At age twelve, Sira Quiroga sweeps the arelier floors where her single mother works as a seamstress. At fourteen, she quietly begins her own apprenticeship. By her early twenties she has learned the ropes of the business and is engaged to a modest government clerk. But everything changes when two charismatic men burst unexpectedly into her neatly mapped-out life: an attractive salesman and the father she never knew. With the Spanish Civil War brewing...

From the publisher. Our ceaseless human quest for something larger than ourselves has never been represented with more insight and love than in this story of Don Quixote -- pursuing his vision of glory in a mercantile age -- and his shrewd, skeptical manservant, Sancho Panza. As they set out to right the world's wrongs in knightly combat, the narrative moves from philosophical speculation to broad comedy, taking in pastoral, farce, and fantasy on...

"Esta sátira de la Revolución Rusa y el triunfo del estalinismo, escrita en 1945, se ha convertido por derecho propio en un hito de la cultura contemporánea y en uno de los libros más mordaces de todos los tiempos. Ante el auge de los animales de la Granja Solariega, pronto detectamos las semillas del totalitarismo en una organización aparentemente ideal; y en nuestros líderes más carismáticos, la sombra de los opresores más crueles."--Amazon....

Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. "Con las manos temblorosas, Harry le dio la vuelta al sobre y vio un sello de lacre púrpura con un escudo de armas: un león, un águila, un tejón y una serpiente, que rodeaban una gran letra hache." Harry Potter jamás ha oído hablar de Hogwarts hasta que las cartas comienzan...

Obsesionado por demostrarle a su padre que ya es todo un hombre, Amir se propone ganar la competición anual de cometas. Amir se aprovecha de la fidelidad sin límites de su amigo, Hassan, y comete una traición que los separará de forma definitiva. Amir left Afghanistan as a boy and migrated to America, where he has become a successful novelist ; haunted by memories of his betrayal of a childhood friend, Hassan, Amir discovers that Hassan has been...

"Tras un grave accidente de coche, Alma, una joven de diecisiete años, sufre un shock postraumático y es ingresada en una clínica psiquiátrica ubicada en un antiguo edificio rehabilitado. Allí convive con otros internos y sus patologías y se cruza con unos niños a los que solo ella puede ver. Poco a poco, la historia del edificio y sus antiguos ocupantes se enreda con la realidad de Alma y la lleva a desentrañar oscuros secretos encerrados...

In a question and answer game, a teacher and her group see a variety of animals, each one a different color.

Collection of all 7 books, in reading order, about Aslan, the noble lion, and the royal leaders of Narnia and their struggle against the magical forces of evil.

Celebrate Cervantes? Masterpiece, Don Quijote de La Mancha, the greatest novel in Spanish Literature Launched simultaneously in Spain and the Americas, this work aims to divulge the great novel of Spanish Literature by means of a high quality, well-taken care of edition at a very reduced price. The book contains a prologue by Mario Vargas Llosa, an introductory text and complementary analysis by other academics, along with an extensive glossary of...