El náufrago de Castilla

Fifteen-year-old Hanka Kaudersov has ginger hair and clear, green eyes. When her family is deported to Auschwitz, her mother, father and younger brother are sent to the gas chamber. By a twist of fate, Hanka is faced with a simple alternative: follow her family, or work in an SS brothel behind the eastern front. She chooses to live, her Aryan looks allowing her to disguise the fact that she is Jewish. As the German army retreats from the Russian front, Hanka battles cold, hunger, fear, and shame, sustained by her hatred for the men she entertains, her friendship with the mysterious Estelle,...

En B+Una verdadera aventuraB; , Katherine Mansfield cuenta la llegada a Brujas de una mujer que viaja sin compania masculina. En estos cuentos de Louisa M. Alcott, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Grazia Deledda, Selma Lagerloff, Sarah O. Jewett y Matilde Serao aparecen institutrices que priorizan la felicidad, mujeres que optan por la soledad antes que casarse con el hombre inapropiado, que rompen con los canones de la Iglesia, aldeanas ricas que eligen hombres pobres, mujeres que defienden la naturaleza. Las protagonistas de los cuentos de estas siete escritoras de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y...

This classic novel about the struggles of Texas Mexicans to preserve their property, culture and identity in the face of Anglo-American migration to and dominance of the Rio Grande Valley is available for the first time in Spanish. Born in the early part of the twentieth century, George Washington Gómez is named after the American rebel and hero because his parents are certain their son will be a great man too. George, or Guálinto as he’s known, grows up in turbulent times. His family has lived for generations in what has become Texas. “I was born here. My father was born here and so...

Merlot, Magia y asesinato... El Festival Anual del Vino de Westwick Corners es la época de descorchar el vino y, según espera Cen, el momento en el que Tyler haga por fin la pregunta y se declare. Pero cuando uno de los asistentes del festival aparece muerto, queda claro que el merlot, la magia y el asesinato no maridan bien. Brujería mortal es el Quinto libro de la serie Misterio paranormal de las Brujas de Westwick. Todos los libros se pueden leer por separado pero te gustarán más si empiezas por el primero, Cuidado con lo que deseas.