La Flor de Pascua

Winner of: International Latino Book Awards 2014, Primer Premio en la categoría Best Young Adult Non-Fiction Book Focusing on key figures from the worlds of art, literature, music, politics, and science, this collection introduces young readers to luminaries who, despite the difficulties and failures of their childhoods, went on to accomplish great things. Readers will discover what individuals such as Jane Austen, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Mohandas Gandhi, John Lennon, Pablo Picasso, and even the author himself were like as children and young adults, and draw inspiration from their...

Al volver a Barcelona, tras un tiempo viviendo en el extranjero, Erik revive en parte el pasado. El regreso lo lleva a recordar el terrible ataque homofobo que sufrio su pareja, el valenciano e irresistible Alberto. Entonces, los fantasmas del pasado reaparecen. Enfrentar el miedo a la soledad y cerrar las heridas del pasado seran los grandes desafios de Erik. El regreso a Barcelona se vuelve especialmente emocionante cuando conoce a Alex. El guapo y rebelde chico ruso devuelve al catalan la esperanza en el amor. Un encuentro romantico e inesperado da paso a una pasion dificil de apagar. Pero ...

"Una bomba estalla en la Barcelona de 1938. Un misil destroza un dormitorio en Bagdad. 60 años de diferencia. Distintas guerras. Las mismas víctimas. El mismo exilio. ¿Estamos condenados a repetir la Historia?"

Written with sympathetic humor and compassion, this masterful portrait of upper-class decline made Ivan Goncharov famous throughout Russia on its publication in 1859. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russias dying aristocracya man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends, and found himself in debt. Too apathetic to do anything about his problems, he lives in a grubby, crumbling apartment, waited on by Zakhar, his equally idle servant. Terrified by the activity necessary to participate in the real world, Oblomov manages to avoid...