El signo del centauro

Kennedy Waters lives in a world where vengeful spirits kill, ghosts keeps secrets, and a devil walks among the people...a devil she unwittingly liberated. Now Kennedy and the other members of the Legion must hunt it down. As she learns more about the Legion and the Illuminati, she begins to understand that her family hides the biggest mystery. With the clock ticking down and the life of someone she loves hanging by a thread, she must ask herself what in her past has left her unmarked.

This critical biography chronicles both the actual travels and the philosophical meanderings of Talbot Mundy, one of the pioneers of the fantasy and adventure genre. Less celebrated than his contemporaries Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad, Mundy was no less gifted when it came to the literary portrayal of faraway lands. He was one of the first Western writers to show an appreciation of Eastern culture, and his writing became an outlet for his radical ideas on religion and philosophy. At the age of sixteen, Mundy left his native England to begin his life of adventure—a journey that took him ...

Hurgando hace un par de años en sus archivos, el fotógrafo Barry Feinstein exhumó un manojo de fotografías tomadas en Hollywood a principios de los años sesenta. Junto a ellas yacían veintitrés poemas compuestos en 1964 por su amigo Bob Dylan como glosa o complemento de esas imágenes. «Era el manuscrito perdido: todos lo habían olvidado», explicaría Feinstein. Tan perdido estaba, al menos en los laberintos de la memoria, que el propio autor no recordaba haberlo escrito. Las fotos retratan con desolada frialdad, a veces con afable ironía, el ocaso de una época («dorada» según...

The summer has really bad for Manolito. He is condemned, once again, to spend the holidays in his small flat in Carabanchel Alto with his mother, his grandfather and his little brother. And he has failed mathematics, to his mother's chagrin. Manolito looks forward to the arrival of his father, a truck driver, to take the family to the beach.