Un robot llamado Pepe y otros relatos marcianos / A robot named Pepe and other Martians stories

En un tiempo donde las mujeres no pueden decidir su futuro y los reyes las usan como simples peones en el juego de la política, lady Elizabeth MacDermont se rebela contra las intenciones de su hermano de unirla en matrimonio al único hombre que puede hacerle sombra, el barón de Rostalch. Utilizando las artimañas propias de su sexo decide demostrarle que no hay súbditos tan leales como él parecer creer. A cambio, será libre de elegir su destino. Pero ¿logrará su propósito o la arrolladora personalidad de su contrincante conseguirá desbaratar sus planes?

The celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street “is back with her first work of fiction in almost a decade, a story of memory and friendship [and] the experiences young women endure as immigrants worldwide” (AP). In this masterfully written dual-language edition, a long-forgotten letter sets off a charged encounter with the past. As a young woman, Corina leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a writer in the cafés of Paris. Instead, she spends her brief time in the City of Light running out of money and lining up with other immigrants to call...

La vida reserva a Alonso, un joven arquitecto descolocado tras la pérdida de su padre, un tesoro escondido a occidente durante siglos. Un viaje al desierto le revela que la muerte no es el fin del Ser, sino solo un estado del Ser. Más tarde su propia experiencia cercana a la muerte corrobora lo que intuía. La fina pluma de Eduardo Gismera demuestra, de forma sencilla y amena, un profundo conocimiento del alma humana por parte del autor de Catarsis

Everyone in Washington knows Madeleine and Jack Hunter. Maddy is an award-winning TV anchorwoman and Jack is the head of her network. To the world, theirs is a storybook marriage. But behind locked doors a very different story emerges; as Maddy's career soars, a bitter edge of control and jealousy has crept in. The cruelty she experiences at Jack's hands leaves no bruises, no scars, only the wounds of fear, humiliation and isolation. Maddy's journey to healing begins when the President's wife offers her the opportunity to join her newly-formed Commission on Violence against Women. There Maddy ...