La memoria de una pasión

Regan Laine is beautiful, super rich, and single. By chance, she sees a DVD of Josh Jackson, the most famous singer on the planet, and falls in love with the image. Two years later, she meets and marries the reality; a man who teeters on the edge of all things that are off limits. Blinded by her love for him, Regan forgives his indiscretions, often, and lives a life filled with a searing passion she didn't know existed. This is a story set against a backdrop of high finace and breathtaking luxury; an island in the sun and music, sex and drugs. This is a story about happiness at great heights, ...

Ever since her husband, Doug, left her suddenly and without explanation, Galla spends her days on the couch, staring at the magnolia on the patio and fantasizing about throwing herself off the balcony to escape excruciating pain blamed on herself. During her first solo trip, to Munich, she accidentally walks into a museum where the work of the German painter Gabriele Münter is exhibited and her works so full of color and so devoid of joy mesmerize her. From that moment on, Gabriele's voice enters Galla's life: it torments and mocks her as she recounts her long love story with Kandinski, much ...

"El héroe", de Baltasar Gracián. Baltasar Gracián fue un escritor español del barroco (1601-1658)

Una avería en su nuevo deportivo Studebaker, y la esperanza de "vivir alguna aventura" extramatrimonial, llevan al viajante textil Alfredo Traps a pasar la noche en un pequeño pueblo de su ruta habitual. Sus anfitriones, un juez jubilado y unos inquietantes compañeros con quienes va a compartir la velada (un abogado, un fiscal y un verdugo), le propondrán participar en un macabro juego: ser el acusado. La avería es una nouvelle impredecible como la mejor intriga policíaca e implacable como una tragedia clásica. Llevada al cine en varias ocasiones (de manera brillante por Ettore Scola,...