Las Aventuras De Izzy Y Juju: Gemelos Detectives Investigadores (G. D. I.)

Basada en una investigación meticulosa, esta novela narra la vida de Inés Suárez. Española de una familia pobre, Inés trabaja como costurera. Es el siglo dieciséis, y la conquista de América está apenas comenzando. Cuando un día el esposo de Inés desaparece rumbo al Nuevo Mundo, ella parte en busca de él, escapando de su vida claustrofóbica. En Perú, Inés se entera de que su esposo murió en una batalla, y muy pronto empieza una apasionada relación amorosa con Pedro de Validivia, mariscal de Francisco Pizarro. Valdivia sueña con triunfar donde otros españoles han fracasado,...

Lucy is a bored and frustrated housewife; she has little or no fun and excitement in her life. She is home most days, cleaning and doing housework, her marriage to Ken epitomizing her frustration and need to change her life. To break away from the mundane, Lucy likes to fantasize — and even role play — her fantasies in secret dressing up sessions. After one of her special boudoir moments, a chance encounter takes Lucy on an unexpected journey to a place she has never heard of: the Sin Café. Once inside, she soon discovers a very different world to the one she knows, which not only...

A group of six men and a woman embark on a journey aboard the yacht Obalunko, heading for Cuba in order to infiltrate the island nation, in a story that explores some of the key issues confronting the Cuban people--lack of free expression, homosexual persecution, discrimination, and a corrupt system of government. (General Fiction)

Latino Book Award 2005 - Mejor Novela Romántica (Best Romance Novel) This remarkable novel exists as one of the most accurate narrative descriptions of rural violence in Colombia. The weight of events and the inherent state of war that seems to irremediably condemn human beings are the back drop to a sensitive account of the death of Julián, a popular activist murdered during a peasant demonstration. This event triggers an expansion of violence that transgresses society's every law—from media infiltration in the form of censorship to the irreparable consequences of ruthless crossfire in...