Seduciendo a un ángel

Success-it's something everyone hopes for but few have the fortitude and endurance necessary to achieve it, especially when confronted by one adversity after another. Lupe Cordoba knows that hard work and determination are the traits necessary to achieve success, and she used these strong personal qualities to rise to her position as a nationally acclaimed restaurateur. Cordoba seemed to encounter nothing but hardships and obstacles throughout her life, and in La Morenita: The Story of Lupe Cordoba, she candidly illustrates how her life developed from an idyllic childhood in a small Mexican...

In a large city in the north of Africa, a public functionary, chief of the rodent extermination department, fights against the millions of rats that threaten the city. Solitary, obsessive, and so sensitive it borders on paranoia, he devotes himself to his job in exemplary fashion. His life passes by under an extreme order; he does not leave anything to chance, and has the compulsive habit of writing down all his intimate reflections and secrets on small pieces of paper. This bitingly funny novel was a piercing critique on the author's part of a government suspicious of even the slightest hint ...

El gran friso narrativo de los Episodios Nacionales sirvió de vehículo a Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) para recrear en él, novelescamente engarzada, la totalidad de la compleja vida de los españoles guerras, política, vida cotidiana, reacciones populares a lo largo del agitado siglo xix. VERGARA fue la villa guipuzcoana que vio unido para siempre su nombre al convenio entre los generales Espartero y Maroto que puso fin en 1839 a los seis sangrientos años largos durante los que transcurrió la Primera Guerra Carlista. Las pintorescas intrigas históricas que precedieron a este...

Adrian Ludlow, novelista distinguido, uno de cuyos libros figura en el plan de estudios de la enseñanza media, se ha refugiado ahora en una casa de campo situada debajo del pasillo aéreo de Gatwick. Su amigo de la universidad, Sam Sharp, que se ha convert