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Javier Marías
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Award-winning author Javier Marías examines a household living in unhappy the shadow of history, and explores the cruel, tender punishments we exact on those we love As a young man, Juan de Vere takes a job that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Eduardo Muriel is a famous film director - urbane, discreet, irreproachable - an irresistible idol to a young man. Muriel's wife Beatriz is a soft, ripe woman who slips through her husband's home like an unwanted ghost, finding solace in other beds. And on the periphery of all their lives stands Dr Jorge Van Vechten, a shadowy family friend implicated in unsavoury rumours that Muriel cannot bear to pursue himself - rumours he asks Juan to investigate instead. But as Juan draws closer to the truth, he uncovers more questions, ones his employer has not asked and would rather not answer. Why does Muriel hate Beatriz? How did Beatriz meet Van Vechten? And what happened during the war? As Juan learns more about his employers, he begins to understand the conflicting pulls of desire, power and guilt that govern their lives - and his own. Marias presents a study of the infinitely permeable boundaries between private and public selves, between observer and participant, between the deceptions we suffer from others and those we enact upon ourselves. 'No one else, anywhere, is writing quite like this' Daily Telegraph on The Infatuations
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Finalist for the 2012 National Book Award
A Time and People Top 10 Book of 2012Finalist for the 2012 Story PrizeChosen as a notable or best book of the year by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The LA Times, Newsday, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, the iTunes bookstore, and many more...
Electrifying. -The New York Times Book Review
"Exhibits the potent blend of literary eloquence and street cred that earned him a Pulitzer Prize... Díaz's prose is vulgar, brave, and poetic." -O Magazine
From the award-winning author, a stunning collection that celebrates the haunting, impossible power of love.
On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In a New Jersey laundry room, a woman does her lover's washing and thinks about his wife. In Boston, a man buys his love child, his only son, a first baseball bat and glove. At the heart of these stories is the irrepressible, irresistible Yunior, a young hardhead whose longing for love is equaled only by his recklessness--and by the extraordinary women he loves and loses.
In prose that is endlessly energetic, inventive, tender, and funny, these stories lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weakness of the human heart. They remind us that passion always triumphs over experience, and that "the half-life of love is forever."
Atlas de curiosidades es una excelente guía bellamente ilustrada y con datos asombrosos que nos muestran cómo es el planeta Tierra. Sabes explicar el por qué de las franjas horarios alrededor del mundo? Sabes qué es un bioma? Qué porcentaje de hielo hay sobre la Tierra? Sabes qué tribus existen hoy en día? Este atlas dejará a los niños entusiasmados.
Un libro juvenil rico en cultura general para que las mentes curiosas sacien de una forma educativa su interés por el conocimiento.
Atlas del mundo para niños: un recopilatorio de curiosidades asombrosas Este atlas de mapas curiosos te llevarán a un viaje por el mundo y conocerás miles de datos demográficos, sociológicos, antropológicos, geográficos, económicos, ecológicos, artísticos y tecnológicos. Existe vida en cada rincón del planeta; desde la cima de las montañas hasta el fondo de los océanos, y de los ardientes desiertos a las gélidas regiones polares. Cada organismo, ciclo vital y conducta, animal o vegetal, están adaptados a su hábitat, ya que ello maximiza sus posibilidades de supervivencia y sus opciones de prosperar. Descubre cómo las características de los animales están diseñadas para sobrevivir en sus hábitats dentro de la maravillosa biodiversidad. Averigua dónde viven los animales letales, cómo consiguen los pájaros realizar migraciones de miles de kilómetros o cómo aguanta un cocodrilo sin comer durante un año. Con la ayuda de múltiples mapas del mundo, conoce al detalle cuál ha sido el impacto de los humanos en la Tierra. Desde la aparición de los humanos modernos en África hace unos 200.000 años, hemos colonizado prácticamente todo el mundo, incluso los desiertos ardientes y el gélido Ártico, y al hacerlo, nuestro impacto sobre la biosfera ha sido considerable. Todas las respuestas están clasificadas en seis capítulos con los que conocerás la Tierra a la perfección con la visualización de múltiples atlas del mundo ilustrados y ordenados por estas temáticas:Atlas de curiosidades pertenece a la sección infantil de la Editorial DK, una sección donde podrás encontrar libros para niños de todas las edades. Los libros de esta sección cuentan con información clara, sencilla y están acompañados de ilustraciones que facilitan la compresión de cada texto. Además, favorecen el aprendizaje y desarrollo de los lectores más jóvenes.
The Attraction of Things concerns the entirety of beauty and the possibility of grace, relayed via obsessions with rare early gramophone records, the theater, translation, dying parents: all these elements are relayed in a dizzying strange traffic of cultural artifacts, friendships, losses, discoveries, and love. Roger Lewinter believes that in the realm of art, "the distinction between life and death loses its relevance, the one taking place in the other."
