Vidas Cruzadas

1970s, Mexico City. Maite is a secretary who lives for one thing: the latest issue of Secret Romance. While student protests and political unrest consume the city, Maite escapes into stories of passion and danger. Her next-door neighbor, Leonora, a beautiful art student, seems to live a life of intrigue and romance that Maite envies. When Leonora disappears under suspicious circumstances, Maite finds herself searching for the missing woman--and journeying deeper into Leonora's secret life of student radicals and dissidents. Meanwhile, someone else is also looking for Leonora at the behest of...

The dramatic story of an X-wing pilot on the razor’s edge between the hero he once was and the power he could have—if he’s willing to embrace the Dark Side Corran Horn was an officer in the Corellian Security Force before casting his lot with the New Republic. As the grandson of a legendary Jedi hero, he has latent Force powers that have yet to be developed. But he has managed to distinguish himself with Rogue Squadron, the X-wing fighter force that has become the scourge of the Empire and of the pirates that prey on Republic shipping. When his wife, Mirax, vanishes on a covert mission...

Los mejores libros jamás escritos Edición de Gregorio Torres Nebrera, catedrático de Literatura Española en la Universidad de Extremadura En las páginas de La Regenta se recrea un gran fresco narrativo sobre la sociedad burguesa y urbana, dominada por la nobleza decadente, el clero egoísta y la política caciquil, centrado en la seducción y el adulterio de una dama, Ana Ozores, representativa de aquella sociedad. Influido por la escuela naturalista fundamentada en Zola y Maupassant, pero anclado aún en argumentos románticos, Leopoldo Alas «Clarín» escribió la que ha sido...

Cuentos que expresan sensaciones con un lenguaje claro y sencillo. Que invitan al lector a soñar y a revivir experiencias con personajes originados en la cotidianeidad, pero modelados por la imaginación. La de este volumen de relatos es una prosa que, en una búsqueda consecuente y exitosa, quiere reflejar circunstancias increíbles, que lleven a participar de muertes ilógicas, vidas ilusionadas, amores descabellados y puros, con el más claro sentido estético.