Sara?s Secrets

When flying an airplane was no more than a reckless act, Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly cross the Atlantic and the Pacific alone. Besides her exploits as a pilot, she wrote three books and many articles reporting on her trips, and become one of the primary promoters of aviation. Her last adventure was to fly around the world. Before arriving at the second-to-last phase of her itinerary, a storm ended her life and that of her copilot, Frederick J. Noonan.

Manuel Álvarez, un leonés emigrado a México, fue una figura singular, omnipresente en todos los acontecimientos que tuvieron lugar en el que primero fue departamento de Nuevo México y con posterioridad territorio de los Estados Unidos de América. Álvarez recurrió a actuaciones cercanas a la picaresca y la piratería para lograr sus objetivos políticos y económicos. Su labor de relaciones públicas, políticas y diplomáticas resultó indispensable para que se diera una transición pacífica entre gobiernos durante las primeras luchas por la obtención de la condición de estado de...

As an actress, Diana Quick was forever trying on the mask of other people's lives - raiding her own memory to service the character she was playing. Coming from a large, noisy family in Kent that seemed to be plain-speaking and straightforward, she was astonished to find on her beloved father's death that his childhood in India was far from idyllic. She was then thunderstruck to hear that he was to have a requiem mass. She had no idea he was Catholic. She discovered that his stepmother had got rid of him and his sister upon marrying his father and that he had grown up in almost total...

Esta novela narra, con la pasión y elegancia habituales de la autora, la intensa vida de María de Molina, esposa de Sancho IV de Castilla. Una mujer única que en plena Edad Media gobernó tres veces a su pueblo y siempre sufrió por amor. Al final de sus días presenció la muerte de su hijo y de su nuera y protegió a su desvalido nieto, el futuro Alfonso XI, envuelto en intrigas palaciegas castellanas y problemas políticos.