El torreón del cosmonauta

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov 28 March 1868 – 18 June 1936, primarily known as Maxim (Maksim) Gorky was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the Socialist realism literary method and a political activist.Gorky's reputation grew as a unique literary voice from the bottom strata of society and as a fervent advocate of Russia's social, political, and cultural transformation. By 1899, he was openly associating with the emerging Marxist social-democratic movement, which helped make him a celebrity among both the intelligentsia and the growing numbers of "conscious" workers. At the heart of all...

Excerpt from El Sereno de MI Barrio: Zarzuela en un Acto, Dividido en Cuatro Cuadros, en Prosa Enrique Povedano. Enrique Moreno. Alberto González. Jaime Parell. Emilio Miguel. Alberto) González. 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 original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the...

Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn't like his job, and the immortal who's still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago. Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren's capital city and where a power known as BioChromatic magic is based on an essence known as breath that can only be collected one unit at a time from individual people. By using breath and drawing upon the color in everyday objects, all manner of...

La relación que Nicole tenía con Luke Santana, su guapísimo jefe, no era sólo laboral, pero respetaban las normas: nada de complicaciones, ni de compromisos, sólo pasión.Nicole no tardó en darse cuenta de que deseaba algo más que lo que Luke había prometido darle y, sabiendo que jamás sería correspondida, decidió dejar el trabajo y poner fin a la aventura.Luke sabía que no podía dejarla marchar. Pero, ¿qué haría cuando descubriera el secreto de Nicole? Era algo que requería más compromiso que unas horas de amor...