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Los Angeles, 1951. Fred Underhill es un policía inteligente, perseverante, mujeriego y, sobre todo, ambicioso: la muerte de una mujer y el descubrimiento de un asesino le servirán de trampolín a la fama... Con la guerra de Corea de fondo, Ellroy nos acerc

Un grupo de seres venidos de muy muy lejos buscan a MIss Mshika, quien reinar en la nueva gran Tenochtitlan del futuro. Pero primero tienen que viajar en el Metro y vivir en carne propia cmo somos los mexicanos. Una divertida, atrevida y experimentalosa novela sobre la obsesin por las fronteras, y nuestro escondido deseo de emigrar muy lejos hacia alguna otra regin de nosotros mismos. Muy til para los connacionales y tambin para quienes nos visitan de remotas tierras.

When the ambitions of two former friends clash, a much-loved, small-town community school could become the casualty. Sprucedale Community School principal Joyce Stone has dedicated her career to revitalizing struggling, small-town schools, but now, her career bucket list is empty. Retirement is the next step, or so she thinks, until an unexpected opportunity at the esteemed Silver Heights Preparatory School changes her plans. Former trust fund baby Vanessa Landry is desperately trying to climb her way back up the social ladder after shunning her family's fortune to become a schoolteacher's...

Mariana Pineda (1925) was Lorca's first success in the theatre. Based on a popular Andalusian ballad, it tells the story of Mariana Pineda who was garrotted in 1831 under the reactionary regime of Ferdinand VII for embroidering a Liberal flag and refusing to betray her lover. Written during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, the political message would not have escaped Lorca's audience. But the play is primarily the work of a poet and its appeal lies in the delicate tension that results from a deft blend of lyricism and drama which culminates in an astonishing level of spirituality in the...