Juan De Mi Tierra

La Reunión Misteriosa es el primer libro de una serie de siete. La serie llevará el nombre de: Las Crónicas Misteriosas. La historia se desarrolla en una ciudad tranquila donde cinco jóvenes, aisladamente, buscan claves para descifrar misterios. La tranquilidad es interrumpida cuando una joven y su familia llegan a vivir a la ciudad. La joven tiene una forma de ver la vida completamente diferente. Con su carácter dinámico logra unir a los personajes y es aceptada como parte del grupo. Aceptaron reunirse y compartir sus intereses y discutir si eran comunes. A esa reunión le llamaron: La ...

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Keep tells the real and fictional origins of the mysterious man who battles criminals and the supernatural. In 1984, Repairman Jack debuted in F. Paul Wilson’s horror thriller The Tomb. Jack would go on to star in twenty-three novels, ten short stories, and a graphic novel. But how did the antithesis of James Bond and Jason Bourne get his start in the battle between good and evil? In this essay, Wilson lets his readers in on how his beloved hero came to be. Wilson begins his personal story after he scored a hit with The Keep, when he found his...

A estas alturas no quedan atalayas que defender, salvo las propias, y las vanguardias son reliquias del pasado. Ser punta de lanza significa dar la cara, ir el primero hacia la gloria o hacia el abismo, que a veces visten igual; ser el abanderado cuyo trapo será recogido, en caso de caer, por el siguiente en la fila; el rompehielos, no el que marca tendencia, pero sí el que abre el camino; el que empezará a contar la historia, y las historias son eso, palabras que cobran forma antes de dormir, pedacitos de la vida de cualquiera y a veces valen solo para entretener y otras para sobrevivir....

Collected here are journal entries culled from 18 notebooks that Allen Ginsberg kept during the 1950s and early 1960s, when he and his fellow Beat poets led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. The diary notes, dreams, poems, reflections, and thoughts included in this book intimately illuminate Ginsberg's travels and his mental journeys. They reveal conversations with William Carlos Williams, drug experiences, a chance meeting with Dylan Thomas, stays in Mexico and the cities of San Francisco and New York, first impressions of Naked Lunch,...

The overthrow of Spanish rule and the birth of new republican governments in northern South America at the beginning of the nineteenth century were in large part the work of one man—Simón Bolívar. Bolívar was not only the soldier who built a patriot army from a small band of exiles and led them victoriously across Venezuela and down the spine of the Andes as far as Potosí; he was also the statesman who framed the new republics that sprang to life after the defeat of the Spanish and who called the Congress of Panama in hopes of making real his dream of uniting all the South American...