Las tres cruces

Frente a la fuente de deseos, Emilio tiró una modena y, cerrando los ojos, pidió tener una mascota. ¡Pero una de verdad! Ya estaba harto de pedirle a sus papás que le compraran una y que su mamá siempre le contestara ¿Para qué más mascotas? Ahí tienes los peces que te compré en la tienda. Emilio no podía entender por qué su mamá le llamaba mascotas a unos (bichos) que vivían prisioneros en una pecera, que abrían la boca sin hacer ruido y que, para colmo, no podía acariciar.

Timid, eleven-year-old Dylis Rattenbury, afraid to cross the street without holding someone's hand, idolizes bold, free-spirited, indifferent Victoria Corcoran. When both are sent to boarding school, Dylis is miserable at being separated from her parents, while Victoria seems only concerned that boarding school does not provide room service. With their two roommates she forms a secret club, ostensibly to ward off the "evil forces" in the school, but privately to help get herself expelled. "A boarding school story far from the old formula junior novel."—Children's Books "An unusual and...

"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from the random violence of the streets. Then she is shot, gravely wounded, and the circle of contradiction is closed. From the corridors of the hospital where Rosario is fighting for her life, Antonio,...

Excerpt from El Diario de una Dama: Novela Cuando me hallaba en el convento, mis notas trimestrales terminaban casi siempre con la siguiente descripcion de mi fisonomia moral: Caracter apacible; espiritu pru dente; gravedad superior a sus anos; carac ter bien equilibrado, pero de conciencia algo inquieta. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the...