La muerte del Ruiseñor

Criada entre ganado y montañas, y con su anciano abuelo como único contacto social, Alix Efimovitch se convierte, sin saberlo, en una hermosa mujer que, ocasionalmente, recibe y celebra la visita de Xico Dawson, un joven malcriado y egoísta que ve en Alix una excelente ocasión para colmar sus instintos. Ingenua de sus propósitos, la bella salvaje se deja seducir por quien considera su amigo y, tras percatarse de su auténtica intención, se dispone a iniciar una nueva vida. Motivada por el odio contra los hombres, la nueva Alix reaparece en la alta sociedad inglesa como Katia Kronstadt,...

From the author of ALTAR OF EDEN and MAP OF BONES comes another fantastic mystery adventure, this time set deep in the Amazon jungle. Out of the inhospitable Amazon rainforest a man stumbles into a missionary village. Soon the CIA operative and former Special Forces soldier, his eyes wide with terror, is dead. The photograph of Agent Clark's corpse in the Brazilian morgue shows two intact upper limbs, yet Agent Clark had only one arm, the other lost to a sniper's bullet. Nathan Rand's father led a scientific mission into the rainforest and never returned - the same expedition that took Clark...

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.

De atenerse a la experiencia del disparatado narrador de esta novela, pretender domar a una divina garza resulta una empresa tan ardua como inevitable destinada al fracaso.