pass, during which a family tragedy leaves Lucy without family, home, or means. Lucy travels from her native England to...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The bestselling author of The Simple Wild and Keep Her Safe and “master of steamy romance” (Kirkus Reviews) delivers a sizzling novel about an ambitious and high-powered executive who reconnects with her first love: the boy who broke her heart. Life is a mixed bag for Piper Calloway. On the one hand, she’s a twenty-nine-year-old VP at her dad’s multibillion-dollar real estate development firm, and living the high single life with her two best friends in a swanky downtown penthouse. On the other hand, she’s considered a pair of sexy legs in a male-dominated...