El deseo dura para siempre / The desire lasts forever

Desde 1917, cuando los alemanes "enviaron" a Lenin en un tren a Rusia para que desencadenara la revolución bolchevique, hasta la firma del pacto de no agresión entre Hitler y Stalin en 1939, la historia de las relaciones entre Rusia y Alemania es la de un "pacto con el diablo". Sebastian Haffner reconstruye magistralmente esos veinte años de alianza antinatiural entre dos países que acabaron por encontrarse –y destrozarse- en el campo de batalla.

El turista es, por definición, un ser en apariencia despreocupado, busca el descanso, una promesa de felicidad, una franquicia del paraíso. Vive en un tiempo irreal, una vida entre paréntesis: el verano, un fin de semana largo, una escapada, cualquier periodo vacacional con fecha de caducidad. Si no la tuviese, condenado a perpetuidad como las nieves del Himalaya, este tiempo suspendido mostraría, quizá, un reverso inquietante. El mar, el río, la piscina, una playa o una isla... la mayoría de estos relatos están rodeados de agua e invitan a los personajes a armonizar con su entorno...

In a house he is restoring, builder Don Lark meets a woman squatter who turns out to be a ghost. But Sylvie Delaney does not realize she is a ghost, thinking she is alive. Lark learns she was murdered and goes searching for the killer. As he sinks his teeth into his new project, Lark's new neighborhood starts to work its charms on him. He strikes up a romance with the real estate agent who sold him the house. His neighbors, two charming, chatty old ladies, ply him endlessly with delicious Southern cooking. Even Sylvie, the squatter Lark was once desperate to evict from the old house, is now...

He can solve any problem... In serving the wealthy power brokers of New York society, Frank Tripp has finally gained the respectability and security his own upbringing lacked. There's no issue he cannot fix... except for one: the beautiful and reckless daughter of an important client who doesn't seem to understand the word danger. She's not looking for a hero... Excitement lies just below Forty-Second Street and Mamie Greene is determined to explore all of it--while playing a modern-day Robin Hood along the way. What she doesn't need is her father's lawyer dogging her every step and...