Una mirada al cielo

Teresa Jones’s dreams of flying contrast sharply with her dreary, earthbound life working as a filing-clerk in a CD store, and suffering the constant nagging of her academic parents, who are outraged at her stubborn refusal to go to college. Her best friend – the popular, successful and apparently happy college freshman Elena Kravchuk – has the perfect prescription for Teresa’s depression: she needs to get laid. When the two girls meet Miguel Angel Ramirez, a misfit Mexican immigrant who builds and flies kites for a living, Elena goes to work as match-maker to bring him together for a ...

Mas alla de similitudes y diferencias, los cuentos reunidos en esta antologia constituyen una muestra representativa de las mas recientes tendencias de este genero en el ambito de las letras hispanicas de hoy. Jovenes autoras de Cuba y Mexico, tratan aqui, sin inhibiciones ni tecnicismos, los temas mas diversos de sus respectivos entornos entregandonos un panorama rico en peripecias y reflexiones, capaz de complacer al lector mas exigenmte y al critico mas experimentado.

La calle de Valverde aparecio en Mexico, en 1961. Su accion transcurre en la dictadura de Primo de Rivera. Por el amplio friso de personajes y la complejidad y hondura de sus existencias, esta novela constituye una vision privilegiada del mundo de preguerra.

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...