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Don Catrín de la Fachenda is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El periquillo sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel. Don Catrín is three things at once: a rakish pícaro in the tradition of the picaresque; a catrín, a dandy or fop; and a criollo, a person born in the New World and belonging to the same dominant class as their Spanish-born parents but relegated to a secondary status. The novel interrogates then current ideas about the supposed innateness of race and...

La primera novela de Robert Bloch (1917-1994), The scarf (1947), narra la espeluznante vida de un joven que se convierte en estrangulador en serie a causa de un trauma infantil. El enorme interés de Bloch por los asesinos en serie, así como sus esfuerzos por unificar el género policíaco, el de terror y la crónica de sucesos en un estilo personal y directo, dio lugar no sólo a su célebre novela Psicosis (1959) --que recrea la historia del psicópata Ed Gein--, sino también a otras tres narraciones independientes: The will to kill (1954), Pirómano (Firebug, 1961) y The star stalker...

Mister Rex, the most ferocious dinosaur of all times, is on the attack. Rototom and his friends will not be intimidated and are willing and able to defend their village.

There is a ghost in the girls' bathroom at school! It's the coolest thing that has ever happened there until the teachers find out. Will Ivy and Bean find a way to get the ghost out of the bathroom? Don't put anything past these two friends.