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Eleven-year-old Isabel is a “plain old” girl living in Provincetown, Massachusetts, who believes that she is destined to accomplish something special. When her fifth-grade class goes on a whale-watch field trip, something amazing happens: Dozens of different species of whales surround the boat,...

The brand-new, shiny Eiffel Tower is the pride and glory of the 1889 World Exposition. But one sunny afternoon, as visitors are crowding the viewing platforms, a woman collapses and dies on this great Paris landmark. Can a bee sting really be the cause of death? Or is there a more sinister explanation?...

This anthology features stories about individuals who find themselves in situations that test their strength of character. They are called upon to make moral choices, face the consequences of their actions, and consider what it means to "do the right thing. " From computer blackmail, peer pressure,...

Internationally renowned author Kjell Ola Dahl has attained cult status in his home country of Norway with his sharp, riveting bestsellers. Now, with his gripping and intelligent novel The Fourth Man, the master of Norwegian crime writing is crossing the Atlantic. In the course of a routine...

Iris and Steven Finz have an uncanny knack for getting people to talk about the intimate details of their sex lives. For more than a decade, they have been interviewing people from all segments of society and, with the permission of their subjects, passing the stories along to their readers. They've...

Babel de las ilusiones perdidas y al mismo tiempo celebración del simple estar aquí en este mundo, La edad de las tinieblas continúa y renueva una alta tradición de nuestra literatura –la del poema en prosa– que ha dado las obras de Alfonso Reyes y Julio Torri, de Octavio Paz y Juan José Arreola, y abre nuevos caminos para la prosa mexicana del siglo XXI.

One pale wooden girl stands on the shore of Black Sand Bay, where the sea meets the sky and the wind meets the water. But Snowbone knows that she and her wooden friends can't stay here forever. Something is happening deep within the forest. Something—someone—that must be stopped. Determined to...

The final novel in this compelling trilogy set in a medieval fantasy world. Atti is the Fatal Child. Beautiful and adored, she is troubled by a recurring nightmare of violence and betrayal. She can love no one and trust no one, and she wakes screaming in the night. Driven by his love...

Carlos Monsiváis es justamente célebre por sus indagaciones, tan ingeniosas como conocedoras, en las múltiples y complejas realidades de la cultura mexicana: la que conocemos como cultura popular y la “alta cultura. En este volumen el autor desmenuza, con su humor y saber acostumbrados, distintos...

No one knows colleges better than The Princeton Review! Not sure how to tackle the scariest part of your college application—the personal essays? Get a little inspiration from real-life examples of successful essays that scored! In College Essays That Made a Difference, 6th Edition, you’ll...

El trabajo del escritor Mitch Dempsey era crear héroes, pero él nunca se había visto como uno. Sin embargo, había algo en Hester Wallace, la tímida madre soltera que se acababa de mudar al piso de arriba, que le decía que debía protegerla, cuidarla y amarla para siempre...

Los ensayos incluidos en este libro abarcan seis siglos de historia de la región que hoy día constituye México. Se comparan el imperio azteca y el de los incas; se estudia el efecto que tuvieron sobre México cinco conflagraciones, desde la guerra mexicano-estadounidense de 1847 hasta la Segunda...

In this biography the protagonist and mother of the family, narrates the story of her life from childhood in those years when the already alluded simplicity was the morning norm, and what we now think of as inseparable and indispensable was not then required like a coined page; but there was more...

Dos muchachas, Mao y Lenin, son las magníficas, terroríficas y tal vez trágicas heroínas de este fascinante relato incendiario. De pronto sin apenas darse cuenta cómo, el lector está de lleno en el territorio Aira, donde todo da vuelta, enloquece, se violenta, se dispara, abandona toda verosimilitud y entra en una lógica salvaje.