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The Texas refinery town of Leechfield, perched on the swampy rim of the Gulf, is famous for mosquitoes and the manufacture of Agent Orange - a place where the only bookstores are religious ones and the restaurants serve only fried food. A handful of the Leechfield oil workers gather regularly at the American Legion Bar to drink salted beer and spin long, improbable tales. They're the Liars' Club. And to the girl whose father is the club's undisputed champion mythmaker, they exude a fatal glamour - one that lifts her from ordinary life. But there are other lies. Darker, more hidden. Her...

Un registro para la posteridad de las palabras de los grandes intelectuales de nuestra época. «Qué dicha sería disponer hoy de entrevistas en profundidad con André Gide, Henry James, Marcel Proust, Walt Whitman; Así nació la idea de una ;biblioteca intercultural; que registrara para la posteridad las palabras de los grandes intelectuales de nuestra época.» Constantin von Barloewen Entrevistas a Adonis, Butros Butros-Ghali, Erwin Chargaff, Régis Debray, Carlos Fuentes, Nadine Gordimer, Stephen Jay Gould, Samuel Huntington, Philip Johnson, Leszek Kolakowski, Julia Kristeva, Claude...

Instead of Forgetting rebuilds the intertwined memory of three families, the Ynsa's, the Pine's and the Bilbao's between 1872 and 1942. These years are not at random, the first one marks the start of the third Spanish Carlist War, after that, the establishment of the First Spanish Republic, and the second one, the strengthening of the Franco regime. With the backdrop of the Restoration, the monarchy of Alfonso the XIII, the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, the Republic and the civil war, the reader follows little and great stories of characters, ancestors of the authors, that reflect a unique ...

Extensa, documentada y cercana biografía del insigne cantaor Manuel Soto ''Sordera de Jerez'', prologada por José Manuel Caballero Bonald, y realizada por José María Castaño, gran conocedor de la calidad humana y profesional de esta figura del flamenco. El rigor indagatorio y las aportaciones informativas de primera mano garantizan el más que evidente valor documental del texto. Una memoria indispensable, en definitiva, para recordar y conocer mejor a ese espejo de cantaores que fue Manuel Soto ''Sordera'';