Relatos, cuentos e ignorancia.

En esta novela se caracteriza la América colonial como un mundo en el que la belleza de la naturaleza ha sido mancillada por la violencia entre los franceses y los indios. Hay en ella una gran información sobre los rituales y creencias indias, y una gran comprensión hacia la vida de los indios.

Seguna entrega de la serie de historias cortas «Historias de cine» de Ana Álvarez. ¿Qué pasa cuando se alinean los planetas para que tu aniversario sea un desastre? Armando y Sonia deciden celebrar su tercer aniversario de boda con un fin de semana especial, que incluye, entre otras actividades, la visita a un parque natural con animales en semilibertad. A partir de un primer incidente en el mismo, se desencadenarán una sucesión de situaciones rocambolescas y divertidas, que pondrán a prueba sus nervios y también su amor. Si sobreviven a su tercer aniversario, su amor es a prueba de...

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...

From the author of The Good Earth, an "Oprah's Book Club Selection." On her fortieth birthday, Madame Wu tells her husband that after twenty-four years their physical life together is now over and she wishes him to take a second wife, and thus arranges for a young country girl to come take her place in bed. The House of Wu, one of the oldest and most revered in China, is thrown into an uproar by her decision, which changes the life of all that surround her. On the fringes of WWII the family is at crossroads, facing betrayal, communism and Western thought, and underlying all, the quest for...