La isla del olvido

Taradell, darrers anys del segle xix. Mentre juga a prop del riu, en Boi descobreix un rastre de sang. Seguir-lo significarà desenterrar el passat i marcarà l'inici d'una aventura que l'obligarà a separar-se de la seva família, amagar-se a dins els esbarzers i fugir de les partides de pistolers que circulen per la Plana. En Boi cavalcarà entre la boira, en un viatge que li permetrà descobrir l'amistat, l'amor, la crueltat i el dolor. Guilleries és un western crepuscular, una novel·la de formació sobre la culpa i la redempció, que celebra la vida en totes les seves manifestacions....

Milena o el fémur más bello del mundo La belleza de Milena también fue su perdición. Convertida en esclava sexual desde la adolescencia, intenta huir cuando muere su protector, un magnate de la comunicación que sufre un fallo cardiaco mientras hace el amor con ella. En su angustiosa fuga, se cruza con los Azules, un trío de justicieros formado por el periodista Tomás Arizmendi, la política Amelia Navarro y el especialista en alta seguridad, Jaime Lemus. Ellos desean liberarla, pero Milena guarda con recelo un espinoso misterio que atesora en su libreta negra y que supone su salvación ...

Happiness and connection prove fickle in this debut collection of eleven linked stories introducing Babbie and Donnie. She is a thrice-divorced former call girl, and he is a sobriety-challenged trucker turned yogi. Along with their community of exes, in-laws, and coworkers, Babbie and Donnie share a longing to reforge their lives, a task easier said than done in Mobile, Alabama, which bears its own share of tainted history. Despite overwhelming challenges and the ever-looming specters of status, race, and class, the characters in It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories strive for...

Eighty-two photographs by an unknown photographer, of unidentified women, taken probably between 1900 and 1915, and originally produced for stereoscope (3-D) viewing. The women were photographed nude, some in a bordello, others outdoors, in a non-pornographic style that evidences considerable rapport between subject and photographer and a naturalness virtually non-existent in European nude photos of the same era. The 1928 massacre of striking banana workers made famous in Garcia Marquez' One hundred years of solitude was recast by the late Cepeda Samudio (1926-1972), a friend of Marquez and...