El retiro de Diógenes

Perhaps no other story is as compelling, as universal, or conveys as much about a culture as does a legend. This second edition offers 12 Hispanic legends from Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico, New Mexico (U.S.), Paraguay, Peru, Spain, and Uruguay. Abundant pre- and post-reading activities accompany each story and help students improve their reading, writing, and speaking skills.

Traversing the black void, a lonely space cruiser searches for signs of life. The pilot’s mission is to plot new routes and find new worlds to study, to advance humanity’s interstellar progress. But all Ren’s found is dead space and the only progress he’s made is adding plasma vapor to the universal ephemera. Until he crashes on an unknown planet and discovers space isn’t as dead as he thought. Renner Tachibana has spent his entire life training for space exploration. He could have had any cushy assignment he wanted. But he chose the riskiest, most remote deployment he could get...

¿Quién es culpable o inocente? Un emocionante libro de intriga y suspense donde la muerte y el pasado acechan a Sara, la protagonista de esta historia. A punto de cumplirse un año de la muerte de toda su familia, Sara sigue ahogando sus culpas en antidepresivos y soledad, totalmente perdida dentro de un mundo, el de las altas finanzas, que le viene grande. Decidida a dejarlo atrás, no sospecha del enemigo que tiene más cerca de lo que cree, ni tampoco de quien está sinceramente a su lado. Solo lo descubrirá cuando vuelva a encontrarse cara a cara con la muerte...

TEXT IN SPANISH. Cassie is a young college graduate with the world on a string, a yen for screenwriting, and a staggering pile of student loans weighing her down. When she accepts a summer gig bartending in the Hamptons, Cassie finds herself catapulted into a whirlwind of dazzling celebrity and over-the-top wealth unlike anything she's ever seen. Surrounded by playboys, moguls, spoiled kids, and Paris Hilton clones in strappy stilettos, she soon wonders if playing the ersatz socialite -- while trying to actually make a living -- is more than she bargained for.