The Best Native American Myths, Legends, and Folklore

Before the time of books, computers, tablets and recording devices, the history of many cultures was passed down, from person to person, by word of mouth. The rich histories of so many people were told in songs, chants, poems and stories. This was and still is the way of Native American tribes. Each in its own way enriching their stories with their own experiences. By reliving these stories and songs, we have the opportunity to bring life back to the ancient spirits that created them. We have a chance to walk with the spirits of the past. Native Americans used their stories to teach the...

The modern fall and genesis of the sons of the present system. The lost Eve rejected Adam when they were twenty-three years old; and now, ten years later, Adam is rich and with rich dreams full of idealism, bigger than his house and his need to regain Eve and an ideal. Another man is invited to the party in Bello Mar, and people adore him. He is one of the leaders of a political party. The fall of the modernity; with no possibility to return to the old ideal of a paradise? The madness and decline of modern times and modern men and women, with a luxurious and ruthless style. A novella that you ...

«Me gustaba el sonido de las olas. Tenía un nombre ese sonido. Varios: hay treinta y tres maneras de nombrar el sonido de las olas, había dicho mi papá alguna vez, mientras manejaba». Margarita García Robayo mira el mundo con despiadada atención pero también con suma naturalidad: nunca está completamente afuera de lo que observa o de lo que nombra, y el ejercicio de mirarse en el espejo no la paraliza, más bien al contrario. Es imposible describir la cruda y cálida irreverencia de su escritura. Sus personajes se parecen entre sí pero tal vez ellos no estarían de acuerdo, porque...

'I absolutely loved it. A delight . . . so fresh and clever and subversive' Kate Atkinson 'I completely loved Lillian on Life. What a great voice, what energy and wit . . . very original and often extremely funny' Karen Joy Fowler Lillian, a single, well-travelled woman of a certain age, wakes up next to her married lover and looks back at her life. It's not at all the life she expected. Walking the unpaved road between traditional and modern options for women, Lillian has grappled with parental disappointment, society's expectations and the vagaries of love and sex. As a narrator she's bold...

Historia, intrigas palaciegas, suspense y un cuadro real que custodia el Museo del Prado se dan cita en esta novela que reconstruye la corte de Felipe IV, sus dificultades para gobernar y el Madrid del Siglo de Oro. Un pintor ambicioso. Un conde ávido de poder. Un rey joven y débil. Y una pintura que no es lo que parece... Corre el año 1622. El joven Paul van Dyck, hermano adoptivo del célebre Anton van Dyck, acepta un encargo decisivo para su carrera: pintar un lienzo de dimensiones colosales para el conde de Villamediana, Corro Mayor de Felipe IV. Abandona el taller de Rubens en Amberes ...