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"A deeply moving, humorous story of a boy who believes in everything and an old man who believes in nothing. In 1934, a rabbi's son in Prague joins a traveling circus, becomes a magician, and rises to fame under the stage name the Great Zabbatini just as Europe descends into World War II. When Zabbatini is discovered to be a Jew, his battered trunk full of magic tricks becomes his only hope of surviving the concentration camp where he is sent. Seven decades later in Los Angeles, ten-year-old Max finds a scratched-up LP that captured Zabbatini performing his greatest tricks. But the track in...

Tres cooperantes españoles que trabajan en el Departamento de León, Nicaragua, en la década de los 90 se ven accidentalmente implicados en la muerte de Namayori, un anciano conocedor de los mitos y leyendas locales. La mágica relación de uno de los protagonistas con su nieta se entrecruza con una conspiración para construir un complejo hotelero en la Reserva Natural de la isla de Juan Venado. Una novela ambientada en la colorida ciudad de León y los balnearios de Poneloya y Las Peñitas en la que el romanticismo, la magia y el misterio visten la realidad de la Nicaragua del...

"À quatorze ans, je fus exaucé – je devins beau. Au fil des jours, à mon insu, s’étaient opérés en moi des changements qui font que jusqu'à aujourd’hui les femmes me désirent, me sourient spontanément au moindre échange de regards, et répondent à mes avances les plus hypocrites." C’est ainsi qu’Arik découvre son pouvoir de séduction à l’adolescence, sans savoir que son physique ne suffira pas à gagner le cœur de l’amour de sa vie, l’énigmatique Mikhal, qui n’est autre que la petite sœur de son ami Benny. Et les amis sont essentiels dans cette cité...

Happy Doll is a charming, if occasionally inexpert, private detective living just one sheer cliff drop beneath the Hollywood sign with his beloved half-Chihuahua half-Terrier, George. A veteran of both the Navy and LAPD, Doll supplements his meager income as a P.I. by working through the night at a local Thai spa that offers its clients a number of special services. Armed with his sixteen-inch steel telescopic baton, biting dry humor, and just a bit of a hero complex, the ex-cop sets out to protect the women who work there from clients who have trouble understanding the word no. Doll gets by...