EL HOTEL DE ENFRENTE

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Laurelin Paige comes a new story in her Man In Charge series... Brett Sebastian is the very best kind of friend. Who else would get me a job at one of the biggest corporations in America? And hook me up with his uber-rich cousin to boot? And let me cry on his shoulder every time said cousin blows me off? Okay, it's pretty obvious that Brett cares about me in a different way than I do for him, but he seems fine with how things are, and our friendship works. Until one fateful night when I'm mooning over his cousin, and Brett utters four words ...

Como en muchas de las historias de Zweig, conocemos a Jakob Mendel a través de un misterioso personaje que vuelve, después de más de veinte años, al Café Gluck, en Viena. En sus recuerdos caóticos aparece la figura de Mendel, "el mago y agente de los libros", esa obsesiva figura capaz de estar sentado inmutable, hipnotizado por la lectura.

Two writers, a deceased mother and her seventy-year-old son, Pancho, isolated in a palace near the sea in Galicia, are attended by an enigmatic old servant woman. The past haunts them with the unexpected visit of a man who had been Pancho’s secretary twenty years before. Soon, a child, this man’s son, moves into the palace, taking events to a tragic, ironic and surprising ending. This novel was made into a Spanish language movie: "El juego de los mensajes invisibles" (The Game of the Invisible Messages... 1991).

"Mi misión esencial en el mundo ya no era reinar, sino recuperar todos mis pasados". Figura emblemática del naciente Virreinato peruano, en cuyo corazón se baten las sangres de dos imperios, Francisca Pizarro Huaylas Yupanqui, heredera exiliada del linaje de los incas e hija del conquistador Francisco Pizarro, se supo siempre una "princesa mimada, enriquecida, desterrada", así como una "viajera encarcelada, liberada y libre". Escindida entre el Perú y España, la íntima historia de Francisca, colmada de devoción, cálculo, pasión y nobleza, es también la de una época de connivencias ...