Havana Story

Yalaina Valdez is a young woman growing up in Mexico. She is popular and has a strong family. One day at school one of her classmates comes to her begging her to take money in exchange for the life of her father. Yalaina did not know what was happening. But she was soon forced to see her family for what they actually were and not what was being presented to her. After confronting her father she soon realizes that her family is in the midst of the Mexican drug cartel. She is faced with the choice of being a part of the family business or walking away from all of the people she has loved the...

Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective-novel-loving Rüya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband, Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Celâl's identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursues every conceivable clue, but the nature of the mystery keeps changing, and when he receives a death threat, he begins to fear the worst. With its cascade of beguiling stories about Istanbul, The Black Book is ...

Cassandra Tipp, excéntrica escritora de novelas románticas, ha desaparecido y ha dejado una gran fortuna y un misterioso manuscrito. La policía supone que se trata de un homicidio. Sin embargo, los habitantes del pequeño pueblo en el que vivía no están seguros de su muerte. Aunque resultara absuelta, nadie ha olvidado el juicio por el sobrecogedor asesinato de su marido. Siguiendo las instrucciones del testamento, sus sobrinos, Penelope y Janus, acuden a su mansión en busca de respuestas. ¿Qué le sucedió a Cassie de niña en el bosque?, ¿a quién ha estado protegiendo? Y, lo más...

Una joven que se ahoga es sacada de un río por un elefante. Esto es cerca del campamento de Hannibal en el 218 A.C. En el 218 A.C., Hannibal llevó a su ejército, junto con 27 elefantes, a los Alpes para atacar a los romanos. Once años antes de este evento histórico, en las orillas de un río cerca de Cartago, en el norte de África, uno de sus elefantes sacó a una niña ahogada de las aguas turbulentas. Así comenzó el épico viaje de Liada con el elefante conocido como Obolus.