Whereas Story of Love in Solitude is a group of small stories, The Attraction of Things is a continuous narrative (more or less) of a man seeking (or stumbling upon) enlightenment.
"The Attraction of Things," states Lewinter, "is the story of a being who lets himself go toward what attracts him, toward what he attracts--beings, works, things--and who, through successive encounters, finds the way out of the labyrinth, to the heart, where the bolt of illumination strikes. This is the story of a letting go toward the illumination."
- Gerda y la Reina de las Nieves (Dinamarca)
- Hua Mulan (China)
- Heidi (Suiza)
- Alicia en el País de las Maravillas (Reino Unido)
- Dorothy y el Mago de Oz (EE. UU.)
- La Competencia de Atenea y Poseidón por Atenas (Grecia)
- Hinemoa y Tutanekai (Maorí, Nueva Zelanda) ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Meet the heroines who don't wait at home while boys have all the adventures...
This beautifully illustrated collection brings together a selection of classic children's stories, retold by Samantha Newman. These narratives from around the world showcase strong, charismatic, independent female protagonists who know their own minds, and make their own decisions. Inside you will meet Dorothy Gale, who freed faraway Oz from a terrible tyrant; Hua Mulan, who became a mighty warrior, legendary throughout ancient China; clever and powerful goddess Athena of Greek myth, who went toe-to-toe with Poseidon; and many more. These women strike out on their own with self-confidence, imagination, wit, and courage. They live without restraint or narrowly defined roles. Inspire the world-changing women of the future to dream big, by fueling their imaginations with relatable and aspirational role models. Featuring magical full-color illustrations by Khoa Le, this book belongs on every girl's bookshelf; ideal for children aged 8+. Stories include:
- Gerda and the Snow Queen (Denmark)
- Hua Mulan (China)
- Heidi (Switzerland)
- Alice in Wonderland (UK)
- Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (USA)
- Athena and Poseidon's Contest for Athens (Greece)
- Hinemoa and Tutanekai (Maori, NZ)
¡Hombre Mosca regresa a casa y descubre que Buzz se fue de picnic sin el! Triste y hambriento, Hombre Mosca sale en busca de su comida favorita. Lo espantan de encima de una hamburguesa, de una pizza, de huesos de perro e incluso de animales atropellados, lo que les permite a los lectores adivinar cual podria ser la comida marron, viscosa, grumosa y maloliente favorita de Hombre Mosca. ¡Por supuesto que es el pastel de espantamoscas!
The third book in a humorous, easy-to-read series about a boy and his fly!
Fly Guy returns home to discover that Buzz has gone on a picnic without him! Sad and hungry, Fly Guy takes off in search of his favorite food. He gets shooed away from a hamburger, a pizza, a dog's bones, and even roadkill--leaving readers to guess what Fly Guy's favorite oozy, lumpy, smelly, and brown food could possibly be! Why, it's shoo-fly pie, of course!
Te presentamos a Ember, un chihuahua que acaba de ser adoptado por la familia Chin. Ember no es un perro ordinario: cree que es un malvado senor supremo, destinado a gobernar el mundo. El chihuahua recluta a las otras mascotas de la casa, Steve el Hamster y Neo el Canario, para hacerse cargo del vecindario. Su primera mision es derrotar a Masher, la ardilla malvada que vive al lado. Sin embargo, Ember se sientecada vez mas apegado a sus "secuaces", la familia Chin, especialmente a Lucy. Tendra madera suficiente para controlar el vecindario... y el mundo?
Meet Ember, a rescue Chihuahua who has just been adopted by the Chin family. Ember is no ordinary dog: he thinks he is an evil overlord, destined to rule the world. He enlists the help of the other pets in the house, like Smelly Steve the hamster and Neo the canary, to take over the neighborhood. Their first mission is defeating Masher, the mean squirrel who lives next door. But to his shock, Ember finds himself growing attached to his "minions", the Chin family--especially Lucy. Does Ember still have what it takes to control of the neighborhood... and the world?
Cerdita no puede evitar sonreír. Geraldo sí puede.
Geraldo se preocupa para que Cerdita no tenga que hacerlo. Geraldo y Cerdita son mejores amigos. En Estás lista para jugar afuera? Cerdita no puede esperar a salir a jugar al sol. Pero echará a perder la lluvia la gran diversión?
Cerdita no puede evitar sonreír. Geraldo sí puede.
Geraldo se preocupa para que Cerdita no tenga que hacerlo. Geraldo y Cerdita son mejores amigos. En Puedo jugar yo también? Geraldo y Cerdita conocen a una nueva amiga, la Serpiente, que quiere jugar con ellos a la pelota. Pero acaso no se necesitan brazos para jugar a la pelota?
















