Los hielos de Terranova

Con Magallanes se inicia una de las epopeyas más fascinantes de la historia naval española, una hazaña en la que el tesón de un puñado de hombres valientes venció en su lucha desigual contra los embates de la naturaleza y las estratagemas de la Corona portuguesa. Con la llegada a Filipinas por la ruta occidental, Elcano tendía un puente con Oriente y culminaba una aventura que puso a prueba la pericia de uno de los cartógrafos y navegantes más intrépidos que ha dado España, Andrés de Urdaneta, y que Miguel López de Legazpi concluyó brillantemente al conquistar las islas para la...

Ever since her husband, Doug, left her suddenly and without explanation, Galla spends her days on the couch, staring at the magnolia on the patio and fantasizing about throwing herself off the balcony to escape excruciating pain blamed on herself. During her first solo trip, to Munich, she accidentally walks into a museum where the work of the German painter Gabriele Münter is exhibited and her works so full of color and so devoid of joy mesmerize her. From that moment on, Gabriele's voice enters Galla's life: it torments and mocks her as she recounts her long love story with Kandinski, much ...

Aquellos que son asesinados en la carretera, a la entrada del pueblo minero de Desesperación, son los más afortunados, porque para los que sobrevivan y crucen el cartel de bienvenida, Desesperación se convertirá en el escenario de sus más angustiantes pesadillas... En la interestatal 50, en el desértico y solitario tramo que atraviesa Nevada, un gato muerto ensartado en un cartel da la bienvenida al pequeño pueblo minero de Desesperación. Allí, un policía local poseído por un perverso ser se ha erigido en autoridad suprema y sanguinaria, y elige sus víctimas entre los escasos...

Perfecta: the Game is straightforward. The Game is played by the best professional killers in the business. The rules: Ten names go on a list. Place a bet of one million dollars. Pick the exact order in which the victims will be killed. Collect the pot.Perfecta: the town no longer exists. A church and a bar are all that remain of what was once Perfecta, Texas. Two brothers and one renegade live there, divided, as dissimilar as the two building left standing. Eugene Green, a would-be preacher, attempts to uphold the unattainable family legacy. His twin Gordon, just wants to drink his problems...

Between cups of espresso and glasses of grappa, love begins in Assisi and continues through letters to and from Madrid. The woman, Spanish, is a novelist and the mother of a young boy. The man, Italian, is an ecologist. The woman's novel-within-the-novel tells us a love story that leads us to climb into the mind of both partners. An extremely satisfying reading experience.