Napoleón

Una novela de personajes que nos habla de nuestras debilidades y de la cobardía que nos impide acercarnos al otro, para amarlo o respetarlo o comprenderlo. Ignacio Vildsvin y sus dos hijos son el centro de un bufete familiar de abogados que ha visto tiempos mejores. Por allí desfilan una joven de la que abusó el cura de su pueblo, una anciana rica y algo enajenada a la que su sobrino quiere inhabilitar y un concejal corrupto. Estos casos no son nada más que una ventana para asomarnos a la familia Vildsvin, a las limitaciones afectivas de los hijos, a la tiranía del padre y al instinto de ...

Patricia Schaefer Röder emerges from the current circle of Latin American writers with the publication of thirty-four of her most appealing stories in the anthology "Yara y otras Historias". Her narrative does not just have the endorsement of national and international awards in Miami and Puerto Rico; it also brings years of studies on the human character and magic-religious traditions. Her travels have carried her to perceive many connections that she has to her land, and to rediscover the stories that she tells us today with special precision and literary clarity. Mythical and mundane...

He can solve any problem... In serving the wealthy power brokers of New York society, Frank Tripp has finally gained the respectability and security his own upbringing lacked. There's no issue he cannot fix... except for one: the beautiful and reckless daughter of an important client who doesn't seem to understand the word danger. She's not looking for a hero... Excitement lies just below Forty-Second Street and Mamie Greene is determined to explore all of it--while playing a modern-day Robin Hood along the way. What she doesn't need is her father's lawyer dogging her every step and...

Set in Victorian England, this book is a disturbing gothic story that will send shivers down your spine. Hardly married for a few months, Elsie has become a widow and is sent to live at her late husband's crumbling estate, The Bridge. Surrounded by resentful servants, Elsie has only her husband's awkward cousin for company. But the new home is no less hostile, as suddenly closed rooms open, and she encounters painted wooden figures that terrify the servants of The Bridge with their restless, following eyes.